Future Guitar Player

Hopefully, she takes after her dad's talents with singing and playing the guitar.

Listening to dad play the guitar. He used to play it for her when I was pregnant.

Oh, how she loves her daddy!

Future rock star!

From The Heart

Hello, it's Matt
I don't do this blog thing much, but I wanted to share a little about our services this past Sunday. Our Pastor (Bro. Mike) felt led to preach about "Having Holy Households". Since this blog is dedicated to our family, I feel it's appropriate to share. It was such a challenging word from God. God's word clearly defines the roles of the husband and wife and sometimes I forget what I am supposed to be doing as the spiritual leader of my home (not really my home, but God's home in the first place). What an honor to be able to serve God as I love on my family. I was challenged in my personal life this weekend on doing a better job at being the husband and father God wants me to be. I have been blessed beyond words with a wonderful wife and new mother of our beautiful girl. Just wanted to share this with you all, and I pray that our desire is to give God our best. If anyone would like to hear the messages from this past Sunday, you can click on this link to www.firstbaptistchipley.com and click on "media". May God bless you as you serve him!!!

Our little bean burrito

We always call Addison that when we wrap her up after her bath, so we thought it would be funny to really wrap her up like a burrito. Here are some pictures we took. I'm sure one day she will be asking us "What were you thinking?"

My First Mother's Day

Being a mother is the greatest thing ever! I never could have imagined what a joy it would be. I've been so blessed to have a wonderful mother as an example!

The sweet card my husband left for me this morning.

After church


Oh how I love this little girl!

Our Family

Happy Mother's Day. . .

. . .to two wonderful people! We love you both very much and thank you for being such wonderful mothers! Hope you both have a great day! You deserve it!

Hugs and Kisses from Addison

Sitting Up

Addison loves sitting up now to play. Of course, she isn't able to sit up on her own for very long periods of time, but she is working on it. We use the boppi for safety measures. She still is not rolling back over from her stomach to her back yet. She has gotten really good at rolling the other way, but just doesn't seemed to interested in the other. I'm sure she will get it eventually.

Weekend Getaway

So this weekend, Matt, Addison and I headed to the beach to get away for a while. Probably not exactly the greatest time to go. Thunder Beach was going on this weekend, and there were bikes and people EVERYWHERE! We did manage to go shopping some on Friday night and ate some great food at Carrabba's. Sadly to say, Addison DID NOT sleep good at the condo. She was up all night. Not sure yet if it was the fact that she was not sleeping in her bed or if she is starting to teeth(she has been showing a lot of signs of this lately). All in all, it was a great weekend hanging out with my family.

We were ready for a night out at Pier Park.

Addison and daddy talking with the shark outside of a restaurant we passed.

She loved riding in her stroller, watching and listening to the bikes pass by.

Waiting for mom to get out of the store.

Grandpa this picture is for you.