Happiness is ...

Hearing your 13 m.o. giggling at 4 am in her sleep and having your spouse reach over and squeeze your hand. 

Happiness is...

Having your 3 y.o. on your shoulders, picking chokecherries for Gramma, while your hubby & #2 ride the 4-wheeler around the property on a beautiful summer night. 

Easier Pickle Rounds

Instead of spreading the cream cheese, I put a few dollops, placed Saran Wrap over the cheese, rolled it, then removed to roll up the pickle. Two wraps per pickle. Refrigerate for a few hours befor slicing. Spreading is so much harder. I liked this much better. 

Time is a Flyin'

13 months, 9 teeth and this little girl can now get into a lawn chair by herself. Yikes!

Fun at the Fair

Happy 36th birthday to my Hubby Hubie

July has been a FUN and busy month!

Four-leafed Felicity

I scour over patches of clovers & I've found maybe a handful of 4-leafed clovers in my time, but I really have to look whereas my mom can spot them w/o even trying. Look who's taking over Grandma's gift? She spotted it all by herself. I just picked it for her. WEIRD!

Miss Felicity Turns 1

Brecken, Matt, Dirk, Jacie, Wm, Doc, Felicity, Isabella

Post party relaxation

"Let me at it"

Best $5 I ever spent: bubble machine

"Mine, all mine."

Present opening

Daddy's Girls

So big!!!

Cruising Baby

Felicity took 15 steps across the living room tonight. 2 days short of turning 1. Good job baby girl!

#5 & #1 for Locks of Love

Before. Elizabeth: 3 1/2 years

After. Mom's 5th and Elizabeth's 1st ponytails for LOL.

Before and after pics of our Locks of Love donations.  Mom: 11", Elizabeth: 6"

My little photographer taking Mom's pic of cutting off the ponytail.

E's first, first, first ever haircut. The night before I cut a curl for her babybook.

Pretty similar in color.

Sending a little rainbow their way.

Stylin'

"Mom, I like Donna.  When I get big she wash my hair in the sink."

Both of our postcards "Thank yous" from LOL.

Before Kids...

Before kids I would see a parent in a store using those ridiculous kids carts that don't have nearly enough room for you stuff b/c 80% of the cart is a 'race car'. Or I 'd see a mom carrying a baby and steering the cart one-handed while whispering to her 3 year old that no-that lady does NOT have a baby in her tummy. I get it now:

Baby's first bike ride!!! She loved it!

Happy Fathers Day

Elizabeth is 3 1/2. Felicity is 11 months. David spent 1:1 time with Felicity for a few hours while Doc (what Elizabeth is insisting on being called now-a-days) and I went out. Then David got his butt handed to him by a 3 yo in a rousing game of candy land. 

Felicity took 7 steps by herself today before crashing into Momma's arms and giggling with pride. 

David and I were saying that she really hadn't said her 1st meaningful word yet. Elizabeth was saying 'up' when wanting to be picked up. Well tonight Felicity was standing in the window watching David go by cutting the grass and she waved as he went by saying "Dada."  Shortly afterwards she was crawling down the hallway to me saying "Mama" over and over. She's changing so fast. While Elizabeth has me in stitches over how her little brain works. 

My family...

David is...

Garden (finally) Plantes

Bring on the rain!

Bad year for bugs

And after a horribly cold, long winter ... the Mosquitos have been absolutely terrible. And this sweet baby is just candy to them. 

Downing trees - always makes me nervous

Three (dead) trees down @ the end of the driveway. Now the cleanup of all the fallen limbs. Good job, Babe!

11 months

11 months old & tooth #4 popped out today

Independent Sit to Stand - 10 mo.