Little Girl

Oh sweet little girl, you love being in your brother's room. When I can't find you, you are usually trying to crawl on his bed or you are sitting right here in this chair and looking out the window at your "geese". You love to hang out with your brother and feel like you are part of his "in crowd". When he plays ninjas and is running around and kicking and yelling "hi-ya" you are right behind him laughing and doing the same thing. I know one day you two will annoy each other, but for right now I am loving how sweet you are to each other.

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"Mom, take a picture and see if it looks like I am a wolf sleeping".

Sick Days

We haven't been feeling to good over here, in fact it has been a rough week.  Little man you seem to catch things and hang on to them for quite awhile. Wish I could help you feel better, hate seeing you not feeling well.

Pumpkin Patch Love

Lashes For Days

Oh sweet little girl, I could stare at your perfections all day long. Those lashes. That long whispy hair strand in the front of your forehead. That sweet little button nose. The way your upper lip curves up over your mouth. The small dimples you get when you smile. <3 Love you little miss.

Toys

 You hate toys -- you will play for an hour with a toilet paper roll but when your toys are put in front of you, you want nothing to do with them. However there is one small exception to this -- you do love legos. I have a sneaky suspicion that you only like them because your brother is so crazy about them but it is kind of funny that you can over look all the lighted "baby" things and go straight towards this little things.

Fall Fun

Brown Eyes

Because those eyes are everything.

Nice Days

Wasn't much of a fall this year -- it has been hot and I have a sneaky suspicion we will go straight to freezing cold. Today was a beautiful day and it was so nice to get outside and enjoy the time. You love to be outside, you don't do much but just love to walk around back and forth and stack a few rocks. It is so much fun to watch you wobble back and forth as you walk.

One Day

Because one day I will be working on your senior board and I want to remember this picture. :))

Go Together

Dinos and dolls -- they go together like peanut butter and Nutella.

i am because you are my story.

I remember driving three years ago on the way to get our tattoo and we called our dad to “ask permission”. He did not approve of it and we informed him we weren’t technically “asking” but simply “preparing”. Growing up we had one giant rule — no tattoos. Fast forward a year  to the last six months of my dad’s life. He was sick — we all knew how sick. He always talked to us about being scared and sad that he would not be in our lives forever. We wanted something to show him that he in fact would always be in our lives, monthly, daily, every minute of everyday. We wanted him to write a tattoo for us, we weren’t sure on how we would sell him the idea, but in fact it didn’t take long to do. He sat down to write it for us — he was frustrated at how shaky his hand was that he continued to write it ten times to try to perfect it. We all just kind of sat there watching him — sad that we all knew where this story was headed and quite frankly shocked he was writing this for us. Fast forward two more years to this past weekend — we were able to walk into a tattoo parlor together with his words in hand. We all added our own word to the end to describe how we carry him with us. It was such a perfect day sitting and perfecting this and watching each other go through it. About an hour after our tattoos we walked outside to the most beautiful rainbow that faded shortly after we saw it. We just stared and watched it — say what you will but he was there and he was proud of us and the proof was in the sky right above our heads. We watched that rainbow dissapear with tears in our eyes and ended the day with margaritas to celebrate him and remind him that in fact we will always carry him with us. 

I am because you are my story. 

I am because you are my strength. 

I am because you are my journey. 

I am because you are my existence. 

I am because you are my haven. 

Perfection

One of those super simple mornings where you feel so overwhelmingly blessed to be exactly right where you are in this moment in life.