Documenting Life: Playing in the Leaves (Week 8)

Week 8's Documenting Life Challenge was to play in the leaves. Molly thought this was fun!! Here are some pics of my sweetie...

Hope you have a fun and safe Halloween!
Love, Jen

Documenting Life: The Whole Family (Week 7)

We just got our pics professionally taken at church for the church directory. I think we might have gotten one good one. Molly was not in the mood to take pics. The only time she was happy was when I let her down- She picked up her bag, my purse, and starting telling the photographer "bye, bye"- with an adorable smile, of course. So I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't have a great family pic to post. So instead, I thought I would post our first family pic.

February 12, 2010 = BEST. DAY. EVER.

I'll try to post a more recent pic of our family soon!

Love, Jen

Documenting Life: Mess (Week 6)

The Documenting Life Challenge a few weeks ago was "MESS". How appropriate for that week! We moved from Muskogee to BA and lemme tell you- it was a mess! (and the reason why I haven't posted lately) We are still trying to get settled into our new home and I'll get some pics up later. In the meantime, here are a few pics to show off my sweet mess...

I'll probably be posting several posts in the next few days trying to catch up! Talk to you soon!

Love, Jen

Documenting Life: Playing at the Park (Week 5)

Well we didn't make it to the park last week because Molly was sick again for a couple days, but we did make it to the Tulsa State Fair on Saturday. Molly rode the carousel (the only ride for a person under 36 inches). Then we headed to Disney on Ice-Toy Story 3! She LOVED it!!! It amazed me that a 19 month old could sit still for 2 hours with her eyes completely glued to the performance. Molly, Mom, and I had a great time! Here are a few pics...

She was nervous at first, but really liked it!

Love my girl!

Mom and Molly- in between bites of her sno cone!

These guys were good!

BUZZ!

WOODY!

Ahhh... the KIDS!

We have a busy week ahead...MOVING DAY on Friday! I'm so excited! Hope you guys have a great week too! Maybe the next post will be from my new house! :)

Love, Jen

Party Girl

Two weekends ago we went to my cousin's wedding and reception. They had a band and a dance floor, which Molly found very quickly! She danced more than any other person there. She started as soon as the music did around 5:30 and didn't quit until I made her leave around 9:00. She LOVED it! Here are a few pics...

Pretty girl!

Molly made friends with the ring bearer.

Get low...haha!


More pics of the people I LOVE...

Grandma and Grandpa Bunny...I love this pic!
These 2 are the best!

My Bro Jeff and Uncle Tony=TROUBLE!
Don't let the big smiles fool you.

Cousin Josh and Nephew Drake- they're cool guys!

Uncle Tony, Aunt Nan, Grandpa, Grandma, and Mom
(I come from GREAT people!)

My Grandpa and me!
Not much wrong with this man in my eyes. :)

I guess I never got a pic of the bride and groom. They were pretty busy- they were the stars of the show! Molly and I had a great time though and enjoyed spending the evening with our family. Great party Mr. and Mrs. Maritt (and their parents)!

I'm home again today. This time Molly has the throwing up virus. Ugh. Last week it was the high fever virus with an ear infection. I hope we get it all out of our system so we can be well again. Next week we move to BA, and need to be healthy!

Love, Jen

Documenting Life: Helping in the Kitchen (Week 4)

The Documenting Life Challenge this week is Helping in the Kitchen. This really was a challenge for me and my 19 month old. Right now, she's really better at making a mess in the kitchen, then helping mom, but we tried anyway. We decided on her favorite- "cheese!" We actually did pretty good! Here are some pics...

I think she was satisfied with the results. Yum!!!

This week Molly hasn't been feeling the greatest. She has an ear infection and it won't go away. The doctor said one of her tubes is starting to come out. Ugh. I hate when my baby doesn't feel good.

Hope you have a good weekend! We're celebrating our anniversary on Sunday. 7 years. Love you Joel! Thanks for the beautiful roses.

Love, Jen

Documenting Life: Fresh Out of Bed! (Week 3)

This week's topic in the Documenting Life Challenge is Fresh Out of Bed! My Molly is so sweet in the mornings. She stretches for a good while before she stands up. Then she's happy and ready for the day! I wish a good stretch was all I needed to get me going in the mornings. :)

So precious!

STRETCH!

Hold me momma!

Molly wakes up starving. Her first two words are usually "Daddy?" and "Eat!" So she goes into the living room to look for Daddy, who usually is already gone to work, and then it's to the food cabinet to get breakfast.

Hmmmm....what do I want?

My girl. I love her.


Molly's a pretty good sleeper. She goes to bed around 8:15-8:30 and gets up around 7:00. I've learned that kids NEED a schedule. It's funny to me that the earlier she goes to bed, the later she'll get up. Before Molly, I would've thought the later they stay up, the later they'll sleep! Nope, not true. Now I understand crazy mom's with their strict schedules. I try not to be one, but it does make life easier. :)

Hope you guys have a great weekend! We're headed to Coffeyville, KS to my cousin's wedding! Looking forward to some fun times with the family! (Congrats Zach and Samantha!)

Love, Jen

Documenting Life: Favorite Book (Week 2)

This week the Documenting Life Challenge was to take pics of your kid and their favorite book. At this moment she is into "This Little Piggy". It is full of nursery rhymes/songs including "Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round" which happens to be one of her favorite songs right now too (thanks Barney).

One of Joel and my favorites to read to her is "Barnyard Dance". It's a fun little jingle that gives you instructions on how to do the dance.

Mollygirl is starting to act more like a little girl and not like my baby more and more everyday. I love and hate it all that the same time. She's so fun the older she gets, but it makes me sad to think that she'll never be this age again. It's going too fast. Love her!

Check out the Documenting Life Project by Jenny Collier

Documenting Life: Favorite Summer Activity! (Week 1)

Jenny Collier (Photography) has made a challenge to Document Life! I really want to be better about keeping track of Molly's milestones as well as every day moments, so I thought I would give it a try. Each week she'll give a different topic and hopefully I can keep up with it. The first entry is Favorite Summer Activity. This was a no-brainer. Joel and I love the lake and we found out this summer that Molly's does too! YAY!!! Here's some pics of Molly at Grandma Karen and Grandpa Dean's lake.

Driving the boat!

Floating and eating Cheezits = Perfect Lake Day
(nice bunny ears Dad- haha)

Ok and just for the record, I did take Jenny Collier's Mamarazzi Photography class, but these pics were taken with my cell phone. It's what I had. :)

Love, Jen

Easter!

This was my favorite Easter yet! I love having a kid- especially on holidays! We started with our annual "Easter Dress Fashion Show" (well it's only our second year). It's basically just me dressing up Molly to decide on which dress she'll wear. She loves this annual event. Lol- not really! Here are some few pics of last year's show:

This year we only had 2 dresses, so the show went better. :)

We went with the plaid and she was so adorable!

She participated in an Easter Egg Hunt with my work employee association. She only found 2 eggs, but she had a ball doing it. We hid those 2 eggs over and over again.

She had an Easter Egg Hunt at school too. Here's a pic of my big girl carrying her basket into school that morning. When did she get so big?!?

We also practiced at Grandma Donna's and at home in preparation of the big day!

Like a good mom, I completely forgot to take pictures of her on the actual day. Grandpa Dean and Grandma Karen came to church with us and then we headed to BA to Grammy Tonya's and Papa Dave's to eat lunch with family. I guess in all the hustle and bustle, I forgot my camera. :(

And this is how Easter Day ended...complete exhaustion!

It was a great day with family and friends. It's even better knowing the real reason why we celebrate Easter. Thank you Jesus!

Love, Jen