sweetest angel.

my go to girl sharon is doing these super cute posts everyday for the new calendar year and i want to try it too! I'm a little behind but oh well. sometimes there are just too many things going on that i cannot for the life of me sit down at my computer and upload a bunch of pictures and then put words to our sweet life so I think this is a brilliant idea for days that are just too full with stuff going on, laundry, errands and feeding my husband and baby girl..

so here's to a picture a day in 2011!

day 1.

first snow

daddy's girl.

i know first hand the sweetness of a daddy and their daughter.

i am so glad that my little daughter has just the best daddy out there.

their little budding relationship is the sweetest thing ever.

we were rushing around trying to get our act together to meet paw and precious for dinner one night and after a day of spit up galore i had andy change june's outfit.

this was not the first time this has happened but it was the first time i let him loose in her closet and this is what he came up with.

cute onesie, cute bow.

ridiculous when put together but we had to take a picture anyways.
doesn't it look like she has on lipstick and blush!

she doesn't, i swear.

my heart jumps at the sight of these two.

oh how i hope june stays a daddy's girl forever. . . just like me.

there's nothing better.

welcome 2011!

we pulled into abilene for my parent's nye bash just in time for a very fun night.

it was just the perfect way to spend our last minutes of 2010.

everyone toasted with our little sprite cups at the stroke of midnight and then the real party started. . .

sweet baby was obviously the life of the party.

my aunt jodi brought all kinds of minute to win it games. . . you know, like the tv show.
it was a blast to watch everyone complete their task and she was genius to think to add this to the itinerary for the night.

we had so much fun we didn't go to bed until 3 am.

wow!

the first challenge involved a kleenex box and jingle bells.

you had to shake shake what your mama gave you until all the jingle bells fell out. . . much harder then it sounds.

the second challenge involved a yummy oreo.

you had to start with the oreo on your forehead and without your hands work it down your face and hopefully into your mouth.

thomas was a champ, the rest of us were awful!

this isn't a minute to win-it game but we had a little impromptu game of telephone.

the original message was 'june is a really cute baby' and once it made it full cirlce it changed to 'chickens are cute and i don't care.'

hysterical.

we had some good luck black eyed peas (gross!) and homemade sopapillas (yum!)

best one yet right?

we smiled from ear to ear with this one.
sweet papa.

our julia came to see us on the first day of the new year and it was so wonderful to see her and chat chat chat.

i'm realizing that i looked homless all weekend.

:)

it was another great weekend at home and a perfect way to kick off  our first year with our little one.

hope your nye bash was so fun too!

all blabla.

tell me you've seen this stuff.

i want june to have all of this.

she does too, she just doesn't know it yet.

here's what we've got so far. . . thanks to tootie.

it's too cute for words.

here's our wishlist for 2011.

papa are you reading this? :)

i know she doesn't need any of this but my mom and i are such suckers for it's absolute cuteness.

don't you feel suckered too?

happy blabla to you!

back in action.

my mom came to play with us a couple days this past week and it was so great to have her with us.

originally we had planned for her to come to help me put up all of our christmas fun but then we got to thinking that's no fun at all. . . we would much rather be out and about.

and out and about we were.

it's so nice to do things with a helpful buddy. . . carseats and strollers get heavy and nursing in your car in parking lots gets old.

so as always, i loved our time with my mom.

we took june to downtown grapevine and she did not like our adventure at all.

santa brought her a little toy that straps across her carseat handles. . . does that make sense?

probably not.

he brought her this.

i thought it was genuis and was certain that she would love it.

wrong!

i think she liked it for maybe a day or two but quickly became way too overwhelmed by it all and would scream herself silly over it.

so therefore she could not stand sitting in her little turtle shell seat. . . don't blame the poor girl.

  i was talking with my sil becky about how i felt like overnight june started having a very strong opinion about her carseat and it clicked. . . my angel has been scared to death.

so goodbye little scary frog we'll see you when we're a wee bit older.

i love these pictures of her happy little perfect self loving life again in her seat.

sweet angel, isn't a mother's intuition the most unreal thing ever.

tacky tacky christmas!

our family did something a little different this year on christams day.
since most of us are grown ups now gifts and santa have become less of a big deal at my grandma's.
so my uncle eddie had the most awesome idea for us to drag out our most awful and tacky christmas gear and put on a little style show.
it was hilarious.
absolutely hilarious.
we are all already working on our tackiness for next year.
so check us out and try not to be so jealous of our really cute christmas duds.

yuck huh?

told ya.

xoxo.

