Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Will's Graduation!


My awesome Brother finished his Degree! We are all so proud of him, it takes a lot to come back from a long break and wrap things up but he did it and walked down that hill this past Sunday. Way to go Will!



We're holding up the number of Degrees we have. I couldn't resist, I'm such a snotty little sis!



Don't worry, He walked in the correct direction first!

Monday, May 14, 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bella's Big Girl Room

Bella's new room is finished and she is fully moved in.  The transition was actually suprisingly easy.  She loves her big girl room and has even started to talk about the baby using her "baby room."  We are so happy that she is cozy and comfortable in her new space and pretty proud of our handiwork as well.  What's not to love about a room complete with Dora sheets!  So here is the room from the doorway moving around from left to right. 

On a side note:  We have just a little more time to get baby's room ready.  The Doctor pushed my due date back to August 26th so we have an extra week to prepare.  We are all so excited to meet Baby Boom the 2nd this fall!



Bella's Big Girl Bed!




Here closet also serves as her current Art displays.





Bella's reading nook.






Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Spring Break Vacation

For Spring Break we tagged along with my parents and hit the road for Chillicothe, OH to see my Aunt Pat and her awesome family. Eric had to work, poor guy, so it was just Bella, Nana, Poppy and myself for 14 hours in the car there and back, and man did we have fun!

It was such a relaxing trip. Bella was an excellent travel buddy in the car, and I dominated the alphabet game. Plus we got some great one on one time with the folks. In addition, I got my road trip fixes, I got to eat at Cracker Barrel on the way and Red Lobster on the way back. Overall, our travel time was awesome.

Once we got there my beautiful Aunt took great care of us. We were able to relax around the house and play in "Aunt Pat's playground" A georgous pond with fearless frogs and a playset all right in teh back yard. There is a hot tub there too but being pregnant (and technically allergic to hot tubs--long story) I was not able to indulge.

It was so nice to see my Aunt Pat, Uncle John and awesome cousins. I was thrilled to meet my cousin Tim's lovely fiance Ashley. Here they are!


In addition we saw my cousin Shelli and her lovely daughter Sierra, as well as my cousins Mike and Dan.

One of our days we spent out and about in Chillicothe, We went to an awesome candy store that reminded me of Penny Annie's and then went to a beautiful park where we fed the geese and played in the playground.




We had excellent home cooked dinners at the house cooked by my folks and the Boyles, and man was it impressive to feed all 12 people.


Bella's favorite part was the ice cream for dessert.



Overall it was an awesome way to spend Spring Break! It was a nice distance away by car, and then a couple of relaxing and we returned on Wednesday so Bella and I still had some time to hang out with Eric when we got back.

Hooray for Vacation!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Memorable Monday


20 weeks!!! I need to start smiling in these pics :)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I love St Patrick's Day. Even without the beer it's one of my favorite holidays. I love to cook a homemade meal of corned beef with cabbage and veggies and of course one of the best parts of the day is the Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade. This has been one of my favorite events for years, especially now that Bella can enjoy it too. And she sure did enjoy it! We parked our Truck downtown the day before and then joined Nana there before the parade started. We were all in green and ready to go!
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Bella loved watching the parade, She especially liked it when they brought candy around!

The Recycling float was one of my favorites and of course the spaceship!


And of course our very favorite was Poppy's Willy Wonka Float. Jerry looked awesome and we loved seeing Poppy rock that Banjo!

We saw other friends as well. Becca and Ceri were a part of the Tiny K float and my friend Christie and members of my former Mom group were out with her new business, an awesome play gym for kids. I'll put up more details once they open.

Overall it was a long, but very fun parade. Bella stuck through the whole thing like a champ and then took a nice nap before dinner. We then had Nana and Poppy over for our traditional Irish feast and packed for Ohio. It was an awesome start to a great Vacation!!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Bella's new big girl room!



Most of the colors were either already in use in her room or the baby's room. We can't have rogue colors!



Getting the feeling this will be repeated many times in the near future...






Seriously, you tell her "no." Go ahead. I'll wait.



Trish and I have lately been having a BLAST getting Bella ready to move into her new big girl room. We've been spending time organizing, painting, organizing and moving stuff around! this past weekend, we devoted a lot of time to painting/refurbishing a new dresser (or "bureau" to Bella...seriously, what 3YO says "bureau"?) and an art table/cabinet thing for her. Here are some of the finished photos. What do you think?