7 years

Seven years ago today Matt and I were married. It's been a wonderful seven years! To celebrate our anniversary Matt took the day off work. I made us Belgian waffles this morning. We are going to pack up some food for our lunch, drop Ethan off at Matt's mom's for the day, and head out to the beach ALONE :) We plan on relaxing and enjoying the beach all day, eating dinner out there and then we'll pick up Ethan tonight.

I love you honey and truly every day with you is wonderful. It just keeps getting better and better :) The Lord has blessed us abundantly with each other!

Here is last year's anniversary post if you want to see some pictures of us from over the years.

Coconut M&Ms

We saw these yesterday at Target and picked up a bag. They are SO yummy! I love the combination of coconut and chocolate. We like to keep them in the fridge and eat a few cold here and there. They say "limited edition" so who knows how long they'll be around. Perhaps I should stock up :)

Eight

Eight things I look forward to...
1. Meeting my baby girl
2. Time alone with Matt

3. When Ethan has nap time and bed time :)

4. Spending time with friends

5. Taking Ethan to do fun things that he enjoys

6. Spa days at Glen Ivy... pure bliss (I don't know when that will happen again, but I still look forward to it!)

7. Spending time in the Word after I put Ethan to bed

8. Going on evening walks after dinner in the summer

Eight things I did yesterday...
1. Took Ethan to the doctor

2. Went to the fruit stand in Yucaipa

3. Took the dog to the vet for her shots

4. Took a nice rest while Ethan napped

5. Ate popsicles in the backyard with Ethan

6. Played Legos with Ethan

7. Visited Christy

8. Had a yummy dinner at the Oates house and got to visit with friends

Eight things I wish I could do...
1. Sleep well

2. Get some motivation to scrapbook and sew some cute stuff for my baby girl

3. Go to Hawaii with my hubby

4. Move to a bigger house (I LOVE my house and am super grateful for it... but it's only 2 bedrooms)

5. Walk out of the hospital after giving birth in great shape and with no extra baby weight :) I can dream can't I?

6. Understand more technical things so that I can actually converse with my hubby about stuff he's into instead of just listening and trying to understand

7. This is a dream... but design a dream house with Matt and build it someday... maybe even a beach house, hehe

8. Goodness, this part is hard.... hire a housekeeper, personal trainer, and personal chef... oh, and a live in masseuse, hehe

8 Shows I Watch (in no particular order):
1. LOST
2. The Office
3. Greys Anatomy
4. 30 Rock
5. The Bachelor (& Bachelorette)
6. Here Come the Newlyweds
7. A few realty shows on cable (Tori & Dean, and some of the dumb ones on E sometimes)

8. Desperate Housewives

8 People I Tag:
Jolene
Kelly P.
Christy
Krista
Kelly Urena
Crystal
Julie
Charlee

And anyone else-it's kinda a brain buster trying to answer all of these!!!

4th of July

The 4th of July was pretty laid back for us. We went to the pancake breakfast at church in the morning, came home and took naps, then went over to Matt's parents for some swimming and hanging out in the afternoon.

Ethan tried out his floaties for the first time. He didn't mind them at all and it made me feel a little better because the boy has no fear. He just jumps in the spa and pool. He did great with the floaties. He is so cute in the water, he just has so much fun.

Of course we forgot to take a family picture when we were dressed up in our red white and blue. Instead we wait until the end of the day when we are water logged and Ethan is in his jammies :) I'm also looking at the wrong camera, lol. This is the best I got.
My mom came over for a while and hung out with us. It was nice to have her there too :) Sid and Marlene got us some broasted chicken and we had a nice little dinner outside. I had brought along some yummy homeade mint and chip ice cream for dessert.

Grandma gave Ethan an old cell phone to play with since he loves phones lately.

We headed home around Ethan's bedtime. We haven't watched fireworks since we've had him. He was super tired anyhow. One of these years we'll try to see them again :) It was a nice relaxing 4th. Thanks for having us over Mom and Dad H. :)

a play date with friends

Last week some great gals that I became friends with in the credential program came over with their little ones for a play date. There were five of us moms and then our kiddos. The kids had a great time playing and we had a great time visiting.

Ethan driving his car

Not the greatest picture, but the only one I took of the moms, so I had to post it :) From left to right is Amy, Tawny (holding baby Travis, who you can't see), Noreen (who has a 3 month old daughter who was inside napping) and Krista. Amy's daughter Taylor

Tawny's daughter Sammy going down the slide

Krista's daughter Madyson driving the car

Ethan having some fun in his pool

Thanks for coming over ladies, it was great to see you all!

random

• First of all thank you so much for all of the prayers and support that you all have offered me while I am experiencing this difficult time with insomnia and other hard stuff. The prayers, e-mails and Facebook communications have meant a lot :) I would still REALLY appreciate your prayers right now as things are still pretty hard for me.
  

• Here is a belly picture I had Matt take today. I am 29 weeks along now. Physically I'm feeling pretty good, so that is nice. This little gal moves around a lot, and I can tell she's starting to run out of room... it's starting to seem cramped in there.
  

• Thanks also for the stroller feedback. :) I am having a hard time deciding what to do!

• Matt had Friday off, which was great :) Both him and Ethan got much needed hair cuts in the morning. Then we dropped off my car to get the speedometer fixed, then went to Lowe's to get some closet organizer stuff, which we are putting up in Ethan's room. We have to make some room in there since he will be sharing it with his sister :)
  

• After we got all that stuff taken care of yesterday my mom took Ethan for the afternoon and night (thanks mom!) and Matt and I saw a movie (The Proposal). We enjoyed it and thought it was cute :) Afterwards we strolled around downtown Redlands for a bit and then had dinner at Romano's in Redlands. We enjoyed it and I was pleasantly surprised that it was cheaper than I had anticipated. We came home to a surprise that wasn't so nice.... a living room rug COVERED in dog diharrea. Mind you none of our wood floors had anything on it, just one of the two rugs we have. grrrrr. Oh my was it disgusting. I was glad we didn't have Ethan with us to keep out of it. We went to the store and bought some carpet cleaner, then came home and spent about 30 minutes cleaning the rug. Thankfully we were able to get it all out... but boy was it gross. After cleaning up that nasty mess we went walking at Yucaipa Community Park, which has a little dirt trail that goes all around the permieter. It was so nice to go walking by ourselves and enjoy the evening. The walk lifted my spirits a lot and made me realize I need to be walking/excersising every day.
  

• Today we woke up around 6:30, but enjoyed staying in bed until 7:00 :) Yup, 7:00 is late for us! We went and picked up Ethan from my mom's and then went over to the pancake breakfast at church for a while. Ethan had a great time with my mom. She played with him non stop, took him swimming, fed him lots of popcicles and just enjoyed him. Currently Ethan is napping, I'm about to lay down, and then we'll go over to Matt's parents and go swimming this afternoon. We won't be going to any fireworks shows since Ethan goes to bed way before they start, and at this point it's not worth it trying to keep him awake. One day we'll go :)

• This week I start Mommy and Me swim lessons with Ethan. It will go for 2 weeks. He already loves the water, so I'm sure he'll have fun :)
  

This is just a random picture of Ethan and his friend Maddy at the park the other week :)

I hope you're all having a wonderful 4th! We are so very blessed here in America.

double strollers

I need some input. Those of you who have double strollers, what kinds do you like? I'm really trying to decide between a side by side lightweight stroller, or a stroller that they sit one in front of the other. I'm for sure getting a jogging stroller, but I also want something to keep in my car and take places.