Fair-age

We were at camp last week in Iowa.. Darin was the bible speaker. It was SO fun! Thanks for all the comments about my Adie and Wee-wee.. it was so fun to come back to them. =)

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Round these parts we love a good Fair. Like yesterday there was a 3 hour parade that started 3 miles from the Fairgrounds and ended at the grandstands. Darin, Adie and I walked in it with our church. It was awesome. About 15 guys carried a 20x12 ft cross and the walkers wore shirts that said "Why?" and we handed out $2 bills with an explanation of why Jesus died on the cross for us. Invited them to church and hopefully the $2 for gas money will help get them there. It was awesome. Adie rode on Darin's back in a back pack the entire time.. she practiced her parade waive and then fell asleep and had great bobble head for the rest of the walk. I also had two gals yell from the sidewalk..

"I'm a blog lurker! I read every post!"

So a big shout out to Jodi and her sister! Thanks for the reads, girls! And you know what else I found out couple of weeks ago? A NURSE from Dr. Fu's office is a blog reader. She totally read my post about me accidently telling Darin to "F-U" when I spelled out our new Dr. Fu's name. Guess they had a good laugh at the office. Don't worry.. it won't be the last. At Adie's old Dr. as they were weighing her I couldn't understand why the scale was reading that Adie weighed 30 some pounds until I realize that I was leaning on the scale. Oops. So next time we are there please introduce yourself! I usually like to meet the people that I've totally embarassed myself with! And now I know not to lean on the scale so we can get a good read of Adie's weight. So embarassing...

Okay so that was a bunny trail. Walking in the parade was so, so fun. =) But before I share Fair pictures from yesterday I want to go down another bunny trail to show you Adie's new skills with a spoon.. or lack-there-of....

Here she is using her spoon with her yogurt.


And here she is showing her ham-age with her spoon-ism-ness.

And yes. I may over-use the "age" behind words today. Because that's how I feel like rollin'.

Here we are so happy to be at the Fair! And so happy that the ice cream at the dairy bar is only $2. The ONLY thing at the Fair that's only $2. Even the elephant ears went up to $5.. seriously! it's fried dough. Anywho...

Here she is at the baby animal farm. Looking at a baby horse. Captain Obvious here.

And here is my husband feeding my child to a goat. I'm pretty sure the goat hadn't had his serving of cute for the day!

(Hanni.. Adie's wearing the outfit you got her and Rachel.. thanks for the cutso Nike's! I wouldn't let her walk in the horse doo so her Nike's would be spared. You'd be proud.)

And I did not play with these pictures.. My Adie and Darin are my little malibu babies!

And remember when I was wondering if Adie's hair would be curly?

Her curly fro-age cracks me up in this humidity. =)

That had nothing to do with the Fair. But I'm just sayin'...

Adie & "wee-wee"

A few of you have requested Adie/Wrigley pictures. Um, didn't want to let you down!

On Wednesday Adie started saying Wrigley's name. She had been calling him puppy but finally said his name... "Wee-wee". Yeah, a baby and a puppy and the baby calling him "Wee-wee"?? Can't get much cuter than that!

Crate training is going pretty well. Feels like the poor guy is in there a lot.. but puppies sleep a lot and that's his sleeping meca. Adie has an infatuation with his crate. She pushes it around the kitchen, pulls his towel off (if he can't see us he doesn't whine) and as seen in the picture below, she stands on it.

This is also a frequent thing around here... Wee-wee tugging at her pants, shirt or anything else he can get ahold of. She gets so mad!

And this is Wee-wee giving Adie a high five for being the cutest little girl in the entire world.

So yeah, there are some pictures of the cuties!

Sniff.. sniff...

So I'm sitting here bawling.

Recently 2 of my new friends from MOTTT'S went back and read every blog post I ever wrote. So it inspired me to take a walk down memory lane and do the same. Read all my old blog posts.

I got to March of this year and lost it. I am sitting her blubbering like a fool. Holding my sweet puppy and blubbering like a fool. I haven't shared this with you guys yet because I'm pretty sure it just set in...

I resigned from coaching gymnastics.

I read the blog posts about my girls playing with Adie Grace. And how two of them were always surrounding her. They were with me during the 07 season FREAKING out about me spotting them because they were afraid to kick me in the belly on accident. I thought back to 6 of them showing up in my hospital room after we'd had Adie and were SO PROUD that she was here. They all took turns holding her. And go way back to the 05 season when I came to the gym with a new engagement ring and they screamed and knocked me to the ground with their group hug with the news of Darin's proposal. And I read way back the first month that I started my blog I dedicated a day a week to one of my girls. I remember all the farts. The visit from Juan-a-beat-you. All the overnight trips and me playing shrink as they stood on the beam and cried about a friendship that was ending. How one called me the second after her boyfriend of 2 years broke up with her. All the silly dancing at practice. The (annoying) repition of their floor music. The time they scored a 5.2 and held them as they cried and the time they scored a 9.1 and picked them up and spinned them in my arms. I remember all the tears, all the laughter.. all the sprains, pulled wenis's and palm sized rips.

