.Birthday.

A shout out to my wonderful man who celebrated his big 30th yesterday.
Love you honey!

.Happy Anniversary Babe.

I have been married to the most amazing man for 8 years today!
Happy Anniversary babe, love you.xx.

Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to the best daddy in the world to our handsome boys! I could not ask for a more involved and loving father for our children and I am so, so grateful for that.

Cory, you are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. and I admire you so much and know our boys do too! They live for your return from work each day and those faces welcoming you tell it all!

Love you babe.xxx.

Graduation

Well, he did it! Cory graduated! 7 years, a change of majors 2 years into it and calculus that kicked butt and he is done!

He looked SOOO good up there and it was a proud moment for us all.

Graduation was great. The speeches were great and it was a fun and personal atmosphere.

Cory made some great friends who he graduated with and I sure hope those friendships continue.

He started work today and should be home any time now. I am not sure of his schedule as yet so any time now could be in 2 hours... I am excited to see how he enjoyed his first day.

In The Know...

Just so you are 'in the know' we are pleased to announce that our little family will be moving on.

Cory was offered and accepted a job and gave his notice yesterday. We had been keeping this private and remained in limbo for some time as we wanted to do right by his current employer and now that they are in the know....

We are excited for a new adventure but are nervous in the same respect. We will make a smaller move for 6-8 weeks training and then we will be placed anywhere in the region covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. We would be happy with any of these places but would be up for a change.

Cade is super excited and keeps asking if today is the day we move to our new house. That day will not be until Mothers Day! Mothers Day? Really? Such is life!

Needless to say, graduation weekend will be super busy with family here and us madly packing last minute things and doing final cleaning and then a baby blessing on Mothers Day... busy, busy.

We are happy and healthy and thankful for these blessings and for having a good job and a place to live. I personally am so thankful for a husband that worked his butt off not just in school but out of school to support our family and for his honestly and integrity. I truly admire him.

Happy 7th

Today is Cory and my 7th wedding anniversary. I sure love this man and am so glad he is all mine!


Daddy and Cade

Daddy and Ethan

Bout time for an update...

This little boy is.....

...ROLLING!!!




...EATING!!!




and having a great time being spoilt with cuddles and loves and constant play with cousins!!

Ethan seems to have grown in leaps and bounds the last 2 weeks. It just amazes me. He is trying so hard to pull his legs under himself in order to crawl. My goodness, do things happen quickly! He is a noisy little one and squeals and growls and chatters. His new thing is to wake in the night and make this growler noise which to me sounds like Chewbacca (good thing he is not as hairy, good thing he is so stinkin' cute as he wakes more here than at home.

He gets very excited to see me and loves then attention from his ever doting cousins and Aunties! He is one spoilt boy.

Cade has been a treasure. The poor boy is exhausted at the end of the day especially when a nap has been missed during the day. He has been in the wars and has been getting hurt easily when tired but he is a tough little mite so soldiers on. He just loves his cousins and it is hilarious, when he forgets their name he calls them honey. He says, "Hey, honey, honey... what's wrong?" when they are done playing with him. It is a crack up. We all get a laugh out of it.
He had a sleep over at my sisters last night, which wasn't planned but he wanted to stay when we went for a visit in the evening and he was a good boy apparently so I am glad for that. He is really comfortable here which I am so grateful for. He has been asking the last 2 to 3 days for Daddy and to 'go to Cade's house' but other than that, there haven't been any melt downs as yet in that regard. Daddy is very, very missed, not just by the boys but me. Oh how I miss him.

The flight over was... L.O.N.G!! 27 hours of travel all up and by the time I got some sleep, it had been about 37 hours or something since I had slept. CRAZY!! I was feeling it. I got a whole hour and a half the whole flight (15 hrs). It was not fun. But we did it. I was so exhausted when I got off the plane and when I saw mum I just about cried. I swore I was never doing it again! Too bad I have a flight home right!! It is amazing how your perspective changes with a good shower and some one to take a baby from your sore, tired arms and that a cooped up toddler can run outside to his little hearts content.

I have been busy shopping and chatting and catching up with my sisters and their families. I was particularly teary when I got to see Kallan. I held him like I never have before and just couldn't take my eyes off him. He is a dead set champ and I am thankful he has a clean bill of health and got through his cancer treatment! What a blessing to ALL of us! Here's to continued health for him.

Wow, this was way longer than I thought... more to come!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY...

Today is Cory's birthday. I am so thankful for this wonderful man. He is such a great husband, such a wonderful, hands-on father. Truly my best friend. I consider myself blessed in every way to have such a kind, respectful, hardworking and self-sacrificing man in my life. I love you honey!! Here's to a great day and an even better year ahead!!