happy birthday perry lucille!

happiest birthday to our sweet, precious perry lucille!

today is your first birthday, baby girl. daddy and i love you so much. you have turned our world upside down in the best of ways.

 

after a tough, exteremly long day, you {very stubbornly} entered the world at 4:49 pm at

7.1 lbs and 19 inches with a crazy amount of dark brown hair! 

now you're a little blondie!

 

your are happy, funny, sweet, and so smart! you have taken your first steps, already said your first words (dog, da-da, and no) and love to be tickled. you love your baby doll and know how to give her her paci. you love other babies and children and you light up when people are talking to you. you love meal time, too :)

you have the best disposition - you are such a joy to be around.

we can not wait to celebrate you!

love you little girl and happy 1st birthday!

5

happy 5th anniversary.

 

we have a beautiful life together and we've been blessed in so many ways. these have been the best 5 years of my life. love you so much.

thirty

on june 7, mr. b turned 30.

i can't believe it... mainly because our years together have flown by! he sometimes tries to tell me old stories, and half way through, we realize that it's a story from the time that we have been together. ha! i love that we have such a wonderful history with one another.

this was 7 years ago!

this guy is an amazing husband, father, son, brother, son-in-law, brother-in-law, friend, co-worker, the list could go on and on... andrew has an incredible gift to always put others before himself. he is constantly 'doing' for all of us. i am so thankful that he provides for our family in such a giving and loving way and that our daughter can have such a sweet example. he's the guy that works all day and comes home to help with perry, dinner, cleaning, etc. then he'll mow the yard, just for kicks. i am really, really blessed.

i wanted to do something special for him, so i threw a super small get together for his day.

let me interject...

perry stayed with her gigi and papa jim so that her mom and dad could stay up later than usual. thank y'all for keeping her!

we are thankful for our sweet friends and family that could help us celebrate! i wish that i would have gotten more photos - i'm sad that i didn't have my camera flashing all night.

we had so much fun...

happy 30th andrew! we love you! perry and i are the luckiest girls in the world!

where to begin?!

as my title indicates, i don't even know where to start. it is august and i haven't blogged since june. our {new} laptop was out of commission for about a month with a virus so i lost touch with the blogging world. i'm also focusing all of my time on planning

 perry's 1st birthday.

that is correct, our little girl will be ONE in 13 days. i'll talk about that in another post, it deserves much more than a teeny mention!

so, what we've been up to...

my precious nephew benton david was born on may 29th

he is such a sweet, good little baby. we've tried to spend time with them throughout the summer but don't get to see them too often because they are so far away!

not too long after benton's BIRTHday, perry learned how to crawl! it was so fun, our little munchkin likes her puffs, so we put a trail around the room and she went to town!

we also celebrated mr. b's 30th birthday!

i'll tell you all about it in his super late birthday post.

perr had her 9 month checkup in june...

she weighed 15.15 lbs and was 26 3/4 inches long. it may sound like she's a bitty thing, but don't let her weight fool you... shes got chunky thighs and a sweet little tummy. we love it!

that pretty much sums up the month of june!

more on andrew's birthday and july super soon!

All I have

I need to update in the most ridiculous of ways but this is all i can muster up right now!

I am so proud, Perry girl is FINALLY crawling... She hates it, but she's moving!



Today is Mr.B's birthday so I'll have a post on that pretty soon.

Oh, and I have a beautiful new nephew who deserves his own introductory post as well! But right now, I have a little girl that I need to chase.

Have a great weekend. Toodles.

those who love us

i am so thankful to have been raised by my mama. she has endured so many trials in her lifetime and because of her undying faith, she always comes out ahead.

her incredible strength, wisdom, and guidance are gifts from God. i hope that i will be the mommy to perry that my own mama has been to me.

i don't think that we really realize how much our mothers mean to us until we become mommies ourselves. we also have no idea how much we need them! perry's chelle is on speed dial and has received many calls a day for help over the past 8 1/2 months. don't know what we would do without her!

our little girl has blessed my life in incredible ways in her very short lifetime.

her daddy honored me this weekend with breakfast (pancakes and biscuits), a sweet gift basket (put together by mr. b himself!), and the best card.

i can't remember what life was like before i met that guy.

my memory is even a little blurry of the time before miss p came along!

we miss you and love you chelle! can't wait to spend a few days with you!

happy mother's day to all of the mommies, grandmommies
& to those that love and act as mommies!

purple & white

it's graduation day everywhere and it reminds me of how much we love our alma mater in the belcher house hold!

congrats to all of the college graduates today & gooooo wildcats!!
(i also can't wait until p can throw up her own little wildcat sign!)