And not to mention how much I will miss the head coach I coached with for 5 years.. and whom was my coach when I was in high school. A woman of integrity that always did the right thing, loved her gymansts more than anything, prayed before EVERY meet except senior night when I had to because she was sobbing so hard because she was loosing YET another daughter..
and the woman that came to my mom's viewing and waited in line for 2 hours even though it was sectional dinner night. And man the woman loves Jesus. I love you Nika and you will never know how much you've taught me.

I guess I'm mourning.

Mourning my girls.

Mourning coaching.

Mourning what used to be.

Love you guys and I hope you know that it was not you.. it's just time for me to be a mom. What I've always wanted to be.. a wife and mom.

I'm going to pick some old pictures and sit here and cry (and giggle) some more...

I will try not to be jealous of your new assistant coach but I know I will. Someone will know how to braid and will make your hair so tight you'll have chinese eyes just like I gave you. I will come to meets and promise to show up at a few practices to critique and spot. Just want you to know that I miss you already and love you tons...

Photography Logos

I can't even believe this is happening.. I'm ready for a logo with my photography!!!

It's going so well and I've had people ask for my business cards.

Which I have none.

My no business card-ism due to lack of logo-ism led to me contacting my good friend and creative goddess Hanni to help with my design.

And then she gave me three choices.

And I couldn't decide.

BECAUSE I LOVE THEM ALL!

Sooooo I'm asking you to help, oh blog friends! Tell me which one you dig!!!

DISCLAIMER... I'll chose the final one cuz I think I'm leaning towards one (I think) and because that's the way I roll. =) But I totally want to know what you guys think! This will be on my business cards, here on the ol' blog, on my pictures on my blog, letterhead and Hanni says my store-front. =)

Without further ado.. here is

OPTION #1

OPTION #2

OPTION #3

All so pretty, I know. Give it up for the talented Miss Hanni!! Thanks again!

Let me know which one you dig the bestest.

Ladies and um, more ladies.. we have an announcement to make...

I've been meaning to tell you guys but we just wanted to wait until like 8 weeks-ish.


We were really ready to expand our family and just wanted the timing to be perfect.


When Adie's every other word was about the new sibling she wanted.. we just couldn't stand it any longer.


Introducing the new member of our family....


Our little 8 week one pound bundle of energy (and pee for our floor)...

Wrigley

(Yes, we are big ol' Cubs fans)

Adie's every other word is "puppy" and we don't even have one. We knew we wanted one soon so after our date night on Friday night we drove by an Amish house with puppies for sale. So we stopped. And can you believe it was DARIN that fell in love first with the little guy? We don't have a fence yet, are going to be away next week at church camp and had NO INTENTION of bring home a puppy this weekend but we fell in love. He's 1/2 Shiz Zou and 1/2 Rat Terrier so I don't even know what his name would be. A Shiz Rat maybe?

That's why we call him Wrigley. =/

Anywho.. his mom was 15 lbs and his dad was 10lbs. Hopefully he'll fall in between somewhere in there in the poundage department. AND he doesn't shed. And doesn't need groomed. Perfect.. just as long as we can figure out that bladder of his. Tapped into Hanni yesterday and tried to get the crash course on crate training. So yeah, if anyone wants to pipe in my comments on how you potty trained your pooch it would be greatly appreciated.

And stupid me didn't get a picture of Wrigley nipping at Adie's butt when she was in her swimsuit today.. totally looked like the Copertone baby picture. =) She loves him too! Everytime she wakes up from her nap he comes galloping in and she says "Puppy!" because she totally forgot she has one now.

Welcome home, Wrigley!!!

Happy 4th!!!

Today daddy worked on my play palace. He got it finished enough to put up my swing. I spent 40 minutes in it and loved every second!

I also wanted to say happy 4th... aunt Natalie got me this cool visor. I think I'm pretty cute in it.

And could anyone ask my mommy if she could make me a little less "devil-ish" when she puts piggies in my hair next time!?

Happy 4th!

Recipes have been sent!!!

Please, please, PLEASE let me know if you did not get the final email with the recipe attachment. I was paranoid about trying to get everyone on the email I sent but I'm totally human and I HOPE I didn't forget anyone! (And my gmail wasn't saving the email at times when I'd add people as I received emails)

PLEASE let me know if you didn't get the final email.

And THANK YOU for participating, ladies! We ended up having 36 pages of recipes with like 3 recipes on every page. You rock. And we are going to have amazing NEW dinners as a result.

Have a great 4th!!!