8 Months!

Lydia is almost 9 months old (yikes!), 

but I wanted to share these cute shoots while she's still 8.

Lydia loves to stick her tongue out!

Here are her two little teeth that you've all been dying to see! ha!

    Sweet, sweet Lydia!

 We've been trying to teach her to wave.

So far not much luck!

 Life is grand as an 8 month old!

Reader!

Lydia looooves to chew on books!

But she also likes to read them!  

Sometimes I see her studying and turning the pages on her own.

What can I say?  She's a genius!  :)

Chattanooga!

Our little family got to go on a fun adventure on Saturday.

First, we ate at a yummy restaurant called Sweet Peppers Deli.

Lydia enjoyed some avocado from my quesadilla.

Then we strolled across the bridge.  It was beautiful weather!!!

And since I guess I can't always just post pictures of Joel and Lydia, 

I give to you our squinty little family portrait.  :) 

Yay for sunshine!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

They love each other! 

Lydia gets so excited every day when Joel comes home from work.

I love it!

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day, so Jessica and I took the kids out to play.

Look at Lydia's little crossed ankles.  So cute!  

These cousins sure do love each other!

We ended the day with a family picnic in Jessica's backyard.

It was a perfect day!

P.S. Sorry I've been such a TERRIBLE blogger.

I like to blame it on my old computer,

but now I've switched over to a new one.

I will do my best from here on out!  :)

Dulcimer!

Here is Joel giving Lydia a little music lesson.

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Birthday, Joel!

Today is Joel's 27th birthday!!!

This is the oldest picture I could find of the two of us on my computer.

Here we are as a happy little dating couple! 

Then we got engaged!

(With the best proposal I could dream of!) 

Then we got hitched! 

And we've just been living happily ever after since! :) 

This is sounding like an anniversary post.

That is not my intention. 

Let's swing things around to focus on the birthday boy!

Here are a few reasons I love my husband:

We have tons of fun together! :)

He is a really, really hard worker!

And super talented!!!!! 

He is intelligent, kind, loving, thoughtful, caring...

pretty much the male version of Mary Poppins-

practically perfect in every way!  :)

And he's a super sweet daddy for Lydia! 

I love my Joel-y so very much!

He is my favorite husband in the whole wide world! hee hee

I am so thankful for him!

Happy Birthday Joel!!!

Halloween Outfits!

I decided to take some pictures of Lydia in her cute Halloween outfits

before I had to wash them and put them away.

She's not really a fan of photo shoots....

probably because of the types of photo shoots we've been putting her through lately! 

This one cracked me up with her little finger pointing to her head.

She's a deep thinker. 

But this is her classic thinking face.

She's been making it since birth! 

So there you have it.

The end of the Halloween pictures! 

We sure enjoyed celebrating Halloween with our sweet baby!

Oh yes, and here is something really cheesy that I made with these pictures...

I couldn't resist!