Weekend Wrap Up

Well, I finally took the plunge and went back to Weight Watchers on Saturday morning. After finding my old membership book, realizing that it was only 8 days away from being a year since I had attended a meeting, and also seeing that I hadn't lost any weight over the past year on my own, I knew I needed to go back! So, I did and had actually found out that I gained 1.2 pounds in the past year. Now I'm on a mission to get back to my goal weight. So, if any of you see me getting off track, please remind me that I am doing Weight Watchers!!! A little motivation for me is that if I hit my goal weight (21.2 pounds lost) before we decide to get pregnant again, then after the baby comes I can attend the meetings 6 weeks for FREE!!

Today has been pretty low key . . . the only exciting thing was going to wake Savannah up from her 3+ hour nap and finding her without her diaper on! This was a first for her . . . and hopefully a last! Thankfully she didn't wet the bed during her nap, but it sure was a funny picture.

Cooper River Bridge Race 2008

Dinner at Hyman's Friday night

Check out Dave waving . . . almost at the finish line!

The food afterwards is always AWESOME!

Playing on the boat at the Children's Museum

My brother and his family

Savannah trying to be like daddy!

This weekend we headed to Charleston, SC for Dave's favorite race of the year, the Cooper River Bridge Run. Other than the horrible traffic trying to get into downtown Charleston Friday afternoon and Savannah refusing to sleep in the pack n play both nights, we had an awesome trip!! The weather was perfect, warm and overcast most of the time which made strolling around downtown much more fun. We even met up with my brother and his family who were travelling back from Disney this weekend.

I have to say that one of my highlights of the trip was visiting the Children's Museum of the Low Country. It just so happens that our Charlotte at Play membership was also good here (never thought I'd use that feature) . . . and the museum was directly across the street from our hotel. We spent several hours there after the race on Saturday and Savannah loved it! It is WAY better than our museum here. I was shocked at how different this place was. It had some of the same features like the grocery store, but here they had registers that actually scanned the items and totaled the order. They had a huge boat that you could climb all on, an entire area that was made into a castle with all sort of nooks and crannies big enough for adults to crawl through, an exhibit with water where you could do boat races, drive cars on bridges, use turbines to power the lights on in the city, etc, etc, etc. IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I highly recommend it if you're ever in downtown Charleston.

Welcome Baby Jacob

Our precious friends, Jenny and Todd welcomed their first baby into the world last night. Jacob is absolutely perfect!! Just visiting with them in the hospital brought back lots of memories . . . oh how I remember that joy of finally meeting Savannah. Pray for them as they begin this wonderful journey through parenthood.

Tip of the Day

Here is my tip of the day . . . speaking from experience!

Never be in such a rush that you accidentally take the lid off of a container of orange Juicy Juice BEFORE you shake it!!

Josie and Jack

This weekend we have celebrated with several of our friends and their children, Josie and Jack. It has been a blast! We started our Saturday by meeting Baby Josie Sellers. It was so much fun to hold her as she is very tiny. Byron and Scarlet are doing great and adjusting well to life with a newborn.

Then, we headed to My Gym to celebrate Jack's 2nd birthday. Savannah had a wonderful time with all of her friends and played hard! As usual, Elizabeth did a wonderful job with the perfect party. The theme was balls and trucks and each kid took home a huge beach ball. Here are some fun pictures from our weekend.

God's Blessings

Today has been such a full day . . . full of God's blessings all around for us and some of my dearest friends. Let me share with you a glimpse of His blessings:

First of all, my precious friend Scarlet just left the hospital with her newly adopted baby girl. She has been so faithful and patient in waiting for God's timing and received a call Tuesday afternoon that her baby was being born. Just like that, out of the blue, she became a mom. I just talked to her and found out that she is on the way home with Josie Renee Sellers!! Welcome baby Josie!

Then, my dear friend Elaine called to let me know that the procedure went perfectly this morning with baby Ethan. You may have read her Caring Bridge page linked to my blog, but just in case you don't know, Ethan had a trach put in just about a year ago to the day. He has had many ups and downs and countless emergency trips to the ER, but today he will begin a normal life! Elaine says "It was all worth it to see how God has used Ethan in the lives of so many people." WOW!! She is simply amazing.

There's more . . . another friend (unnamed as of now) called to tell me that she might be having twins!! She'll know for sure on Monday, but for now the doctor's pretty sure there are two babies in her tummy. Hooray!!

Lastly, there's my own precious child. Words cannot even express how much joy she has given me over the past week. Life seems so much easier now that she can communicate so clearly. I love watching her little personality develop as she is learning so quickly. Here are her latest accomplishments: she beginning to count, recognize several different letters, recognize our "church" as we are approaching, say welcome when we say thank you, and also helping to pick up things and put them in the proper place. As for her new expressions, there are many, but my favorites are "No problem" and "A Man". I love her!!!

Thank you Lord for the countless ways that you are working in my life and the lives of my closest friends. Today it has been quite evident what an awesome God you are and how perfect Your timing and plans are for us.

Happy Easter!

Playing at Alyssa's birthday party

Sliding with daddy

Savannah and the birthday girl

Getting ready to hunt some eggs

Sorting through the loot

Look at daddy's tie!!

I love candy!!!

I love my new purse too!

This has been a very full weekend! We started off on Saturday with a trip to Greenville to celebrate our niece Alyssa's third birthday. It just happened that Mr. and Mrs. Weninger's church was having an Easter egg hunt that morning so we made it in time to participate. I was a little worried about what Savannah might do, but she had a blast and knew exactly how to hunt eggs and put them in her basket. She collected lots of goodies including some cool hot pink sunglasses. Then, after the egg hunt we headed to the birthday party. Savannah loved playing at PlayNation with all of the other kids. After visiting with Grammy and Papa we head home to Charlotte so the Easter Bunny could come.

Savannah was so exhausted we had to wake her up for church this morning! So, we didn't get to the Easter Bunny basket until after church. We let her rip into her gifts and she mostly just wanted to eat the candy. (I guess she gets it honest!) Anyway, I have to say that Easter without my family just isn't quite the same, but we tried to make up for at least the lunch part by heading to Cracker Barrel for lunch. The wait was long, but well worth it for the yummy biscuits. Afterwards, Dave and Savannah played for a long time outside. Now it's nap time and time for mommy to rest!

Happy Easter to our family and friends!