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The end. :)

That one random post..

I love getting comments from my friends/readers :)  It's nice to know others like to know what's going on in our family!  Thank you guys for your love and support!  Love you all!  :)

Andrea:  So...I am a little mad at myself today.  I don't think I mentioned it on here, but I cut my hair and donated it back in October.  The feeling was great and it was so nice to have a new do.  BUT...4 months later (NOW) I am regretting it!  I miss my long locks and even worse...I just got my haircut 3 weeks ago AGAIN to keep it looking good.  So, I like to act on impulse and decided to do straight across bangs to be fun.  BIG MISTAKE.  They are very cute and my stylist did a fabulous job, but it's totally not me!  I'm in denial about this....I'm in the process of growing my hair out yet again.  Long hair, I'll see ya in 2013 :/ No pictures for the moment, like I said, I'm in denial.

Shem = a funny dude.  I love him.  We sold our bird, Jax, in the fall and Shem is bird-sick.  He signed up to volunteer at Cage World for now until we have the time to care for a bird again.  In fact, we go to Cage World often and we've had our eye on this beautiful fischer lovebird.  He looked like a dinosaur the first time we saw him a few weeks back when he was brand new...pretty ugly.  Then we visited him last week and his feathers are coming in nicely and he is so pretty!  Shem is currently looking for a job that is close to school and home so he can ride his bike.  We have one car and it's hard having to share it while working around the incredibly inconvenient schedule nursing school has to offer.  We are counting down the year until I'm finished with school to move out and get on in our lives!  He's half way with engineering, too, so YAY!  Hoping this year goes by ultra fast!  And hoping I don't regret wishing that...

Maycee, well, she is amazing.  She is two...WEIRD!  I am so amazed at how many words she knows and objects she knows.  We have a book of 100 first words and she knows almost every object on each page!  She's way too smart!  And she can be quite the chatter box, formulating small sentences.  And what's the best is being a mommy automatically makes you fluent in toddler lingo.  I love being able to communicate with and understand her!

Some things she is saying:
"babble" -table
"peese" -please
"nack" - snack
"mote" - remote
"do-et" - let me do it
"nammies" -pajamas
"low" - hello
"luv u" - I love you
and the list goes on...

So, I have some pictures to put up but I'm feeling lazy.  Maybe I will get them up over the weekend.  For now, I'm fiddling around and re-arranging the blog.  I do that a lot.

Happy Tuesday!!

My Valentine

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Shem, this is what describes our love.  I love working toward a goal with you.  I love you.

Maycee!

Yes, that's right!  It's Maycee's birthday today!  She's 2!  Her party is on Friday, but we are having a fun day spending time with her on the actual day!  We love you Maycee Lynn! 

Maycee's first haircut!

The time has finally come!  Cutting her hair was not a matter of it being too long, more to try and control it!  Haha, she has some pretty crazy hair that matches her personality perfectly.  :)  And although it was lots of fun to pull her hair back and do some wacky styles, a change was much needed.  Totally worth it!!  We love her newly trimmed hair and she looks even more grown up.  Wow, time has flown by.  AND...she'll be 2 on February 8th!  Dang, we still have that bink and we haven't progressed into pull-ups.  We have a "fun" year ahead!  Seriously am excited though!

The motivating hair do that morning!

She didn't want her cute face to be seen.  haha

The bribe:  by the time I was finished, she went through two whole cookies.  eek!

The finished product!  Yesss!  It looks so darling.  I cut off an inch.  Seems more than that, though.

Happy!  It's all done!

Hair that will be scrap booked!