Dear Facebook, I don't miss you! I made a decision at the beach that I need to take a break from Facebook. I think I had become slightly addicted, especially since I have an iPhone and can check it all of the time. So if I miss your birthday, your anniversary, the news that you're having a baby, getting married/divorced or going on a really cool vacation, I apologize now. I don't know how long of a break I'll be taking but I must admit, it feels pretty good to not know what everyone I've ever known in my life is doing at this current minute. I haven't checked it since Sunday at the beach so I'm doing good so far. I did check my "Facebook" folder in my email to make sure I didn't miss any messages. Just have to figure out a way to respond to the messages without logging on!

We had the best weekend! We went to the beach for the weekend...just the kids! And our sweet little babies. It was a great trip and the weather was amazing. Especially on Saturday. I got too hot sitting on the deck and had to move inside at one point! Liam and Sophie even took a bath together, it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. :) Mom and dad have had the house less than a year but we've already created so many great memories. I love it, all I can think about is figuring out when we can go back!

Ok, the couch (and ice cream!) is calling my name. Hope everyone has a great week! Oh, and if I miss something HUGE on Facebook....can someone please let me know!? :)

Wordless Wednesday. With Words.

It's so weird to think that this time last year I was 23 weeks pregnant! It's also weird to think it must've been WARM and SUNNY as I'm wearing a sleeveless shirt. I can't remember what being pregnant felt like...or the warm weather for that matter!

Zumba - Dance Dance Dance

Zumba. My sister and I have decided to sign up for Zumba through the Parks and Rec. My sister sent me this video and I laugh every time I watch it. We are the girl in the green sweatpants! Totally off beat, no rhythm, looking really silly. The only difference is we'll be in the very BACK of the room! This should be an interesting few weeks... :)

Saturday stuff

This picture cracks me up! Sophie was trying to help me blow out candles. It consisted more of spitting...haha. Made the cake that much sweeter!

Wow, my blogging is becoming less and less. I think it's because I rarely sit down with the laptop anymore. I use my phone for pretty much all of my web surfing so I don't really have the need, except when I get the urge to blog because I really don't have the patience to blog from my phone!

Last week was a whirlwind! Monday I used birthday money I got to go buy a new microwave. Ours still works, but now that we have a stainless steel dishwasher and fridge, I decided it was time for a new one. And ours is kinda complicated anyway (that's my justification). It's a Maytag and it's pretty awesome looking! They didn't have it in stock so we're still waiting to get it. Next upgrade will be a new oven. Joe and I both want the double oven style Maytag one. If I'm lucky we'll get it before the end of June and we can sell of our old stuff at our neighborhood garage sale! I forgot to mention that we also got new toilets. Well, new to us. They're actually from my sisters house. They upgraded so we got their old. Which is a huge upgrade from what we had. Yay!

Wednesday was Joe's birthday! The big 2-8 like me now. He had to work all day so we didn't really get to celebrate but I tried my best to make it a special day for him. We listen to KLOG in the morning and everyday they give away flowers. You have to nominate the person to win so I emailed and nominated him for the flower giveaway because it was his birthday and because he's such a great husband and daddy. He listens at work so I was really hoping he'd be the winner and he was! I know it's just local radio, AM at that, but it was so exciting to hear them read what I had written and wish him a happy birthday on air! Hahaha, I'm a local radio nerd! They delivered a dozen yellow roses to work. :) Lucky for me, we fresh flowers at home...although I think they're making me sick!

Thursday Liam and I went swimming with my moms group at Firstenburg in Vancouver. Such an awesome place. Why can't Longview have a cool place like this?! Such a wonderful thing for the community. Liam had a blast swimming with his friends and I had a great time, as usual, with all of the moms. So lucky to have this group of girls. All of the babies are within 9 weeks of each other so we can all relate to each other. Great support. And they're all so fun!

Joe's trying to study for his econ class right now. I thought I missed school. I was wrong. I'm not even taking the class but I already hate it. He's so stressed trying to get all of the readings done, trying to figure out when to take his test. It's cutting into our weekend/family time. :( I'll be just as happy as he is when it's done! He got 100% on his first exam though so hoping the rest are the same. I had to pay tuition last week. HOLY CRAP! How do people afford school?! This is just a 2 credit class but I had to write a check for over $1400!! It's nuts! Thankfully we'll be getting reimbursed from his company at the end of the semester but still...yikes! Think I better up the amount we're putting into Liam's college fund every payday. If it's this much now, can't even imagine how much it will cost when he goes to school!

