life is beautiful

kids

these days…

friends, kids

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are fun!

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and they can be long when daddy is back at school.  i am not a fan of the dog in the house.  but lately she makes me feel a little more relaxed with the boys on those long days.  it’s also cheap entertainment too!

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we’ve been catching up with friends. big and little 🙂

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god has such a sense of humor.  i never thought i would have a blonde hair blue eyed child.  i’m kind of still in disbelief that i do.   these two pictures i got had me giggling at how much they kind of look a like.   oh that hair!

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samuel you are not at the best age for pictures with friends…

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we had a fun visit with miss felicity.  samuel you are so much like your brother in the sense that you are  just not ready for these girls!

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i think you just like being the  c e n t e r  of attention.

oh my! we may be in trouble…

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xxoo

play day

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the weather has been so awesome the last few days.  today was daddy’s first day back at school, which means a long day for us!  we decided to use the new “super fast” way {as jack says} and meet up for a play date.  that really just turned into a play day.

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samuel.  you are so not like your older brother.  you climb  e v e r y t h i n g  and  eat  e v e r y t h i n g.  including dirt.   you think the play ground is yours.  yours to climb and eat.  oh boy you are a mess, a fun mess though.

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if i can find my way back there again, we will go back.  thank you nadia for sharing your park with us!   it was so much fun.  i realized we stayed there for over three hours!

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thank you to evy, joey and bailey…  us mama’s were able to visit and cuddle with the littlest one!

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oh so much cuteness in these rolls!

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until next time…

xxoo

 

new years eve count down…

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{of a few highlights of the year..}

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10. jack is potty trained.

9. jack has become a full time talker and quite the questioner.

8. sam learned to roll over.

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7. sam learned to sit up.

6. sam learned to crawl.

5. we took our first family vacation.

4. sam learned to walk.

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3. jack started his first catechism class.

2. we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary.

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1. we had an amazing year as a family overall…. happy new years!

here’s to  2 0 1 4 …

xxoo

oh what joy!

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it is to play with a best friend…

today we were finally able to have a play date.  but not just any play date,  we made it a pre-school style play date.  we did all things with the letter “p.”

pizza. pallet. pandas. penguins. popcorn. polar express!   we didn’t realize how many “p” things we could find around us 🙂

jack, you and sienna were cute as always.

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so were jude and samuel.

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 but these pictures stole the show…

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oh. my. goodness.  you two make us smile.  a lot.

thank you nadia for making it such a fun afternoon! 🙂

xxoo

 

{freeze frame time}

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sometimes, i really want to do just that.

last weekend, we pulled all the boxes down from the attic and spent a very cold day decorating our house for christmas.  daddy braved the cold and hung all the lights outside.  it was so much fun to watch you jack, you got excited about every decoration we got out.  at the end of the day, you told me your favorite part of the day was decorating for christmas.

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samuel, you are a hoot.  too busy to stay still for any pictures these days… you want to be wherever jack is and you expect to do everything he does too.  you were so excited to see the lights on the house!

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{you were playing with my hair tie until this happened}

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oh how we can’t wait to celebrate this christmas with you two.  you are both at such fun ages!  this year we have all the shopping behind us already.   we have nothing to do except get the house ready, bake and   p l a y   oh and enjoy a lot of christmas music throughout it all.

good thing you two love music!

xxoo

 

 

 

mornings with jack…

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“the garbage truck comes today?”   is the question i hear almost every morning he crawls in my bed.  it’s almost as exciting as christmas for him!  on “garbage truck day” he will wait at the window for forever…

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i love it.  the simple joy seeing a garbage truck drive by can bring him.  i never thought trash day would be so exciting!

xxoo

 

thanksgiving 2013

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missouri style. it was a first for us.  traveling on a holiday and traveling with  t w o  kids on an airplane.  luckily we have great travelers…   we spent thanksgiving at aunt kindles.  it was so wonderful!  she picked us up at the airport, brought us to her house and continued to make her whole spread of thanksgiving day goodies.   yum!  we stayed till the following Monday, which gave us plenty of time to visit, enjoy our babies, a very cold fightin’ texas aggie football game and even some shopping 🙂   we obviously were enjoying our time.  i barely pulled my camera out.

