Our Lives Lately...

My Valentine's present to Bradley...heart-shaped pizza.


Yum! It was surprisingly the best tasting homemade pizza I've ever made.


Valentine's Pizza for my Valentine. It doesn't take much to make him happy. :)


Over the last several weeks I've been packing up all of Claire's clothes that are too small for her and hanging up and unpacking all of the new clothes and hand-me-downs that we have that are her size now. It's like she's got a whole new wardrobe. I found this t-shirt in a pile of clothes my sister gave me. Nostalgia took over...I'm not that big of a TCU fan...but I miss Ft. Worth and it reminds me of home.

This weekend I opened up the front door a few times waiting on friends or family to arrive at the house. Claire has jumped on the opportunity to just sit and look outside. Thankfully, I had my camera nearby and was able to snap a few shots.


Gosh, she's adorable...love her to pieces!!


I've been trying to give Claire more and more foods lately. She's about to be 1 year old and I'm so tired of pureed food! We had some meatballs leftover from the Super Bowl Meatball Subs we had last week and so I gave it a shot. She loved them!


At the Kids Exchange (huge consignment sale in Raleigh twice a year) my parents got Claire this ride along toy. She mostly likes to push is around the house herself and walk behind it, but she also has a good time riding and letting someone else push.


Coming down the hall with dad!


This makes me crack up...she looks so studious. Papa (the cat) is so needy lately. When Claire was first starting to get around (rolling over, scooting, crawling and walking) she'd always lunge at him, kiss him, grab his tail. And he loves the attention. Now, she's not as interested but he's still needy. He'll walk over to her and step in her way. She just goes around him though. One time I even saw her crawl right over him.


Another meal...this one I took a pic of because of all the variety. Peas, carrots, cheese and chicken and rice casserole. She loved it all.


During the winter, our house has MAJOR static electricity and Claire's hair is quite the conductor!! She loves this new game where we count, "One, Two, THREE" and then she "falls" onto the bed, couch, chair or our arms. Bradley was playing that with her one day and her hair was standing on it's end from static electricity. It was hilarious so I tried to take pics of it. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to capture the hair...but her faces that she made in these pics are priceless.


"I love to play games with Mom and Dad!"


"Weeeeee"