Liam also turned SEVEN months yesterday. He's officially sitting up for long periods of time and loves food. I feel like a slacker mom for not making my own baby food but buying is so much easier. Especially for lazy people like me. ;) I feed him fruits and rice cereal in the morning and a veggie and cereal at night. I'm still breastfeeding about 3-4 times during the day and before bed. He's a chunky monkey! I love him SO much! Oh, and I just remembered something really big....Joe and I had our first DATE NIGHT on Thursday! It was the first time we'd been to dinner just the two of us without Liam. We left him with my sister and he did great. I must say it was so nice to be able to eat with no interruptions! And to be able to eat slow and savor every bite...forgot what that's like! Thanks to my sister, bro-in-law and Sophie for watching him. And to Liam for being so good for them!

Ok, better take advantage nap time before it's over...

Happy weekend!

P.S. The world didn't end today? Joe said he read the guy predicted if not today, October 21. Good to know we still have a few months. Might as well eat the carrot cake that's staring me down as I write this!!

Hello, late twenties...

I guess I've been in my late twenties for a few years now, huh? I guess it's more like
late-late twenties now! Whatever, it's just a number and every year gets better and better so I'll take it! Or maybe this would be a good age to stop at?

I had the best birthday ever. I feel like we've been celebrating since Thursday! Non-stop stuff going on, I love weekends like that! I was sad when Joe left for work this morning...back to the grind. :/ On Thursday we bought a new washer and dryer. I must say, it's beautiful! Ours has been on the fritz for a long time and Joe decided he didn't want to put anymore time and/or money into fixing it. Don't blame him! We also got a new dishwasher from Joe's parents for our joint birthday present. The washer and dryer is beautiful, our new dishwasher is GORGEOUS! Hidden buttons, stainless steel...and it actually cleans dishes. It's amazing. We had to pre-wash everything with our old one. I have to train myself not to wash dishes before putting them in now! And it's so quiet! I wasn't able to run our old one if we were watching TV because it was so loud. This one is so quiet I have to listen to see if it's really running. So nice!

Ok, I was going to write more but I really need to take advantage of Liam's morning nap and get stuff done.

Happy Monday!

Wordless Wednesday

Joe and I watched Freakonomics on Saturday night. It was SO interesting. I love it when a show or movie can keep me entertained for more than 10 minutes..this was one of those. Highly recommend! Joe's class starts today, he's only taking one this summer session and it's micro and macro economics, which is what led us to this movie as we were searching Apple TV. Glad we picked it!

It's my birthday week! Which means it will be like all of the other weeks, just turning a year older on Friday. I'm trying to take it with stride, it's just a number, but 28? Where has the time gone? It's nuts!

Happy Monday!

Happy Mother's Day to my amazing mom and to all of the other moms I know out there. Now that I'm a mom I fully understand this holiday. We need to be recognized! :) We're going for brunch at Root's later this am. Looking forward to it! Although, I told my sister it would be more of a Mother's Day treat if the guys were sending us girls minus the kids (and the husbands) to enjoy brunch, some pampering and just a plain old good girls day. ;)

For my Mother's Day, Joe sent me out for a pedicure yesterday and we're going to go plant shopping when he's off one day this week. We attempted yesterday but everyone was buying plants and flowers. Way to wait to the last minute, people! I'm actually not really ready for flowers yet. Maybe it's the weather? It's much more fun looking when the sun is at least shining! I had the BEST pedicure though. I went to Lovely Nails because I had a coupon. I'll definitely be going back, especially since they let me keep the coupon! I rate a pedicure based on the massage and this one was wonderful! She did my right leg for over 10 minutes! Several lotions, hot towels. It was so nice!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day!

Wordless Wednesday

I crack up everytime I look at this picture! Liam and his friend Gavin at the Woodland Tulip Festival on Saturday.

Blogging from an iPad

Ugh! It's not as easy as I thought it would be....so I guess I'll end the post here. Guess I'm old fashioned, still prefer a regular keyboard. Happy Tuesday!