With Love, The Phillips: 2009.03

She's Not the Outdoor-sy Type! We, of course, happen to think our sweet little girl is about as perfect as they come! Haven't found an inperfection yet! However, if her future husband happens to be looking for an outdoor loving girl, he may disagree! We made the recent discovery that our Rori Kate is not a big fan of grass. Won't even touch the stuff, until we sit her down on it. Then, she refuses to put the other foot down! Listen baby, i come from a long line of summer time means lots of barefoot walks on the green grass, people might start to question the maternity of this child... (does it work that way? like paternity only the opposite?)

Here are some pictures of her doing the "Not Touching the Grass" dance I video-ed but I still am not able to upload video properly! One of these day I'm gonna get this figured out!

Dear Life, please slow down!...Thanks.

I complain too much about being too busy and never getting time to sit down and enjoy family. The truth we involve ourselves in all the activities for a reason, i do really enjoy those activities! I think maybe more than anything we need to slow down. I find that as every single major event is taking place i'm always saying, "As soon as this is over..." I am making a vow here and now not to do that. i refuse to wish time away. instead i'm going to slow down, but probably not much.

Sincerely missed.
Since i've last posted we have experienced the loss of the strongest woman i've ever known. my nana went to meet Jesus at the beginning of this month with the fastest fall to cancer i personally have ever known of. i have learned a lot from this terrible experience, and the biggest thing i think of all is once again--Family is so important and TOP PRIORITY! I have really begun to get closer and closer with my nana who lived in OKC a better part of my childhood and have began to love her so much especially when little RK entered our lives and became our greatest bond, and the light of her life. She will be missed dearly a hole has been left in all of our hearts by our passing, but I'm so happy to rest in the assurance that she is with our savior, and she feels no pain.

What's new with RK?
On to lighter subjects...RK's momo and I spent the day replenishing her wardrobe as her 9 month mark is fast approaching and abruptly became aware of the fact that she no longer fits any of her clothes! Of course with the 9mo. mark approaching we have been through many a milestone:

-Pulling Up, which is probably the scariest thing for mama!
-Feeding herself little snacks
-Being the biggest trooper through BABYSITTER TRAUMA!
-Following mama where ever she goes around the house! And she can really keep up!
-first swim!!

What's new with mama and daddy?
-i am hard to work on the new children's ministry at church a task that i'm positive will prove to have my work cut out for me.
-nathan is doing a lot of speaking at the church lately and is preparing to be ordained soon.
-i am attending a tuesday night bible study with tricia, sara and megan soto and it continues to keep me very revived and trying to find the joy in all circumstances i'm loving it and the fellowship with those amazing girls!
-we joined the Y recently and are loving it! we are really enjoying seeing rori kate enjoy it!
-i have been putting a lot of prayer and thought in to being the best mom i can be, i think that's where all this slow down talk is coming from. i have decided through prayer that we are going to have a monthly family value and corresponding scripture to live by, i will try to post about this every month.
-my lovely Seester and I are going to start a side business, i'm so totally excited about it! i'm kind of banking that if we can really make it work i will be able to live my dream of staying home with little missy!

That's all for now, here are some new photos, of course: