camera clean-up/amelia obsessions

I'm taking some of Amelia's professional pictures to get printed at Walgreen's this week and figured I would pick out pictures from my camera to get printed as well. I found a few never seen before gems for you guys. Of Amelia of course...

 

Sweet hair, Amelia! 

 

She looves the beach! And the freezing cold water.

 

 

 

She loves her Auntie M. <3

And this is what she looks like after a few hours left alone with her Auntie M. Piggy tails and a swimsuit tube for her outfit.

 

 This one's for you @kfd!

Ok, that's all. I know how great pretty pretty pictures of little ones that are all glammed up are, but I also love real life pictures like these. For the most part, this is how it really is (at my house anyways)!! And I love it. Amelia's so much fun and has such personality to be such a small human being. It's weird to think of how much I love her, and how you really can't put said love into words. It's also weird to think about how my love for her will grow and change so much as she grows up. I feel like my parents don't love me the way I love her, but in the back of my mind I know they do. It's just shown a little differently. Which is ok, because if my mom or dad were to squeeze me and smother me with kisses all day long, that would be just weird. Will I love all of my babies (and by all I do mean one more..) this much?? I feel like I can't love another one this much and that's scary. 

I need a new camera. I need better quality pictures...sorry if these are fuzzy and no good on your computer/smartphones.

<3

indian giver

That's right. I'm going to take back all those nice things I said about April a few blog posts ago.
April, you stink.
You do not rule like you were supposed to.
That is all.




Except that I have the sweetest child. She makes everything a little better. And praise Jesus she is on a good schedule, and I can lay her down for bed at 8 every night and she goes right to sleep without a peep.

Now that's all.

over it

I am so incredibly over the drive to and from Griffin, GA. I only make it through the trip knowing I am there for a good reason. Amelia is so over it too. She, actually, is the reason I hardly make it through the ride. A 6.5 hour car ride is just not to be traveled several times in a one month span. It's a lot to ask of a baby that would rather be walking, crawling, exploring, to sit still in their car seat for that long. We will be heading back home tomorrow, and luckily breaking the trip up halfway home in Enterprise, AL. In Enterprise, we will visit with family, eat delicious food and wear Amelia out so that she will hopefully sleep the rest of the way home. And then we will be home for 2 weeks, and then load up and do it again! SHEESH! Talk about really wanting to click your heels and be home (or at your final destination)..

Any recommendations for keeping an almost-one-year-old happy for that long of a car ride?
Besides turning them around to face forward? Done that.
And besides a dvd player? Got that.
And besides me climbing in the back seat to make funny faces, say silly things and sing songs? Car sick.

I so wish that I had finished my pilot's license. I also wish that I had my own airplane! Travel by air would be my first choice.

Update on the month of April..
Our couch has yet to arrive and they are now telling us that they "dont know why, but the shipping date is showing May 15th." Uhhh, figure out why and get back to us ASAP on why it will be 5 weeks later than we had originally planned for.

The military is taking their precious little time getting some paperwork back to us that we should've recieved over a week ago. Big surprise there.

DON'T PROMISE DEADLINES IF YA CANT FOLLOW THROUGH, FOLKS!!

On another note, a few things have happened this week that have made me want to hold Adam and Amelia extra tight! My friend Jessica had to have her baby boy life flighted to the Children's Hospital in ATL a few nights ago. My heart was so broken, and I can't imagine what their family went through. The huge storm that hit the east coast in the past 24 hours that left behind a lot of devastation. The family in Jackson, GA who had a tree fall on their house and kill a husband and child leaving the wife and other child behind, really got to me! Adam told me I need to go to the doctor for anxiety, because these two terribly sad things really did a number on me!

This is kind of a blahh/long blog post, but Adam's gone to visit a friend and I didn't have anyone here to talk to so I thought I would write it all down, put it all out there and then pray about it!

I'm gonna go try to pull myself out of this funk, and keep working on birthday plans for someone's big party next month!! And probably pin some delicious foods to pinterest, since that's what I find myself drawn to on that site these days. How can I not when the website is filled with deliciousness like these decadent things..

 And then I will sleep...
 Night!