Jericho has something to tell you

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February 14th, 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

30 years ago

Nate turned 30 yesterday. His birthday was more of a weekend event as we headed over to the Okanagan to see a lot of his very close friends. It was a very good special time for us and to be able to see so many of our friends was awesome. Part of me really wanted to have a huge party for him, but he's not like me... I want confetti and a week-long feista dude... but Nate is more into seeing people he cares about and just chilling out. He's content just to talk to people and to see how they are. Some we were only able to see for a short time, but just seeing them really brightened his day - to those we saw, know that you are loved and missed. And thanks for taking time to see us!

Yesterday Nate actually had to work, which is sad in a way... but I was exhausted from our short little trip and felt like sleeping the day away. It's a little difficult when you have an almost 9 month old whose just on the move.. But last night he was sweet and slept through the night right until 9:30 this morning. I needed that! Perfect. Last night Nate and I made a quick trip to Old Navy and picked up some new clothes for him courtesy of his Mom & Dad. Then we went for a great dinner at Earls while Jericho went to the T & A Club with my parents. They tried to drop him off but we had stopped at Steve & Michelle's and weren't home - oops! But they were okay with the extra time they got him for... except for the crying all the way to their house. It's like he knew we weren't home.

Oh - and I gave Nate his present!! His gift was to go meet his new neice Ashiah and to visit his brother Greg and his Sam as well as his parents and some extended family. He was so excited about it that now he wants me to come as well with the baby. So we're just trying to see if it's going to work or not. Hopefully it does as we don't see Nate's family as much as we should..

Anyways, enjoy these current pics - MIL if you want some just let me know and I'll send more to Wal-Mart!!!

Time Flies

Today is my third wedding anniversary. I just received the most gorgeous arrangement of pink lilies, gerberas and roses. I'm glad I brushed my hair before the doorbell rang! I was hoping I would get flowers, but the delivered kind are the best. Then I know he put a lot of thought into it.. he didn't just stop somewhere on the way home, he went BEFORE our anniversary and picked out the perfect flowers for me. How sweet!

Tonight the plan is to drop off the boy for his first sleepover at Grandmas. We might cave and pick him up in the stealth of night, but I would really love to sleep-in, so I hope we can stick to our guns. I've asked my husband to pick a restaurant where we can have a nice dinner, then we are headed to the fireworks! They will be on our anniversary, which just makes trying to plan something that much easier. I find it hard sometimes to decide what I want to do for a special occasion... I know this is only year 3, but I think every anniversary is worth celebrating. I like having an excuse to have a romantic evening with my man. It should be fun... I just wish I had the car so I could go get my hair done. Oh well...

Rain is good.

I know, I'm getting a little tired of the rain. It feels like March or April, not July! This is when we're supposed to be getting sunburnt and uncomfortable at night. Actually, I don't mind the rain. Don't hate me!! But it's nice to not be too hot especially when I'm at home most of the time with no air conditioning.

This is a busy week coming up... Our anniversary is on Wednesday. I dropped a few hints to Nate on what I would like to do, but I think he wants us to plan something together. I still need to ask someone to watch Jericho, or else we will have to take him with us. My mom was supposed to arrive home from Chicago late last night, but I still haven't heard from her as she got stuck there. I talked to my dad last night and he wasn't sure when to expect her. As soon as she gets back.. I'll ask her about the trip - then ask her to babysit on Wednesday. You may think that's a little cruel and that I only use her as a babysitter, but if you think that, you don't know my mom. She LOVES babysitting my kid. She gets upset when we come to take him home... So I think it's okay. Anyways, Thursday night we're trying to get some friends together for Nate's bday, but I haven't even started planning that. It's just supposed to be a casual BBQ, but I guess the rain won't really help that. Then, the next morning we want to leave for Penticton to see some friends for dinner Friday night then head to K-town to see some more friends. Should be good.

We've only done a few long car trips with Jericho, but he's usually okay. The only issue may be his teething. He has two teeth on the bottom now and is a little more cranky nowadays. Last Saturday I walked into the nursery to pick him up and for the first time, he was SCREAMING. It's a combination I think of teething and playing strange. Today he was playing and instead of ignoring me for most of the time and just being - he kept dropping stuff and coming to sit on my lap. He would sit for 15 seconds, then squirm off and he was good for another 5 minutes. It was a little strange.

Funny story - my mother in law emailed me to let me know she didn't have many pictures of Jericho and could I please send some over the web to the Wal-mart in her hometown. I told her I would email her first if I figured it out... but I didn't. I just sat down and uploaded about 4 dozen onto the Wal-mart site. I guess she had been to the store and tried to upload some from a disk and it wouldn't work, then they called her 2 hours later to let her know her prints were ready. She was kinda mad and couldn't figure out how they got prints off her disk when it wouldn't work, and wasn't looking forward to having to pay money for something she wasn't sure she wanted. So the guy brings out the pictures I uploaded and she was pleasantly surprised. I tried to send a bunch of ones from when he was really tiny and some from now...so hopefully she's really happy with them. I just think technology is awesome.

