| s e p t e m b e r '18 |

whooooaaa where did this month even go?? IT WENT SO FAST.

it was a kinda-busy-but-not-that-busy kind of month for me. i babysat a lottt but i loved most of it. micah got his hair cut and now he's basically all grown up. face-timed with this sweet girl. <3 listened to lots more music, worked out, baked, completed goals. and so. much. soccer. <<  it's really the most awesome way to spend time with my siblings.  micah slept in bed with me a lot, bc he's spoiled rotten xD mom + dad went up to NE to surprise my grandma at her retirement party. then they brought the other grandma down here, to spend some time with us. most likely one of the last times. then mom took josh and elias with her when she brought grandma back. craziness! thinking of old friends in NE, missing those friends <3 autumn scented candles. grandma giving us girls bracelets she made. going to starbucks and rue 21 with ash <3 trying a pumpkin spiced latte and a maple pecan iced latte and LOVING them!! enjoying the sun. learning to be content where i am. hanging out with awesome people who just make you happy. sleepovers. jumping + playing tag on haybales. climbing silos. riding hoverboards. vacccaatioonnnn!!!!!!! seeing our cousins after 2ish years. <3 kayaking, canoeing, peddle boating, swiimmmingg, binge watching the hobbit + LOTR. (first time seeing the hobbit) golf. getting school pics in front of pumpkins. loving that autumn is finally here!!! feeling baby boy kick. learning more midwifery stuff. doing a cornmaze with friends!!! going to riley's thrift shop. (riley unlikely) micah saying sooo many words. he's says my name like 'daisy' (paigey) red leavesss. having friends over. 
AND THEN IT'S OCTOBER. wuuuttt???

prayer request: mom's been having a reallyy hard time these last few weeks here, she's in a ton of pain pretty much all the time and the last 9 weeks feel like they'll take forever. it's called spd if you want to look it up, cause i wont go into detail rn. just pleasee pray for her, and us!!! it's really stressful but we're getting through it. thanks!!! <33

something you want to try/make this autumn??
something you loved this month?

May camp || 2017

May camp was really good.   all except for the traveling back home..Micah screamed. :| 

The sermons were so wonderful, and I really focused on worshiping the Lord, and am making it a point to really worship my Savior more. Because honestly, I don't stop and take time to praise Him like I should. My heart is so overwhelmed with what He did for me, for all these awful sinners.  I don't deserve His forgiveness,  or His love, or the peace He brings me. But He does love me and that will never change, and I'm eternally grateful to my wonderful Lord!! 

We played a ton of games, which was a lot of fun! Baseball, Swedish baseball (that was wayyyy awesome!!) and lots and lots of volleyball. I wasn't good at volleyball the whole time, in which I started crying later cause I was just so bad and everyone was being nice and saying "Good try!" but it wasn't good at all. (Yes I did try really really hard..) But in that I learned that I won't ever lose, I'll either win, or learn. (Thanks Mom!! <3) I really need to work on getting a reliable serve, and hitting directions. :| 

Onto the pictures!!

Ronan- I really can't even understand how this child has the ability to steal my heart over and over!! #somuchlove

And his precious little sister does the exact same!!

Brielle

Killing wasps

This was so cute I was melting!! Mason's (right) last name is King, so they did that  to they're chairs! They're sooo cute!

lolololol!!! *more melting* Are you a melted mess yet???!

On the way home

More posts on various things coming soon! I prob will keep blogging in June, just not that much. We're gonna have family over and Dylan's graduation the 14th thro 20, so I'm real excited for that!!!
Have a great rest of your day y'all! <33

making memories in St. Louis || May 14, 2017

Okay wowowowow where do I even start?????

From my journal-May 14, 2017
-So today was super duper filled up and busy-but a very awesome busy!!!
We got up at 8 (and my face and arms were covered with hives from accidentally eating corn) (it was so awful) and got ready to go! Dada was in a 'Get ready, we're going on an adventure!' mood! We left at 9 and around 2:00 we were 20 mins from the zoo, and traffic came to a stand still. Joshua prayed, and about 10 mins later we were moving again! 
Really half the time is getting there, and the other half is finding a parking space. (St. Louis is like that :l) We ended up paying, but it was a good spot close to the zoo, so we were thankful!
The zoo was AH-MAZING!!! So many animals that took my breath away. (ESPECIALLY THE FLAMINGOS OMW!!) 
We saw elephants (more on them in another post :)) hyenas, lions, penguins, polar bears, and so many others! it was so great!
Then we went to Illinois and touched the Mississippi river and saw the arch! I was really hoping to touch it because I haven't been able to in all the times I've been there, but it was all fenced off. :( Oh well, there will be another time. :)
It was awesome and wonderful and amazing to see everything again! And we made the bestest memories!!
We ate at Culvers for dinner, and now I finally have 10 scoopie tokens to get a volleyball! (hehe, nerd here) So next time we got to Culvers Imma gonna get one!!!
We got home at 12:40, and I was still pretty itchy so I took some pills, benadroyl, and rubbed coconut all over, and that helped. I really didn't want to have to get an IV again. :( Thankfully I didn't have to, I just toughed through it!!
(The next morning caden and lilli woke up with swollen faces, from a reaction to the sunscreen. :( Poor guys!!
And that's it!! Our adventure in St. Louis had ended, but I will forever look back on that as one of the best days ever!

(except for the allergies...)

Now zoo pics!!!

No words will ever express how much I love this wonderful woman! First a Mother, Forever a Friend <333

I was lucky to get this pic, in between allll the people!!

African Caboon, XD

I squealed when we got to the Africa sign, 'AFRICA!!!' 

The flamingos were my absolute favorite!! For some reason I just loved them!!! <3

*squeals* awwww!

Micah did so good in the hot weather! Little guy was on top of the world in his stroller, lol!!

Yep, it don't get much awesomer then this for a Dad!!! He's the bestttt!

And then the arch!!!

oops more zoo pics...

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lions, look closely...

and a tiger!!! (pretty sure that's it for zoo pics!)

ahhh! I love this place!! One of my favorites that I've been many times!!

The Mississippi river!! 

and I'll end with this, since I have officially decided that this is my favorite animal evah!!!!

So that's it!!! What we did for Mother's day! And it was the greatest, all of us actually TOGETHER! 

and btw, today was the end of  my 21- challenge!! I did really good, completing all of them!! WOOT WOOT! 

Please leave me book comments if you want!! This was a ton, so book comments it is!! ;)

(oh, and this wasn't the surprise. *head desk* I'M WORKING ON IT I PROMISE!!)