all things eggy easter!

the bug's first easter was so sweet and great!

i love 'firsts' so much, so we did this one out with a bang.

somehow i coaxed andy into coordinating our sunday church attire to compliment his girls.

he kicked and screamed the whole time but what a very yellow, eastery family we are on sunday morning.

this is what our family of three is all about, ha!

i personally am in love with the coordinating look

 and feel certain that june will appreciate it too in her later years.

so i made june's easter basket with the hopes that the next time

 i have to create an easter basket it will be for baby brother or baby sister.

i had one easter basket my entire life,

 so did christopher,

 that we used every year for egg hunts

 and i am hoping that june's will stand the test of time too.

it turned out to be a tad bit 'louder' than what i normally perfer

 but andy kept reminding me in my moments of panic that alot of easter baskets

 he has seen in his days were all pretty 'busy'.

so we went with it and i was pretty happy with how everything looked once the bunny had done his thing.

boy howdy, did he do his thing!

easter sunday was such a sweet morning.

isn't the week leading up to easter unlike any other?

just to know and rest in the knowledge of a RISEN Lord is so powerful.

to be certain of a ressurection and an empty tomb leaves me speechless and in awe of our mighty savior who we love to celebrate on such a beautiful day.

thank you Lord for giving us life!

would you look at that?

the easter bunny came twice to tootie's house for june!

she got two basketes FULL of goodies.

so yeah, my family loves any excuse to give treats.

it's our love language.

we speak it well and often. . . tootie is the most well versed!

after a wonderful church service we headed home for what seemed like june's longest nap ever, sweet girl, and then headed to my grandma's house to see all of our cousins, new and old.

it was so wonderful to see and hug everyone.

aren't these little cousins so sweet?

i love how june is looking at these big girls!

and ya'll should see the bows their mama made for june, adorable!

don't know how she does it all.

cutest girls.

cutest mom.

cutest house.

super mom!

the hail storm that passed through kinda put a damper on our egg hunt
 so we had a little drawing system in the living room.

the jeffrey three made it out $16 bucks richer. . .
good egg hunt if you ask me.

easter sunday was a great way to end our stay in abilene.

i absolutely love that town and everyone in it.

can't wait to be back there.

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in other exciting news, my husband, the best easter bunny out there, shocked my socks off easter night. . .

after our most stressful drive back, due to more hail and storms and

 tons of pulling over to park under overpasses,

we pulled into town super late

and super exhausted.

we have been tossing around the idea of new floors in our house for a little while,

maybe two weeks or so.

we previously had carpet where wood is now and the pyscho in me couldn't bare the thought of june learning to crawl on someone elses's germ infested carpet and andy was certain it would just look better but i had resigned myself to being patient and not pressing too hard about the floor situation.

so june and i left on a tuesday afternoon,

that same afternoon andy was calling around to get some estimates,

 by that night he had purchased all of the materials,

by wednesday morning the guys were hard at work in our house

 and by friday they were done. . .

waiting for their mama to come meet them!

this surprise falls in second place right under andy asking me to marry him.

i have never been more surprised and elated in my life.

that sounds so silly but an engagement and new floors were very exciting events,

especially when you don't see them coming!

thank you a million times over mr. jeffrey.

you are the very best for more more reasons than new floors.

i love you!

circus cows.

on easter eve day i got to witness something

 that my eyes have been wanting to see for quite some time now.

with spring time comes new life and the mama cows at the ranch have been busy this spring with their new baby calves so we loaded up and headed down to the back pasture for what has become 

my favorite ranch memory!

the men worked hard to round up all of the new calves that needed eartags, 

pinned them up, 

weeded the mama's out and. . .

cue the circus music!

i'll let the pictures do the talking. . .

peta if your'e out there, no animal was harmed in the making of this blog.

promise.

seriously the fact that june is going to grow up knowing this ranch life

 thrills my heart more than words could ever say.

i cannot wait for the day when she is grabbing little baby calves tails, aren't these kids the cutest!

this afternoon was beyond fun and beyond silly.

we all laughed and yelled and engraved every second into our brains as the most fun yet!

party hearty!

last week my mom swung in to pick up her girls and get us to abilene asap to celebrate our christopher's big 23rd birhtday.

we were all so glad it worked out that she could come get us that way andy and i wouldn't have two cars when he came and joined us on friday.

we did make on quick detour at our fabric wonderland on the way out of town. . . 

my seamstress is working on some patio stuff for us, i am so excited about our outdoor living room.

can't wait to show y'all our sweet little patio all dolled up for summer cookouts.

aren't those the best. . . summer nights outside and it can only get better with these adorable threads!

no rush mom.

