another blessing

my brother and sister-in-law welcomed their first child friday morning...

sienna violet

4lbs 12ozs 18in

my beautiful niece came 6 weeks early, but is here....strong as hell....

safe, secure and sweet as can be...

the proud parents cheers'ing to a job wonderfully done...

and me!! i simply cannot wait to fill my new shoes as aunty mol!! (the girls prepared me with a pink and blue sign - it reads 'welcome baby cousin!!')

and sienna's cousins are sooo excited to have another life long bestie!!

we love you sienna!!!

"God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics." ~Martin H. Fischer

our thanksgiving

our thanksgiving eve was spent curled up on the couch watching "the curious george movie."

we did plenty of thanksgiving crafts...

we of course baked some desserts....and also miss e worked on a special thanksgiving project...

she wrote out 48 things she was thankful for....we wrapped them up in foil.... and baked them right into our rolls....

she came up with all 48 all by herself!

everyone got to open and read a different thing that miss e is thankful for. uncle t-bone got "pretty things" in this particular roll. ;)

the girls were of course great sports....despite skipping nap, getting soooo much attention and stimulation and bedtime getting pushed....

cheers to a very thankful holiday!

and of course some silliness on this thankful holiday...

with clowns like papa and uncle t-bone, there's lots of silliness....

hope all of you had a great thanksgiving!

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

thankful

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FRIENDS!

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." - Neal A. Maxwell

"It's not happy people that are thankful, it's thankful people that are happy." - Unknown

there are no words

during this month of thanks....i am incredibly grateful for SO much!!! i easily stumble over my words when trying to verbalize them...

but the relationship between my two kind and loving girls is certainly towards the top of the list...

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." ~Meister Eckhart

wordless wednesday {sit up style}

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." ~Carol Welch

family sleepover

e and ad picked new rewards for their jars...a manicure, make and eat frankenstien pudding, pick what you want from target dollar bins and....

a family sleepover in the basement when they filled it!

so we got out the air matresses and rented movies and ate plenty of popcorn...

and our girls were crazy lovable.... yes - they're holding hands!

they did for a long time and it maybe was the sweetest thing ever!

until ad of course had to play with e's ear...

but the family sleepover was a success - ok except for adelyn sleep-crawling frantically over my head and onto e's head. took all my might to stop her. the girl's got some sleep muscles!

but all in all it was good! carebears and ice age were the movies watched...and enjoyed!

daddy went up on the couch to try and stay awake....but he was the FIRST one asleep!

i of course was the last one asleep....i got to rock both of my babies to sleep, something i haven't done in a long long long time....and it was wonderful!

that is adelyn on the far left, my spot....elena practically in between the matresses and j on the right. yay for family sleepovers!

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." ~Joyce Brothers

run

these are my girls watching a local 10k race...

and who's the happiest runner in this race????

THIS guy....

wouldn't you be?! i didn't win any awards regarding my actual running, but i'm pretty sure i would've got the "spirit" award...ya know, had there been one...

because my family is so awesome. thank you to my girls, my husband and my parents for coming to watch and support me in a 10k last weekend...

i beat my goal by 3 1/2 minutes and they had everything to do with it...

"I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run, what they would give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me." -Unknown

sisterhood

"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?" ~Pam Brown