I don’t write enough. You’re too fast. You say the darndest things all the time. You’re a ham and a toot… so incredibly animated. On to a couple of stories I wrote on a napkin so that I could remember to journal them to you.

On the way to church on Sunday, you asked me, “When you got married, did you sit on the fireplace with Daddy and drink tea and dream of your kids?” I said, “Of course!” giggling to myself. Then you said, “I missed you while I was in heaven. Did you miss me?” I said, “I missed you all my life until God gave you to us!”

At church, I played with you in the kids area afterward. It’s so spacious, and I felt like doing a cartwheel (we were by ourselves, btw). I showed you and you said, “I like your moves Mommy!”

Then we went to draw on the chalk board. You drew a circle for the face, two eyes and a smile. I said, “Now you should add some hair.” You said, “Well actually, it’s Daddy!” Lol…

On the way to Anna’s birthday party, Noelle said she needed these glasses to protect her from the rain!

Then she said, "This is how girls look at boys with sunglasses on!"

"Seriously?"  Oh my dear, dear child.  At Mollie Grace’s party, she came downstairs and told me, "We’re upstairs talking about kissing!"  I told her the only thing she better be kissing is her momma or an elephant… she just started laughing and said she would rather kiss a dolphin.  I said okay to that too.

Anna had an awesome 3rd birthday party on Sunday!  We lived it up this weekend!

Noelle was in HEAVEN!  

Game time!

Happy Birthday, dear Anna…

"How old are you?" (first pic) Noelle ran up to Chuck E. Cheese for a spontaneous hug.  It was pretty hysterical!

Check out Noelle’s face, post-Chuck E. hug. 

I asked Noelle to be a "three musketeer" and this is what she did.  She takes her mission very seriously! 

Happy Birthday, Anna!  We can’t wait to meet your little sister!

Thanks for these pics off your super fancy phone Bekah!  Good times.

We had a blast on Saturday at Mollie Grace’s 3rd birthday party!

The Kellys were a fun "surprise" (lol) last week for our spontaneous pajama play date.  I have the house baby proofed (for the most part), and Noelle is the best tattle tail (right now), so we let the kids roam and Elizabeth and I visited.  At one point, it got really quiet, so we said, "Girls!" and got up to go see what they were up to.  We couldn’t find them anywhere.  We started getting really nervous.  As a last resort, I opened up the hall cabinets, and Emme and Noelle were hiding so quietly inside.  I bet we walked past those cabinets 3 or 4 times before I finally opened them.  They started giggling and laughing, and we exhaled.  They truly got us!  Thanks for coming guys!  We had such a fun day!

Check out the picture she colored for me in the heart pan – so sweet and thoughtful!

So the time says 3:13PM… lol… right smack dab in the middle of nap time is when I get things done, like take pics of a pretend breakfast from the heart of my sweet Noelley.

*Previously, Devon commented about Mike’s high school pic on my night stand.  Let me explain.  Mike gave it to me when we first met, freshman year of college.  I put it on my nightstand in 2000 and have had it there ever sense! 

How cool is this!?!  

“Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.” :: Mel Brooks

Cool pic by Mike… I miss Cali!