My Funny Valentine

We have never been big on Celebrating Valentines Day:) since our Anniversary is just two days before but, this year we made an exception for Our Sweet little Valentine:) We made little Heart Garland the week prior and invited his cousins over for a little party to help us celebrate!

We made Cupcakes and Pizza and Served Pink Passion Punch:)

 We decorated our tablecloth with hearts and words of LOVE:) 

Lunch before Sweets

And Pictures before Cupcakes!

Much Love to These Cuties 

Oh, and can't forget the Valentines Cards! Beau, even got a few from the big kids next door... Guess which ones:) Nothing says I love you like WWE  Wrestlers! :)

He had such a great time! At the end he passed out a special treat for his guests and even said...

HAPPY VALENTINES  to each one! It was so SWEET just like our Beau:)

Happy Anniversary TEN YEARS!

I have been looking back on Ten Years of Pictures this week. My heart feels so good, knowing that we have had many great Laughs, Vacations, Celebrations and Journeys together. When we first met 12 years ago at Allyns Cafe I never imagined finding the love of my life in a CAJUN,MEXICAN & SEAFOOD Restaurant! We both like to joke and say we found Love in a hopeless place:) 

We are each others ROCK and each others LOBSTER.

Everyday that has passed SINCE 2005 I have grown more in Love with him.

Of course when we met... I was a package deal with my Henry and Zoey who quickly became his too! We added Our Gus in September 2008 :) We miss that sweet, loving, cuddly Boy everyday.

In so many ways this boy prepared us to be Parents! He would have been such a great fit for Beau now:) He was the piece missing for so long in our little family, and when he came he gave Zoey a little partner in crime :) HAPPINESS. He has been gone 2 years now. Miss you sweet boy!

Life has for sure given us some Challenges. We have held each others hand through it all! 

We have climbed  Many Mountains together:) We have grown together and as a family of Three, we have struggled with all the newness and challenges of being parents to a little human:) Our lives have changed so much since this happened ( for the better!) Beau has helped us both, figure out how to be in the present moment. This feeling I have imagined in my mind for a very long time!

Today my Heart is HAPPY.

So, today We celebrate All of Our Journeys! Including a New one... This year Our Family of THREE will become a Family of FOUR! That's right:) We are EXPECTING ANOTHER LITTLE BLESSING AND AGAIN WE ARE OVER THE MOON!

  

                                                                                                                                                                                   

We are Blessed. In many ways my heart is full but, there is also that feeling of something is missing. My Brother & Uncle totally had a hand in this :) I know they are watching out for us through all of our pain. Gives me so much peace knowing that God is giving us strength during hard times.

So here we GROW again! 

Please Keep us in your thoughts & prayers. We are expecting Our little Surprise just one day after Beau was due :)

 We have come along way since this day...

In love since 2005!

TEN

 2005 was a good year and I have not looked back since. Happy , Blessed , Loved and Complete. This is what my heart has felt for the past 10 years and I am looking forward to many more! We have grown together in so many ways... just check out Scott's hair!

 

New York City 2005

                                          Pyramid Point 2006             New York City  2006        

Summer LELAND 2008

Trip back to VERO 2008

 Taste of Cincinnati 2008

 Just me and my Werewolf! 

Pyramid point 2008

Moonlight Gardens 2008

 Our Old Apartment Eastern :)

 I think I straightened his hair this night!

 Winter trip to Leland 2009

Before Terry's Turf Club became Popular we used to go 

and enjoy a late night drink with a side of Jazz

 Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Host and Hostess :)

Many stories to tell about the last TEN years with this guy:) he has made me a very Happy Girl! Will be back in a few days to share some more:)

Life Lately

We are cruising right into this new year... 2014 is almost a month behind us. Never felt so ready for a New Year! Beau has seriously been bringing on the Lol's and it is really just what this Mama needed.

