January 2013

Just some pictures from my phone the past couple of weeks...

Well, I guess this one was technically the week before we Christmas. Man, this kid gets me! What a cutie.

Snow, snow go away... don't come again another day!!!

Boo hiss on snow. This was from the first week of January. And now here we are with freezing temperatures a couple of weeks later. I'm SO OVER IT! 

Collin is constantly killing witches and vampires around our house. I was in the kitchen and he raced in with his gun to report, "Princess! Princess! I got the goblins and witches, but there are still more!" *Pant, pant.* Then he waits for me to tell him where they are and off he races to kill them and save the day.

He's pretty good with the Charlie's Angles poses too.

These sunglasses surfaced and they haven't left his face much.

This picture doesn't do his {Oompa Loompa} look justice after finishing off a bowl of lasagna, but it was pretty darn cute. Then I had to show Collin a clip of the Oompa Loompas on YouTube so he knew what I was talking about. I don't think it phased him, but I was regretting my decision later! Those guys are creepy! 

Bath time. Probably their favorite time of day. 

Last week was monumental. So monumental that I posted on Facebook... and I rarely do that anymore. For the record, here is what I said:

"A year and a half ago, I lost ALL of the pictures on my blog... all thanks to a glitch in Google + (insert curse words). Three years worth of pictures- gone. I sobbed for an entire afternoon. There was no way to get them back. And I had only printed 6 months in a blog book. I still had all of the pictures on my computer, so thus began my year and half process of manually going into every single post I had done, to re-upload them. Looking in the HTML format, writing down the location and name of each picture. Finding them (which was often way harder than it should have been), uploading them, and placing them in the right spots. Roughly 300 posts and well over a thousand pictures. I literally can't count the hours I've spent doing this!! It's been mind numbing and felt endless. (As well as keeping my blog updated with current posts) And been the constant burden on my shoulders. Well today.... I FINISHED!!!!! My blog is complete and I could cry I'm so happy!!!!!!!! It's seriously the BEST DAY EVER!!! And while I'd NEVER wish to do this again, reviewing all of my pictures and posts has created some of the sweetest moments of happiness. I am so blessed and have such amazing friends and family! I am truly so lucky and grateful for all the experiences Heavenly Father has given me. Blogging may have bit me in the behind, but I'm still so grateful for a great way to keep my family journal!"

It really was an emotional moment. It felt like the insurmountable task. I can't put into words how good it felt to BE DONE. The last few posts I did were of a Diamondbacks game we went to and the time we were a Ma and Pa on a trek. They were like the icing on the cake. We've only been married 6 years, and yet it feels like we've already had a lifetime of experiences together. My heart was so full of gratitude for my wonderful husband. I seriously could not have gotten luckier. He is loving, caring, sensitive, a goofball, a fun father, a selfless husband, and my best friend. I don't even know what I did to deserve him. I really won the husband lottery.