Easter 2013

Just looked at my camera card to get some pictures from last night and realized what all I had missed!

Taking it back a few months...some snapshots from Easter :)

We Are Seeing BLUE!!!

Carsyn was super excited to reveal that she is having a little brother!!!! So excited in fact that she could hardly get the balloons out of the bag :)

C and all of her grandparents

Baby Boy wasn't shy!

Of course, we had to do a little shopping...we each picked out a couple of little outfits for him. 

 We are so excited to meet our sweet boy! 

Carsyn Has Big News!!!!

It's Summertime! Time for Swimming!

We started the summer out right with some swimming lessons from our favorite, Mrs. Greta! The first day of lessons, I was traveling back from Orlando so Pop Pop and Ashley got her to lessons. Carsyn was evidently a little nervous. Well, actually, Ashley just didn't want to make her mad so Carsyn got her way and didn't do much more than jump off the diving board :) Right...she wouldn't swim but she wanted to jump off the diving board. Makes perfect sense, right? I took her the next day and threw her out in the water when it was her turn. She started smiling and we were all good from there...even on the other day that Ashley took her :)

The child is fearless. On Friday, when she had gotten REALLY comfortable, I nearly had a heart attack several times when she sailed off the side in the deep end when it wasn't her turn and nobody was watching her (no floaties here). With swimming lessons plus Nannie and Papa's pool every day, she's turned into a little fish! She was almost swimming by herself last year and she just seemed to pick up right where she left off!

Carsyn & Mrs. Greta!

Ready early on Saturdays for our pool days!

Popsicle and ice creams breaks are required ;)

Nothing more fun than a day at the pool with my girl!

Here are some videos of her from swimming lessons and some from more recently :) Just like last year, she swims just like her Uncle Bobo...underwater, eyes wide open and smiling :)

Here is the most fun! She decided just the other day that she would dive like Gracie is learning to do! Had NO idea that she was actually going to do it!!!!

Practicing!

I totally realize that people are probably all like "she's gonna make her daughter do gymnastics" and all that stuff, but I'm so far from that that it's not even funny. I've said since she was born that if she liked it, great and if she didn't, she would be able to do whatever it is that she loves! That being said...girl's got talent. She fearless and strong and flexible and LOVES to flip and swing and walk on the beam. That might change anytime, but for now, she loves it and I will nourish her love for the sport as long as she has it.

Santa brought her a set of jr bars that will grow with her for years and a little practice beam. I took the week of Christmas off and we spent lots of time upstairs "singing on da bars." After a couple of days of practice, she had mastered the second part of her "skin the cat." She been able to do the first part (going through her arms) for months, but she's got the whole thing now!

Story Time!

It's amazing how little minds can take in and remember so much! I've always been amazed (as all parents are) at Carsyn's ability to remember things that I wouldn't expect her to and to tell me stories that she has learned and such. She finally started going into Aunt Debbie's "super cool" Sunday school class three weeks ago. I don't know why she wouldn't before, but she just wouldn't. Now, it's the best thing ever. That Sunday night, she started telling me about "Dabid and the biiiig diant." After finishing the story, she looked at me and said, "but Daddy is bigger now." :)

The next morning, mama gets her an ear full too!

How's that for story time?!?!

Christmas 2012

So, this terrible thing happened. It went something like this...I brought my camera card to work to get a couple of pictures off for Vicki. I got it out and realized that I didn't have my card reader. No biggie. I put the card back in the quart-size ziploc bag and laid it on my desk...I would bring my reader the next day and do it then. I did bring the card reader the next day...and I have yet to find my camera card. Yep. Christmas was on it and I hadn't gotten it off yet. I'm still hopeful and optimistic that it's going to show up somewhere because I know I didn't throw it away...not in a big ziploc bag off of a desk that I have to sort through paper by paper to determine what needs shredding or not...and nobody else could have. I try to just not think about it much.

Fortunately, I had just a few pictures on my iPhone from Christmas and I videoed Carsyn getting her gift from Santa on my phone and that makes it all a little better.

Decorating ZiZi's tree - check!

I should have checked the height limit before putting this one in my rotating base...

Going to see Santa!

Success! Yay!

:'(

Taking her Daddy for a ride.

Sweet cousins!

I sure wish I could remember the story behind this picture!

Christmas PJ's compliments of ZiZi!

Carsyn was very insistent that Santa needed a sippy cup for his milk.

Meet Ruffer! ZiZi's Christmas gift from us all!

Harper and Levi ;)

Look what Santa brought!

Thanks ZiZi & Pop Pop! 

And that's it...that's all I had on my phone :( I sure hope my camera card shows up. It's the memories that count in the end...I totally realize that. But, a picture sure is a good way to look back and bring those memories to life.

We had such a blessed Christmas. Seems like it was yesterday and 3 months have already gone by!