Happy Fathers Day!

Today has such A deeper meaning then it has EVER had!! I am so thankful for my dad and for the amazing Godly helpmate i have in Jake!! Happy Fathers Day!!

my snuggle bug...

when jake and i were trying to soak up as much information as possible about how we wanted to handle sleep...

this artical

was one that i found was the most helpful...just thought i would share :)

livin' on a prayer!

wow wow wow! this has been one of those times in our lives that it has felt like go go go! the minute we got home from vacation has been all about having to find a new car, getting our house fixed (roof, painting, and fixed windows), even a consideration to sell our house, preparing for VBS, cranky-teething baby, trying to start planning Pipers first birthday party, dealing with home and car insurance...so on so on so on....hence being on a bit of a blog break...my mom told me today that "we have been sleeping on vacation for to long" :) so with out further adeu....

we are back!!!

did you know we were even gone?? :) seeing as that we had 3 windows out in our house...we decided not to announce to the world that we were going on vacation...but for the last week we have been doing a lot of this....

this...

this...

this...

and did i mention?...this...

more photos to come of our Florida vacation once we get settled :)

on a lighter note...

we have been on the look out for a bookshelf for piper...up until now all her books were put up in her closet and we would just get them out as needed...but i wanted them out and displayed for her to get a book to read whenever she wanted :) well, last Saturday we found this gem at an estate sale...

its just her size...

we have already played MANY games of "pulling everything off the self"...

thank you da-da for putting up our new book/toy shelf...

ohhh hail....

the garden failed again...this time not because of my "purple thumb"...but because of mother nature herself!
before the storm...

after the storm...

CRAZY!!!

ohhh and....
not so fun news....the yukon is totaled
fun news...we are getting a new car!!!!!

what the hail....

yesterday, while jake was at the church for meetings, Piper and I were woken up from our nap right at 4pm with the sound of what i thought was someone braking into our house! with my heart racing I grab Piper and run into the living room and see glass and hail flying all over our little house. Then I look to the left out our big front window and could not see anything it was so dark and loud! Since I had not been awake or watching tv I just KNEW there was a tornado right on top of us...with piper in my arms and my stomach in my throat, I start pulling things out of our coat closet and Piper, I and Annabelle squeeze into the dark closet. About 5 minutes later it was quite so i thought it would be ok to come out...there was no tornado but we at least protected ourselves from all the glass...it could have been much worse...and I feel so gratefull that we are all safe...but our little house has 3 windows broken...our garage door is torn up as well as the siding on the north side of our house and of course both our cars have damage, but no glass out and we will be needing a new roof. I have honestly never seen anything like this or been so scared...but thank God that it was not a tornado and that we are all safe :)