Little artists.

These kids love stickers and crayons! I cherish the art they make for me-- so sweet!

Annie is four!!!

On the first day of April, my little girl woke up four years old.  The happiness that has filled my days for the past four years with her is difficult to even describe.  I am often overwhelmed by her amazingness and the love I feel for her.  I can hardly keep up with all the awesome things she says and does in our days together.  I am totally blessed to be able to spend my time with her, being her full-time Mommy.  She astounds Ben and I with her wisdom and her rich vocabulary, and at the same time she trickles little sneaks of innocence that remind us of how young she still is.  

Annie has so many great qualities- many of which are opposites, like cautious and adventurous, and sassy while still being incredibly sweet.  If you know her, you love her.  She is extraordinary and I am sooooo glad she is mine.  

Mother's Day 2012

This year I celebrated my fifth Mother's Day.  Wow!

My day started with breakfast in bed (of course) consisting of Starbuck's coffee and a McDonald's McMuffin (obviously) and lots of snuggles from the little ones.  I was greeted by a huge gift bag when I came downstairs (to a cleaned up house, by the way).  The gift bag had a jar of my favorite crunchy nutella and five different treats to dip into the nutella.  There were also giftcards to some of my favorite stores 'hidden' on each package of treats-- fun idea from Daddy!

The rest of the day was relaxed and lovely.  Daddy made me 'Momster' cookies and we had a nice take-out-style picnic at a park down the street.  Daddy took a few pictures of me with the kids- they turned out super cute, too- nice job Daddy!

At the end of the night, as I was leaving Annie's room at bedtime, she whispered, "Mommy, you're a good mother."  That was the best part of the whole day.  Sometimes us mommies really need to hear that- and no better day than Mother's Day for such a sweet compliment!