Insta-life January

January means Girl Scout cookie sales!!

After we came home from Riddle, our dishwasher decided it was worn out. Given that we had just put money into fixing a part last year, we starting thinking this may be a pattern we didn't want to pay for. We were able to find a year-end clearanced dishwasher that would be delivered the next morning. In preparation of not having to wash dishes by hand another day, I let the dishes from the morning and lunch pile up. And then....the new dishwasher didn't work! AAHHH! Thankfully Neal came to the rescue and tackled this massive pile of dishes =)

Well our new dishwasher required a new control board, so that meant another week of washing dishes. I tried to be deliberately grateful for these 4 mouths to feed and enough food to keep their bellies full, with every dish I washed!

Daddy's workout crew! Pushing that load around will definitely burn a few calories!!

Sadness and taking time to reflect on each blessing in our life has reminded me to s.l.o.w. d.o.w.n, embrace each snuggle and enjoy these moments, because a moment can be so fleeting.

Ainsley has discovered how to take her own pictures and post them to Instagram! If you ever are curious what the world to a 20 month old who is trying to be sneaky with mom's phone looks like....well now you know!!