Thankful November: Days 1-3

It's November already! Last year I succeeded in posting everyday about things I am thankful for and this year I plan on doing it again.

Day 1- I am Thankful for my hometown. There's just so much to say for Little D. Denton truly is an amazing city without the city feel to it. Love raising my girls here.

Day 2- I am Thankful for health. So many friends/ friends of friends have been deeply effected with cancer, accidents, medical issues and other health crisis this year and all I keep thinking is how truly Thankful I am that I have healthy children and how lucky we as a family are that we've only had to battle allergies on occasion. With the exception of my surgery in June and the scariness of not knowing what was wrong with me or what type of mass they removed let alone dealing with the staph infection that my body battled for 4m post partum that lead to the discovery of the mass and some issues from Alyssa's birth. I never felt like I wasn't in control. The entire series of events that lead to the surgery I feel was all Gods way of letting me know I'm human and need to take better care of myself. That being said, it kicked Evan and I in the rear on getting annual checkups, taking vitamins and overall just taking better care of ourselves.

Day 3- I'm Thankful as usual for Paris and Gus being my constant companions and stress relievers. True, they add stress periodically with Paris being too clingy at night when she has to be petted or how she literally takes the majority of my side of the bed with zero remorse or Gus whose bratty jealousy is always made known when he uses the bath tub as his litter box or feels like lying down in the middle of the room and yowling for attention. They are the best kitties ever and our family wouldn't be the same without them.

A pictures worth a thousand words

Pretty much sums up life lately.

Yeah well....

What can I say? Life's been busy. I really wish I had more free time to blog like used to but it'll be another month before that happens.

Summer is almost over but we have our big family trip this weekend to California and Oregon. To say I'm excited is an understatement. I've been looking forward to this trip since I left Oregon last April on our first trip to visit Evans brother Jarrod and his g/f Sarah.

Avery and Alyssa are doing great. Avery starts preK next month.....Pre-K! Hard to believe she'll be in kindergarten next year. Alyssa is now 6m old and crawling everywhere, she also says dada but I'm ignoring that. These two keep my busy but I have to say, I love how they are starting to play with each other and how protective Avery gets over Aly.

We went on a weekend trip to Galveston 2wks ago and it was mine and Alyssa's first trip to the Texas coast. Yep, lived here my whole life and never went south of Houston! Pretty sure Galveston will become an annual thing for us, so much fun. My best friend, Stacy, even joined us on the last day as she lives in Houston now and we hadn't  seen each other since after Alyssa was born. It was sweet to catch up and let her love on the girls for a bit.

One of the hidden jewels of that trip was we went to the sea turtle hub or the NOAA facility that is no longer open to the public. My sweet friend Beth went to A&M Galveston but had to move back after losing everything during hurricane Ike. She still has close friends in Galveston and one happens to be a biologist with the Sea turtle program and came in on her day off to give us a private tour! I'm not allowed to post the pictures we took but it was amazing and it's so cool to know the hard work they are doing for the sea turtles. Avery was in heaven, she still talks about it and got a stuffed sea turtle on the beach as a souvineir. Icing on top? They had a 20+ year old loggerhead female who was over 200lbs and as big as our dining room table that had washed up on shore a few weeks prior and the last time they've ever had one that big or old was in 1978! To see something like that being within arms reach was a once in a lifetime experience and she was magnificent to see. They will release her back soon.

Definitely a memorable weekend.

Could it be? A post?!

Six weeks until our family trip back to Oregon. We're all a little excited, can't you tell?!

As usual life has just been busy and I have had no time to sit and take a few moments just to blog out everything. for that, I really really really am sorry. (you know for a few, very few, faithful readers)

So where do I begin the entry? over a month actually! so many things it's kind of hard to take a collective breath so to speak, and just start. The girls are doing great. Avery is enjoying her summer break from school, her last year at Kidzone starts this fall and next fall she starts kindergarten. kindergarten people! MY baby is going to be in kindergarten this time next year. She cracks me up, right now her obsession is Master Chef the TV show and pretty much swimming every day, all day. she swears that when she grows up she's gonna be a master chef and loves to tell everybody that she's gonna be a master chef and she's gonna feed Gordon Ramsay her cookies. 

Allie is thriving! five months old already if anyone can believe that. (i swear i posted her birth story yesterday) she's five months and rolling over,eating veggies like crazy and is even attempting to crawl as much as Evan and I are just panicking this girl is in such a rush to grow up. So far she can only scoot backwards which is adorable. She's also a tummy sleeper to the max which means I'm up a lot checking on her at night.

As for me, I'm slowly getting back to normal. I know a lot of people been waiting for me to post about all the health issues I've had in the past six weeks and believe me I do want to talk about it because I think it's something that's very important.  Not to mention that a lot of people came and helped and gave help and offered help to me and Evan and the girls and that's just something that I will forever be grateful for. I promise, I'll post about it as soon as I can. Just know that I am healthy and I'm about 90% back to normal ( was I ever was normal?). 

What can I say? life has just been interesting for the Heartfields but we're all taking it day by day and were very much grateful and happy to be where we are at now. it's summertime, time when you get to be with family, is the time where you do things and stay busy in hopes that the kids go to sleep early and sleep in a little. ( I can dream, right?)

Alright. well, I'm  starting to ramble and we all know what that leads to so I'll end this entry for now with the newest favorite pic of mine. I swear I over share too much on Facebook and Instagram but you know you like it so enjoy. :)

Xoxo-

Britt 

MIA

Been awhile.

*No home computer for awhile but will soon be posting from my phone.

* lots to catch up on.

*summer is here and so is the traveling!

* miss my readers

Xoxo,

Brittnye