Who knew?

Just the other day I was browsing Pinterest (yes, I am still very addicted to that site) and saw a picture of someone's iPhone and it had an app for blogger on it!!! I have been so bad with logging into my blogger acct and posting new blogs, but now I can do it from my phone!!!

Lets just say, I am stoked!
Get ready for some awesome new posts :)

Andrew "Andy" Wayne

Finally some pictures of our little man!

Getting ready to go home!

First captured smile: 4 days old

Stretch face

Daisy loves her little brother!!!

Sunbathing to get rid of jaundice

He is so strong!!  Already holding his head up this high!! 

There is just so much love in this picture!

I love my handsome son!!

Family :) 

Future MLB player!! 

Daisy can't kiss him enough!

Nap time with daddy

Daisy turns ONE!!!

I can't believe that my baby girl is 1 year old now!  I can't say enough how great it has been with her in our lives.  She is such a sweetheart! God really gave us the greatest gift in the world.  

The day she was born

1 year old

Her birthday was low-key, but it was fun.  My mom, visiting Germany from the States, was there along with my brother, Chris, and his family.  We bought her a cake to tackle by herself, and everyone else got a cupcake.  When we sang Happy Birthday, she seemed a little confused.  Her expression kind of said "what is everybody doing?" But at the end we all clapped, and then she got a big grin on her face.  

She enjoyed eating the cake.  She only ate a little of it, but played a lot with the frosting.  She would grab a bunch of the frosting and just rub it in her hands.  If you didn't know, she likes to feel things (her favorite books have different textures in it).  

Here are a few pictures of her with her cake: 

After a quick shower to rinse off all the frosting, Daisy opened her presents.  

  

Down with the flu

Matt found out Friday morning that he had the flu, so we planned to just stay at home all weekend.  Well, then it hit Daisy....She has been so miserable, poor thing.  

It seems that she is really tired, and she cries when she isn't laying down which suggests that her body is kind of achy.  I keep giving her tylenol every 6 hours to keep her fever down.  I feel so bad for her though.  It seems that she hasn't felt good ever since we got to Germany.  Hopefully she recovers from this and feels a ton better though!!  

She did have a few hour period yesterday where she seemed a little better.  We got some good play time in and even managed to FaceTime with Grandma Mitchell.  Daisy enjoyed that.  We tried to FaceTime with my parents as well, but it didn't work...so we just called on the phone.  

Here are 2 little photos of the three of us.  I feel like we never really take pictures of ourselves, we are always focusing the camera on little Doodle Bug.  So you might see one of these pictures in Christmas cards this year, hahaha.  

Big Update!!!

My goodness, I have been so bad about keeping things up to date!!  I think I have just been struggling with time management.  I've been going to school full time online, raising Daisy, preparing for baby Boy, and dealing with our move to Germany.  But Matt and Daisy are asleep for the night (woohoo!) and I finally have some solid time to myself (double woohoo!) so here I am...UPDATING!!  

I think it is so important for family to stay "connected" as best they can.  I hope I can update more often now (maybe make this a routine for myself) so family can keep up with our lives.  It is hard being away from everyone back in the States!  

Anywho....

Daisy is now 11 months old!  I can't believe she is going to be a year old in less then a month!  It honestly seems like just a few weeks ago I was looking at her beautiful face for the very first time!  Now she is officially going to be a toddler (should I be sad, or happy about this?).  She is so much fun though!  I love having her around.  Matt and I were talking today and we honestly couldn't imagine a life without her in it.  She makes me laugh constantly.  She has figured out how to test me though...she knows when she is doing something she shouldn't be doing (like touching the computer) and she waits for that ONE second you aren't looking, lol.  

We finally made the big move to Germany (obviously...).  It has been quite an adventure so far.  It's really nice having Chris and his family over here.  They were a ton of help the first few days we were in country.  They let us stay at their house, and they even drove us back and forth from base since we don't have a car or European licenses yet.  A few nights after we got here, they took us to our first German restaurant.  It was so delicious!!!  Oh, and Daisy absolutely LOVES her cousin Diana-Jean.  Usually Daisy is pretty rough with other kids, but with DJ she is so sweet and caring!  Daisy will just go up to her and give her the biggest, wettest kiss and then a hug too.  Super cute!!  

Germany is absolutely beautiful though.  We just can't get enough of the nature.  But the pictures we take just don't do justice to what we are actually seeing.  I wish all of you could be here now to see how pretty it is!  All of these pictures are what we see here on base.  

Matt clocked me walking 4 km :) haha

And the weirdest thing...mushrooms grow in an abundance here!  They are literally everywhere!!!  What is neat though is that they all look different.  Some may be small, while some are gigantic! Look at these ones we saw today! It's almost straight out of Alice in Wonderland!! 

Phew!  That's a lot of updating for one post!  More will come, I PROMISE!!!  But this mama is tired!  I love you all and miss you bunches!  

Harajuku mini

Gwen Stefani has a line at Target for toddlers called Harajuku Mini.  My mom bought Daisy a Pajama piece, and I absolutely love it!  

I looked at the store and want to buy so many more pieces of her line!!!  Cute, right?!?!

Time for a bit of change

A month ago my hair was dark brown and long!  Then I bleached it, and then I cut it!!!  I've only had short hair once in my life (besides when I was a baby), but I love it!