Remember the Blur

 I stopped posting this year because things were out of control and I knew if I wrote about it at all, I wouldn't have much to say that I would want to read or remember later.  It's all rather a blur.  365 days of survival blur.  Truth be told, I feel like I'm kind of having an out of body experience to be on the flip side of crazy.  The trick now will be to not fill my hours with new crazy.

Here are a few things I, however, do not want to forget.

 Family is everything isn't it.

Let me introduce you to the Christmas culprit.

• My girls are awesome!  Annie loves to spell.  She knows that B is for Bob, V is for Violet, A is for Annie, and C is for Grandma.  Smart girl.  Grandma Cindy is quite proud.  V is talking up a storm as well.  Lots of dadada and nanana and, if I'm lucky, a mamama.

• I miss them SOOO much when I am at work.  I have this slight problem of getting super duper annoyed with stay-at-home moms who complain.  I need to lighten up but seriously, I cannot WAIT to be home bound with these two perfect girls.

And the countdown begins.  May 23rd and they are all mine all the time!

• Here is my little family at our church Christmas party. Ollie loves to cuddle and her favorite as of late is this little rag doll that Annie named Angelie (where she came up with that I know not).

 Annie was never much of a snuggler so V is making up for it big time.

•  In case you were wondering, we did make it to and through Christmas.  It took Annie three days to open her presents mostly because our holiday was jammed pack with family events.

•  Poor thing.  Grandma Polly broke her wrist in two places.  She is not very hindered by her injury, she says, because she chose which arm to break when she fell so she chose her left.

•  Let me introduce you to the Christmas culprit.  THIS is the exact photo I sent in for the furniture warranty claim.  The couch happens to be the only thing in our house we bought the warranty for.  Lucky us because Annie decided to decorate it along a 10 foot span that is quite visible from our entry way.  She did it right before Thanksgiving so, along with all of our guests, we had the good fortune of enjoying her foray all through the holidays.

Annie calls her Ollie and Violet totally loves it.

 Ollie's Baby Blessing

 Someday... Someday.  

Until that day, very brief non-captioned snippets are all this blog is going to get. 

 

Poor Q.  He blessed V and then worked the entire rest of the day so he missed the dinner and family photos.  And what a terrific dinner it was. In fact, we ended up having to make dinner 3 times for the ever growing violet fan club that stopped by to wish her well. Bet you can guess the color theme for our wardrobes.  Violet Violet Violet! 

 I should remember about Violet that she is all things desirable when it comes to babies.

She sleeps through the night (already better than Annie), is super squishy and cuddly.  She LOVES being naked, have her diaper changed, and taking a bath, and her entire face lights up when she smiles.  Her eyes are big and brown.  She doesn't cry all that often.  She is sweet and mild.

 Here is Eye-let in the dress that both Annie and I wore on our blessing days too.

 Lots of boys are living at my parents' house right now.