^^sleeping so sweetly in her bed^^
^^studying a picture of her gramma^^
^^touching the flowers^^
^^watching a video and appearing way too grown^^
^^looking outside^^
^^definite sweetness to my eyes^^
What's not to treasure.
Friday, March 20, 2009
precious pictures
To go with my "precious moments" theme today I decide to post some of my favorite/most precious pictures as of late-while Daddy and AK are out for a stroll... 
^^sleeping so sweetly in her bed^^
^^studying a picture of her gramma^^
^^touching the flowers^^
^^watching a video and appearing way too grown^^
^^looking outside^^
^^definite sweetness to my eyes^^
^^sleeping so sweetly in her bed^^^^studying a picture of her gramma^^^^touching the flowers^^^^watching a video and appearing way too grown^^^^looking outside^^^^definite sweetness to my eyes^^precious moments
There are days when we need to think about and remember the precious things in life. I'm not particularly having a bad day or anything but as I went in to get my daughter out of bed this morning, it struck me, if I thought about all the sweet and precious things more I'd be happy AND thankful more!
My favorite time of day is when I get to wake up, make my daughter breakfast and sit anxiously awaiting her little voice to greet me. Every morning I effortlessly give her a huge greeting welcoming her to the day. I actually have to try not to over do it sometimes because she probably thinks I'm nuts. But I love this time with her. I walk in, turn on her lamp, say "good morning Princess!", get her out of bed where she proceeds to lay her sweet little head on my shoulder. Then I stand in front of her changing table for a minute savoring the lovin' (because she's rarely still enough to love me like that) and as I lay her down on the table to be changed we have a little chat. "Are you ready for breakfast?" "Did you sleep well?" "Mommy is sooo happy to see you!" And sometimes we sing a little song. Now obviously she can't talk quite yet but the kid DOES sing. It's the cutest thing. She knows how to carry a tune in her jibber jabber. I wish you could hear it. So yeah, I sing a part of a song and she sings it back. PRECIOUS I tell you! And THAT is how our day begins.
Another precious thing in life is seeing the face of my husband when he sees Anna~Kate for the first time of the day. He is usually sleeping when she wakes up because he works nights but oh boy does she get two good greetings everyday. It's so fun.
Precious, yet annoying sometimes, is when AK knows it's about time for bed she takes off and jumps in her ball pit/tunnel contraption where I can't easily remove her-without some effort anyways. She knows when it's coming too, which is so funny to me. From there, we play for a minute to get the last of her energies out and then I grab a limb and start (carefully) pulling her out. Haha.
Sitting across from my husband at a restaurant table, with nothing to say at that very moment and just staring into his eyes. Ah, heaven. I feel giddy all over again.
The look on my daughter's face AND my mom's face when they see each other again after a couple of weeks apart. Priceless. Seriously, I don't think AK greets ANYONE like she greets her. Not even us when we've been away for a couple of hours.
Standing by the monitor at night listening to my child carry a conversation with the angels, I guess. She giggles and talks and then giggles and so on. VERY precious!
I could go on for a while so I'll stop here
When mommy and daddy are giving eachother a BIG hug-on purpose and for THIS response-Anna~Kate starts grinning from ear to ear, runs up and raises her hands to us to join in on the fun. Then we proceed with a big family bear hug type deal. So sweet.
What are some precious moments in your life?
My favorite time of day is when I get to wake up, make my daughter breakfast and sit anxiously awaiting her little voice to greet me. Every morning I effortlessly give her a huge greeting welcoming her to the day. I actually have to try not to over do it sometimes because she probably thinks I'm nuts. But I love this time with her. I walk in, turn on her lamp, say "good morning Princess!", get her out of bed where she proceeds to lay her sweet little head on my shoulder. Then I stand in front of her changing table for a minute savoring the lovin' (because she's rarely still enough to love me like that) and as I lay her down on the table to be changed we have a little chat. "Are you ready for breakfast?" "Did you sleep well?" "Mommy is sooo happy to see you!" And sometimes we sing a little song. Now obviously she can't talk quite yet but the kid DOES sing. It's the cutest thing. She knows how to carry a tune in her jibber jabber. I wish you could hear it. So yeah, I sing a part of a song and she sings it back. PRECIOUS I tell you! And THAT is how our day begins.
