summer sundays are quickly becoming my favorites!

i'm pretty sure this last sunday was maybe the 4th or 5th or somethingth perfect sunday in a row... we're totally on a roll! hey heeeey...

we finally got up and got ourselves to church! it was tough for a while when maddalena was smaller (we've still streaming church on sundays, however), but we decided that at this point we're out of excuses to continue our hiatus. granted, it still involves one of us walking around with miss madd while the other listens, but we're getting there, so high fiiive! (*please read that high five part in borat voice because i will never say high five in non-borat voice, because that would just be silly.)

i guess i'm the kind of person that takes a snapchat photo like this, says out loud "i look like a bird trying to eat something out of the air," and then saves it, and then sends it, because that's exactly what i did here. although, i mostly just liked it because steven looks so handsome. as usual. :) // when steven and i dated i loved going to the grocery store together. then we grew up and the grocery store was so boring because i mostly had to go all alone. then maddalena was born and the grocery store was fun again! and now when we all go together iiiii love it. i love regular life.

welcome to the official season of flowers every single day! yay! i can't get enough. and they smell so heavenly. i mean, are there winter flowers? how is it that we get through without these beauties for so many months?!

maddalena took this picture of my braid!! i cannot get enough of her photography these days, and i have been meaning to compile a collection of some of her best works, because seeing everything from her tiny perspective just makes me giggle in an absolute fit of love explosions. // oh, my favorite topless babes. i can't even get enough of the daddy loving stage we're in around here. it's the most presh.

besties at mexi! (maggie, don't tell matt i said "besties," okay, because i feel like he would hate it as much as he hated "neighbies," but sorry!) lucy calls cheersing "bangers," although we recently learned that there is a less appropriate meaning to bangers (or two, but we learned about a new one.), but in toddler land it means cheersing, so bangers it is. also, cheersing is still my favorite.

mia lulu foooor life, and oh my goodness, i love these two sweet babies so much i just want to squeeze them both all the time, but instead we just take pictures while they squeeze each other. well. while lucy squeezes maddalena, but clearly she loves it!

when we decided over dinner last night that we needed a more recent photo of all six of us, that word six just totally hit me and i could not believe there were six of us. we used to be couple friends... now we're family friends, mom friends, dad friends, and baby friends and that is kind of mind blowing! but i love it. i love it so much.