Last year we celebrated our anniversary while our three-month-old baby stayed home with her grandparents.
This year they'll have two kids to watch.
I think that maybe next year we don't need to change things up quite so much.
I love you!
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Showing posts with label Anniversary. Show all posts
17 March 2008
27 March 2007
Be It Ever So Humble ...
Wow! What a week! It's good to be home! Julia and I had a great time going to Mississippi to stay with my parents. We stayed at their house in Hattiesburg, MS with small side trips to see Julia's great-grandparents in McComb, MS and my best friend from LSU in Denham Springs, LA.
Julia was an excellent car rider. I got her up at 4:30 am, changed her diaper, stuck her in her car seat and she was zonked out almost before we made it to the Interstate. She slept most of the ten-hour trip with only a couple of feeding breaks.
Grandma and Grandpa Steele couldn't wait to meet Julia so they drove to Mom and Dad's house right after we got there. (I couldn't blame them. I wouldn't be able to wait, either!)
My parents had bought a Pack 'N Play for their house, but Julia found she preferred a different sleeping spot.
On Tuesday, we drove to McComb, MS to go visit my grandparents. It took a lot of arm twisting (none at all), but Mom and I convinced Grandma to come back to Hattiesburg with us. While Grandma was there we took a "four generations" picture: Julia, me, my mom and her mom!
On Thursday, Dad drove Julia and I to Denham Springs, LA to visit my best friend, Stacy Crenshaw. (On the way, we dropped Grandma back off at her house.) We had so much fun visiting with Stacy, her husband Harvey and their two kids, Cole and McKinley.
McKinley went straight to Dad and made a friend.
Cole was fascinated with Julia and crawled into Julia's activity mat to play with her. He kept patting Julia's tummy saying, "Give me a burp, baby. Come on, just a little one. Give me just a little burp, baby."
Then it was McKinley's turn. (She kept trying to sit down next to Julia, but her aim was a little off and Julia's head was in danger of being squished. We finally convinced McKinley to lay down next to Julia for a little bit.)
This is my favorite picture of the Crenshaw kids. I imagine McKinley looks at Cole like that a lot.
Cole asked to hold Julia after we'd been there for a bit. Julia started fussing and Harvey started to say "Cole, I think she wants her mama," but Cole just reached over, grabbed Julia's bottle and started feeding her! It was so funny. And as he fed her I heard him whispering, "That's right, baby. I love you. You're a good girl, baby."
The Crenshaw family.
Joanna and Stacy. Hmmmm ... can you find the Cole in this picture?
Close up of our doll baby.
Dad and his baby :) Lady did really well with Julia. She was VERY jealous when my parents would hold the baby, but she would only jump up on them, not on Julia. Lady didn't like me too much, though.
On Saturday we made ribs and Grandma and Grandpa came back to see Julia one more time. Here's everyone except Dad.
And here is what David did while I was gone. (This wasn't the only project he completed, just the cutest!)
I called Dave Sunday morning around 9 am. He was surprised to find out that I had changed the plans for the day. Instead of my dad driving Julia and me back to Knoxville and then turning right around to go home, I had Dave meet us in Chattanooga. This cut about four hours off my dad's round trip and let him get home before dark. It also let me see my husband a couple hours earlier. :) It probably would have been better if I had my bright idea before Sunday morning, but you can't provide genius on demand.
(It will probably be a day or two before I get around to uploading the pictures to the Flickr account.)
(Edited: Pictures are posted! Click here to see them.)
(And Dave and I went to a most excellent restaurant here in Knoxville called Peerless for our anniversary. It was yummy. We had the Flaming Cheese for our appetizer. Good, but not exactly what we had expected. I had the 7 oz Filet Mignon with the Fresh Vegetable of the Day (squash and zucchini sauteed with tomatoes and onions) and David had the Seafood Platter #2 with the Sauteed Sherry Mushrooms. We were too full to eat dessert. I think it was the best anniversary meal we've had yet.)
Julia was an excellent car rider. I got her up at 4:30 am, changed her diaper, stuck her in her car seat and she was zonked out almost before we made it to the Interstate. She slept most of the ten-hour trip with only a couple of feeding breaks.
Grandma and Grandpa Steele couldn't wait to meet Julia so they drove to Mom and Dad's house right after we got there. (I couldn't blame them. I wouldn't be able to wait, either!)
My parents had bought a Pack 'N Play for their house, but Julia found she preferred a different sleeping spot.
On Tuesday, we drove to McComb, MS to go visit my grandparents. It took a lot of arm twisting (none at all), but Mom and I convinced Grandma to come back to Hattiesburg with us. While Grandma was there we took a "four generations" picture: Julia, me, my mom and her mom!