Another precious thing in life is seeing the face of my husband when he sees Anna~Kate for the first time of the day. He is usually sleeping when she wakes up because he works nights but oh boy does she get two good greetings everyday. It's so fun.
Precious, yet annoying sometimes, is when AK knows it's about time for bed she takes off and jumps in her ball pit/tunnel contraption where I can't easily remove her-without some effort anyways. She knows when it's coming too, which is so funny to me. From there, we play for a minute to get the last of her energies out and then I grab a limb and start (carefully) pulling her out. Haha.
Sitting across from my husband at a restaurant table, with nothing to say at that very moment and just staring into his eyes. Ah, heaven. I feel giddy all over again.
The look on my daughter's face AND my mom's face when they see each other again after a couple of weeks apart. Priceless. Seriously, I don't think AK greets ANYONE like she greets her. Not even us when we've been away for a couple of hours.
Standing by the monitor at night listening to my child carry a conversation with the angels, I guess. She giggles and talks and then giggles and so on. VERY precious!
I could go on for a while so I'll stop here
When mommy and daddy are giving eachother a BIG hug-on purpose and for THIS response-Anna~Kate starts grinning from ear to ear, runs up and raises her hands to us to join in on the fun. Then we proceed with a big family bear hug type deal. So sweet.
What are some precious moments in your life?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
photoshop delight
For the past two days I have been addicted to photoshop. I came to a point where I was totally getting bored with it so I decided to search out the endless possibilities. As you can see, from my new "header", I've been up to a lot. I've even made a couple others for other people, just for fun, and they don't even know it yet. I am getting totally addicted to making fun stuff. BUT, I have a problem, I'll probably be changing my layout quite often until I find THE one. The one I have right now is fun and springy, totally my intentions, but I'm not completely sold. That's the hard part about doing it yourself-you see all your options and you can't use them all at one time. So yeah, we'll see what I come up with next.---I've been downloading and extracting (wow) tons of pages and elements to go with from this blog Here A Scrap There A Scrap. You should definitely go take a look. I have also been downloading tons of fun fonts from random places. I sure hope I'm not giving me computer anything. I only download from legit looking sites. Hahaha.
Yesterday and today I've been "babysitting" an 11 year old and a 7 year old. So much for babysitting...they're actually taking my little monkey off my hands. She loves kids that age and will play play play until she can't play nomore. Haha. It's been nice, that's for sure.
Well, I must go see what their little monkey hands are up to.
Yesterday and today I've been "babysitting" an 11 year old and a 7 year old. So much for babysitting...they're actually taking my little monkey off my hands. She loves kids that age and will play play play until she can't play nomore. Haha. It's been nice, that's for sure.
Well, I must go see what their little monkey hands are up to.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
weekend things
Today I am sore. Last night the hubs and I went and played tennis at the high school across the street. It was fun, yet a bit challenging. Neither of us knew just how bad I was. HA. I mean, I have the gist of it all, just hit the ball over the net but inside the boundary lines. Well, I can't back hand it without it flying across the whole court, I can't hit the really fast ones, I suck at predicting where the ball is going to land so I'm not very quick and getting to where I need to be-basically I don't know how to play very well. But it was fun nonetheless. I really enjoyed it and I think he did to. I'm sure with practice I'll get better. And I hope with practice I won't be in this much pain. My legs hurt, arms, feet, lower stomach, back. It all hurts. I feel like an old woman right now-not that I know what an old woman feels like-but if I did I'm sure this is how it is.
