sweet love

i am seriously, down right, crazy, silly in love with this little girl. we both are. there are times we cherish her naps so we may find rest, but then there are times where we race up the stairs to be the one to get her out of the crib because we missed her so much. silly tingles we are. we just love our little girl. she makes my heart smile. that is all. happy monday.

saying goodbye (but not really)

i am not going there. if i go there, then my face will be big and swollen and puffy from endless minutes, and hours, and days of tears. so i am not going there.

but this picture will.

we love you brooke and josh. we love with our whole heart. now we will just start loving through our new mac. (hint, hint hubby).

be content

prayers. answers. heart's longing. god's desire. selfish wants. these are all the things us tingles are pondering lately. well, maybe not addison, but terry and i. this picture portrays this year so perfectly. me (again, not addison), constantly looking to god for his answers. constantly waiting for the "future" - for our house to sell, for time to slow down, for traveling to cease. when all the while if i would have stopped looking up, stopped badgering God for answers, i might have had a moment to look right in front of. i might have seen, heard the answer all along.

be content.

"But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that." I Timothy 6: 6-8

ha. i have been anything but content. my dad told terry not too long ago that he would be fine living in a brown box. as long as he had food and shelter he would be fine.

be content.

so we are staying. we aren't moving. at least not right now. we are going to sit and enjoy the life we have. enjoy the neighbors we have grown to love. enjoy the home we bought with dreams abundant. God has blessed us with what we have. we are now going to bask in our blessings. embrace contentment. and be good stewards if what God has given us.

be content.

happy birthday

firsts

firsts. we all have them. first bike ride. first ice cream (yeah evynne!). first smile. first kiss. first love. first child. all of them bringing anticipation, worry, excitement and memories. sweet memories that are embedded in our minds, plastered in pictures, and told in stories for years to come.

this week has been filled with firsts...and memories. mostly firsts for addison and memories for me. but it has been fun. it continues to be fun. maybe sometime i will write them all down but right now i am just going to lay here. just rest right here on the couch, with my husband sleeping on the other end, little miss napping in the bedroom, and nothing but the sound of typing on the laptop enveloping my mind. this my dear friends, this is vacation. the first tingle vacation.

vacation poem no. 2

since my first vacation poem got such an amazing response, i thought a second one was much needed...haha...

day two of vacation has been more than fun...

it has been laughs and cute giggles and tons of sun.

we have eaten till we're sick, and played till we're pooped,

and been on many a bike rides around the loop.

i am sure day three will be as sweet as a peach...

no worries, no problems, just us and the beach!

a vacation poem

it's been a long time, we've been a waitin'

the tingles are at the beach...don't be hatin'

the sky is so blue and sun so shiny

and loads of sand all up in our hineys

yep, it's beach vacation 2008

if i burn to a crisp it will be still be great!

holla, the tingles