2010 memorable moments.

whew-eeee.

what a year it has been for us!

we talk alot about how many changes we have packed into this one year.

i think normal people would tackle just one major life transition at a time but we tackled about five in just one year.

it's been a wonderfully interesting, blessed, sweet and emotional year.

it's been a year where we have stepped out in faith and a year where i have trusted our God like i never have before.

i think we've learned alot about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.

here's to 2011 and a mini recap of our busy, busy 2010.

january.

we had dinner with dubya.

chili cook off.

i liked to think i was crafty.

and we had a visit from the virginia jeffreys.

february.

we found out i was 'with child'! (hi lucy :)

christopher's ridiculous intramural peacocks were in season.

and i started being sick like practically all day and night because of sweet belly bean.

oh and i got an iphone. . . life changer.

march.

we announced to the world our little joy.

i kept tossing my cookies every five minutes.

i, with all the world, loved sandra bullock even more.

didn't do much documenting this month. :)

april.

we celebrated alot this month!

my stud brother received his prestigioius gold glove, couldn't be prouder of him for more reasons than his athletic ability.

we partied for my mom's birthday and christopher's.

we also surprised abby for her big day, love her so.

and my bff brooke tied the knot in beautiful santa fe, it was a perfect wedding.

may.

still sick. :)

the wildcats won!

sick some more, didn't do much blogging.

and we searched like every day for a perfect house in fort worth.

june.

andy and i celebrated one whole year of wedded bliss.  i couldn't possibly love this man more.

we closed on our house in abilene and closed that door.

my mom, aunts and cousins traveled to nyc and had an absolute blast!

big month.

july.

we celebrated the fourth with familiy and friends.

things started rolling with our house and that meant picking out paints, countertops and fabrics galore.

i was still so sick and getting bigger by the second.

we missed our sweet friends in abilene and still do everyday.

august.

we started getting so antzy about meeting our little girl.  i remember feeling like i literally was losing my mind trying to figure out who this little person was going to be. . . i just loved her too much already.

we finally moved into our new house. . . and just in time i might add.

the Lord revealed His way of protecting His children with some interesting news about our bug girl.

praise His righteous name for how He protected our sweet baby.

i was blessed by my sweet friends with the surprise of a lifetime and am so glad that this little weekend is becoming an annual tradition.

september.

by far my favorite month.

we celebrated my handsome hubbys birthday.

the nursery was complete and ready for it's little girl.

andy and i enjoyed some last final moments as just the two of us.

and we MET OUR ANGEL!!!

october.

life became sweeter than i ever knew was possible.

slowly but surely we got more and more adjusted to our new way of life.

june was in one blink, one month old.

i admitted publically my obsession with my scarf swap bff. . . who i am totally copying with this entire recap.

junebug met some of our favorite people on this planet earth and we all fell madly in love with her little sweet self.

november.

june and i had our first perfect day.

andy went on his annual elk hunt and the munch and i headed to atown for one whole week.

june met bff kelci and we had fun dreaming of babies galore.

papa and tootie came to love on us and help us out a ton!

and we fell in love even more.

december.

our house turned into a winter wonderland.

mama had a big and wonderful birthday.

munchie girl met the big fat guy.

just when we thought it impossible june got even cuter.

and we had the most perfect christmas.

as this year comes to an end i cannot do anything but praise the Lord for all of His goodness, guidance and love.

may 2011 be just as sweet.

"every good and perfect gift is from above,

coming down from the Father,

who does not change like shifting shadows" james 1:17

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