Happy Green Day in a little different way!
Enough about me, this week is all about Eden.
Here is our sweet little girl playing on her leap frog table. She loves this table by the way uncle Carey.
Today turned out to be a beautiful day. So guess what Eden and I did, you got it, we took a walk.
Her hair is getting so long which I’m so excited about. I tried pigtails in her hair for the first time today and she looked so precious.
I must say that taking walks with Eden is another one of my favorite things. She is always aware of what is going on around her and points to everything. If a dog is near by you bet she wont miss that either. She immediately starts barking. I love it! She won’t stop till we step in the house and she finds another noise to make.
A previous walk we took right before it got really cold.
Another precious thing I love about Eden is when she sleeps not because it gives me an opportunity to get some things done around the house but because she looks so sweet when she sleeps. She kind of reminds me of me when I was a little girl taking naps. I wish I had a picture of me to compare but since I don't I'll show you some of my favorite sleeping pictues of Eden over the past year.
Tomorrow is another day closer to her first birthday. I have a little something in store for tomorrow that should be pretty special. I hope it works.
Monday - The week before Eden's Birthday
And so the countdown begins. Eight days till Eden turns one. Can you believe it? Our little girl who I carried for nine months, gave birth to, got up with every two hours at night, held for hours gazing into her beautiful eyes thinking is she really here can she really be this beautiful and make me feel this giddy, Is going to be a year old.
So in order to celebrate her first birthday I’m going to count down the days till her birthday and add pictures, as well as post our favorite memories of Eden.
Well, how do you get a party started? You have to finish the invitations and send them out, which is what I’m doing tomorrow.
Today was my day to run errands which I wasn’t all that excited about but I needed to get some things done. What I wanted to do more then anything was play outside with Eden and not worry about running errands. I hope tomorrow will be a beautiful day like today so we can take the opportunity to do some playing outside.
In the hustle and bustle of trying to remember everything I had to pick up today I looked at Eden and thought I’m so glad she’s in my life. Today when I was changing her diaper she couldn’t stop talking. It was so funny to listen to her babbling. She would get so tickled at herself and then keep on talking. I literally laughed out loud. I must say her constant talking is one of my favorite things about her.
Eden was so sweet. Tonight she was following me around as I was putting things away in the kitchen, and she ran and grabbed onto my leg. She hung on like a little spider monkey. She also loves playing on the chin-up bar. She does pull-ups like mommy and daddy. Maybe one day she’ll be in the Olympics.
Well, that about wraps up our days events. Tomorrow will be another day of fun and adventure with our little doodle-bop.
What a great weekend!!!
What I learned new, well I bought my very first sewing machine this weekend. It has been something I have wanted to do for a while. I finally decided that this weekend was the right time to do it. With Eden’s first birthday coming up I wanted to attempt making a birthday banner. So I got all excited and went to my favorite place EVER and bought some material for the banner. I brought it home and quickly got to work. Threading my machine took a little while but I finally figured it out. After I got all my pieces cut I started sewing. I know this sounds really silly but I was so excited when I finished sewing the first side of my banner. Well, to make a long story short I conquered my project, the sewing part at least. I was very satisfied with the way it turned out being that it was my first time to ever use a sewing machine.
Here are a few pictures of what it looks like right now.
As for my lushes ferns well I fond them at Super One Foods in Texarkana. I couldn’t believe it. I looked at the ones a Lowes but they looked scrawny compared to these. I mean these ferns looked like they are hyped up on steroids. I’ll have to post a picture once I get them hung up. It’s a little to cold right now to put them outside,
Ok so tonight I was getting ready for church and Eden was playing around me like she always does. I guess I was really focused on getting ready though that I didn’t notice my child playing in our toilet. I try really hard to keep the toilet seat down but this time it wasn’t. I looked up quickly from getting ready because it got really quite. When it gets really quite you know something’s up. I guess I gasped really loud when I saw what she was doing because she immediately stopped what she was doing and gave me a hug. When I went to the toilet to see how much water was on the seat I noticed her princess duck floating upside down in the toilet. I quickly grabbed some paper towels and saved that poor innocent duck. For the record the duck is soaking in Lysol and Eden well, I doused her hands in soap and water. I have a feeling that won’t be the last time I find her in the toilet, but I really hope it is.
Well, that’s my weekend recap and now I will savor the last little bit of it by sitting on the couch drinking chi tea with my sweet husband while watching Hitch.
Tune in till next time… Monday will be the start of everything that is Eden.
A ladies retreat to remember
Last week I posted about a ladies retreat I was headed to. Well, the retreat was wonderful! The focus of the retreat was Live, Laugh, and Love. It was a wonderful theme. Along with the wonderful theme were great speakers. I enjoyed hearing ladies from Robinson Ave. speak from their hearts. There are some very talented ladies at that church.
I mentioned in the earlier post that Eden was going to the retreat. Well lets just say she loved being around everyone and everyone enjoyed being around her. She was able to spend some time with Gammy which she enjoyed very much. She also got to meet several new faces as well. I was a little concerned about her sleep habits while we were gone, but she did really well. Hopefully Eden’s sleep habits will always be that great. I’m praying really hard.
Another great moment form last weekend was getting to spend some late nights with wonderful girls or more like great mothers and wives. I just love being around positive and uplifting individuals.
I really hope I’m able to go next year as well. I’m so looking forward to it!!!
Here are a few pictures from last weekend.
Eden loves to read books. I'm glad I remembered to bring some with me.
This is Eden and Justice her play buddy during the retreat.
They sure know how to have fun!!!
I'm sorry this picture is so dark, I need a new camera.
This is my sweet cousin Kim speaking on Love. She did an amazing job!!
I was so proud of her.
Well I'm going to stick to the title and say that the ladies retreat was a retreat to remember.
Although I did enjoy my time at the retreat my heart and mind was with my mother and sister in-law. They were in a bad car acciedent last Friday night while I was in root to Branson for the retreat.
I received a call from Andrew that his mom and sister were in a car accident. My heart literally skipped a beat and my stomach curled up. Could this really have happened? What do I do? I felt so helpless. I’m sure Andrew did too being in Texas when he heard the news. Well, after a bit of silence to take what Andrew had said in, and a couple of more phone calls from him telling me that their going to be fine, that they are just banged up pretty bad. I was finally able to gather my thoughts.
I must say that God was truly watching after my mother and sister in-law. They are doing as well as they can be doing after being hit by a semi. Megan my sister in-law was scraped and bruised pretty bad, but is back at Harding finishing out her senior year. Denice my mother in-law has a broken arm and is at home now after being in the hospital for a couple of days. She ended up having surgery on her arm and 12 staples put in the back of her head.
Andrew came up this past Tuesday to see his mom and sister, which I’m so glad he did. He was very worried about them.
We ended up taking Megan back to school Thursday on our way back home to Texas. I’m glad to see that she is walking around, still pretty sore but doing well. Stick in their Megan you’re an amazing person.
I hope everyone’s weekend was great and look forward to seeing what this next week holds.