On Thursday, Dad drove Julia and I to Denham Springs, LA to visit my best friend, Stacy Crenshaw. (On the way, we dropped Grandma back off at her house.) We had so much fun visiting with Stacy, her husband Harvey and their two kids, Cole and McKinley.
McKinley went straight to Dad and made a friend.
Cole was fascinated with Julia and crawled into Julia's activity mat to play with her. He kept patting Julia's tummy saying, "Give me a burp, baby. Come on, just a little one. Give me just a little burp, baby."
Then it was McKinley's turn. (She kept trying to sit down next to Julia, but her aim was a little off and Julia's head was in danger of being squished. We finally convinced McKinley to lay down next to Julia for a little bit.)
This is my favorite picture of the Crenshaw kids. I imagine McKinley looks at Cole like that a lot.
Cole asked to hold Julia after we'd been there for a bit. Julia started fussing and Harvey started to say "Cole, I think she wants her mama," but Cole just reached over, grabbed Julia's bottle and started feeding her! It was so funny. And as he fed her I heard him whispering, "That's right, baby. I love you. You're a good girl, baby."
The Crenshaw family.
Joanna and Stacy. Hmmmm ... can you find the Cole in this picture?
Close up of our doll baby.
Dad and his baby :) Lady did really well with Julia. She was VERY jealous when my parents would hold the baby, but she would only jump up on them, not on Julia. Lady didn't like me too much, though.
On Saturday we made ribs and Grandma and Grandpa came back to see Julia one more time. Here's everyone except Dad.
And here is what David did while I was gone. (This wasn't the only project he completed, just the cutest!)
I called Dave Sunday morning around 9 am. He was surprised to find out that I had changed the plans for the day. Instead of my dad driving Julia and me back to Knoxville and then turning right around to go home, I had Dave meet us in Chattanooga. This cut about four hours off my dad's round trip and let him get home before dark. It also let me see my husband a couple hours earlier. :) It probably would have been better if I had my bright idea before Sunday morning, but you can't provide genius on demand.
(It will probably be a day or two before I get around to uploading the pictures to the Flickr account.)
(Edited: Pictures are posted! Click here to see them.)
(And Dave and I went to a most excellent restaurant here in Knoxville called Peerless for our anniversary. It was yummy. We had the Flaming Cheese for our appetizer. Good, but not exactly what we had expected. I had the 7 oz Filet Mignon with the Fresh Vegetable of the Day (squash and zucchini sauteed with tomatoes and onions) and David had the Seafood Platter #2 with the Sauteed Sherry Mushrooms. We were too full to eat dessert. I think it was the best anniversary meal we've had yet.)
17 March 2007
Re-gifted
No, not that kind of re-gifting. This was a gift that I received twice.
Once upon a time, back before we had a baby and people were still interested in Dave and me, I posted about random gifts that I have received that I still use and enjoy. If you took the time to read that post, at the bottom, I told of the demise of the first Christmas gift I ever received from Dave ... my stuffed penguin, Pollito.
Poor Pollito.
He sat for months and months at the top of the bookcase in our bedroom, well out of the reach of Echo. Actually, he didn't sit at the top of our bookcase for as long as I thought. My sweet husband researched doll hospitals and found a place that would repair my beloved penguin.
After Julia's birth (and a night's sleep), Dave presented me with my Pollito, looking quite dashing with his new nose. :) Here he is, complete with hospital band.
We've been married for six years as of about 2:30 pm today and I'm so thankful that God blessed me with someone who knows me well enough to gift me with a stuffed penguin with a nose job after I had given birth to our daughter. I love you, baby.
Once upon a time, back before we had a baby and people were still interested in Dave and me, I posted about random gifts that I have received that I still use and enjoy. If you took the time to read that post, at the bottom, I told of the demise of the first Christmas gift I ever received from Dave ... my stuffed penguin, Pollito.
Poor Pollito.
He sat for months and months at the top of the bookcase in our bedroom, well out of the reach of Echo. Actually, he didn't sit at the top of our bookcase for as long as I thought. My sweet husband researched doll hospitals and found a place that would repair my beloved penguin.
After Julia's birth (and a night's sleep), Dave presented me with my Pollito, looking quite dashing with his new nose. :) Here he is, complete with hospital band.
We've been married for six years as of about 2:30 pm today and I'm so thankful that God blessed me with someone who knows me well enough to gift me with a stuffed penguin with a nose job after I had given birth to our daughter. I love you, baby.
