Thankful: Day #20-25...Oops!

Ooopsies!  I have slacked on my 30 Day of Thanks updates these last 5 days :-/  Sorry, y'all!  Life's just been too fun for me to sit on the computer too much, I guess! ;-P

So, 5 days squeezed into one post!!!  Lots and lots to be thankful for.  Awesome yoga classes, snuggly snow days, relaxing weekends, yummy foods (especially pizza and breakfast burritos!), morning dates to see MUCH anticipated movies, good sleeps, funny babies, sweet husbands, goofy dogs, AND only one more day until my parents get here to celebrate the holiday!  Phew!  Lots of thanks to give this last five days.  Here are some pics snapped along the way:

Goofy Dog

Yummy Beers

Funny Babies

Snuck our breakfast burritos in with us to see Catching Fire!!

A delicious Josh creation: Breakfast Empanadas

Sweet Snuggles, Sweet Husbands, Sweet Sleeps

Thankful: Day #20

Thankful for awesome talks with my husband. 

We are SO busy these days, Josh especially.  Juggling work, school, babies, applications, house stuff, health stuff, dog stuff...it's a lot!  We've been so focused, heads down, on getting this semester done.  But now Josh is starting to apply for OT school, so we've been actually starting to look up and forward again with what's coming up next.  Tonight, we started discussing some future scenarios and what the heck we were going to do about everything.  I shared with Josh this awesome article that I had ready earlier today, and it lead to an awesome conversation.  Read it, it's good!  So important to stop and connect even (and especially!) in the midst of all the chaos of our daily life!

I love you, Josh, and I am ever thankful for the wonderful life that we have created together.  You are the best.  Thank God it is YOU that will walk this journey of life with me.  So positive.  So kind.  Such a good heart.  I am blessed to have you next to me.

Thankful: Day #19

Awww, thankful for my mornings with Harper.  

Our morning ritual of 'nuggling' and reading books in bed.  Not the best pic...but I wanted to try and capture this sweet moment!  I love when she 'reads' me Brown Bear, Brown Bear and her Fairyland books--her two current favorites.  These are such precious moments together, and I cherish them.  

Thankful: Day #18

18 Months on the 18th!  That's gotta be some kind of good omen ;-D  Yes, today I am thankful for my amazing, goofy, giggly, talkative, adorable 18 month old daughter.  Just saying that gets me a little tear-eyed.  18 months...

She loves exploring, especially outside.  She loves the water.  She is brave like her daddy, and enjoys a good scare like him, too.  She is my little rabbit who loves tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots.  But, she also loves a bowl of oatmeal every morning and never passes up a piece of bacon.  She loves when we read to her.  Funny, her favorite book right now was MY favorite book as a toddler-this little book called "Fairyland."  She likes to sing and even 'knows' a couple of songs that she sings frequently.  Her current favorite is 'jingle bells' where she just sings 'jingle bells' over and over again.  She also likes to pretend to put mommy to sleep and will sing me 'rock-a-by-baby.'  My heart melts.  She loves her giant doggies, but is completely no nonsense when dealing with them.  She tells her giant mutts to 'back-up!' and 'no kisses!' when they're tooooo lovable.  She loves the zoo.  She talks about it everyday.  Her favorite animals right now are the 'clocodile' and the 'ninocerous.'  She is a family girl and is most happy when her mommy AND daddy are both at home.  And she knows where we go when we're not home.  She frequently will tell us 'mommy loga (yoga), daddy work.'  She has suddenly become much more affectionate, and likes to ask for kisses and hugs.  Every morning when she wakes up, she asks to 'nuggle' in our bed.  She amazes me everyday.  Makes me laugh everyday.  She makes me so proud, and Josh and I are two beaming parents!  Harper, I could not be more delighted to call you my daughter!  Happy 18 month birthday!  I am SO THANKFUL that you are YOU!

