Mom's Church Dress

Mom,

Here are the pictures of the cute church dress. I love it!!! Oh and a couple other random pictures.... We love you!

COMPLETELY obsessed

Hello! My name is Brittany and I am a "Fancy Nancy-holic"!

I absolutely love, love, love these books! All of them... they are so stinking good and cute!

My First
The first time that I read one was on the campus bookstore, waiting for Kenny to be done with class (his class got out thirty minutes earlier than mine, so twice a week when I was waiting, I would go to the bookstore and read the children's books.... maybe that sounds like a weird thing to do, but I love books, children's especially... I have been a book nerd my whole life). Anyways, it was before we were even pregnant, I have been obsessed with these books. When we would go to a store, I would always look for them and read them much to Kenny's chagrin. He would always say "how many times can you read that book?" The answer... Not enough! They are absolutely adorable. I love how stinking cute Nancy is about being fancy. And one of my most favorite things about them is the words the author uses. She will use relatively big words for a children's book and then follow it with... "that is fancy for...." and give the definition. What a way cool idea!

Fancy Nancy & Harper's Fate
Anyways, another cool story about Fancy Nancy books... they helped me pick out Harper's name. And everyone always asks... how did you come up with that name. Well here is the story...
When I was pregnant, I was looking in the bookstore through a book called "Literary Baby Names: name your child after a great." And I came across the name Harper (Harper Lee wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which is an absolutely amazing novel... one of my all time faves... if you have not read it, I advise you to do so now). I thought it was way, way cute. Plus, I secretly love the idea of naming children literary names... for example, other names I love, Madeleine, Eloise, Hemingway (kind of just kidding about this one... but kind of not... my mom gave me a book and the little boys name is Hemingway.... I think it is adorable, but I don't think I would ever really do it... which probably makes Kenny happy).
Anyways, so I had the name Harper in my head... then as I was walking out of the bookstore I saw them... FANCY NANCY BOOKS 50% OFF!!! OH MY GOSH.... I had to have one, my first Fancy Nancy book... I was stoked! So I bought Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire (so cute). I was walking home reading it, when I saw it... the name of the publishing company... HARPER collins books. That sealed the deal! It was totally fate! I was then at that point absolutely, positively in LOVE with the name HARPER! It took a little while longer to convince Kenny, even after I explained the whole fate, destiny situation. But he eventually came around and loved it too and in March... we named our daughter Harper! :)

But, I guess what you should take from this is.... READ FANCY NANCY!!! You will not be disappointed.

P.S. I currently have three Fancy Nancy books! All of which I love and read to my daughter on a regular basis (at least one, once a day... Harper and I read a lot, I am excited to be instilling book nerdiness into my daughter). And I have planned out which Fancy Nancy books I will be acquiring next in order... I can't wait to get them all, but for Harper of course! ;)

Harper Lately

Harper just get more and more fun everyday! First, she is just stinkin' adorable (at least I think so). Second, she is totally interactive. She loves to ooh and ahh when Kenny and I are talking, just wanting to be part of the conversation. She loves to play with toys. Her favorite is the dragon fly that my brother in-law and sister in-law, Morgan and Sue gave us. If you pull it out she totally gets the biggest smile on her face. She also loves to watch us eat... she even tries to grab at plates and food. She is just so much fun! Here are some pictures and a video of her talking and trying to roll over... she hasn't gotten it yet but is so stinking close!

Oh and she puts anything and everything into her mouth... toys, her hands, blankets, our hands, burp rags, anything she can get up there.

I realize it is a long video and I honestly do not expect anyone but my mom to watch the whole thing (and to be honest, the first little part is the cutest anyways)... but here it is! :)

Good Things to Come

I love this new video. It jjust made me think about how God really does have a plan for us. He is watching over us and just waiting to send us blessings when we need them.

Funny Story...

I thought Father's Day was tomorrow... Oops... it is not! But it works fine because my dad's birthday is on Monday... so dad, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

2 Lucky Girls!!!

Lucky girl #1: ME!
i love my dad. he is such an awesome guy. He has always been there cheering and coaching us on in everything we choose to do. the thing that he worries about most is taking care of us kids and making sure that we are happy and it has always been this way. i have always known that if i ever need anything all i would have to do is ask. and while we all know that america needs ditch digger (inside joke with daddio:) ) he never let us settle and has always tried to help us realize the true potential that we are capable of reaching. i have learned so much from him. i know that i would not be where i am today had it not been for my dad. he has always been my #1 fan and always lets me know and for that i am eternally grateful. I love you dad! Happy Father's Day!

(for those who are curious... I am sucking my fingers not picking my nose... although it is very possible that a little of both was going on...who knows!)

Lucky girl #2: Harper!

kenny is absolutely an amazing dad! when we got pregnant, i was terrified out of my mind about having to care for a kid because i knew nothing about what to do. but honestly, the one thing that made me not so scared was knowing that kenny was there and was going to be great! harper loves kenny so much. when kenny is in the room, her attention goes only to him. she just sits and stares at him. and as soon as he looks at her the biggest smile creeps over her face! he just makes her so happy... and me too! he is absolutely amazing to both of us! he takes such good care of harper and i and is such a hard worker. Happy Father's Day Kenny! We love you!

Aunt Riley

So Aunt Riley bought this shirt for Harper when we were in Texas... and I was horrible and forgot to take a picture of the two of them wearing it! I am so sad about it! But I wanted to post pictures of Harper wearing Aunt Riley's shirt...

With only 9 years apart, I am positive Riley is going to be Harper's BFF!!

We love you Aunt Riley!