Kelli's Graduation

HOORAY!!! My best friend graduated college!!!
Back in May we took a weekend trip to Vegas to go to my bff Kelli's graduation. It was awesome- what an accomplishment.We got to sit and cheer her on getting that diploma- I was SO PROUD!

We love you Aunt Kelli!!

Kelli & her parents, Leesa & Dave, & her son, Dylan.

"What? I'm eating my hands."

DOUBLE FISTED. Hilarious. Sucking on one hand at a time is not enough apparently. She sat through the whole thing with out a peep. She loves to sit and watch all the action.

i'm in doctrinating her young

things my baby is learning very young:
1. how to eat gluten free brownies from the pan with a fork
2. how to watch old cheesy lovely G-rated English TV shows (as many episodes we can fit in until daddy comes home and makes us change it) like this:

if you don't have something nice to say....

well i DO have something to say because it IS nice! :)

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do you ever think "gosh i am due for a good day any day now??" like so many crappy days have come on top of each other and so much stress compounded in your left shoulder blade that SOMETHING has got to give??
well today it did.
i have felt overwhelmed and tired. stressed and alone. work, church, family all sometimes pile on top of each other and it's hard to climb out of the mess without something getting thrown to the ground ungraciously.
its a sure sign that i am stressed when i don't want to talk about it. or that i don't. or that i hide on my couch nursing a netflix addiction instead of going to mutual. i'm not even blogging cute pictures of my angel baby. WOWZA.
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but my friends, i am happy to announce i am going to try harder now. lots of reasons for stress have been either resolved or begun the process of resolution.
this is good. i can do this.
i am grateful to my loving Father in Heaven for much needed help. and answers to prayers we started 2.5 years ago. and a sweet little baby who smiles HUGE when she wakes up from naps. and new cars that are very quiet on the freeway. it's really the little things that help. it's amazing how much pondering you can get done when you aren't distracted by the irritation of too much road noise!
i have wonderful friends. they may be few but they are true and beautiful and wonderful confidants and cheerleaders.
ra ra shish boom ba! goooooo lindsey!
i'm glad it's friday, and most of my favorite little people are coming to see me tomorrow. i miss their little faces and tiny food covered fingers. i wish i could hug them as tight as i love them, but i also don't want to hurt them, so in true female fashion we usually raise our voices to a very high & loud pitch.
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in short, i was due for a good day and today I GOT IT.
everything went as it should. happiness is not overrated.
and sometimes being mostly bald with a crazy cowlick is exactly perfect.

some things you just shouldn't dispute..

like how sweet this little munchkin is!

sorry about the cell phone pictures... i just only seem to remember to document her little life when my camera isn't around!

she is getting so sweet nowadays. she smiles and TALKS and snuggles and loves to sit in her little bumbo chair. she is AWESOME.

i love how happy she can be. and predictable. bless the child that loves a schedule. she cries when she is hungry and starts to fuss when she is tired. she doesn't like it when her bows slide down her head and cover her eyes. she doesn't like the car seat when she is tired bc i think it's hard to fall asleep in bc she's uncomfy. we've had a few hard days here and there, but mostly things are GREAT in our little home! she's so funny and squeals when she smiles- who can resist that!?

Where's the baby?

The Easter Bunny

Look what the Easter Bunny left in our basket!! A little fat baby girl!

Don't you just love her jammies?? They look just like an egg- so fitting :)

Get me outta this stinkin' basket! haha

it was 80 degrees today :)

Did anyone else get CRAZY HORRIBLE postpartum migraines? Maybe bc I'm susceptible to headaches to begin with, but at about 4 weeks I started getting a headache like.. everyday. I know you are thinking, "DUH you don't sleep for 8 hours straight ever anymore" but honestly I feel like I get A LOT of sleep. Faye sleeps 5-7 hours a night.

Case and point: She slept from 11:30- 4:30 last night, got up and ate, and then slept from 4:50 to 9:50. That's like 8 hours of sleep for me with only one small interruption! I am super lucky.
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I just wonder maybe it is just me, or how I'm sleeping or eating.
Either way, I'm over it.

In other news Faye, Amy and I went to the beach today while Brad ran Ragnar. :)

some love from the coworkers

hilarious & cute babies

one of the many perks of having 2 friends with babies all due in the same week is that they are all practically the same age. it's fun to see them all grow and their mommies shrink! ha
the best part about these pictures is lyla didn't cry at all until these pictures, jude was totally calm before these pictures & faye was crying before the pictures.

our babies are hilarious, cute & awesome.
they are all so darling i want to pinch their cheeks!

lyla a., jude h. & faye b.

i call her my pookie