Monday, July 23, 2007

What a weekend!

First, we started out Saturday evening with my 10 year high school reunion. Good ole Berkmar people know how to drink too! Just about everyone was toasted at the end of the night. I don't drink so it was probably a good thing I was in charge of the money at the end of the night. Four hours of an open bar costs a lot of money for 100 people.


After we woke up on Sunday and were 3 hours late to a birthday party, we came home and put Evan in his pool. He enjoyed it for the most part.



He's pulling himself up now, which includes pulling himself out of the pool. If he can reach your hand or arm, he'll take hold, stand up, and try to walk out in a heartbeat. We are about to be in so much trouble.




Sunday evening ended with an evening at La Cazuela. Beers and Margaritas all around, except for Evan and me. He's wearing the jacket because since he is so tall, we figured he won't fit in it when it gets cool again. My mom bought him his "My First Levis" outfit so we gave it a one time shot.



And lastly, I thought this was a cute shot even though he wasn't looking at me. He was just content at this moment.

Our weekend was good but way too much packed into 48 hours. My mom took care of Evan for most of it and we appreciate and love you so much for that. Thank you!

To Andy, Brandi, and Ethan, we are so sorry we were 3 hours late to your 2nd birthday party. We're losers, we know it. That's what you get when you stay out too late on a Saturday night and lose the party invitation. We owe you dinner soon!

To everyone else that reads this fabuloso blog, lots of love to you! Have a great week!

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Trying new things

Who knew that this...

and this....

Could do all this....
Stand and type



Try new foods


Make a mess!



Climb on people



and get into everything!



Cheers! Hope you all are having a wonderful week.


Thursday, July 12, 2007

We Missed You All!

Trying to master the crawl




Elmo and Evan


So glad to see you all again


We are definitely back and we missed you all. First, we had a dead cable line in the yard. Next, it was replaced but had an internet block (go figure!). Lastly, we had a dead modem sometime between the 3 or 4 service calls Charter made. Either way, it is all fixed and better than ever. I will admit, I'm very internet dependent and I was going crazy without it.

Evan is 7 months today! I can't believe how fast he's growing. He is trying to crawl right now and still working on his first tooth. He has gotten very tall, somewhere around 29 inches now, which puts him in one year old clothes. He also weighs 19 lbs, 1 oz. This year is flying by but we are enjoying every minute.

I want to send out huge congratulations to my friends Erin and Sarah who are both pregnant, again! Erin, Brent, and Lana will have add a new member to their family in late February or early March next year and Sarah, Chris, Katie, and Aidan will add to their family around Christmas.

I'll try and put a few more posts up over the next week since I haven't had a chance to blog in 2 weeks! Blog with you soon!

Monday, July 09, 2007

Hmmm... blogger won't let me title this post. If they would have it would be, "Charter Still sucks!" Today, I told off the Charter rep because we were supposed to have service again as of Friday. That didn't happen and the second promise of today sure didn't happen. Sometime between 8 and 10 AM tomorrow, we hold yet another promise of restored internet and phone service.

My mom has been wonderful and let us come over every night to check email and the internet but I'm tired of it. A few things have happened over the last week that I just haven't gotten a chance to blog about.... Evan's lovely cold and trip to the doctor on Saturday for nothing, me quitting the wedding guild (yay!) and us looking for another church, me trying to collect high school reunion money without a computer with two weeks to go, and just other non-important things. I hope to blog again with pictures and I hope it's tomorrow!

Love you all!

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Computer's Down

I won't be posting all week because our Charter service is down which means our home phone is down and so is our internet access. Don't get Charter, they suck! I'll read your blogs when I visit my mom's house, otherwise, the stupid people will come out for service on Friday. We might cancel them before that too. Have a good week!

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Family Time

Katy, Derrick, Little D, Rob, Heather, Kathryn, Dick, and Jackie came to visit this weekend (AKA Mike's side of the family). We had three babies, all under the age of 1, plus an almost 13 year old. It was a great time and we got some great pictures. Thanks to everyone for making the drive here to help with my time off situation. Heather and Katy will have more pictures than me. Our camera is crazy and selective! Here are some... or a lot... of my favorites.

