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!!