Since I last wrote....
I'm seriously lucky to be married to Tony and to be going through all the crazies with him. I can hardly believe the two people we are today are the two people holding hands up on that altar 3 years ago; we've changed as individuals and our relationship has changed, too. I love our life and where we are headed as a family and cannot wait to make even more memories with my husband and kid(s).
Alright, alright... enough with the mushy mushy.
As I mentioned, my sisters were in town last weekend and we have a blast. My nephew, Matthew, was born back in April (April Fools Day to be exact!) so everybody was in town to celebrate his baptism. It was the first time that we were all able to get together - siblings, significant others, kids - since maybe Anne Marie's baptism? (I might be making that up... but I really can't think of a time since then!)
I love getting all of us together - the more is seriously the merrier with them. It makes everybody separating and going back to our regular lives that much more sucky! I still hope to live in the same town someday and if we could wrangle Breanne & Dustin, too, that would just be perfect. In the time frame that we had family in town, we also threw a housewarming party so that our friends and family could come see the new place and help break it in. We also celebrated Bobby's birthday! (The only pictures I took during the party happened while we sang him happy birthday.)
It was really nice having everybody over and since it was a potluck, we got to taste some pretty FANTASTIC food. I had my first Oreo ball and holy moly... am I addicted!!! We had a taco bar and I decided to do tacos in a bag to make clean up easier!
While my sisters were in town we spent all day Sunday together for the baptism and party afterwards and just got some time to hang out - which was nice and very much appreciated. Jonathan and Ashley (my little sister & her fiance) left Sunday afternoon around the time Anne Marie was getting up from her nap. Amanda and Tony blew bubbles for those two for such a long time and they acted like it was the most fun they ever had!
We had dinner over at our house with Amanda & John (my big sister & brother-in-law), Caroline & Greg (John's brother & his wife who live in the Memphis area), Pamela (John's sister who lives in Chicago), & the newly baptized baby boys (Matthew & his cousin, Noah) and that was a lot of fun!
Then we woke up Monday morning and headed to the Memphis Zoo. Man oh man, did we have a good time there. I feel like that was the smoothest trip to the zoo I maybe have ever had, which is crazy considering there were 5 adults + 1 pregnant lady (yes... I consider myself somewhat of a subspecies at this point), 2 newborns, & 2 toddlers in tow. The weather was great, the kids cooperated, the food was good (but overpriced), and thank goodness there was water to play in! We came home for a quick nap time and then had dinner together at Huey's before the Nashville folks took off to head back home.
You're probably wondering why in the world I am mentioning a shopping trip to Old Navy. Well, I am so excited because it's another summer which means another set of flag shirts! And this time around we bought four for the first time... which is very sweet and surreal. I can't wait to get a family photo in them. Tony also got some khakis & pants for work that were over $10 off each plus shopping was free, we had 20% off, and had $50 in gift cards to spend. (We bought the Old Navy gift cards from Kroger, got $10 off, and 4x the gas rewards!) All in all, it was a fun purchase for me because I love great deals. And shopping.
Speaking of shopping and good deals? We got an area rug for our living room. The floor is wood laminate and I desperately missed having carpeted floors. It's a big 8' x 12' area rug we got from Lowes - thanks to Breanne for the recommendation - and even best? It's a commercial cut so it was CHEAP! I believe it was $79 (unheard of!) and we had 10% off on top of it, so it came out to $71 or so. It's black, white, and gray so it gives the room a bit of personality & depth, too!
And finally... there is the fact that my baby girl is in her big girl bed now. One random day after she woke up from naptime in her crib, it struck me how big she looked in her crib. It's not that she didn't fit in there anymore and she wasn't being rowdy in there whatsoever... it just looked like she deserved to give her big girl bed a try already. So I put the mattress on the toddler bed from her crib and she was FLOORED!!!! As I said, she had just gotten up from a 2 hour nap, and she went and immediately laid on her new bed and played there for a long time! I asked her if she wanted to sleep there later that night and she said yes... I made sure to ask if she wanted to sleep in her crib and she gave an enthusiastic no! So we took apart the crib and moved it to Molly's room. Phew. I have been on pins and needles about it for the last few naptimes and bedtimes, but we have one awesome girl who is seemingly unfazed by the new change! Presley used to go right to sleep at bedtime and naptime, but for the past few weeks (even when she slept in her crib), she has taken a while to wind down. In her big girl bed, that is still true, but it seems to take less time for her to fall asleep lately! Which I am nothing but happy about. To our knowledge, she's been staying in her bed really well too. I think she was way more ready for this than I thought she was!
Now we'll just need to buy a new crib mattress for Miss Molly. Since we plan on having her in our room in her bassinet for a while, there is no real rush. Though, I know myself fairly well, and I'm sure we'll be purchasing it sooner rather than later just for peace of mind!
To top it all off, we had a great Memorial Day Weekend with our friends. We went swimming, played out in the sun, ate some delicious food, and laughed a whole lot. Of course it wouldn't be complete without a little drama (like our A/C going out for 24 hours) but all ended well!
- Tony & I celebrated 3 years of marriage! How did we celebrate? Mexican take-out (because that's what I was "craving" and my husband is my best friend) along with my favorite flowers - carnations - from my husband along with several scratch-off tickets (what a fun idea)!
- I still haven't written about my sisters coming in town or our housewarming party. I failed big time when it came to documenting the party - I was too busy having fun and seriously didn't take a single picture! Not of our friends, family, or the food. Bummer. But it's definitely a good thing that we were too busy enjoying ourselves.
- Did some shopping at Old Navy. I flipping love that store and shopping their online deals, too.
