very few things in life....

makes a person want to spontaneously get up and do a little spin...





for piper....its Sesame Street...

ohhh life's little joys...

hand-me-down's from friends=

one happy momma!!!!....

wanting to do EVERYTHING all by herself....not so much ;)

I'M BACK!!!

did you miss me.....well to be honest...i missed you. i guess i would have to say that i got burned out on blogging...not sure why...but after a little break i hope to be back for good....i am already having feelings of guilt for not documenting this pregnancy like i did for pipers.... so heres a bit of an update...:)

I am 17 weeks along! feeling amazing! the only symptoms i have had is fatigue (is that pregnancy or chasing a 1 year old around all day??)...i have not been sick at all! if you are a long time reader you know that i was really sick with piper....so needles to say, not having any nausea was a very welcomed change :) we originally had plans to find out the sex of the baby this time....but about 2 weeks ago i completely changed my mind, and it didn't take much to convince jake....we just LOVED the anticipation too much! we also originally planned to have this baby at home...we had our first appointment (at 12 weeks) with some amazing midwives in Norman and really loved them.....but were still feeling just a little uneasy about being at home and so decided to go back to the midwives at OU medical center...Our Midwife from Piper is retireding :( so for my second appointment (last week) was with a new one named Barbra....we really liked her. Everything with #2 is going well...and so fast! I felt the baby move last week! and feel the baby about once a day :) Over night i have started "showing" i have a pooch that just cant be sucked in any longer!....yet i still have not gained any weight....well i think thats all for #2....i hope to start belly photos now that there is actually a bit of a belly, since i dont have one yet i will leave you with photos from when we told jakes family on heathers birthday(september 11th)....

underwear...necklace....whatev ;)

this is now how piper "helps" me with laundry these days :)

here we go again!!!!......

thats right!!! we are having ANOTHER BABY!!!! we found out the last week of August...but had NO idea how far along i was (since i had not had any sort of regular period since piper)...so friday we had an ultrasound and found out i was 7 weeks along!!! We were even able to see and hear a heart beat loud and clear!! it was amazing! I am due April 30!!!!!

and ABEDNGO!!!....

have you ever seen this video??

or what about this one??


hilarious right!!?? well my husband was obsessed with them!....he knew every word by heart.........which then in turn inspired him to pull a team of volunteers together to but this video together!!!!....
(this video is a tribute to all of crossings children's ministries volunteers...it was played at "kick off" training....the first person represents the greeter/check-in volunteers, the second person represents the Sunday school teachers, the third (played by Michael foster) represents the tech/sound volunteers, and the fourth person(my crazy husband)represents the worship/music/band volunteers).....

please feel free to show EVERYONE this awesomelly amazing video...can you tell...im kinda proud :)

a few of Pipers quirks...

~she can say....daddy,momma,night-night,nana(for banana),nan-nan (although they are similar, we can distinctly tell the differences in the last 3 words :) and MANY other "words" that we have no idea what she is saying! ;)

~she can sign...more, eat, milk(nursing), drink, bird, fish and diaper

~they other day piper and kennedy were walking into her room for the both to be changed...when i asked "who's poopie"...piper raised her hand! I'm not kidding!...and she actually was poopie!!!

~She runs...thats right RUNS at 13 months!

~she does all the motions to "patty cake" like a champ!

~we were looking through her "baby words" book the other day...i was just going along, pointing to all the pictures and naming the objects...then i turned the page and immediately she points the the picture of the banana and says "nana" with all the

~she gives hugs like they are going out of style...she gives them as a greeting, if you are sad or hurt,if you tell her "i love you" if you ask for one...and sometimes just because :)

~her favorite foods are pinto/black beans, carrots, broccoli veggie burger patties, any kind of bread, scrambled eggs, blue berries, oranges, yogurt,cheese, applesauce and ice cream!

~she finally LOVES books...i have been checking out about 20 new books a week from the library. Her favorite book is a fisher price book called "how big?"...each page we say real loud "SOOOOOO BIG" she anticipates us saying it and flips out! its awesome.