My Family

I meant to mention, my beautiful and healthy baby girl A was born on September 12th: the original due date! I gained a LOT of weight with her and she ended up being 8lbs 6oz of perfection! Chubby cheeks, beautiful eyes and a sweet little button nose. The birth was incredible to say the least. Out of the 7 hours I was at the hospital and in labor, only 2 were controlled by anesthesia. And not in a row, either, just total. But I wouldn't change it for anything, I forgot about it the second I was holding my little miracle baby!

She's now 4 months old and rolling around. B is in first grade and a superstar both there and at gymnastics. E got rid of her crib and diapers and is growing like a weed - one day her 3T pants were 3 inches too short! Crazy kids. Jax is 14 months and such a good boy (handsome too!).

Courtesy of Sarah Ciccone Photography, October 2013

Life is good.

Weekly Bliss

New Boots!

New Babies.

New Friends.

New Games.

New Day.

New Fort
(Reading books under the blanket with a flashlight and giggling...not like we had the lights off or anything haha!)

New Words.

I feel so blessed.

Weekly Bliss

Gotta love it.

But this smile is even better :)

Tuesday: Yep, I voted. Nope, don't want to talk about it.

She's so focused on looking at herself on the screen bahaha!

Saw it on Pinterest and at our Let's Dish - Housewife Edition one of the girls reminded me of it so now I am growing my own green onions! Is it weird that this excites me?

Bookworm, just like her mama! Thanks to a friendly coworker for passing on all these great books that you can no longer get your hands on - B loves them! (and so does her baby!)

Celebrating R's first birthday - my lil buddy is getting so big!

And B is so proud to be a big cousin to him - she was right there helping him the whole time hahaha!

B is quite the artist - Spongebob and Gary :)

B always makes me laugh. Yesterday she was making faces at me but she didn't think I was looking and it was so hilarious to watch her go through all of her "looks" trying to figure out which one she wanted to stick with. This girl loves to make me laugh, and knows just how to do it!

Weekly Bliss

Playing in dresses

Dancing with Ellen

Stealing my phone!

Halloween - digging through candy

Just playing

So cute - first friend sleepover. Look at the dog...B had a hard time with leaving that dog that's for sure.

Working on my fitness

Cutie patootie!

She's so funny hahaha!

Beautiful autumn day!

I said "Say cheese" and E literally showed me the cheese that was in her mouth haha!

BFFs.

Such a snuggle bug! Love it!

Daddy's turn...

Goofballs!

Reading in bed...two monkeys on my lap :)

Rainy morning sunrise...

Love me some texts from Dad...

Slurping her cupcake?

Seriously, I am so lucky to have such wonderful girls!

Last beautiful day!

Weekend Bliss

Stillwater Bridge - took a walk along the river after our anniversary dinner at The Freight House.

Secret Mission: Find Daddy an Anniversary Gift. Hot Spot: St. Paul Harley Davidson. B made a friend.

5-6 hours of preparing freezer meals. See them stacked int he back too? Yes, those are homemade eggrolls. DELISH!

My beautiful gift from J - so what if first year is paper? We're liberals I guess. :)

Aaaaand a rainbow to top it all off.

Weekend Bliss

Well, not much "bliss" this weekend; spent most of the time on the couch sore, even from sitting. Check out this gnarly bruise I got from the IV...it's been a deep shade of purple since I took this picture Friday morning.

B drew me a couple pictures. This is me and her being "bee monkeys".

And this is Daddy, Mommy, and B at a party. Looks fun :)

Weekend Bliss

We had a "pool party" this weekend...it's amazing how little things like this are so fun to watch when kids are involved.