Mother Daughter Fiesta!

Saturday, we went to an annual mother daughter dinner at a church we fellowship with in Louisville. (Click here to see my blog post about the mother daughter dinner last year) It was so much fun! The theme this year was Fiesta! So, we all got "decked out" in our fiesta finest!

I rode with my pastor's wife and my friend, Lacey. This was my view from the back seat. Interesting, I know!

This is Lacey all dressed up.

This is the cute little Trinity!

This is all of our group that went. Ashlee and Kari wasn't able to go. We really missed them!

We really had a great time. Our pastor's wife, Sis. Karen, volunteered us to do a skit! Yikes! I get so nervous with things like that. But it turned out really good. Mostly I just said, "Si, Si" and shook my head frantically! Ha!

We had a lot of laughs too! However, I am not going to mention Pedro. I will say that I now want to be a meteorologist when I grow up! (Confusing, I know. Maybe I'll explain it one of these days!)

Mother's Day 2011

I'll just tell ya, I had an awesome Mother's day! I am so blessed to be able to be a mother. I am so thankful that God chose me to take care of this little girl he has placed in my life! It is an awesome responsibility that I sometimes feel like I am failing at. But I know that God will help me each and every step of the way. I cannot imagine trying to be a mother without Him here helping me.

We went to church Sunday morning. I was able to hear my pastor preach a great sermon just for us moms.

I had to put this picture on here because I think it is hilarious that Trinity is picking her nose in this one! I'm just crazy like that!

Trinity would not smile in these pictures.

This was us on my first Mother's day last year. I cannot believe she can change so much in just a year's time.

These are some flowers I got from church for being the youngest mother there! I hope I can keep them alive!

After church, we went to my SIL house for a Mother's day cook-out. We had a lot of fun. Especially Trinity because they had 2 little dogs for her to play with!

This is my MIL cooking out. (Kathi, I forgot to tell her to take her sunglasses off for this picture!)

This is what Trinity got me for Mother's day! I love my CHI flat iron and I love this hair dryer also. It dried my hair a lot faster than my old one and also didn't make my hair frizzy at all! Awesome!

Steven is great at keeping a secret, but awful at hiding things. Needless to say, I already knew that I was getting this. So, yesterday morning after I got out of the shower, I went to Steven's study where is was praying (Yes, I know I interrupted his prayer), I peeked in the door and said, "It's Mother's day." Steven said, "Happy Mother's day." And I said, "I want my hair dryer!" Steven started laughing!

I am so excited that I am actually posting this blog post in a timely manner! I honestly figured it would probably be Father's day before I posted it! I am on the ball today! Yay me!

Trinity's First Ride On The 4-Wheeler!

Today, Steven was working outside and he had our 4-wheeler out. I decided to hop on it and go for a ride and I wanted Trinity to ride with me. She was scared to death! The only way I could get her to get on it is if I told her we could go see daddy.

So we drove around and then went to see daddy. We also drove to see the chickens and turkeys. I love living in the country!



Okay, now some side notes...
#1. No, I don't have pants on. It looks like in the picture I have pants on, but I don't.

#2. Yes, Trinity has on an Amish apron. (It was my friend, Ashlee's, little girl's from our old fashioned day last year.)

#3. No, we are not Amish. I do, however get asked that question a lot.

#4. Yes, I know that my 4-wheeler is very small. Don't be hatin'! I love it cause that little 4-wheeler brought me hours of fun when I was younger.

Now that, that is out of the way, here is some more pictures of our cute little girl!













She is growing every day. I think she learns something new every hour!

Yesterday, she got my mom's phone and said, "Ho (this is how she says hello) Hi Baby!" I thought that was hilarious!

She also is learning to do the hand motions to some kids songs. She knows The Wise Man Built His House Upon A Rock and The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

She is learning to say excuse me when someone is in her way or when she burps. Instead of saying, "Excuse me." She says, "Peas Peas." Monday, she was playing beside the bath tub and the shower curtain was in her way and she said, "Peas peas."

Also, Thursday I had the hiccups and every time I hiccuped, Trinity would say, "Peas peas." Too funny!

Every night when I put Trinity to bed I say a little prayer. The other night she prayed instead of me! It was a repeat after me thing but it was still pretty neat.

That's all for now! I hope everyone has a great mother's day tomorrow!

Our Easter 2011

Did y'all have a good Easter? I know this post is a little late (not as late as usual though!) We had a pretty good Easter. It rained all day and I was sick but it was still good.

Saturday night we colored eggs. I love doing this and I love doing it with Trinity even more! She had a lot of fun!

This is Trinity waiting very patiently for the eggs to cool.

She had colored some Easter egg picture frames and ended up with marker all over her face!

These are our pretty eggs!

We woke up on Easter morning to rain. Lots of rain! Pouring rain! You get the picture.