Well, the little sweet boy is sleeping, I should see if I could get supper started for once...

Aunt Sara Once Again.

I have a neice! My brother-in-law says he is still in parental negogiations on the name, but she was born on Sunday! YAY!!! Congrats!

Blogger won't let me write a title, but Jericho is cutting his first tooth!!! He woke up from his nap today happy as a lark, and it was fairly hot so we took him to the spray park. He liked some of it, cried for most of it... it's just too cold. When we got home I started trying to feed him and he would just cry. It didn't help that he had just fallen and bumped his head. He kept grabbing at my hands so when I let him suck on my finger, I felt a little tiny tooth trying to pop through!!!

Tired Monday

I am still recovering from a very busy, incredibly fun, extra-long weekend. We had the pleasure of hosting our friend Becky Gifford and had many adventures. She arrived Wednesday night and we just played games and I can't even remember what we had for dinner. She got to meet Jericho for the first time and fell in love. She kept saying he was so precious. We agree. Then Thursday we slept in and finally decided to go see the matinee showing of Transformers which started at 3:40. Becky and I liked it for the Josh Duhamel reason. Nate said the plot was lacking, and we failed to notice. We were late in returning home to clean and prepare for Becky's spa party. But we made it, barely. I went without dinner, but whatever... we had lots of food at the party. We had 11 people and it was great. I made ice cream sandwiches from scratch and decided they were quite tasty and ate three of them. Ordered some fun Beauti-Control items and can't wait for them all to arrive.

Friday was sleeping in, again. Then we went to IKEA and Toys'R'Us and the Shoe Company and Winners. Spent money. Good times. I was particularly wanting to go nuts in the Babies section of Toys as there were so many items I could really use for Jericho. I put quite a few back in the end for budget reasons, but made a fun inflatable purchase for him to play with as well as a more practical baby toothbrush set. Fun and busy shopping time. In the midst of this, we had been planning for this really yummy dinner. We had some chicken in a brine and came home to prepare the Ultimate BBQ Chicken with a Bacon Cornbread. The chicken was the most amazing any of us had ever had. So moist and like candy on the outside. Look up the food network Tyler Ultimate show to find the recipe. HIGHLY recommend it. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. Don't you love it when a recipe turns out WAY better than you ever expect?

Saturday was more sleeping in and by far our most exciting day. I don't remember who, but one of us had the idea of visiting a bunch of Tapa bars downtown. We dropped off the boy at my Moms with plenty of toys and food, then headed to Stella's for our first experience. It was still fairly early so they were still serving brunch, but we each had some, plus Becky and Nate were able to try and highly enjoy the best beer they had ever. I don't like beer much at all so I refrained.

We then headed to Bin 941 - very good food! We had some fun tapas and loved it, especially the guest book. After that we went to the tasting bar at Lumierre... which is Rob Feenie's restaurant. He even walked by THREE TIMES!!!! Fantasic. That place was way expensive, but so worth it. I had the Char and the Char was good.

Yesterday Nate and I got to go to a wedding of a friend of mine I haven't seen in 11 years. We've reconnected on facebook believe it or not. It was a cute, beautiful, fun, entertaining wedding. And I even won a centrepiece for dancing to YMCA. Fabulous.

So Congrats to Noel and Emily and thank-you to Nate and Becky for a very fun, memorable weekend that will take me a long time to forget.

8 Months

Guess which little man is 8 months old today!!! I can't believe how much time is flying by. And he gets a little cuter every day. He's still climbing on furniture a lot... yesterday I left Jericho with Nate so I could go pick up a few groceries and I didn't notice but as soon as I started walking down the stairs, Jer crawled all the way to the top of the stairs really fast. Nate had to quickly close the gate, but then Jericho pulled himself up and started shaking the gate and crying "Momma, Momma, Momma" He said it was the saddest thing. My poor little guy has become quite attached to his Momma.

200th Post

Not too much to say, could say a lot more than I will... But alas, I am tired and time is short. My son is growing beautifully, my sister is getting old, my brother has been married one year... Life is good.

Saturday night church was funny. That balls comment almost did me in. Too bad for pastors who don't read over their notes in detail. I love you, Pastor Derrick :)

My hubby is holding my son and feeding him his last bottle of the day. Jericho's eyes are slowing closing and he's becoming that sleepy, cuddly child who I wish existed at every moment of the day. But he is active, and I love him. He's on his way to bed, and so I must bid you all good night. Thanks for listening all these posts and making me look forward to writing.