Let's Catch Up!

So it's well past the middle of January and this is my first blog about what's going on in the new year... sad, I know!

Over all we've mostly been hanging out around the house.  William has been working and has almost finished the other bathroom.  I am LOVING it and cannot wait to share it with yall.  There's just one more thing I'd like for it to have before posting it on here, so we'll see how long that takes!  I've been fighting a sinus infection for the past 2 1/2 weeks thinking it was just a cold my pregnant body couldn't quite knock.  Finally on some meds to get rid of it and feeling much better.  AR  has been staying busy with her kitchen and new doll accessories... which she mostly uses for Froggie.

Our big news for the month, which I've kind of already shared, is that we found out we have a little boy on the way!  We know he'll be a junior but we are in the process of deciding what he'll be called and are about 95% sure but need to be 100% before we share!  :)

Our sad news is that my Nannie (dad's step-mother, but only grandmother I've known on that side) passed away last week.  She suffered a heart attack and ended up going to the hospice house for a few days before joyfully entering her heavenly home.  While this is sad for us, any tears I've shed have mostly been knowing how happy she is to be home.  And that she can see and hear now!  I can rejoice in this b/c I know where her heart was and that she personally knew Jesus.  Unfortunately, this world we live in seems to think all "good" people go to heaven and that just isn't true.  On Sunday we sang the song "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" which is one of my favorites right now and the following lyrics really spoke true of my Nannie's heart:

And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore

Now for some pictures from the past few weeks:

AR loves looking at Tucker out the window!

Playing with Froggie

I'm loving this age and watching AR's imagination come to life.  Oh and she doesn't like to wear pants anymore.  At all.  Usually w/in an thirty minutes to an hour of dressing her I hear "pants off".

Froggie is ready in the highchair with his bible and AR taking an important call on Daddy's old phone case.

 I recently made cupcakes for a friend hosting a baby shower.  The them was safari.

AR looooves to do "horsie" (or "horsy"??) with daddy:

She's also loving her big bath tub... except when she falls and hits her cheek bone.  Two days later she fell again, face planting into her play kitchen and the two falls combined left a huge bruise and her first black eye.  You can see them the best below.

 

She actually finds this funny

Our silly girl and her crazy hair!

Christmas 2012

I apologize for the lack of blogging... I've been working like crazy on our family yearbook b/c my online coupon expires this week.  Therefore more focus is on that then on this blog right now!  I haven't decided if I will split this blog up into multiple ones or not yet.  You will just have to read and find out!

One evening before Christmas, our neighborhood "Santa" stopped by to see AR.  We never got a chance to go visit Santa and so this is as good as it gets.  AR picked up fast on who Santa was and points him out everywhere.  She opened my parents' coffee table bible and started saying "San-ta, San-ta" and pointing at a picture so I had to get up and see where "Santa" was in the bible.  Well, the picture of Noah or Moses (can't remember) had him w/ a long white beard and therefore making him look like Santa.

The weekend before Christmas my parents were suppose to come stay with us for a night and we were going to have our big family Christmas here at my aunt and uncle's house.  Unfortunately, my great grandmother (on the other side) lost her sister and we decided to go there for the funeral and had Christmas w/ just my parents and Katie and Clint instead.  We were still able to enjoy our time together and AR loved getting into her presents this year!

Loving her new baby doll stroller

 

 

She loves her Uncle Clint!

 

The whole family after church

 We left Sunday afternoon for Mimi and Papa's house.  We got to spend Christmas Eve at Grandmama and Daddy Mac's and then Santa dropped off a few presents at Mimi's while we were there for AR.

Sharing some dessert with Grandmama

She loves her Daddy Mac!

AR smiles on command and it's really cute and funny at times!

 

Santa brought a new bible for AR

He also brought a new bath toy!

 We came back home late on Christmas Day and AR was able to get the rest of her presents from us and Santa.  He daddy built her the beautiful play kitchen you are about to see and I'm just in love with it!  We've since added a few hooks for her pots and pans she got!

The original nightstand...

The finished product!  I didn't keep exact amounts but we think we spent no more than about $30 on the whole thing!

She loves it!  And in case you were wanting to see "the belly" there HE is in the background!

What it looked like the next day when playing with all her new toys!

Her preferred method of playing looks a bit like this!

 And lastly, we headed back to Mimi's house to spend time with the cousins a little bit and then back to Lovey's again for one more Christmas family get together.  I don't have any pictures from the later but here are some w/ the cousins!

About as good as it gets

There's always some dancing going on at Mimi's house!

Uncle Willie doing some coloring with Grayson

This last picture something I just wanted to share.  When I was born my great grandmother, Big Mama, made me (and all the cousins) stockings.  She had made my parents theirs and also my grandparents'.  She is no longer with us but my great aunt, JJ, has taken over the tradition and worked long and hard on stockings for William and AR to match mine.  I LOVE them and they mean so much.  She has already said she's ready to make one for this little BOY we are expecting this year!

Well I got it all in and no, mama, I didn't proofread!  Mostly b/c I don't want to think about it again for a week or two... sorry!  Back to work on the family yearbook!