okay jojo - here it is!!!!! since she fell and busted her face on her last attempt to walk, which was a little over a month ago, she has REFUSED to even try to walk again --- until today! and here she is, VERY proud of herself!

abby had her first ice cream cone tonight! she LOVED it! i don't think i've had so much fun in a while --- just watching her dive into this baby-sized ice cream cone! it's funny - she's never had one before, but knew exactly how to hold it and eat from it! DANG i have a smart kid!! :-) she's just growing up too fast. not my baby anymore.

here are the newest additions to the snelson household. no names yet. not really sure if they are boy(s) or girl(s). but i guess if we get little tadpoles we'll know, right?!

anyway, they are fire belly toads and i LOVE them!!

some easter pics

this is just to prove that we teach and encourage good personal hygiene in the snelson household.

robert and i went to a concert tonight that Atlanta Temple Band and the Georgia Brass Band put on at at the corps. we were planning on taking abby but our good friends, jonathan and amanda, volunteered to keep her at our house instead. i thought that was a better idea than taking her because a) there was no nursery and b) the concert didn't start until 8. (whoever came up with that brilliant idea obviously has no children!)

anyway, jonathan and amanda stayed here with their 2 and abby. they not only bathed abby and put her to bed, when we walked in, our house was IMMACULATE! amanda had spent the evening CLEANING MY HOUSE!! i was blown away!! i have to say that it's so nice coming home to a really clean house. i mean, i keep my house as clean as i can, but with 3 kids all day, it's hard to be clean like this! half the time i go to bed with some dishes in the sink and a floor that needs to be swept. but NOT TONIGHT!!!!

THANK YOU JONATHAN AND AMANDA! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

it occured to me last night that abby is talking so much and i need to put a list of words that she says. she understand quite a bit and she's VERY conversational in her "babbling". she is doing really well at trying out new words. so here's her vocabulary at the moment (i'll keep adding to this as i remember new ones):

mama
daddy
jojo
abeeail (abigail)
babby (abby)
go
moo
quack
woof woof
oooh-oooh-ah-ah-ah (monkey sound)
more
baff (bath)
doggie
yeah
no
okay
hot
peesss (please)
ka koo (thank you)
raarrr (roar)
apple
nana (banana)
poon (spoon)
nigh-nigh (night-night)
bye bye
uh oh skeeooooh (uh oh spaghettio)
hi
book
ball
sock

no guilt in life; no fear in death
this is the power of christ in me
from life's first cry to final breath
jesus commands my destiny
no pow'r of hell, no scheme of man
can ever pluck me from his hand
til he returns, or calls me home
here in the power of christ i'll stand

well she did it! abby officially took her first steps today! 8 to be exact!

robert and i were talking on the couch and abby was playing at her toybox when all of a sudden i saw movement. i looked up and she was walking across the room! she made it about 8 steps then fell on her butt! i couldn't believe it! and no video or pictures because we were not expecting it! but SHE DID IT!!!!!

while robert and i were going through some music getting ready for the recording studio tomorrow, abby decided she wanted to sing along (excuse the mess of toys EVERYWHERE!):

some pics from dallas. i didn't take NEARLY as many as i should have....but here are the highlights:

abby's learning to walk!!!!!

in her first shorties that mommy made!

this was the ONLY smile we got on the swings. she HATED the swings!!!

having some good jojo time!!

saw this. HAD to post it! too good!!!! click on it to get a bigger version so you can read it!

it's been SO PRETTY out lately that we decided today we'd take dinner to the park. here are "a few" pics from our time outside!

anyone want to explain to me why my child is all of a sudden not wanting to sleep at night? or at naps? she used to go down right away, no fights. but the past couple of weeks or so she fights me. last night she didn't go to sleep until 10:30. the night before that it was 1! seriously, what happened to my great-sleeper?!!?!?

i'm going to dallas on thursday to spend some time with mom for a week. maybe i can catch up on sleep then. well, maybe not - we'll be wedding planning all week (woo hoo!!!!!) so sleep might not be an option. i can't wait to go be "girly" with mom and do some real planning for her big day! it's really cool being on this side of things - usually it's the mom helping the daughter...but it's the ole switcharoo this time and i'm excited about it! i need to buy a matron-of-honor dress while i'm out there too...

i've posted this song before. i have always loved it. but right now the words are especially meaningful in my life. whether it seems that way or not to people, the Lord knows my heart and knows that He IS my Hiding Place.




You are my hiding place
You always fill my heart
With songs of deliverance
Whenever I am afraid
I will trust in You

I will trust in You
Let the weak say
I am strong
In the strength of the Lord
You are my hiding place
You always fill my heart
With songs of deliverance
Whenever I am afraid
I will trust in You

I will trust in You
Let the weak say I am strong
In the strength of the Lord
I will trust in You

almost missed it....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR SEUSS!!!!!

abby's first time actually playing in snow! last year we made a snowman and ran out, took pics, and came right back in. but this year she got to sit in it!!!! she didn't really like it that much. it lasted all of 3 minutes! but that's enough for mommy and daddy to get pictures!!!

Before...




After...(the trim isn't painted yet. so don't look at that!)





And admiring our beautiful corner cut!

Using a circular saw


"what's gonna work? TEAMWORK!!"

It's Official!!!

i got my first dishcloths in the mail!!! they are SO pretty! i can't wait to use them!

from saclements

top row is from kitkat20
bottom row is from kaostling