Long Time, No Blog

I have so many pictures on my camera to post... sorry it's been so long! This past Saturday my friend Jamie threw a baby shower for me with my closest friends. I was totally surprised... I thought we were going to the beach and were swinging by the Finn's for Jake to look at something, it was so perfect! She had it set up as a pretty tea party and we had the most wonderful brunch... she hates to bake and the fact that she baked for me spoke volumes of this girl's love! There were really fun games and everyone wrote me the best encouragment notes... all of which made me cry and are totally keepers! They took time to pray for me and they even gave me presents for Aubrey... and some matching dresses for Mackenzie too!

See... here is proof that Jamie loves me... she's wearing oven mitts!

We have this same picture when Liv was still in her belly!

The baby on the left is Kenny and Naomi's Ava and the baby on the right is Jamie and Alan's Liv... both going to be dear friends to Aubrey =)

Lately we've had several nice weather days in a row and Mackenzie has LOVED playing outside on our porch. She's obsessed with picking up the rocks from our driveway, putting them in buckets, and carrying them around. When we got to the park on Sat. she was more excited about the gravel in the parking lot than the swings and the slide!!

I'm so grateful Jake could come to the park with us on Sat (this was after my wonderful shower!) and keep up with Mackenzie!

I love her smile here!


I don't have play kitchen things for her yet (yard sales baby!), so she's playing with our plastic dishes and margarita glasses... nice, huh?

The other day she saw me put water in the pitcher to water the flowers on our steps and then the next day she went and got the pitcher all on her own and started putting "juice" (as all liquid is known in this house right now) on the flowers... so cute!

There she is downing her pitcher of margaritas! You can see the area she has to play though... it's not much at all, but she LOVES it!



Obviously we're getting very close to being the "Four Happy Moons"... (although this Mama Moon is not a very happy Moon right now... emotional and crampy are the only words to describe me!) so I've got to start a new blog... I'll keep you posted on what happens with that!