Baking with the ladies

Here we go Pistons!

Sunday we took the little ladies to their first Detroit pistons game! Colette loved all the things going on around her! She yelled cheers along with the crowd, tried cotton candy for the first time (with a lot of coaxing because she didn't believe it was food!), and watched all the excitement with delight! Maelyn wasn't as big a fan of all the noise but she took it all like a champ and snuggled with her God father Uncle Natee for most of the game!

Happy Birthday my Ladies!!

Well today was the first time (probably of many) that we celebrated both of your lives together. With a heat warning of temperature in excess of 100 degrees we prepared for the day loaded up with popsicles, ice, and a sprinkler. As soon as the guests arrived it began to storm! Well, God is good and the sun shown again but it wasn't as hot due to the rain! Grandma and grandpa were visiting from Nebraska and we had plenty of other family and friends as well! WE all love you both so much! Maelyn, I hope you don't fret that you didn't have your own huge first birthday party.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

So tomorrow is the second week of Advent and oh my goodness is the Christmas season underway! It's a Saturday morning and I'm feeling so blessed to be living in this home in to have the family that I do my town did Husband Adam is outside riding the shed and my crazy daughter is want to be outside with him despite the 30 degree weather so they're bundled up from head to toe and enjoying every second of watching new that outside I'm in Julienne standing inside watching them and being warm this is one of those times and I'm really glad for what I have really grateful it's weird to think that I have 2 children 3 children one in heaven god is good

St. Maria Goretti pray for us!

What a gift. Five years ago my boyfriend Adam and I went to Italy and visited the shrine to St. Maria goretti, getting to pray at her side for purity in our relationship. Who would have imagined that our daughter would get to pray at her tomb with me today? God is so good.

Me and Mama are besties!

Happy 1st Birthday Maelyn!

Mae Mae, you sweet, sweet girl-WE love you. I am writing this exactly one year after your birth. I was telling your dad today how it feels like you've always been a part of our family. I can't believe it's already been a year, but it seems like so long ago that we didn't have you with us. I am SO GLAD we have you with us. God couldn't have blessed us with a sweeter girl. We thought we hit the jackpot of easy babies with Colette, but you proved us wrong. I honestly felt guilty telling my friends what a good baby you were. You have such a pleasant disposition. You've always got a huge wide-mouthed grin on your face and jump up and down whenever you see me. You bring me so much joy! You have endured a lot from your sensitive tummy as a newborn, trouble sleeping as an infant, and the constant beating and biting you get from your big sis. But you are such a champ. I don't know if I said this in a previous post or not but I just think you're going to be te type of person who can sincerely rejoice in others' joys. What a gift. You are our baby fatso pretty pretty. None of us can imagine our lives without you. Here are some of my favorite moments with you over the past year (your first year of life!). *When I go in your room in the morning and you're standing up in the crib grabbing onto the railing and jumping up and down and smiling as soon as you see me. *When I hear you and Colette in your room at night making each other laugh. * Holding your little hands and feet as you wave them around while I nurse you...staring into your beautiful blue eyes while nursing and smiling at you and watching you smile back. * watching you wave "hiya" to EVERYONE!! *When you finally started moving. You were so fat we didn't know if you ever would.* Putting EVERYTHING known to man in your mouth (esp. the time when you ate your own poop and smiled with it between your teeth. ugh) * your rosy cheeks on hot days when you come out from under the nursing cover. *when you ate an ant. *when you laugh your raspy laugh. I love you to the moon and back! Thank you for being our little sunshine. May you shine your light into the world every day of your life. HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY!