Rainy Weekend

Our 3-day weekend was both good and bad. Having 3 days with Dada home is always happily welcomed, but it rained for those 3 days, so our little outside lover got a bit stir crazy at times. We got creative with laundry basket rides and such though! Just having Dada home made him happy. I told Jeremy that although he is happy during the day with just me, I can see a difference in him when he is home. Summer is going to be amazing!

 

Jeremy and I had great evenings together. Full of movies, late night snacks, playing Wheel of Fortune and enjoying our time : ) It's always hard when "Monday" comes back around, but there's just 3 more days of school!!! Seth is either fighting a little bug or teething, so we are snuggled up today with Daniel Tiger, I love Lucy, puppy & paccy and waiting for Dada to get back!

I hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend!

Memories on Memorial Day

5 years ago today my husband took me out on our first date. We had pizza and I remember ordering a soda which I never do. So he in turn ordered one as well, which he never does. After dinner we walked around town for hours, talking, laughing and planning our next date. If you had asked me then if my life would look like this in 5 years I would have highly doubted it. 

Yesterday Jeremy "let" me go shopping for a couple hours while Seth napped. Seth has hit the age where we don't have many clothes in his size, so I headed off to our used children's clothes store to get him a few things and then I went to Old Navy to find a few summer items for myself. It was nice to spend some time alone. On my way home I heard this song. It's been a favorite ever since my Mom made me listen to it a couple months ago, but it hit something inside of me yesterday. When the song ended, I switched the station and there it was again - okay, God. 

I couldn't fight the tears. I cranked the volume and sang as loud as I could there in the car, all alone. My life hasn't gone exactly the way I had imagined it would. I'm sure my parents would agree to that. I had many mountains, valleys and more bumps than I can count. And I've always wondered why I did the things I did and why God allowed me to go through everything. So, how did I end up here? It hits me often, while watching Seth play or hearing my husband cook breakfast. I don't deserve any of this. Thinking back to our first date and all that I hoped and prayed it would become.....to now have all of that plus SO much more (like the cutest, sweetest little boy I've ever laid eyes on) - it brings tears to my eyes and gives me an absolutely overwhelming feeling inside. 

Our God is an awesome, merciful God. 

A great, unexpected weekend!

It wasn't a huge surprise when he came, but it was a surprise a few weeks ago while skyping with my parents and my Dad asked what our plans were for this past weekend. He was being sent to Georgia for some training and wanted to drive up and see us! Luckily, we had no plans (and even if we did they would have been canceled)! He got to see our house and see Seth walking!!

 

A trip to the aquarium made our Saturday complete! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We even got to play cards - with my Mom - and we won! hahaha

 

It was bittersweet to not have my Mom here too, but we had a blast and I'm so thankful that we were able to have this time with him! It will help our 7 week wait to be in NY! Thanks for coming, Dad : ) 

De-clutter

You know how it is when you have a bunch of stuff to organize and put away, but you just don't know where to put it, so you make an "organized mess". You stack it up and line it along the wall so that it isn't taking up too much space. Well, I don't know about you, but I can only stand it for so long. 

Jeremy convinced me to work out with him the other night and the whole time I was in there all I could look at was our "organized mess". Well, I'm sure you can imagine what I did the very next day : ) 

I feel better now : ) 

Settling in...

Here's a peak at how things are looking at the house! We are pretty much all settled, for now. I have a few boxes left - decorations, games, photo albums, etc. Decorating is going to take me a bit longer this time around. After all the work we put into painting, I want to be sure I know what and where things are going before I put a hole in the wall hahaha And we haven't quite decided what we are going to do for the games and such yet. Our cheap walmart bookshelf is still in the garage and I don't really foresee it coming inside.

We haven't heard one peep out of our neighbors! The neighborhood is super cute for Seth and I to enjoy our walks in and we have really just enjoyed being here! We have our "Now & Later" project list started, but life is pretty great here : )