Pictures I love

I thought it would be fun to post some pictures that I absolutely love! All of them have been taken with my new camera!!!! Did I mention how much I love this camera!?

This is Noah making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He saw me with my camera and decided to give me a cheesy smile!

My sweet Joshua eating is puffs


This was a total fluke! I snapped a quick picture and had no idea that it would turn out so cute! I especially love the gross leaf in his hat! Just kidding!


This is my mom and step dad at our church valentines banquet. I actually don't have many pictures of them together so this one is special.

I have been driving by this barn every week for a few months now and was so excited to be able to take a picture of it with my new camera. I think I may do pictures of it during each season!

More peanut butter and jelly!

Ruffles and Rust

Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to a vintage flea market called, " Ruffles and Rust"

I went with a couple of ladies from our church, check out our group picture on Katrina's blog

Here are a few things I found! The picture is actually a bag from the Farm Chicks store that I visited last fall. I have been saving the bag so I could frame it, 4 months later I finished it! It is so fun when you envision a project and what you want it to turn out like, and when you finally complete it it's even better! I bought the bunch of Lavender and the candlesticks at the Ruffles and Rust fair.

All of this sits atop a very special piece of furniture. I got this pantry cupboard from my husbands family. His great grandfather built this and it was used as a Laundry cupboard. It has this green paint inside that is quite chipped and stained, but I cant bring myself to re-paint it. It is such a great piece of history and I am so glad to have it in my home!

Let it SNOW!

What a week it has been! Winter came to visit on Tuesday and never really left us! We started out with a few inches mostly on the grass, then by Saturday we had a whopping 8+ inches on the ground! Micah really does not like the snow, mostly because he has to drive in it, but being a mid west girl at heart I LOVE it! Lucky for me, Noah does too!

This is a picture of our fence in front of our house.

Joshua hasn't really had the chance to play in the snow much, but I like to put him in his little baby sled and pull him around. This is pretty much the look he has on his face most of the time we are out there!


Noah making snowballs! He has a ton of hats that he could choose from to wear in the snow< and he chooses, his Santa hat!

I absolutely love this picture!

This is from earlier in the week, we had the chance to play at our friends house, as you can see, there is not much snow on the ground... but Noah and his friend Micah still managed to make this...

What a fun few weeks it has been, I will post more soon!

Valentines week...

I love Valentines Day! I often celebrate it the entire week before, who wants to celebrate for just one day when you can have an entire week to think on and celebrate those you love!

I cleaned my e mail inbox on Friday and found so many sweet reminders of how truly blessed I am. I found a file labeled " Micah" that I had created sometime in high school, while he was in college in California. The file was full of our own love letters, letters of sadness that we were apart for so long, but also letters of hope as our wedding day and graduation drew closer. I don't think that it was simply chance that I found this file and was able to be transported back in time for a few minutes, the week of VALENTINES DAY! I have often said, ' I love love!" and I certainly do! Here are some pictures of our valentines celebrations.

My sweet Joshua at church. This has nothing to do with Valentines but I just love this picture!

Noah and I made heart shaped rice crispy treats for all of his friends at church. Noah helped me cut out the shapes while I did the drizzling!

Noah also was able to go to a valentines party at his preschool. Here he is decorating a cookie, and then eating the frosting! Jennies cookies are the best! Thank you Ms Jenn!

We have soup night one night a week, so this week I made heart shaped biscuits to go with dinner! My husband thought I was silly but Noah thought it was fun.

This is a valentine banner that says " be mine"

I got the letters from my mother in law last week, and since I don't have many valentines decorations I thought this would be a fun project! It actually turned out really cute!

Happy valentines day everyone!

Our park adventure

Today we had the opportunity to spend some time at the park, since it has been raining pretty much non stop for the past few weeks Noah was so excited to play!

I forget how big he is until I put him into one of these baby swings, he is pretty good at riding on one of the big swings but today he wanted to try this one, I'm not quite sure why.

Micah was carrying Joshua in the front pack so I could take pictures, what a guy! (Also my shoulders were sore so he really didn't have a choice) Joshua is still too little to be able to play but I think he liked just watching his brother.

This one just makes me laugh! Look at the feet of his outfit, he has claws! I find outfits that I didn't realize he had until they re almost too small! I found this one this morning and had to put him in it! So cute!

Happy weekend!

What an interesting week it has been for us...I say interesting because I have been sick for most of it so I don't quite remember what went on or how I even made it through the day!

Noah is adjusting to his new dosage of medicine pretty well, we have had a few concerns but mostly wish he would just sleep! He likes to wander the house and hide his special toys in random places. this week I found his buzz lightyear hiding in my pantry with the cereal, His woody doll hiding in my laundry basket and Woody's hat in Joshua's shoe basket! It is such fun looking for little suprises around the house, half of the time I dont even think Noah remembers where he hides things.

The funny thing about this cold or whatever it is that I have is that the only symptom ( once I got past the aches and pains) is a sore throat and an annoying cough so I have been drinking a lot of tea! This picture is my favorite cup at my friend Katrina's house with my favorite tea right now, Earl Gray. I was just playing around with the settings on my camera and I love how this picture turned out, see how the background is all blurry? I would like to learn how to do that with all of my pictures!

My sweet Joshua with his favorite toy right now, a rubber spatula! He is teething so it must feel good to chew on but I do get some funny looks from people when they see him chewing on kitchen utensils. It is very rare for Noah to share anything with his brother, which is why this picture is so sweet, Joshua is wearing Noah's cowboy hat.


I will post some more pictures of our park adventure very soon!