Read This

I just finished reading this book and I loved it.  I borrowed it from Doris, and I am going to have to buy it.  One of my favorite lines from the book:  "Jesus sees our big hurts and our small hurts, and offers grace to heal them all."  It is the sweetest story.  Go read it!

Harper Around the House

We have a very busy baby girl...

Playing peekaboo in the curtains...

...she likes to play in Mommy and Daddy's shower...

...she likes to play with her cups...

...and she loves Mommy's cotton balls!  (What's really funny is I just now noticed that she has a binky in her mouth in 3 of those pics... ha!)

Eatin' breakfast.  This girl LOVES cottage cheese.  She puts it in her mouth by the fistful, because the spoon is not fast enough.

Around the House

A couple of weeks ago, there was a really bad storm.  So bad that Justin came and got me out of the shower so we could go in Harper's bathroom and wait it out.  The winds were horrible obviously, since Harper's swingset was picked up and thrown and broken into several pieces.  I am so sad!  Hopefully we can get her something soon.  She loved her slide.

My (early) birthday present from my parents - a buffet for our dining room.  LOVE it.  Mom found it at an antique store in Abilene.  It's in my color :)

This coffee table was my parents for 15 years, then it became ours a few years ago.  We finally decided to paint it...  

Before...

Justin painting...

...and after, sanded.  How did we do?  Next project: painting the dining room chairs.

Playin' Outside

Harper absolutely loves to be outside.  It does not matter if it is 100 degrees and there is no breeze whatsoever.  She will stand at the door and cry until we take her outside.  This is the reason she is my little tan baby!  

I was filling up her water table and she decided she wanted the water hose.

This past weekend at GiGi and Papa's

Blair and David's bassett hound Daphne - Harper loves her.  Daphne is so calm and loving and lets Harper love all over her.

Drinking Momma's limeade after playing outside.  Whenever Harper sees a drink with a straw in it, she thinks it's hers.

God Bless America!

Justin and I went to Abilene to celebrate the Fourth of July with our families. Harper and Hayden got to be in the parade!  The parade started at 9:45am and it was already so hot.  We had so much fun though.  

Babies waving

Hayden and his daddy

After the parade, there was a band playing patriotic music that we went and listened to.  Harper loved it and was dancing in the street!

Our front porch part 2

We painted our front door red a couple of weeks ago. I quite like it!

Birthday Pictures... Finally

So... this has taken me a while, but in my defense, I didn't take the pictures at Harper and Hayden's birthday party. I finally got the CD from my sweet uncle who did take the wonderful pictures. (Thank you, Uncle Paul!)

Harper turned ONE on May 8th. I cannot believe our baby is one! Justin and I both took the day off to be with her. We took her to lunch at the Purple Cow with Blair and Hayden, where she got to eat purple vanilla ice cream for her birthday. Then we went and bought her a swing set! (not over-indulgent at all are we...)

The following weekend, we had Harper and Hayden's party at our house. The babies had so much fun and had so many people there to celebrate their first birthdays!

The ADORABLE cake

Oh, my heart. Words can't express how much we love you, baby girl.

Hayden's sweet cousin Makenna reading Harper's birthday card to her

Harper got a princess car from GiGi and Papa. She LOVES that thing! All the babies (yes, boys included) went crazy when we got it out.

Sweet Hayden turned one on May 12th. He quickly figured out his cake and went to town. He devoured that thing. He had blue icing up his nose and in his ears!

I love this age so much. I've told Justin that the next baby we have, I am putting in an order for a one-year-old. :) What Harper is up to: she isn't saying any words yet, but we know they're coming! She gives hugs and (open mouth) kisses. She will be playing and then she will just lay flat on the floor for no reason at all and just grin. She loves to be outside, regardless of the temperature (she's already tan - does that make me a bad mommy?!). She runs from us when she doesn't want to do something (take a bath, give up something that she isn't supposed to have). She eats anything and everything and is starting to experiment feeding herself with her spoon. She does NOT like it when I wrestle with Justin or Blair - she is very protective of Mommy! I think it scares her. She loves to shut doors. She especially loves to shut herself in a room and then cry really hard until you go and open the door for her, then she slams the door in your face. (What I have to look forward to...) We are having so much fun with her!

I will try to not be such a bad blogger anymore (sorry, Doris). I will try to post some more pictures soon...