easter saturday

our day.  in pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stripping

 

 

sometimes baby just likes to take off her clothes while she waits for me to come get her.  two days ago i came in and she was down to a diaper.  you get the pg pictures.

"granny caught an alligator"

when i got that text yesterday i completely imagined my grandmother wrestling a 6ft alligator with her bare hands.  if you knew her like i do, this idea wouldn't seem so wild.  but, as it turns out, it was caught by a beaver trap.  and it was caught in that very pond you see pictured in the link.  

looove that life on a farm.

play props

this morning i was being lazy (i keep waking up with terrible headaches).  as i looked around the room i realized i could hear baby but i couldn't see her.  upon closer inspection i found this.  

 

and because i had my camera within arms reach (of course) i took a million pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i couldn't believe how long she was occupied by a simple empty suitcase (thank you honey for leaving that out!)... the fun went on and on and on.  and then the fun carried baby girl to my nightstand to pick up another play prop.  toys are second rate these days.  and external hard drives are great because they double as a phone and a stethoscope.  okay... maybe baby wasn't pretending it was a stethoscope (although she could have been and just wasn't able to communicate that to me!) but she definitely was talking on it.  through both ends.

 

hello?

HELLO?!?!

 

totally a stethoscope

and then she found this bucket.  i'm not sure what she thought it was but i imagined her to be a little eskimo in a sled pulled by a team of huskies.

see?  she's holding the reins.

or maybe she's just a baby in a bucket.  making silly faces.

anyways... it kinda got me a little excited about this whole little girl playing pretend thing.  

any other eskimo doctors out there?  baby girl would love to network with you.

happy 48th!

pictures from last night.  honey was out of town but that didn't stop baby girl and me from going to the hilliers to celebrate my mother in law's birthday!

trick candles

coconut cream pie!  my favorite!

don't worry.  i shared with baby.

we had a blast.  i really lucked out with my in laws.

granting wishes

oh look!  the internets grant wishes!

 

it is too much to ask to hope for an "april 4" to be added to the picture?!  we'll see!

white parker

parker is completely white and snowcovered.  sunday was super hot... like sweating was involved.  yesterday was super cold.  think low 30's.  today we woke up to snow.  a nice white blanket of it.  i would love to see that as the third picture in this series from the university of northern colorado...

one of my friends posted that on fb yesterday and i thought it was hilarious because of its accuracy.  this morning another one of my friends posted a picture.  also hilarious because of the truth behind it.

conclusion: parker is always totally white... but with the snow it's just that much more so.

missing honey

my dear christopher left this very early morning for iowa and doesn't get back til tomorrow night.  dangit, i just realized i need to figure out a babysitter for baby girl while i go to young womens.  hmmm.  anyways, i miss my honey.

i was just reading a heartbreaking blog post from my friend, megan.  she has an adorable family and the sweestest love story ever with her handsome husband, wes.  he was recently diagnosed with cancer.  this post made me cry.  can we all just take a minute or two to first, pray for their precious family and second, show some love and appreciation for our loved ones?

thank goodness our church leaders really know what they're talking about.  and thank goodness for general conference.

buddha belly

i kid you not, i think it took over an hour for these videos/pictures to upload.  i blame our super crappy internet.  we are cheap and downgraded once the promo price ended.  but century link sucks (they have screwed up our bill every. single. month. seriously?  $149 dollars for one month of internet?  that doesn't seem odd to you?!)  and chris is going to fire them (ps- mitt, we like to fire people that provide us services too!) tomorrow.  hopefully we'll get new internet soon or else i'm going to be lonely without my computer.

anyways... tonight honey made up a new game about driving food.  so a chunk of apple becomes an apple car and they say vroom and drive it and then baby puts it in her mouth and honey makes drastic gobbling noises and baby girl thinks it's hilarious and does it again and again.  so i got out the camera to take a video to which my dear christopher responded "but she's stuffed to the brim.  she's eaten so much it's pretty much over and there's no point taking a video."  don't ask how i got such a video party pooper husband but i did.  but i'm used to this and pressed onward still.  he had a point but i didn't really care.

you see, when we were across the street visiting with neighbors, baby girl had a bowl of grapes.  but then we needed to get leave so i bribed baby girl telling her i'd give her a banana when we got home.  true to my word, i gave her a banana when we got inside.  so you'd think since she'd just eaten a bunch of grapes and a banana she wouldn't be too hungry for dinner, right?  well you're wrong.  once she was in her chair she ate half a tomato, 3/4ths of an apple, a handful of shredded cheese, two full size slices of a spiral ham, and some salmon.  so when my honey said she was pretty much done eating, he had a good point except that baby was actually still going strong.

and now on to the videos... some of them are kinda long.  one is super short.  and they all end pretty abruptly.  because i kept running out of memory and having to take a few minutes in between each to delete old pictures and create more room.  baby girl was seriously so fun tonight though so it was all very worth it.  

salmon cars from the pecan crusted salmon from last week.

sarcastically telling honey "yeah, sure looks like she's full" as she literally threw more apple in her mouth.

30 seconds of nothing in particular

we're laughing because we were startled to see how giant her belly had gotten during dinner.  i mean, her shorts were falling off from the weight of her belly! and at the end, baby was upset because apparently she didn't want the tray pushed in.

i mean, seriously... look how much it's protruding!

this is what it would look like if a toddler was about to give birth.

she's kind sucking it in in this picture because she was laughing but still!

edited to keep this family friendly.  

i love the chiseled definition happening above her hip bone.

and then she got out to prance around in my flip flops before bed.  walk it off, baby girl.  walk it off.

and in case you forgot just how distended that belly was...

forget no more.  some women don't even look this pregnant when they go into labor.  but for baby girl, it's just another day in the life.