19 March 2006
I'm counting it all as an anniversary celebration
Whew! What a weekend. And it's only half over. Well, ours kind of started Thursday night when we went to the Wilco concert at the Tennessee Theater with Steve and Gianna. We were supposed to meet them at Tomato Head in Market Square, but Gianna had to work late (hours befitting a newly graduated and licensed lawyer). We enjoyed our meal with Steve ... I highly suggest the appetizer of pesto and bread. Yummy. Although, you will burp pesto the entire night. Steve got Gianna's meal to go, and we walked over to the theater to meet her. And, other than getting to see the inside of the theater, that concluded the best portion of the evening. The show was much more "rock star" than I was thinking based on the CDs Dave had played for me. Dave agreed. We left the show with our ears ringing without waiting for the encores. (The next day at school I found out from some students who had also gone to the show that there were two encores. The band played 5 songs in the first and 3 in the second.) I have no pictures from the evening because on the ticket it said cameras were not allowed at the concert. I saw some people with cameras, but since security was searching people at the door, I was glad I didn't have mine. With my luck, I would have been the person they told to take it back to the car!
Friday was officially our five-year anniversary. It really doesn't seem like we've been married for that long. Of course, it was three years before we quit looking at each other with big grins and saying, "Hey! We're married!" I guess it took that long to sink in that we were finally married. We celebrated that evening by going to Downtown Grill and Brewery. Of course, I had forgotten that other people have a reason to celebrate on that day. And since it is a brewery, the place was packed with tipsy people wearing green. (By the time we left it was packed with drunk people wearing green.) We decided to just go ahead and wait for our table. Eventually we were seated and had a yummy meal. We ate the pretzels and beer cheese for an appetizer. Dave had the Captain Sirloin (steak stuffed with shrimp, spinach, mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, bacon and garlic butter) with seasoned rice and cinnamon apples as his sides. He also got a chance to try the State Street Stout. I was a little less daring. I had the mesquite grilled steak (plain) with mashed potatoes and a side salad. Neither of us could finish our food so Dave will end up with a really good lunch to take to work on Monday! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Steele for sending us out somewhere nice. We followed your instructions! :)
Saturday, though exhausted, we rolled ourselves out of bed early. Echo had an appointment with the groomer at PetsMart so she would look pretty for Mom and Dad. Dave and I had an appointment with 409, Lysol and Clorox to clean the house so it would look pretty for Mom and Dad. It really, really needed it. Trust me. Except for getting some of the boxes into the attic, we managed to finish before they arrived. Sort of. It's clean, but not necessarily neat. They met Echo, laughed because her tail looked funny the way the groomer left it, and we got take out from Panda Garden. We ate, watched TV, and everyone just recovered from the day. Hopefully today we'll take it easy and just go through the boxes of stuff they brought. Mom found all sort of old schoolwork, drawings, photos and other memorabilia from my brother's and my school years. Did you know that in 3rd grade my favorite movie star was Kermit? :)
Friday was officially our five-year anniversary. It really doesn't seem like we've been married for that long. Of course, it was three years before we quit looking at each other with big grins and saying, "Hey! We're married!" I guess it took that long to sink in that we were finally married. We celebrated that evening by going to Downtown Grill and Brewery. Of course, I had forgotten that other people have a reason to celebrate on that day. And since it is a brewery, the place was packed with tipsy people wearing green. (By the time we left it was packed with drunk people wearing green.) We decided to just go ahead and wait for our table. Eventually we were seated and had a yummy meal. We ate the pretzels and beer cheese for an appetizer. Dave had the Captain Sirloin (steak stuffed with shrimp, spinach, mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, bacon and garlic butter) with seasoned rice and cinnamon apples as his sides. He also got a chance to try the State Street Stout. I was a little less daring. I had the mesquite grilled steak (plain) with mashed potatoes and a side salad. Neither of us could finish our food so Dave will end up with a really good lunch to take to work on Monday! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Steele for sending us out somewhere nice. We followed your instructions! :)
Saturday, though exhausted, we rolled ourselves out of bed early. Echo had an appointment with the groomer at PetsMart so she would look pretty for Mom and Dad. Dave and I had an appointment with 409, Lysol and Clorox to clean the house so it would look pretty for Mom and Dad. It really, really needed it. Trust me. Except for getting some of the boxes into the attic, we managed to finish before they arrived. Sort of. It's clean, but not necessarily neat. They met Echo, laughed because her tail looked funny the way the groomer left it, and we got take out from Panda Garden. We ate, watched TV, and everyone just recovered from the day. Hopefully today we'll take it easy and just go through the boxes of stuff they brought. Mom found all sort of old schoolwork, drawings, photos and other memorabilia from my brother's and my school years. Did you know that in 3rd grade my favorite movie star was Kermit? :)
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