girls on duty

(a photo by maddalena!! oh, my baby photographer.
i sure know one thing that girl is getting for her birthday in 9 days!)

(she is ob-sessed with driving... iiii know another thing that girl is getting for her birthday in 9 days! ;))

(handsome huck!! i just counted his years, pretty sure he's 15!)

(gosh i just feel like this trail holds so many secrets... and i want to know them.)

("i'm juuust gonna grab a few..." is what i said out loud to maddalena and minnie.
but let me tell you, it's not possible to just grab a few.)


among other bunches of life things going on around here lately (some of them being those less photogenic things in life, right? like car maintenance and root canals?! i didn't get a root canal, poor stevey did. i had my car prettied up after someone carved a dirty word into it! still the weirdest thing ever!) my parents had to last-minute scoot out of town for a quick split last week, so maddalena and i were on mid-day farm duty for a few! and you know us... we love farm duty. we always love farm duty!

i also love pretty much everything i get to do with maddalena, which is... well, everything. :) madd and i were totally made for each other that way. although, don't get me wrong, my body physically aches at the end of every day. toddlers are busy! and what you don't realize, sometimes, is that you very quickly become a personal puppet/jester/servant, haha, and it's kind of hilarious. "chase! dance! hold! MESSY! KEAN UP!" and i just, like, do it, you know? still, i love it so much. i don't want to miss a single second of her!
i did mention it to steven recently, though, that i've found myself ready to find a leeettle bitty section of time that's cut out just for brittany... which is something that's super ridiculously hard for me! because given the choice, i pretty much always choose to be brittanymommywifey... but it's like i need just an additional couple of hours added to the day to press pause on life and just do my own thing for a tiny spell! buuut i'm pretty sure pressing pause is only possible in saved by the bell... and since i really prefer my brittany time to be late at night, anyway, that makes it a little bit easier for me to scrounge up. all i have to do is sacrifice a tiny dot of cuddle time and sleep! so, i guess i know i'm really not a mom of an infant anymore when i find myself back to saying "sleep shmeep!" not that i say that. it's more of a silent mantra. a sophisticated mantra, clearly!
anyway, i should probably get my bake on today before those "blueblacks," as madd called them this morning, go bad, huh! and then maybe we'll hit up that nordstrom anniversary sale that the internet's blowing up over, so shhhhh... i've got my eye on a pair of new leggings to live in (is that typical me, or what!), thanks to my girl maggie. :)
and guess what else? the sun is out! yaaay yay yay! let's go jump in it! thought i could make it through a handful of words without discussing the weather? wroooong! i love weather!