Night, Night

Abigail's latest obsession has been, "Night, Night."

This makes bed time and nap time a breeze. She gets her dolls and binky and tells us, night night, and we put her to bed.

She uses night night whenever she wants to snuggle up too.

Her favorite places to snuggle up are in our bed, or... on the floor watching Sesame Street :)

18 Months Old

...and man, has the time flown by.

We had a great visit with the doctor today.

Great, because it was her first time for a well child check without any shots.

She weighed in at whopping 22 lbs... putting her in the twentieth percentile.

She has gained just about 2 pounds in the past six months.

Our little shrimp measured in at 29.5 inches, up a whole inch from her 12 month visit.

Fifth percentile for height :)

It works out for us, she's been in a lot of the same clothes for a year now.

I can't imagine what life would be like if we didn't have that smile looking up at us every day.

Or if I couldn't hear her giggle, or hear her sweet little voice calling me mama.

And of course, I can't imagine life without our constant games of hide and seek...

Here she is in her favorite spot to hide :)

So... what did YOU do this weekend?

I think Charles took my last post as a challenge. How dare I say that we have had nothing going on that was worth blogging about? He made sure that I would have something for my readers to enjoy today.

Thursday he informed me that he had planned a special date for us and that it was a surprise. All he told me was that we needed to be in Seattle at 3:30 Saturday, and needed to be dressed in comfy workout clothes. I went through all of our normal date options... grocery shopping, Dinner, play basketball, popcorn and a TV show... I know, you are all jealous of how we spend our childless nights lately, there was even our fancy anniversary date to Home Depot and the mall- we were actually completely thrilled about. None of those seemed to fit the description, or the need for the drive to Seattle, so I was totally clueless.

Lucky for me, Charles can't keep a secret to save his life, so by Thursday night, he had completely divulged his plan. He filled me in that he had already paid for and scheduled for us to have a flying trapeze lesson in Seattle on Saturday.

Yes. You read that right.

My first thought? Hmm... how can I pick just one? Has he lost his mind? Doesn't he know I am terrified of heights? Can he get his money back? Would it hurt his feelings if I am not thrilled about this leap of faith? And my final verbalized thought to my husband... "That sounds, fun?"

I had to call Mom and Courtney immediately. They would get a kick out of it for sure.

What I was not prepared for was one of the most fun nights with my husband that we have had together in a REALLY long time. We had a blast, and Charles was actually REALLY good at it. So, for your viewing pleasure... our circus act of a family on the flying trapeze. I'll show 2 of our first tries, and then our last ones. Charles made the "catch" to the other trapeze... I did not :(

Charles on his first attempt... a total natural

Charles's Knee Hang from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

Me trying to be brave... haha

Circus Heather from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

Charles getting caught

Charles' Catch from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

Me missing the catch

Heather's missed Catch... :( from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

If you live around Seattle... I HIGHLY recommend it.Give these guys a try Emerald City Trapeze Arts School. You won't be disappointed!!

In Case you were wondering...

We are still here. Just nothing noteworthy to blog about.

Except for her... she's been really fun this week!

Here is a funny video of her yesterday. I had the input volume up too loud on our computer, so make sure your volume isn't up too high :)

If You're Happy and You Know it from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

Before I got married, I was a firm believer that there is no such thing as a perfect match. I thought that there were probably a whole handful of guys out there that I could be perfectly happy marrying. No such thing as a one and only, and certainly no fairy tale endings.

Three years later... I feel a lot different about things.

Happy Anniversary, Babe :)

A VERY Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. It was so much fun to see Abigail get excited about opening her presents, and her excitement when she saw what they all were. She is still just ecstatic to get to play with all of her new things. Any time we are home, she is just running around giggling and playing. It has been a lot of fun. Here are just a few pictures of the madness on Christmas Day :) Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Special Day

Abigail's Uncle Sammy had a very special birthday last week.

He turned 8 years old and got to be baptized.

And as you can see, she is a quite fond of this particular uncle of hers.

We are proud of you Sam :)

A little run down...

This will probably be boring for most of you, but one or two might care what we did while were were in Texas for so long. Here is the run down.

We finally took some family pictures while were were all together. By we... I mean WE. My sister in law's dad was nice enough to come take the big group ones for us so we could all be in them. I don't have those yet, but I had to post this picture of my parents with all the grandchildren. It captures the essence of our family. Haha. This is why posed pictures don't work with small kids. Logan is my favorite... too bad he's nothing like his dad.

Gogurt is a wonderful, dangerous thing.

Gettin in a little workout at Mimi's

You can't tell by the look on her face here... but Abigail LOVED getting to play with her cousins.

This is my nephew Logan, zonked out after the turkey trot, with a candycane in his mouth. That was a rough 1K!

Here is all the Turkey Trotters! Kyle, Alissa, and Henry were there to support, but had already taken off when we took the picture. Big time props to Mimi and Pops who did their first 10K and to Annie and Logan for "winning the race" and getting blue ribbons :)

Here is Abi and her cousin Jacob and their matching Thanksgiving shirts. I had to make them shirts for the Turkey Trot. Had to. Can you tell that Jacob is actually about 10 months younger than Abigail? (is that right becca?) Yeah... same weight, same size clothes. He is delicious.

Yet again, the picture does not tell the story, but Abigail loved taking the four wheeler or one of the EZ-Goes (not sure how you really spell that) out to the pastures to see the cows. Bonus?? The dogs followed us out and chased the cows around a bit. She just ate it up. I think she's definitely got a little Texas in her :)

Where have we been?

Well.... I don't want to make you jealous with all the details. But lets just say,

we've had a FUN three weeks at our house.

I might be getting excited early, but I think since Abigail only woke up TWICE last night... instead of waking every hour, screaming in pain, I THINK we might be over it all.

If you are feeling jealous, I'm sorry- we should have come and visit you. It might have helped with the cabin fever.

Cows

Abigail hangin' out at the corral with the cows

I have lots of pictures from our trip. It was one of our most fun trips to Texas... I think that we think that every time we go :) I just keeps getting better. One of the best parts of the trip was taking Abigail out to see Papa's cows. We went out to see them every time we went to Nana and Papa's house. Then we went out to the main ranch to see the house that they remodeled this summer and yes, checked out the cows there- wild turkeys were a bonus siting. Then on the way home from there, we stopped by another one of Papa's ranches to see the new baby calves and their mamas. Abigail LOVES looking at the cows. As soon as she saw them, she'd just start mooing and pointing. Here is one picture of her, just about to jump out of the car window to get to them.

Boy, oh, boy... do I miss those sunsets

Begging...

The picture is unrelated to the post... our family at the top of the Space Needle on my birthday.

Abigail must share my fear of heights :)

I have a plea for any of my DFW readers :)

We are doing a Turkey Trot in Fort Worth on Thanksgiving morning, and will be pushing Abigail in a stroller. I don't want to have to bring my jogging stroller on the plane, I'd much rather just take our small umbrella stroller for traveling.

Anyone have a jogging stroller that I could borrow on Thanksgiving morning?

Belly Laughs

I dare you not to laugh while watching this one.

If you must... skip to the really good stuff starting about one minute into the video.

Laughing from Charles Himmer on Vimeo.

Professional Photographer

Abigail will be doing photo sessions for the holidays... slots are filling fast.

She's a Canon girl... just like her mama :)

What A WEEK

Courtney and Daniel came to visit last week and we LOVED every minute of it.

Especially Abigail...

She couldn't get enough of them :)

Lucky for us... we get to see them again on Saturday

... in the MOTHERLAND

CHEESE

I'm loving this face right now

How can you NOT love that?