Did I tell you how much I love my husband??

We have been on vacation this week and it has been extra hard getting Abbie back on her routine.  The first night here, she didn't get to bed until 10:30 and that was after we had to put her into bed with us and let her wiggle and fuss herself to sleep.  Then last night she drank her milk and was ready to go off onto dreamland until she was awoken by her cousins who were getting ready to leave after having a family dinner that evening.  I told Charlie that I would get her to sleep.  FAIL!!  She squirmed and screamed and cried for a good 30 minutes.  Finally Charlie came in and swept her up and it's like she melted in his arms.  She instantly stopped crying and soothed herself to sleep on his shoulder.  Then he carried her upstairs to our bedroom like he was her knight in shining armor and laid her ever so gently in the pack and play where she slept soundly for the next nine hours.  I just sat there in awe.  I just don't know how he does it and probably never will.  I will just sit back and thank the Lord above that Abbie and I have this man in our life.

Today is Special...

Today was a special day to me.  Seven years ago, I married my soul mate.  We have made it through so much over years we have been together.  I am so happy that I have had him by my side through it all. 

Also on this day, nine months ago, we were blessed with this girl. 

She is the light of my life and I couldn't imagine my life without her.  My life wouldn't be complete without these two special people in my life.  I owe the world to both of them for making me the person I am today. 

Made with Love by Daddy

Well I can finally say that the nursery is complete. So what if Abbie is now 6 months old. It's better than saying Abbie is six years old. You see we need to go back in time. When I was pregnant with Abbie, I had this envision. I wanted my daughter to have a dresser built by her father. Charlie is one that is into building things and doing what we call "artsy fartsy" stuff. Last year for Valentine's Day, he made me this.

So I had no doubt that he could build his daughter a dresser. Remember this post back in February. Well after buying the supplies and drafting up the dimensions, Charlie spent every week night and every weekend during the month of March out in the garage working on Abbie's dresser. His goal was to get it built by the time my mom came to visit for my birthday on the 24th which he did. He was staining and varnishing during my mom's visit. It was moved into Abbie's room before the end of March.

Besides deciding on the perfect color of stain, the major headache of it all was the hardware. We looked high in low for the exact hardware. We wanted it to be similar to the ones in the pictures of the dresser that we modeled it after. Well we found what we liked at Home Depot but you had to special order it because of the size...which was going to be $17 a handle!! Uh, on to plan B. So we start looking online and found a website that had the same exact handles for half the cost. I think total we spent $60 for all of the hardware and that included buying a couple spares in case one may break in the future. So now we waited...and waited...and waited for the hardware to arrive. It was on back order for at least six weeks. Finally they arrived!! I was so excited to have them installed!! I no longer was going to have to grab on to the bottom of the drawer to open it. Finally after 2 months of patience & hard work...it was complete!!

I present to you Abbie's dresser made with love by her Daddy...

I think he did a beautiful job. Hopefully Abbie appreciates all of the hard work that her daddy put into this some day. It truly is a labor of love.

Now I think it's time that he starts building our bedroom set...