30 Years Ago...

The love of my life was born.

He has accomplished more in his 30 years of life than I probably will in my entire life!  Here's a short list

Law & Masters degree at the same time

Bike ride from El Paso to Canada (yes on a bicycle)

Save a life by donating a kidney

Ran the New York Marathon

Helped make two of the most beautiful baby girls in the world

Remodeled a house from top to bottom with his own two hands

Started a business

Sold a business

Started another business

Was written up in the high school and local newspaper for his pantsing skills

Was banned from Zogsports Dodgeball for his pantsing skills

A pretty impressive list if you ask me.  We are so lucky to have this guy in our lives. We love you!!!

6 Months!

It's hard to believe that my baby girl Bliss is already 6 months old. She continues to be an extremely happy baby and always has a smile on her face. She is sitting up completely unassisted, getting on all fours just about to crawl, eating solids, babbling up a storm, and holding her own bottle. She loves to be tickled, kissed on, playing peekaboo, watching Tangled, pulling your hair, splashing herself in the bath, putting any and everything in her mouth to chew on, and rolling to get where she needs to be.

 

 Get out of the way sis!

21 Months

Still on the go, still as animated as ever. She loves... putting words together, kissing and hugging Bliss, feeding the dogs all by herself, saying "I tee tee too", mimicking, playing with puzzles, animals, Tangled & Rio, giving momma and daddy hugs and kisses, saying "hiiiiiiii", dancing, birds, her Poppy, wearing hats, hiding and jumping out to scare you, back rubs, any kind of berries. 

 

Wiggles

Dallas is a huge fan of the Wiggles so we couldn't pass up the chance to go see them in concert. She had the time of her life!

 Greg the Yellow Wiggle

 Group shot before we hit the road

 Bliss got to spend the afternoon with Granna & Poppie

5 Months!

Our smiley baby had such a big month. She went swimming for the first time, got her first ear infection (poor baby!), became aware that we have dogs and is mesmerized every time they walk by her and sat for a few seconds unassisted. She loves being on her tummy and still always has a hand or foot in her mouth or anything she can grab. She loves to be kissed and to splash herself in the bath tub. Her laugh is infectious and when she pulls your face to her drooly mouth your heart is sure to melt. She is perfection.

20 Months!

My little baby is turning into a little lady. Her baby rolls are starting to fade and her increasing ability to be independent is bitter sweet for me. We recently moved her out of the nursery nook attached to our room and into her own room. We bought a new crib and when her daddy was carrying it up the driveway I told her that was her new bed. She grabbed her chest and gasped with the look of "this is for me"! She then repeated "night night momma" for the next hour while it was being put together. Needless to say all of my worrying about transitioning her into a new room was for nothing, she loves it.

She drinks out of big girl cups now instead of sippy cups, has pretend tea parties, loves to dress up, mimics everything we do and say, loves her baby sister so much that she doesn't even get mad when she pulls her hair, still has a shoe obsession, has the meanest doggie paddle I have ever seen, sings songs, loves to dance, gives the longest and best hugs when you least expect it, still kisses with her mouth open, always swings one arm when she runs, loves jumping off high objects, loves eating tomatoes at poppy & granna's house, is starting to share, held her daddy's face the other day and whispered "I wove you"

Simply put the room (and our hearts) lights up when Dallas walks in.

4th of July Fun