Yankee Candle Williamsburg

It's time for a new upate.

Today we went to Williamsburg to get a little Christmas shopping done. It was a perfect day! None of the stores were too busy which was our goal for trying to get it all finished up before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately we're not quite finished, but we're close!

Anyhow, before we came home we decided to visit the Yankee Candle store since we've heard so much about it, and it didn't disappoint...for the most part!

First of all the store was gorgeous. There was a sweet woman named Susan (shame on me for not getting Wesley's picture with her!) that Wesley went straight to as we got there. She was a sweet grandmother whose grandchildren live far away. She gave Wesley a big hug and thanked him for making her day before we continued on our way.

Also Wesley found Santa's naughty/nice list...of course he goes on the nice side! :) And we found a special room where it snowed every few minutes! Wesley loved the snow. It wasn't a lot, but that's okay, it was enough to make him squeal with joy!

We had a great time, and even had his picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Clause! Unfortunately something went wrong and Wesley's pictures were lost so I don't have any of those...yeah, I cried a bit...but oh well, I guess we'll have to try again soon. Hope you enjoy these pictures of our day anyhow!!

June 2, 2011

My friend Allie just posted this on her blog and I decided that it was a GREAT idea, so I decided to make one of my own. I'd love to look back at this on my birthday and see every one of these crossed off. I've made sure that none of these are impossible, but that they'll take work.Some of them won't take much work, but I've got to see some progress to keep me going! :) But really, it would be silly for me to plan a list like this that could be accomplished by next week. Its funny, I think you learn a lot about people's character and the things that are really important to them when you see what their goals are. I hope that you're not disappointed in who I am when you see the things that I'd like to accomplish by June 2, 2011


27 things to do/be doing before I turn 27:

1 lose at least 30 lbs
2 Run a 5k and 8k
3 enjoy date night with my husband at least once a month
4 have a consistent quiet time
5 make a new close friend
6 find new depth in a current friendship
7 rekindle an old friendship
8 give away all of my unnecessary things (clothes, furniture, etc.) to someone who needs it
9 take Wesley camping again
10 change a child's life (one that isn't my own)
11 join some kind of singing ensemble
12 cook breakfast one day a week
13 stop drinking diet coke
14 drink more water
15 have Wesley well on his way to being potty trained (if not already there) *I WILL NOT stress about this*
16 Lead someone to Christ
17 be a mentor
18 go on a girls weekend trip
19 consistently cook dinner at least 4 nights a week
20 try a new recipe at least once a month
21 Meet Cassie and Sam Sartin in for real life! :)
22 Put a family photo in my big empty frame on my wall
23 update all of the photos in the other frames
24 Bake an apple pie
25 make my house look like a home
26 play volleyball if only once
27 start a new family tradition (this one, as well as a few others are in the works, but not yet accomplished, so they still count)


Well, it's going to be a busy next several months....I'll keep you posted on how I'm doing!

Rocker Boy

Wesley decided to put food in his hair at lunch today so I took the opportunity to play a bit. Normally his hair is MUCH too fine to do anything with, but I mean, come on...it doesn't matter how crazy his hair is, he's just too cute to mess up! :)

A long overdue update

We've introduced the potty, it's not full fledged potty training, but he knows what to do!

I don't update this thing nearly enough, but since my mother and father in law (Hi you 2!) no longer have their facebook accounts I figured I should probably update more often, especially with pictures! I know you guys only check up on me for those anyhow! :)

So, update number one is for me mainly. I'm really excited about the things that are going on in mine and Derek's lives! We've both recently registered for our very first 5k! I'm not a runner and have never claimed to be, but my trainer April and I have started my training to get me ready to go on December 4th. So far it's slow going since my shins are not responding so well. But I've learned that Advil and ice are the way to get them back up to par. So tomorrow I go in 45 minutes before my official training session begins to get my running out of the way. Its getting a little better each day. Hopefully I'll be ready by December. If not the goal is to run the Shamrock 8k in March.

Alright, now for the update that I know you really want to hear about. Wesley is doing amazingly well! He's such a great kid! He'll be 19 months in 2 days and I just can't believe it!


We went to a festival over the weekend and to dinner with Adam and Jessica Palmer and Wesley had so much fun:




That is until he fell and got one of these:


But gosh, even despite that fat lip (that's still pretty swollen even today!) he did great. We went to the Palmer's for dinner and he played with Addison and her friends well. They colored with him and he danced with them, it was love I tell you! :)

Alright, that's it for this update but I have many many more photos to post and I'll try to get to that tomorrow. And at some point I'll have a link for everyone to see all of our family photos we took over the weekend. I haven't gotten them yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I do! Hopefully soon!

Also I want to let you know about the new traditions we're starting as a family for Christmas this year. It's going to be fun! And hopefully as kiddos get older it will really sink in with them! We'll see!

Buddies

Cloth Diaper Giveaway, again! :)

Hey ladies! If anyone is interested, head on over to Coupon Mommy of 3's blog to enter yourself to win some cloth diaper goodies!!

Wesley and Ivalee

Another giveaway

http://www.change-diapers.com

They're giving away 2 bg 4.0!

Gdiaper giveaway!

Hey guys and dolls! There's a great giveaway going on over at MarineParents blog!

http://marineparents.blogspot.com/2010/07/gdiaper-review-and-sweet-giveaway.html

We went on down to the Audubon Zoo...

Last week we got to go down to Louisiana to visit Derek's family and meet our newest niece Julliette. We had such a great time, I really don't think I was quite ready to come home!! Here are some pictures from Thursday and Friday of our trip. On Thursday we went down to Baton Rouge to spend some time with Aunt Kelly Uncle Brad, Chandler and Julliette. We got to go to the park down by LSU and while we were there got a tour of the campus. (I particularly enjoyed that part!) Then Friday we went to the zoo. Derek always sings a silly song about the zoo, it was nice to finally get to the famous Audubon Zoo! :) and the boys had a blast! Derek included!

Beach Pictures

today was the perfect day for our first trip to the beach this year! Don't you agree?

Easter photos