Friday Five: Our House This Week

1.) Jayce and I had a little out of town date this week. Chris was having some guys over that he mentors from school, so we decided to make ourselves scarce by heading to Springfield for an early dinner and a little shopping. We went to McDonald's, ate chicken nuggets and smoothies, I let him run around in the play land for longer than usual, and then we headed to Target where I let him play with a "beeper gun." Yep, I decided to start a registry...

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Snuggling My Baby

I know that I've showed off these pictures of Jayce and I before, but I thought they would be fun to use again today. I didn't say it at the time, but these photos are even more important to me now because the week after we had them taken I found out that I was pregnant.My first thought was along the lines of, "Aww man!" Not about the baby, obviously, but about just having gotten professional pictures taken, when I knew that I would want new ones...

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Valentine's Day

Chris and I got into the habit, in college, of going out for Valentine's Day near the day but never actually on  the day.  This had a little bit to do with the annoying wait at every restaurant on the day, Chris serving one year and it being much more financially beneficial for him to work that night and take me out another, and a year where we had an absurd experience at Outback Steakhouse. Basically, they had set up white table-clothed...

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Pre-Valentine's Day Celebrations

Valentines Day has never been a huge celebration around our house, but having a little one who is old enough to take part and get excited bumps it up on my priority list quite a bit.So last week, Jayce and I got busy making Valentines. We colored paper, stamped hearts, drew lines, and then cut our paper into hearts. I got a few sweet pictures of my little guy, printed them out and attached them to the cards. Then we put them in the mail to our...

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Valentine

Happy Valentines Day!From my little sweetie to yours. &nb...

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Our Little Lady

We've had a fun week and a half or so over here, letting the knowledge that our little baby is a little girl soak in. There have been lots of new phrases floating around our house, like daughter, sister, and it's a girl. I even told the baby a few times on that day, "You're a girl!" I'm not sure that she knew.I love her little profile in this picture, and that you can see her little hands in it. Although the more that I look at it, I think it...

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Improvising

Jayce has trouble with the word "airport." He starts to say "airplane" but by the time he reaches the pla part of the word, he remembers that he needs to switch to port. So it ends up coming out, "airpa-ort." He gets really frustrated, and will try again, (and I laugh sometimes) because he will end up saying, "airpa-ort, airpa-ort" with a little stutter in the middle as he's trying to get it right.Yesterday while we were at the grocery store Jayce...

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Chris' Birthday

Chris' birthday was almost 3 weeks ago now, but I didn't want it to go by without noting a few fun highlights.  We celebrated on the day, but it was the week when we were potty training, which I woefully discussed here if you missed it, which may help to explain why it has taken me a while to get these pictures up and why Jayce isn't wearing pants. :)  But his crossed ankle in this picture cracks me up, he does that all of the time.Jayce...

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