Thankful: Day #17

YOU GUYS.  I am beyond thrilled with our family photos which were taken by LizAnne Photography.  Holy Moly, they are wonderful!  Harper was a little toot the whole time.  I mean, really pissed that we were even trying to take her picture.  But you cannot even tell in these photos that the wonderful and talented, Beth, captured!  They are just really, really sweet.  And, this has BY FAR been my favorite age with Harper.  ((In fact, I am even hesitant to say it for fear I will jinx her...but, for the last month Harper has slept through the night...like 12 hours straight.  I am a new woman, people!  Josh and I were rarely sleeping more than 4 hours at a time for about 16 month straight.  I mean, we'd have a good week here and there...but, after a month of this, I am REBORN!))  So, I feel extra grateful to have this wonderful stage in Harper's life to forever remember in photo-form!  Here are a few of our favorite shots:

Thankful: Day #16

Thankful for a day full of family time!  Check out this silliness that went down today:

Trying to stuff daddy in the cabinet... ;-D

Peek-a-Boo!

Hide and Seek-ish...where could she be?!

I always love a day of hanging out with Josh, Harper, and our doggies!  The best in the world!

Thankful: Day #15

You know what is the best?  Getting a full night's rest, and then waking up before everyone else in the house, and quietly enjoying a cup of coffee.  Awwww.   Yes, that happened today, and I was in heaven.  Nothing like enjoying a little quiet-time while my loved ones snooze nearby!  Also, enjoying a cup of coffee is one of my favorite things in the world.  Enjoying it just silently by myself, makes it even better.  It really is the little things...

Thankful: Day #14

So, I'm making dinner on Thursday night and I realize it's a little too quiet...where is Harper and what the heck is she doing?...so I go to look for her.  This is where I find her:

Aaaackkk!  How sweeeeeet?!  Thankfully, I had my phone in my pocket, so I was able to capture this precious moment.  I couldn't even believe it.  Thankful for adorable little surprises like this that melt my heart.

Thankful: Day #13

Thankful for an unexpected lunch date with Josh today!  Harper loves to see Josh anytime, but especially when it is a surprise when he is usually at work.  She was pretty much beside herself through our whole lunch.  ((Which was delicious by the way!  Can't go wrong with Duran's!  Thankful for that amazeballs red chile.))

Harper's New Trick: Giving 'Mo Kisses' (Aka Eskimo Kisses)

Also thankful for a little morning stroll out to feed the fish at the Botanical Gardens.  I'm tellin' ya-the Albuquerque BioPark is where it's at with a toddler!  At least for Harper and me.  We go to the Aquarium, Botanical Gardens, and Zoo more than once per week.  So much to do, so much to learn, so much entertainment.

She ate half of the bread herself.  Silly girl!

Okay, some for the fish, too ;-D

And now babe is sleeping, and hubby is home studying.  All is well.  One more thing, thankful for these sweet sweet sweet wispy little blonde curls.  Sigh.

Thankful: Day #12

Tuesdays...I said it last week...they are so long!  So, every Tuesday, what can I say?!  I am glad when the long day of entertaining our toddler is done.  Even so, yesterday was a great day.  We got some errands and projects completed, went for a visit to Great Grandma's, and played in the backyard in the evening.

Even on a long-ass-day, life is grand!

Thankful: Day #11

November 11th.  If you remember my post from this day last year, you'll recall that November 11th holds a special/silly place in my heart.  Yep, every year my best friend Alyce and I acknowledge that this is Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday.  This is how my day began:

Oh yea!  A text bright and early at 7:19 AM to commemorate this.  It just makes me smile every year, what can I say!  I am so blessed to have a weirdo best friend, that I have known for SO long, that we can do really bizarre stuff like this, and get great pleasure out of it :-D

Next, our day continued to be wonderful because Josh was off work today!!!  YAY!  Loved this because he had been working all weekend.  We spent the day catching up on life, which we both love. Cleaning, cooking, laundry, yard work.  May sound boring...but feels so good to have everything in order to begin each week!  

  Josh and Harper got some quality daddy/daughter time in as well with a fun hike just the two of them.  

A very blessed day indeed.  Ready to conquer the rest of this short week!