Peachy Blues

Insert: Breath of fresh air.

Let me just start off by saying how GOOD it feels to get back into blogging.

I've been secretly back posting and redesigning this little space, but it's exciting to finally share my thoughts and memories again. I've truly missed it, and I kinda hate that I even stopped. Part of me feels like the worst mom ever because I even stopped blogging Harper's monthly updates. But so many memories went undocumented over the last nine months. And if you've read my blog before or know me - I love having our life documented somewhere for memory sake. 

It makes my heart just feel good.

So, the burning question - if you love it so much, why did you stop?

And the answer is...

I'm completely, 100% awful at managing time and balancing all these different parts of my life.

I'm working on it. But for the last few months, I let what I loved doing go for another dream I thought I had. 

If you follow me on social media, you can probably guess what that was.

I plan on diving pretty deep into it later this week and in future posts because it's a story and snippet of my life I really want to write about. But pretty much, I was putting all my time into one thing, and time to blog had completely disappeared. 

So now that I closed one chapter, I've opened up time in my life for something that I love doing.

And that's blogging.

Needless to say, I'm really glad to be back.

So, with that being said - I know some of my old followers are wanting to know what we've been up to here recently. (That's one thing I really love about this community - girls who truly care about one another and invest in each other's well being and families. It's the best!)

We've celebrated a lot of holidays, our sweet little girl turned ONE.
Cody and I have grown together as parents and learned that it's the hardest/best thing in the entire world. I've continued eating healthy and exercising, but have learned to have treats in moderation. We've spent some time in nearby cities, exploring. Harper was really sick and we spent five days in the hospital. She's better now. :) I finished up my first year at my new school as an EIP teacher, and moved into my new classroom before summer break. Hello, 4th grade! We've soaked up the first few days of summer and enjoyed this warm weather.
And honestly, we're just doing really good and are really, really happy. :)

So, feel free to check back on some old posts I've back blogged (is that a real word or thing??).
And I look SO forward to sharing more with y'all through this NEW space.

Welcome y'all. I'm glad to be back. :)

Mother's Day

Sometimes I forget that I'm a mom.

I'm just loving life, taking care of this little human being, and then Mother's Day comes along and it's like oh yeah, this day is not just for my mom anymore - it's for me too!

All I asked for for Mother's Day was a trip to the strawberry fields (which we did the day before) and church in the morning. We found a new church that we really enjoy, and I knew it was start the day perfectly. We were celebrating Mother's Day with my mom the next weekend, so Sunday after church was spent with Cody's mom and also celebrating Cody's birthday, which was a few days before. 

It was special and fun, and I cherish being a mom more than anything in the world.

It was a sweet, sweet day.

Toddler In Athens

Getting a toddler out of the house can be exciting, trying so many new things.

But kinda terrifying at the same time, I've learned.

I want Harper to experience things, experience life.

But part of me is always worried about how she will do, what thing will she melt down about, is she gonna hate it. I guess there's some fun in the mystery. :)

So, I thought it would be fun to take Harper to Athens for the G-Day Spring practice game. It's free so I wasn't worried about wasting money on a ticket if she got to hot or melted down and we had to leave after ten minutes. I wanted to get her out, let her try something new, and hang out with her fellow babe Nora too.

And even though didn't make it through the entire game, she did make it about 20 minutes or so inside the stadium in the hot sun. Which I consider a win. Originally, I wanted to just take her out, walk her around in the shade, give her a break. But she was having way too much fun outside of the stadium and in the bookstore, so we decided 20 minutes was good enough.

She totally impresses us every day.

I should probably give her more credit and stop being so worried all the dang time.

But toddler life can be so unexpected, but pretty darn fun too.

Senoia for Two

Surprises are the very best when they are completely and totally unexpected.

I mean, sometimes you can kinda figure out surprises, but when you are completely shocked, it's the best. :)

Cody and I took a day on my Spring Break to have a day date together.

We dropped Harper off at school, and hit the road.

He didn't tell me where we were going. I kinda assumed we would drive around, find something to do and just have fun together. But he had a specific place in mind, and I was just along for the ride.

That's what's really great about him.

Throughout our relationship he's always planning fun little random trips, and it's fun just the two of us no matter what we're doing. 

After driving about an hour and half, we start passing through this cute little town and he stops.

He asked me if I noticed anything.

No.

You sure?

Yeah, just some metal wall and houses....OH.

Metal wall - really, really long metal wall - town inside metal wall - gate with security tower to get into town with metal wall. 

It was Alexandria!

Any Walking Dead fans out there??

Alexandria, the fictional little town surrounded by a metal wall to keep all those zombies out!

And the little town of Senoia right outside?

That's Woodbury - part of the show too!

How cool, right!?

I was shocked and excited.

We parked the car in this perfect little southern town, and just walked and looked at this set, this town that we've seen SO many times on TV in real life. It was pretty incredible. 

We spent some time being typical Walking Dead geeks. 

We even went into the Walking Dead store - AND - say Rick himself walking around town. 

(Just kidding - some guy pretending to be Rick, but literally looked exactly like him)

We ended up eating lunch at Nick and Normans - Norman Reedus' restaurant downtown.

After lunch we did some shopping around town, found the cutest little alley way, and just enjoyed the day together before heading back to pick up our girl.