Fun pictures to find...

Yesterday Darin was going through old CD's and came across pictures of our house right when we started remodeling it.

I don't know if you guys love this stuff but we do (obviously!!).

Thought it would be fun to post some before and after pictures of the pad HGTV style...

here's the outside...



New siding. New doors. New windows. New roof. New Landscaping.

Totally different house!
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Here is our now dinning room (they used it as a den)....

Oh I can smell the grossness through that picture! The house had been smoked in for over 30 years. Had the same shag carpet & draperies from the 70's too. GORGEOUS!

This doesn't even look like the same room! We took down the walls that enclosed the basement stairs to make it an open staircase. Now you can also see where we put our master bedroom addition. Plucked out that back window and put our new room.

You guys interested in seeing more of our casa's before and after pictures or is this something only I am enjoying reminiscing about?

Everyone's playing...

Wrigley has been trying to play with Joya..

the other night I saw him putting his ball in her bouncey right by her face.

Sorry Wrigley.. she can't throw the ball back yet. As you can see, she's not so into plyaing catch.

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And daddy wasn't into the game Joya was playing the other night.

She called it:

"Let's see how many times I can poop & puke in my bath."

She finished her game 4 & 2... 4 poops and 2 pukes.

As you can see, Darin isn't too impressed.

Not really his game of choice.. but he never complained. =)Last night he cheered for her during bathtime when she just made toot bubbles instead of poop remnants.

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And mommy has finally gotten to play at her scrap table! First time since Miss Joya was born!

Here's a page about the heart murmur they detected when she was a day old. Thank the Lord they haven't heard it since!

Here are her first pictures...

And this is a page of her Birth Day. Once I finished writing it (I KNOW.. I'm a little behind) I will slip it behind the pictures. I put a clear 8x8 page protector back there to house it.

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And this is kinda crazy.. today is my 350th blog post!

Can you believe it's been that many? I can't believe some of you are still reading!

Some new Family pictures...

So we went out to my favorite new photo shoot place the other night with my bro and fam and got some family pictures taken! The first ones since miss Joya graced us with her existance. As you can see.. I put up a new blog title so Joya would be included. =) Hope you like it.

Quick question that I'd love A TON of feedback on...

Do you guys like to see my photography pictures on this blog?

Should I keep posting them on my main posts or do you guys look at my slideshow regularly?
(I put new pictures up on the slideshow to the right of my blog after every photo shoot.)

I'm going to put my prices under my slideshow sometime this week... I think you all would be surprised on how affordable DH Photography is!

So yeah.. would LOVE as much feedback as you guys could give me! I get a ton of business from blog readers so I want to make sure I keep you all happy. =)

Let me know what you think!!!!

You know you are a mom when PART 2...

Okay, so I came up with some more since last post. =)

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You know you are a mom when your 2 year old is in HISTARICS because you can't find "baby" last night or this morning. You frantically look for baby because you are sick of the crying and hearing "baby, mommy BABY!" Don't worry.. we found her. In Joya's crib, of course. BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE BABIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE. Duh, mommy. Adie's creative to put her there.. I just didn't think to look after an hour of looking for baby. =/

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You know you are a mom when you secretly mourn your youngest baby going from a size 1 diaper to a size 2.

Ah.

This baby stuff goes so fast. And I don't know if I'm mourning her growing up or the fact that you pay the same price for LESS diapers as they go up in size. =/

Poop.

Literally.

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You know you are a mom when you nurse in the Kohl's parking lot and SUPRISE! You look down at your shirt to realize that you forget to put a nursing pad in your bra and you've got an attractive boobie leak circle on your new shirt. I quickly thought about what would be more embarassing... a big wet circle on one of the girls or sticking your boob up to the air conditioning vent in the car and drying it before we head to the restaurant for dinner.

I opted for the boob up to the vent.

Only one person walked by my van giving me an odd look. =/

Poor guy.. yeah, it HAD to be a guy. A mom would understand and have a boobie leak story of her own!

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Okay.. your turn! Tell me your own "You know you are a mom when..." I'm ready to laugh!!!

You know you're a mom when...

You know you are a mom when you get to go to the grocery store BY YOURSELF and you see 2 people you know and they ask you how you are and you get a little too giddy telling them:

"I'm great because I am at the grocery store by myself! My 2 month old isn't in my snuggli which puts her head a little too close to my ta-ta's making her think that it's feeding time and my 2 year old isn't opening the unpurchased cottage cheese leaving a trail down the cereal isle! I AM AMAZINGLY GREAT!"

I don't think they were expecting that response.
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You know you are a mom when you can sing the Handy Manny theme song, know what tootles are and know that Elmo's World starts at 10:40am every day.

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You know you are a mom when you don't think about leaving the KY jelly on the bathroom counter because you don't see it as a married people aid anymore.. you see it as hair bow glue for the baby.



