Memorial Day Bliss

Pat and I had a wonderful Memorial Day together. No grand camping adventures or trips for us this year with the little lady but we had an amazing time just relaxing as a family. Today all felt right in the world. We had the whole day to enjoy being together. We had a nice relaxing morning at the house, which included coffee- a must of course. We then went out to lunch near our house and sat outside in the sun for 2 hours just talking about life, what we think is important, and what we might change to have our lives match up with what matters to us. Then we went for a great walk through the woods on a "nature preserve" in the area, grilled ribs for dinner, and played with Lucia.

Here are some pictures from the day. I am so thankful for Pat and Lucia. They make life wonderful!

I love how Pat plays with Lucia. He can actually make her laugh which, at this point, is more of a little baby squeal. It is the cutest thing. Here is Lucia wearing Daddy's glasses. Hopefully we didn't give her some sort of early vision problems. :)


Patrick and Lucia post dinner play time


The family relaxing together. The day ended with carmel brownies, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream and listening to the Weepies. It gave me a few peaceful moments to remember how blessed I am to have my little family. I love them both so much.

Lucia is now fascinated with putting everything in her mouth. She wants to eat anything that comes near her. Here is a video of us playing with her yesterday and her attempts to eat her jungle friends.

Murphy and Anderson Visit

We had a Murphy/Anderson family get together this past weekend with Pat's parents, Terry and Kathy, and Pat's sister, Jai, her husband, Sten, and daughter, Solveig. It was a beautiful Saturday evening, so we grilled Turkey Burgers and sat around outside for a bit. Here are some pictures from the get together.

Little Solveig being super cute with her backpack and hat


Pat hanging out with his neice Solveig



The Murphy's, Anderson's, and one Summerill


Papa Terry with Lucia



The two cousins hanging out together in the baby gym.

Lucia Kate meets Aunt Lindsey

My sister Lindsey just flew into town after her first year at FSU and is spending a few weeks in Seattle. We are having a great time so far. I thank her for sending some Florida sunshine our way for the visit; It has been beautiful outside. We spent the day downtown with Craig on Friday.

Getting ready to head out for the day to visit Craig downtown


Lindsey and I hanging out at home with Lucia






Craig, Lindsey, and I at Volunteer park on the hill. It is such a beautiful place during the spring time.

My mom sent the first little dress that I wore as a little person up with Lindsey. Thankfully it still fits Lucia and she looks like an 80's cutie in it. Here are a few pictures of Lucia sporting her mom's dress! I love having pieces from my childhood incorporated into Lucia's childhood!

Here is a picture of me at 1 month in the dress with my mom

A sleepy Lucia and a happy Dad

Lucia sometimes has a rough time in the evenings, which happened last night so we took her for a nice long drive to give ourselves some sanity. The drive and sunset were beautiful! Lucia went straight to sleep in her car seat and wasn't terribly interested in waking up to eat her bottle when we got home. Here is Pat loving his sleeping daughter! She is so cuddly when she is tired. A nice reward after a fussy evening.

Lucia's secret plans...

I have decided that Lucia must love bath time and must also feel personally offended that she doesn't get more of them. My reasoning is that she is starting to insist on multiple baths per day by purposefully, I think, either blowing out her diaper or spitting already digested milk all over herself. It is the perfect plan! :)

Here she is all innocent looking after said offences






And this face/terrible picture angle just makes me laugh

Lucy and Mr. Elephant

More Lucia in the gym. I just think she is too funny with her talking. She spent so much time this morning talking with the plastic elephant "Mr. Elephant". She also laughed at Pat yesterday. It was this high pitch sort of screeching sound. I wish that I had caught that on video!

First Mother's Day

Today was my first Mother's Day and I have to admit that I was pretty darn excited about it. I never imagined that I would love motherhood as much as I do. I, of course, knew that I would love our daughter but had no idea how much or how much I would enjoy spending my days with her. I can't imagine a more enjoyable life that spending my days being a mom and loving on my little girl. She is so much fun and each day just seems to get better and better as she becomes more responsive. My friend Sarah told me it is just amazing when they can say "mama". I can't wait for that. I feel like I am enjoying each stage.

Along with it being Mother's Day, it is also Lucia's 2 month "birthday". She is growing so fast. My Mother's Day started off with Lucy sleeping 6.5 hours and then waking up with tons of smiles for me. Pat had chocolate chip and strawberry pancakes waiting for me, which are my favorite. We made it to church this week without any kind of diaper of spit-up blow out which kept us away the last two weeks. I was so thankful to be back at church especially on Mother's Day. I felt pretty proud to stand up with the other ladies. :) Lucia did, however, pee all over her dress. It was the first time that I had taken her out in a dress and it was the one that her aunt Kaitlyn bought for her. She had an outfit change mid service but I putting her back in it this week for pictures because she was super cute. After church, we went out for lunch and now I am writing this blog. Pat has dinner ready to go tonight already too!

Thanks to aunt Kate for the Mother's Day dress! Here are some pictures of the day:

Me and my sweet baby girl Lucy Kate



Lucia in her Mother's Day dress talking with Mr. Elephant pre outfit change


Breakfast of champions: chocolate chip pancakes with fresh strawberries!



Healthy and tasty dinner made by my husband. Gotta love that!


Lucia and Pat at Breakfast