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she luuuuvs swings!

Noni loves doing things for Evey. Theres not much she can do yet but she can push her on the swing.

Useing her "tools" to help daddy with woodwork. :)

Her new fave doll! Jesse from Toystory 2. found it for $5 at a flea market!!

Noni can pedal now. Only for a little bit, she is getting so big!

My Evey girl is really becoming a mamas girl. And I LOVE IT!

Beautiful smile!

Crafts, crafts and more crafts!

My Noni girl loves doing crafts. Well thats what we call any kind of creative creation. I try and let her do something once a week with her stamps and glitter and markers. Her latest thing is cutting pics out of magazines and glueing them with a glue stick. She does a craft once a week at storytime and also at church so the "crafts" are really pileing up. I don't know what to do with them all. I will use some in her scrapbook but if you have any ideas, let me know. I don't know what to keep and what get rid of. Its all so cute!

{side note. I just discovered after all this time of blogging how to add more than one pic at a time. I always did it one pic at a time and it took forever. I am so thrilled}

My tatt!

I finally did it! I got my first tattoo. I love it. I have wanted a tattoo on my foot for years but didn't know what to get and I wanted to be sure. So last year I think it was I thought of getting a paisley. I LOVE LOVE LOVE paisleys. Any pattern that involves paisleys I love. I even like the name Paisley. There are so many different kinds of paisleys though. Short, fat, long, thin, a swirled tip, pointy tip, and then the options of what to put inside of it were endless. So I searched online for paisley patterns and actual paisley tattoos. Peter helped me draw up a few samples even used a marker and drew it on my foot to see what it would look like. It took a long time until I figured out what I wanted. I wasn't 100% sure of the inside pattern when I went but my tattoo artist Johnny added a few details that I loved!! So...(funny story) we went on Friday night and waited for about an hour and a half til it was my turn. I have butterflies in my stomach and am so nervous, I wanted Peter to hold my hand to get me started and then he could take the girls out for a walk. (yes we brought the kids with us to get a tattoo, craziness) Well we sign the papers and then he asks for my i.d. I didn't have it, didn't even think to bring my purse with. Apparently for insurance reasons they need every ones i.d. no matter what your age. Who knew? So Peter had to drive home to get it. Thats 25 min. home and 25 min back and my tattoo was only going to take 45 min tops. So he left and I had to get my tattoo all by MYSELF. I was freaking out. Then Johnny changed the angle and position of the paisley on my foot and that freaked me out. I wasnt sure if I liked it. I am so indecissive and I wanted Peter there to help me decide. (my nerves were effecting my thinking too) Anyway, I decided to go with what Johnny suggested and JUST DO IT. So he did it, and it hurt, but it was tolerable. It wasn't too bad, it really wasn't. I am falling in love with it more and more every day! Noni's tatt!

When we got home Noni wanted a tattoo too. So daddy obliged and put one of her "Cars" tattoos on. She looks at my paisley every day and says she likes it. Before I got the tattoo whenever she was a paisley she would say mommy thats like on your foot. I think she will forever associate paisleys with her mama! :);)

Picnic time

There is nothing like having a picnic, on a blanket, with your family, in your back yard! Thats why I love this weather! Becuase you can decide spur of the moment to eat dinner outside in the grass. It was so FUN! Noni is always up for any kind of randomness that we throw at her. So she took her cup and her crackers out to the blanket and waited for us to get the food ready. It was taco night so pretty easy to prepare. (this is our entire familys favorite meal and we have it pretty much every week)

Isnt she the cutest thing

MMmmmm hmmmmmmm!

HAPPY FAMILY!

FOLLOWERS

Do you have a blog? Do you ever wonder who reads your blog? Ever wonder if you are just writing about your life and that there is no one on the other end reading your words? Or if there is someone reading your words what are they thinking? can they relate? have they gone through that too? do they have any questions? Hmmm?

Well I have. I do wonder this every time I write a post. I love blogging. It is therapy for me. It helps me process things and let go of things. Or just shareing what me and my family are up to. I love reading others blogs and i follow certain ones faithfully. I feel like I have connected with some of these people even though I have never met them. The ones that I have been following for a while I just became an official "follower" of. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. I am challenging myself to write more comments as well. I always read things and think things in my head but dont usually write a comment.

So...I am asking you, if you read my blog, regularly or not regularly and enjoy checking in will you please become a "follower." Or let me know what you are thinking. I want to get to know who is reading my blog, (if anyone). I added the follower gadget on the side so go ahead click on the "join this site" butten. Also let me know if you have a blog and I'll start "following" yours!!!

Thanks blog friends!!!
-if you are already a follower, then ingnore this post, thanks!;)

Family fun!

Noni helps daddy feed the birdies!

Look at those chunky legs!

Yes mama plays dress up too! We are practicing our ballet!!

Feeding the duckys and the scary geese!

*my girls*

Riding her princess bike!

 

So Blessed!

We were so blessed at church this past Sunday! There is a guy (harley dude with a big grey beard and tattoos) who has been so kind to us ever since we started going. Always says hi, hugs and kisses. He prayed for my pregnancy and birth before I had Evey. Yesterday we talked a little before the service and then after worship he came over and held Peters face and gave him a word of encouragement. He said
"Jesus wants you to know that all the bad things that you have done are forgiven. That God has set you up to be a leader and is preparing you for that role and testing you right now."

Then at the end of the service before we left he came over and talked to both of us. He said
"The fire of God is all over you both and he could feel it. He wasn't the only one that sees it. He believes we are going to talk to couples and help them through every day stuff." He prayed for us and blessed us.

It was so good. Its so hard sometimes in the craziness of everyday life to remember how much God loves us and to know that He has a plan for us. We are living it but there is so much more too. Its so exciting to be encouraged like that. It has definitly stirred both mine and Peters spirits up!!! Thank You God!

Easter is fun!!

I love an excuse to dress up and dress up my girlies!! We had lots of fun this past weekend painting eggs, having easter egg hunts and spending time with family. Noni got an easter basket from us and from my mom and we have been eating lots of candy ever since! As for celebrating Jesus' resurrection? We celebrate that every day!!

Tid-bits from our week~

there one and only matching outfit! <3

pretty eggs!

we started our ballet class this week. she did great!!

breakfast time....i love mornings with my girls!

there first wagon ride together. Evey is secured with lots of blankets.