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.

Angel here on Earth

We celebrated Granny's 80th Birthday this past weekend. 

This woman is an angel here on Earth. It may sound cheesy but it is the truth. 

I can't begin to explain all this woman has done for me in my life. She gives and gives and never expects anything in return. 

She is:

wise

giving

loving to the point you have no doubt that she cares for you

thoughtful

funny- she is a clown

young at heart

and I believe with every ounce in my heart and soul that God 

made her SO special. 

 She has been such a rock in my life and it was so great to celebrate her since she is always celebrating us. She made a beautiful speech and made us laugh all while wearing her "princess" crown.

I love her and hope she had an amazing day.

Really Walking

She is really walking now. Like without Mommy or Daddy holding her hand. She is very determined and can be stubborn sometimes... wonder who she gets that from? I felt like a kid with a new toy I kept wanting to play with her but she was tired from all the excitement and was ready for a nap. I let her nap but kept checking the monitor for any noise that sounded like she was awake so we could play again. She is so proud of her new accomplishment and I am beaming. My baby is turning into a toddler. 

Tomorrow will be a year from her original due date. WOW! It felt like yesterday that I was gigantic, wasn't sleeping and was so emotional and then when the 20th came and went without Becca I waved the white flag and gave up! One week later she made her entrance. We laugh today that if I wasn't induced that she would still be nice and cozy in Mommy's tummy. Some days I wish she still was. 

Catching up

Sorry its been so long. Our Summer has been busy but so much fun.

Fourth of July with my beautiful 10 month old

Our family

Her first pigtails!!! what is the point of having a girl if you can't play with different hair styles?

Oh yeah, she is walking now!! The day she turned 11 months old she took her first steps!

I swear she woke up one morning and went from baby to toddler. How come I don't have a say in this? I want her to stay little forever.

Her first box she played in. First of many of her childhood. The box belongs to her new big girl car seat. She is still facing backwards because last time we weighed her she is still a small 19.5 lbs. I believe still the 30-40th  percentile.

she cracks me up! 

She loves our new front loading washing machine. Not as much as Mommy loves it though.

Daddy taught her "where's your nose"

We have one more trip this summer and then I will be able to catch up more often. I hope everyone has had a fun summer like us.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day 5/8/11

Being Becca's Mother:

I have enjoyed every moment since she was born. 

I feel like it is going WAY too fast.

I love her laugh, her smile and her sweet kisses.

I am so proud to be her mother.

Becca was dedicated on Mother's Day at our Church.

 We are so blessed.