Monday

Where did my house go?

It has been over taken by boxes of diapers, high chairs, contraptions to keep baby entertained when you are not holding her/she is crawling, johnny jumpers for the doorways and lots and lots of puffs.

I was a little worried during my pregnancy that I would not be able to handle the mess that comes with a little person. Thankfully, I have been surprised at how easy it is! I don't mind picking up her bunny stuffed animal or little plastic cups she likes to drink out of or half chewed puffs or pieces of papers she rips up. Its a JOY. Now why can't that transfer to picking up after yourself or your husband?

Last night.

Last night I ate leftovers.

I re-organized my bedroom and my hall closet.

I did several loads of laundry.

I watched one episdoe of Fraiser.

Then

Jenna arrived.

We got into our pjamas

We had lots of girl talk.

We tried to watch Parenthood but we just kept thinking of things to tell one another

It was SO good for my soul.

Then

Allen came home from work.

He got Jenna to try a "who nu?" cookie

we laughed a lot

we watched Parenthood

Then

we went to bed.

It was a great AWESOME night.

Our life recently in photos....

 Molly and Jack finally meet

 Lunch date with Mama

First time on the swing!

A letter for Friday

Dear Husband,

Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your early morning hugs. Thank you for getting up at 2 am and soothing our daughter back to sleep. Thank you for my new digital camera because you know how much documenting our life means to me. Thank you for always wanting to know about my day. Thank you for asking me to marry you 2 years ago under the moon that was smiling on us.

I love you dearly. I am so glad we get to share in our life together.

wifey

location location location

sometimes its fun to get away.

my family did it alllll the time.

jacksonville, savannah, atlanta, highlands

we did it the other weekend.

my husbands so sweet, knowing how much i love to travel.

any guesses where we ended up?

An old letter from husband...

So cleaning out inbox of old email accounts I found some treasures. Letters between me and Allen written long ago when were just friends to newly dating to saying "i love you" and more. It did my heart some good to read and remember our past life where we planned surprise dates for one another and talked about the small details of our days.

Emails now consist of one liners and questions like  can you go to Publix for me" and " how is your headache?" I think we need to put the spark back in our everyday letters to one another even if its just a quick email.

Anyways, found this old picture of my man and an old email to go along with it. Did you know that one time Allen climbed up my balcony to leave porch furniture on the deck because a day earlier I had said that I wished I had a table and chairs? And did you know that on said table he had written a letter along with scripture to go along wit it. He stole my heart early on...

Hello my beautiful and wonderful girlfriend.  I am having a moment of really really missing you right now.  I don't know why it hit me just now, but it did.  I almost want to tear up a little bit thinking about you.  All I really want to do, short of being with you right now, is read your wonderful note you gave me yesterday.  it made me so happy and so thankful that I have someone who thinks so much of me. I am so thankful God has given me you - for that reason specifically.  i love you! - allen.

Dear Sunday

So far you have been so good to me! Thank you for your beautiful weather this morning so Molly and I could enjoy walking around the neighborhood and enjoy God's beautiful creation! Dear Molly, you are the cutest baby I have ever met. I love your giggles and how excited you get when you discover new things. Dear baby crib, I suspect some chewing in your future. Molly discovered how to pull up on you and here gums were very happy. Dear Husband, thank you for cleaning the shower yesterday! It was sparkly clean! Dear bathroom steam, I got out of the shower and thought I saw writing on the mirror. My mind for a minute totally believed that there was a ghost in the house like in the movie What Lies Beneath. Dear sleeping baby, I loved you before I ever saw you and I will love you forever and ever.

Da Da

My heart loves this photo

I know Molly is going to love it to when she is my age and she looks back at photo albums.

I can just hear her now " look at dad! he was so handsome when he was young! I was such a cute baby too. That cell phone is huge! Now cell phones are just little buttons we pin on our clothes."

love to dada and molls

xo

mama

another letter.

Dear worship team at PCC, you are awesome. Thank you for your excitement and commitment to bring Glory to God every single time, my husband and I enjoy worshiping alongside you! Dear man at church who almost sat on my head (seriously), please next time look before you sit down. Dear Maggie, thank you for making me laugh this morning when you stole my bath mat. I will forgive you even though you know I hate the feeling of wet feet on a bathroom floor. Dear husband, I love you. Thank you for your easy going personality. I am so glad your not a type A person.