Anna Riley is Here!

We had to make a last minute visit to Alabama this weekend.....so, of course, we stopped into DCH to meet Ms. Anna Riley!

Congratulations Crystal and Riley. She is beautiful! Job well done!

Love It!

Strike a pose!

Did my mom do a great job or what? I love having a creative mom who can teach me all these awesome crafts to make cute things for my girl! Unfortunately, I have not gotten past the 3rd row! Ha! This hat is for 6-9 months, so it doesn't fit her quite yet....But I love it!

The one I am making is going to be crimson with a black and white flower....ROLL TIDE! Just in time for football season....hopefully I will get it done before then...Ha!

Many Prayers!

My very, very good friend, Crystal, is at the hospital as I type....well not really because I am scheduling this....but work with me. Crystal is getting induced today to have her baby girl, Anna Riley, today!!!! Please keep her, her husband Riley, and her baby in your prayers. Please also pray for her doctor and nurses and a healthy delivery!

I cannot wait to meet this little one and have our babies grow together. I just get so excited thinking about them in their Alabama cheerleading outfits on Gamedays and in adorable bows and dresses playing! Love her already!

Daddy's Little Sunshine

This is a picture of Zach on the night I told him we were expecting a beautiful little baby to our family. We were so excited....I remember it so well...it is one of my favorite memories!

And here is our baby girl in the onsie! And she is definitely Daddy's Little Sunshine!

And Zach is wearing the same shirt....not planned....it made me laugh! I promise he has more than one shirt.

Zach has been great with Zoe Jane....he loves her so much! I am going to be so sad when busy season starts up and he won't get to see her as much. What is great is he will still get to come home for lunch everyday!

I just love these moments....you know the ones that just melt your heart!And can I please pinch those cheeks....you know you want to, too!

Where's Your Happy Place?

I have always been one who needs "me time".....hence #16 on my 101 in 1001! I lived by myself for two years in college (kind of)....well I had a place of my own and I LOVED IT! I loved that if I wanted to I could lay in bed with my ice cream watching Grey's Anatomy Reruns ALL DAY and no one would ask, "What is wrong," ask if I was feeling ok....no one there to remind me that I hadn't moved in 10 hours. I just loved the seclusion and the peace. Since I have been married, "me time" has definitely decreased.....I have taken a bubble bath once....maybe. But now that I have a baby, too....."me time" is that much more necessary!

And I have found my "happy place"...my "go to place"....my "get away in order to stay sane place."

As most of you know....I love to blog. It is such an outlet for me and I enjoy it so much. I enjoy blogging. I enjoy reading blogs. I enjoy relating with other woman and other woman relating with me. It is like there is a whole world out there to learn from and blogging is a small step in learning. And since we don't have to internet at home, I had to find somewhere to go to blog and catch up with blogs and to feel connected.....you all understand!

There is a small coffee shop, Brew Awakenings, around the corner from my house. It is so chill and calm and quiet. A place to relax and think and listen to really nice music. I love it....it is my happy place! It re-energizes me and recharges my battery so I can get back to Zoe Jane and Zach and be the best mother and wife I can be. Nothing is wrong with that and I feel that too many woman don't take "me time" and should.

Find your happy place, quick.....it will change your life!

In Honor of the Month of LoVe!

1 Corinthians
Chapter 13

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have LOVE, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have LOVE, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have LOVE, I gain nothing.

LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind. It is not jealous, LOVE is not pompous, it is not inflated,

it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

LOVE never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

So faith, hope, LOVE remain, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.