His words are flowing and forming the cutest little sentences:) I know I just did a Beau-cabulary post but, he has picked up so much more I thought I would share...

Beau be careful Mama:  this little boy likes to try and make his mama on edge with all the climbing  (boy stuff) but, he will always be sure to tell me that he will be careful. I hope he keeps saying this for the rest of his life!

Get dressed Papa & put slippers on: One morning when Scott was off he started saying this, it took me a minute to figure it out... Now every Sunday morning he will say this followed by come play with me Papa! 

ETU Mama ( I love you too mama)  This one is currently my Favorite, out of the blue he will just blurt out  an Etu Mama he can say I love you clearly but, this one is just melt my heart Fabulous. Of course I love you too my sweet Beau:)

drama & drampa our car is parked in the Diage :) G is a hard one for him. We work on this but, he still is using a D to replace it! Oh, and C's are T's " Want a TOOKIE Mama?" 

When the Sun comes in Mama its SO BRIGHT: He knows when the Sun goes down it means its Sleepy time and now when the Sun comes up he knows it is time to start our day:)

We are loving introducing him to everything " New" but, he has such a good memory too! I have never seen anything like it... he will remember when he has something or something I said from Months before. I wish I could have this kind of memory! So we have been working with him on his ABC'S with a puzzle and then during book time We will stop reading a sentence and he will finish it! At first I thought it was because, we read the same books to him over and over but, yesterday Papa took him to story time and picked up a few new books by, bedtime this kiddo had his favorites memorized!

We have a new Baby in the Family:) She came January 11TH we are Blessed!

AGNES MARIE SCOTT

 She is named after my Dad's Mother so a very Old name but, I think it will fit her perfectly:)

We are now eating Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in a Big Boy chair at our table! This week I decided it was time... the highchair still fit him but, we were ready and WOW! So glad we did because, Beau is really enjoying it too! What a difference it makes, we really are enjoying him being closer and seriously he is eating so much better!

Potty Training part: ( I don't even know!) is going a lot better since we tried the naked butt in the house method! Wow:) So ready for this Train to be done! We took away the Potty Chair and are now just doing Big Potty and he is really doing great! No stickers but, bribing him still with Lolly Pops to go #2 because, this one is still going to keep us Chugging along:( Papa went and bought him a seat to fit our Big Potty... we have yet to use it but, any day now! It has CARS on it so he really likes that:) nothing like Mater and MCqueen to help you go!!!

We have been working on playing with certain Toys and when we want something new we have to clean up the ones we are done playing with! This was my ocd brain that said, I can't do this massive clean up everyday... so with all of his cars I put them all in their own zip lock bag and now when he wants The Race Cars he gets just that! Instead of him dumping all of the cars out to look for only The Race Cars!  We are working on the clean up part:) he helps about half the time but, now my clean up time is cut in half! 

Other Stuff we have been up to...

Grandpa made us a frame for our very special Caricature picture we received and turned into Our New Years Card:) more on that another time!

Trip to the Mall for a little a walking around... we did this last year a bunch, it was nice to walk and get out of the house! These are new this year... he really did not LOVE this at all! I so thought he would but, no. 

Story time at our Library... this was a good one:) This day he totally participated and made Mama both Happy & Sad. 

We like to get out whenever the weather allows us! This was a let's take the Lawn Mower for a stroll kind of day:)

Saturday Morning African Safari on PBS totally looks like he is covering his ears but, this is actually  how he likes to watch his shows... Super Chill.

And finally... I got motivated to finish our Dining Room Craigslist Chairs only 6 months later! Well, two of them anyway:) The next two will not take as long! I hope:)

With the help of The Carpenter of course!

Winter is not going fast enough in my opinion.  So we have been laying low but, enjoying all of The New with this Funny, Smart, Cute as all get out Little Boy:) He really brings me peace in my heart that has been so Heavy. Looking forward to warmer weather so we can get to a park or go for a hike! Would be nice if we had just one good Snow though...:)