No Time

I don't have the time to do the things I want to do lately, including blog. Our life is this, in a nutshell:

Walking and signing one year old, sweet as she can be, keeping me busy, napping just 1 hour a day, very astute, soaking life up like a sponge, making everyone she sees stop and smile, filling our hearts with pure joy.

Over-studied husband, amazing and wonderful, plenty busy with work, plus cramming for his CFP exam, joining multiple local civic organizations and managing most house decisions, still making time to love on his girls.

New construction house now with all flooring, A/C, lighting, hardware, etc installed, just gathering finishing touches and waiting to become a home in mid-July.

And a wonderfully happy, yet busy, running til she drops, trying to maintain sweet family and friend relationships and a somewhat clean home momma who needs a better tan and is really ready for life to slow down. (Did I mention wonderfully happy? I am! Just a bit crazy!)



So there you have it. That explains why our blogging existance is sparse. We love sharing our lives with you online, but I much prefer just enjoying life that's happening in person. We praise God for everything He's given us-- even the busy!

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Play time with daddy...
























Peeking down at mommy...

Time with our sweet family...

Precious baby smiles...

Climbing lots of stairs...

WALKING!!!!!!

Making sweet pouty faces....

And precious piggies...

These are a few of my favorite things!

Miscellany

Isn't she just the cutest? We pulled my old rocking chair out of "storage" (which is pretty much everywhere we look these days). Anabelle loves it! We keep it in the bedroom so she can watch her show in the morning while I get ready. She even taught herself to rock in it and in the big rocking chair. Such a big girl!

Climbing is our favorite thing to do these days. It's pretty common to find her crawling between the kitchen and living room shelves, like this. Today, daddy found her climbing up her rocking chair, trying to get onto our bed. It's only a matter of time before she'll be doing it with ease!

Anabelle loves having Papa living next door! He and mimi are spoiling her like crazy.

Swingin Good Time!

Anabelle's birthday gift from Papa, Mimi and us was her very own swingset! It has been so much fun to play on it with her. She absolutely loves swinging, as you can tell in the pictures below. She points at it every time she sees it out the window and is happy as can be swinging for as long as we'll let her.

Check out the giant smiles she (and we) have on our faces on her very first time playing on it!

Blogger isn't letting me put comments in the correct places, so you don't get any narratives other than: "Look how much fun this is!!"

Fun Family Photo Shoot