My two most favorite people!

My two most favorite people!
Nauvoo, 2008

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Spooning

I LOVE spooning with Steve!
But... ever since V. joined our family, we don't seem to spoon as often.
Not for lack of trying!
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, we'll spoon on the couch while watching a movie. Then comes V. She jumps onto us, and squishes herself between the two of us.
We'll snuggle up together in bed, spooning. Then, I hear little footsteps coming. And soon, there's little V., climbing into bed with us and sleeping between us.
.sigh.
She joins us in our bed almost every night.
I know you all are thinking," WHAT!?"
Back when we started trying for baby #2, I worked very hard to break her of that habit.
And I did.
For awhile.
Then she slowly started coming back into our room at night.
I now realized that the chance of us having another child is pretty slim.
So I'm not trying to break the habit this time. She falls asleep in her own bed and such. But sometime during the night, she joins us in our bed.
As much as I miss spooning with my hubbie, I know all too soon V. will outgrow wanting to snuggle with us.
All too soon, she'll sleep thru the night in her own bed and I'll go in her room in the middle of the night and kiss her forehead and think,"Where has the time gone? When did my baby grow up and get too old to snuggle with mommy?"
So, I've decided to enjoy these moments before they are gone.
Steve and I will have plenty of time to spoon in the future.....


A picture of V. hogging Steve. She gets all the attention now.....

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

A few things we've been doing....

Washing the car~

Steve has been playing softball~

V. at one of Steve's games~

Steve and his brother Mike went to Washougal, Washington to see some of this~

We have had the start of our apple season~

I had a girls weekend with my sisters and our mom to Salt lake and Park city. It was sooo much fun! I got a bunch of Christmas shopping done and a few items for V. for back to school. I can't wait for next year to do this again! Hopefully more of us will be able to go~

And, that's a quick review of what we've been up to!

Apples, Apples, Apples!

Well, our transparent apple tree out back has been over flowing! So V. and I went out and picked a few of these~

We made a very small batch of applesauce yesterday. And today we made apple pie filling!
My cute little helper! I remember helping my mom can every fall. Only we didn't do apples, just peaches and pears.

I might have stuffed the pan a little too much!

mmmm.... So beautiful!!

We will have to make some more when our other trees are ready!