for mom

my mom has been wanting a picture of macie to go over her fireplace in her new home.  hopefully one of these will work...leave me a comment and let me know which one you think she should pick!  or should i scratch all of these and try to do another shoot with my squirmy toddler?!?

pull me

this game is a result of the 2 weeks that we were in the house because of snow.  macie sits on her giant centipede (nothing that i would have picked out for her, but a gift from a lovely science teacher at school) and begs us to "pull" her around the house.  i think secretly blake hopes that she forgets about this game soon because it really takes a lot of energy on his part.  when she asks me to pull her i tell her i'm not strong enough and that she'll have to ask dada...a slight fib on my part...is that bad of me?!?  anyways, i probably should pull her around...it would burn lots of calories!

march

as much as i love the fall, there is just something refreshing about spring being right around the corner.  it is always such a relief for the loooong wrestling season to be over and to have free weekends again.  it has also been so nice to feel the warm sun shining on my skin the last few days.  blake (and macie) have been busy working on the garden the past few evenings.  i have big plans for the garden "bounty" this year (we really didn't get much out of our garden last year!).  i would love to get into canning this summer...if anyone has any tips or good sites for canning/recipes please pass them along.  hope you are feeling refreshed and giddy about spring and all that comes with it.

happy valentine's

if you are still looking to make valentine's day treats for tomorrow, here is an easy idea.  we mixed up chocolate teddy grahams, pretzels, chocolate covered raisins and peanut butter m&ms.  macie took them to her friends at church this morning and will take the rest to her daycare friends tomorrow.  hope you feel extra loved this valentine's day!

{p.s.- can you tell that i am on an owl kick?...i think owls are so adorable!}

purple party

 

macie's favorite color (the only color she seems to know) is purple.  she loved all the purple at her birthday party...which was postponed from wednesday to yesterday because of all of the snow we have had this week.  on the menu for the party were steak, potatoes, salad, fried okra and jalepeno cornbread.  on the dessert bar we had chocolate cupcakes, purple cow punch, m&ms, dark chocolate kisses, grape skewers, and white hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows!  yum! 

birthday girl

we are all snowed in today on macie's birthday.  the sunlight bouncing off of the snow is filling our house with amazing light... the most perfect lighting for an indoor photo shoot!  so we opened all the blinds and i spent my morning chasing around the birthday girl trying to get a few good shots...she moves so fast... i have an amazing respect for photographers who can capture good images of 2 year olds!

we {heart} snow!

we are having the best snow day ever...pancakes for breakfast, playing with play-doh, watching movies and eating popcorn!  we are nice and warm...except for the 2 minutes that we went outside to let macie play.  it took about 10 minutes to get all bundled up and then another ten minutes to clean up all the snow that we tracked in...but i'd say it was worth it!