Round 2 and NYC Here We Come

Round 2 status:

Contract pending on house number two.

Its precious (minus one bathroom that needs to be updated).

I love it more than the last.

Im keeping my fingers crossed.

Inspection on monday.

Home owners.......status: pending!

NYC:

Count down: 4 days!

We are so excited!

We cant wait to eat great food and experience the city together.

I have so much on the list of things we want to do.

Cant wait!

The next week holds (hopeful) good news about a house and a fun trip. I can handle this surprising 38 degree weather if it means a trip to NYC and a cute house in the next week.

Happy Soon to be 28th Hub!

3.9.10

Happy 28th

Birthday!

I love YOU!!

Andrew's sweet mom always made a carrot cake for him on his bday.

I thought I would try to carry the tradition on.

So today was my first attempt.

We cut into it 5 hours early.

YUM!

Besides a very fun birthday week: great dinners with family and friends;

We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary last weekend with a great sushi dinner.

It was fun to reflect on the past year-wow! Big year!

I cant wait to celebrate so more years to come with my hub.

A fun celebration comes in about 2 weeks:

NYC!

Cant wait to celebrate and have a great vacation.

Yes, the house fell through so its to the Big Apple we go!

{We terminated our contract and feel very at peace with it.

We continue to hunt for our sweet, perfect first house}

Trip Home!

Our trip to Nashville was so great. I loved seeing everyone, especially the kids. Funny how they are growing up so much. Ellie's personality is shining through (much of the sassiness from her mom, of course) and Tyler is such a big boy--saying things like "Ellie we need to have a talk." Haha, i loved seeing them. Ellie didnt have much to do with me during our trip to WaterColor for thanksgiving but this trip home, she loved us! It was great. Made me so happy.

Friday night we had a little double bday party for both of them, 2 and 4 years old. They loved their cute little cake. It was great to just hang out with them, see the whole family-g'parents, uncle, dad/libby, mary parr, and my sister. I loved it. Andrew and the girls went out for a drink after dinner which was fun. Fun to have us all together in the same place--rarely happens, I feel like.

Andrew kinda looks like he is doing a Step Sing pose...

Ellie and Tyler with their yummy cake!

My two favorites!

They loved it.

(And so did I, of course)

Saturday we did girl stuff--my sister went shopping around green hills, which can always be a disaster but for some reason I still love doing it. We had lunch with my mom and stayed out in the sun the rest of the day, minus rest time--definitely not ready to be a mom! I was exhausted. That night for dinner we thought it would be fun to take them to a japanese hibatchi grill, which they have been to but I had never been with them and wanted to see them entertained. They loved it. Ellie hated the fire--just covered her eyes and said BAD FIRE! But surprisingly, they loved all their food. We had a blast with them!

Sunday we got a little "nature-esk." We put on our rain boots and hit the pond (well, deedee, ellie, and tyler got in the creek and pond, i opted out--no rain boots with me this go around). Tyler saw his first real live snake and loved it. We just skipped rocks, had a little splash contest to see how wet tyler could get missy, and then just played by the little lake. It was great.

Mommie and tyler by the creek.

Deedee with her two favorite muchkins

Such a great weekend to be home!