July 18, 2008

4 Awesome Years

Holy crap! I can't believe we have been married 4 years now. Time flies when you are in love and havin fun. I am not going to go on about why I love Aaron because I think I just did a post not that long ago about that. He is my better half and I am so lucky to be married for eternity to the man of my dreams! Here are a few pictures of us the past couple years..


July 14, 2008

Stay at home mommy and Ezra's birthday

This is my first day of being a stay at home mom. I never thought this day would come but here I am!! Woohoo! I am not going to lie it is a bitter sweet feeling. More sweet than bitter though. I have pretty much been working since I was 16 and I am now 24 so that is what I was used to. My previous job I have worked at almost 7 years. I started there in High School and worked my way from a Runner to a Production Manager. I have met some great people there and I will miss working with them. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else right now! I am little nervous that Ezra is going to get bored with me but we are going to have fun and hopefully I can teach him a lot of great things.

Ezra had his 3rd birthday last week. I can't believe it!!! We went to Mini Grand Prix. He had soooo much fun. I think he was in Heaven. For those of you who don't know him, he is really quite obsessed with cars and most recently monster trucks. He went on the cars probably 6 times. Then we went on the rides too! Wow he is spoiled because after 3 short hours we decided it was time to go home and of course, he broke down and cried. Typical 3 year old. All in all he did really well.













This is Ezra and Uncle Eric. I think Eric might be his favorite person ever!













Ezra and I on the slide. It was the only thing I could take him on. I have a lot more pictures but for some reason they won't download. What can you do. For any of you who have kids that love cars I would suggest Mini Grand Prix!!! It was a blast!

July 12, 2008

Good times

These are the girls I work with and I thought it was hilarious that we were all pregnant together. No, it wasn't planned. We think there is something in the water. I love these girls and it has been so fun working with them!

June 17, 2008

Last trip... before the baby

We went to California again last weekend and it was wonderful. Man, I can't get enough of the beach! Our trip started off a little hectic but we finally made it out of town and didn't get to Oceanside until midnight. We had to wake up nice and early because Aaron was running the "mud run." This run has to be one of the funnest 10ks I have ever heard of. I was sooooo jealous that I wasn't running it. It is at Camp Pendleton, which is a Marine Corp base. So, basically it is a run with a bunch of obstacles to go through on the way. You climb up muddy walls, run through tires, cross a river which Aaron said it came up to his chest and a few other things. And at the end you have to crawl through this big mud pit. Now if that doesn't sound like the funnest run then I am not sure what does!!!! Anyways we had to be there nice and early. Ezra wanted to run it so bad too! It was too cute. So he stretched with Aaron, gotta love it. Then cried hysterical when Aaron went to the starting line. We met up with some good friends. It was really good seeing them. It was a really fun to watch all the runners come across the finish line muddy. Once again I was so jealous. I thought for sure I could do the run 8 months prego, right. Ha! It would be hard enough not pregnant. Anyways Aaron did really well and he had so much fun. So, since I couldn't do it and he loved it do much we are going to do it next year.

The rest of the trip we just hung out at the beach. We all had a really good time. It's sad to think it will probably be a while before we got to the beach again.
Ezra loves the beach! Me sporting the 80's beach look! I kinda like it!

June 5, 2008

I caved in


Dude, I'm huge! Here is a picture of me at 31 weeks. Actually like 30 weeks and 5 days, who's counting. I am a lot bigger than I was with Ezra but what can you do. I think my whole body got pregnant this time around. My arms, thighs oh and lets not forget all the extra junk in the trunk I am lugging around. YIKES! I guess I'll just embrace it. And I finally have a date of the c-section. 8-7-08. I was going to try for 8-8-08 but my doc will be out of town. I am so excited to actually know when it's going to be. I guess that is one good thing about c-sections, you have no surprises. Unless I go into labor before which I highly doubt. I seriously can't wait. Get this child outta me! Can you tell I am not a big fan of the 3rd trimester. Wow! I hope this doesn't sound like I hate being prego. I'm not going to lie, I am not a lover of being pregnant but I am so grateful that I actually can be pregnant. With all the "female" problems I have I was a little worried. Seriously though, it is such a wonderful feeling to grow a baby and feel him move. It's crazy how much love you can have for a person that you haven't even met!


June 2, 2008

Happy Birthday

This is a little late but I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to Aaron. He is amazing and I seriously don't know what I would do without him. He is the love of my life. Ezra can't get enough of him. I actually think Ezra likes his daddy more than me but who wouldn't.

I can't get enough of this man! He is amazing and talented and smart. Oh gosh I can go on and on.
I can honestly say he is my better half. I love him!!!! He is handsome, super smart, he can always put a smile on my face, a great husband and father, he can fix anything, crazy, random, he has to build a sand castle every time we go to the beach, he keeps me on my toes, he always gives me a kiss goodbye, he is very patriotic, he loves to serve, kids love him, the list can go on.
Happy late birthday!!!! I love you!

May 15, 2008

Name game

I think we finally figured out a name for the little guy in my belly. Aaron and I have the hardest time with names. We don't agree on anything. The names I love, he hates. The names he likes, yikes!
I was starting to worry because we weren't even close to finding a name. A while back we both kinda liked Eli but I just couldn't get the feel of it. The more I said it the more it didn't feel right. So I told Aaron we needed to move on and start thinking of a new name. I think we both just put it out of our minds because we never talked about it. Then a couple weeks back my wonderful sister asked me what I still needed for the baby and I told her "a name." So she is actually the one who gets credit for this which she will never let us forget either. The name is LINCOLN! I love it! So if you don't, well frankly I don't care! My favorite reaction is nothing at all. My Grandma didn't even know what to say. Needless to say I don't think she likes it. Haha grandma' s are great! But I am so used to that. When we decided on Ezra I got some pretty interesting comments. My grandma Rice straight up said that it was a horrible name! Gotta love Grandma's. Well, we are happy with it and it actually feels good to have that over with. I can actually start calling him by name. Hopefully we don't change our minds because we are good at that.
Oh yeah and I am not even going to post pregnancy pictures because well, I am a fatty. 2nd pregnancy hasn't been that good to me. Actually I can't complain but I definitely have more weight on this time around. I hear that's normal with the second but it's still depressing. Anyways, I am getting really excited to have another kiddo. It will be crazy but awesome! Oh my goodness I am going to have 2 kids!!!!