Day 25

Rosy cheeks and innocent giggles while running through the Pepper Place Misting Tent!

Day 26

Sweet Bedtime Stories

Day 27

Pamper Party...with the Barbie Squishy Box (as Amelia calls it)!

Day 28

Pajamas.until.four.kind.of.day!

Camera took a siesta...

Here is a pic from a previous pajama day in the Spring...

Day 29

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

A Picture & A Phrase

In order to savor the moments and record the final days of our family of four, I am going to ATTEMPT to blog a picture and a phrase every day this last month.  Something simple, something memorable, something defining from our day to day life.  It's the little things, the simple things, that I want to capture and hold on to.  So...here we go!

Cowgirl Boots & Bathing Suits...Day 30

Winding Down

The days of 'Treadwell, Party of 4' are winding down and it is rather bittersweet for me.  While I am over-the-moon excited, grateful and blessed to be enlarging our tent, there is a part of me that is clinging to life as we now know it.

I keep envisioning us on cruise-control...every mile ahead getting smoother and passing quicker....until, alas, we are there and the road behind us has become a distant memory.  A road that I am sure we will retrace again...in a different season, with a different mindset and with different passengers (and, hopefully, in a different car), but ultimately, EVERYTHING. WILL. BE. DIFFERENT.  And oh, the thought of that road becoming a memory stirs up a big mess of emotions inside this pregnant momma that I just can't seem to handle these days.  Life with the girls is so full, so dramatic, so sweet and so...ours.  What will our life look like 6 weeks from now?  It's such a surreal thing to know our baby is just weeks away and tucked closer to me than any other and yet this baby is such a mystery...such a stranger in a sense.  Who are "we" becoming?  And, as I said before, I CANNOT wait to meet our baby and welcome him/her with the widest, most open arms, but for the moment, for the next 6 weeks, I want to soak THIS life up...

THIS life...

Amelia's first days of VBS...

Daddy's 31st bday...

The beach with 2...

  

Doctor visits with mom...

Girl's first night sharing a room (and a bed)... Amelia swimming... Tillie pottying... Babe-in-soups (aka "Bathing Suits") and lasterday (aka "yesterday")... tea parties... bows...and on and on!  I just don't want to forget a thing of THIS life as we know it.  

Change is good, I know.  The only thing certain in life is change!  Tomorrow will be a different day...different obstacles, different joys, different weather.  And I will embrace tomorrow and the path the Lord sets before us.  But today...today is here and now, the only moment I know and the only one I have for certain.  Today I cling to US...to life as we know it...and trust that God will prepare my heart these next 6 weeks to multiply its love and increase its borders.

Men are from Mars...

The things that intrigue my husband...  

Guess he found this picture-worthy?!?  Bet you've never seen a chipmunk riding a squirrel!