Our little monkey is doing all new sorts of things these days. She has a new laugh. This, to me, is funny. She even has a new cry-a more "older" sounding cry. She climbed onto our bed yesterday for the first time. That was a nice surprise. She was just running around the house doing her thing and the next thing I know she's sitting beside me. We weren't sleeping, I think we had all just gotten up from a nap and we were still laying down. But really, I think the new laugh is the funniest thing she's been doing. I can't even explain it. She laughs and then at the end of her laugh she takes in a breath that has a squeal to it. It's so funny! Oh and yesterday we were watching Funniest Home Videos or something while we were eating dinner and she was actually laughing. It was SO CUTE! Sean and I would just look at each other and crack up. She definitely has her own little personality.
I put a stool under her window so she can stand on it and look out. Well yesterday my husband was like, "Come here!" while he was running to the baby's room. So I go in there and she was standing on her stool looking out at some deer. He was running in there to show her but she had already spotted them. Ah, she melts my heart.
Yesterday morning at church AK got to play drums
with her Uncle Kevin when the service was over. Now, we all know she got a kick out of that...and so did he! We also presented him with his birthday present yesterday morning. Anna-Kate finger painted him a picture and I got an 8x10 black frame with a creme matte. I wrapped sage green ribbon around the edges of the matte and then put the art work in. It looked really cute and I'm super mad at myself that I didn't get a picture of it! But I will, soon, hopefully. This is the "card" we gave him.
I knew he would love this seeing that he adores his niece, is into artsy things (although I'm not sure he's THAT into artsy things made by an 18 month old-but BECAUSE it was his niece he totally loved it) and he really needs to get decorating on his bachelor pad. So, it covered all areas. So yeah, I was really excited to give it to him because I feel it was a brilliant idea. Haha. He liked it and the world moved on-I could've used a little more excitement. HAHAHA!
P.S. I took the drummer picture with my cell phone so it's very poor quality. Sean says I dropped the ball on not having my camera with me because this pic could've served as some great gifts. HAHA. ....oh well.
Our little monkey is doing all new sorts of things these days. She has a new laugh. This, to me, is funny. She even has a new cry-a more "older" sounding cry. She climbed onto our bed yesterday for the first time. That was a nice surprise. She was just running around the house doing her thing and the next thing I know she's sitting beside me. We weren't sleeping, I think we had all just gotten up from a nap and we were still laying down. But really, I think the new laugh is the funniest thing she's been doing. I can't even explain it. She laughs and then at the end of her laugh she takes in a breath that has a squeal to it. It's so funny! Oh and yesterday we were watching Funniest Home Videos or something while we were eating dinner and she was actually laughing. It was SO CUTE! Sean and I would just look at each other and crack up. She definitely has her own little personality.I put a stool under her window so she can stand on it and look out. Well yesterday my husband was like, "Come here!" while he was running to the baby's room. So I go in there and she was standing on her stool looking out at some deer. He was running in there to show her but she had already spotted them. Ah, she melts my heart.
Yesterday morning at church AK got to play drums
with her Uncle Kevin when the service was over. Now, we all know she got a kick out of that...and so did he! We also presented him with his birthday present yesterday morning. Anna-Kate finger painted him a picture and I got an 8x10 black frame with a creme matte. I wrapped sage green ribbon around the edges of the matte and then put the art work in. It looked really cute and I'm super mad at myself that I didn't get a picture of it! But I will, soon, hopefully. This is the "card" we gave him.
I knew he would love this seeing that he adores his niece, is into artsy things (although I'm not sure he's THAT into artsy things made by an 18 month old-but BECAUSE it was his niece he totally loved it) and he really needs to get decorating on his bachelor pad. So, it covered all areas. So yeah, I was really excited to give it to him because I feel it was a brilliant idea. Haha. He liked it and the world moved on-I could've used a little more excitement. HAHAHA!
P.S. I took the drummer picture with my cell phone so it's very poor quality. Sean says I dropped the ball on not having my camera with me because this pic could've served as some great gifts. HAHA. ....oh well.
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