Changes

With so many changes happening in our family, mommies been a bit busy. The small things start to go to the wayside...like, for example, doing the girl's hair. They are old enough to brush it and Juliet is pretty darn good and putting it up on her own and will often do her sisters hair when mom is rushing to get things done. But the lack of 'proper' care (I only say that because they are still learning) had put their hair in a sad state.

So we decided it was time to make a change. We took them to a place called Snip-it (highly recommend this place for any child's hair cut, fun, efficient and they even got a prize! plus it was only $16.95...not too shabby!)


so here are the little munchkins with their new hair cuts.....they love them! and so do we!

Juliet went short but stayed a little longer so she could still do pony tales and such but its still enough to feel the breeze. I always thought she would be a long hair girl, but she loves her hair short and she is a cutie pie with it short!

Breana is the reason we went in the first place. She's such a tomboy and her hair is always all over the place. We figured if it were short she wouldn't get it as tangled and it would be easier to manage. She looooves it. So do I!

Bethanie wasn't' sure what she wanted, so she looked in the book and picked this one. Its similar to Breana's but its more of an A Line then a bob. Super cute.

Can I tell you......it cut 10 minutes off of our morning routine! TEN MINUTES!!! I was ecstatic and so were the girls! easy and still adorable.....we should have done this months ago!!!

One month

One month from today we are scheduled to go in for our C-section....one month! Can you believe its already here?! It went by way too fast. And frankly i'm not ready to share! I want to keep him more!

Yes, I'm tired and achy and moody. I know my body can't take much more of getting beat up from the inside out but he's mine right now all mine. I get to feel him moving, I know when he's napping or when he gets excited about something, I feel the hiccups (which he gets ALL the time). I get to talk to him whenever I want and share all my little things with him. He knows when mommy is up, when I'm excited or upset and reacts to it too.

I will just miss it! but I am excited to meet him and to share him with our families and friends. I just want a little more time for him to be just mine.....I know its selfish, but I dont' care! :)

One Year....

Ok....so I'm about 10 days late on this but we've been so busy and so many things have been happening. :)

Can you believe its been one year since I married the love of my life and can I tell you I love him more now then I did then and I didn't even think that was possible!!! I mean you love someone so much you think your heart is going to burst and you just don't' think you can fit one more oz more in and then you wake up next to them or you catch him looking at you in just a way or he tells you you're beautiful when you feel like a frazzled crazy woman and it just adds a little more in there! Its crazy and I just love our Heavenly Father for letting us have these relationships! what a loving Father he is!

So one year ago on September 4th our two little families became one, then in March we found out we were adding to our little brood, in July we bought our first home and today I give thanks for all the many many many blessings we share together and just know there are so many more to come...like when we go to the temple and are sealed. Oh that will be such a glorious day!

Our new family...aren't we just such a wonderful looking bunch of people. hehe.


I love love love this one. This is the look I catch Brian giving me sometimes and it makes my heart melt. I love that it was caught on camera. I showed him this picture and told him it was one of my favorites, he asked why and I said because of the way you are looking at me and he told me "what makes you think I don't always look at you that way". It was one of my forever moments (you know those moments in time that freeze in your memory and you take then wherever you go). I'll always remember that conversation and this picture comes with it.

Thank you to my wonderful husband for giving me everything I've always dreamed of having, for loving every part of me (even the crabby, stressed out parts) and for making me want to be a better person everyday. I am absolutely completely totally in love with you and I can't wait to spend the rest of forever with you. Smooches!

Birthday

This is a tad late but I wanted to share what I got for my b-day....besides getting to see my sister and her family from Idaho! Brian got me a Nook, my sister Deborah got me a beautiful necklace and earing set and my parents got me a gift card to a store here in town called Charming Charlies and the girls got me these:

A Lion from Juliet....

A cat from Bethanie....

And a butterfly wand from Breana....

Now when the girls first told me they had birthday presents for me I wracked my brain trying to figure out when Brian could have taken them to the store to get me something. I love my husband dearly...but he usually doesn't think of these things and more often then not the girls don't get a chance to go for me (not that I expect presents from them by any means....I just know sometimes they are bummed they don't' get too). So I said ok bring them to me. They traped down the stairs with three 'wrapped' (with old color book papers) bundles and individually presented them to me. I opened them and ooh and awwed...they had grins from ear to ear. Brian even came over and commented on how sweet it was and how they did an awesome job picking out presents (which made them even more grinny...is that a word? it is today).

Then came the best part. Juliet tells me: we picked things we didnt' want anymore. :D

I held back a chuckle and said Oh I see....Brian leaned down and said something to the effect of "you're not suppose to tell her that". All three gave Brian the 'Oh gotcha" look and then off they went on a six year old adventure.

It was all very sweet and comical at the same time. I did as I said and took them to work. :) they are now all sitting proudly on my book shelf...those forgotten unwanted toys that became sweetness to mom for her birthday.