This is Trinity at church in her beautiful Easter dress!

This is Trinity last year!

Our little family.

This was our family on Easter 2010. (Can you tell that I love to compare??)

Steven's family has an Easter dinner every year, so we went there after church. After everyone left, we let Trinity hunt eggs. She loved it! Although I think she thought that it was too much like picking up her toys when she gets finished playing with them!

We were so busy last week that we didn't give Trinity her Easter basket until Wednesday! That poor child. I told Steven that if we would have known that we wasn't going to give her, her basket until Wednesday, we could have just waited to make it and got it all half off! She loved it!

I only got her one piece of candy for her basket. It was a marshmallow sucker. She loved it but she got to playing with her other stuff and sat it on the floor. Well, our little dog decided she wanted to try a bite of it, so when Trinity looked for it, she saw that Dottie had it in her mouth. Trinity almost started crying. She looked so pitiful. She really liked that sucker. This is funny because normally, Trinity thinks its hilarious when Dottie eats her food. Not this time!

Anyway, we had a great Easter and I am so grateful for our Saviour! He is the reason for this season (and all other seasons as well).

Trinity's Easter Portraits 2011

Hey y'all! I just posted Trinity's Easter portraits on my photography blog. Just click here to view them. Hope you like them!

Trinity Is 18 Months Old!

My baby girl is officially a year and a half old! Can you believe it? I sure can't.

Trinity now has 17 teeth!

Remember in the last post where I said that she had an extra tooth? Well, I took her to the dentist and they said that it was okay, but that it kind of looks like her permanent tooth. Ever heard of that? They said that when she gets a little older, they will have to do x-rays to see what their options are.

Here are some pictures of her at the dentist. She liked the dentist the first time she went, but she sure didn't like it this time.

















This is Trinity at 18 months.


This is Trinity at 6 months.

Trinity is so funny these days. She will talk your leg off and you will have no clue what she is saying. It's too funny.

She is also developing a little attitude. This I don't like. She even threw a fit in the store the other day because she didn't want me to hold her hand.

My mom and I had a HUGE scare last week at Hobby Lobby. Trinity was getting fussy in the buggy, so we let her down. I was getting some fabric cut and mom said, "Ivy, I'm going to look over here. Watch Trinity." I said okay. Mom came back over and said, "Ivy, where is Trinity." I said, "She is right here." Mom said, "No she isn't!"

Sheer. Panic!

The workers called a code ADAM for her and we franticly searched for her. I found her about 30 seconds later. I immediately started crying and thanking God that we had found her.

We were at the end of one side of the store and when I found her, she was in the middle of the store. The paranoid mother in me thinks that there is no way she could have gotten there by herself. But I guess she did.

I truly felt like an awful mother. I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking well, can't that woman keep up with her child?

It makes me nervous just thinking about it. I hope it never happens again!


On a different note... Trinity has been saying Mommy some. But not a whole lot.

And on another different note... I turned 24 last week! Ick! I'm getting old!

These are pictures I took at Cracker Barrel on my birthday.






Well, that is the end of this random post until next time!

Meet Ally...

Trinity now has a favorite toy! Meet ally...


She is a very friendly alligator that we bought for Trinity when we were in Alabama. Trinity instantly fell in love with her!


She carries her around everywhere.


And when we pray at night, I say, "... And thank you Lord for Mommy, Daddy, Dottie, and..." and then Trinity will say, "Owl?" (Her way of saying Ally) And if Trinity doesn't have Ally, she will get up right then and there and go find her. Then she comes and gets back in my lap and we finish our prayer. It is so funny!


She loves her Ally!


She sleeps with her every night.

In other news... Trinity just cut her sharp, pointy bottom tooth on her left side (I don't know the proper name for that tooth. Obviously!). I noticed that there was a huge gap between that tooth and the front tooth that was supposed to be right next to it. Well, yesterday I noticed that she has an extra tooth coming in on the bottom in that gap! Instead of having 4 teeth in-between her 2 bottom pointy teeth (???), she is going to have 5! Weird, I know! So now she has a dentist appointment for Monday. Anyone ever heard of this? If so, what happened?

I know y'all have probably been wondering where i've been. Well, I have been crazy busy, but nothing really blog worthy has happened. So I haven't been blogging except on my photography blog.

I am doing a 30 day photo challenge through the blog, Blessed Beyond Words. It has been a lot of fun. So go over to my photography blog and check out my daily photo for the month of April!

Totally off subject here (Okay, so this whole post has been totally off subject!)... Our annual anniversary meeting at our church starts this Thursday night at 7:30 if anyone wants to come! If you can't come then just pray for us. It's going to be Thursday at 7:30, Friday at 7:30, and Saturday morning at 10:00. We would live for y'all to come!

Well, that's all from me right now.