She's 3!!

Nonah Mae Wright is 3 years old. I am saying it and I know it but I am not really believing it. I remember her birth-day like it was yesterday. I remember preparing for her and the excitement of having our first baby and all the unknowns of what to expect. I remember the adjusting and struggles of that first year as parents and I remember the pure joy that we both got out of seeing our little baby make noises, then roll over, then crawl, etc, etc... This little girl amazed us, changed us, taught us, and has brought us soooo much joy.

And she still amazes and brings us so much joy. This little 3 year old is so sweet, so smart, so cute, and changing every day! She already has such a personality. She is strong willed, a little stubborn, creative, and already has an opinion that needs to be heard.

Noni loves to create things. She is really into doing crafts right now or coloring, drawing, stamping, anything. She loves being outdoors (as long as its not too hot, she didn't use to mind the heat but this summer she didn't handle it to well) Hiking and walking in the woods with daddy is probably one of her favorite things. Collecting things for her nature box. She has become very observant, she notices birds, bugs, leaves, all kinds of things and points them out to us. I love when she says, "mom its a beautiful day today."She loves running. Its fun for her to just run around the house 5 times in a row or more. Shes very active and is hard to keep up with.

Noni loves playing with her friends and cousins. She loves her sissy (yes I say sissy, don't make fun) and can't wait til she can actually play with her. She loves candy and all things sweet. She loves pickles and olives and would eat them at every meal. Oh and she loooves singing and dancing. She is always singing something even if she is just making up the words and shes always spinning or jumping saying "watch this mama watch this." She loves reading books. We go to the library once a week and pick out 5 or 6 books, and she loves story time.

We are so in love with her it hurts. So proud to be her mama!

Here is Nonah Mae's Birth story, if you are interested.

PaRtY TiMe!

We have been celebrating my Noni girls birthday for a few days now. Today is her actual birthday. We had her friends and cousins over on Saturday for a little party and then on Sunday had a party with my side of the family. For Saturday I made cupcakes, for Sunday I got a cake so today we are going for ice cream. Heres some pics from our fun and busy weekend!

a little side note; I made this banner and am very proud of it. It is not perfect that's for sure but I don't mind. It will be able to be used for all of our birthdays, well maybe not Peters. I plan on making one for almost every holiday. I can't take all the credit, this is where my inspiration came from. Art to go

Gotta love Tie dye!!

Tie dying was so fun. I had been planning on doing it for weeks and it took a while to get all the right stuff. In the past I have tie dyed and it always faded. Like extremely faded. So I wanted to do it right this time. A friend told me about the 2 important ingredients to use inorder to prevent fading. Soda ash and urea. So we got the ingredients and bought some white shirts for the whole family and Peter did some research online for some techniques. We did a peace sign shirt for all of us, spider pattern and reverse spider, and spirals. Noni had a blast although couldn't do a whole lot. We are very happy with the results and are already thinking about our next tie dye session. Fun times!!

Family photo session!

It took a week of trying and talking about it but I made the family do a photo session. We hadn't had a good family photo since Evey was born so it was time. And they turned out good enough for me. Its fun, its us and my hubby only complained a little bit. :) -I didn't remove the pacifier because Evey had just woken up and was a little cranky.

2 year Dreadiversary!!

Ive been meaning to post about my dreads for a week now. August 1st was 2 years. I can't believe its been that long. I remember the day I got them done like it was yesterday. They are really doing great. Some people I have met who have dreads really struggle to get them to lock up but mine are pretty solid now. I have been working on blunting the ends (which is pulling the ends up into the dread to make a rounded end) with a crochet hook for a while now. Its quite a process and little hairs are always falling out. I have found a guy on you tube who has been really helpful and has great advice. (ryanOriley, if you're interested. I still love them but this summer has been rough with the heat. I never wear them down. Everyone asks me how long I am going to keep them and I originally wanted to make it to the 3 year mark and I'm almost there so we will see. I can't imagine myself without them! :) This is them at One year!

Round here!

My blog has been having issues with spacing and doesn't do what I tell it to do so I am going to just write about the pictures down here. hope its not too confusing. 1. we picked our first tomatoe yesterday. We have 10 tomatoe plants and they are loaded with green tomatoes so soon we will have an endless supply of them. You know what that means? Tomatoes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Tomatoes are one of my favorite vegetables or fruit or whatever. I especialy LOVE to make bruschetta and salsa. Mmmm! 2. I just love that this is what Noni's room looks like. Pink, dress up stuff, girlie stuff everywhere. If I would have had a little boy I would love the boy stuff but I just am so in love with the fact that I have 2 girlies! so blessed! 3. shopping. Every time we go to Old Navy she has to count the manicans and talks to the little girl. :) cutey :0 4. Noni and her girlfriends!! We went to her friends birthday party this weekend. Its so neat that she has friends that she is growing up with.

Petey and I celebrated our 7th Anniversary on Monday! Craziness. We had a quick and simple date to our favorite date-place, Starbucks and we looked at our wedding album. So nice to have some alone time. Thanks again to my sis-in-law who watched the girls for us!

Evey Girl