Happy 3rd Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Carley. I can't believe you are three today! Time does fly so much. Beyond words, we are blessed to be your parents. We are so proud of you, so amazed by you, and so thankful for you. Everyday we thank our Father for the true miracle you are. We love you!
Some things about Carley:
- She is a true girly girl. Curls, pink, princesses, tea parties, baby dolls, the works. Any thing girly is her.
-She loves it when we are all together and that makes her the happiest. She loves it when we are all home sitting on the couch or when she can climb in bed.
- She is really expressive in funny ways. She always says stuff like, "Amazing", " Neat, neat, neat", "I cannot believe this", and other ones at the funniest times.
- She is really coordinated. She is good in her dance and gymnastics class and really good at riding her bike. It is funny.
- She can produce huge crocodile tears in a moment. She is drama. Sweet and sensitive. She can cry for you in once second if she wants and she cries LOUD. It is so funny (most of the time)
- She is a daddy's girl. She calls Cody her "prince" and loves to dance with him. It is so cute. For Christmas she got a Cinderella play dress and the first things she said was, "Prince, I can't wait to put this on so I can dance with you". Santa gave her a pink Yankees hat and she said, "Daddy, Santa gave me this so I could be just like you". It is precious.

Merry Christmas

Cutest Cookie Chef in town

Dear Target,

Thank you for putting the cute set of sprinkles in the dollar spot. It was such a fun treat. Next time, feel free not to put in 5 different sprinkles so every single cookie does not have to have 5 different kinds of sprinkles! It is a lot of sprinkling for a two year old and a lot of sprinkles for her mom to clean up.

Thanks,

Holidays 2008 so far...

I never blogged about Thanksgiving so I thought I would do that and then also post pictures of our holidays so far. This has been a really emotional holiday season for us. Carley is growing up before our eyes. She will be three this month and it just does not seem possible. In so many ways she is a big girl. She is really into the magic of the holidays.
On the other note, we are approaching the due date of the baby we lost in May. I never dreamed that I would not only not be pregnant by the baby's due date, but to have had another miscarriage earlier this fall just really makes this a hard holiday season. When I look at the pictures over the past month, it is amazing to see how blessed we are with Carley and what a miracle she is.

We had an AWESOME Thanksgiving here in Lubbock with my parents.

Carley making biscuits with my dad and getting tickled by him.

Reading with her best buddy Nana.

Cody napping. :)

Carley "helping" with the Christmas decorations.

One of her many Christmas shirts

Some family time at the Science Spectrum Christmas Party. It was so fun. Carley got to make snow, decorate gingerbread, talk to Santa, and look at a bunch of animals. We had a great time.

Wednesday we went to Santaland to see Santa. Carley will never sit on his lap or talk to him and gets really scared, but this night she did so good! She just hopped up in his lap and asked for a Princess Bike and then told him Merry Christmas. We were so proud of her. She was so cute. She talked to Mrs. Clause too. The funny part was she asked Santa for a "pink princess bike". It is my understanding that Santa might already have a purple one so Santa and I are a little worried about this small detail. Hopefully she won't remember this at all (even though she keeps talking about the color)

Meet Brooklyn

Please pray for little Brooklyn Hope Beaver as she made her way into the world today. Brooklyn has spina biffida and some other things that need lots of prayers. She will have her first surgery tomorrow. Please pray for David, Jodi, and big sister Reagan as they handle all going on and for this beautiful baby that we have all prayed for for so long.

This has also been a long week for some of my other college friends. This family is so special to me and I am fervently praying for them as well.

What a blessing the internet community is!

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She is the best! She did my blog as well as many of my fellow blogging friends!

She is having a contest right now so go enter and if you win you owe me BIG! :)

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My funny, crazy girl

I have to blog about the funny things Carley does so that I will remember them one day and can tell her about them. She has SO much spunk in her little body, it kills me.

Here are some stories, that really reflect her personality.

1. On Saturday Carley told us she needed to go potty. But instead of sitting down, she stood up and faced the potty and said, "Today I am going to potty like a big boy". I told her that boys and girls have different bottoms and that girls couldn't do that. She told me to "work on finding a way" so any ideas on that one??

2. On Friday, we were at the mall and she ran ahead of me in the cosmetics section at Dillards. I grabbed her arm and told her to wait for me. She turned around, pointed her finger, and LOUDLY said, "Mommy, you are not being nice. We do not talk to people like that. Do you understand me?" This stranger next to me said, "Ooooooooh she is going to get it", and Carley did.

3. On Friday we were also at Home Depot and once again she was not staying with me. I picked up and told her she had two choices. She could ride in the basket or hold my hand. Once again she darted off so I picked her up and said, "Carley do you want a spanking?" And she yelled "NO at the top of her lungs. Both my mom and I died laughing. Then, of course, she got in trouble.

4. When we were watching the Tech/UT football game a couple of months ago with some firemen and their families, Carley had an upset stomach and an accident. My precious little two year old said, "Jesus Christ, what a mess". You could have knocked us over with a feather. We went on to TRY and explain that we don't say Jesus's name like that and tried to explain context, which she totally did not understand. Then we went on to think the fireman who said that phrase when Tech missed a catch. The next night at church small group, she said, "Jesus Christ, who is going to clean all of this up?". Once again we went over the context and she said, "But, I was praying" and we told her she wasn't. So at 2, my daughter takes the Lord's name in vain. Luckily she hasn't said it again.

5. Carley says the sweetest prayer every night at the dinner table. I don't know where she learned it, but she says, " Dear God, Thank you for this day and everything you have given me. Thank you for Nana and Papa. Thank you for Mommy and Daddy. In your son's name we pray, Amen" Then over dinner if someone's name comes up, she always says, "STOP! We forgot to pray for them".

6. Sunday she woke up from her nap and the first thing she said was, "I am ready to be 18 so I can have a baby in my tummy and then it can be born". Not sure where all that came from. I told her she had to be at least 25.

7. On Saturday, she came running to me, gave me the biggest hug and kiss, and said, "Mommy, I could hug you forever".

8. 5 minutes later I told her she couldn't climb the Christmas tree and she told me, "If you keep telling me No, I am going to go to Nana's."

This little almost three year old keeps us on our toes, keeps us laughing, and keeps us thankful for the true miracle that she is.