Happy Birthday Baby!

Today is my sweet husband's birthday. For years, his momma let him celebrate his birthday on hers because he was born the day after Christmas. Poor thing! We always try to celebrate it separate from Christmas. Today he decided he wanted to take the girls to North Park Center. We went to lunch at Maggiano's where we had our first date and he proposed. The girls had fun when the waiter brought him cookies with birthday candles and sang Happy Birthday to him in Italian. Tonight we had homemade lasagna and cheesecake. Loads of fun! I just want him to know how much I love him and that I hope we share at least 50 more birthdays together!

13 Things I Love About My Sweet Husband...
1. The way you love our girls.
2. How hard you work for family.
3. The little laugh you give before you whisper on the back of my neck because you know how I will giggle.
4. You love The Lord.
5. Your sneaky little laugh and how contagious it is when something is funny!
6. The smile, look in your eyes, and the way you squeeze my hand when we see something amazing our girls have done or said.
7. You taught Grace to pray such a sweet prayer and now you are teaching Hope.
8. The way my face fits in your hand when you put it on my face.
9. You are my best friend.
10. How you go find some amazing present for me that you know I would never buy for myself and you know I am going to fuss at you, but you buy it anyway because you want to get me something special.
11. You are just as competitive as I am and you put up with my pouting when I loose.
12. You tell me how beautiful and pretty you think I am even though I think I am not.
13. You love me!

15 Things G & H Love About Daddy...
1. You read stories to us at night before we go to bed.
2. We get to play chase around the living room and kitchen.
3. You let us fix your hair to make you look pretty.
4. We get to snuggle up in your chair and you watch movies with us.
5. You teach us big words and how to use them when we talk.
6. You play Booga-Booga with us!
7. You tell us how much you love us every day.
8. You give us big hugs and kisses.
9. You take us to church.
10. You work hard at your job for us.
11. You love being the daddy to 2 girls.
12. You wrestle with us.
13. You make us laugh with your silly stories and jokes.
14. You love us more the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky!
15. You love our mommy!!

Happy Birthday Hunter!

Tag... I'm It

So, I got tagged by my friend Mindy. Here goes my answers...

8 Things I did today...
1. Woke up later than I was supposed to for church this morning.
2. Gave the girls a bath.
3. Went to church.
4. Had the joy of watching a young man at church get baptized. G said when she got big she was going to do that too! :-)
5. Had lunch with Hunter's mom, step-dad, and his Aunt from Houston.
6. Went to the jewelry store with Hunter to help him with my Christmas present. After I looked at what he wanted to show me, I walked away and told him to surprise me with his choice! He knows I LOVE surprises.
7. Went to Toys R Us to do some shopping.
8. Worked on Hunter's birthday present (the 26th).

8 of my Favorite Restaurants
1. Uncle Julio's
2. Tony's
3. Boi Na Braza
4. Cheddars
5. Rosa's (YUMMY)
6. Chick-Fil-A
7. Jason's Deli
8. Pappasitos

8 Shows I Watch... (thanks to TEVO!)
1. All My Children (I have watched since I was 5! Thanks Daddy!)
2. Dancing With the Stars
3. Chuck
4. Hero's (Only when the girls are asleep)
5. Grey's Anatomy
6. Dateline
7. Desperate Housewives
8. Brothers and Sisters

8 things I Wish For...
1. To be a stay-at-home-mommy (I almost Hate to put this on here because I know Hunter wishes I could too)
2. To get pregnant this summer with baby #3 and for it to be a strapping little boy with big brown eyes and blonde curly hair just like his daddy had! (For some reason Hunter and I pretty sure that we are going to get a sweet little girl who would be named Joy!)
3. Hunter to get the Project Management job he wants and has worked so hard for.
4. More people to know Christ.
5. Our new president to make good decisions for our country.
6. A House Elf to keep our home clean (a cleaning fairy would do too).
7. A little bit warmer weather so my kids could play outside without freezing to death.
8. Traveling with Hunter around Europe and getting to see all the things he has told me about from when he lived there.

8 Things I Look Forward To...
1. Taking Grace to Dance on Monday nights and Hope getting to start dance in August next year. She begs to go with Grace every week.
2. Hugs and Kisses from my girls.
3. Snuggling in bed with my sweet husband.
4. Baby #3 sometime next year (Lord Willing!)
5. Seeing my family next week at my sister's new house she just built (their 1st one to own after 16 years of being married).
6. Getting Christmas cards out of the mail everyday.
7. Christmas morning with our girls.
8. Seeing my children grow up to be strong, faithful Christians who marry Christians and have a faithful home for my grandbabies!

Tag, You’re it Angie M, Kelly, Margaret, & Jamie

Grace's First Dance

Potty Time!

Hunter and I bought diapers about a month and half ago at Sam's and I swore it was the last time until we have number 3. Well, I can officially say we are "DIAPER FREE" in the Lynch House! Hope has worked so hard and has not had any accidents in almost 2 weeks. YEEEHAW!!!!!!!!!!! The girls went and spent last week with my mom and she fussed at me for sending plastic panties to cover her "big girl" pants. I kept telling Hunter that if we would just send her to Grandma's house she would be potty trained. I was right. She is so cute in her big girl panties and I am going to have to post a picture. Every time she potties she gets so excited and says “I a big girl mommy! I teeteed for you!" We are so proud. My baby is such a big girl. They grow so fast.

