This week in pictures.......again

there it is people!
thankful for:
the first of hopefully many snowmen of my daughters life
cousin love at meme's
airplane creation time with mommy
Easter crafts with little girls who love learning about Jesus!
girly nail polish time with my little girl who doesnt seem to be staying little for long :(

This week in photos

Much easier for me to keep up with photos rather than a long drawn out blog entry. sooo, here it is folks... this week in pictures:





Thankful for,
my two beautiful children
sunshine on our faces
cousins playing in the snow
a little girl reading to her little brother
little boy hats

Life

Happy and thankful for my little lovies, cranky toddlers, sweet baby moments, and sledding as a family :)

T-minus Three Weeks To Go

Three more weeks to go till we meet you little one! Very excited we are, however, very nervous we are too. As ready as I am for you to get out of my ribcage and to be able to sleep on my belly, I am mourning your exit already! Only three weeks to feel your little feet slide across my belly letting me know your safe in there for the time being. Three weeks to feel life inside me doesn't seem so long when I sit back and feel your little hiccups every night. Every pain and misery is worth it for you my little love. I can't wait to snuggle you and for you to be loved by everyone around, but for now you're just mine and I think I like that :)

God has truly blessed me beyond measure. I have a beautiful daughter, and a little boy on the way. As my ever growing belly expands, my patience seems to shrink. Which is why I feel like I need to do this and make a list of the things that drive me nuts because I know that they truly are just part of God's blessing of my daughter, and someday I'm going to miss this stage. So ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the list of things I might think are aggravating but are true blessings in disguise that I am thankful for:
1. crawling into a bed of cracker crumbs at night, which my daughter lovingly put there for me
2. fitful sleep because I know in an hour I am going to be woken up and called to
3. little fingers prying my eyelids open when all I want to do is close them and rest
4. snuggles at 5am in hopes that I will get up and get a snack for her
5. cracker crumbs all over the floor I just washed 5 min ago
6. milk spots all over my new couch from a leaky sippy cup
7. 473 kisses for "boo boos" in a 24hr period
8. the bargaining for me to read her one more book (after already reading 10)
9. MUM, MUM, MUMUM, MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM
10. preparing meals for a little one who wont even eat it after whining all afternoon because she was soooooo hungry


.... and the list goes on, but you get my point. There are times these things make me want to scream and pull my hair out, but in the midst of all the whining and crying there is a quiet peace when a little hand reaches out for mine and wants nothing more than for me to hold her and love her. As much as these things get to me, I know they are blessings from a great God who wants me to savor all of this because it goes by so fast. So as the song goes, 'your gonna miss this, your gonna want this back' I know that I better love it all now because there will be a day when I don't have any of it.

I've always loved you

This morning a song came on that says "don't you know I've always loved you, even before there was time..." and it made me have to stop and think to myself, wow. We were put here purposely and planned before this earth was created. I was planned, I have a purpose and I am loved. From the moment of conception we love our children, we love every little move in the womb that they make, even though we don't know them. Imagine that amplified times say, a billion! God loved us before we were even put into our mothers bodies, He loved the very thought of us. It just amazes me.

Thank God for Husbands and Daddys

This ones for the daddys and husbands that make it possible to get through a day without pulling hair out or screaming obscenities at our children: we love you!!! You rock!!! Without you, we mommas would be lost (although that is the only time I will ever admit that).
This week has seemed like the never-ending whine fest at my house, and makenzie wasn't the only one doing the whining! Between the heat and early morning wake up calls from my sweet daughters room I was pretty, well......frazzled to say the least. I sat on the couch and cried a lot, haha, yup pretty pathetic it was. My darling daughter chose this week to be the one to set her internal clock for 5:30 am every single morning. My saving grace: my hubby. He selflessly would get up, get her milk and tv going and then come back to bed until she flagged him down for snuggle time. And when I could take no more and needed some time for myself, he without complaining, watched her and even sported her around town like a toy pooddle in a purse (well, not quite like that, but it sounded good). Three days in a row, this man dealt with our daughters incessent whining after work just so i could have a couple hours to myself. Those daddys that are willing to take care of us frazzled mommas are a godsend!!!! We love you and appreciate you guys!