Tuesday, April 20

from pedicures.... to crawfish

Holy moly... who knew that it would be so tough for me to find time to post new stuff once our little bundle arrived... being a big sister takes lots of time, you know! (wink, wink!) Anyhoo.. we have not slowed down one bit since my last post, so let me try to update you in less than a million words...

Last week, I got my very first pedicure (many thanks to my mama)... and my daddy LOVES it. He has always had a "thing" for my feet, but I think that he's a wee more obsessed than usual... I love the fact that my toes match mommy's & every time I notice, I make sure than every one hears... "my toes pink & mommy's toes, too". Now... if the weather would just stay warm, so that I could show off my cute pedi with some of my new spring sandals... come on warm!

Daddy and I gave Ardynn her first bottle a couple of weeks ago (see a photo below) and she took it with ZERO trouble at all.. that little munchkin still LOVES to eat, and apparently does not really care where she gets the grub! She is still chugging along... she is "talking" a little bit more these days and smiling a bunch. We have been working to make her room a little more "girly" and I think she likes it. We hung a butterfly mobile over her bed... it used to hang over my bed when I was a wee little tyke, too. Boy does she LOVE to watch those butterflies! Mom and dad said that I loved them when I was little, just like Ardynn!


This past weekend, we had some more visitors... Uncle Joel & Aunt Gena came in from Grapevine to play... it was a great visit! I enjoyed the extra attention, as did little Ardynn! On Saturday, we attended the First Annual Giesecke / Hallmark Crawfish Boil and despite the cool, wet weather - it was a blast! I had such a great time playing with all of my little friends & Ardynn was held even more than normal by just about everyone at the party. She got to "sleep" with her new little buddy, Watson, who is a couple of weeks younger than her... they make a pretty cute couple, if I do saw so myself. There were TONS of crawfish to be eaten. They had those ugly boogers in a huge swimming pool in the front yard before they cooked them & us kiddos could "fish" them out & play with them. I was not super sure about getting too close to the ones that were alive, but once they were cooked... you better believe that I scarfed them down! My favorite food these days is SHRIMP & after those ugly crawfishies are peeled, the meat looks & tastes an awful lot like shrimp, so you can imagine that I was in HEAVEN! We all ate wayyyy too much crawfish & had a ball!

Hope you enjoy these photos... there are some random ones thrown in, but this should give you an idea of what we've been up to over the past couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more!




Ardynn's first bottle....

Ardynn at almost 6 weeks...


Crawfish Madness...


per some requests... a few photos of Ardynn's nursery... still in progress ;o)

Wednesday, April 7

13 gazillion eggggggs!

Do you have any idea how much fun a girl can have with a few eggs?!? I am telling ya - they're more than breakfast food peeps! Our EGGstravagant Easter weekend began Friday night when our family colored about 5 dozen beauties at our house. I had a BLAST using the different dyes and crayons and markers and paint and stickers.... oh, yeah - I created some eggs that were definitely too pretty to make into any deviled delights!!

On Saturday morning... much our surprise, the good 'ole Easter Bunny had visited our house. When I woke up, there was a trail of eggs that began at the door to my room & led all the way down the stairs & into the living room, where a big basket of goodies was waiting for Ardynn and me. What a good guy that bunny is, because not only did he leave us some way cool stuff, but he also hid a big bundle of eggs in our back yard. After a little breakfast, it was all the adults could do to keep me from busting out the back door. I hunted relentlessly until I'd picked up every last egg that bunny left. I'll give you 3 guesses as to what all of the plastic eggs had in them....... that's right - CANDY!!! (and a few with fruit rollups, goldfish, and fruit snacks, too - just in case I get tired of the candy... haha - never.) And don't you worry.... since Ardynn is still too itty bitty to search for herself, I made sure that she had a few eggs in her basket, too ;o). On Saturday afternoon, we went out the Great Uncle Ray & Aunt Joyce's house for another Easter celebration. There were tons of good family and friends... I had a blast playing with all of the kiddos and Ardynn was very, very, very well loved on by all of the people there, too.
Sunday was a special day... we woke up and got all dolled up in our new blue dresses that mommy picked out for us and headed to church to celebrate a most blessed day. After church, we took a few photos at Popi & Gingi's house before heading to Abilene to celebrate with..... you guessed it..... more EGG hunting! Gingi's family lives in Abilene and every year they have a rather large Easter celebration at Great Grandma & Grandpa Jacques's house. Because we've lived in Tennessee during every Easter since I've been around, I had not been able to experience the madness in Abilene before, but I certainly made up for it this year. I hunted candy & eggs until my little legs could hardly carry me any more & picked up enough candy to rot out every last tooth in my head. Aaahhh... it was great! Once again... Ardynn enjoyed all of the attention & love (that baby better be glad that I'm willing to share the spotlight... hehehe!)

What a fantastic Easter we had... God gave us some beautiful weather & we were able to enjoy a blessed weekend with all of our wonderful family & friends... hope you did the same!

coloring Easter eggs with the family...



Easter Bunny Goodies....


egg hunt in my backyard...

my masterpieces...

Easter Sunday (after church)...

egg hunt in Abilene...
above... Bebay got me with a confetti egg... I was not so amused ;o)