dear judson, today you are three!!I will say this every year, but I can't believe you are three!! It seems like just yesterday you were a tiny baby with bright blue eyes who had resolved to never sleep through the night. Do you even know how much you were held and rocked that first year? Who am I kidding, you still snuggle with me to take a nap. I can promise you, you'll be finished taking naps before I'm ready to give up those sweet moments. I had that first part written for a while before I looked over at your daddy and said, how do you write a blog post about Jud? How in the world can I sum him up in words? Oh, Juddy, where do I even begin? Your second year … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2017
easter recap, 2017
Instead of talking about how many posts I'm behind. I thought I would go ahead and get an Easter recap up on the blog while it's fresh on my mind, rather than adding it to my to-do list. We usually have some type of Easter egg hunt on Saturday, but this year we found ourselves with a rare (and needed) free Saturday. Allen re-decked our back porch, I enjoyed an early morning workout and hair appointment before running my last errands for Easter Sunday. My brother and I still make it a habit to get together before Easter and dye eggs. I can't tell you how much my mom loves this, so we ordered pizza and dyed eggs the night before. Jud was more into eating the eggs. He only wanted to … [Read more...]
dear braylen, today you are seven
sweet BK, Today you are seven, it's your birthday!! This day is all yours, but you should know that its my favorite day too. Its the day you made me a mother. Its the day when an amazing thing happened, in a busy and cold operating room, the whole world stopped for a moment. Those first sweet months feel so far away sometimes that I ache with a deep desire to go back just once, Id kiss your tiny head a million more times. On nights like tonight, when I'm reminiscing about that day, I can shut the world out and be right back in that moment. I'll never forget how I loved you instantly with an incredible fierceness. It's crazy how … [Read more...]