thursday three.

it's been a really great week! although, i am exhausted; probably the most tired i've been in a while. but it's a good exhausted. bella has been becoming more and more active and keeping us on our toes... so now that she is more on the move, so are we! active baby=tired parents!

so here is this week's thursday three. please excuse any typos or sentances that don't make sense. i'm on my second cup of coffee, but i can't promise anything. here. we. go.

nick

i'm going to go out on a limb and guess my husband's highlight of the week. i think it would be two-fold. the first one: saturday night was "guys night" for him. he went over to his friend, robert's apartment with two other guys to play robert's xbox kinect. i wish i could have been a fly on the wall to watch these four men. let's just say i got lots of text messages from nick that evening about how fun the kinect is and how we have to get one. i would guess that nick's second highlight of the week will be tonight... bella is going to hang out with her aunt jessica, uncle james and cousin wyatt and nick&i are going on a date! and we're going to one of his favorite places: johnny b's in southlake. if you live in the dallas area and like hamburgers, you have to check this place out. oh-so-delish. so, although it hasn't happened yet, i anticipate tonight will be one of his highlights for this week! if you have ever tasted one of their burgers, you will understand.

meg
while nick had guys night saturday, i got to have "craft night" with my good friend amanda (who is an amaaaaazing photographer, by the way... check out some of her work here when she took some family photos for us!) anyway, i had some craft projects i wanted to work on, including a few decorating ventures for our home. i got quite a bit done that i was really excited about, and having quality time with a girl friend? even better. crafting has been something that i've really enjoyed as of late and has helped keep my creative juices a-flowin' since becoming a stay-at-home-mom. just a few little changes and sprucing-up and it feels like we have a new home! love it. next up for my craft projects? some more wall art, hair clips, perhaps some pillows for our couch and my attempt to replicate this flowered belt for bella:

isn't that the sweetest lil belt you've ever seen? i'm going to try to re-create it. let's keep our fingers crossed, friends.

bel
our sweet lil pumpkin has been changing so much this week. probably more than any other week in her 9 1/2 month life :) on monday, she began pulling up in her crib and prompted nick to lower her mattress... tuesday, she began to sit up in her crib... so now whenever i put her down, i peek in on her about ten minutes later and she's sitting in her crib, talking to herself. so. cute. but making naptime a little more challanging... and wednesday night she interupted our girls prayer night by doing this:

she totally loved the audience she had, by the way. so sweet. it's SO amazing to watch her learn all these new things on her own, and how she grows and changes and develop! i love getting to cheer her on and encourage her as her mom and just watch her discover life. she is now such a little girl with her sweet lil teeth, budding (and crazy!) personality and giggles and squeals. i never knew how much joy i could find in such a tiny little person who i've only known for nine months, but it's true. i'm loving this stage sooo much and nick&i have so much love for our sweet bella grace and how much she adds to our little family :)

see you next week for another thursday three, lovely readers. same time. same place.