sum sum summertime ;)

Ok first and foremost I am getting so much GREY HAIR~ YES this kid is NOW driving ~watch out world!!!

Love being able to pick fresh wild flowers whenever I want ;)

We are so enjoying our first week of summer~

smilin' through some tears

Lyla is a beautiful girl with an infectious laugh~ she is EXCITED about all things including flies, spiders, turtles and frogs. Watching her for these past few days has truly been a blessing and I love every single second of her visit. I keep asking her if she is happy and she says very loudly "I AM HAPPY" then Logan argues (as cousin's do) "No, I AM HAPPY!!" the argument begins.

I also have been overcome with emotion~this is hard~to see this beautiful girl and just wish my sister could see her too~I find myself laughing and crying at the same time. SHE IS AMAZING~I have so enjoyed picking out outfits and matching things for her to wear, doing HAIR~ I just love doing a girls hair!!!

Pickle and little pickle

Pictures of Violet and Aurora taken by Julianna. You gotta love those faces. Can you believe that Aurora is 6 weeks already?

Sisters, birthmarks, and breast feeding

I love these pictures. Aurora will one day kill me for posting naked photos, but I had to show you guys her birthmark above her bum! She has one on the back of her neck too.

Big sister helping mommy give Aurora her first bath (This was taken a few weeks ago).

Aurora's first bath picture

So, I came down with mastitis this weekend.  I am going to quit breast feeding.  I feel incredibly guilty about it, but I literally have woken up every morning with clogged milk ducts and pain for the past 5 days, and then add, a fever and chills to it due to the infection. YUK!!! Breast feeding and me do not get along.  The same thing happened with Violet, but I lasted 4 months with her, but I cannot be a good mommy and take care of my two girls with this much pain.  It is too much.  So I will be weaning over the next month. I am, however, looking forward to the freedom of not being chained to nursing and pumping. I think it will be liberating -- not to mention that I will get more than 3 hours of sleep! 

Tornado on Hometown Road

I took this pic of the boys and their new haircuts and then (about 20 min after I took this) we were in our storm shelter. We didn't realize at the time but our street was hit very bad by this tornado.

We had not only ourselves, the dogs but Max's beloved snapping turtle Bowser~Snap all in the storm shelter waiting for my storm tracker Mom in Tulsa to give us the ALL CLEAR~ Gregg and Max peaked out at one point and saw the Tornado swirling over our house~ it was very humbling experience and Hope it doesn't happen again anytime soon.

There was a house here~ several houses on either side are just GONE~ My camera is acting up I took several pictures today but this was the only one that stayed in the memory~ I am in awe of how people in Texoma come together the clean up crews have almost all the debris picked up. SOOOOOO thankful we have a storm shelter ;)

for my Momma on Mother's day weekend

I have been thinking everyday about my Mom recently and I just wanted to say some things. Mom, I know that this Mother's day is going to be a hard one for you as it was the last time you saw sweet Brie ~ but I am truly blessed to have you as my Momma~ I take great joy in watching you be a "Nanny" Momma to your daughter's daughter. Lyla doesn't realize it now but you are the best thing for her and her for you. I love that we can share toddler woes together on the phone. Even though we have had the hardest of years I see the blessings all around. I love you Mom and I can't wait to show off our new place to you next week. I will cook for you, drink wine with you, we can laugh and cry all weekend. You are a GREAT Mom and I am truly a blessed daughter~ thank you for everything~

Home on Hometown

Excuse the mess we have no counter tops so the Kitchen will be finished last~ it is a little trying to get everyone to put the dishes in the bath tub.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these machines~ after YEARS living with laundry mat machines I am so happy to have my own wonderful washer and dryer!! I got all the Loads done in one day... yes one day!!!

Dining room table with fresh wild flowers

rose tile in Master bath to be installed tomorrow

Master bath in progress

one wall in the Master bath is a light violet and then the blue covers the rest. The same blue that is in the hall bath and we decided on a a yellow closet~ white trim~ rose tile~ Oh my bathroom will be heaven when it is finished :)