Traveling buddies

On our way home from Carlisle on Sunday after visiting the Kelly's for the weekend, we stopped in Arkadelphia. My baby brother, Luke, is just finishing up his first year of school there and has recently moved into a house with a couple of friends. We thought we'd stop and treat the broke college kid to lunch and check out his new place. Zoe was pretty excited to see him but a little indifferent because I had to wake her from her nap to eat lunch and play. She eventually liven up..of course! His house is the perfect bachelor pad. Enough said. HA! No, really, it's cute and perfect for some college guys. I couldn't be happier for him because he's excited about it and happy to be out of the dorm. (I can't get my pictures uploaded from my iphone to rotate the correct way and loaded onto my blog that way! *Frustrated* ) After we visited with Uncle Luke we went on to Texarkana to play with Nana and Papa. We had so much fun we just couldn't leave! So we stayed the night. :) Of course my perfect plan of Z sleeping the whole way home Monday morning since we had to leave so early did NOT happen. Oh well! It was still a perfect weekend! And with Daddy coming home in just 4 short days I wasn't going to let anything get us down.

Arkansas Trip!

This past weekend us two girls took a little road trip! This was the furthest I've driven with just me and Zoe. She did pretty good because I tried to time most of the driving around nap time. It was a little stressful at times but over all we had a great trip and I think Zoe had a lot of fun! We left Friday at noon and headed straight to good ole Carlisle, Arkansas to see my best friend, Whitney. She and her husband built a new house a couple of years ago and it was my first time to go see them in their new home. Whitney has been so good to come visit us in Louisiana several times since Zoe's been born and I thought it was finally time for us to visit them! We LOVED getting to just hang around with Whit and Matt and their sweet lab, Kate. Zoe was/is obsessed with Kate. She didn't want Matt or Kate out of her site! Silly girl. Whitney thinks Z needs a puppy. We think we'll just stick to visiting Kate :) Zoe did a great job of breaking in their beautiful new home AND getting it ready for their new lives with their new baby boy coming soon!!! She had toys, blocks, puzzle pieces and books everywhere! Saturday night we went to dinner at a restaurant in Little Rock called All Aboard. It had trains on tracks above the restaurant that would bring you your food. Zoe thought this was the coolest thing ever! The food was great, beer was good and company the best! Shuggie met up with us for dinner and to get some Zoe lovin' and see her in her true form--acting wild in a restaurant! It was a great, kid friendly environment so I didn't stress over it too much. I was so happy we got to visit with Matt, Whitney and Shuggie and Shuggie's man, Broc, for awhile. Next stop on our Arkansas tour was Arkadelphia the Texarkana. I will blog about those when I have more time! HAPPY HUMP DAY!!!

HELLO!

Hi! It's me. Soo... long time no see. I've recently started a new career and now have more time to myself and for my family and much less stress and could not be happier! Since this change I have found myself constantly checking other peoples blogs and missing blogging myself. I have so many times thought about coming back to the blog world not only because it's fun but because my little Zoe has grown up WAY too quickly and I need to document her life. We have SO much fun with our sweet girl and I don't want to miss or forget a thing! There's absolutely no way to catch you up on the past two years of her life so for now I'll just show off some really cute pictures then pick up from there. :)

Zoe's nursery

Finally, I got to "nest" when Zoe was about 8 weeks old! I had a blast doing her nursery and she loves it! It was the only room I cared anything about when we moved in. I got on it right away, painting and fixing it up!
Rewind a few months.. Our first adventures with Miss Z!

Week 1: in Texarkana at mom and dad's
Week 2-3: in a hotel on base in Shreveport
Week 4-5: living with aunt and uncle in Shreveport
Week 6: back in Texarkana at mom and dad's and Scott driving back and forth every night after work.
Week 7: FINALLY closed on our home!!!
Week 8: moving, unpacking, Zoe started daycare
Week 9: I started work

We couldn't be more grateful to be in our home and back to "normal"!!!



Daddy putting crib together






Bookshelves were given by someone who wanted to get rid of them. I spray painted them blue, they were white. Love them! And the picture above the shelves is a gift from Uncle Doc. When he brought it to us it made me tear up! There's deep meaning to his drawing, but I won't go on about that..
The little rocking chair was Zoe's great great grandmother's when she was a baby! How cool is that? Trying to decide if we want to paint it or leave it.







Since I've been working on this post, Zoe rolled over from her back to tummy for the first time and I missed it!!! :( Next blog post will have to be during nap time so I don't miss anything.

3 months isn't that long..

I CAN NOT BELIEVE I HAVE BEEN SO LAZY ABOUT THIS!
Okay, first off, confession. I have been too lazy, tired and busy to even get my computer out and see if I could bum the internet off a neighbor. UNTIL TONIGHT. I haven't opened my computer since Zoe was born. We don't have internet, television or phone yet (and may not for awhile) so I just haven't even bothered with it...
I don't even know where to start! But I'll keep this one short and sweet then catch up on pictures and fun stuff later.
We are settled into our home and love it in Bossier! I have a job and it's going good and we absolutely LOVE Zoe's daycare. Scott is work on base two weekends a month for the next few months so we stay here in Bossier most weekends and our families are here a lot of weekends. Since he's working so many Sundays we haven't found a church yet but have visited the one Z goes to daycare at and will be visiting again.
Zoe is an absolute JOY. We are crazy about her and don't know what we did before her. (blog, maybe?) She is at such a fun age right now! I swear she does something new every week!
If you are my friend on FB you've definitely kept up with me. All thanks to mobile upload pictures. I really should be ashamed of myself, but life is just busy! In the meantime, here's some Zoe love :)

1 month?!?

So, this has probably been the busiest, unpredictable, exciting, emotional, unreal, crazy, most wonderful month of my life! I imagine I won't be too good about blogging for awhile.. but here's some of my favorite pictures over the past month. Miss Zoe is a great baby. We have our good nights and our bad nights but here recently they've become much better and more predictable and she's on a pretty good schedule. Makes baby, mommy and daddy all happy! We are loving every minute with her and I can't believe how much shes changed in just 5 weeks. It's unreal. She is truly a blessing to our families and is loved SO much by SO many. I can't tell you how many people have held her since day 1. There were over 30 friends and family at the hospital anxiously awaiting just to SEE her! We are truly blessed.

Enjoy my sweet girls pictures :)


This is the first time I held my baby girl. When she came out her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck so they couldn't give her straight to me and had to check her all out so it took them forever to clean her up, check her out and everything before I finally got to hold her! It seemed like an eternity. Scott has video of me saying "I'm ready to hold my baby!" Not in a mean way or directed at anyone.. just stating the fact!


Sweet Daddy falling in love..



Who knows what we're laughing about.. but I was on cloud nine.. and stayed there for weeks!


Zoe's first doctors appointment. Already back up to her birth weight at her 2 day appointment!


This is the first bath she actually enjoyed. It took her a few before she decided she liked them.


Little bit! Taken by Whitney Kelly!


Zoe and Scotty :) My sweet loves


Wenzel family photo. Zoe wasn't near as excited about this as I was..


5 Generation picture.. Of course Zoe and Scott, then Danny Wenzel, (Grandfather) Diane Wenzel, (Great Grandmother) Virginia Stockman (Great great Grandmother)

I hope to be back again soon!
MUCH LOVE :)

Introducing Zoe Elizabeth

Hereeeeee's ZOE!

Born February 27th, 2011 @ 5:37 P.M.
5 lbs. 12 oz. 19 in. long

Thank you Carolyn for capturing the most special day of our lives! We love you.

More pictures of follow hopefully soon!