it's a monday

Mondays seem to always be long for me. I think it's because I spend a lot of my time on the computer uploading and working on pics from the weekend. I do not spend my weekends on the computer much so the camera fills up pretty fast.

This weekend I was in Waco. We left here at 7:30 am and my mom met us on the highway in Waco because we were running a little behind and the hubs needed to get going to work. So, she picked us up and we went to the grocery store where we spent entirely too much time. I spent the day just hanging out with my mom with NO ONE else around. This rarely happens because it seems every weekend we come there some other family member decides to drop by whether it be my sister-in-law and two kids or my aunt with one kid and they usually end up being there the WHOLE time we're there. Sometimes this is fun and sometimes it's way too hectic. I was glad to have a low key weekend.

We took AK to the park and let her exert some energy, we "did up" the play room so it would be more fun. My mom took AK walking up and down the street on my Granny's walker. HAHAHA. It's so hilarious because Annakate sits on the little seat part and my mom pushes her all over the place. We went to smarty pants (which was super exciting because they've double in size) and got her some little white sandals.

Saturday afternoon, around 5, my sister came and picked us up and we went to our littlest sister's birthday party. That night we stayed at my sis's place and I was super happy about getting this picture of my newest little neice Nevaeh Alycia (Heaven spelled backwards and Uh-lee-c-uh ,not Alisha) due to arrive June 1st. We stayed up way too late watching a movie and chatting about labor. It was fun and much needed.

Sunday morning mom came and picked us up and we got breakfast and went back to her house for a day of play. Annakate played on the slide, that we put in the middle of the living room, mostly all day. What can I say, she loves to slide. Sean got there around 3...or a little after and we stayed until around 5, then headed south. Traffic was terrible! I kept thinking about what holiday it could be that I was missing but it turns out that SPRING BREAK was ending for lots of folks. Annakate slept the whole way since she refused a nap that day. It was a peaceful, stop and go ride.

If you have the time please go over to MckMama's blog, read about and pray for her baby boy.

I'm now off to find a Bush's Chicken. I KNOW I saw one one day and I AM GOING to find it!

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^^

What's not to treasure.

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?

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.

wordless wednesday