The BIG CHEESE...

Last week I purchased a 40 lb block of cheese to cut up and freeze...Cheese food storage, right? I understand that sounds a little crazy but it was really cheap so thought I'd just cut it up and vacuum package it, easy enough. Well, What was I THINKING??!! Do you know how difficult it is to cut an enormous brick of cheese? It's hard...anyway, it was for me. I started at around 11:30 a.m. and finally got done just after 5:00 p.m. So, at least I spent my whole day hacking at this huge cheese. It's actually sounding kind of funny now that it's over, but when I was in the middle of my troubles it was NOT FUNNY! But I managed to keep in all those naughty words I was thinking and didn't even cry once. But I did finally finish, and the spoils...I don't have to pick up cheese at Winco for a year. What was I thinking?

Nice hack job right?

About 1/3 of the way done. I wanted to cry, so I took pictures instead:)

All done...thank heavens!

Little Miss Independent...Already!

Macie loves learning how to do new things by HERSELF. It's fun to watch her grow and figure things out, but I just can't believe how fast her baby stage is slipping away. Here are some pictures of a few of the things that our little girl likes doing lately...


She LOVES playing with Daddy! She gets so excited to see him in the morning and when he comes home from work.

Macie loves to eat! She especially loves anything her parents are eating. This is her eating the apple she stole from me. She refused to give it back after I gave in and gave her a taste. I think she hung on to it for a good two hours! I really can't complain though...she eats anything we give her now, she loves it all! I have to ration her food because she will never quit eating until it's all gone...sound familiar?:) Yes, I think she takes after her MOM.

She's also discovered emptying her laundry basket! So now I just put toys in it and let her take them all out. This is a new favorite.

I think I left her to play for a little too long...she just turned around and went to sleep.

Picking up cheerios will usually keep her entertained for quite a while. Sometimes she can't quite get it between her thumb and finger, and she'll balance it on top of her finger until she gets it to her mouth. That's my favorite, she has to concentrate pretty hard to do that. But I am amazed lately at how fast those cheerios disappear...I have to really keep 'em coming!

And last of all, Macie loves to sit on the ground and play with her toys!

"It won't be like this for long..."

For the last week or so Macie has been a little bit of a handful at night. She would cry and cry, and she just wanted her parents. She wanted us to hold her and play with her in the middle of the night! She just got over a bad cold and she had been sleeping in the same bed as Reed and I while we were on our trip. So I think she just needs to get back to her normal routine. Anyway, the last few days I was stressing a little thinking that she was never going to sleep well again. I just kept praying, "Please let her sleep for just a few hours straight. Please help her go back to sleep..." But yesterday when I was on my way home from Winco I heard a song on the radio that felt like an answer to my prayers. I've heard it before, but this time I really listened. (It's the first song on my play list, so when you are done reading this, you should listen to it) I realized that she is only a baby for such a short time, and I need to Cherish it. I need to enjoy those moments I get to hold her and play with her and rock her to sleep because "it won't be like this for long." So last night I fed her and put her to bed. She started to cry and cry, so after a while I got her out of bed and she came and played with me and Reed for a while. She was being so cute and happy, and we loved spending that time together. When I noticed that it was 10:00 I put her back in her bed and she didn't make a peep, she just fell right to sleep. And she did MUCH better during the night. I also put another song on my play list that's called Let Them be Little, so you should listen to that one too:)