to my darling husband on the occasion of your 31st birthday

steven--
happy birthday my love! i am beyond thankful for you and our life together and our two amazing daughters--we are truly blessed! you make me feel so young you make me feel like spring has sprung! thank you for..
being born
my girls (they are my JOY)
our peaceful love filled home
making me laugh like no other can!
driving sensibly
for being so talented that it makes my knees weak
paying the bills on time
having awesome dance skills
washing the dishes
holding me in your strong arms
helping me through a horrible 2006
changing millions of diapers
entertaining amelie
circle-dancing the maevenator
comforting me when i cry
buying all your girls special treats
never holding a grudge
for falling in love with me in the first place
always listening even when i don't make sense
meeting all our needs
being wonderful in every way
sharing your life with me
i love you honey! i'm so thankful that you're not just my husband but my best friend! every moment of my days are filled with thoughts of you and i'm never more happy than when we're together!
all my love forever and always
michelle

while i was taking this picture amelie...

....was making THIS face! how dare i take pictures of someone other than her!

the christmas concert master and the greatest feat known to man...

steven's christmas concert last night was phenomenal--he always does an awesome job--but this year was defiantly one of my top favorites. we EVEN had the extra excitement of amelie and maeve being in attendance--this was SCARY--and entertaining TWO kiddos--an infant and toddler during those quiet times between songs was the greatest feat known to man (or mama)! but the girls were well behaved and uncle ryan and aunt micayla totally saved me! yay for family!

maeve only screamed once when the cymblas clanged and she was drifting off to sleep--poor little lamb! amelie only had a couple of outbursts of "cookies, toys and candy please!" (i totally bribed her to be quiet) and at the end the students presented her with a cinderella figurine set and she said LOUDLY during prayer, "OOOOO MY BARBIE CASTLE GIRLS--OPEN IT!!" it was a lovely night--i love my husband so much--he's a hot tamale!
an attempt at a family picture that amelie did not appreciate!

amelie refused a picture with her handsome daddy!

mama and the joy of her heart--princess amelie! (princess maeve was asleep)

6.5 years of weberdom and counting...

steven's students got me these beautiful "barbie" (according to amelie)
flowers--in two vases b/c there were too many to fit in one! beautiful!

chillin' like a christmas villain

so it's about 4 in the morning and maeve and i are having a little party so i thought it would be the perfect time to blog...well, not perfect--but i have to find something to do since we don't have cable tv and the only thing on regular tv is news! bleh...

anywho--last night when steve FINALLY got home from judging the all south jersey music participants (88 kids playing clarinet solos...it almost makes staying home all day with two babies sound FUN (which actually, it was!) we headed out to get groceries. i love you wegmans! after groceries we decided to head to a local living nativity. we knew amelie would love seeing the live animals and hearing about Jesus--the only problem was that everyone in the county decided to head over and there were about nine million people there! yikes!

we waited for over an hour before we got to walk through the nativity and i was just praying the WHOLE time that maeve would sleep for the next 3 hours so i wouldn't have to find somewhere to breastfeed in an unfamiliar church filled with nine million unfamiliar people! luckily for me maeve slept--through groceries, the car ride, the 1 hour sit in the sanctuary and finally through the freezing cold outdoor tour of 13 scenes from the life of Jesus. yay maeve! (and i'm pretty sure that's why we're partying here at 4 a.m.--she slept TOO much!).

amelie really loved the animals and seeing the angels fly and the fact that at the end Jesus was literally hidin' in the clouds as they showed the ascension and the boy playing Jesus was hoisted up and behind a set of clouds--so now amelie really DOES think that Jesus is hidin' up there behind the clouds all the time!

heard around the weber household

amelie as her diaper was being changed--
"mama, my princess hurts!"
and no...i'm not sure what this means..

amelie:
"oh no! my monkey!"

at 2:30 in the morning as i lay back down after feeding maeve:
steve: "do you want me to take my shower first and you can lay here and rest?"
me: "what?"
steve: "i said, i can lay here and rest while you take a shower first if you want."
me: "what?!?"
steve: "it's like 18th notes."
me: "wha?!?!?!?"
steve: "unintelligible"
me: "what?!?"
steve: "let me wrap my fingers around you"
me: "you're annoying and talking in your sleep."
steve: "that's ok."

the end

cupcake queen

you can tell that daddy picked out this cupcake for amelie--mama would never pick out something with frosting THAT RED! yikes! luckily she is an expert cupcake eater and the mess stayed on her tray...

it's going to be a long day! steven has dress rehearsal for his broadway show tonight...this is the longest week of the year in the weber household--we miss him!

little miss cheesecake factory

amelie is a regular cheesecake factory with her silly smiles lately! it's so funny that she is finally smiling for pictures--for the longest time she was not interested in being photographed but now she loves it =-)

steven stayed home with us this morning and took amelie to choir practice this afternoon--she loves going to work with daddy and was thrilled to leave with him this morning! maeve and i are just hanging out--we watched some of the tv shows i've recently missed online and now i think it's time for a nap! yay!

the mailman brought me a present today--it's my new sling for maeve! i've figured out there's no way i'll be able to tote around baby and meet a big girl's needs so i think this will be a good solution--plus it's wicked cute. i <3 target and their free shipping!