Thursday, September 27, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
#1 Tigers Fan
Isn't she the sweetest thing you've ever seen?
Yesterday, Kate and I had the opportunity to road trip over to Detroit for the Tigers game. We went with my parents and Andy and Sam and it was a great time. Because the game was at 4:00 pm, I thought the timing would work out perfectly: Kate would take her afternoon nap in the car from about 1:00-3:00, I would feed her when we got to the game, and she would sleep again the whole way home. Well, of course Kate had her own plans:) She only slept about 30 minutes on the way to the game and a little over an hour on the way home. But, she was a very happy girl and seemed to enjoy the game (or at least the people we were with), so it really didn't matter.
The rain held off for the whole game, the Tigers won, and we had a great time. I would say it was a success. The only thing that would have made it better is if Matt could have come with us. But, he had to work (and he worked a monster day, 6:30 am - 9:00 pm!), and we were really sad to go without him. Hopefully we'll all be able to go together next summer!
Yesterday, Kate and I had the opportunity to road trip over to Detroit for the Tigers game. We went with my parents and Andy and Sam and it was a great time. Because the game was at 4:00 pm, I thought the timing would work out perfectly: Kate would take her afternoon nap in the car from about 1:00-3:00, I would feed her when we got to the game, and she would sleep again the whole way home. Well, of course Kate had her own plans:) She only slept about 30 minutes on the way to the game and a little over an hour on the way home. But, she was a very happy girl and seemed to enjoy the game (or at least the people we were with), so it really didn't matter.
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| thanks for the new Tigers swag, Andy & Sam! |
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| happy girl! |
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| Kate jumped right on the Cabrera for MVP bandwagon:) |
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| Yes, she tried her first corn dog |
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| And chewed on a few french fries |
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| seriously, look at those cheeks! |
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Happy Anniversary: South Haven edition
In case you didn't already know, we love Lake Michigan.
Even though I grew up in this area, and even though Matt has lived here for a total of about 6 years now, neither of us had ever been to South Haven until last weekend. We decided we wanted to get away for our 5th anniversary, but since we were leaving Kate overnight for the first time, we didn't want to go too far. South Haven turned out to be the perfect place.
We dropped Kate off at my parent's house on Saturday afternoon and got her down for a nap before we took off. Once we got to South Haven, we spent a few hours walking around town, in and out of shops, got ice cream, and then checked into our Bed & Breakfast. We tried to go to dinner at an Italian restaurant downtown around 6:00, but they were booked until after 8:00, so we thought we'd go somewhere else. Well, everywhere else had long waits too, so we decided to make a reservation at our first choice restaurant for after dark and walk out to the pier for the sunset.
Everything worked out perfectly because it was pretty much the most beautiful sunset ever. Incredibly colors and not a cloud in the sky. Does it get any better than this?
The weather was beautiful and we had a great time away, just celebrating each other and the gift that our marriage has been (and continues to be) to each of us.
Thank you to my mom and dad for hanging out with Kate for her first overnight! Leaving her for the night turned out to be easier than I thought it would be, and seeing her excitement when we got back was priceless!
Even though I grew up in this area, and even though Matt has lived here for a total of about 6 years now, neither of us had ever been to South Haven until last weekend. We decided we wanted to get away for our 5th anniversary, but since we were leaving Kate overnight for the first time, we didn't want to go too far. South Haven turned out to be the perfect place.
We dropped Kate off at my parent's house on Saturday afternoon and got her down for a nap before we took off. Once we got to South Haven, we spent a few hours walking around town, in and out of shops, got ice cream, and then checked into our Bed & Breakfast. We tried to go to dinner at an Italian restaurant downtown around 6:00, but they were booked until after 8:00, so we thought we'd go somewhere else. Well, everywhere else had long waits too, so we decided to make a reservation at our first choice restaurant for after dark and walk out to the pier for the sunset.
Everything worked out perfectly because it was pretty much the most beautiful sunset ever. Incredibly colors and not a cloud in the sky. Does it get any better than this?
We had an amazing dinner at Tello, then headed back to the B&B for the night. Sunday morning, we had a really good breakfast and then walked a few miles on the beach before heading home.
