Random... sort of

Today's blog is a random assortment... (shockingly). See the captions below. If you read this, I promise I'll blog a bunch next week when we are on vacation in Sanibel, Florida (yay).




















Guess who is ready for vacation?














I love this picture. I shot this picture on a very slow shutter speed with Ansley bouncing in and out of the picture. Cool huh? At least I think so.




















What's in her hand?? Any guesses? :)




















Hi dad.

Sunday Picnic

On Sunday, our family took a 2-minute trip to enjoy an adjoining neighborhood's playset, a picnic, and work on our tans. It was good times and great fun. I love the last picture... Molly asked me to catch Ansley, but I decided to take her picture instead. It was a good thing she didn't fall off the slide... very close call.

Dinner Time with Ansley

So tonight, Ansley decided that she was either a tiger or bear and growled each time she shoved her "paw" into the applesauce and then into her mouth. This was very amusing... and the video below only captures her doing this after the 25th time or so. As you can imagine, the video is great until the last 2 seconds, so I apologize for the graphic nature of this content.

Warning - The below video is very entertaining until the last 2 seconds. You will either think this is hilarious, call Child Protective Services, or be grossed out. I'll let you decide! But no worries, no 2 year olds were harmed in the filming of this video.

A cute video... we had to add a 2nd one!

Ansley

Molly took some great pictures of Ansley the other day in the late afternoon. Our dining room is a great place for afternoon pictures, because of the lighting and shadows.

Ansley definitely walks to the beat of her own drum and is her own person. As a parent, it's fun to get to know this little girl full of quirks, talents, and interesting surprises that we continue to learn. God is good, and it's amazes us every day to not only watch our kids grow up, but the children of our friends, neighbors, and family members. It's awesome.

Anyway, I love these pictures. I think they really capture her personality.




















Big smile




















Yup, she's a thumb sucker like her sister.




















We would love to know what goes through her little mind.














I added some text to the picture... it's actually not as "cool looking" as I hoped! Oh well...

Windy Day

We LOVE this warm (and windy) Spring weather. Ansley is finally big enough to ride in the stroller and apparently she also loves to stand in a moving object (see 3rd picture below).

Pray that the weather stays warm! 4 weeks until Spring Break.....................

Ansley's Birthday

[First, the pictures in this blog post are in backwards order... see pictures from down to up.]

Happy Birthday Ansley! We had a great time at your small family birthday party this Sunday... filled with great soup, sandwiches, and cake by Gigi. It's hard to believe you are 1 years old already. Wow.

There is nothing like loading a 1-year old up on as much cake as she can eat at 6:30 at night and then trying to put her to bed an hour later... somebody was really, really, really tired (including mom and dad).

Post party...

Tired, tired, tired...









"Yeah, cake is pretty awesome."











I think this picture is pretty wild. They (Kennedy and Ansley) are BOTH watching the camera and nobody else in this picture is doing so.... what are the chances of that happening?!?










Ready to party














Pre-party




A little pre-party video. Notice how clean the house is?

Craziness