mali's turn

a while back i did a post about b giving daddy a haircut. well, now it's mali's turn and she loved it. it was hilarious - she was SO wet!

mali was all done. "she won't hold still" were exactly braidyn's words...

notice anything different?

exhausted...

the store

as many of you may or may not know, chris has been working diligently for the past 9 months or so to open up a store in cottonwood mall. he and a buddy of his purchased a pro image franchise earlier this year and are looking to finally open the temporary store at the end of this month. the permanent location will be demolitioned (is that a word?) on monday and they will continue the build-out over the next couple of months and hope to open the permanent location sometime in november. we just wanted to thank all of you who have been praying for chris and our family through this difficult journey. your prayers are totally appreciated and we are truly thankful for your support and friendship. i wanted to update you on some pictures that we've taken of the temporary location. these are some before and after pictures. after i took these pictures, they hung the sign out front and they moved some of the fixtures in (hallelujah they are out of our garage!). they will be processing all of the merchandise on monday. they are hoping to open the store next friday if they have enough merchandise to fill the store. there are over 50 boxes in our hallway so you'd think that would be enough, but there are several more boxes on their way! please continue to pray for the store and that God would continue to help us through this time. and, if you get a chance to come out and see the store in the next few weeks, that would be awesome!!

speaking of painting

we finally painted the playroom and i think it look so fun! we had a cute little rug in there and decided to paint the walls accordingly. it was definitely a project and after 3 days of painting it was finally completed. we're glad to be done and the girls are glad to have their playroom back! we still need to hang the chalkboard, mirror, pictures, and posters, but for now, it is completed!

big hat, big boy...chris turns 30!!

yes, i know, this was a while ago and i'm just now getting around to posting it, but chris turned 30 last month and i had to share the pictures! chris wanted to go to texas roadhouse and he knows good and well that they make you saddle up when they sing to you. his first words were "please don't make me get on the saddle" and being the amazing wife that i am, made him get on the saddle. now, the cowboy hat was a new thing, we were all surprised by that, but you can't be humiliated enough on your birthday by just sitting on a saddle, you have to put a ginormous hat on your head as well. i lov you baby, happy birthday!

aunt christy has her eyes open!

my sweet sister always blinks in pictures but was perfect in this one! we love you aunt christy!!

mali's friends

every week in the nursery at our church mali gets to hang out with one of her favorite people, mr. tim. and she will only share his lap with one other person, ava. if anyone else tries to climb in, she wants no part of it. she would prefer to have the lap all to herself, but if she has to share, only ava is allowed. on football day, they were all cuddling together and both girls had their cowboys gear on, it was super cute! mr. tim and ava, thanks for being mali's friends!

little climber

one thing i know is this girl loves to climb. it's actually become part of our night-time routine. every night we get mali's pj's on and she heads straight for the time-out chair...that is obviously way too cute and fun to be a time-out chair and is never used for that purpose, for that reason! anyway, she goes up and down, up and down, then gets on b's bed and crawls over to the chair, then down again...and on and on and on until lights out. oh, and if she falls and bangs her head on something, don't even think about helping her up or consoling her because she'll just scream at you until you let her down so she can continue climbing - it's actually pretty amusing and i need to get it on video.

my first dress-up

i'm not sure if she was "cinderbell" or "cinderbeauty" but she was definitely a princess!

braidyn's first day of school

this was obviously back in august but the pictures were taken on chris' phone so i didn't have them on my computer in order to make a post. i feel like the worst mom, i should've taken like 20 pictures before she even left the house, but school mornings are a little crazy in this household and i thought it would be more important to get her out the door and to the first day of school on time! i think we have the hang of it now, but it took us a while to get a system down!

western day at school

at b's school they have to wear uniforms but on this special day, they could choose to wear jeans, boots, and a western shirt and we took full advantage! thanks aunt amy for letting us borrow the super cute hat!

making a mess

apparently i can't rely on b to be a responsible babysitter yet - what was i thinking letting big sis watch little sis why i tried to shower?? this is what i walked around the corner to find, mali jean spreading popcorn kernels all over the floor...at least she wasn't trying to eat them, which is a miracle!

A VERY OBSERVANT BRAIDYN

Hey guys it's Chris - So Braidyn and I were on our way to school today listening to KLOVE as normal, when a song we liked came on. I don't remember the name of the song but it goes like this "Take this world from me, I don't need it anymore. I am finally free, my heart is spoken for....." So we listened to the whole song and then Braidyn says "That's not very nice" I said "What" and she said "If they take that away from him, he'll just fall into space!"

shaky-shake

new style??

i'm assuming her shirt was in the way because she was crawling down the hall and next thing i know, she's throwing a fit, trying to rip off her clothes and ended up like this - which, of course, prompted me to get out the camera.

now that she has the smile thing down...

i don't know why but my close up pictures never come out right - that totally does not look like her - but it's a super cute smile!!

just showing off...

she finally gets it!

b is our super photogenic daughter who poses every time she sees a camera. mali was quite the opposite - she would "blank face" it whenever i got the camera out - until today!! i think she finally gets it!!

this is the worst shot ever by the way, but you can see the smile, that's what's important!