Finally, after nearly two months I am back.
Where have I been?
Home. Mommy-ing. Wife-ing. Sister-ing.
Daughter-ing. Living.
So many times I wanted to sit down and write a
blog post and it’s not that I’ve been too busy, it’s just that my thoughts have
been too scattered to put together a readable post.
In early July we went on a trip to Niagara Fall’s
and I really planned on coming home and writing a post about that adventure but
due to my phone not working I didn’t have pictures to use; now I have them but
it seems like too distant of an event to post about now.
My birthday came and went and I considered
posting about that but, I hate my birthday’s, the expectations I have, the knowledge
that the day will never live up to them, and the further sensation that my
expectations are ridiculous anyways making me a selfish horrible person leaving
us at: not worth celebrating or writing a post about.
Many, many times in the last two months I have
read blog posts, news articles, and opinions on various political, scriptural,
and social issues, and I thought about writing rebuttal posts to share what I
see to be the truth on any such issue but instead I spend a few days ranting to
my husband or sister about it then move on. It’s not that I’m unwilling to
stand for what I believe; it’s just that I haven’t decided if this is to be a
blog giving a glimpse of my mind or a blog giving a glimpse of only my life.
Also, some of those rants would pertain to only a small group of my followers,
many of them are on concepts foreign to most of the world; ideas of courtship,
purity, modesty, and such.
So today I decided I was going to write about
something simple. Just a small step in bettering myself and the home I care
for. I have made a goal to work on projects I have either started or ones I
have on my to-do list and finish them.
On Tuesday I went to the library and got a few random audio books on CD to get me started on my list of projects
the tshirt rug I started to pass the 9 months of pregnancy...
the scarf I started knitting Wesley while we were engaged...
painting the last two walls of the kitchen (this project may have to wait as I have run out of the $7 can of miss tint and haven't got a budget for full price paint with our vacation right around the corner ;))
And un pictured is to make our "adventure board".
[I didn't bother taking a picture since so far it just consists of an over sized cork board. I plan on painting the border, getting a map, pinning the map in the center, coloring in the trips we've made, making an "Our Adventures" title to hang above the board, AND print a few pictures that we've taken along the way to pin around the map :) ]
So there you have it, my plans for the upcoming future. As I check items off that list I'll post a picture of the finished projects. (I know, I know, more promises of posts.. go ahead and roll your eyes readers, I certainly wont be offended)
And today my back decided to go out. I guess
that means the sit down projects come first.
Also, who would have thought a 4 and a ½ month
old baby would be too much for a person to lift? My 19+ pound baby girl is.
Thankfully she’s making it easy on me today by napping often or occupying
herself with toys, its only the times I have to lift her off the floor to feed her
that we’re struggling with.
Now I’ll go ahead and
post a few pictures of family happenings since my last post and maybe elaborate
on a few of them
technically this happened before my last post I believe but.. I never posted about it so here you go. My whole side of the family got together for family pictures :) 
and one of our own
little family :)
we went to St. Louis for a Cardinals game on a super spontaneous little trip with my side of the family
and here are a small selection of the many pictures we took on our Niagara Falls camping trip. Seriously, it was amazing. We had a perfect stay at the closest KOA and enjoyed spending a Friday evening and Saturday morning touring the falls. We went on the Cave of the Winds tour and the Maid of the mist boat tour. Both were very cool but the Cave of the Winds was my favorite. You could literally hang onto a railing and walk into the water fall. SO. COOL. The Maid of the Mist was pretty awesome, too because it gave me a much better perspective on how big and powerful this section of God's creation is. And made me stand in awe at how little a part this seemingly huge, powerful part is.
This is one of the several pictures I took the Monday evening on which Wesley rallied a few of our siblings and his dad into going to an Indian's game :)
super random, I know, but I snapped this one afternoon as
I was front porch sitting watching our baby girl grow :') <3
And this is from just this last Sunday when Wesley, Jerusha, and I met up with a few siblings of his, Shelbs, and a brother-in-law and niece at McCormick's Creek Falls and Wolf Cave :)
Well that's it for now. I hope you have enjoyed this catch up post. ~Haley
Our sand creations Pyramid, Volcanic Mountain Range, and Castle
