Hi! I am Holly, and here at my Blog I hope that you are encouraged and motivated to love your life fully. I hope to share messages of hope with you through my honesty. My mission is to build up women by inspiring them to be better through sharing life and learning together!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Mia and her Daddy..

This is really funny parenting!!! I am sure we are going to love this video for years...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

More Summer Pictures....





Our First Summer with Little Mia....






Whoever says that your life changes when you have kids, they are right! However, whoever says you cannot travel with an infant they are wrong. I think Reed and I have set a world record for traveling with an infant. We have traveled almost every other weekend the whole summer. Where are we going you might ask, well everywhere. We have gone home to visit family in Virginia. We have gone to beaches in North Carolina, and traveled to Virginia and Richmond for Weddings. We have thrown a baby shower for my Baby Sister, who is having her baby in September. We also have spent a week at Nags Head, and have been so refreshed. It has been so much fun spending time together and watching Mia blossom this summer. She is starting to roll over, laugh out loud, which melts my heart every time, and even roll over and push right up off the ground. She loves tummy time, and loves to be little Miss Independent! She has found her feet and loves to eat her toes like they are teething rings! We have found out that Mia is very social like me, loves people, loves to talk, however, like Reed Mia likes to think through things before she does things, she want to figure out how it works. We love this very neat combination in her. We are very excited for the rest of the summer as we continue to watch Mia grow and enjoy not traveling!!! The next time we will be going out of town will be when my first nephew is born! We cant wait until Baby Clay is here!! We love you little one!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

A few more Beach Pics...


Our First Day at the Beach....





Today was Mia's first day at the Beach!!! One day down and six more to go, and we are so excited to be here! This summer has been so awesome. I have a lot of pictures and events to post, however these pictures were to cute to not to post TODAY!!!!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Mia' Life So Far, 1 month, 2 month 3 month






Just about a year ago I found out that I was pregnant with our first baby! Well she has arrived and has been an awesome three months. Mia has a very loving personality and enjoys smiling often. She started out not really showing any facial expressions and is so close to laughing out loud. She is blond hair and blue eyes, and well she looks like her DADDY. However, I do see a little bit of her in me, and maybe it will be more in the future! Mia is on a pretty predictable routine and is actually sleeping through the night. This means that Reed and I are spending much more time together and even had date nights. I actually had a girl’s weekend and am loving being able to get out and about again. Mia loves the summer; we have play dates, go to the pool, and of course go to Target a lot!!! We love our area and are meeting some really great people. This summer we are excited to get Mia in the pool and take her the beach. Reed and I also are having our five year Anniversary this summer, it is a big one. We are really excited and love being together. More to come as our summer progresses’…

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

LIfe Now...





Life Now, what does this mean, what does it look like??? Well, Life now leaves me with this peace and love in the back of my mind. I will be going through my day and think, I have never been happier than now. It is so hard to explain, but it is really neat. However, this love did not come easy and well I am truly humbled from the whole experience. My labor was really hard and the recovery was even worse. My body seems to be forever changed, and man things are not what the way they used to be. The crazy part about it is that having a baby makes you get up, push through a tough recovery, it makes you stop looking at the mirror and thinking will I ever get my body back. What you realize is that time makes things seem normal again. For example, I am feeling 100% better and the good news is that I am close to fitting in my old jeans. Yes..., that is a good feeling.
About Mia, Mia is so much fun. She is a very happy easy baby. She loves her crib and she loves to smile. I enjoy her everyday with her ever-changing personality. She smiles at me in the morning, and is starting to Baby Talk. I think that she looks like her Dad, and most people do to. However, my family says that they see Me in her. Right now she has bright blue eyes and her hair is coming in blond. I guess time will tell....
I had my first Mothers Day! It was so neat to be back home with my family and to share this day with them. I felt honored to be a mom and to celebrate with Mia's Great Great Grandparents...
This week I went back to work very part time, and am transitioning to be a hair stylist at a local salon. It is a great Salon and I am excited to build clients in the area.
I guess that is enough updates for now!!!