Three Months!

Last week our sweet girl turned three months.

One of my favorite things is watching her smile. Seriously when she gives us her big, wide mouth smile, I almost melt into a puddle. She also likes to have "conversations" and will just coo all the way through it. I remember doing this with Finn...those "conversations" are some of the best.

She's also a big girl. (well big from our experience with Finn as he was just a lil thing) Are we slightly obsessed with her rolls on her thighs? Mm hmm. Totally. She can wear 3-6 month clothes (even when she was just 2 months old) and even fits into some 6 month clothing.

The kids are both still at home as we were able to work out our work schedules for Rob to be home with them while I'm at work. We are very grateful.

Finn even joined in for some of the pics. Well, like two.

He then was told he couldn't go outside to which he stormed back in the house.

I'd like to think that Rob and I do pretty well holding our laughs in, but sometimes this kid will do some ridiculously funny things while throwing a little fit. We do a lot of laughing inside our heads and then typically reenact the fit after Finn's gone to bed.

Thankful for these two little ones. And this little 3 month old girl just made my heart grow more than I could imagine.

Oh and this little tongue...

Fall Family Photos 2015

It happened.

And without tears.

We ventured all the way out to our backyard and snagged a family pic.

Hooray!

I've been wanting to take these for about a month now but a huge part of the hold up was that our little boy kept getting boo-boos on his face. He hit his mouth on a dresser the day before Thanksgiving and on the same day hit his head on the corner of our bed frame while leaning down to pick up a toy. Poor buddy. He still has a slight boo-boo under his nose from being sick, but hey, this will do. :))

Oh and can we talk about how handsome Rob is? Mm hmm, I agree.

"Here Finn, hold the camera remote while mommy and daddy put baby Skye on your shoulders!" I told Rob we should recreate this photo one day...LOL...

The boy was then graciously dismissed as he was eager to play with the bubbles and acorns and sticks.

Love this girl so much.

And just as a random side note...I am chopping all of this hair off. Well not all, but it's going above my shoulders. It's just so long and getting caught in everything. I've been pushing back my hair appointment as the boys tend to require it more often. So I'm required to go tomorrow because my husband knows that I've been wanting/needing it. So maybe afterward we'll do a "Fall Family Photo Part 2 - Lisa's new hair".

Hah, probably not.

So thankful for this little family of mine.

Hoping you all are well and enjoying the season no matter what season you may be in. I'm reminded once again of the hope this season brings. The hope we need for this broken world. God's grace is amazing.

Love to you all!

Thanksgiving Weekend

My favorite weekend arrived. 

We woke up early on Thursday and got dressed and headed to Nana's house to watch the parade and eat breakfast. I hoped Finn would find the parade interesting because I love watching it, lol, but instead he preferred to throw sticks out front on the steps. At least the weather was beautiful and breezy!

Baby girl enjoyed herself as well. I can't believe she turns three months in a few days. Seriously, time flies quicker with the second born. Soaking up her sweetness.

The next day is typically the day we go get our tree. I had a different idea for us this time to go out to a Christmas tree farm and cut down our own.

They had a little "train" that we were excited for Finn to get on.

These next pictures melt my heart capturing Finn's sweet smile. Skye was sleeping, but we managed to get her in a few of these shots. :))

That smile...

Oh and did I mention that we ended up leaving without a tree? Haha, ah the fun of making memories. The trees that you could cut down were just the douglas fir ones and I'm a fraser fir kinda gal. They had some frasers pre-cut, but I'm also a frugal gal. And I knew that the prices were much cheaper at Lowes. So we ended up going there. But hey, a train ride and some animal watching was pretty nifty.

The next day, I'm pretty sure we were all recovering from a long day out. Lots of getting in and out of car seats and we were just happy to be home. All my three loves sleeping.

After daddy headed to work, I started stringing the lights on our tree while Skye watched and Finn sorted through his precious bucket of cars. :))

We took some annual family photos outside with my tripod today. It was eventful, but maybe we managed to get a good one. Hoping you all are well and enjoying this beautiful season!

Two Months!

This beautiful girl turned two months last Monday...

She is almost 4lbs heavier than her birth weight and a few inches longer (I honestly can't remember the number they told me, lol, mama brain is very real).

