Happy Valentines Day!

After I wrote my last blog post, and spent another hour searching, I found my camera cord! That has been a series of good things going on around here. We will take it! Up first are Brinn's 6 month pictures in her chair.

This girl has also been around, but not that interested in pictures.

Today is PawPaw Kenny Ray's Birthday! Happy Birthday! We celebrated on Saturday, and had a great time eating, and visiting.

Silly Girls

I will leave with a few pictures of my tiniest Valentine, on her 1st Valentine's Day! Her sister is sleeping, but will hopefully get pictures when she gets up.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Have a great day!

Camera Issues & Brinn at 6 Months

Sorry about the long blog break. We have been traveling, and some how I lost the cord that connects my camera to the computer. This post has some cell phone pictures, until it's found or I can get that replaced. :/

Yesterday, Brinn turned 6 months old. Anyone that knows Brinn will tell you that she is a laid back, go with the flow girl. She loves to be held, and will sit contently in your lap for long stretches of time. Of course, she does have her moments of being tired, hungry, or cranky. For the most part though, she is her happy little self. Happy 6 months Brinn! We love you!

At 6 months Brinn:
* Can pull self up into sitting position, and balance for a few minutes
* Can roll from tummy to back, and back to tummy; she loves to roll!
* Can take an object from one hand and pass it to the other hand; uses her hands to grab(see below).
* Loves the walker; doesn't care for the jumper. - Opposite of Raylee
* Still trying to find rice cereal, oatmeal, or fruit this girl likes. So far no luck. :/ Still takes the bottle well, and has started trying to hold it by herself.
* Bed time between 9-10. Only waking up once at 5am for a bottle then sleeping until 9am.
* Taking two, 1-2 hour naps a day
* Size 3 diapers, 6 months clothes. Loving be able to use Raylee's hand me downs for lounge wear. ;)
* Uses her hands to grab what she wants. Her favorite thing to do with Momma is get up real close and grab the most sensitive hairs right at the root. Woo that hurts!
* Favorite toys are musical seahorse(for bed), Hungry Caterpillar Butterfly, Teether "bling" Ring, and of course her beloved Sophie the giraffe. :)

Daddy's girls

Raylee & Brinn hanging on the couch w/ PawPaw

Grandma & Brinn relaxing

Happy Girl!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Hello February

It is the 1st of the month. This month is going to bring a lot of changes, fun things going on, and some not so fun things. Februaury is some special people's birthdays including Raylee, who will be 2! We are also making plans to have some visitors, and go make some visits ourselves. Paul will also be starting his new job in about 2 weeks. We are already preparing for this big change, and could use prayers as we begin this new chapter.

The girls are doing great. Raylee used the big girl potty(!) for the 1st time yesterday, so we are making some progress in that area. It will be a while before she fully gets it, but yesterday was a glimpse that the future might not include diapers. Here are some pictures of Raylee with her Dad's hat, and some toy earrings he put on her. She loved it.

Guess who is sitting up by themselves for up to 5 min. at a time?

I'll give you a hint....

Here she is ready to go run errands.

Finally, a video of Brinn in her walker playing with her toys. She loves to throw her toys off, and has gotten pretty fast.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Photo Book

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Family Pictures

Today, we got in our family pictures!! I love them, and am so glad that we did them. (Thanks Victoria!)

 Paul is most likely leaving in the next few weeks to go work in North Dakota, and to have pictures of this time to look back on is priceless.

So, without further ado...

January 2012

Paul & Amber

There are more, but these are the ones that I got scanned today. (Thanks, Mom!)

Hope everyone has a Happy Friday & great Weekend!

Wordless Wednesday

Monday...

Monday is here again. I have not been taking a lot of pictures with my camera, but I have a couple from my cell phone. We are going to pick up our family pictures today, and I am hoping to get them scanned & on the blog in the next few days. Until then.....

This first picture is Brinn in her car seat ready to go out for the day.

Here is Raylee ready to go out for the day.

This final picture is the girls last night. Brinn was in her chair, and Raylee was at her table. Raylee was making Brinn laugh so hard. It is so fun to watch them play together.

Hope everyone has a great day!