- Finally got a humungous area rug for our living room, thanks to recommendations from my favorite twin-cousin, Breanne!
- Presley now sleeps in a big girl (toddler) bed rather than her crib. I am so proud of her but my mommy heart breaks a little bit that the crib is officially not her bed anymore. I now completely understand the way in which it is hard for parents to let go of these little things as our kids get older.
I'm seriously lucky to be married to Tony and to be going through all the crazies with him. I can hardly believe the two people we are today are the two people holding hands up on that altar 3 years ago; we've changed as individuals and our relationship has changed, too. I love our life and where we are headed as a family and cannot wait to make even more memories with my husband and kid(s).
Alright, alright... enough with the mushy mushy.
As I mentioned, my sisters were in town last weekend and we have a blast. My nephew, Matthew, was born back in April (April Fools Day to be exact!) so everybody was in town to celebrate his baptism. It was the first time that we were all able to get together - siblings, significant others, kids - since maybe Anne Marie's baptism? (I might be making that up... but I really can't think of a time since then!)
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| This one is from Anne Marie's baptism - fall 2012 |
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| This one is from Matthew's baptism - summer 2014 |
I love getting all of us together - the more is seriously the merrier with them. It makes everybody separating and going back to our regular lives that much more sucky! I still hope to live in the same town someday and if we could wrangle Breanne & Dustin, too, that would just be perfect. In the time frame that we had family in town, we also threw a housewarming party so that our friends and family could come see the new place and help break it in. We also celebrated Bobby's birthday! (The only pictures I took during the party happened while we sang him happy birthday.)
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| My mother-in-law took this one of Tony feeding Presley some dirt cake! |
It was really nice having everybody over and since it was a potluck, we got to taste some pretty FANTASTIC food. I had my first Oreo ball and holy moly... am I addicted!!! We had a taco bar and I decided to do tacos in a bag to make clean up easier!
While my sisters were in town we spent all day Sunday together for the baptism and party afterwards and just got some time to hang out - which was nice and very much appreciated. Jonathan and Ashley (my little sister & her fiance) left Sunday afternoon around the time Anne Marie was getting up from her nap. Amanda and Tony blew bubbles for those two for such a long time and they acted like it was the most fun they ever had!
We had dinner over at our house with Amanda & John (my big sister & brother-in-law), Caroline & Greg (John's brother & his wife who live in the Memphis area), Pamela (John's sister who lives in Chicago), & the newly baptized baby boys (Matthew & his cousin, Noah) and that was a lot of fun!
Then we woke up Monday morning and headed to the Memphis Zoo. Man oh man, did we have a good time there. I feel like that was the smoothest trip to the zoo I maybe have ever had, which is crazy considering there were 5 adults + 1 pregnant lady (yes... I consider myself somewhat of a subspecies at this point), 2 newborns, & 2 toddlers in tow. The weather was great, the kids cooperated, the food was good (but overpriced), and thank goodness there was water to play in! We came home for a quick nap time and then had dinner together at Huey's before the Nashville folks took off to head back home.
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| Tony's first time holding Matthew & Matthew started crying! |
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| Me & the girlies after dinner :) |
You're probably wondering why in the world I am mentioning a shopping trip to Old Navy. Well, I am so excited because it's another summer which means another set of flag shirts! And this time around we bought four for the first time... which is very sweet and surreal. I can't wait to get a family photo in them. Tony also got some khakis & pants for work that were over $10 off each plus shopping was free, we had 20% off, and had $50 in gift cards to spend. (We bought the Old Navy gift cards from Kroger, got $10 off, and 4x the gas rewards!) All in all, it was a fun purchase for me because I love great deals. And shopping.
Speaking of shopping and good deals? We got an area rug for our living room. The floor is wood laminate and I desperately missed having carpeted floors. It's a big 8' x 12' area rug we got from Lowes - thanks to Breanne for the recommendation - and even best? It's a commercial cut so it was CHEAP! I believe it was $79 (unheard of!) and we had 10% off on top of it, so it came out to $71 or so. It's black, white, and gray so it gives the room a bit of personality & depth, too!
And finally... there is the fact that my baby girl is in her big girl bed now. One random day after she woke up from naptime in her crib, it struck me how big she looked in her crib. It's not that she didn't fit in there anymore and she wasn't being rowdy in there whatsoever... it just looked like she deserved to give her big girl bed a try already. So I put the mattress on the toddler bed from her crib and she was FLOORED!!!! As I said, she had just gotten up from a 2 hour nap, and she went and immediately laid on her new bed and played there for a long time! I asked her if she wanted to sleep there later that night and she said yes... I made sure to ask if she wanted to sleep in her crib and she gave an enthusiastic no! So we took apart the crib and moved it to Molly's room. Phew. I have been on pins and needles about it for the last few naptimes and bedtimes, but we have one awesome girl who is seemingly unfazed by the new change! Presley used to go right to sleep at bedtime and naptime, but for the past few weeks (even when she slept in her crib), she has taken a while to wind down. In her big girl bed, that is still true, but it seems to take less time for her to fall asleep lately! Which I am nothing but happy about. To our knowledge, she's been staying in her bed really well too. I think she was way more ready for this than I thought she was!
Now we'll just need to buy a new crib mattress for Miss Molly. Since we plan on having her in our room in her bassinet for a while, there is no real rush. Though, I know myself fairly well, and I'm sure we'll be purchasing it sooner rather than later just for peace of mind!
To top it all off, we had a great Memorial Day Weekend with our friends. We went swimming, played out in the sun, ate some delicious food, and laughed a whole lot. Of course it wouldn't be complete without a little drama (like our A/C going out for 24 hours) but all ended well!
Hope everybody had an awesome weekend!
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