3x12

so i admit that i saw this idea on another blog and i'm stealing it. the idea is to take and post a picture once a month of all of us. i am terrible at getting pictures of the three of us, but i love when i do, so this will be a really good way to keep me on top of that. a journal of sorts. and i confess i am excited.

i actually really love this photo, too. it perfectly captures a typical saturday or sunday morning. beth in bed with us as we desperately attempt to continue sleeping - hoping that for some miraculous reason she will want to keep sleeping too (after just waking up from a 12 hour nap). it never happens. let's be honest, what are we thinking...? but for some reason we always try.

so we end up just lying in bed as she climbs and crawls all over the place... eventually the blinds get opened, the sunshine floods our room, and somehow or another marley usually ends up in the middle of it all. it's great. despite our failed attempts at additional sleep, and a sad realization that the days of sleeping in are probably gone forever, i love spending the first part of my day this way. it's a break from the weekday rush, and i'd rather be woken up by little miss beth than an alarm clock any day.

after a good half an hour or so of this, beth gets tired of being confined, and she and the man get anxious for breakfast, and our day officially begins.

that's why this picture is so awesome - because it is us. us just as we are in real life. and i love it.


my life, that is...