Good thing...

good thing I am more motivated to sew, exercise, read, text, etc. than I am to update my blog. girlies forgive mommy - I will try to post what we do so when you ask me one day I will have a clue...

was going to at least post a couple new pictures, but my camera is MIA.

Getting Motivated

So a friend told me a long time ago how you can get your blog printed. So I am going to TRY and do a monthly (at least) post what happened during that month. I am going to start with January 2010 and go from there. I think this would be awesome if I actually do it. Unfortunately I have a horrible memory, so this gets me excited that I will have something to look back on and I won't have to print out tons and tons of pictures!

It would be a totally boring post if I left it at that, so I will tell you some tid bits...

my cousin Madeleine has been staying with us since Wednesday, I love quality time with my precious cousin (so does Mabry!)

all my cousins ROCK!

Briley drank out of a sippy cup today, we are down to nursing 3 times a day. We will try to go to 2 times a day (morning and night) by the end of the month.

i ate a snickers bar for snack today

Mabry is taking a nap right now.

Briley loves to eat "people" food - she snagged Lilly's quesdilla today.

I am looking forward to sewing this weekend.

Andy had a GREAT time in Colorado! I am so glad he had the opportunity to go out there. I missed him and I am so glad he is home!

Mabry is now up and Briley is playing peek-a-boo.

must go...

:-)

Happy Birthday Mabry!!!

Dear Mabry,

Mommy and Daddy love you so much! We are having a hard time believing that you are already 3! You bring us so much joy each day. I think just today you were called Sassy a couple of times, and you hold true to that. You have so much spunk and personality, we could eat you up! You love to be outside, riding your scooter, tricycle, playing on your park,etc. You love to read- we could read books all day. You love chocolate, hmmmm - I wonder where you get that from!?!? You LOVE Briley and "Racky", both get a tad overwhelmed when you try and carry them around! You love to play with your friends, do yoga videos on the kids fitness channel, watch Mickey Mouse, Dora and mommy's favorite Sid the Sciene Kid, you love to play at "Hello Kitty" (Learning Express) for hours and hours. You love to get popcorn chicken and a cookie at Publix. You love to spend time with g-mommy and poppa and gigi. Your new thing is telling us stories. You are so creative and get so excited when sharing these stories! I could go on with the things you love to do and things that we love to do together...but I'll wrap it up and say, Mabry, thank you for being you, we love you and are so grateful for you. We pray that you grow up to love the Lord Jesus and desire Him in all that you do. Always know that mommy and daddy LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!
Happy 3rd Birthday Noodle!
Love,
mommy and daddy

my heart turns to mush....

Miss Mabry will be 3 in just a couple of weeks! These pictures are some of those moments when my heart turns to absolute mush! She got the scooter for Christmas and we take it with us everywhere. She loves it!!! I love it! Check out the before feeding the nasty ducks, I mean, ducks and then after. They were quite aggressive - yikes! The other pictures are her first day of ballet. She is the youngest one and looks so tiny. She has only had 2 classes, she loves it and mommy loves to peek in the window and watch her...like I said - mush!

It's January

January, already a new year....and halfway through the month! It has been a big month for Miss Briley. So far she has learned how to say mama, wave bye bye, clap, and has blown a kiss. She lives on my hip most of the day. She loves playing with her toys but it usually lasts about 20 minutes before she is ready to snuggle again. She still does not nap, well not really. An hour today, 38 minutes yesterday....not much napping for an 8 month old! I guess her big sister teaches her that! Mabry is getting too big, it is so crazy to me that she will be 3 in a month. Some of my favorite things to do with her these days is to watch her ride her scooter and try to keep up with her, play candyland, color on her "weasal" easel, watch her play with her sister.... stinkin cute girlies! I love love love being able to stay home with them, it is such a blessing! THANK YOU HUBBY!!! I'll post some pictures from December, but way too many pictures between now and my last post. Most of them are facebook albums if you want to check out more photos.
I really want to post more often so I will remember what we have been up to. A friend of mine said she found a website that will print off your blog...I need to do that for my children's sake. I have the worst memory and I'm afraid I will have a hard time telling them about their childhood. Yikes! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and is enjoying the start of 2010!

:-) L.A.

Seriously - where does the time go?!?!?

I don't believe it has been a month since I posted-but it has!

My Briley is 6 months old, absolutely edible, sitting up, playing, reaching for toys, still happy "smiley briley", just started "eating" oatmeal cereal...she really gags, i cannot kiss her enough...my love her so much.

It's amazing how my love is equally unexplainable for my precious independent, spunky, silly, imaginative, little stinker Mabry. She totally keeps us on our toes, is teaching us the importance of discipline :-) , she loves to hide and pretend there are snakes everywhere, she is a little runner, and quite competitive already...yikes!

I always asked my mom how could she love all of us (Mitch, Taylor, Sarah and I) all the same. She told me you just do. Now I know that, I just love them both so much I seriously think I could burst at times.

Speaking of love - I love my husband! Andy is an incredible husband and dad! Watching him with our girls melts me! He works so hard so I can stay at home with the girls and then he comes home and doesn't miss a beat. Chasing Mabry from the minute he walks in the door, tickling and kissing miss briley, helping me put the house back together after a day of fun and chaos, totally understanding when it is "fend for yourself" dinner, cereal for dinner or eating out. Yeah - he rocks and I am so grateful for him!

God is good. He is blessing me so much as I am home this year. One of the biggest blessings is being able to attend a Bible Study Tuesday mornings and connecting with other moms as we grow closer to Him! I look forward to see what He is doing in our lives. This is a fun and busy "season" of life and I am afraid if I blink it will be gone!

5 months already?!?

As I just logged in my little precious 5 month old starts crying :-( She is supposed to be sleeping - she has stopped already - ok good. Quiet now with the exception of the FSU game, or is that the FL/LSU game in the background. A little switching back in forth, I'm not paying much attention. After working on a sewing project I decided I would stop and go to bed - since then I have chatted on facebook, uploaded some pictures, devoured 3 blonde brownies (thanks Jill), and now decided to update the blog...so much for going to bed :-) How does time go by so fast? I was thinking back to high school and thought a year was the LONGEST thing in the whole world - now a year truly goes by so fast I can hardly believe it! It is almost mid-October and my baby is 5 months old!!! My Briley Mitchell is such a sweet little girl, 100% rotten, but so precious. She loves to be held, she spends a lot of the day on my hip, Mabry likes to occupy the other hip at times too - love my girlies. Briley turned 5 months old on the 7th, I keep meaning to weigh her but keep forgetting. She is a chunker though, love those rolls! She loves getting her foot to her mouth and sucking on her toes, or her whole foot, she has rolled over but does not practice the skill often, and she sits up for a short time before toppling over. Big sister likes to sit on her like she is a horse, she rolls her over and is now trying to pick her up off the ground and hold her "all by myself mommy"! I LOVE watching them interact. It's late and I am going to ramble so I'll post a couple recent (within the month)pictures. Our camera enjoyed a night out on our playground, during a storm, so we are working on getting that taken care of. Here are a few when I had dads camera. Adios friends!