Clothes

Amelia hates wearing clothes.  It's a huge battle every day in our house to get her to put her clothes on and then to keep them on.  She's sure that she's exempt from putting her panties and shorts back on EVERY time she goes potty.  I'm so relieved at the end of the day when I know we have nothing else to do and I can let her be naked. 

A couple days ago she wanted to go outside with Jonathan and he told her she'd have to put clothes on first.  She went to her room and came out wearing some bloomers from a dress that Melody made, and shoes.  He told her to go back to her room and put and shirt on.  She went back to her room and a little while later came out with no shirt on but was headed outside anyway.  I asked her, "Shouldn't you have a shirt on to go outside?"  She replied, "No, I'm jus' pullin' my pants up higher." 

I died laughing!

Anniversary

Jonathan and I just recently celebrated our 4 year anniversary! I seriously can't belive the amount of "life" we've packed in to the last 4 years! Whew.  Of course we took our annual trip back to the Botanic Gardens to reminiss about the day and try to explain to Amelia what marriage is. Toooootally over her head. :)

I know you all really want to see the timeline so here you go: ;)

Year 0:

 Year 1- unfortunately it was raining so we hurried and just took one of fat ol' me alone.

Year 2: Our small but happy family

Year 3: Pregnant with Addilyn

Year 4: Our growing family

Happy 4 years to us! Many more happy years to come!

Pickle Monster

Here's a conversation I had a couple weeks ago with Addilyn's Pediatrician:

Me: Addilyn is always reaching for my food, and I tend to give it to her. Can you give me a list of foods that I should NOT feed her?
Ped: Strawberries.
Me: Oops
Ped: Peanut butter
Me: Oops
Ped: Eggs
Me: Oops
Ped: Any dairy
Me: Including yogurt?
Ped: Yes
Me: Oops

I guess I was a little late in asking her.  Luckily, and oddly enough, the only thing Addilyn ever had a slight reaction to was applesauce. Who would've thought?  Anyway~ It's only with this second child that I'm realizing my grocery bill may increase someday. Amelia still eats like a bird.

Yummy strawberry!

I thought I would play a joke on her and give her a dill pickle spear, but she chowed the whole thing down without even a sour face!

I love that she eats, but sometimes I love not having to sit Amelia down for 3 meals a day and cook a large meal.  I guess we'll see how these girls both do over time.

Happy birthday to me!

Friday was my birthday. I turned 27. I'm not happy about it, but I'm trying to embrace it and be happy for all the wonderful things I have in my life at a young age.  It was a great day though! Jonathan went to work at 7am, but then surprised me and came home at 1.  I took advantage of that and left him home with the girls so I could get a pedicure.  Then we went and dropped off the girls at Melody and Tom's house so we could go out to dinner.  Back and Melody and Tom's we ate yummy banana cream pie and opened my gifts!

Melody and Tom got me this adorable wall hanging for lost socks (and money so I can treat myself. Yay)

My parents and Jonathan went in together to buy me this esthetician chair! Woo Hoo!

Thanks to everyone who made my day special.  Just think, only 2 more years until I stop aging!

Over the river and through the woods...

...To picture time we go!  Can I tell you that I never ever ever ever ever ever get tired of getting pictures taken?  I told someone that the other day and she said, "You know what?  You'll never look back at a picture and think 'I wish I wouldn't have taken that'" And I totally agree.  I've recently even thought about asking for one of those really nice cameras and the photoshop program for myself, but then I think I wouldn't love it as much anymore, so I'll just keep letting people take our pictures for  us!  My friend Raenie asked a group of girls if we would drive up to Beulah State Park with her so she could practice her photography skills and of course my answer was, "DUH!"  They turned out so cute!  See for yourself:



Could she get any cuter? (Bias much?)  :)

Amelia's new favorite thing is to show us that she's 2

For Mother's Day this year we decided to have Amelia make something for her Grandma Melody. From the beginning, Melody said she wanted to be called "MeMo" which are the first letters in her first and (maiden) last name.. Melody Monett. Here's how it went:

We taped out her name

Blue fingerpaint

Painting away

Halfway done (taking a bread break)

Took off the tape.. All done

Great job, Amelia! Thank you, Pinterest, for the idea!  I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Best Wife Ever

Yep, that's me.


When it comes to money and me, some words that come to mind are: Frugal, thrifty, OCD. For the most part it's been a really good thing. Sometimes I think Jonathan would like it if I let him spend more money, but most of the time he's very grateful that I handle our finances really well. Last week he had his annual review at work and found out that he was going to bonus from inventory AND bridal numbers! I am so proud of him and I think he does SUCH a good job as a store manager, so I thought I'd surprise him and not put his whole bonus check into savings (BORING ol' me). So I splurged!

His new iPad3!