.30 weeks pregnant + our 6th Anniversary

Remember when I was pregnant with Ames and I posted pictures of myself almost every other week? I obviously haven’t been doing that with this pregnancy. I figure you already know what I look like pregnant… also I just don’t have that kind of time and energy anymore, ironically that’s a result of the previous pregnancy.

Lately this pregnancy has been really good! I’m always forgetting that I’m even pregnant at all, until I have to bend down to pick something up, or I can’t sleep at night because my hips hurt. Then there’s all of the rolling, kicking and hiccupping this little girly is always busy doing. I love to feel her move and know that she is doing so well. She is growing perfectly.

Air and I are so happy to know that there is a little baby girl coming our way. To have something like this to look forward to right now has meant the world to us… This baby is going to light up our lives in a few months. I can’t believe she’s almost here.

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Our Anniversary this year was unlike any Anniversary we have had so far—considering that our first 5 Anniversaries were probably some of the most special and adventurous days of our lives.

This year we….. stayed home. The whole day. Went nowhere. Did mostly nothing.

It was kinda nice?

Air cooked for me though. I’m always reminded that I’m the luckiest woman in the world when he does that.

Breakfast was heart-shaped french toast on home made bread. Amazing.

Dinner was Air’s delicious peanut chicken milanesa, broccoli and mashed potatoes with fried potato slices artistically placed atop. This guy…

We sang songs from South Pacific during dinner…

And we ended the evening with Ames smashing his pinky in a closet door…

Got to admit we are pretty proud of ourselves for spending $0 this year. It was so tempting to get a babysitter, eat out, see a show, buy each other gifts…

We’re a good team, Air and I. We can get through anything together I know it.

Love you Air-bear

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I’m a behind, once again, in posting about our lives. I guess I don't really have much to post about since we got back from vacation in June… Air's been getting some medical procedures done that have basically put him under house arrest for months. I have been budgeting my butt off and trying not to spend any pennies. Honestly, I have a few reasons to just stop blogging right now, but here I am. You know I can’t stay away from you blog. I’m hopelessly devoted.

So here we go.

↓↓↓Tessa The Beautiful graduated from High School. We loved taking photos for her… she is one of the most photogenic people I know. We are so happy for her to finally be done with grade school. She is definitely going to be a successful human. We love you Tessa!↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓a long time ago Tamera’s sweet baby Jake was blessed//Air in his office on one of his final days at work (unbeknownst to him…)↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames having fun with buckets of water and a yogurt popsicle//summer evening roasting bannock at the fire with the family↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓7-eleven day free slurpees!//Ames beginning his terrible twos↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓watching the Lego Movie with his buddy Rhys//I painted Ames’ toe yellow and it has been the most exciting feature of his life ever since↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓swimming at the Ledge with his buddy Addison//so lucky to have such fun aunts↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We found an awesome new park one day… Ames and I spend a lot of days at parks//another hot day swimming at the Legislature fountains with friends↓↓↓

 

...aaaaand the videos!

↓↓↓This was Ames' first time in his kiddie pool this summer... he was pretty nervous at first↓↓↓

↓↓↓Sometimes we are lucky and Ames makes up random songs about stuff. He was singing about garbage here↓↓↓

↓↓↓I think we know where Ames gets his singing talents from↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames learned how to blow into his grandpa's harmonica pretty easily... we need to get him one of these!↓↓↓

↓↓↓he loves going down the slide like "supaman!". If you listen closely you'll hear him say "mommy yook", which is probably the thing he says the most these days↓↓↓

↓↓↓playing in the pools at the Ledge. He doesn't like getting splashed↓↓↓

↓↓↓making up another version of one of his favorite songs on the way to church↓↓↓

↓↓↓I taught Ames to tell you how old he is↓↓↓

↓↓↓One of my proudest moments as a parent was teaching Ames to do this belly trick. He's a natural!↓↓↓

.Ames had a birthday shout hooray!

Ames was really lucky this year. He got two birthday parties since his Grandma and Tessa and Tamera's family were leaving to Hawaii for a few weeks. We combined his and Tiana's parties last Sunday since they are only 4 days apart.

  

After this party he was super pumped up about “Amesy’s birfday!” for the whole week before his actual birthday on Thursday. Constantly requesting that we sing the birthday song and open up his present from Grandma and Grandpa (the tickle monster book and gloves… he loves them).

We decided to go take a ride on the old High Level Bridge streetcar downtown for his big day. This “train” ride was like heaven for all of us. We rode it from end to end twice. It was THE MOST beautiful day ever and I can't imagine a better blessing. Air has only been able to leave the house a few times since his operation almost three weeks ago (part 1 of 3) and we were seriously thrilled to have him be able to come with us.

     

We got home and made some delicious Greek feta burgers for dinner and Grandpa came over for the party.

I decorated Ames's cake with a bunch of party animals:

I made their little party hats out of scrapbook paper I had with pompoms made out of tissue paper. I got this idea from the blog “Oh Happy Day”. This was really fun. They also brought gifts.

Ames loved it and couldn't wait to play with all the new animals. He really loves animals.

 

The cake was raspberry with lemon frosting… yum! I was so glad it turned out so good.

 

Ames opened all of his presents starting with one from his Grandma and Grandpa Leary (we got to have them watch over facetime too!) Thanks Mom, he seriously loves that dump truck the most and wouldn't put it down for the rest of the gifts. We were all astounded at how well you know what 2 year olds like. haha

I would be ungrateful if I didn't mention another enormous blessing/tender mercy we received for this birthday: The fact that we didn't have to buy Ames a single present, because I had already purchased all of these on sale a long time ago, back when we had an income.

It is truly incredible sometimes to see….. God is watching over our family.

So glad we had you Amesy. Thanks for being such a sweet little boy and a happy spot in our family. You bring us joy beyond description. We love you so much.