62 Minutes to Save the World

This blog is inspired by Enjoying the Small Things

The blog that inspired me to do this post is a stay home mother of 2 and had been busy with day to day chores and errands and experimented with taking one hour and giving her 2 kids her full attention, and giving it her all. As a mother of one and understanding sometimes the laundry, or dinner or dishes sometimes overwhelm us and we have a little one at our ankle fussing and wanting our undivided attention can be a struggle sometimes. Recently, our house has been sick. Just stomach bug and sinus infection sick and I felt a sense of guilt of not being able to give Becca my all, my A game. I know the whole "you can't take care of others if you don't take care of your self" saying, but it was really hard. I think it was hard because its been more than a week of sickness. So, now that I am feeling better her blog inspired me. I wanted to give Becca my undivided attention.. my all.

So, here I tracked it. Pulling out of our drive way at 5:18. Calling the hubby and letting him know that we were off for an adventure and we would be home soon.

The beach was our adventure. I am sad to say living so close to the beach you would think that wouldn't be an adventure but we take it for granted.

I let her play in the sand and didn't stress about her being a mess or trying to stay clean. She loves to dig!

We explored...

We searched for shells...

We awed at the waves crashing...

We sat in wet sand and watched surfers...

We left imprints...

and made it back in time for dinner.

our weekends

I love our weekends.

This past weekend was a great weekend.

Friday was spent at the beach for a play date.

Becca and her friends looking for shells.

her hair looks red in this picture.

I love this picture I got with my camera. Her shirt, tutu and facial expression just gets to me.

Our gift to her for her birthday is a Red Flyer Wagon. Daddy and Becca are working hard to put it together while Allie supervises.

I think she loves it!

Saturday night we celebrated my birthday with Jason's parents. Becca had some tickle time with Grandpa. It was adorable!

She has recently learned where her belly button is and will show me 50 times a day. She was showing us here where it was just in case you weren't sure where it is located.

Our weekends are special. I feel like I try to squeeze the most out of them. Becca loves having Daddy home and so does Mommy. Saturdays usually have some type of adventure and Sundays, oh Sundays. I love Sundays.

I love the feeling of Sundays, like when you take a blanket out of the dryer and wrap yourself up in it. Our Sunday's are started off with hearing the Lord's word, followed by brunch and then the best part. Sunday afternoon naps.

Our naps are echoed with the sound of football that Daddy watches while the girls (including Allie) take our nap.

I try and save my favorite meal for Sunday nights. I hope we always keep this tradition of having everyone home for Sunday night dinners. I picture our table surrounded with kids and stories of the past week and what is going on in their lives at the moment and stories ending with bellowing laughs. 

Our weekends. Only 5 days till our weekend returns.

Favorite Day.

Today was a favorite day. Better than a great day... it was a favorite day.

One of those days you look back on and wonder if that is what heaven is like.

It started off waking up with my love bug playing with all of the toys she received the day before for her birthday. A nice preview of what Christmas is like. We opened box after box of new toys.. saying "oh! what does this do?" " Look Becca! how cool!"

I took a billion pictures... I won't share them all. Just thought this summed up our favorite morning. It ended with Mommy making a deal with Daddy if he would get up and put together a gift that required a hammer and maybe a nail or two that I would go get McDonald's while he "slaved" over putting this gift together. He fell for it ; ) 

Our day continued with a wonderful time at Church. 

Then a surprise when we got home. A new hammock in our backyard to play on. We spent some nice time relaxing in our new surprise. 

We also sneaked into the fridge midday and ate some cake. Shhhh

Our evenings are becoming favorites. Since it is getting a tad cooler after dinner we play in the front yard.

Tonight we brought out the side walk chalk!

( I love this picture. This tree was planted days after she was born. I love seeing both of them grow and become big and strong)

she has a love for dogs. 

I live for her hugs

Most of our favorite evenings Daddy tries to find something to do outside. Tonight it was putting in a new mail box since days earlier we received a love note from our new home owners association saying our mail box was crooked. Our handyman

We admired the swirly clouds

This picture sums up a perfect ending to our FAVORITE day.

One

The day finally came. The day I've been waiting for. It came faster then I ever thought.

Becca's 1st Birthday

I wanted to soak in every moment.

It was great! We were surrounded by our family and friends.

Favors

She ate cake

She wore a cute outfit

She knew exactly what to do

She shared with Daddy

she bounced

she sat in her new beach chair that Great Grandma gave her

After math of her party. She is one spoiled gal. Sometimes I don't think being spoiled is such a bad thing, just means she is loved by many. What a wonderful day celebrating our little love bug.