Musical Maysie

If it's got a tune this girl can learn it:)

Happy Spring!

Sorry Mommy, I can only pretend to be a propper little girl for a couple minutes at a time:)

I love having a GIRL! Not quite sure what I'm going to do if the next one is a BOY!

Jukes Family Easter

And she's off!

Silly kids

Slightly less silly kids:)

Who's pink boots are those?

Oh, of course, Miss Maysie. Thanks for the lift daddy.

Had a wonderful family gathering on Saturday with good food and fun times.

Daffodil Hill

Cousins!

The Whole Gang

My Little Farm Girl

Sweet Little Abbie

This is Hannah the horse. Maysie would have stood here ALL day!

I think this picture captures the essence of childhood. It makes me smile:)

Poor little Abbie was coughing up a storm by the time we left. But allergies aside I think she had a grand time smelling all the pretty flowers.

Happy Scrunchie Face:)

We had a great time with Danielle and the kids at Daffodil Hill last week. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day or sweeter kids to hang out with all day.

Fairy Princess

Today was a fairy princess sort of day! Warm sunshine, green grass, chirping birds, and flowers. I took the opportunity to snap some pictures of our little fairy. Our fig tree has the perfect little crook in it's lower branch for sitting on:) You can see Maysie's irritation with me in the second picture for taking too long, the branch was less than cushy. I should have thought to take her shoes off for those pics too. And I love the last one of her "sniffy face" This is how Miss Maysie smells flowers, with her lips puckered up and her nose scrunched usually from several feet away. Oh, and lately she coughs after sniffing them and says they smell yucky. She keeps us laughing:)

Rare Opportunity

It is not very often I get to take pictures of our sweet little girl sleeping these days. We had a very long and busy day last Sunday and when we finally got home Maysie was crashed in her carseat. She usually wakes up when we bring her in but not this time!

Sweet Organization

This is the super awesome pantry that Mark built me. This used to be a portion of the hallway that went from the kitchen to the living room but we didn't need the hallway after we knocked the wall down between the two rooms:) I have tons of shelving, even a little spice shelf, a countertop to match the kitchen and a mini freezer. We still need to put the flooring down; we had extra from the rest of the house and it's going to look super snazzy! I'm so glad my husband is handy and creative!

Big Girl Room

I just recently got up the courage to move Maysie up to a toddler bed. I spent a couple days painting her new big girl furniture a pale sage green to match the kitchen that Uncle James and Auntie Kristie made her for Christmas. The vanity is a beautiful piece that some friends from church gave us when they moved into a smaller home. It turned out so cute! Maysie loves to stand in front of it and dance, I knew she would:) After a few days of napping in her big girl bed and sleeping in her crib at night we switched her over all the way and moved the crib and changing table into the nursery to wait for baby number two. She is really pretty good at staying in her bed and not playing with her toys. Although she still rolls out of it almost every night, usually more than once:) Without waking up I might add. She doesn't seem to mind sleeping on the carpet much. It's so fun to have her room all put together.

We LIVED!!...just barely

On April 2nd Mark and I joined several of his family members in a half marathon in San Francisco. For those of you who are not marathon savvy, that's 13.1 miles! The course was along the ridge tops around a portion of the bay called the Marine Headlands. It was absolutely breath-taking and incredibly brutal for those of us who had never done this before, (which was most of us!) We both ended up running way more of it than we had anticipated which was awesome. Lots of steep terrain and muddy bogs, beautiful wildflowers and views that couldn't be beat. We finished in 3 hours and 20 minutes. Mark bounced back much quicker than I; it was a few days before I could walk without limping. But we think we may do it again next year:)

A Girl and Her Cat

We are very thankful that Danner is a sweet cat because Maysie bothers him from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to bed. She is constantly seeking him out and giving him hugs and kisses. I haven't caught it on camera yet but she puts the poor cat in a sort of head lock/choke hold to give him a kiss right on the nose. He is very tolerant of her excessive love for him. Thank you Danner for not slashing our beautiful daughters face...even if sometimes she may deserve it:)