A Baby Shower & bonus room update

Last night we had a baby shower for our good friend, Heather, who is expecting her second boy in just a few weeks. All the ladies had a blast catching up, eating yummy food (including an amazing cake by Jenna!!), and celebrating with Heather. All of these girls have been part of our Women's bible study that meets 1x month, which was a stem off of our CRF Couple's bible study. We are all so blessed to be surrounded by such sweet Christian sisters, especially through all our joys and trials of the Lord.

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On another note, our bonus room is progressing right along... Two weekends ago Tom got the framing for the closets done and prior to that finished the can lights. Its so exciting to start to see our dream to have this room done finished... Hopefully it will be done by the end of July!!



Today Winnie turns 6 months old!! Check back tomorrow for some pics...

First Mother's Day recap...

Over the weekend we travelled to South Carolina to visit Jenn & the boys. It was a perfect time for Tom to finish up some handywork on the enclosed porch and spend Mother's Day with family. Sue came down to visit too, which made it extra special for us all.

Tom spent all day Saturday in the backyard working on the porch. Jenn and her boys love the porch and spend a lot of time outside now. This year she even started a garden in the backyard, there were lots of veggies coming up -- corn, tomatoes, peppers and even pumpkins! I LOVE to garden so this got me itchin' to have my own garden in the backyard some day...when we have a backyard (haha)! When we first brought Winnie out on Saturday morning she started laughing and giggling outloud at the boys... of course they started doing crazy things to make her laugh and she continued. Too cute to watch them bond!!
As I said the boys love playing in the backyard... Their grandpa gave this John Deere ride to Landon for his 2nd birthday (I think) and its so fun to see them enjoying it so much now. Of course Landon the big kid always drives while Ben holds on for dear-life (he makes the best faces!!).
This picture is so dear...they are great brothers and enjoy each other so much!!
Sue has her hands full here with the Grandkids on Mother's Day...
Winnie smiley before going to church on Mother's Day (Jennifer, thank you for letting us borrow such a cute dress!!)...
Mommy & Winnie on Mother's Day... We got home late last night and realized we hadn't taken a picture of she and I yet so snapped a few real quick before putting her to bed. On Saturday we had some professional pictures taken with the mom's/grandma and the kids, I cannot wait to get those back- they turned out awesome!
So all and all it was a perfect first Mother's Day weekend....was able to spend lots of time with my sweet little one, and family!

Fun new things...

A few days ago (haha last Friday, I'm a little late) we played in the front yard. The "patch" of grass out front is small but I've always pictured putting a blanket out and letting Winnie just play. She loves being outdoors and smiles when the wind blows in her face. Now that the weather is nice we can go outside more often and enjoy our front yard.

Over last weekend Winnie tried drinking out of her first sippy cup. At church on Sunday she was starring me down as I drank from my water bottle....I could keep it from her any longer, so I gave her a few sips from it. Her little face lit up when she got her first swallow and had so much fun "playing" with it too.

Kit Kats and a Little Dress-up...

In the past few days Winnie has started to watch the "Kit Kats" Morpheus and Neo. She stops whatever she is doing and wants to see what they are up to. They have been great with her, most of the time they watch her and lay on her toys when she gets up. Unfortunately this has caused us to already replace the water filled part of her surfboard toy. In the coming months pretty sure they will be hiding under the bed...

This afternoon Winnie and Eden played dress-up....both had on their fairy skirts and crowns. They are starting to interact more too which is so fun to watch. Of course Winnie stops what she is doing and watches Eden too! Little Eden is saying "Winnie" and trying my name too, what a big girl!

The start of a new decade...

Today is my 30th birthday...yikes...30th birthday... As a child 30 sounded soooo old and today its still a shock that its here!

For the past few years, my mom & I have celebrated our birthdays together with the boys over my birthday weekend....so she and Tony drove down on Friday night. We always look forward to the Spring Daze (a cute craft fair that covers a park in Cary), getting a pedicure, shopping & eating out over the weekend. This year was no different, on Sat am (little later than usual) we headed to the craft fair and suprisingly only came home with some stylish belts. The weather was amazing and we actually had to put sunscreen on for the first time this year! Winnie (pics to come) was adorable wearing her beach hat lounging in her jogging stroller. In the afternoon we headed out to get our pedi's, what a relaxing time!! Sat night we were off to Maggiano's for our birthday dinner with the boys, and the Christner's. Wow, can I say YUM!! Of course we did family-style (you order 2 apps/2 salads/2 pastas/2 entrees/2 desserts for the table) and got seconds on almost everything!! We came home with 3 bags of food...gotta love those leftovers!!

Our serving plates empty...

Then they came back with seconds!

Ben showing off his broccoli!

So, back to today.... Its rained here ALL day!! Tom and I took the day off to spend a day together with Miss Winnie...well, we couldn't go for a walk or enjoy the outdoors but still got to enjoy each other. We practiced using our new camera (our joint birthday gift to each other)...and LOVE it! Finally we can capture some of Winnie's smiles before she is onto something else.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!!

Take Your Child To Work Day...

Yeah, it really wasn't planned that we brought Winnie into work today on "Take Your Child To Work Day"...but it worked out quite nicely. She finally got to meet all the fun and crazy people that we work with! It was cute to see our co-workers coo and make faces at her to get a smile. She was such a trooper all morning and even fell asleep in my arms by the time we got to Tom's area. The bib cracks me up, Tom put it on her this morning, says IBM! Here she is playing on the floor while I attended a conference call...

My Tommy Boy...

My sweets Tommy Boy is such an amazing man that I need to take a moment and thank him publicly. When I got pregnant last year I tried so hard to keep up with our flowers but as I grew it got harder and harder. Also, expecting craziness with an infant we knew we had to think ahead for our garden this year. So in the fall we bought tulip and hyacinth bulbs...and still not sure Tom knew what he was getting into... BUT all his hard work has really paid off! About a month ago our hyacinth came up and now our tulips are in full bloom. We also planted some annuals last year which all came back (PTL!). We laugh that we have an instant garden this year and loving that we didn't have to do a thing!!

Tommy Boy, Thank you so much for planting all those bulbs and putting a smile on my face everyday!!

I had to throw this in....haha... Tom doesn't love spinach but eats it every time I make it. Tonight he had me in tears as he gobbled it down (probably swallowing it whole). Now Tommy, eat your spinach!!