I love that summer is finally here, but I hate the fact that I can’t, for the life of me, keep a plant alive! Seriously, what is wrong with me? Most of the time, Travis is watering my one lonely pot of flowers and my one lonely pot of herbs……….I’m a complete failure when it comes to any type of gardening. Add that to my list of things to get better at (along with meal planning and keeping up on cleaning the house). Check!
Ahhh…such is life. Certain things fall to the wayside so that we can spend more time on what is really important. I’ve decided I can let go of my manic-obsessive “clean house days” and welcome a more lived in home, so long as it means I get to spend more quality time with Marley! I’m good at dropping the dust cloth so that I can take her outside to run and play in the yard, or so that we can bring her on an impromptu trip to DQ for an ice cream cone. The little things…yes, they do all add up to make life one great BIG thing worth appreciating.
This past weekend, we made our way down to Faribault to visit family. My mom actually had some water damage in her house due to a malfunctioning dishwasher (ick), and Travis is going to be re-tiling their kitchen floor and doing a bunch more work in their basement. Marley always has fun playing with her cousins, but now she’s at an age where she can really go off and explore with them. She didn’t want to miss any of the action and tagged along wherever they went. We were hoping to make a trip to the pool, but the weather didn’t cooperate………seriously, can we get more than one weekend of sunshine this summer?! My sister took some great pics of the kiddos:
And you’ll see my baby belly is busy growing. My sister snapped this photo while we were hanging out at her house on Saturday morning. 16 weeks! I’m starting to feel the little flutters of movement in my tummy and I LOVE IT!! It’s just surreal to me…..to look down at my belly and think that, yep, this is really happening. We have another one on the way and the sudden appearance of my baby bump is proof of that! I have another appointment and an ultrasound on June 30th……..so we can see how baby #2 is growing/progressing and (hopefully) we can find out if we’re welcoming another little lady into our lives, or a little boy!! Either way, I’m happy! I’ll keep you posted!
Here are a few more photos of our growing girl. She is getting so big………tall and skinny! And that hair?! It’s making an appearance, SLOWLY but surely! It’s fuzzy and brown. I’m thinking she’ll get my curls, but we’ll see! I SO despised my hair as a kid, heck…..I hated my hair until I got into college and came to terms with it. But I think I can teach Marley to appreciate a head full of curly locks! As for now, I don’t have any idea of what she will look like once that hair does come in! I can’t even picture it on her! She’s been my bald girl for soooooooooo long!
We celebrated Trav's 30th birthday a little early at the cabin over Memorial Day....what a fun weekend with Grandma and Grandpa! On his actual birthday, May 31st, we had a little date night (what a treat that was)! Uncle Jesse came over to babysit and I took Travis out to a surprise dinner at Ruth's Chris. In our younger days, or should I say, before kids, when we had more discretionary income...hehe, we LOVED to go out to eat at nice restaurants and did so frequently! Ruth's Chris became one of our favorite steak spots, and it holds a very special place in our hearts........when we got married on the beach in Riviera Maya, Mexico (just the two of us), we celebrated our wedding night by going to the Ruth's Chris in Cancun. Anyway, that was the last time we were there and so we had fun going back and indulging a bit for Trav's big day! Here's us then, and my hubby now..........love him more today than I did back then! 30 is going to be amazing!!
Happy Summer from our house to yours!!
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