Thankful for so much!

We are so thankful that we had little Raya in our lives this Thanksgiving.

We woke up early and did a 3 mile walk. It helped mentally to know I burned a few extra calories that morning. I had done this race a few years back, although last time I ran it. I'm just still cautious about running with Raya in the stroller and jostling her all around. We all enjoyed the nice brisk walk before filling up our bellies.

After being able to catch up with my family on Facetime which helps make holidays away from home a little easier. We had a lovely dinner at Tim's moms house. Raya is getting bigger (still a peanut) by the day and even got to try a real turkey dinner of her own, the kind in the jar of course ;) Which combined sweet potatoes, turkey and gravy. She enjoyed it as she does most foods.

It was a beautiful day spent with family eating and drinking and remembering what we are all thankful for.

Happy Anniversary to us

Tuesday marked our 3 year anniversary!!

Tim made arrangements for a babysitter and surprised me with dinner at the US Grant and a movie :)

It was a delicious dinner, we shared a beet salad, I had Sea Bass and Tim had. Yummy crusted salmon. Our friend that works at the hotel arranged for the beautiful dessert which was a surprise. Don't you just love surprises?!?

Following dinner we went to see This is 40...cute movie but LONG for a comedy. Since Raya STILL is not sleeping through the night we were pretty tired but we had to take  advantage of a night out and it was a perfect way to celebrate our anniversary!

Cheers to many many more years ahead!

XO

Dropping the crib

It was only a year ago that we were assembling the crib over Christmas weekend... Well we have just dropped the crib to the lowest level ( sniff sniff) since our little sweet pea loves to climb. Lets just hope she starts sleeping through the night before she uses the rail as a gymnastic bar :)

I know I've said it numerous times but I truly can't believe how fast this year had gone. We've loved every minute and are excited for all the days, weeks and years ahead!

NY Christmas!!!

Ok so I've been pretty absent here bcs. I am a mom of an almost 8 month old :O seriously where is the time going???

Well I have about 6 posts in draft form but I had a quick minute and I just wanted to say how exited I am that we are heading to NY for Rayas first Christmas!! Yeahhhh

I am SO looking forward to visiting with family and friends and honestly in a selfish note have a few extra hands that want to give Raya love so I can catch a little break :)

Off to finish packing- Merry Christmas to all!

Happy Halloween

Halloween kicked of the first of the "holidays" for 2012.

Raya was starting to sit assisted so we were able to have some fun with pumpkin patches, even in our own front yard. There were several Halloween celebrations we attended and as they progressed Raya got more scared of things...poor little girl :(

Raya and I visited the pumpkin patch with my friend Amber and her son Easton. She was in a great mood and had lots of fun looking at the big orange circles. Pretty sure that's all she acknowledged pumpkins as.

A friend of ours had a pumpkin carving party that we went to and as it was getting dusk and the fog machines and monsters were going she was not too thrilled. This was her first sign of "being scared". She turned away and would nuzzle into our shoulder, so cute ;)

Then came Halloween day!! She was our little Elephant...so darn cute! We have an amazing neighborhood for trick or treating, I can't wait (Zara too!) until next year when we can walk around with her. But she hung out with me while I handed out candy and looked suspiciously at all these strangers coming to our house. Tim always does the house us with lights and music (naturally) so she was a little spooked but was a trooper. Ella and Marty came over to trick or treat in the neighborhood, it was fun to have the kids here and watch them get excited..,priceless to watch kids innocence :)

BOO!

Half Birthday!

Some of my friend know that I LOVE half birthdays. It was a nice tradition my mom started when I was younger because when you're a child it takes FOREVER to get to your next birthday so every April 10th I would get half the happy birthday song sung to me, half a birthday card (shed litterally cut one in half), half a birthday treat, you get the idea :) and as I mentioned in a previous post Tim proposed to me at a surprise half birthday party.

Now with our own special daughter I plan to continue the tradition! She celebrated 6 months/her first half birthday on October 24th and how exciting it was for her! Besides the crummy shots she got at her 6 months doc checkup :( she got her ears pierced and opened cards and gifts from family and friends!

Yay!! Thank you all and Happy Half Birthday Sweet Pea! XO

All fours!!

She's up on all fours...she knows how to bring her knee forward but hadn't put the hand forward coordination together yet ;) she ends up kinda face planting when she doesn't know what to do next (hence the foam mats)... It's only a matter of time before she truly lives up to her new nickname of "scoots"

For now she Definately scoots sideways or rolls to where she wants to grow, it's crazy how fast she is learning and growing!

** UPDATE** scoots is officially crawling!!! On 11/5 she decided to take a few crawls towards Tim's cell phone and she's been on the move!! We had to purchase a larger area rug so she wasn't falling on the hardwood. She's starting to pull up on things! Oh boy!!!