Matt's Birthday Present...

I've been patiently waiting to share with everyone what I gave Matt for his birthday 2 weeks ago...

We had our first Doctor's appointment today & are beyond, beyond, beyond excited that we have a little lima bean on the way!! Coming your way June 2010!!

Disneyland!

On my birthday Matt had work and school and wouldn't be home til late, so my mom and I decided to take Easton to Disneyland. He is going through a Mickey Mouse/Toy Story phase at the moment and I thought now would be the perfect time to go. We had a blast! It was not crowded one bit. We literally walked on to every ride. Easton even rode Big Thunder Mountain!

Easton Met Woody!! Easton is PETRIFIED of these sorts of people in costumes (can you really blame him? I am 5' 8" and look how much taller Woody is than me! HUGE!). He generally admires them from a safe distance away. Any closer and he absolutely loses it! BUT...being that he is quite obessesed with all things Toy Story I knew this would be worth the potential meltdown.

As you can see he did great...

he later even talked to Woody and gave him a hi-five!

Calling Daddy to tell him he took a picture with Woody...

"Daddy! He was this BIG!!"
Shooting Aliens with Mee-Maw...Bonding at it's best!!
He later said this was his favorite ride.
Disneyland has the CUTEST pumpkins!

Posing with Jack Pumpkinhead.

Stopping to give Mama some birthday love!

Stopping to call Katelyn...This child will speak to no one on the phone...except for his beloved Katelyn! It's hilarious!

Spinning on the Tea-Cups...Also a favorite!

"Enjoying" the Roger Rabbit Ride...This picture cracks me up!

Flying on Dumbo with Mee-Maw...He also like this one because it wasn't "dark and scary" like the Haunted Mansion.

Thanks for a fun day Mee-Maw!!

Not exactly the looking I was hoping for...

Don't you love when you want to take a cute picture and instead of smiling your child tells you, "I wanna make a mean face."??!

He's a keeper!

Last week I was totally bummed that Matt would not get to spend my birthday (my golden birthday no less!! 29 on the 29th!) with me because of work and school, which can't be helped, naturally and on top of it I was sad because we wouldn't even get to spend the weekend together because I had to work on Saturday and he had a school function on Sunday. It was going 3+ weeks since we've had a day off together...Seriously our life is pure chaos at the moment. As you can imagine I was not a happy girl when I went to work on Saturday. However, when I got home from work Saturday these bee-utiful flowers along with birthday cards were awaiting me. That sneaky husband of mine surprised me with an overnight date at the beach (oh-la-la!) We left Sunday morning, dropped Easton off at Grandma & Grandpa's. We throughly enjoyed our time together. It was soooooooooooo nice to reconnect and just do nothing together.

Is she here yet? Is she here yet? Is she here yet?

We have baby on the brain in our home these days. Easton is fascinated with them. He loves his cousin Logan to pieces. He adores his buddy Nolan's little sister Kenna (Their mama & I pray that some day they will fall in love and they will give us gorgeous blue-eyed grandbabies!) And now Ry and Val our expecting a sproutlet of pinkness that we can hardly wait to meet! The concept of pregnancy is slighty confusing to understand for a toddler. In the literal world of a 3-year-old, the idea that there is a baby in Val's tummy is mind blowing!! At one point he thought Ryan had the baby in his tummy! As Val's little tummy is growing though it does help to solidify the fact. He is constantly picking things out at the store that "Val's baby needs." Or saying sweet things like, "When Val's baby is bigger I will let her play with my cars."

The hardest part for him to comprehend is the issue of time...How long is it going to be before this baby finally gets here!?! Things to him exist only in terms of last night, today and tomorrow.

While having lunch today he asked me (for the 250th time), "When is Val's baby gonna be here?" I was trying to explain that she needs to stay in Valerie's tummy awhile longer so she can grow big & strong...he interrupts me and says, "Oh, she'll be here in 7 days."

Dear Sawyer,

I hope not to see you in 7 days, although I can not wait to greet you on the day you are born! 19 weeks to go!! Your cousin is beyond excited to meet you. I know you two will be the best of friends!

Keep up the good work little sprout!

Love you so much already!

P.S. It's soooooooooooo fun shopping for you! I can't stop!

xo

This makes me giggle...

On our way home from Trader Joe's today Easton was drinking a strawberry yogurt smoothie that he just had to have. We can not shop at Trader Joe's with out popping open some Joe Joe's, munching on a string cheese or gobbling down a banana. Today his snack of choice was the smoothie (because "his tummy needs a drink"). He asks me, "What's this drink called?" I tell him, "It's a strawberry smoothie." He then asks (with a tone that suggests he clearly thinks I have no clue what I'm talking about) , " What's a moo-lee?" Hahahahaha!

Murphy's Law...Or Something...Physics isn't really my subject...

You are making dinner with the help of your ever-so-adorable child. He's eagerly dumping all the ingreidents in the salad bowl and you are pulling the mouth-watering chicken enchiladas from the oven. Sounds like a picture from "Better Homes and Gardens." But you notice your child about to dump the sour cream into the salad bowl, you ask your child not to do so...You turn your back to put the oven mitts away and....your child does it any way! You scoop out what you can, toss the salad and serve your husband...

And he thought he didn't like sour cream.

Lessons Learned...

#1-Your child will inevitably do the exact opposite of what you ask of them from time to time.

#2-Your husband will chow down on whatever

you put in front of him.

#3-There is no use crying over spilled sour cream.

Sleep Talkin'....

Easton fell asleep in the car and as I was getting him out (trying so hard not to wake him) he says, half whimpering, "I need to get money for Disneyland!"

Keep it Up!

After a loooooonnnngggg five day weekend, Matt finished his first 6 units as a graduate student. Yes, you heard me right...6 units completed in FIVE days. That meant class, papers and presentations 24/7. Yes, that also means that we have not seen him since Friday morning. I guess this is preparing all of us for the craziness ahead in the next few years! I have no doubt he will be uber successful. To say that he worked hard to get in to UCI would be the understatement of the century!!! I am so happy for him and thankful that he is on his way home...

our house is a lot happier when he's in it!

"Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain

my potential until it cries for mercy."
- Og Mandino

He loves me...I swear!

"Reader, I married him."

-Charlotte Bronte