Bluebonnets!

What's a few misdemeanors on your record if you get some cute pictures of your child in the process? No big deal, right? We found a huge field of bluebonnets that was perfect for pictures. So we hopped the fence and got to trespassing!

This was an amazing field of bluebonnets! There were a ton!

Presley was more fascinated with the bluebonnets than with helping me get a great picture. So quite a few of our pictures are of her looking at the ground or gazing off in the distance.

Bye-bye, bluebonnets!

Easter Part One

Since we can't fit everything about Easter into one post, we are going to break this into a mini-series and try to post a little bit each day!

Trying on her Easter Hat!

Our first part of Easter was a small egg hunt at home. We hid the eggs in the backyard. And by "hiding" I mean - "we laid them out in plain view on the ground". We're not going to get too tricky just yet!

Presley caught on quickly to the game. The eggs are empty, but each time she found one she celebrated. We (Presley included) would have to stop and clap until the next one caught her eye and she went running.

Of course, Dakota was not far behind.

Checking out her loot.

This is Presley after the hunt wondering where all the eggs have gone.

No, seriously guys, Where are all the eggs!

Lovin' the Great Weather!

We are constantly outdoors whenever possible. Pretty much as soon as we get home from anywhere, Presley is standing at either the front or the back door wanting to go out. She is actually tall enough now to reach the handle, but she isn't able to open those doors...yet. Luckily we've had some great weather lately. So I thought I'd follow her around today and get some cute pictures.

I just wanted something sweet and precious.
Maybe something like this....

Instead, I get this....

And this...

And this lovely one...

: ) But at least she's having fun, right? (She looks so old in this picture!)

And while we're out there, Dakota likes to follow her around - right on her heels!

I'm not sure what the three of them were looking at, but they all found it really interesting.

One and A Quarter

Today is Presley's 15 Month Birthday! We've reached the teens and we're all still surviving!
This is such a fun age. She just toddles around everywhere looking into everything. This is taken just after her bath tonight. Sometimes she decides to hold the sign and sometimes not. :)If you look close in the second picture you can see all 6 of her pearly white teeth. We now have 4 on the top and two on the bottom!

March 17th!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Future Gardener

Since the weather has been so nice lately, we've been spending a lot of time outdoors and Presley's favorite thing to do is visit the plants and the flowers. She loves to touch the plants and stare at all of the things in our flowerbeds. The mulch is fascinating, she pets the shrubs. She takes me around from plant to plant and tells me all about each one. (even though I'm not smart enough to understand what she's saying, yet) One of the best things is walking through the yard and finding a yellow dandelion! She'll get super excited, points at it, squats down to look at it, and finally picks the dandelion. Then she carries it around and stares at it until it finally disintegrates. But she loves it. :)

So we spend a lot of time just sitting in the flower beds. : )

They call me Boots.

Well, we had some excitement around our house earlier this week.

One of the things that Presley really loves to do is watch the cars as they come and go from our subdivision. Our house backs up to the entrance of the subdivision so if we look over our back fence it gives a good view of everyone. She loves to wave to the cars and blow kisses to them. I feel like it's our good deed for that day. : )

So we get a little stool to raise us off the ground about 18inches. And she gets to her job of showering everyone with love. (I try to get her to be a bit more discriminate with her affection, but she doesn't listen.)

So then she see's Derek coming home so we jump off of the stool to go meet him inside. Unfortunately, my ankle didn't quite get the message of what we were doing. So when we hit the ground, my right ankle just rolled and crumpled underneath me. I like to imagine it in slow motion, but in all reality I think we hit the ground pretty quickly.

Like the fabulously wonderful mother that I am, I did protect my daughter and she was fine. But I do think that our rapid descent to the ground, as well as the fact that her mother was screaming, scared her quite a bit.

So after a quick trip to Urgent Care, we learned that it was an ankle/foot sprain and I would be sporting a boot for a while. Luckily, black is always in fashion and it is a walking boot. I'm not sure how easy it would have been to cart around a 14month old while using crutches.

And all this just to blow some kisses to strangers.

We could almost fit her in that boot. : )