Addyson 11 months

I am two weeks behind schedule, but never late than never!..right???
As you can see from the lack of pictures in this post I haven't been taking much lately. Need to charge the battery, and I am just that tired and lazy!
Anyways, we are now two weeks away from the big one!! I can't believe it! I no longer will have a baby, and will be entering the toddler stage, and let me tell ya, there are moments when I know its already begun! So much we are having with this girl. She is so close to walking. She pulls herself on everything now and is moving around furniture and every once in a while she gets brave and lets go for a few seconds, but once she realizes that she is standing alone, to our bum we go! The biggest change besides the moving around part that we have seen in her this last month is her verbal skills. her babbling has turned more into gibberish if that makes any sense. Instead of making lots of noise, which she still does, its like she is trying to have a conversation with you, and I love it:) So off to plan for the big one! Its hard deciding what to do. For me its kind of like go big or go home, but the stage of life we are in right now kind of leaves room for only going home:) So simple and sweet it will be, but with lots of love of family and friends! so I will be back as the last month in our crazy schedule is approaching, so there will be lots to share!!

24 hours

Its amazing sometimes what can happen in 24 hours. In 24 hours you can go from being single to being married. In 24 hours you can go from being pregnant to holding a sweet baby in your arms and say those sweet words, I am a mommy! In 24 hours your whole world can flip upside down with something that rocks you to the core. In 24 hours, you can develop a new, deeper, and much more beautiful understanding of what it means to love...and that is what happened to me. 24 hours ago we had a first around here, our first trip to the emergency room. Addy had been spiking fevers for the past two days, and I was starting to get concerned. When your 11 month old curls up with you on your chest gripping to your hair and falls asleep you know something is not right in that little body. So exactly 24 hours ago we packed her up and off we went. Three hours later we were home with a deliriously overtired baby, a broken fever and a prescription. Those three hours in the hospital are something I will never forget. Watching your baby look around so innocently with amazement, trusting that everything is going to be fine because mama is here. Watching my baby girl scream bloody murder as she has to sit on a bed while a big machine takes her picture. Syringe feeding your baby water and apple juice desperately trying to get that pee sample. Watching your baby come to the point in the night where she has accepted this new hospital room and lets go, embraces the situation and toy in hand and enjoys the moment(oh yeh, and maybe a good dose of tylenol had something to do with that). But in those moments, more than anytime before I really felt like I was her mom, we were in this together, our little family of three. No phone calls to my parents, or D's parents, just us, and I knew in that room we were going to be ok..I can do this. Holding my baby this weekend in a way she hasn't wanted since being a newborn brought me to a new place. A deeper love, a richer connection, and a bigger mama bear instinct to know that she is my everything and nothing is going to stop me to make sure that girl is ok. She is going to fall, she is going to bruise, she is going to hurt, but at the end of the day I can make her understand that she is so loved and so significant and needed in this world, than that is enough for me, I have done my job. All in 24 hours....

A bucket and Shovel

I call this picture below I am now a toddler;) This is the results of 2 hours of fun in the sand, and one very overtired baby! Perfect isn't it??:)
We headed up to the Kelowna this weekend for sad reasons; my great aunt past away. She was a dear sweet lady who had been living with althizmers, and passed away on the 10th. It was a beautiful service and tribute to a woman who loved the lord, and her family. My eyes swelled with tears when I flipped to the back of the program at the service to see a handwritten note from my uncle to my aunt, on their wedding day, some 60 years ago..titled "My Sweetheart"...pure love I tell ya!
Dave and I figured since we were heading up that way we would make a mini vacation out of it and spend the night. So after the memorial service, and a quick family stop to starbucks for frappy hour, we changed and headed to the beach. The weather was perfect! We grabbed some sushi take out, and addyson's new bucket and beach toys and set up camp. It was the perfect 2 hour vacation ever! My little family...it makes me so excited for the many more to come!
So of course I had to get a little camera happy while we were there breathing in the warmth.

What a mess!! A perfect Mess!

Me and my girl:)

Feeling the texture of sand in her hands!

My Loves....

My favorite shot of the day...nothing better..

yumm....sushi....

Addy eating chicken with chop sticks!

Until next time sun, we hope to see you around our parts soon!

Soaking up the Rays

Addyson and I stepped outside for a few moments this afternoon to soak up some rays in my wee backyard for the first time..it was perfect!

Oh how she loves bunny..and bunny's colors match her dress!

My beautiful tree that in a few months will bare delicious fruit!!

How can you not love this face?

Such a lady already:)

Ok mom enough photos!

Mothers Day

Last Sunday was obviously mothers day, and my first one! I don't have much pictures from the day, but here is me and my girl all prettied up before church! I have to admit, my first mothers day was a little anti climactic. It was a nice day, a lovely day..but yet still, somehow I ended up in the kitchen, which just feels wrong!:) my favorite part of the day was after missy napped my mom and SIL drove down the hill to starbucks to grab some of those 50% off frapps! and we all headed to the park..it was perfect, relaxing, blissful; one of those moments you dream of really..so that was great! So what was the let down?? I don't know..its just wierd. I think its the combination of celebrating your mom, while also trying to celebrate you too. Plus, add on, his mother, sisters, friends..oh vey! Does anyone have this problem right now in life where celebrating and things that should be joyous times seem to be taking a lot of work and by the end of it everyone is exhausted?? Ok, well maybe its just me because I am in desperate need of a vacation..and a job! but anyways, this is suppose to be about mothers day..right, well, with all this complaining I just did...I can't even begin to tell ya what a priveldge it is to be this little girls mama! I feel so incredibly blessed, and just wanted to savour every moment with her on this day. Even so to the point of being a little sad when it was her nap time! Anyways, I am grateful for a wonderful mother, MIL, and so proud of the many mama friends and SIL's in my life! Thank you for making this world a better place by loving the people God gave you to love!

Frappaccino time!

Ok, so anyone who knows me knows my love for the Starbucks...an addiction really...but anyways, we don't need to air our dirty laundry on here;) Well, from May 7-16th I believe, from 3-5pm its half off frappaccino happy hour!!! So you know where i will be every day at that time!!! fabulous i tell ya!!! summer is coming people, I can taste it:)

We Survived

We are in the month of May which means we officially survived the month of April! 7 birthday's, one birth, a baby shower, an outing or two...what a month! So much fun celebrating though:)
I have to say I am loving this stage that we have entered where now I go to my childs friends party..so wierd! As I put my baby girl on the ground and watch her play with her friends, or not, it is such a sight to see. I sit and watch and wonder what it will be like next year, and the year after, and the year after....
This journey is such a joy. Its my favorite thing right now. Everything about this little girl I just want to eat up, soak in, savor, absorb, lather myself in the greatness that is being her mom, being her friend, being in her life and watching her daily change into this little princess of the king. And maybe its the perspective that I live in right now, that my time of hourly interaction is limited, that makes me appreciate these moments so much more, but I will take it. I am about quality over quantity, so I will take it.
Right now, I have not idea what this month is going to bring. I am officially laid off..so wierd to say, but its true, and now we wait. Well job search like a mad woman; but wait on the Lord for his direction for our lives. I am so scared, excited, nervous, resentful, happy..you name it, if its an emotion I am feeling it right now. But what I am thankful for today, because I CHOOSE to be, is that this new development has bought me time. Bought me hours with my girl, to enjoy our daily routine we have created together over these past months. And the rest, well thats up to HIM, so lets wait and see what he has in store..from my past experience its usually good:)