my children

hence the title

i'm dying to buy this for peanut. savin' my pennies, counting the minutes until her first birthday. oh man, having a girl is so fun! if you click on the picture it takes you to the page. but beware, hours of time can be wasted on etsy! :)

family fun fair

our church had a family fun fair last friday that we were able to attend. it was so much fun. we ran into some good friends of ours that have four boys around monkey's age and spent some of the time with them. monkey tried his first snow cone. went on his first horse ride (lead by dylan mc******). and jumped in a moon bouncer. i wasn't able to catch pictures of that because daddy had to run to the car for the camera and i had peanut on, but here are some fun pictures of our family fun. i love our church!

my kids are so photogenic

wow, they look just like us!

mommy

daddy

this is what i see...

monkey has mommy's mouth and nose, but daddy's eyes.

peanut has mommy's eyes, but daddy's mouth.

wedding pictures

that last one just makes me giggle!

five years!

it occurs to me that i have not updated in some time. well, a week. but that's a long time for an addict like myself. imagine that in dog years! anyway, on to the update. this saturday is a special day for us as we will be celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary! woo-hoo! five years! can you believe that? we've actually left a "newlywed couple" and become just a "married couple". for real. well, at least we're not an "old married couple" yet. ;) although with two kids...haha. no, i refuse the title for another five years at least.

to "the daddy"~ my wonderful soul-mate, lover, heart, joy, prayer-partner, father of my children, encourager, and friend. i love you more then can every be expressed, no matter how many cliches i pack into this post. i look forward to holding your old wrinkly hand and grossing out teenagers with you.

i love you.

ooooo...pretty

in the parade on the fourth, there were a group of women representing traditional African culture in the U.S. i’m always blown away by how gorgeous their head wraps are and i’ve always wanted to know how they do it. so i decided i’d learn. i had bought a scarf months and months ago that i’ve used once or twice, but i’m lazy and don’t tend to use it often. and that combined with the morning i’ve been having (or rather the night blending into this morning) i felt the need to chop off my hair because it wouldn't do what i wanted. knowing i was reaching that point, i ran to the computer and did some research. waddya know, i can learn new tricks. So now i have a way to hide my hair when i feel like cutting it all off....for a while anyway. :) it still needs some work, but hey i learned something new! non-child related. hooray! :)

happy 4th of july!

we went to a parade and then IHOP! daddy had to work tonight so no fireworks for us, but we had alot of fun early in the day.

tried my first sucker

LOVED the bagpipes...it's in my blood

saw fire fighters

and got sprayed by jack! hi jack!

these guys were insane!

off to IHOP

what did you do for the fourth?