a little snow

We woke up to snow coming down, and the boys were so excited when there was actually enough to go outside and play a little bit.

 Then of course we came inside and had hot chocolate to warm us up! 

Isaiah started slowing down and getting a little whiney, so I told him to lay down on the couch. This is how I found him a couple minutes later.

I guess the little man was sick AGAIN. Poor kid.

The snow didn't even last until after nap time, but it was fun while it lasted!

34

The hubs turned 34 this week, and we got to celebrate with just the two of us! It was a fabulous day. We started our day off putting an offer on some land we found. It's a beautiful 2.5 acres, and just perfect to build on someday. Then we headed to a movie, which was awful, but it was nice to sit in a quiet theater with no crying or whining! We ended Bryan's birthday at The Melting Pot. Oh so yummy.

I love my husband. He is just perfect for me, and we have so much fun together. Isaiah is really enjoying taking pictures with Bryan's phone lately. Here is the one he captured before we headed out on our date!

my favorites as of late

~ When I put Raelynn down for a nap or bedtime, I stand and sway with her for a few minutes in her room. She lays her head on my shoulder and hums. It's the sweetest thing, and it is one of my favorite parts of the day.
~ Isaiah and Elias help set the table every night. They love to help out (most of the time).
~ The kids are napping at the same time again. Thank you, Jesus!
~ I love to have an afternoon coffee with a salted chocolate carmel from Costco and watch a Gilmore Girl rerun. It's a fabulous 30 minutes break in the middle of the day for me.
~ My James Bible study by Beth Moore. I have always loved the book of James, but I love to study it with a bunch of lovely ladies.
~ SUNSHINE. I cannot get enough of this sunshine shining in my windows. It is such a motivator for me.
~ Looking at houses. I'm addicted. It's so fun to look at old dumps and dream of how Bryan and I could make it a wonderful place to live. We are also addicted to making house plans. Bryan is really good at that, and I just throw my two cents in when he shows me what he's come up with. It's a big dream right now, but it's fun.
~ Being a stay at home mom. I love it. I never thought I'd be able to stay at home with my kids full time and stay sane, but now that I'm feeling better, I'm starting to cherish all this time I have with my kids. It's getting easier for me to let things go (not have a perfectly picked up house), and sit down and play with the kids. I love it more and more everyday.

holy 50

My mom had your half century birthday yesterday. She's going to love that I called it her half century birthday! We had a lovely lunch of fajitas courtesy of Josh, the master griller of the family. Then had some yummy chocolate cheesecake made my me. I like combined effort celebrations.

We had it at our house complete with over the hill napkins and black decorations. I added purple in there and some fun colored balloons too because why does it need to be morbid?

I do believe that Mom enjoyed herself.

But seriously. 

Does this woman really look like she's 50?

 I think not, and I better have those young looking genes!

And of course, some pictures of the youngest party girl

Happy birthday, Mom! You are loved so much!

6 years

Happy Anniversary to us! We've been married 6 years, and it's flown by. I can't even believe I've known Bryan for 6 years, let alone, been married to him that long!

We celebrated our anniversary a few weeks ago because we knew February would be a crazy month. I really, really wanted to go to Hawaii for our 5 year anniversary, but I was largely pregnant and that seemed awful. This year it didn't happen either because we have way too much on our stress plate right now.

So....we celebrated by getting a Hawaiian room at the Anniversary Inn. We started the night off with appetizers, went to a movie, then off to our hotel to have a quiet night with cheesecake and no children. Bryan ended up having to work in the morning for a few hours, but when he got off, we had lunch. We spent the rest of afternoon drinking coffee and driving around looking at houses.

I guess that's how an old married couple spends their time alone? It was wonderful and relaxing. I was not feeling great at the time, so it was such a great time of quiet and one on one time with my hubs.

This is the wonderful gift Bry gave me. 

The front of my pretty bracelet

The back of my pretty bracelet

2X3=6

That's our anniversary. 02-03-06.

I picked multiple dates to get married. We had a lot of schedules to work around. All the dates I wanted to get married on were even numbers (remember, I'm a math nerd). But, NONE of the dates I picked would work, so I had to settle on getting married on the 3rd, an odd number. I was so bummed until I realized the math significance of our anniversary. 2X3=6.

There is even more math significance that I told Bryan all about in great detail while we were engaged, but there is no need to bore with how my mind works. I'm surprised Bryan didn't go running for the hills when I told him all about our amazing math anniversary. He is a special man. A very special man.

january

The month seemed to drag and fly by all at once. I was so sick for so much of the month, and I didn't keep up as well as I wanted. I did pull out the camera a few times, so here is a glimpse.

I made brownies. Obviously Elias is so grateful to lick the beaters

 The boys love to push each other around in these boxes

Now they love to push Raelynn

Raelynn was loving it

Such buds

Watching Tom & Jerry

Such cute cousins

It snowed like crazy one day

I had the flu and could barely move

Bryan was a good daddy and took them out to play

an improvement

Today was a good day. Poor Isaiah is sick, but that meant a lot of cuddles, a lot of movies, and a lot of sewing for me. I decided Rae needed a teething necklace. I went to buy some wooden beads for the necklace a few weeks ago, but found some other ones on clearance....totally didn't think about the fact of how uncoordinated she is. Gigantic glass beads WILL NOT work for a teething necklace. Oops. It would be like throwing marbles at her head. Bad idea. She didn't get a teething necklace.

So, I decided to make her a little taggie ball toy to play with instead. Then I decided to finish some bibs that I had cut out way back in November. It was a productive day in the sewing world, but not so much in the cleaning world. Oh well is what I say to that today.

This is how my dining room looks now

And this is what my boys did all day

Poor Isaiah is just miserable

I am slowly getting more energy. I have felt pretty good since Monday, and increasingly better each day. I've experienced my sickness enough times to know, that I'm not completely out of the sea of sickness. There will be good days and there will be bad days. The happy part is that this is the longest I've gone between bad days in about 3 weeks. Thank you, Lord, for that!