Be Patient with me!

I know I know I need to do a blog post but I have zero motivation, it could be the fact that I took little to no pictures during the holiday break....
I will eventually get around to posting them, but to wrap it up Christmas was great, seeing family was fantastic, Blakely was crazy and fun as usual. She began running instead of walking trying to keep up with her older cousins, which has resulted in a lot bruises on her head!!!! leaving was hard as usual, but we are home and alive.
I really got thrown back into real life this week getting home at 2 a.m. on Tuesday then teaching 2 classes a day for the next four days followed with work and church meetings every night till 9:30p.m. No wonder I have no motivation to blog???

Don't worry folks, you are going to get a great post here soon because my Baby girl is turning 1....what??? I know it is happening and we are going to party hard to celebrate, and with our new beautiful camera we got for Christmas there are bound to be some great pics!!!!

Santa Photo 2010

I pretty much knew this would be a crying photo but I think that it turned out even better than expected...I mean if you are going to have a crier, why not go with the full out SCREAM!!!

Merry Christmas 2010

Now I am regretting that I didn't send this out as our Christmas Card, it is classic!

SPEECHLESS

Speechless, that is what I was when Esther sent me over these photos she took of Blakely last weekend!!! I am in love with everything about them and especially this little girl! She is the light of our lives and I can't imagine life without her. She is spunky and stubborn and keeps me on my toes. At 11 months old (how did that happen) she is so much fun. She really started walking this week and it is fun to see her get right back up even when she falls down. We are so excited to head home for the holidays, I know she is going to have a blast trying to keep up with all her cousins!

P.S. Esther is amazing check out her blog here

if you do you can see Blakely and the love of her life sharing a moment, it is to die for!

Christmas Miracle

I got an early Christmas Present this year...I waited awhile to announce this becasue I didn't want to jinx myself but it is true, a miracle has occured and my little one is sleeping through the night!!! Oh the blessed day has come and I am loving my life. After several failed attempts at sleep training and a very sick baby it has happened and seems to be here to stick. We even have a real nap schedule. So for all those out there who have felt my pain dreams do come true!

SHE IS A WILD ONE BUT SHE HAS TO SLEEP SOMETIME!!!

Bad Luck...or trying to tell us something?

I just want to start this post by saying that I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!!! And I can't stop laughing right now.....
About 30 minutes ago I was going through my pictures getting ready to do a post about going and getting our Christmas tree. It is a tradition that I love and I have been holding on to my love for going to get a real tree over surrenduring to the fake... For those of you who have been following my blog for a while you probably haven't forgotten about our mishap with the Christmas tree but if you are new to H and E than take a look at this and this before you continue on!
Anyhoo so there I am sitting there looking at my cute pictures we took the other night thinking that I am grateful that I am not the pregnant one this year (Simone is much cuter pregnant than me) when I hear a crash. I had just put Miss B down so before I could even think what was that? I could only think I hope that didn't wake her up. As I turned the corner to see that our tree had tipped over....YES THAT IS THE TRUTH, I could not stop laughing. I honestly have no idea why or how it tipped, it was the perfect little tree and had no lean to it, and we even had the EXPENSIVE stand. I had to call Hank to come home from a church meeting to help me get the tree back up and get the water damage but the whole time we just could not stop lauging.
Maybe we are not meant to have a real tree but I will keep pushing forward!!! In the meantime will someone come redecorate my tree because it was too much work the first time???

BEFORE



AFTER

Before the drama I would have posted all these cute pictures and talked about how much fun we had for the second year in the row picking out a tree with the Dahls, saying we better pick a good one this year not like the LEMON that tipped over last year. So here we are!

 Creepy Santa?? Yes mam!

Can you hardly wait until next year's Christmas Tree post???

Home Bound

To say the last couple weeks have been rough is an understatement. About 2 weeks ago Miss B got the croupe which turned into a horrible cough where no one in this househeld slept for a week which ultimately took us to the doctor's office where she was given antibiotics. As she was on the mend who would get sick... ME. I honestly have not been sick in so long, besides good old pregnancy sick and this thing is kicking my trash. I think I will head to the walk in clinic today to get some meds because I am almost positive it is a sinus infection (had enough in my life to know). I hope I start feeling better because I don't know how much more I can take. However I will take being sick a thousand times over than having a sick kid, so not fun to watch your kids suffer and feel so bad for them and at the same time want to strangle them becasue they are so hard!!!
So needless to say we have been home bound for the last couple weeks, nothing too exciting but we still manage to have some fun while lounging around!!

Sick Baby trying to put on a happy face!

 Climbing through and on everything!

 Dancing and clapping along to Carrie Underwood's Christmas Special. She was mesmorized!

Eating without letting go of her bunny!

Let's hope we get out of this house soon or I may just lose it!

MISS B

 Cute right? I know

Images taken at Brittany and Brady Wedding via ellephotos.com