so sorry!

ok, so i totally apologize for not having posted any pictures, or even updates, in the past couple weeks. my life has been totally crazy. thalia and i headed to michigan for a week of weddings and vacation. ever since we got back on sunday, work has just been crazy. by the time i get home at night, the apartment is a disaster, i have no food, which is fine because i have no clean dishes to eat the food on! not to worry though, i got the apartment clean this morning, the dishwasher was run this morning, and i have pictures for you!

at the nashville airport, excited to head home!
at a beautiful church in grand rapids at joe and amber's wedding

splashing in hubbard lake in northern michigan! the fact that it was only about 70-ish degrees outside obviously doesn't bother her. i think the water was actually warmer than the air that day

this is my favorite picture! look at her face!! decked out in all pink ready for a boat ride. i did NOT mean to coordinate her outfit this well. in this picture, thalia is watching her daddy jump in the lake to fetch our digital camera that decided to take a swim. so all of these pictures are from my phone (wow!) because we still aren't sure if our memory card is trashed, or just our camera. thalia is excited to have a new shiny play toy with lots of buttons!!

sitting in daddy's kayak. she liked it when chris rocked it back and forth. as it turns out, they actually make kayaks with a CHILD SEAT!! isn't that crazy. chris is maybe going to go look at one in saline for me! that would be so amazing. family kayak trips!!!

obviously not taking after her daddy with her piano skills. isn't her posture great?!
note to self...fountain ponies stay in way longer than pigtails! this is at chili's last night. we went out with a friend of mine from michigan. thalia was excited to get her picture taken...which is a rarity lately. she has been running away from me the past couple days.

so for those of you keeping track of thalia's milestones, thalia put her own jelly shoes on today. she even got them on the right feet! she ended up walking out of the house in a red outfit with pink sparkly shoes, but i didn't have the heart to take them off.

keep us in your prayers still...we should find out in the next week or so about my future. its not so much that i am worried about it. i just need to feel like i am on stable ground for once. thanks for all your love and support. now that i have most everything caught up, it should be easier to keep you updated.

much love and much more sleep kinda (thalia slept through the night, no peeps even every night since sunday...except last night. neither of us slept very well)

c, c, and t