Pizza night

Marc had an early flight today and will be super tired when he gets home, but...

It's Friday

and when he gets home after his long day, we're making homemade pizzas and watching a movie!

I love Fridays!

This one is even more special because Marc's on leave until WEDNESDAY!

Four days of family!

Happy 32nd birthday!

Here's a few pics from Marc's 32nd birthday. We grilled steaks and enjoyed spending time with family. Everything was perfect except for the cake. I made the ugliest cake ever known to man. It was BAD!

This is a weed wrapped as a present. I got Marc TruGreen Lawn care for a year and wanted to surprise him.

Reading the TruGreen invoice and not quite getting it yet. 

Now he gets it!!!

New MAN tools from Gammy and Pops.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Looks decent from the top. 

AND THEN...

OH MY!! I should have trimmed the cakes and I will NEVER use this icing recipe again! 

Happy birthday! Can't believe I've celebrated 9 birthdays with you! You get better every year!!!

Gammy and Tripp relaxing after a big birthday dinner.

Attempt at a family pic and I am totally grabbing my boob! 

Happy birthday Marc. Thank you for being such a wonderful husband and father. We love you! XOXOxxooxxoo

Another door closed...

You know those things you say you'll NEVER do... yet, somehow, as fate would have it, you usually end up doing EXACTLY what you said you'd never do- and surprisingly you are totally okay with it.

I swore, long before I ever had kids, that I would NEVER let my house be overtaken by my children. It was my house before they were here and they would learn to live around my belongings. They would know, you don't touch the $25 candles I have burning on the coffee table, you don't put your hands on mirrors, you don't leave your toys out so that it is apparent that there's a child in the house.


Hmmmm. I OBVIOUSLY had no children and no clue!

Well, my house is over-run by toys, there are finger prints not only on the mirrors but also on the walls, and every window; where you can also see mouth and nose prints from giving the windows strawberries.

My office, the one place I decorated just like I wanted.

The room with all of our diplomas and achievements framed on the walls.

The one room that was a reminder of who I "used" to be.

Well, it's now the room that our baby girl Vida will call home.

As I packed up our diplomas, awards, our before kids items. I realized that although it's a past I'm glad I lived, I'm much happier with my snotty windows and finger-printed walls.

And our dining room- well, the fancy dishes and nice decanters are also resting in a corner of the basement as well.

The dining room now serves as Tripp's playroom where fancy dishes are replaced by super cool Thomas trains and decanters are obsolete to racetracks and Hot Wheels and fancy dinners now involve paper plates onTV trays and a good Pixar movie.

So, bye-bye office and formal dining room. You have now been demoted to a corner in my unfinished basement to collect dust. And, I don't think I'll have much time to visit you- except to maybe send out emails and updates about my kiddos or maybe to pull out a turkey platter and fancy dishes for Thanksgiving.

Here we go AGAIN! Two days after Tripp's bedroom redo, I'm cleaning out the office and dining room.

Make room for Vida! 

Moving day! And my mom and stepdad will be at our house to visit in a few HOURS!!!

Tripp's enjoying the chaos!

One more piece to move and it's time for the toys!!!

Vida's room. Still a work in progress- but ready for her if she arrives early. 

Tripp's Big Boy Room

Maybe it was the hormones, or maybe it was an early nesting urge, or maybe the fact that it had been torture to get Tripp to sleep at night. Whatever it was, I decided one afternoon that since Tripp's mattresses for his bed were being delivered I would disassemble and reassemble a toddler bed into a full bed, while I was 30+ weeks pregnant.


Here's how well that went down...

Tripp was my right-hand man for this project. 

It was at this point that I had the bed apart and realized that I had to put a much LARGER one together...

And suddenly, this all turned into "not such a good idea" 

And it turned into an even WORSE idea when the mattresses were delivered and they were about 10 inches too high for his bed. I didn't get a picture of that and I should have. I needed a step stool to get on top of the bed! We're still waiting for the box spring to arrive but Tripp loves sleeping in his "big boy bed" and he also loves picking out new decorations for his room. 

Still waiting on the box-springs but it will do for now!

It's been a while

A LONG while!!! I just loaded the photos from my camera and can't believe how backed up I am on posting photos and updates. The grandparents must hate me right now. So... here come a bunch of updates!

Tripp is 27 months now. Holy cow! Growing by the minute and talking, talking, talking like no other. Although half of it is still made up, he's getting the hang of it! You now have to watch what you say because he repeats EVERYTHING.

Has to go to the Zoo at least once a week to see the "Choo choo- monkey." He won't sit still or stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds, but he will stand in line, perfectly still for 45 minutes to ride the train at the zoo!

"Pizza Machine... YEAH" is his favorite restaurant. He loves pizza and will ask you to take his there every day! He won 1,000 tickets playing a game the other day! Crazy kid.

Loves to read... or be read to.

Thinks frogs and spiders are "yucky." I taught him that, I don't want him walking into this house with a giant frog in his hand to show me- ewww! No thanks!

LOVES "caterpiddlars". Touching them, finding them, anything about them.

Thinks "budderfwys" are pretty.

Says "Shew fwy" anytime he sees a fly.

Says "bless you" if you sneeze, cough, toot, or anything else makes a strange noise from your body.

Loves animals and can name just about all of them.

Says "Amen" after you pray- I think that's my fave :)

Chocolate milk is his favorite drink.

Loves, football, baseball, basketball... basically any kind of sport.

Throws and catches the ball with Daddy all the time.

Can say "Go Cocks" and "Go Gators- chomp, chomp"

Is a terror when it comes to bedtime. Wants to stay up EVERY night!

Loves bubble baths.

Enjoying a large bowl of whipped cream! 

It was raining out so he had to put on his Fireman gear.

Hanging out in the front yard.

Throwing the football with Daddy.

Just being Trippers. 

I awe of the engineer at the Zoo.

Riding the Choo choo. 

Getting some Mommy love.

At the air show. I love how they're making the same face! 

Sweaty boy!

Feeding the fish at the Zoo.

Baseball in a diaper. Totally Tripp!!!

Always smilin' and always dirty!!!