Just Us!

We have been super busy these days. We moved to a different city, and are loving it here! We definitely like living in a bigger city rather than the small town life! We NEED things to do...and we are loving all the options we have here!!!
Blogging has NOT been at the top of my to-do list lately....but here is a photo of me and my honey! We were on our way to the zoo with the girls!

I have lots of things I want to blog about, so maybe I'll blog again soon....maybe......

Aniya's birth announcement

The name Aniya is of Hebrew origin and means God Answered. We are so very thankful that God Answered our prayers, and the prayers of our friends and family...



Our precious baby girl is getting big! We are so glad she is here with us, Safe and Sound!!!!!

Preschool

Abby had her 1st day of preschool this week. I can't believe our little girl is already going to school! Time flies SO fast once you have kids... our oldest is 3 and our youngest is almost 7 weeks, unbelievable!
Abby had so many things to talk about after her 1st day at preschool...singing, reading, playing on the "ship", and making balloons with stickers on them.

Here she is before going inside.

Sissy wanted to take a picture with Abby.

When we got to her classroom, we gave her a kiss and told her bye. I don't even think she noticed us leaving, she was to busy playing until the rest of the kids arrived.

She was so proud on the car ride home, she couldn't wait to go back!

She has preschool on Wednesdays and Fridays. When I picked her up from preschool on Friday, I asked her "Abby, what did you do at school today?" She said, "Hmmmm............We took drinks of water, not juice-water..........." Too funny!!!! Out of everything they did, the highlight of the morning was drinking water!

Introducing....Aniya Rose Wallace!

Aniya Rose Wallace was born Aug. 4, 2010 at 7:35 a.m.


Here are the VERY proud big sisters meeting her for the 1st time!!!!!!!!

Neither one of them knew what to think the 1st time they heard her cry.

On our way home...she decided she was hungry!

3 weeks. old.

We are so thankful that she is finally here. There were LOTS of people praying for her safe arrival, and prayers were answered!

We had lots of complications throughout most of her pregnancy. When I went in for my 32 week appointment with the specialist, we got AMAZING news!!!! The doctor told us after our sonogram- that our baby was healthy, I was healthy and the previous complications had fully resolved! Richard and I decided that she {our baby} needed an EXTRA special name because she was such a blessing and we were so thankful that God healed us! We searched and searched for a fitting name, and came upon the name Aniya... Aniya means "God answered." We found this name to be perfect because so many people had been praying for us for months, and God answered everyone's prayers!

Our family is finally complete! 3 little girls occupy our house, and it is going to be lots of fun over the next MANY years!

Abby turns 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe our little girl is 3 today! It has gone by so fast!!! We didn't have her a big party this year...we have so many things going on in preparing for the baby to arrive in a little over a week. We had a good day though, LOOK! She got a big girl bike!!!





I made Meg's 6 layer rainbow cake (with homemade frosting)! I am not a creative person...I'm not even sure I enjoy trying to be creative and I am NO Betty Crocker, so I was kinda nervous about making it...but it turned out great!!!!!!!!!!!! So...if you are wanting to make this cake, GO FOR IT!!! If I can make it...so can you!

Here is a piece of the cake...isn't it lovely? When I cut it and gave Abby the first piece, she said..."Oh My Goodness, see the cake!!!!" She loved all the colors!

Our other little girl, waiting patiently for her piece of cake.

I think this has become our new "favorite" cake...it is just SOOOO fun. When you cut into it, it is such a surprise to find all the colors!

Abby acts like such a big girl...most of the time. She has such a kind heart and loves her little sister SO much! They are perfect sisters, and don't usually fight. They share, play together, and give each other lots of hugs and kisses! I love seeing them play together, and I love hearing Abby say "Sissy, you wanna watch a movie?" or "Sissy, you want some juice?" They always look out for each other, and that is an amazing thing to see.

Abby, you are our Sunshine and we Love you with all our heart! We are so blessed to have you in our lives!

Baby Aniya's room

We finished the baby's room last week, and I think it's pretty darn cute! It is still pretty empty in there, though...we still need to get her a dresser, but I like her room A LOT!!!!!






Here is another project I just finished for the girls' room. Their room is pink and brown...1 brown wall and 3 pink walls. I got a large canvas and painted it the same pink as the other 3 walls, then I had ordered their names with the princess wand from Simply Said (vinyl lettering). I think it turned out very nice...I also LOVE the girl's room! Everything in their is pink and brown...even their toy box's are pink!

Father's day

I know I'm really late...but here was the girls' Father's day gift to Richard. I seen the idea on Jill's blog and LOVED it!!!!! Thanks Jill for the great idea! The hard part was getting our dramatic 1 year old to cooperate for the pictures! She always wants to do what SHE wants, when SHE wants to do it...and on this day, she did NOT want to take pictures! You can see in the middle picture, Abby was pretty much holding her hostage for me!

Mmmm....

Aren't these 2 of the cutest girls you've ever seen?!?!

Typical evening at the Wallace's...watching a girly movie like; Princess & the Frog or Thumbelina, and drinking a slushy (from happy hour, of course)!

Lunch Date and a Flashback

It was pouring rain today, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE rainy days. Richard and I had a lunch date at home. A $5 pepperoni pizza from Little Caesar's, Red Cream Soda, chocolate candy bars, and a FREE Redbox movie! Doesn't get much better... oh ya, AND we had 2 sleeping girls...

1/2 way through lunch, I told Richard this was a good afternoon date. His response: "Oh, this was supposed to be a date? Why didn't you tell me, I didn't know?!?!?" ...Men.







And just because I LOVE this picture, here is a flashback photo of us a little over 7 years ago. It was my 1st trip to Memphis to meet Richard's family. We went to Graceland while there, and had a great trip! We look so young here (well, I guess we were young)!!!

Swimsuits and Sprinklers

Swimsuits and sprinklers is a fun and cheap way to have fun on hot days. We have spent LOTS of days playing in the sprinkler over the last week. Here are the girls in their brand new swimsuits from Nana & Papa! They look so stinkin cute!!!!!

We bought a couple really cool sprinklers at the end of summer last year on clearance. This one is not quite as fun as the other "crazy daisy" sprinkler. But, it gets the job done!

We have an amazing backyard. We have worked so hard on it over the last 4 years, and our hard work is definitely showing this summer! I have pictures of our backyard when we bought our house 4 years ago, it was disaster (no kidding!) But, I have plans to blog more about that topic later.