made with love

we bought this dresser {i've become a craigsl*st addict} and dr. daddy has been working so hard to strip and refinish it in his "free" time! he is doing such an amazing job...i'm so proud of him and so thankful he loves doing it!

as you can see...little man has been helping when he can too!

its ALMOST finished since these pics...so i'll try to round up the before and after pics when its all done.

THE beach

a bit of a back story... 2 years ago the stars aligned and God further showed his love to this sentimental mommy-to-be. if you know me well you know how much i miss our families. you know that i am {or so i've been told} an EXTREMELY sentimental person. you know that there are little things on this journey of medical school/residency/fellowship that i feel like we miss sharing with our families and i call them part of our sacrifice...other people might not think they fall into the category of sacrifice, but my heart puts them there.

many of these moments center around having our first child! one being able to tell our families in person that we were pregnant. we missed that opportunity...but not fully!

i will forever be grateful to the BUT of that statement! i was able to tell my sister that we were pregnant...in person...on a beach in california!!! oh the places He will take you to fulfill your dreams! it was a special moment that my cousin recorded for us! we even wrote baby crim's name in the sand...

well...fast forward 2 years...and my sister surprised her hubby with a trip to california! a package arrived for little tickle today with some very special things...he was quite excited to open it...
on the same beach that his arrival was announced aunt chi chi again wrote his name in the sand...only with a few more details this time...his initials and his birth date! what a precious gift for him to have!!!

i read the card to him and then handed it to him...he "read" it back to us for a good 60 seconds...then proclaimed "AMEN!" dr. daddy and i laughed so hard...in part astonishment!

thank you aunt chi chi and uncle g...and for the hip beach shirts too! little tickle is one blessed babe to have you!

a quick catch up

in late october we...

visited many pumpkin patches...

in november we...

outgrew these... :(

celebrated thanksgiving with dear friends...

moved...

in december we...

met santa...

spent 3 weeks in texas with family for the holidays...










designed a new camera strap with my momma...

and in january we...

SURVIVED the first snow of 2011 back in pa...




and the next one...we ventured out a few times to romp in it...
but my blood is too southern for it and little tickle's not too sure about it!




made lots of tickle soup {its what we call it @ our house }



i think we might be caught up! maybe i can keep up now!

a lovely day just being mommy

morning dances in bed, 2 hour naps, a cherry limeade, and the cutest little baby boy to call mine! its so nice to be home! we have been traveling {for pleasure and for work} since the middle of february. some of those travels meant time apart from dr. daddy and my little mister...and some meant all 3 of us were in separate states! i give so many kudos to you working mommies out there...what strength, commitment and true master jugglers you must be! bless you! so many thanks to my dear momma for keeping the little mister while i was traveling...and to my sweet mil for traveling to PA to help out as well! we are blessed! we are now enjoying being home and getting back into a routine. which hopefully means as soon as my to-list begins to dwindle i'll be back to blogging!!! missed you friends!

one of my favorite things as a mother is something so unexpected...its when nothing particularly special is going on and it hits me so clearly and completely without warning...chills come over me...he's mine, he's finally here, he knows i'm his, and one day he'll call me mommy. its as if my mind is one step closer each time in soaking in and fathoming the enormity of this blessing! i've waited a very long time to know what being mommy would be like and who that little person would be to create that job in me...and he's here, he's finally here. and he's more than i imagined. much more!

one year ago

one year ago today...we found out our baby was on the way!

what a precious gift. an amazing miracle. and a blessed year. we are so thankful that God chose us to be his and may we raise him so that he may return the praise for the Lord.

passed down...

there are some very special clothes in our little mister boy's closet. a few of them are ones that his uncle austin and uncle dallas wore...this is one of them...

we are so in love with this little man! he has so many littles faces and sweet expressions...

ps...just realized in the true nick of time i got 2 posts in this month! woo hoo!! miss you friends!

meet the little mister

thank you friends for your prayers, congratulations, and blessings as hubby and i welcomed our little man! we have spent the last 2 weeks getting to know our precious blessing and molding into a family of 3. we are "smittenly" in love with him!!! God blessed us with such a happy, healthy, thriving, content...and as his mommy i can say...perfect little baby boy!

lala is still in town and we are so thankful that she will be loving on him until early december...we have so appreciated her help and support...we are so blessed...

{ ...and she became lala }