#3

the girls love to take our phones and take pictures....

they caught me catching a quick nap on the couch.....something i seriously NEVER do!!!

then of course they woke me up....and caught it on camera....

i thought i was possibly recouping from a busy weekend celebrating with family.  while with family, we discussed and planned on making a quick trip to vegas with my brother and sister-in-law.  as it would turn out, we weren't going to be able to go.  i am pregnant!!  the extreme tiredness and two dollar store tests confirmed it...

they were so faint and i was in such shock i drove to target on our only snow day to pick up a digital test...

#3!!!  :D

jason got home later that night and i gave him a little riddle....

Billy Goats Gruff
French Hens
Little Pigs
Bears in Goldilocks
Piece Suit
Ships of Christopher Columbus
Sheets to the Wind
Little Kittens They Lost Their Mittens
Wheels on a Tricycle
Stooges
Blind Mice
Wise Men
Legged Race
Wheeler
Strikes
Is A Crowd
Dimensional
Musketeers
Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmatic
Live, Laugh, Love
Hip, Hip, Hooray
Branches of US Federal govt
Sides of a triangle
Cousins of Donald Duck: Huey, Dewey and Louie
Kennedys (John, Robert and Teddy)
Flavors in Neapolitan Ice Cream
Stars in Orion’s belt
Parts To An Atom: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Caloric Sources: Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins
Primary colors: red, yellow and blue
Parts to the Personality: Id, Ego, super-ego
Earth Divisions: Core, Mantle, Crust
Times A Lady
Bags Full in Baa Baa Black Sheep
Colors in the Flag
Men and a Baby
Great Pyramids at Giza
Men in a Tub
Holes in a Bowling Ball
Colors in a Set of Traffic Lights
Lines in a Haiku Poem
Life lines in Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Leaves on a Shamrock
Minutes in a Boxing Round
Teaspoons in a Tablespoon
Valves on a Trumpet
Laws of Motion
Ring Circus
Tenors: Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
Times Peter denied Christ
Body Types: Endomorph, Mesomorph, Ectomorph
Ring Notebook
Germ layers: Endoderm, Mesoderm, Ectoderm
Species of Homo: Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens
Cu*m Laude, Magna Cu*m Laude, and Suma Cu*m Laude
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Of the People, By the People, For the People
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil
Faith, Hope and Charity
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Peter, Paul and Mary
Snap, Crack and Pop
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Small, Medium and Large
Alvin, Simon and Theodore
CBS, NBC, ABC
Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Ready, Aim, Fire
3 Pointer - he shoots, he scores
On Your mark, Get Set, Go
3 To Get Ready
3rd time's a charm
3 Trimesters in a Pregnancy
3's Company
Elena, Adelyn & a Third!!
# 3 will be here in November!!

"There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we." ~Ina May Gaskin

godparents

labor day weekend we had the honor of committing to be henry thomas' godparents! it was such a special day for us. our only godson. his parents, emilie and jason, are like family to us and we feel so privileged. we love you henry!

 

"God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude." ~Andrew Dhuse

6 years

6 years ago today we started life as a family. we know how lucky we are to be a healthy and happy family.

and i thank god every day that these 3 amazing people call me wife and mom!


"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame." ~Henry David Thoreau

our new year's eve

i have a love/hate relationship with new year's eve. i'm not that much of a fan of all the hype to party and do something fabulous, but i do find new year's super sentimental...and ya know how i love all the sentimental stuff. i love looking back on the year....being thankful for all that happened....and looking ahead to what the next year might have in store for us. awwwww.

well, this new year's eve was ridiculously nice out, so we headed out on a scavenger hunt (aka collecting crap off the street) of course.... with these 2 cuties....

we do this all spring, summer and fall and they simply love it to see what they collected....

truly love it....and right after this picture adelyn tried to pick up a piece of dog doo on the street and we high-tailed it home....

and of course we had to end the year with some ice cream...

we discussed some of our favorite things of 2011 - the top 2 were the slip-n-slide and welcoming our first cousin. and then we made a toast to what lies ahead....

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

well as you can see it was only 9 o'clock that we did our family countdown....then j and i started celebrating our new year....with crab legs of course....which j set up and cooked everything. :)

we got really dressed up for the occasion...

and we might have got a little silly....

and then someone got the giggles....

it wasn't me though....

well, maybe a little....

then we were back to being silly....

then i realized my camera was not capturing my cross-eyes. i figured it had to be the flash or something cuz i can certainly do cross-eyes. but then i tried and tried and tried....and well....i guess i can't do cross-eyes. :(

but it's ok - my dance skills make up for it....

hope you all had a happy new year too! our staying in, having a low key night (with a photo shoot) has been a long tradition of ours. and while it's nothing glamourous - it certainly is us! and we have such awesome memories of our no-big-deal-new-year's!

for the record - we made it til 2:30am!

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." ~Charles Lamb

memorial day weekend

thank you for the kind words everyone. it is devasting and i really appreciate the pick-me-ups.

so onto this frown turning upside down...we had an amazing memorial day weekend!! to say the least. j and i headed to chicago to spend the weekend with my brothers, sister-in-law and heidi and shane!!! fun, eventful and with the ones i love! perfect.

pictures courtesy of heidi and tony...thank you. i wanted to just label them "beginning of the day," "middle of the day" and "end of the day." you'll see why...

friday night we all enjoyed an amazing dinner and headed to a sky bar for some drinks and a good view. cousins....one with his eyes closed.

the "out-laws"...
the girls...

i had really cute pictures of everyone at dinner. :( we ended the night playing taboo. :) we then started saturday with breakfast....homemade by tony. french toast, hashbrowns, bacon, bloody beers...and bachelorette party napkins. ;) oh - and some 3d tv...
we then headed to the pitiful cubs game...
with great company once again...
the whole fam bam....hanging out after the game.
cheers...

having fun...



i take my dance moves very, very seriously...




drunk-skyping with my aunt....heidi's mom
um....definitely not the beginning of the day.
i want to do it all again...let's go!

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." ~Shirley MacLaine

five

what a lucky lady i am to be married to my best friend and the most wonderful daddy! happy 5 years of marriage babe! how exciting that we have so many more ahead of us!

"Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day." ~Gene Perret

bulls game

j and i actually had a night away, mid december. we headed to chicago to see 'da bulls.' nosebleeds, of course... ;)
we brought j's brother, doug and his gf, adrienne...
we used to see the bulls quite often, but this was our first time back since 2003!
they ended up losing by ONE. booo. but we had a great time and the united center is always such an exciting atmosphere.
after we met my brother, tony, and headed out...
where we only drank the 2 oz's in those shot glasses and i danced no less than 3 hours. :)


"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend." ~Chuck Palahniuk