The Best Lemonade Ever!

As we were packing to come to Grandma & Papaw's house yesterday, the girls decided that they needed to pack a bag of their own. Yes, it had to include their favorite stuffed animals, Barbies, a few other toys, and oh and yes, lemons! Grace went to the fridge and got out the 3 lemons we had, packed each one in a zip lock bag so they would not make a mess on their toys, and then promplty packed them in the suitcase while I was upstairs packing. She ran to tell me that she had done this and all I could do was laugh. She said she had to bring them to Grandma's house because she made the best lemonade.

This morning, my mom catered to our little darlings request to make homemade lemonade. They got out all the necessary supplies and went to work. The girls said it was the best lemonade they ever tasted! I know I need to get busy and put this in their baby book! Here are a few pictures...

Getting Started!

Working Hard!

Yes, the best lemonade ever!

Grandma's reward for a job well done!

Hunter's First Non-Technical Blog Contribution

This is our guard dog!

Little Moments

It is always those little moments that you do not want to forget! Yesterday, it was Grace coming down from her nap and I had made her favorite Peanut Butter and M&M cookies. She was so sweet. She told me, "Mommy, you are the best mommy! You always take care of me and you make the best cookies too!" This morning it was her waking me up as she crawled in our big bed and snuggling up next to me. She even offered me her silky. If you really know my girl, you know that is true love. I think the best is when we asked her what she was going to ask Santa for she replied, "Love! Everyone needs more love, right Mama?!". My 4 year old is so insightful and spiritual. I look at her and I see God in ways I never had before. I see him through my child's loving eyes.

Today, it was my "Hopie-Lopes" (yes, she will hate that nickname when she gets older!). The little smiles and kisses she gives and her holding my arm as I folded the laundry telling me "I help you Mama, I help!". We were in Best Buy tonight and kept chasing me and then running away yelling, "You can't catch me Mama! You can't catch me!" Her little laugh was echoing through the store and gaining the smiles of everyone we passed, all of us laughing. After we got our p.j.'s on, it was watching her touch the ornaments on the tree. She loves the red truck that was the ornament we bought for her last year. My girl loves trucks and cars! In her funny little voice she kept saying, "Dis my car Mama? Dis is Hopie's car! I love my car Mama!" She was taking ornaments off the tree, moving them around singing "Jesus Loves Me" and having the best time. I use to wonder before I had Hope how I could love another baby as much I did Grace. When we discovered I was pregnant, I found out. It came immediately! I know God blessed my life with Hope to show me how deeply I could love.

These 2 girls have brought us so much joy and love. Maybe one day they will read these little tidbits of their Mama's rambling and get a little tingles of joy over the little moments that make my day!

Party Time!

We had a "Tinkerbell Birthday Bash" for G last night and had a wonderful time. All the kids played in the sand, bounced in the little bounce house, and had a blast with chalk on the fence. It was great to see so many of our friends that we do not get to see that often. Thank you to everyone for joining in our fun. And a Huge thank you to Nano & Aunt Nicki for helping us get everything cleaned up! God has blessed us such wonderful friends and family! I added a few pictures below. However, I am new to this and there is HTML code in my view and I don't where the pictures start or stop! I think that I may have a few of them twice but I can't figure out how to take them off! Enjoy the pictures!

































As we were cleaning up last night, Hunter made the comment "Somebody said we had a party but I think I missed it!"

4 Years?

Tonight, I tucked my 4 year old into bed. My 4 year old? How did my tiny baby grow so fast? It is so hard to believe that this time 4 years ago, we were holding our baby girl for the first time. G is so smart and funny. She drives her daddy crazy and she is just like him. :-) She has become such a little lady with the vocabulary to boot. Papaw has taught her what "omnipotent" and "omnipresent" means (if only you could have seen the manager in the shoe store as she told him all about both words) and daddy’s new word for this week has been "aspirations". She insists that she is an adult all because she wants "to drive a car all by herself and drink out a glass cup!" Evidently, she hates drinking from plastic cups (yes, these were her words last week). If only being an adult was so easy!

G is a wonderul and loving big sister. Well, most of the time. She and H were so sweet last night as they played Barbie's in her bedroom. They were both pretending to mommies. H has been singing "Happy Birthday to her all evening.

As we snuggled in her bed tonight, reading The Pokey Little Puppy, she told me this was the best birthday ever. We woke her up this morning singing "Happy Birthday", took cupcakes (bright pink ones) to Mrs. Amanda's, went to Sonic to enjoy her favorite Meat & Cheese only hamburger on the picnic tables they have outside, and ended her evening with tap and ballet class. She had us laughing as she pushed the button and attempted to order her own dinner at Sonic . Oh to be 4! A few months ago our preacher Lyle said that we see God in the quite moments. Even though the day was not so quiet due to her excitement, I saw HIM in the joy of my child today and had to share it with our family and friends. Happy Birthday my Goosey G Girl!

So now my blog is started , hopefully I can keep up with it. Time flies so fast and we are so busy. We always seem to forget to send out pictures, send emails to tell our family and friends that we are thinking about them, and yes, to do the laundry. Yes, time flies when you are having fun. I choose the scripture "Be still and know that I am God" because it so true. Sometimes you just have to be still to see and hear HIM...