friday night excitement

sooooo i was supposed to be partying it up with some hot mamas tonight (DC! drinking! kid-free!) but what am i doing instead? working. on proofing a 277 page award application, with edits due by 9am tomorrow (that would be saturday). FML.

from one doctor to another

spent the day at doctors offices today ... belly & bulilit had their regular check ups today. belly's is like a REAL check up, with the nurse checking her blood pressure, eyesight and everything! gone are the days when she would sit on the baby scale to be weighed. when it was bulilit's turn, we plopped her down on the scale, all naked except her diaper, and she looked at us and grinned. it was hilarious. for being 20 months younger than her sister, bulilit is only 9lbs lighter and 3 inches shorter. craziness.

then in the afternoon, the achy/awful feeling e and i have been experiencing since yesterday finally got bad enough that i decided we should go to urgent care. in a span of 4 hours, we were seen by a doctor, drove to the hospital to get blood drawn, returned to urgent care and finally went home to wait for results. luckily, everything is good, just a viral infection of some sort that has to pass through our systems. as we walked toward the hospital, e and i reminisced on the last time we were there, bringing bulilit into this world. later, as we sat in the waiting area outside the lab, i turned to my husband and said, "i know this sounds weird, but i'm really happy that we're here together." because he and i never seem to have alone time with nothing to do -- even on date nights or dinner, i always feel like we're rushing to get back to the kids -- and having to do nothing but wait while people try to figure out what's wrong with us was kind of nice.

oh! and thankful that my mom jumped in at the last minute to come and stay with the kids while we were getting checked out!

kicks

thanks to a toys r us gift card (birthday present) from my cousins, belly has her first pair of light up sneakers. she picked them out all by herself!

family

i love and am so thankful for my husband, for my kids and for my cousin smarie!!

post wedding daze

still trying to recover from the craziness that was vanessa + ian's wedding weekend. will def have to write about that when i'm not falling asleep every ten minutes.

today, the only things i can be thankful for are strawberry cupcakes from georgetown cupcake (thanks, jackie!) and pepsi and johnnie.

happy wedding day vanessa + ian!!

e's bday dinner

sis2be and mom watched the kids (after we put them to bed) so e and i could go out to celebrate his birthday, just the two of us. we went to coastal flats and had a delicious dinner, good conversation and much needed time to ourselves.

happy 30th birthday boo.

summer vacation

woo hoo!! brother and sis2be will be married on saturday!! and to celebrate, i took the whole week off work which means i can finally make a dent in my personal to-do list. first on the list, updating the blog. :) soooo, go on and scroll down. i finally finished some of my draft posts from the past month and published them, so new entries are sprinkled throughout june. happy reading!

(i'm off to run more errands!)

happy birthday e!!!

happy happy 30th birthday to my sweet husband!! spent the weekend in NJ with a few of his friends and then headed up to citifield to see it for the first time. the mets even helped him celebrate by hitting a home run. love the apple!! belly was sad though that she didn't get to see mr. met. that's all she was asking for the entire time we were at the stadium.



we celebrated with e's family on friday night with a delicious chinese dinner, then with my family tonight, at red robin. kids provided the entertainment, as per usual! i think when all was said and done, e had a good time! (and now i'm not the only one in my thirties anymore. ha.)

still missing you...

Nine years ago, I lost my lola followed by grandma. Within two weeks of each other. RIP. I love you both.

BOO!

nothing better than quiet play time with a 17 month old. except maybe peek-a-boo and the laugh that accompanies it.

happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July!

e decided he wanted to have people over -- and after realizing last july 4th how awesome our house is in terms of watching fireworks displays, i was totally on board.

in the afternoon, we took the kids to the mall for a little indoor playground action (it is just too hot to be doing anything outdoors). as we walked past abercrombie & fitch, with their music blaring out the door, bulilit decided she wanted to jam to the music. so she stops and starts bouncing her little butt in time to the beat. so adorable! and i totally caught a bunch of passers-by who looked at her and smiled.

after a delicious grilled feast, we took blankets out to the playground/field behind our house and watched the fireworks display from our local high school. belly and bear were out there, watching in awe, 'ooh-ing and ahh-ing' over the fireworks. e and i just smiled at each other.

epic

what did i do tonight?



yes, i had to come home with a souvenir. from a movie theatre. what can i say, i don't get out enough.

:)