I HEART FACES-Wedding Bells/Just for Fun!

WEDDING BELLS

This is a picture of one my closest friends on her wedding day. She was sitting on the air conditioner a few minutes before walking down the aisle, to cool off. I just LOVE it, and her! 

JUST FOR FUN

I am so glad that they have this category this week...because I have the best picture ever. It is actually from a wedding but it does not really have a face in it, so I can not technically use it for a contest....but isn't it HILARIOUS? 

Head on over to iheartfaces.com to check out all the other beautiful wedding photos.

Say Cheese

I was trying to get the girls to pose for me in their super cute Gymboree clothes (thanks to Jill). 

This was the best I could do:) 

rotten :)

I think she looks funny in this picture...but still cute:) 
I love them!

I Heart Faces-ALL BOY!!!

This week over and I HEART FACES the theme is "Let's hear it for the boys." The photographs can only be of boys! I of course had to dig through a few of my pictures, since the only husband is the only boy in our home.

KID ENTRY-This is of my nephew, NOAH. I love the expression on his face. He was like, seriously, "Can you please stop putting that thing in my face." Isn't he precious? He looks so much like his older brother too!

ADULT ENTRY-
This one is of my grandfather. I LOVE this picture and was tempted to enter it last week in the Sepia but I liked it a little better with some color. I just love the feeling you get from this photo. He is precious too, isn't he?

Head on over to the website to check out all the fabulous entries. The competition gets better and better each week!

Funny girls

I know this picture is kind of fuzzy...I never have my flash on and the girls would not stop moving, and it was not very sunny that day. Anyways, I think it is hilarious, they look like mini little me's with their headbands on.

Anyways on a side note....

 I am teaching VBS this week at our church. I have Pre-K (kiddos going into kindergarten next year) and I have to say I am dreading it!

I find myself not enjoying being around large groups of kids as much now that I have my own to deal with. Secondly, it is from 5:45-8:30 every night, which is so late for the girls, and it just takes away from the family time. Third, Matt is at work so much right now anyways, I hate missing time with him! 

OK so I am done complaining, and I know that God was pushing me to do this, so I just need to suck it up, and CHOOSE JOY!  Pray that it goes well! 

A few more pics from Gabby's party...

Check out some more pics of Gabby's 2nd birthday party on our photo blog...

J&A Photography

www.jennandallie.blogspot.com

I HEART Faces-Sepia toned

This week over at iheartfaces the theme is Sepia toned. I had a few different pictures that I was trying to choose from but finally decided to go with these.

KIDS ENTRY-

This is a picture of one of my closet friend's little boy when he was 5 days old. His daddy LOVES hockey so we of course had to get some pictures with the hockey stick in it. I just LOVE this picture.

ADULT ENTRY-

This is of my best friend Katie. She might kill me if she knew I was using pictures of her, but we will just never tell:) 

I am sure the pictures are going to be great this week (as always), so you should head on over to the website and check them out!

A day at the beach with daddy:)

UPDATES

Because you can not have a blog without pictures I figured I would start with a few...here is Naomi with one of her new friends. It actually is a frog, that was about the size of my thumb nail...that she found and loved. She LOVED (aka smothered/squished/squeezed)  it so much that she sent it to froggie heaven! 

*I apoligize for not being as frequent in my blog updating. I am trying to not get on the computer as much. So instead of blogging in my alloted time, I spend it looking up houses in all the areas that we COULD live...Charlottesville, VA, Millington, TN, Coronado, CA, Charleston, SC....:)

*Jesus ROCKS! I feel like in these last few weeks/months/year that Christ is really confronting some of my beliefs head on! Of course, not about HIM but about what I believe HE says. I DESIRE for every fiber of my being to honor Him, and I don't want to be so prideful to not allow him to change me. On that note, Matt and I started one of those read thru the Bible in a year, which is going great. Here is the one we are using if you are interested http://www.bible-reading.com/bible-plan.pdf. I have also been reading a lot of books. I recently read "Jesus wants to save Christians" by Rob Bell, and "The Irresistible Revolution" by Shane Claiborne. I am just starting "In the Shadow of the Almighty" by Elizabeth Elliot. 

*3 weeks ago I started doing P90X. It is this crazy, intense, work-out program, that you do for 90 days. It is totally kicking my butt but I can definitely tell it is working. I have lost 6.5 pounds and almost 5 inches.  The workouts are 6 days a week and anywhere from 60-90 minutes a day. This is also why I don't have as much time to blog..

This is Tony Horton...my own personal trainer for the next 90ish days. As long as I can look like that girl behind him, I will do whatever he says:)

*We (ok well, I am) are in the process of potty training Gabby. This is proving to be a much more difficult task than Naomi was. (Naomi was 21-22 months and was pretty much trained in a week). Gabby is so Whatever about it. One day she will use the potty all the time, and others doesn't care a thing about it. ERRRRR...I just wish I could send her to POTTY TRAINING BOARDING SCHOOL. 

This is pretty much how she rolls during the day (usually plus a shirt)! 

* I am still trying to be super domestic. I did make homemade snicker-doodles (which I know are not very hard) the other day, and also made Naomi a super cute bandana dress. (The bandanas plus the ribbon cost me $2!) I will post the link on how to make these later.

*We have not had the video camera out in a long time. It is just unacceptable and I promise to post a video of the girls, in all their craziness, sometime soon.

I think that is it for now. Have a great day!

(The last picture is from Gabby's birthday party. I have not had time to edit all the pictures, but when I do, I will definitely put them up!) 

Oh.My.Gosh.

Our girls have these ridiculous reactions to bug bites (esp mosquitoes.) I had to take Naomi to see an allergist a while back just to figure out why they swell up like big balloons.

This past Sunday Naomi got a bite above her right eye (and also bumped heads with Matt the same day) which made the bridge of her nose and over into her right eye swell up. This picture does not do it justice.

The swelling would be on the left in the picture.
So anyways, Naomi got better and this morning Gabby woke up and her right eye (left side of picture) was swollen. She had a bug bite too. Matt also said that when she woke him this morning she rammed her head into our headboard (Matt is on nights this week so he was still asleep). She didn't seem to be bothered by the headboard incident....
So after naps, Gabby looked a little bit different...

Naomi is doing an imitation of what Gabs looks like.



Here is our bruiser...and YES she is FILTHY! She was playing in the dirt (Making cookies!):)
Here she is again....and even LOOKS WORSE now that in this picture:(
I am actually a little concerned now. I know it is just a bug bite, but it is right by her eye. I have given her Benadryl, Motrin twice. and put all the many of creams in my cabinet on it....

UPDATE: As I was about to post this, it just kept getting worse, I didn't get another picture:(...but her eye was barely open..poor baby:(

With Matt being on nights I lugged both girls in the car and took them to the ER at 8:00pm. The nurses and doctor all oohed and ahhed over Gabby's eye and reassured me that bringing her was the right decision. They gave her the Appropriate amount of Benadryl and some liquid steriod. Hopefully she will be better tomorrow.

I HEART FACES- Happy Birthday/Pets

KID ENTRY-Here is a picture of Gabby enjoying her 1st birthday cake! 

PET ENTRY-One of our furry friends right outside our back door. 

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