Postacular

You should start here, then read backwards (when you finish a post click on "newer post").  I posted 8 times tonight...Skip all the words and look at the unedited pictures, that is a much better use of your time. 


Here's to staying up to late and posting 8 times...
Grace and Peace
xoxo

Family Photo Dump

Our week and a half of fun with our family went too fast. Since the hurricane landed us back at G-dad's and Babette's, our sweet cousin's absence is felt even stronger...Libby keeps asking "Where's my cousins Mama." Then when she sees a plane fly over head she waves uncontrollably at it and yells "Hi Mimi, hi GG Mom, hi Cousins, hi Daddy...we've had a lot of people leave on airplanes lately. Anyhow, Here is a photo recap of mostly posed pictures.

This is the best group shot out of approximately 1 million

The only 2 boys that didn't marry in

Babs and Mags

"Mommy, please don't leave me here"

Love them, all 3.  I would have kept them if I could have devised a plan.

Libby loved them too.

Squaunch!

Squish!

Slurp!

Cheese!

Take 25

Take 46

I may have taken a plethora of below average pictures, but I'm keeping every one of them. They help me feel like California isn't so far away.

Grace and Peace
xxx

GG Mom

You should go back and read this story about my Grams...She is a strong lady.  Maggie's "Bell" comes from her maiden name.

I love spending time with her.  I hope that I am like her when I'm 86.  She goes to pool exercises 4 times a week.  She just retired this winter, and she really loves the game show channel.

We just call her GG now. 

xxx

Once Upon A Time....

...Before I had little girls of my own, I posted pictures of my sister's sweet girls.
When I started blogging  Allison was Libby's age...Sniff. Now she is 7, Sidney is 8.

I remember being 8...I got my hair cut short.

I remember being 7, I had a white bathing suit with rainbow hearts on it that I loved...but then again, who doesn't love rainbow hearts.

Amy and I are not tall ladies...I think that Sidney is well on her way to being taller than us.

Allison has always loved baby dolls...MaggieBell was good practice for her dolls.

Big girls, they used to be little.  Sweet girls, that stayed the same.

xxx

My Little

She spins and she sways

To whatever song plays

Without a care in the world...

So I will dance with Cinderella
While she is here in my arms

'Cause I know something the prince never knew
Oooooh, I will dance with Cinderella

I don't wanna miss even one song
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight

And she'll be gone...
~Steven Curtis Chapman


I think the words to this song almost daily when I watch her....
She is an amazing little girl.

She is so close to 3 we can almost touch it.
That's all I have to say about that.

xxx

Red

I got my hair colored last week.
I asked my hair lady if she could make my hair the color of my Littlest.
I never imagined a red head in my life, but I love it just the same.

My Mom says that her eyes look like blueberries and that her lips look like rosebuds...what a lovely description....

She thinks that she is as big as her sister. This little horse has been posted on this blog before, it has been around a long time...Maggie loved it, she bounced uncontrollably trying to make it go.

She gets where she needs to go very fast. Too fast actually. Those are steps right in front of her in this picture and she is making a b-line to get down them so she can catch up with the big kids. 

She does not like baby food. She likes to feed herself...Which is good b/c all of my homemade baby food is probably melted from my power being off for several days.

I like her...and her red hair.

xxx

The Wolverine

A free verse poem.

Libby and Christian.
They love each other.

They really do.

They show it in a special toddler way.

They are crying tears of joy...really.

Libby and Christian.
They Love each other.

They really do.

Right after I took this picture Libby said "Christian, I'm going to miss you" they she scratched his other eye...and he scratched her back.
Toddlers together are a special treat.

xxx

About a Boy

See Christian
He is the only boy in a world full of tea parties, dress up, and princesses.

See Christian run

See Christian run fast

See Christian rarely slow down

See Christian pout

See Christian laugh

See Christian
We love that one and only little boy

xxx