ABC's of me

Saw this on another blog and thought I’d do it just for fun!

(A) Age: 27
(B) Bed Size: Queen
(C) Chore You Hate: Laundry! Ugh! 
(D) Dogs? 1 our mini schnauzer Sadie
(E) Essential Start Your Day Item: Waking up little man. Seeing his sweet face is the perfect start to my day!
(F) Favorite Color: PINK!
(G) Gold or Silver? White Gold
(H) Height: 5'2"
(I) Instruments You Play: Clarinet. Only in middle school and then gave it up. And played piano when I was younger.
(J) Job Title: Shop Clerk @ a Caterpillar dealer. Hopefully it will soon be changing to CEO of my house! ;)
(K) Kids: 1 loveable 9 month old boy
(L) Live: Minnesota
(M) Mom’s Name: Sue (also my middle name)
(N) Nicknames: Apes when I was younger (yikes) but more recently Alo (thanks to good friends who now live in Africa. We needed "code names" when wearing our fancy headsets at church. Good times).
(O) Overnight Hospital Stays? none but plenty of hosiptal (ER) visits when I was younger. I was very accident prone.
(P) Pet Peeves: ? Maybe people being late.
(Q) Quote from a Movie: "There's no place like home."
(R) Right or Left Handed? Right
(S) Siblings: 1 MUCH older brother
(T) Time You Wake Up? 6:00am 
(U) Under the bed: few pillows and a bin of clothes. At night usually Sadie finds here way under there for a while. 
(V) Vegetable You Dislike: sweet potato
(W) What Makes You Run Late: We are hardly late but when we are we can now blame it on the baby
(X) X-Rays You’ve Had Done: both arms, both knees, teeth, and some I won't list
(Y) Yummy Food You Make: Homemade Chinese
(Z) Zoo, Favorite Animal: Monkey. They are fun and usually the most exciting at the zoo.

Stewart and Nils Jam Out!

Weekend recap

Yes I know it is now Tuesday but as you will soon read I literally only hung out with Stewart and Nils for 2 whole days and it was perfect!

Friday night we stayed in. We had sloppy joes for dinner and then hung out. Nils got out his guitar and started playing some for Stewart. Mainly just silly things to see how he'd react. He LOVED it and Im pretty sure his daddy did too.

Saturday we went to our first small group meeting. We are in a group with other first time parents with kids under 1. It was fun to meet up and we have many more fun adventures coming up with them. Saturday night we went to church and Stewart went to grandmas for the evening. Nils picked him up after church, put him to bed and then hung out and played video games and ate pizza with a friend. I went out with that friend's wife and had a blast. We went to 2 different sit down places (1 for dinner and 1 for dessert) and then did a little shopping/wandering. It was really great to spend some time 1 on 1 with a good friend and just catch up on life. Please keep her and her husband in your prayers! They are waiting for their call (adopting) and I am praying big time that it comes soon!!!

Sunday it snowed all day. (about 18") It was crazy and we did not leave the house (well Nils went to church to run sound). It was a great day. We just sat around and really didn't do a whole lot. Nils wasn't feeling well so he went to bed super early. I know he's not feeling well when he goes to sleep before I do.

Monday was pretty much the same. We both stayed home and avoided work/driving out. We sat around most of the day and Nils went to bed before me.

Needless to say it was a very lazy weekend because of the storm and I could really get use to that! Yesterday was a day Id like to repeat A LOT in my future (well minus the not getting out of the house because of the snowy roads). I really hope that my future job (stay at home mom) is posted soon so I can interview for it and Im pretty sure I'll get it ;)

Here are some photos from the Jam Session friday night. They aren't the best because they are from Nils's cell phone.

The big tub is FUN!

Last night we gave Stewart a bath in the tub. He LOVED it! He's a little fishy. He kept trying to crawl around in it and get his toys. He had a blast and as usual didn't want to get out even though the water turned cold.

My little Valentine!

Valentines day this year was pretty low key. It started out with me running all over the house that morning because I just had to find this Valentines day bib. Ugh. Yep never found it and yep I am that mom who has a baby's 1st everything bib all year long. I never ended up finding it but he did have a super cute Valentines tshirt with a drum set on it. Nils requested White Castle so that was our romantic dinner. He would have loved to eat there because they had candle lit dinners that night but we ate at home. Stewart even ate half a burger on his own (ok they are super small but still he loved it too).

Yum White Castle!

My 2 Valentines!~LOVE them!

Rock my Valentine!

Poem!

Just found this poem today and absolutely loved it and wanted to share it!!

~We didn’t give you the gift of life, but in our hearts we know,
The love we feel is deep and real, as if it had been so.
For us to be a family is like a dream come true.
No, we didn’t give you the gift of life, Life gave us the gift of you~

Bear pictures

In case you were wondering about his bear pictures: My mom made this bear for him and also one that is identical to it for Stewart's birthmom. We wanted to take pictures with this bear so she (and us of course) can look back and see how he's grown. Here is what the last 9 months has looked like:

2 weeks

1 month

2 Months

3 months

4 Months

5 Months



6 Months



7 Months

8 Months

9 Months