April = Atlanta / The Uncontrollable Smile

I'm so EXCITED because April is going to bring two opportunities to go home!!! I LOVE GOING HOME!!! There is nothing that I don't miss about ATLANTA... I will even take the traffic... if that means I get to spend some time in the peach state!

Also, just a shout out to Brenton... today is the 30th... which is a special day for us.

Brenton,

Often I will be sitting at work, on the treadmill, brushing my teeth, driving home, picking out what bread I want, trying to decide between fries or no fries in line at Chik-fil-a (an intense internal struggle), procrastinating on laundry, or any given part of my day... and then it sneaks up me... a smile! This smile is not just any smile, and I know it well. This smile is a product of that I'm so wonderfully happy that I am beside myself feeling. This feeling is so big and strong that it has absolutely no choice but to explode on my face in the form of a huge smile. You may think I can control this... I can't. Trust me sometimes it's flat out embarrassing. Like I said I can be on the treadmill (my least favorite part of working out), and you will smile at me as you walk by on your way over to the weights... and BAM without warning I have a HUGE smile plastered on my face. A smile so big that I'm sure I've made some people at the gym wonder. It can't be controlled and that is because I love you so much. You make me so happy, and there is nothing more true. It is because of you, your willingness to love me, and be my best friend that I know I am simply the luckiest! Happy 30th! LOVE YOU BUNCHES!!!

A bad case of the MONDAYS on a Tuesday...

I'm tired today. Not just like the usual "I'm tired... I did too much and went to bed WAY TOO LATE" kind of tired I always am... I'm long weekend tired. The kind where you have taken a long weekend not quite long enough to recoup sleep, but the kind where it is just long enough to get out of you routine.

Getting back in the routine is NEVER easy, and not a fun task if you ask me. So, I am tired. That has been pretty much how I have felt all day. However, while being tired my mind has been has been spinning... I came across these two quotes today. I feel like I relate to both of these right now. I feel like they couldn't be more true. I'm going to try to keep words like these in mind on days like today as well as the rest.

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

She's huggable, loveable, cute as a buggable, and she's ONE

Yesterday, St. Patrick's Day, was Little Bit's (Alex's) 1st birthday! It is so hard to believe that it has already been a year since she got here. I remember meeting her for the first time so well...

is was an absolutely perfect little tubber of a baby (she weighed 9.5 lbs), and sinse the day I meant her I just can't get enough Little Bit in my life.

Alex you see is my wonderful friend and c0-worker's baby girl, and so I have been lucky to spend lots of time with this little munchkin. Time has flown by, and she is actually...

ONE! Brenton and I went over to her "I'm one" family birthday party yesterday to help CeLeBrAtE this big milestone.

She is truly the cutest one year old I know....

I really just can't get enough... literally... I made myself car sick cocking my head around this whole car trip taking pictures and videos of her cuteness!

As you can see I can fill my memory card in almost no time flat...

Little Bit,

I hope you had such a great

FIRST BIRTHDAY!

I hope that all of your little

one year old wishes come true!

You could not be any cuter than you

are, and I just love you so much!

HAPPY SHOO YOU!!!