She's been such an easy baby. Sleeps well, eats well, has a pretty happy disposition. For the first few months with Finn he was just so uncomfortable. We didn't know any different, so we've enjoyed this change of pace while having a very active almost three year old. :))

I attempted two times to get her monthly pic, hence the different onesie below. Here's daddy trying to get a smile out of the girl. She's such a smiley little one but only when we're up close and talking/cooing with her...

It's been such a joy watching her grow and watching her big brother just l-o-v-e on her. It's absolutely precious. We love you sweet girl and can't imagine life without you.

Halloween 2015

Our little cuties...

Dad: Hey Finn, what's your sister dressed up as?
Finn: *Points* A cwoud!

Here's a better shot of our girl's costume...

She even eventually started to fall asleep in this thing, lol. 

To make the cloud, I just sewed some tulle around a white onesie, then hung the thing outside while I used spray adhesive to stick batting onto the tulle. For the pants I just created a raindrop template out of cardboard and painted little raindrops on the front and back.

These lips of Finn's...he was just being silly here, but he typically likes to bring them out when the rebellion is coming on...oh good ol' rebellion. :))

My favorite part of the truck are the lights that you can't see too well. We had a spare string of battery operated lights (that I bought for his tent) and I just kept them in their box and wrapped them in red paper, they glow red in the dark. He was a fan and had fun watching the whole thing come together piece by piece. After each of his naps, he'd always gasp to see my new progress. Seeing his proud smile is so worth it.

Here's the instagram pic I took of Skye in her lil costume, she just melts my heart. Pure sweetness this girl is.

I had been talking about going to Aunt Jen and Uncle Greg's house for Halloween with Finn and he's been super excited. It's definitely that age where these holidays are getting extra fun. Here he is taking an m&m break in the evening...

But in all reality, after house THREE, this is what he truly preferred! Hah! One thing I've learned from parenting...roll with it!!!

In other news, our house repairs (our master bedroom and Skye's room) are finally completed so we are in the process of moving back into those rooms. After wanting to decorate my baby girl's room for so long, I'm finally able to start. It'll be a lil slow, but things will start coming together soon. Will take pics and share. Also need to get on taking those fall family photos. If only it felt even slightly like fall in this sweaty place called Florida...

Happy November!

Pumkin Patchin' It

Besides buying my yearly cinnamon broom and pulling out a few decorative pumpkins, we hadn't done much fall stuff. I was kinda wanting to wait to visit a pumpkin patch when it was a cool day, but alas Florida falls are pretty hot. So we've been aching to get out of our crazy house (still under repair from mold removal) so we headed to our local pumpkin patch. The pumpkins aren't the cheapest, but the little patch is just too adorable. 

We've driven by the patch a few times on the way to my mom's house and Finn's been ready to pay it a visit.

This boy...he loves to hug things to make me go "awww"...

Skye was ecstatic. Love our beautiful baby girl.

This big ol' pumpkin is the lucky one that came home with us.

Such a big boy...

And can't leave this last pic out. Now that we have two littles the unloading of the car is a little more interesting. First Finn gets out and I have him stay within sight or hold my hand or something. As we got Skye out this time, he wrapped his little hands around my leg.

I was telling Rob the other night that it can be easy to forget in the day to day that these little ones won't stay little forever. Soaking up these sweet moments together, and I'm sure that one day we'll miss being exhausted, covered in food particles, and making memories. 

Excited to get to working on their costumes for this year! 

One Month!

Our little sweetness turned one month yesterday.

She's been an absolute joy and suuuuuch an easy baby. The nights have been great, just mostly waking up to nurse and she is just adapting to the world so easily. Some of her favorites are eating, watching big brother play with cars or rocks, sleeping (we should have a "sleepyskye" hashtag by now, girl loves to sleep), eating some more, cuddling on the bed with mama, baths, and sleeping some more.

We just love her little expressive toes...

It's like she's pointing them in this pic below...

I always saw myself having boys so it's been just amazing the feelings that came over me with having this baby girl. I was the mom who was kinda scared of having a girl. Well, we know girls can be scary with our emotions and teenage years (yeah, so I skipped school for 19 days in 9th grade, what's the big deal?!) lol, but truly I'm excited for now and the years to come with her. Hoping to be the best mom I can be for her, not perfect, but hey maybe she'll want to craft or decorate with me? Finn can join too if he'd put down his excavators for a second. :))

Happy one month, sweetness!!!