SEVEN!

Today marks Mallory's seven month birthday. Life with her just gets better and better. Her biggest accomplishment these days is that she has started to crawl!!!!! On Thursday, I was in her room packing for the weekend. Matthew put her down and started talking to her. She immediately crawled a few feet to him. We were so thankful that we were both home from work to witness this big moment! There is a video of her crawling at the bottom. (I didn't want to move it up and risk losing it).

I love her expression in this picture! Don't let the picture fool you, she is not standing at the leap frog table. But, that might be her next accomplishment.

Anyone want to wager who won this wrestling match?

We weren't sure if Mallory was intentionally sitting herself up or just doing it by accident with all her wiggling. When I found her sitting up in her bed chewing on her flower instead of napping, I knew she knew what she was up to!

This is what her bed looks like most times when she wakes up. She loves to cuddle up in the corner with her arm wrapped around the bumper. I think she must be imagining that the bumper is her mommy! She also like to sleep curled up with her bottom sticking up in the air. Her doctor told me this means she is ready for a sibling. Better keep waiting for that one Mal!

" Just lookin' cute and lovin' my paci!"

TIME TO CHANGE

I’ve been trying to write this post for a while, but haven’t been able to make myself do it. So…here goes. We’re moving! We put our house on the market back in the first half of June. We got an offer this weekend and after going back and forth a bit, we have a contract and are scheduled to close on August 15th. That is sounding really soon to me and there is so much to be done to move, so if you don’t hear from me for a while now you will know why.

We love where we live now. We have great friends and a great church. We love our house. Unfortunately we are 40+ miles from where Matthew works. So, we’ll be moving to an apartment in the “stinky” city where he fights crime. The good thing about this move is that I will get to stay at home with Mallory! Matthew will get to have more time at home with us too since his commute will be so much shorter.

So, like Peter and the rest of the Bradys sang, “When its time to change, you’ve got to rearrange”.

Do-Nuts in Heaven

This morning Harriett brought some do-nuts to the office. As several of us were gathered in the kitchen eating the sweet warm circles of perfection, someone asked "are there do-nuts in heaven?" We quickly decided that YES, there must be Shipley's Do-Nuts in heaven because they are just that good. So what do YOU think is so yummy that we will be enjoying it with God in heaven someday?

Just so you aren't concerned about your church staff, we also decided that if there are no do-nuts in heaven we won't miss them one bit. Who could miss do-nuts when you are spending eternity with God?

What A Catch!

My dad went fishing a couple of months ago and was very proud of his catch.

I went fishing last week and caught me a cutie too!

Now just a few pictures of Mallory looking cute this week.

The Fourth

Mallory and I spent the holiday weekend at my parents house. It was a great weekend full of Fourth of July decorating, watermelon, ice cream, fireworks, and more. The only sad part of it was that Matthew had to stay home and work. We all missed him (and I think he missed us a little too)!

Its getting late, so here's a slide show of some of the highlights from the weekend.