dress up...

i believe marley mae is entering the dress up stage. she was helping me put clothes away when this happened...she is too funny for words sometimes...and yes they are my clean undies she is wearing...

gas leak

well, we finally got the gas leak solved...if you live in the city of brenham, the city will come and investigate and fix gas leaks for free. and they are super quick... so where the plumber failed, the city triumphed. nothing majoy, just a connection not tight. ben and i went to see robin hood tonight and it was super good, i thought. two and a half hours and i was still wanting more. we got marley a potty chair and she thinks it is the coolest toy ever. i figure if we get her comfortable with it now, maybe potty training won't be so hard...ha. as if that will be easy. well, when i posted last i realized that i never put up any of the beach trip pictures from our adventures in galveston with aunt doo doo. so these are from march and soon more recent videos...marley gets her dance moves from me...this is back at christmas time

we survived!

we survived the move and are fairly unpacked...we even found a bonus drill. well not really a bonus one. ours that we thought the movers had lost. it was in the box with the vases. makes sense, right? anyways we are fairly settled in. we have even put some paint on the walls. and today had our first home owner emergency. we heard from various sources that the house smelled like gas. i was immune and ben was at work. called a plumber and everything checks out. luckily. we had a heck of a time finding the water heater. i mean they are pretty hard to hide, being pretty big, but the previous homeowners managed. this should have shown up on the home inspection, especially as the plumbers words were, i don't think this is legal. hmmmm....turns out they had walled the heater in with only one vent to the attic and then put a bookshelf in front of the heater. kind of hard to explain. but in the kitchen there is a shallow bookshelf that both ben and i were told was a built in. turns out it is what they consider access to the water heater. so we tore down the sheet rock in the bedroom closet that was hiding the water heater and put the bookshelf back in place. so once the water heater was vented, and the gas lines were checked, it was determined that the probable source of the gas smell was the stove. so the gas line to that has been turned off and someone is coming out to inspect it on monday morning...until then i just couldn't possible cook...sigh...i guess we'll just have to grill...i'm sure i have new photos somewhere...but not today, sorry...still need to unpack my photography stuffs and my sewing room. i have another new project to work on, so i had better get a move on...here's a photo of my friend laura and her husband fed's wedding quilt. one of my favorites so far...and a baby's first steps...

Holy Shit we bought a house!!!!!!!

easter baby

well, i have been trying to upload the video of marley eating her first birthday cake, but blogger does not seem to like that one, so here are some photos from easter...we close on the new house this thursday!!!!! we are too excited for words...and crazy busy packing of course...marley fell and skinned her knee today...it was very traumatic, but she's ok now...she has a great big boo boo and we had to use two superman band aids for it. she was back to her sunny self after some cuddle time.

Wildflower Photo Contest - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Wildflower Photo Contest - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

thanks to my uncle eric marley mae and i have entered this photo contest. feel free to check it out and vote for us as often as you would like...if you go soon you will see marley's photo on the front page...otherwise you will have to click on the people and wildflowers heading.

easter

we had a great easter here in brenham. marley loved hunting easter eggs. she got the hang of it right away. i have lots of cute video which ben will hopefully put onto the computer soon. i think i might be jinxed. i touch a computer and it stops working. anyways. mom (aka granny) made a delicious big meal for us. marley loves broccoli rice casserole. ben got to go away with eric, my uncle, for a boys weekend. they went fishing somewhere in the middle of texas and caught a ton of fish. ben caught mostly catfish, though they were fishing for white bass. i'm going to add a couple of photos that eric took and passed on to us. we have set the closing date for our new house for may 12th. so that gives us a month to clean out and pack up. you would think that after moving four times in the past year i would have this streamlined and all excess crap would be gone. you would be wrong. but i am getting better each time, so this time should be pretty darn close to perfection. we are getting very excited though. we will have a big welcome to the new house party once we are settled. here's a video of marley thoroughly enjoying her uncle kirby...