We've Been Busy!

We've been busy and I haven't had a chance to blog lately but hopefully I'll catch back up.  This weekend we had a chance to hang out with Birc's sister and her kiddos which was so fun! Savannah wanted to do everything Anna and Aiden did! 

In other news, Savannah has discovered her love for mud and all things outside. We've been going outside to play every day that we can and she immediately [after swinging and sliding first] wants to dig in the dirt, pull up rocks, and throw leaves around.  The girl is getting D.I.R.T.Y.  :) It's adorable!

she's also sampled a taste of the dirt.  She didn't love it but still went back for more!

Savannah wore a cute poodle dress the other day so I had to snap some pictures! As you can see, though, she was NOT in the right frame of mind to smile for a pic at the same time as showing off her cute dress.  So I say, oh well!

Poor Birc always gets called in to help me with photo shoots...neither of them like them!

We've got a big Valentine's Day planned today and hope you feel some love from everyone you love!  I'll try to blog about our day tomorrow! Happy Valentine's Day to you guys!

14 Months and the Weekend

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday...busy times with work make for no pictures which mean no posts. But, never fear, the weekend is near! And my BABY is a whopping 14 months old as of Wednesday.  Crazy how time flies. Here's my sunshine baby [what I call her every day] in her sunshine dress before school today! [please excuse our disaster of a bathroom-she trashes it daily while I'm getting ready]

seriously.  the girl likes to clean the floors.  no joke. LOVES scrubbing anything.

CC Love

We've all got some love for Mama, Cara, CC, whatever you might call her! We celebrated big for her birthday Tuesday night since Anna and Aaron got back in town and we had a great time! We had good food but mainly just good fun hanging out with each other.  I know I am a broken record with this but I just LOVE my family and my family time.  It makes me the happiest when I've gotten to hang out with all of us at one time and it also usually involves good food.  Which Aaron provided tonight, a homemade apple cake! YUM! [he even did the awesome powdered sugar art with a cake stencil-what a Stevie Homemaker] :) Anna and Aaron are like gourmet chefs over at their house though, so I shouldn't be surprised.  They make dinners that have like 5 dishes, each with at least 10 ingredients, and everything is so tasty.  Birc and I make fast meals that have under 5 ingredients and usually bread or salad for a side.  Hah! At least we have goals.  Anyway, Happy Wednesday to you!

Hanging out with CC and playing hooky from school Tuesday!

this girl was SLEEPY and CC could not wake her up for anything!

Happy Birthday to my pretty mama!

See? Aaron could be missing his other calling [besides kids] with this baking thing.

Our Weekend

We had a good weekend! We stayed in our pjs and watched tv on our lazy Saturday morning.  We went shopping with CC on Saturday where SCM educated herself on the art of shoe shopping.  We had a pre-party for CC on her birthday but missed Anna and Aaron so we'll do the full celebration tonight! We slept [some of us, even thru lunch!].  Savannah taught herself some magic card tricks to wow her Grandad with. We went swinging in the backyard. Savannah tried on my shoes. [over and over again. it's her new thing] 

Happy Tuesday everybody!

Just a quick note...

...to say I'll review our weekend tomorrow! We're gonna catch some ZZZ's tonight to recoup from our busy weekend!

Happy Birthday, CC!

CC I am so excited it's your birthday!

Here's my cheese face!

I'm cheesing cause I've got a plan for your picture show!

It involves this car.....now hand me that note Mama!

Ok, here's what I'm gonna do...

 I'm putting it right in the front of my car so it's the Birthday Car!

 What do you think, CC??

Ok, well you want a pose too?

 I'll just put the sign here.

 Uh Oh. I dropped it Mama! CC surely knows I want her to have a happy birthday, right?

My pretty smile says it all! Wait, did you say outside??

 Ok, I'll try to sing Happy Birthday.  Lemme find my note.

 Haaaa...

 Mama, that's all I know, you'll have to sing to CC without me!

 I think the cars going by want to sing Happy Birthday too!

 And, my photo session is over Mama. I love you CC and hope you have a super birthday!

 No, Mama, I wasn't kidding. I'm really done. 

Happiest of birthdays to my wonderful, talented, patient, loving, selfless, imaginative, southern, creative, beautiful, nurturing, brilliant, understanding, artsy, tender-hearted, supportive, wise, one-of-a-kind, kitty-cat-loving Mississippi-Arkansan mother! I love you very much and hope you have a wonderful birthday! You keep us all taken care of and make us all feel so loved.  I can't imagine a better mama and am very thankful God blessed me with you.