Happy Birthday Davin!

My Davin is 7 today! I can't beleive how fast he is growing up. We love you buh-buh!

ANOTHER update!

I know it's crazy how often I've been updating this week... I might be getting obsessed. Go figure. I just have to take back something I said a couple months ago. I complained that "all the beautiful snow" was being washed away in the rain. I TAKE IT BACK! Bring on the rain as long as the snow STOPS! I guess I got spoiled with our week in the Caribbean (We all know I'm spoiled, that's nothing new:)) but I'm so ready for winter to be over! I think it will probably take months for the mounds of snow to melt off and just when I think it's actually going to start it snows...AGAIN!
In other news, the house is coming along GREAT! I wish you all could see it in person, it's always different that way. Sheetrock is in and taped and the heat got turned this week so now they are mudding. The exterior is almost done minus a few pieces of siding. I'll post pictures when they are up. Anyway it's really beautiful and we've decided we are indeed going to put it in the Parade of Homes. Anybody who wants to come see is welcome.

10 years and counting...

Happy Valentine's Day to all! Some of you know that today is our 10th anniversary, and that Brandon would say aomething to the effect of "could be 10, could be 10,000,000....". I'm not going to get all smooshy, I'm just going to say that I would do it all over again as long as we ended up in the same place we are today. And I think that really says it all!

Bag Tagged

OK, So I was bag tagged by my friend nicole. What is bag tag you ask? Well you take a picture of your bag, empty it out and take another picture...no cleaning it out first!! Then you post it on your bolg. Then you tag 5 people. Easy right? So here is mine. I will list everything just for you!!

Alright we have diaper and wipes pouch, 1"lovey", 4 binkies, car, 3 hair clippies and one hair band, phone, 2 reciepts, 3 pens, orange crayon, 2 chapstick, 1 lipgloss, powder, ipod, glasses, sippy cup, (with apple juice) planner, checkbook, lotion, tampon and the camera I took the pictures with. I'm such a Mom!

So I tag, Yolanda, Cynthia, Mikelle, Amy & Britton. (And anyone else who feels like it!)

Finally a few pic's from our trip!

So this isn't all of them, just a few I got from Jon & Amanda. I'm hoping to get the ones from Jenny & Jared pretty quick and I'll post those when I get them.

Nope, no pictures yet

Still no pictures, I know. I should be able to get the disc from Jon & Amanda today so I might even be able to put some up this afternoon, depending on the way the day goes. But I wanted to report that the fine people (or more appropriately fine person, Pete) at United came through for me and while he wasn't able to track down specifically my camera with my pictures, I did get A camera exactly like mine, back. Just with an empty memory card. So sad, but at least I will have the pictures our travelmates took to preserve a few memories.
I also yesterday, very sadly finally washed and put back in storage my summer clothes that I took on the trip. I know your all thinking "It took you a week? I thought you claimed to be a clean freak?"
1. Do not mistake "clean" for "organized". While my house is usually very clean, don't look in the closets or under the bed. :)
2. My washing machine broke 2 days before we left. (Of course perfect timing as usual!) So I ran to laundromat, the only non-scummy one I could find the day before to get everything in order. We only just repalced it on Wednesday.
Anyway, I very sadly tucked away my swim suits and cover ups and ended up sending a bunch of them to the Goodwill pile because after we got on the boat I discovered many of them were now too big. A good problem to have in my opinion! At any rate I won't be needing them anytime soon. For those of far away, we have had a record snowfall this year and the piles probably won't melt off untill August! We are currently at something like 142 inches for the year so far and it's only Feb. The previous record was 126 inches for the year set in 1915. They actually canceled several days of school while we were gone, and they NEVER do that!!! So needless to say our little break in the sun was well timed!
Anyway that's all I've got for now! I will post those pictures as soon as I can get them!

We regret to inform you...

Whenever someone starts a sentence that way, you get that gut feeling you'd better prepare yourself. Over the last 3 days since we got home, I've probably heard that phrase 100 times!!! The trip was AMAZING!!! Only problem... I lost my brand new digital camera (as in, we bought it in Miami on the way) on the airplane on the way home! It was in my carry-on and I think it must have fallen out on the flight from West Palm Beach to Chicago. So I've spent countless hours on the phone with about a million different United representatives trying to track it down, yet all of the conversations end with the aforementioned phrase. I've files about 10 different missing item reports and am still calling Ohare about every 2 hours and leaving yet another message!!! Anyway, the people we were with took lots of pictures too so as soon as I get some of those I'll post them and tell you more about our trip. Wish me luck! (I think I'm REALLY going to need it to get it back at this point!!!)