Saturday, January 28, 2012

Brinkli's Baby Shower

Putting into words how grateful I am to the plethora of friends and family who threw Brinks and I such a great shower today seems impossible! Thank you, Emily Bennett, for hosting this amazing shin-dig in your beautiful home...and during TAX SEASON! You are such a sweet, true friend and you have ALWAYS been a cheerleader of the Hart Family! We love you! To the rest of my hostesses (Marci Beene, Shayne Bowen, Dana Garza, and Ashlee Laycock) this shower was phenomenal. I walk into Brinkli's room and just want to cry...I'm so overwhelmed with the generosity and love bestowed upon this little girl who has yet to arrive. Donnie and I have such loving, caring, and thoughtful friends and family. I can't wait for this little girl to meet each and every one of you! I know she will be as loved and cared for as Syd and Mak. :) Now for the pics of this sweet event...
My Super Hostesses and I - Dana Garza, Shayne Bowen, Big Momma, Ashlee Laycock, Marci Beene, and Emily Bennett

The satin shirt isn't creating an optical illusion...the belly really is that big!

The talented Emily Bennett made this fantastic center piece!

Denise Mott and her fabulous self created a DELICIOUS cupcake onsie!

YUM!

More Yum!

We opened presents for nearly an hour!

Sydni was my present-opening assistant! It's crazy to think that my pretty Syd-o was the beach ball under my shirt at my last shower! (Makki preferred to stay home and "help" Daddy entertain her cousins!)

Pretty girl...love this little chick! She is SOOOOO excited to be a big sister again!

How cute is this stroller/car seat? With Syd and Mak, they didn't make girly carseats and strollers.

...AMAZING...and this is only HALF of the loot!

Wow, wow, and WOW!

So blessed...
The AWESOME letters my talented sister, Layci Danner, painted for Brinkli's nursery. Donnie is helping me set up and put away everything tomorrow...pics of her nursery are to come, so be on the look-out!

I better start writing my thank you notes NOW....I might be able to finish before her 1st birthday!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Practicing for Baby...

The girls love taking care of little ones, and our sweet cousin Nixsyn was the target of their love and affection this past weekend. I think they tend to overly love on her, and can make her a bit nervous! Here's the girls attempting to hold and feed Miss Long a bottle.

35 Weeks!

The panic is starting to set in....only five more weeks to go! I wake up in the middle of the night, and go over my "to do" list; however, the list never seems to shorten no matter what I do!  I have so many things that need to be taken care of at work and home...let's just hope that five weeks is enough time to accomplish my gargantuan list. :) Here's the belly a few days shy of 35 weeks. Yikes!



The girls pics with the basketballs under their shirts aren't really that much bigger than this big ole' belly on me!


Mommy's Belly...According to Syd and Mak


What's scary is that they are not that far off...


Little turkey!


Christmas 2011


We had a great Christmas vacation...so much to be thankful for! We are truly blessed.

Happy New Year!

We had another great New Year's party! Baking pizzas, making ice cream, and watching the ball drop was tons of fun.  I'm just sad the girls didn't get to have their friends over. We'd just battled the stomach bug a few days before, and I didn't want to expose any of their buddies...what a new year's gift that would've been! The girls were in full force, playing board games and spraying silly string at midnight. Thank goodness Donnie had enough energy to keep up with them, because the preggo chick was struggling to make it until 12:00. :)

The Adventures of Buddy the Elf!

Buddy came to us two years ago from the North Pole, but for some odd reason, this year Buddy was quite mischievous!  He delighted the girls with his antics each morning, and I must say that both Donnie and I looked forward Buddy's crazy shenanigans, too.  Here's a sampling of Buddy's crazy holiday season with the Harts: 

Roasting marshmallows...


Making a few early morning calls...
Writing messages with the holiday candy...
He toilet papered the bathroom, too!
Lounging in his brazier hammock...
He even packed the girls' lunch one morning.
What an ornery elf! He grafittied the girls' family pictures.
"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup."
Enjoying some popcorn left over from our family movie night the evening before...
Fishing in the toilet bowl....
Buddy wasn't always mischievious...he brought Makki a birthday gift from the North Pole!
Sydni thought Buddy's underwear tree was so FUNNY! He raided the panty drawer the night before I finally decorated the tree.