Thank you to my mom and dad for hanging out with Kate for her first overnight! Leaving her for the night turned out to be easier than I thought it would be, and seeing her excitement when we got back was priceless!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
5 years!
Wow, where does the time go? Matt and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary over the weekend! Before I share the details of our weekend, here's a look back over the last 5 years...
September 15, 2007
1st Anniversary
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| 2008...The Lion King |
2nd Anniversary
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| 2009...Hocking Hills |
3rd Anniversary
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| no photo...Matt was post-call (and running on about 3 hours of sleep), but we had dinner at Louis Benton Steakhouse and then opted not to go see the movie we had planning on seeing in favor of catching up on some sleep:) Intern year was busy! |
4th Anniversary
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| 2011...Marco Island (with a baby on the way!) |
5th Anniversary
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| 2012...South Haven |
It's been a great adventure so far...here's to many more years of laughter, love, challenges, and growing together!
Monday, September 17, 2012
10 months
On Friday, Kate turned 10 months old! She finally popped a tooth through on Saturday (Tessa, we were right!) and had a weekend of fun with her grandparents - more on that later. But for now, here are her 10 month pictures...
Happy 10 months to our curious, crawling, smily, silly, squirmy, Kate. We love you!
Happy 10 months to our curious, crawling, smily, silly, squirmy, Kate. We love you!
Monday, September 10, 2012
a few new things
Kate has a couple new favorite things to do, and I want to remember them, so I need to write them down. Right now, at nine and a half months, Kate enjoys...
- crawling over to the bookshelf and pulling all the books down. Sometimes she actually looks at them, sometimes she pretends to read them, and sometimes she just crawls on them or chews on them
- banging toys together to make noise
- pointing her adorable little finger at anything and everything (and sometimes nothing!)
- eating meat
- sitting in the front of the cart at the grocery store
- jabbering away in her own sweet language (with lots of tongue noise!)
- giving us a super cheesy smile, with her nose all scrunched up
Thursday, September 6, 2012
summer's last hurrah
Labor Day seems to signal the end of summer. I'm not quite ready for summer to be over, but I have been noticing how early the sun is setting these days. The cooler mornings and evenings are becoming a welcome change and I am excited for the fall colors....I guess fall can come after all:)
Matt worked most of Labor Day weekend (a small price to pay in exchange for Christmas and New Years off this year! Yay!), and Kate and I spent most of the weekend at my parent's house. Adam came home from Chicago, and Andy and Sam came out for the day Sunday. I love family time. I love my family. We missed Bryan:(
Kate played the drums with Uncle Adam on Saturday...
On Sunday, we all had dinner together at my parent's house. Then we enjoyed the pool. Then we looked at pictures from my parent's trip to Alaska and Andy & Sam's Appalachian Trail hike. I kind of got the travel bug after looking at all the beautiful places they've been recently!
On Monday night, my parent's hosted a Labor Day cookout/pool party so we could all swim one last time before they start closing the pool. Kate was SO excited to hang out with her cousin(ish) Lukas.
Matt worked most of Labor Day weekend (a small price to pay in exchange for Christmas and New Years off this year! Yay!), and Kate and I spent most of the weekend at my parent's house. Adam came home from Chicago, and Andy and Sam came out for the day Sunday. I love family time. I love my family. We missed Bryan:(
Kate played the drums with Uncle Adam on Saturday...
On Sunday, we all had dinner together at my parent's house. Then we enjoyed the pool. Then we looked at pictures from my parent's trip to Alaska and Andy & Sam's Appalachian Trail hike. I kind of got the travel bug after looking at all the beautiful places they've been recently!
On Monday night, my parent's hosted a Labor Day cookout/pool party so we could all swim one last time before they start closing the pool. Kate was SO excited to hang out with her cousin(ish) Lukas.
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| well, hello, Lukas....i'm so glad you came to play with me! |
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| I love you, but you don't seem too interested in me |
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| Oh, good, I'm glad you're enjoying this now |
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| You want my bow? |
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| I don't think so! |
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| I'll race you to the hammer! |
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| looks like they both ended up with what they wanted in the end:) |
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