Happy 2020!

Welp. Guess I've dropped the ball on this little site, huh? 

It's now January 2, 2020 and here's where we are: 

Lawter is 5.5, crushing kindergarten, has lost two bottom teeth with one new bottom booth recently popping up, she's a reading machine, taking almost as long as me to pick out her outfits, and just growing physically and emotionally by the day it seems. Sigh. She's so smart and is the hardest little worker. Her happy place is doing workbooks or art projects, and we just got her a little nook set up at home with a shiny brand new Christmas gift desk and she's busy organizing all of her supplies.

Tell is oh so close to 4 years old, lost that one bottom tooth about a year ago and for whatever reason is dangerously close to losing a very loose top tooth any second now. A trip to the dentist will be happening very soon. #whatthetell He still can't put a pair of pants on the correct way by himself but he's incredibly funny and sweet and he's a delight to be around. He seriously might be one of the funniest people I know.

Townes. Oh sweet Townesy. He is almost 8 months is just pure preciousness. Until nighttime hours, that is. And it's not his fault. He's on week 3 of antibiotics, a new one per week in fact, for double ear infection. His first! The meds just haven't been healing him and he's miserable during the night. Which means I'm a zombie during the day and looking quite haggard. But he's so darn adorable with all his sweet babyness that you can't be mad at him. He's sitting and playing with toys independently and happily and it's precious, and of course, he's saying dada like a champ. They all do it first. He adores big brother and sister and Tell can calm him down/entertain him like no other. He relishes their attention and is the nosiest little thing, always craning his neck to see what they're up to.

As for us, we're tired. Really tired. But really happy. Oh, and we celebrated 10 years of marriage in October! Life is really great and we try very hard to not take it all for granted.

I'd love to say I'll be back to catch up on family documentation someday, because well, it'd be nice for Townes to have some memories stored for him. But no promises. So in the meantime, here are the family pics we had taken in November- as you can see a party of 5 group shot was a challenge, Townes was very serious, Tell wasn't feeling it, and Lawter-the perpetual shy guy of the group- was the Rockstar of the shoot. These are my people and I am so very thankful for them.

Can't wait to see what lies ahead in 2020 for us! 

Mother's Day 2019

My second time having a babe just prior to Mother's Day! We came home from the hospital on a Thursday (I may eventually get to his birth and such but again, it's easier to cover small events right now!), and made it to church for the first time as a family of five on Sunday for Mother's Day. 

Our family service is very small, 10-20 people usually, so we didn't feel like it was quite the same as exposing 6 day old fresh babe to a large congregation of people.

We got our first nice family photo, and you can't even see that Tell is covered in donut powder, had fallen and bled through his pants in the knee area, and is holding a rubber snake. Ok, you can see the snake.  Someone saw this photo on social media told me they thought we had Tell on a blue leash. I thanked them for the idea.

The rest of the day was very low key, with a visit from Donna, and a visit (plus the delivery of dinner!) from Granley and Pappy. 

And can't leave out my own mama, who had visited the day or so before I'm sure. 

Kilmarnock Carnival 2019

Again, specific events feel easier to cover than life in general so we'll skip forward to the early August Kilmarnock Volunteer Fireman's Carnival. I spent several late work nights up there doing voluntold type community things : ) just kidding, it's always fun. It was just my first week back to work so it made for some loooooong days, being at work all day then the carnival til 10 pm. 

We did one evening as a family and did rides, games, won tiny junky prizes that immediately broke, and got covered in snow cone stickiness and grass. Oh and I rode the ferris wheel with the kids and almost had an anxiety attack while it was loading up. Lawter of all people was cool as a cucumber so I had to pull it together. hah 

and Townesy's first carnival of course! He and his baby fan to keep him cool had a blast. 

This is from one of my work nights when we hosted the Bingo booth. These are my two bosses and I feel incredibly lucky to have these amazing women leaders in my life, one of whom is moving in a few days and after 8 years with her, I'm going to miss her terribly. Glad to have one last fun memory captured in a pic.