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yes we traveled “double leash” style.  it worked for us.  they loved it.  jack, you even held your own “tail”  as you called it.

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oh such yummy food!  samuel this was your first thanksgiving to really partake in all the goodness.  you couldn’t believe all that was before your eyes.  you really just liked throwing it around.  but you were a big fan of the sweet potato crunch.  good taste buds my man.

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first time black Friday shopping with the sister. i must say,  i did an excellent job holding a spot for her in line. oh such good times!

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oh how we all enjoyed our time with jude!  he entertains us all.

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a little more shopping never hurt anyone…

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gingerbread train making, bath time and late night movies with cousins…

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kansas city bbq before the game, so yummy!

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oh daddy,  he cracks me up. 🙂 i love him.

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emma loves her babies!

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not the best pictures we have ever taken  but we have some great memories and that’s really all that matters.  thank you so much to kindle for hosting us!

it was so perfect!  see you in a few weeks for Christmas!

xxoo

 

all hallow’s eve 2013

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oops a little late… but last week seemed like the busiest week of the whole year.   i think we just over booked ourselves.  throw in costumes, lots of candy and people knocking on our doors.. i’m so thankful its over.

here are the cutest two boys we have.

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  oh how i love them, costumes and all 🙂

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jack, this was the first year for you to grasp what your job was on this night.  you were so excited for “halloween day” as you called it.   you and your pup were ready to go out and get some candy!

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your costume came together very easily.  after your fire truck birthday you had, you were happy to dress up as a fireman.  it wasn’t much of a costume but you felt like a fire fighter and that was all that mattered.  samuel, aunt holly sent you the most adorable dalmatian costume.   you might not have picked it out but color a puppy nose on you and i was head over heals in love all over again,  so were the neighbors.  it didn’t help that when you crawled, you almost panted like a dog too!  what a hoot you were.  daddy decided last minute he was going to go as the guy that jack rescued.  the neighborhood seemed to think he was really hurt.  oh how i love him!  we had some good laughs.

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that night we kept a tradition i had when i was little. we enjoyed a movie {monsters university} with popcorn and of course some of our halloween treats.  yum!

happy all hallow’s eve 2013

xxoo

{jack decided next year he wants to be a garbage man for halloween…} 

 

 

fun on the farm…

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the dewberry farm that is…
last year was the first year for us to tag along with cousins for a day at the farm.  it is so crazy to think how much can change in a year.  a new little buddy gave us an extra pumpkin to bring home and more smiles to capture.  this year we were pleasantly surprised by seeing other familiar faces and friends that joined us in the great october heat.  oh my is it hot here.  good news is there is suppose to be a cool front coming sometime this week.

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sienna and her cousin mason were a few of the friends that joined us for the day.  her little brother jude stayed asleep for most of the day.  what a trooper!   this was a lot of ground for a little two month old to cover.

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jack, i have said this a lot today, but i really think you are at the right age this year for this trip.   i was comparing it to last year ( you at just  two years old)  and wow how a year changes a little boy like you.  you were so excited about everything we did!  you really took it all in.   most of the time when something makes you want to really smile you try to hold it in.  today you let all the sillies out.  i loved it!  you thought it was a hoot that people were walking over the “choo choo tracks” to get to their destination.  i captured it just as you  were saying…

“those people can’t walk on the choo choo tracks!  that’s crazy!”

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 the up close sweaty, dirty, we’re trying every hold possible, baby face 🙂

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 “ah ma! just leave me with the goats.  i’m good!”

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 one of my favorite parts of the day… i noticed you, jack, and sienna go and sit down on  a bench by yourself…

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you two are something else.  i love how we get to watch you grow up together and document it in pictures.  right now we think you are both getting so big but i know just like looking back at other old pictures we will look back and say ” you two were just babies!”  it just makes me want to squeeze each of you in this picture.

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 call me partial …but i picked my favorite two pumpkins out of the patch to bring home.

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see ya next time dewberry!

happy fall!

xxoo

(a special thanks to joey for chasing down jack in the corn maze, bailey for holding samuel while i needed to grab the camera or while i wanted to play myself 😉 and dana for finding my car keys before we left.  i don’t think we would have survived without you!)