Evan and Derrick sharing the crib

Miss Laney


Dick, Kathryn, and Jackie with the babies

Celebrating Kathryn's 13th birthday, a week early

Derrick and Evan with Katy

With the dads

and the moms

After everyone left on Tuesday, I had the rest of the day off work so Evan and I went to the pool with Christina and Cole. I don't have a water baby. He's not a fan.


He was more a fan of sleeping

and playing


See you all next post!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Busy

I know that I haven't posted in over a week. I will try and post something new tomorrow. We had a busy weekend filled with three babies and lots of family. Hope you all are well.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sharing the day

I was born on Father's Day, Sunday, June 17, 1979 at 11:57 P.M. It has come that time once again for me to celebrate my birthday on Father's Day. I am 28 years old today and my 28 years have been filled with love, friendship, and everything I could have ever imagined my life to be, so far. Technically, since I was born so late at night, I get another 24 hours that runs into tomorrow for my birthday!

I will post baby pics another day this week as I have to get them from my mom's house. Here are some of the things that make my life worthwhile and some pics from my party last night.

Evan sporting his "I love Mommy" bib on Friday. Our festivities began then.


Evan was waiting on me at the front door on Friday as I came home from work


And here he is hiding the present that Evan and Mike got me
(It was 12 pieces of Rachael Ray cookware! Guess I really need to step up my cooking now.)

At my party on Saturday, here's one of the only shots of me with Evan. Jeremy got in on the picture too.

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And as for the other reason that makes this day special....

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

I wish everyone a very Happy Father's Day (especially in my family, Dick, Rob, Derrick, Arnold).

Thank you to my wonderful father for loving, supporting, and encouraging me to be the person I am. I am so lucky to have you in my life and I am so proud to be your daughter.



And to my wonderful husband, thank you for the gift of your love and for my Evan. There is nothing about you that I would ever change and I am so glad that I have you beside me everyday. I look forward to all of the years we have together. May this be the first of many father's days we will remember and you will share with Evan and any other children that God blesses us with in the next few years.


And to everyone else, family and friends (and this includes my blogger gals), thanks for the birthday wishes and thanks for your friendships! You all enrich my life and I count my blessings!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Happy 6 Months!

Evan is 6 months old today. Time really has flown by. Here's a blast from the past.


and back to the present
watching Sunday's race
and today, we finally let him have a turn at the computer. He was checking out his own blog.
Cheers!

We are so lucky that Evan blessed our lives on December 12, 2006. He is such a gift to us! Here's hoping your day was as good as ours!

Friday, June 08, 2007

It's not TB

That's good news, huh? For the last week or so all I can remember hearing about is the stupid TB guy from Atlanta, so just in case you heard about the same thing, I don't have it.


Four weeks after my horrendous cough started, I finally went to a doctor. My coworkers couldn't take my coughing up a lung anymore, and neither could I. I made the appointment for Thursday and it's a good thing I did. On Wednesday night, I went to see my original idol, Reba, at Chastain. The poor guy next to me got to listen to me cough every minute or so. It was unreal. He probably thought I had TB. The doctor even suspected it too, far back in his mind (in my imagination, because it was probably for pneumonia), because he had me get a chest x-ray. That was negative and I don't have a real diagnosis but it's either allergies, asthma, or bronchitis. Whatever it is, I'm on the road to recovery. Anyways, enough about me...

It is now Evan's turn to be sick. He had his first fever today, a few days short of his 6-month birthday. He's been cranky but gave us a few good shots today (the ones in the plaid overalls)

My mom, who is still in the Philippines, has requested more pictures of Evan. For that request, I have logged back onto the computer and blogger land and I give you Evan....




This is what we spend most of the time in the bouncer doing


We are sitting up now too!
and playing so hard, we pass out in strange positions

With Cole, in matching patterns


See you next week, Lola!
Love to all of our blogger friends. Hope you all have a great weekend!