:)

my brother's only request for his birthday was to see his niece.

we were thrilled to oblige him.

we celebrated him at lunch and dinner and loved every second spent with the birthday boy.

he loves it when i take pictures of him. . . proof seen below.

my poor dad only gets home cooked meals when andy and i are in town or when it's christopher's birthday (half-way joking) so both hall boys were super pumped about a little chicken fry birthday dinner with all the fixins'.

it's a shame my mom doesn't cook more often because when she does she always hits it out of the park.

never fails.

june was the entertainment for the party, such a doll baby.

she's so sweet and great!

i would take her for my birthday treat any day of the week!

then at the end of the week we got to celebrate tootie's 28th :) birhtday!
you can imagine that her birhtday wishes went a whole lot like her son's. . . just to have june there with her on her big day was all she really wanted.
your wish is our command.
we had a great dinner and loved celebrating our mom with a few little treasures!
here's to another year full of blessings, memories, love and joy for both of you april jewels.
love y'all so much and absolutely loved spending your days with you both.

christopher is headed to vegas with some buddies in a couple of weeks (scary!)

so andy was showing him how the big dogs roll at the poker tables with my mom's new shades from papa.

dreading the week that my baby brother is in vegas. . . just joking, they are going to have a blast!

we ended the festivities with some egg fun because the bunny was soon to hop over to our house the next morning!

it was such a perfect way to end our celebration, june lasted about one egg and was ready to hit the sack but one egg was enough to officially introduce her to our families easter traditions!

maybe next year she will be up for two. . .

7 month angel!

june darling, your mama is late 

getting this post up for you have been seven months old for a few days now.

the pictures were taken exactly on time but the words are late.

we live by the motto 'better late than never' right angel girl?

i can't believe you are seven months old.

yeah, yeah, yeah.

i know you get so sick of everyone saying they just can't believe you are getting

 so big

 so fast 

but it's true!

you are so perfect in every which way and you truly are getting more and more fun by the minute.

your personality has really come alive this past month.

you are dripping sweet, it's too much to handle sometimes.

you smile at us no matter what crazy thing we might be doing and we have lots of tricks up our sleeves to make you grin from ear to ear.

you do not go back to the doctor for a well visit until you are nine months old so 

we have no true idea of how much you weigh.

i am guessing you are still pretty close to your six month weigh- in of 17 pounds.

you're a solid little monkey girl with the healthiest thunder thighs known to mankind.

they are my favorite thing about you, 

that and your little baby breath. :)

i love to smell your little breath, i realize that is so weird but i love it!

daddy looks at me with the weirdest eyes when i do that, but he secretly loves it too.

you are a sleeping champion.

we are finally getting some solid sleep at night!

a long time ago you started sleeping through the night and 

then you decided to stop 

and then you would tease us and do it some nights but not every. . . 

inconsistency was your middle name.

but not anymore baby doll.

we are shooting to have you in bed no later than eight 

and you don't let us see you again until 6:45 or seven.

it is fabulous for everyone under our roof.

you are a good little napping girl too, i think you are about to cut out all of your little baby catnaps and transition to two good long naps a day.

mama has realized that life is so much better 

when she isn't such a freak out about your naps and silly schedules.

i know that works for a whole lot of people but our life is just kinda different from day to day.

so we are pretty much just sleeping when you want to, no real rhyme or reason, and

what a jolly little soul you are. 

you have no complaints about your life, that's for sure!

you are still nursing throughout the day and have a lunch and dinner consisting of either peas, pears and broccoli or peaches and bananas.

you also love pumpkin, apples, blueberries and sweet potatoes. . . i was nervous about that one but you gobbled it right up and begged for more.

i'm thrilled that you like to eat!

you had your first 'real' taste of grown up food two days after you turned seven months old.

tootie let you suck on an orange and you would have thought we had given you skittles or something equally delicious, you went crazy and wanted more, more, more.

you also had a tiny taste of bannana pudding at tootie's birthday dinner and on easter sunday.

of course. . . you were beside yourself.

you are this close to crawling.

that is unreal to me.

to imagine you scootin' a boot around our house makes me just about lose my mind

but i also cannot wait to chase you around.

 so come on little bug move those legs!

speaking of legs. . . you could be mistaken for a little froggy girl.

you love to kick your legs, when we hold you, when you are laying down. . . just all the time you are kicking just like a frog.

it's so cute.

another thing that is irristibly cute is your little voice, you have started saying ba-ba like a little lamb and a few other combinations.

we are still waiting on dada and mama but we know you have it in you.

i am your bff, you love me so very much and do not like to be left out of anything i'm doing.

if i leave you on the floor to play you have a big ole time as long as you can keep your eye on me and never let me out of your sight.

another thing that daddy and i love about you. . . you are our own little curious george.

i mean, my word june, you are a determined little nosey newt when your curiosity has been peeked.

you will squirm nearly out of our arms until we turn you in the direction of whatever it is you want to see or touch.

it's so funny and so great that you are trying to be so smart!

you are a truly delightful little darling girl.

i praise the Lord for how incredible He was to give us you.

we are thankful for your life, your health and all the joy and love that we have experienced since you came into our lives seven months ago.

what would we do without you?