This little piggy...

This morning I gave Emma Claire her first pig tails. I just LOVED them. I could not get over how cute they were! Y'all know I love a big bow but I loved these little piggies SO MUCH.  If you follow me on instagram then you probably saw this picture that I posted this morning. Just in case you didn't I will share it again ;-)

 

I love how happy she is in the mornings!

There is something about this picture that makes her look SO OLD to me. Not sure if it's the hair-do or the fact that she now stands to play. 

Her piggies look kind of like antennae in this picture! ha!

"Helping" Momma with laundry. Hey, tossing clean clothes on the floor is totally helping! ;-)

She looks SO big here, and proud. I think she liked that Momma gave her pig-tails!

Emma Claire's happy place. Smooshed in between both dogs. Love.

...and then she tried to pull Dixie's eyes out love on Dixie. 

Her new sweet thing that she does, when she's walking along the couches she will pause and lay her head down. I don't know why but it is the sweetest thing to me. 

Playing Catch Up

Since I took a little {unintended} blogging hiatus I figured it is about time I play catch up. Our day to day life has been quite hectic lately but that doesn't mean that I don't still take one million pictures ;-) Just in case you were worried!

I got Emma Claire a foam play mat. Her favorite thing to do with it? Take it apart. Typical. 

I LOVE this picture. The hair, the lashes, the tongue, the tiny baby teeth..what's not to love!

 This is typically  how EC looks when she wakes up each morning. I love it.

We have attempted a few walks. It's just been too. dang. hot. So we have been running errands and playing inside a lot. 

Although we have had lots of fun that doesn't mean that we don't have our moments. 

I sent this picture to the hubs and told him that her future husband has no chance. He won't ever be able to say no to this face. 

I think the cause of our grumpiness is because of this little bugger! EC now has her first TOP tooth!

I love her personality. She's such a fun baby.

When did she become a big girl? I'm not ready for this!

The other morning she had quite the case of baby bed head!

Lately she has been doing this smile where she squints her eyes and close mouth smiles. It's adorable. 

I was tickled pink to find a stand and play busy block at a garage sale for TEN DOLLARS! Score! EC loves it too!

All in all we have been having tons of fun. Daddy has been working a lot lately so we have had a good bit of Mommy-Baby time. Even though some days are long I have to say that I am just loving my "job". Being a stay at home isn't easy by any definition but it is definitely the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Sweets and I cuddling on the couch yesterday. She was being so cuddly I had to snap a few {okay more like 30} pictures. ;-)  If you look closely you can see her top tooth in the upper right portion of her mouth!

America's Sweetheart

We celebrated the Fourth of July the weekend before when we were at the mountains. The hubs family always has a big party in the mountains and it was fun to show off Emma Claire this year. I was BEYOND excited to dress Emma Claire in her smocked flag dress. I bought it months ago just for this occasion. To say she was cute is an understatement! I know I'm biased but I'm pretty sure she was the cutest one at the party!

This picture is my FAVORITE!

There were a ton of kids at the party and they were all dancing around behind me trying to get her to smile. She just laughed and laughed at them. It was adorable. 

Our little family. One of my new favorite pictures. 

The actual fourth of July was the first day we spent at our new house! 

  Miss EC woke up bright and early and spent the morning playing in her flag jammies.

We spent the day continuing to move and unload! Late that night the hubs and I watched neighborhood fireworks from our bed. Some of the houses behind us were shooting fireworks off over the pond! A perfect way to end the day.  

 

Moving Mania

Guess who FINALLY has Internet?! This momma! Woo-hoo! 

Now for the fun part...sharing some of our moving fun! This post is going to be a random assortment of some of what we've been up to during this move. 

The morning of July 3rd this handsome guy picked up our U-Haul truck and it all began!

 Little miss was a trooper during the loading/unloading. She played in her pack n' play while the movers and daddy unloaded and mommy directed ;-)

The aftermath..and this was just after the FIRST load. HA! 

I took pictures thinking that our house was packed with boxes...if I only knew! It got so much worse. Unfortunately I was too busy de-cluttering and unpacking to take pictures of THAT! 

 Okay now this just cracks me up. On moving day we took the initial load over to the house and then left to eat lunch and bring another load back. Well I hopped in the car with EC and let the hubs close up the house. Meaning he was the last one to actually LOOK at what we were leaving out. Y'all when we came back several HOURS later I was doubled over laughing. THIS is what was left out in our front yard!

I wonder what our neighbors thought? A plug in santa, a cozy coupe that needs to meet some fresh paint, and our lawn mower! HA!

And since we have settled in (mostly) this is what we've been up to...

Playing in our new family room. 

Trying to find a main level paint color. I think we finally found one! Bher Dolphin Fin. 

Watching LOTS of Friends. So thankful I have the box set. Not having TV would have made for some very quiet evenings if I didn't have my six best friends to keep me company ;-) This is one of my fav episodes. Loved when Paul Rudd joined the cast!

Enjoying our new view of the pond. I just love it. 

Pantry projects! I'll do a post on that later!

So. Much. Deep. Cleaning. 

Our home wasn't dirty when we moved in BUT I am so obsessive about cleaning that I have deep cleaned almost every room. Thankfully I have a great little helper ;-)

It has been quite busy these past few weeks. I have so much more to share...and to do! I better get off of the computer and make good use of this nap time and get to cleaning. Oh, who am I kidding? I'm off to catch up on blog reading! 

Still alive!

For those of you who are wondering...I am still alive! Just without Internet! :-( I have been so busy with unpacking and moving lately it hasn't bothered me TOO much....except that I have hated not being able to blog about our moving adventures! And I hate missing out on reading y'alls blogs! I have a lot of catching up to do! I haven't ever blogged from my phone but I decided that I would give it a try!

I seriously can't wait to have Internet so I can share our moving pictures and some of the projects I've completed already! If you follow me on twitter/instagram then you're pretty caught up!

I'm going to leave you today with some pictures of the cuteness that is Emma Claire. I feel like she has gotten SO big literally overnight. Since I last blogged she has gotten her first top tooth AND has become a CRAWLER! She crawled for the very first time yesterday! And today she sported her very first baby ponytail. I am in love!

Last Night

As I sit here tonight I have a ton of mountain pictures and stories to share, as well as engagement pictures to edit. {I took Rachel's engagement pictures at the mountains and they are GORGEOUS! I can't wait to share} However, tonight is our last night at our first home in Virginia. It's weird to think that we have already lived here for an entire year. While I am somewhat nostalgic about this home because it's the home we brought Emma Claire home from the hospital to, I am beyond excited to move. I feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve! I cannot wait to spend the first night in our new home!

The movers are coming tomorrow and I have some serious work to do tonight! I am not nearly as packed as I would like to be. While we are only moving up the road a few miles, a move is a move! 

Although I'm not sad to leave it is weird that we are moving again already! I feel like just yesterday we were moving into this home!

Wish us luck tomorrow!