Whidbey Island Weekend

We had a fun getaway to Whidbey Island this weekend! My friend Allison's parents own a beach house there and they invited us for the weekend.  Their home is custom built and just gorgeous! Dustin and I hope to have a vacation house just like it someday (but maybe somewhere warmer :-) 

The weather was pretty chilly but we still went to the beach a few times, and then just relaxed at the house. The kids played and we talked and sat by the fire. It felt like we were far away on vacation somewhere, not just a little over an hour from home.  Dustin took Friday off from work and we left that afternoon and came home Sunday.

To get there we had to take a short ferry ride. It was Leah's first. She loved it!

Like I said, the house was amazing! It is across the street from the ocean and behind the house is a canal where they keep their boat and have a huge dock and back patio.  It will be amazing in the summer!

It was cold and windy down at the beach but Leah still liked it.

We liked to relax by the fire each night and pretend we were drinking wine :-) It was sparkling cider, we are both expecting :-)

The last morning it started snowing and was sunny at the same time, it was so weird!

Snowing!

Fun trip! I hope we get invited back!  :-) 

Baby #2

I haven't really written about my new pregnancy very much yet. Not sure why! I guess because I am so busy with Leah!  I am 17 weeks and 1 day now.  Just in the last week I feel like my little baby bump has really popped out and I actually feel pregnant now!  I am very lucky and I didn't have any sort of morning sickness this time or when I was pregnant with Leah.  In the first trimester I had a few weeks that I didn't feel like eating, but I wasn't nauseous.  Other than just feeling more tired, I have felt great!

I had an appointment with my midwife today and everything is looking great.  Baby is measuring right on track and I got to hear the heartbeat which I LOVE.  I still haven't gained any weight which I think is kind of weird.  But obviously the baby is growing so they aren't concerned.  With Leah I had already gained about 7lbs by this point.  I have an ultrasound in 3 weeks where they will measure the growth and all that and we will also find out the sex!  Super excited about that!  Then I can start shopping and planning!  I don't really have any guesses or feelings either way as to whether it's a boy or girl.  I will be happy with either one, the most important thing is that my baby is healthy!!

I don't have a belly pic to share......I'm not really into doing those. Maybe I will take a few later on. :-)  

Monday Monday

The weekend kind of flew by. We didn't do anything too exciting. Had lunch with my mom and brother on Saturday which was nice.  Then on Sunday Dustin, Leah and I went to the mall.  Leah was acting off and was super fussy, especially when we tried to get her to sit down to eat lunch at a restaurant right next to the carousel. She threw a huge fit and wanted to go on it so badly. We held our ground though and kept telling her we needed to eat lunch first. Finally (after about a 20 minute long tantrum!!), she did and then got to ride the carousel!  It is situations like that where Dustin and I look back later and are proud of ourselves as parents. It would have been SO much easier to just let her ride it to calm her down. But then she would have won and that would have set a bad example for her to expect to get what she wants when she wants it! It was embarrassing to have her kicking and screaming on the floor, but who cares? Other parents understand and everyone else? Eh, not worried about what they think!  :-)  Turns out Leah was coming down with a cold and had a fever when we got home.  Usually something like that explains her bad behavior.  She has a runny nose and cough now and I hope she gets better soon. 

Mid-fit :)

Today my mom and stepdad came over to play with Leah for awhile so that I could get out and run some errands (Thank youuuuuuuu!  ;-). As always it was so nice to just take my time to look around and not be worried that Leah might melt down at any minute! 
One place I went was Kohl's.  They are having one of the 30% off your entire purchase sales, plus I had some "Kohl's Cash" from a previous visit so I only spent $43.01 and saved $126.87!!!  Isn't that nuts!?  (Husband - did you read that??  ;-)  I got some new clothes for Leah, some baby gifts for friends (the majority of my friends are pregnant right now!), a candle, picture frame, bath mat, new wallet and a few other things. Isn't that so cool?  I love that store, although I can never really find any clothes for myself there. 

I saw this cute tank for Leah and had to get it.

After that I went to Fred Meyer to pick up a few grocery items. 
I have been looking for these lately and found them today -

So excited to start using them, I hate the plastic produce bags at the store they are such a waste! These bags are machine washable!

Here are a few more cute pics of Leah from the weekend -

Peek a boo!

Rawwwrrrrr!

This was so cute, she lined up some dolls (mostly Elmos, ha!) and was pretending to change their diapers, including wiping :)

Happy Monday!

One Year Blogiversary!

Wow I have been doing  my blog for a whole year. I am so happy that I decided to start it.  I only wish I would have sooner! It has been so much fun for me to document our daily lives and Leah's milestones. I know that I will LOVE looking back on it one day.

Thank you to all my readers, you are all so great!  I absolutely love getting all of your sweet comments!!

We are so glad to have Dustin home from his business trip to Boston.  I am so glad he only travels for work a few times a year. I really don't like being alone.  Luckily I planned so many activities to keep us busy while Dustin was gone, it went by pretty fast!

I took a lot of iphone pics this week so I will share a few...

We have a new tradition that after going to her toddler discovery class on Thursdays we go get smoothies and a snack and walk around the mall.  Leah loves her little mini smoothie.  Next week is the last class though and then we will be starting swimming lessons!

We had a little sunshine for a few hours the other day so Leah got a chance to try out her new trike outside! She was sort of getting the hang of using her feet on the pedals.

 Here is another example of my daredevil girl - Pics are from my phone so are a little dark and blurry...She pushed her slide into the kitchen and next thing I know, she is in her highchair!  She is quick!!

One

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Three!

I have been really into eating vegetarian lately.  I have never liked meat, but always ate (gagged down) chicken because it is everywhere and I feel like everyone I know eats meat and I felt like I should probably be getting the protein.  But now I am realizing that I don't need to get protein from meat. So, I have been buying lots of veggies and grains and experimenting and also looking for new recipes.  I am not going to label myself as a vegetarian though because I still will most likely eat meat from time to time.
Here is what I made tonight - Mixed veggie stir fry with cashews over pearled couscous.  I thought it turned out really yummy even though it doesn't look that pretty. :-)

Well TGIF, have a great weekend!!

Valentine's Day

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Even though my love was gone, it was still a great day.  Dustin had all sorts of surprises for me (I think he felt guilty since he had to be gone on a business trip haha!)

On Sunday when I was at the movies with my brother, Dustin took Leah to the craft store and they made this magnet for me! Cutest thing ever!!

 Then on Monday he brought home pink roses for me AND Leah :-)

 We got wild and crazy and celebrated with some Martinelli's :-)

Here are Leah's Valentine's for her friends (she colored and put stickers inside the card!). We went to a party at her friend Ethan's house. I didn't take any pics but it was lots of fun!

 Leah's Valentine's Day gift from Mommy.

 All ready to go to the party!

 This stuff is for ME?!  :-)

 I thought the magnet and roses that Dustin gave me on Monday was my gift. But nope! He surprised me by having chocolate dipped strawberries and a lavendar spa basket delivered to me on Valentine's Day!  So sweet!!  He actually told me later that the strawberries were meant to come on V Day, but the spa basket was meant to come the next day so that I got a gift two different days he was gone!  How thoughtful is that?!!  He is getting the hang of this romance thing!

That night my mom invited us over for dinner and we had a heart shaped pizza. Leah couldn't wait to dig into her cheese and olive pizza!  :-)

I hope everyone had a wonderful day and felt the love from family and friends!