Monday, November 29, 2010

Gobble Gobble

We hope you all had a wondeful Thanksgiving.  We certainly did!  We found something else our picky eater is interested in...STUFFING!  He loves it and would eat it for every meal if I let him.  We already finished up the stuffing from Thursday and made another batch.  He has gained at least a pound from everything he has eaten which is thrilling for the shrimp's Mama!

Although we didn't get up at the crack of dawn to get to the black Friday sales we still went to town to go shopping then.  Excitingly enough we finished all of our Christmas shopping.  I may exchange a gift that we got for my new sister-in-law, but at least we have a fall back gift.  We also decorated our house for Christmas and I am so excited.  Jason has even left most of the decorations alone except for the low hanging orniments that we allow him to take on and off the tree.  We were a bit concerned about how to set up Jeff's model train, but got a piece of plywood that we are eventually planning on making into a train table.  Jason loves to watch the train go around (go figure.)

We have been continuing with speach therapy with Jason to get him to say words.  We know that his receptive language is wonderful and he can follow directions when he wants to.  I learned something new at today's session.  We were playing with legos and there was randomly a blue and yellow pattern and we asked Jason to continue it.  He did!  Then we asked him to identify certain color blocks and he was able to do that too!  I had no clue that he knew his colors that well!  I was so excited that he really is learning a tangible skill.  Now if only he would talk to us, but I guess that will all come in time.

Our next exciting upcoming event is on Thursday.  We will be having an ultrasound to double check that the baby really is a girl and to take a look at her hands to see if she also has polysyndactyly like her father and brother.  We thought we saw a little bit of webbing at the first ultrasound at 18 weeks, but she was a bit small at that point to tell for certain.  I will keep you updated as I am sure you are waiting with baited breath.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

our week in Virginia

We all flew to Virginia for my brother, Kevin's wedding and Jason and I stayed for a week.  We all started out by rushing over to the rehrsal dinner on Friday night.
Jason and I eating dinner
My brothers and I at the rehearsal dinner
On Saturday morning we spent time with the Moreiras.  We knew they would be awake with their sweet little 6 month old boy, Troy.  They made us a wonderful breakfast and we got to hang out and catch up.
Jeff getting back into the baby groove

Smilely little boy with his mom

The guys.  Jason has decided he doesn't approve of posed pictures

the wonderful Moreira family
We had to say goodbye and get ready for the big event.  We enjoyed spending time with family that we don't get to see all the time.  The next morning everyone, including Jeff, had to say goodbye at a brunch at my parents house.  Later that week my father, Jason and I went to the B&O train museam.
Jason's favorite train!

helping Grandpa work the engine

exploring all the trains!
Jason was in heaven!!!  Although I don't have pictures of the rest of the week we enjoyed spending time with Grandma at Claud Moore Farms and at story time.  We got lots of shopping done (mostly for Jason) and relaxed a lot.  All in all a great time.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Wedding

This is mostly a picture post because Jason's movie is almost done and I won't be able to type much, but I wanted to share photos of my brother's wedding.  I will be sure to post to talk about the rest of the week we had a little later.


 



 













 




 

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Until Death Do Us Part

With my little brother's wedding coming up in a little while (7 days, eeek!) and a bunch of marriages I know of breaking up, I have been thinking a lot about what keeps Jeff and I together.  Why do we have a strong marriage?  Are we just lucky?  Am I declaring victory too soon?  I don't know, but I do know that we made a commitment on that May afternoon and we both knew it was for life.  Jeff has seen me at my best and defiantly at my worst, but he still loves me.  We moved away from family as soon as we were married so we always had to lean on each other and be each other's best friend.  We couldn't turn to anyone else when we had issues, we had to work it out.  It was kind of us against the world.  We have certainly had our ups and downs, but that is the cyclical nature of relationships. 

Some of the things that have helped us stay together is how we try to hard to have dinner together without any distractions every night we can.  And living in the middle of no where has helped.  We always have long drives to get to town and we spend a lot of that time talking about life.  Also we keep trying to do and say sweet things for each other.  At the mall on Wednesday Jeff pointed to the poster in Victoria Secret and said to Jason "look it's a picture of Mommy!"  my heart melted!  And I know what his favorite meals are and make them as often as I can. Which is why we have half an apple pie in the kitchen right now.

The most important thing that keeps us in love is the fact that there aren't 2 people in our marriage, there are 3.  We have made God a part of our marriage.   There is a difference between the married parties having faith and actively making God a part of your marriage and we try our very best to be the second way.   That is not to say that if you put yourself in a compromising situation God will swoop in and save you, not that he won't, but you have to be responsible for yourself.  We each have to do our part and have faith that God will do his.  Paraphrasing Lon Solomon, if you are on a diet, what are you doing in the buffet line!  God does help make sure that an aggressive super model with a crush on Jeff doesn't work in his office and he also helps us forgive each other for the human errors we make.  This is not to say you couldn't have a good marriage without God, but it sure makes it a lot more work.

So with Thanksgiving coming up I remember the most important thing that I am thankful for and although I love my adorable little boy, it isn't him.  It is the wonderful marriage that Jeff and I have.  I know I am so lucky to have found him.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Happy Halloween!


I hope everyone had a wonderful time trick or treating or partying or enjoying the weekend!  We went out camping to try our new pop-up camper.  We had a good time, but have found that sleeping in a new place is difficult for our little man.  Mommy spent half of the night in Jason's bed, at least the second night we got a little smarter and put out a sleeping bag there to keep Mom warm.

We also got in a little hike that wore Jason out completely.  All in all I think we enjoyed ourselves.


We all went out trick or treating last night, also.  At first we started out in our neighborhood, but soon discovered that all the lights were out and no one was handing out candy, but we did get a couple of bucks from our neighbor (not exactly what we were looking for.)  So Jeff thought that maybe we would drive to downtown Truth or Consequences to see if we could figure out where everyone was!  We did find people and once Jason realized he would be getting candy he was very happy to go and visit new houses.  At the first house we went to Jason recognized the dum-dum that he got and was almost trying to bite off the wraper when we decided he could have that one piece tonight.  After about three blocks we figured we had all had enough trick or treating so we headed back home to scrub the sticky mess off our little boy.