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| My dad with his new fire feature! |
Friday, July 29, 2011
Father's Day Weekend!
So the week after our anniversary I went to Pittsburgh for a belated Father's Day celebration. I had lots of fun that weekend and I got to catch up with tons of friends, some of whom I see regularly and some I haven't seen in years! Of course I fit in a visit out to the barn where I was impressed with Rocket's behavior since he has a new bridle (his old one went m.i.a....). My present to my dad (which I'm sure will be a post in a few weeks) were tickets to see a Pirates game in August while sitting in the all-you-can eat section...which has been a dream of my father's ever since they started offering that option. Any of you who know how my Father can eat knows that PNC Park will definitely lose money on that section during the game! Another favorite present of his was the addition of a "fire feature" to our back deck.... can you tell he's been spending some time watching the DIY network? Needless to say there are no boy scouts in our family so fire building is not our expertise which explains some of the smokey pictures below. Here's to the new fire pit!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Only 1 month behind...
So over the next few weeks I am going to make a sincere effort to get this blog up to date since I have about 7-10 posts on stuff we've been doing that I need to put up.
To continue where we last left off this post is dedicated to our 2 year anniversary which was actually back on June 22. Since we had our wedding reception at The Melting Pot restaurant we've made it our tradition to have dinner there each year on our anniversary. As always we had a very delicious meal and it was a beautiful evening.
This past year of marriage has been wonderful. Some of the biggest challenges we faced, individually and as a couple were the hospitalization of Kris's Grandma and our week of 4 E.R. visits in 1 week (spread evenly 2 and 2 though!) We've also had lots of fun times including all our holidays with various families, continuing to make "big" purchases together (car...couch....) and just spending time trying to relax and have quality time together. So far it is safe to say our marriage has been overall easier than I anticipated. Coming into it I had heard so many times over and over how hard marriage is, especially the first few years and I think I had prepared myself for the absolute worst...thus making any of our bumps along the road not seem so bad as I had thought they might be. Being married to Kris is one of the most natural things in my life. At the risk of sounding corny he truly is my best friend and I can't imagine spending the hours together that we do with anyone else.
I remember in grad school before we were dating, when we were just inseparable best friends thinking that I couldn't imagine life without him. I know most friends are in our lives for a season or so with obviously some special ones hanging around forever however at the end of grad school I remember thinking that I couldn't imagine *not* seeing him every single day, that thought just felt wrong to me. Little could I imagine that just 1 year after that we would be planning our wedding :) God is amazing in the way he works and I am just so thankful that he chose to bless me with such a wonderful husband!
To continue where we last left off this post is dedicated to our 2 year anniversary which was actually back on June 22. Since we had our wedding reception at The Melting Pot restaurant we've made it our tradition to have dinner there each year on our anniversary. As always we had a very delicious meal and it was a beautiful evening.
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| Elijah had to get in the picture! |
This past year of marriage has been wonderful. Some of the biggest challenges we faced, individually and as a couple were the hospitalization of Kris's Grandma and our week of 4 E.R. visits in 1 week (spread evenly 2 and 2 though!) We've also had lots of fun times including all our holidays with various families, continuing to make "big" purchases together (car...couch....) and just spending time trying to relax and have quality time together. So far it is safe to say our marriage has been overall easier than I anticipated. Coming into it I had heard so many times over and over how hard marriage is, especially the first few years and I think I had prepared myself for the absolute worst...thus making any of our bumps along the road not seem so bad as I had thought they might be. Being married to Kris is one of the most natural things in my life. At the risk of sounding corny he truly is my best friend and I can't imagine spending the hours together that we do with anyone else.
I remember in grad school before we were dating, when we were just inseparable best friends thinking that I couldn't imagine life without him. I know most friends are in our lives for a season or so with obviously some special ones hanging around forever however at the end of grad school I remember thinking that I couldn't imagine *not* seeing him every single day, that thought just felt wrong to me. Little could I imagine that just 1 year after that we would be planning our wedding :) God is amazing in the way he works and I am just so thankful that he chose to bless me with such a wonderful husband!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Summer Fun with Jake and Brooke
So of course we've been having fun over the first few weeks of Summer (although we could use some less rain...) and luckily two of the days I was able to capture some great pictures....
First up is the random water hose battle. I just love it when stuff like this happens because to me this is what childhood is about. It's not about making it to the next class on time or even squeezing in one more play date on an already overcrowded schedule. To me it is the time when you let playing be the most important thing and just follow where it goes. This was a very warm morning that started with both of them watering the trees with their water guns...which then progressed to them watering each other....which lead to the hose getting involved and viola here is the end result!!!!
Yes notice that clothes are still on...what's the point of changing into bathing suits at this point??? :) Enjoy some other precious pictures from that morning....
Too Cute!!!!
A few days later we went to the "Tire Park" (it makes sense when you see the pictures) and had by far our most exciting nature adventure of the summer thus far....we got to see a gardner snake start to eat a toad!!! (Until the nature center people came to stop it). There was this snake inside one of the tires that actually Jake happened to be sitting in with a friend and it moved and needless to say the two boys shot out of each end. Jake did really well though, he wasn't scared at all, just very excited! So then we all got front row seats to watch this snake crawl around for a bit until a toad jumped in front of it and it grabbed onto the leg and wouldn't let go. It was soo fascinating, I was totally thrilled :) Sadly when I left to get my camera to get pictures is when the Nature Center guy came and separated them so all I got was the toad but this gives you an idea of the context....
Other than the nature aspect far and away the other favorite part of the tire park are the swings...
Here are just some other great shots from that day...Enjoy!!
First up is the random water hose battle. I just love it when stuff like this happens because to me this is what childhood is about. It's not about making it to the next class on time or even squeezing in one more play date on an already overcrowded schedule. To me it is the time when you let playing be the most important thing and just follow where it goes. This was a very warm morning that started with both of them watering the trees with their water guns...which then progressed to them watering each other....which lead to the hose getting involved and viola here is the end result!!!!
Too Cute!!!!
A few days later we went to the "Tire Park" (it makes sense when you see the pictures) and had by far our most exciting nature adventure of the summer thus far....we got to see a gardner snake start to eat a toad!!! (Until the nature center people came to stop it). There was this snake inside one of the tires that actually Jake happened to be sitting in with a friend and it moved and needless to say the two boys shot out of each end. Jake did really well though, he wasn't scared at all, just very excited! So then we all got front row seats to watch this snake crawl around for a bit until a toad jumped in front of it and it grabbed onto the leg and wouldn't let go. It was soo fascinating, I was totally thrilled :) Sadly when I left to get my camera to get pictures is when the Nature Center guy came and separated them so all I got was the toad but this gives you an idea of the context....
Other than the nature aspect far and away the other favorite part of the tire park are the swings...
Easter 2011!!
So since I'm about 2 months behind on some posts I apologize that this is going slightly out of order!!! I was cleaning off one of my memory cards and realized I never put up a post about Easter this past year so I figured late is better than never....
Easter weekend was fun as always...Saturday we made a trip out to the barn to see Rocket who sadly was in a little bit of a cranky mood...this photo says it all....
However we did learn about the new baby at the barn and we got some cute pictures of him!! I think in this picture he is about 6 weeks old..........
Saturday night we got to spend some family time together dying easter eggs...here are some of our favorites :)
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| I called this the "Mommy and Me" egg |
The next day after church it was time to find baskets...you would think after living in this house for almost 20 years the bunny would be running out of spots to hide our baskets however this year it took me over an hour to find my basket. My dad also had a difficult time finding his and so in the middle of looking we had a pout-fest :)
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