Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte Maya

At 39+ weeks, I'm not feeling super creative or motivated (though I did have a super amazing idea that will hopefully be featured in a future post...now you're intrigued and will keep reading ;)).  But, a friend requested another post...so here you go!  

Sidewalk chalk FTW!





Maya drew a picture of herself (far left), "daddy's mommy" (middle) and Charlotte.  They are holding hands at the beach <3

Monday, August 8, 2011

38 Weeks and Counting

As I sit and wait (and wait and wait and wait!) for baby #3 to arrive, I've been finding myself having trouble focusing on what is going on *right now*.  38 weeks pregnant, I'm finding, is a hard place for me to be.  It's not that I've not been here before ~ Maya was almost a week past her "due" date and Charlotte was born 1 or 2 days before hers, so I should not expect anything different this time around.  But, for some reason, I'm having a lot of trouble being patient!  

A friend of mine wrote an amazing blog post about this, which you can read here.  Her adorable baby girl arrived a little over 3 weeks later.

I know that God knows when this baby will arrive, and I know that there is nothing I can do about making it happen any sooner (at least nothing that I'm interested in doing!) so I sit.  And I wait.

And I take pictures :)









This is an outline of Maya's foot, including her toenails, which are painted (obviously :))

Monday, August 1, 2011

Katie is Married!!!!!

This past Saturday my baby sister (ok, "baby" by 1 year...but still!) got MARRIED!!!  Yay for Katie and Eric!  I was a bridesmaid and looked 14 billion months pregnant, the girlies were adorable flower girls, and Katie was SO BEAUTIFUL.  I mean, she was elegant!  The rehearsal was fun, the rehearsal dinner was fun, the wedding was fun, and the reception was amazing!  Good food, fun music, a superb speech given by Mary, dancing, cupcakes (the girlies' favorite part! :)), a photo booth (!!!), and much more that I am almost certainly forgetting :)  I am so glad that we got to be a part of their special day!

We didn't get as many pics as we did at Cait's wedding last month (and due to lighting restrictions, most were taken with a flash :P) ~ Michael had the camera most of the time as I did my bridesmaidly duties and he was also in charge of corralling the girlies.  BUT, my awesome friend/photographer Sierra Hampl was the wedding photographer and I know she will have a ton of amazing shots for them to remember their special day :)  

Here is a sampling of what we got...







My step-brother Pat did all the bridesmaids' make-up, and it looked amazing!  Thanks, Pat!

"There was a little girl, who had a little curl..."

Maya gettin her hair did




 

Is the longing not palpable? :)







Pretty sure Mare just told everyone that Katie never got to sit in the front of the bathtub :)

and then she made everyone cry :*)




Maya with my cousin Lauren.  I am pretty sure 90% of Maya's clothes from her first 3 years of life were hand-me-downs from Lauren!





I think she's telling Jim to "step off"!

After taking this picture, Michael sent me a message (to my phone) that said, "The feelings of love felt while watching you dance with worn out Charlotte are awesome" <3


Katie with the photographer and her assistant

Charlotte was doing her best to stay awake by eating ice :)
Congratulations to Katie and Eric!!!