Some of my favorites

(From Heather's wedding and Easter)

We're home!

Well, vacation was fun and long! We had a great time but it was so glad to be back home. After being gone for almost 2 weeks, home was a great thing to see :)

I have TONS of pictures from vacation, please check them out on my Flickr site if you want to see them. Too many to post!!

Easter 2009

Heather & Tony's wedding

Jekyll Island, GA

And many more to come :)

A few vacation pictures

From the camera on my phone.

Catching some zzz's in the car


Seeing the water for the first time in Florida (well, this year)


Finally getting her to play in the sand... just a little though


This is what I wake up to in the mornings :) I love her eye lashes in this picture!


At a rest stop in Florida, enjoying the sunshine already


Thinking she is ready to go in the car


Grandma's glasses... before she broke them


Loooooooooooots more to come when we get home :)

Vacation Part II

So I had a bunch of things typed out for a vacaction update and it shut down so I don't feel like typing it all out. So I'll summarize:

*Brian's sisters wedding Saturday was outside and beautiful
*I took A LOT of pictures but unfortunately can't upload them until I get home
*The girls had an Easter Egg hunt on Sunday and it was a lot of fun
Brian and Logan headed back home Sunday
*Sophia and I came with Brian's Mom to Longboat Key, FL and extended our vacation
*We fly home Friday
*Weather is sunny and 80's
*Sophia loves the pool but still working on the sand :)
*It rained all day today so it was a nice relaxing day, the rest of the week should
be sunny and warm.
*Sophia climbed out of her pack n play at nap time today and threw our shoes and
clothes in it. I found her sitting on the floor when I went in there. Luckily
night time was easier for her and she went right down.

Lastly, I'm so glad I decided to bring Sophia. I have had THE BEST time with her and we have had some great mommy/daughter time that I wouldn't take back for the world. It's a great vacation for us before her little sister comes into this world!! I'll never forget it.

Payback

When I was about 5 or 6 years old (I think) I took a permanent black marker and drew pictures on the side of our house, on the siding. Needless to say when my Dad found out about this he was not too happy. He had to re-side that whole side of the house.

A couple of weeks ago I found some "markings" from Sophia on our wall and our banister. It's payback... although I was glad it was only in pencil.









I think she was trying to write, "I love you, Mom."

On vacation :)

Sunday evening (after Sesame Street Live... those pictures to come later) we left for our vacation! We got in the car about 6pm and drove until we got a little south of Atlanta. About 9 hours later, we finally stopped around 2:30am.

The girls were great in the car. Logan was asleep by 8pm laying along the back seat. Grandma Sue and Sophia were in the middle, and Brian and I were up front. Sophia is usually in bed around 7:30pm so thought she'd be asleep atleast by 10pm. 12:45am, she was still awake!! Luckily we had the van with the DVD player and Elmo, that really saved us. She was awesome in the car though, even though she had a couple minor meltdowns. But what do you expect when you have a 22 month old sitting in the car for that long?!

Monday morning we got up and drove the rest of the way to our destination... Douglas, Georgia. Everybody was excited to see us, especially Sophia, since she has changed so much since they all last saw her. And she was her usual self, hamming it up for everybody.

Tuesday we relaxed most of the day, ran a few errands, but nothing major.

Today we went to Jekyll Island, GA and spent the day. We took Grandma Sue, Emilia, Ellie, and the girls. Logan got to see the ocean for the first time and loved it. Sophia saw the ocean last year in Florida but actually walked around in the sand for a bit this time.

All of my pics will come later when we get home and I can upload them :)

I will post about the rest of the week later.

There might be a slight change of plans now though. Sophia and I may be extending our stay with the family. Every year Grandma Sue has a condo in Long Boat Key, FL (near Sarasota) Last year we were able to make it. This year due to my work schedule (tax time, busy for me) we weren't able to plan around it. However, with my work leave right now, Sophia and I may stay with the rest of them and then fly back later on next week. That solves a couple problems... #1, I won't have to ride in the car for 12 hours home. #2, Sophia won't have to ride in the car miserable for 12 hours. Even just going to Jekyll Island today, she was very sick of being in her car seat!! However, I would have to fly home alone with her, 30 weeks pregnant, holding her on my lap. Probably not the most comfortable thing, but I think we can deal with the 2 hour straight flight home.

Still not for sure, we'll see what happens!! I think we're going to end up staying though... too bad Logan won't be able to since she has school. But since I'm off work, I might as well enjoy the time and get some relaxation at the pool and on the beach :)

1st Hair Cut

Yes, I know, there isn't that much hair to cut. But, Sophia did get her first hair cut! The back was really just evened out... the sides were longer than the middle for some reason. She was a great sport :) We didn't take her to a kiddie place to get her hair cut, but rather the girl that cuts our hair!! She did great.

Before


During








After


All done!


A little blurry, but you can see the new 'do :)


And me taking the picture, ha.


I'll be glad when the front and sides of her hair grow out a little more, but they really are starting to catch up!

Connor & Sophia

Interesting doctor's appt

Monday I had my normal check up for my pregnancy, my 28 week appointment. I was a bit surprised when I left my appointment with a note from my doctor saying that I can't go back to work until further notice due to pregnancy complications. Nothing too serious, I just started to dilate early. A full centimeter. I also did this with Sophia too and had her at 39 weeks so I'm not too worried about it. However my doctor is very cautious since I'm not quite 29 weeks and pulled me out of work. Was I going to argue with her? Nope.

So I've been home the past couple of days. I've been "taking it easy" as much as possible but I've still managed to get quite a few things done around the house.

Cleaning Sophia's room - check
Cleaning Logan's room - check
Getting some last minute things/clothes for our trip to Georgia - check.

I go to the doctor today for a fetal fibronectin test I will get the results back tomorrow and am hoping for a negative result. Otherwise I may not be able to travel to Georgia with everybody else and that would not be good.

#1, I'm supposed to take his sister's pictures for the wedding.
#2, We haven't seen his family since Christmas and we are really looking forward to it.
#3, Sophia would be going with and I don't think I could handle that.

So, let's hope for some good news Friday :)

Children's Musem

This was quite an interesting day to say the least. Part of it was our fault. We took Sophia during her nap time so when we got there she was pretty cranky. I take that back, she just wanted to do what she wanted to do. After throwing a couple little fits she finally got her second wind and had a blast.

On the way, reading Elmo


Sophia and Logan on the way in


Right after one of her fits. I let her just play here with the books, then she was fine!


Relaxing


Playing in the water


More water fun


Looking for the end of the tunnel


Getting a ride from Logan


She loved the trains


Trying to climb up the wall


Weeee!


Sophia's way of pushing the lawn mower


She loves the slides


Her way of going down the slide


My artist


Taxi!


She finally found the clip in her hair


Building with Lego's


Sharing with strangers


Logan's tower


Then the 2nd meltdown of the day came. This time was Logan. She was mad and pouting in the corner.


Sophia with Brian


And my little girl looks so small standing here


So, 2 kids and 2 meltdowns = an interesting day. The middle part of the day was atleast fun :)