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You know you are a mom when you RUN through the house after you've just pumped the ta-ta's to show off your 6 ounces of boob juice to your husband. He was so proud. =) It was huge because with Adie I was pumping like 1/2 an ounce. I am a milk machine this time around.

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You know you are a mom when you want to cry seeing your baby in a flower girl dress knowing that the day will come way too soon when she will be the one in the big white dress walking down the isle to her hubby.

Oh the things she (already!) says...

Okay.
I suck at summer blogging. =/ We stay super busy with Darin being home during the day and then this whole week we've been going to the pool after nap time. And at night I should blog but Joya gets fussy from 9-10pm so we're holding her forward bouncing when I could be bloggin'.

Been jotting down some funny things that my Adie Grace has been saying (along with some funny pictures of the girls). Thought you might enjoy them as much as we have been.

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Couple of weeks ago Adie was talking to my sister on the phone and she was ready to say goodbye. She ended the conversation with:
"I love you. Amen."

Guess she got confused and thought she was talking to Jesus.

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This picture is of my little girl with crab feet aka oven mitts. Pretty creative if you ask me!

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My nephew Brayden was in the hospital for 4 days last week with Kawasaki Disease. He's fine now but it was pretty scary.. it leads to heart deterioration so thank God they caught it in time! Anywho, I was explaining to Adie that Brayden was "ouchie" before we visited him and she asks me,
"Bray-Bray ouchie poopie?"

I guess when she thinks of ouchies she thinks of her butt hurting???

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This picture is from Sunday morning before church. She fell and hurt herself before her diaper was on. She'll appreciate this picture when we bring it out on her first date.

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Here's Joya's current humor. Boobie humor because nursing is a big part of her life right now!

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The other week at Monday night dinner at Grandma Yoder's Adie dropped her fork and proclaims:

"Oh my gosh!"

Oops. I think she learned that one from me. =/

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Usually when Adie tells Wrigley to be quiet she shouts at him,

"Hush Wee-wee!"

Today at breakfast she yelled,

"Wrigley, shut up!"

I'm going to blame that one on Darin since I claimed "Oh my gosh". =/ (Even tho that one was probably me too.)

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Last night I had a photo shoot with the Carpenter's and my old gymnast Kristen came over to watch the girls. I was only gone for an hour so I forgot to tell her where Adie's diapers were. Adie had a dirty diaper so Kristen asked her where her diapers were. Adie pointed to the basket by the changing table and Kristen put one on her.

And then I got home and laughed my guts out.

Adie had pointed to Joya's diapers. Adie was sporting a g-string size 1 diaper. (she's in 5's)

The back of her hiney was the best.. cheeks hanging out and all.

Love you Kristen!

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One day last week Darin slept in. Adie asked me where he was and I told her he was in our bedroom. Then she asked,

"Daddy's reading his bible?"

She's going to keep us accountable to the Word every day!

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And we love this one...

The last 5 or so days when Adie wakes up... she'll greet either Darin or I with this statement.

"It's another day!"

I woke up the other day to hearing her in the monitor. She opened Joya's bedroom door, climbed up on her crib and said,

"Baby Joya.. it's another day!"

Love it. =)

Summer isn't complete without a sprinkler!

Yesterday it was HOT so we decided to introduce Adie Grace to the fun times a sprinkler can bring to the backyard.

Looking at this picture, you'd think she was really liking it, right?

She wouldn't run through it at first so daddy sacrificed not being in his swim trunks and ran through it to show her how it's done.

I the picture below, Darin's thinking that she's following him and she runs on the OPPOSITE side of the sprinkler. Complete trickery.

So he decides to grab her hand and run through it together and that was much more successful.

And we all know that running in a swimsuit leads to massive wedgies...

Love the dimples on the ol' cheeks and the farmer's tan from her shorts is a good touch too.

She so modest with covering up her crack and all. Makes daddy proud.

She actually pooped in her bathing suit and she kinda looked like a boy from the back. =/ I wanted to take a picture of it but Darin said it was too gross. When it comes to bathroom humor, I have no class, I tell ya! You can thank him for the gross picture I was going to post on my blog.

And what did Miss Joya Jae do while daddy and Adie ran through the sprinkler and mommy took pictures of Adie's hiney? Well, she sported her super cute bathing suit with matching surrong, of course!

Every newborn needs a matching bathing suit skirt to cover up the chunky baby thighs, you know.

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And in other Joya news.. she's a SMILING baby! Love the 6 week mark when they start to smile at ya. Well, she mostly smiles at the ceiling fan but Darin and I have both gotten a smile or two out of her.

Can't wait for the first laughs, first steps and first words. And if we are lucky by this time next year she will have her very own swim suit wedgie as she runs through the sprinkler with her big sister. I know this baby stage is going to fly just like it has with Adie!