Tease of Spring

We are running full force towards warm weather! (we hope!)

We had the best time playing outside last week at the Gardens!

What fun day with lots of tickles from Daddy!






Hurry up warm weather. Please return and say you're here to stay!

My Groundhog

I hope this doesn't mean 6 more weeks of winter, but my little one found her shadow for the first time today. It was so cute to see that little mind work, her cute little shadow caught her eye and she began to dance with it! I'm so blessed I get to see all these sweet little moments in her life.

Fun in a Box

How to entertain a busy toddler while the majority of her toys are being packed up? Easy, put her in a box and let her play with packing supplies.

When that wears off, put the dog in a box next to her.

Poor Ginger.

No Animals were harmed in the making of this post.

Ketchup...A mistake?

In a moment of weakness today I introduced ketchup at lunch. I held out for 20 months, but now she's offically addicted. She said "moe, moe?" atleast 25 times after she was finished dipping her chicken. I was frantically loading the dishwasher while she inhaled ate her lunch and turned around to see the Joker from Batman this ketchup-stained grinning girl!


And yes, we're still in our PJs at lunch time.

Miss me?

Its been forever it seems since I've last posted. Please forgive me, life just gets crazy sometimes, doesn't it? We've had an awesome, busy and blessing-filled start to 2010. Over my laptop are many empty cardboard boxes to be filled that are looking at me (yes I said boxes, because we are moving!) So, I need to get to packing, T minus 7 days until closing #1, but I figured if things weren't slowing down soon I'd go ahead and post before its summer!

We had been praying about God's timing to put our house back on the market, and in January we felt His peace to move forward with it. In His delightful sense of humor and perfecting timing, He sold our house for us the day BEFORE it was listed. A friend of a friend came to see it one day at lunch and bought it that night. Meanwhile we had started praying for the next house and were prepared to wait as long as it took to find the perfect house, and again God totally came through. Our perfect house dropped into our price range the day we got the contract on our house and it all went very fast! We have laughed at the difference between our timing and God's timing as it felt like we would never sell this house this summer and we finally surrendered it and it was so easy. How encouraging that God was just holding our next house for us, and just waiting to bless us in His time.

So, needless to say its been crazy busy packing with a 19 month old who loves to pull things out of boxes and Rainer has been busy traveling with work. Ann Edwards is as precious and busy as ever. She is so funny talking and developing her little personality more and more these days. I will try to do better not waiting so long to post next time...Also, for all you blog stalkers come on out and let me know if you missed me, maybe it'll even inspire an other post soon, you know like within the month...

Here are some recent pictures of what we've been up to!

Her new favorite food is corn on the cob, its hilarious how aggressively she eats it!


Can you tell she loves it?


Rainer and I ran a 5K last weekend to celebrate the full restoration of his heart!


We've had some chilly days lately, but Bitty loves to play outside regardless, here we are bundled up!



And swinging is always a favorite around here, boy will we miss this backyard!