impatiently waiting.

this is my little brother spencer. 

he is a total stud.

and he is getting home from his mission in australia on tuesday!

thats only 5 days from now!!! i cant even believe it.

we leave for the valley of the sun on saturday and i am getting so anxious.

i am so ready to see my family and swim and eat yummy food and get spoiled. 

cause thats what my family does when we visit them. spoil us. 

in fact, i probably wont get to hold brielle for a week. haha. 

except that im not joking about that. i really wont. 

they adore her. 

and bri is getting really excited to meet her uncle spencer!

oh my goodness. 

i am getting so anxious. 

i hate waiting.

oh but speaking of brielle.

remember when she used to look like this........

and now she looks like this.......

where the heck did all that hair come from. 

there is almost enough for a little ponytail now and i had forgotten how bald she used to be.

anyway...i cant wait for saturday. and tuesday. and basically all of next week. 

seriously though. i dont think i can wait any longer.

nine.

my baby turned nine months old today.

that means she has been alive for as long as she was in my belly.

can you believe that?? 

me neither. 

she is so ridiculously grown up i cant even handle it sometimes. 

she crawls all around our little house like she owns the place. she especially loves to race around our couch and crawl to the bathroom. 

she gives great big slobbery kisses.

and our very favorite thing is that she claps her hands. there is a video at the bottom. 

eat your heart out.

we wake up to this everyday and i love it.

this is her favorite shelf and her new favorite past-time. usually she tries to look guiltier than this haha.

dont worry she is strapped in. but that doesnt seem to stop her most days from getting herself in precarious situations.

she loves people watching. and she loves riding on her daddys shoulders.

she has two teeth now! the 2nd one just came in today. you can sort of tell in this picture. but teeth are a hard thing to photograph. it is sort of ridiculous how much cuter she looks with them though.

she got to meet one of her grandma great's this week and loved giving her great big slobbery kisses! she loooooves giving kisses. it sort of melts my heart.

she is such a stander and a climber. we are just a little proud of everything that she does. haha

i cant get enough of her.

we freaking love this girl!

best nine months ever!!