Today we celebrate our sweet Hallie….our loving, cuddly, and adorable little girl. I love her hugs and the way she looks for any victim to fall for the “Hallie hug”……and then ends up carrying around that dead weight as long as they can stand it. She loves to be held.
Even though she’s already two, she’s still my sweet baby girl. I love the funny words that come out of that mouth and the way she makes faces. Her sense of humor cracks me up with that infectious laugh. She is a rough, tough, and rowdy little girl with the sweetest heart. She’s her brother’s shadow and her sister’s guardian….and has her daddy wrapped right around that chubby little finger. He’s in so much trouble already.
Happy Birthday sweet girl! We are so thankful for you.
Yesterday Travis turned 4. We celebrated with a trip to the zoo with friends and a trip to Kiddie Park for a few rides. We even ate out for dinner and finished up with a huge birthday cupcake with candles. It was a great day…..full of excitement, wonder, and sheer joy. I love watching Trav take in the world around him. What a gift the past 4 years have been. Happy Birthday T!
With Cyndea in Florida for a YoungLife retreat and Kate in Guatemala with Noonday Collection, I find it tough to work knowing they are both on vacation :) But I had fun with my iphone this past weekend taking the place of my usual camera. So I’ll share some favorites that just about wrap up our weekend at the ranch.
(ok I lied….the pic above was taken with my MarkII….just before it died)
Well, there wasn’t going to be a post today until I found out something really cool. You might remember our friend, Kim, from some blog posts awhile back about Bella Bridesmaid in Austin and in San Antonio. This whole time I thought she just went on a long trip out of the country last summer. But here’s what she was really up to….
We had a little gingerbread house decorating party in our pjs the other day. It cracked me up seeing the decorating techniques of these two. Travis very deliberately placed each piece of candy on the house, while Hallie used the pieces of candy to scrap icing OFF the house…….to eat it.
The effects of Hallie’s “technique”……gives it character, right?
We are overwhelmed with joy….and totally surprised by another GIRL! Here’s just a peek from what I took on my camera….couldn’t resist. More from Cyndea coming soon.
Well, if you’re reading this I must have gone to the hospital to have this baby I’ve been carrying around for 9 months now. What an exciting day it will be to welcome a new life into this world. Exciting and terrifying….thinking here is another person we are responsible for! But really way more exciting than anything else.
What a gift this child is no matter what. Whether “it” (as we have unfortunately have been referring to our child as….sorry kid) is a boy or a girl, “healthy” or “non-typical”, an eating/sleeping champ or colicky little stinker……no matter what these next few days/weeks/months/years may bring, we are incredibly blessed by this little life already. And of course we CANNOT WAIT to introduce him/her to y’all soon!
It’s Friday and I have nothing prepared for the blog since I’ve been focusing on editing like crazy while Cyndea and Kate have spent the past few days at a workshop in California (more on that later). I decided we better document this baby with a photo or two (I’ve taken NONE this pregnancy…oops). And since my mind has been filled with all things baby the past few days, let’s have a little contest related to baby #3.
Cyndea and I both don’t find out what we’re having when we’re pregnant. So we like to have everyone guess gender, weight, and length when the delivery day comes around. It’s always fun to see what everyone guesses (& why) and then see who wins. I’m pretty sure with Cyndea’s last baby our dad guessed the stats of the trout he had just caught (or something like that)…typical :)
So here we go. To enter, comment below with your guess (and don’t forget to include all three parts to your guess…..boy/girl, weight, & length). The person with the closest guess wins a Target gift card…..because Target is my happy place and I know many of you would say the same thing! (ps….anyone can enter no matter where you live)
Time is up when this baby arrives….and supposedly that could be any day, so don’t wait! We hope everyone has a great weekend, and maybe, just maybe we’ll have someone for you to meet by next week!
I feel like I’m racing a clock with this baby being the ticking bomb. To say I’ve been in overdrive would be an understatement. I’m so ready for no more late nights. Wait…..I think I still have a ton of those in my near future :)
And sorry for the lack of posts. Just. No. Time!
But hopefully next week we’ll be back in action around here and “fully” moved in (whatever that means). I just hope to have some more boxes out before I bring a baby home from the hospital!
Our new office progress so far…
Hope everyone has a great finish to the week and an even better weekend!
