So Close

So Close...to someone's 1st Birthday this Saturday- CRAZY! 

Quick weekend update: 

It obviously flew by- we had a bunch of errands to run for G's birthday party this weekend and made a couple trips to the pool. Last week, G received his first birthday gift from his grandma Pacelli! 

We had to laugh when he dunked his head in the water below!

 I bought Dan golf clubs for our anniversary - which meant that it was just G and I Saturday morning. Love. Just us, hanging out together. 

This child will find anything to stand on. yes. That is my laptop.

The kid cracks me up. 

You may have noticed that I stopped by blog challenge. The goal was to blog everyday for the month of july - but I realized that I was over-doing it a little with both a blog AND book challenge. I decided to pick one, and the book challenge won. Blogging is a "fun" activity/baby book for G. And it's not something that really needs to be done everyday. On the other hand, reading is something I should do everyday. 

That being said..YES, I finished my book challenge. In one of my previous posts, I said that I was going to give myself another goal. This challenge will get me through to the end of the year. 20 books by the end of December. For this challenge, I will blog roughly once a month to tell you my status and how I'm doing. 

Not sure If I'm going to blog before the party - I'll be sure to post tons of pictures afterwards! 

Oh, Ernie

While playing with Grayson tonight, he happened to pick up his Ernie. While playing with Ernie (which is really just sitting him on his train track and wondering why he doesn't move like the trains...) I thought it would be fun to take a look back at G and Ernie, when they first met..:)

Anniversaries and Baseball games

Since it WAS our 5 year Anniversary, Dan and I thought it would be good to do something away from the baby. Luckily, we were smart enough to plan something close. As the time drew near, it was very obvious we never would have felt comfortable leaving Grayson more then a night. 

We decided to stay in a nice hotel in downtown Cincinnati.  It was truly the perfect one night get-away. If anything went wrong, we were about 40 mins from home. We had a delicious dinner at the Palace restaurant, and made sure to make great use of all the hotel amenities. 

So we didn't ask anyone to take a picture of us - it just wasn't the place to ask. But we obviously HAD to take a pic of us at 5 years!

Ok, a little about my dresss. I really really liked it. I actually have a wedding to go to in September and thought that it might be a great dress to wear (except looking at the pictures, it's a little heavy on the white) ANYWAY...It was a tad tight. TAD. Yea, something that's a tad tight before dinner, happens to be REALLY tight during and after dinner. Ha. I thought I was really full after dinner and took the dress off and got a second wind. 

I will not be wearing the dress to the wedding. How would I dance in that thing?!

Grayson did pretty well sleeping over Grandma and Pepere's. He definitely knows where his bed is, and gives a hard time when he's not home, but Pepere hung out with G in the bedroom until he went to sleep, and I'm sure that made Grayson feel much more comfortable. 

Dan and I joked that Gray wouldn't want to come home after all the fun he was probably having at Grandma and Pepere's! Now that we've gotten our "1st Night Away", out of the way, I think we'll be a little more comfortable leaving Grayson for another weekend. Nothing huge. baby steps people. 

Dan received free tickets to a the Reds/Cardinals game Sunday afternoon. Since we'd been wanting to take G to a game, it was the perfect opportunity to test it out. He lasted 3 innings. hehe. 

It was 95 out, and we happened to have 7th row tickets. So we were directly under the sun. Poor grayson was sooo hot. Luckily, there were a ton of open seats in the top deck that were shaded. Off we went to the top deck where he was much happier. Albeit a little cranky because he hadn't really napped before the game had started. We would've been surprised if he lasted much longer then 3 innings. Grayson doesn't sit still very well..he wants to walk/jump/play. 

Cape Day!

It was a great weekend, and I can't believe that I'm now looking towards our next big weekend - G's 1st Birthday. It definitely has come too quick!

Oh, and I finished my 4th book. I'm so happy that I'll be able to complete this challenge. I'm going to keep it up, and will post a new book challenge when I've finished reading the 5th book (which will hopefully be this week) 

5 Years

Happy 5 years to me and my guy. 

When I think about it, 5 years sounds SO long to me. I guess since we're still pretty young, it's always going to sound kind of odd when we tell people how long we've been married. At the same time, getting married young afforded us the opportunity to really enjoy our 20's - 5 years that allowed us to:

Party Recklessly with good friends :)

Enjoy numerous vacations just the two of us AND with friends, including trips to:

Hawaii, South Carolina, Gatlinburg, Chicago, San Francisco, Florida, Louisville, and Vermont

Met some personal goals that included:
Running a Marathon (Dan)
Visiting Paris (me)

And Finally embarking on the greatest adventure of our lives to date:

Bringing our little boy into this world

and becoming a family

Yep - Happiest.Girl.Ever.

Hat head

He can certainly rock a hat 

6 days old

about 8 weeks

just under 3 months

3.5 months

about 6 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

9 months

Too bad he won't keep a hat on his head anymore...he looks so cute in them!

Wordless Wednesday

STRONG Baby

I completely forgot that I used to do "STRONG Baby" with Grayson.

It feels like soooo long ago that I was playing with him like this. It's just so crazy. 

Here he is, my strong baby - at 3 months old

P.S - I cracked up at the end of the video..how quickly we forget things...lol