Someday...

Someday
My girls will be grown.
Zachariah won't get into everything, or ask to nurse quite so often.
Someday
I'll get back on top of this blogging thing.
Until then, here's another catch-up post!

Celestia turned 14 years old!  She actually went to a church retreat over the weekend and was not with us on her birthday for the very first time, ever.  It was a little bittersweet.  She had a great time, and Jonathan and I certainly enjoyed an entire weekend for dates, but it's a little sad for my big girl to prefer to be with her friends.

Happy 14th birthday to by biggest baby!  <3

Jonathan and I celebrated our 9th anniversary for an entire week, with Jon being on vacation.  On our actual anniversary, we took the kids to the aquarium, a sweet memory from our wedding.  Jonathan and I stayed in a hotel downtown on our wedding night, and went to the aquarium all by ourselves the day after we got married.

Pregnant seahorse!

Love my babywearing babies!

Good thing he has a cute bum...

Because we spend a lot of time chasing him these days!

Little did we know that someone was going to come down with chicken pox the very next day.  My apologies to anyone who was at the aquarium on Wednesday and has now contracted the chicken pox!

He wasn't too sure about the oatmeal stocking.

Once he decided that it wasn't out to get him, he enjoyed squishing it!

Not looking too bad!  That's because most of the actual chicken pox are inside the diaper.  :(

Seven years!

Today, I am celebrating seven years of being married to my best friend!  Last year, I did then and now posts to commemorate this event.  Sadly, I haven't been nearly as organised this year!  Nevertheless, I am so blessed every day to be married to this wonderful man!  Thank you, Jonathan, for being an amazing husband and father!  Here's to the next seven(ty) years together!  I love you!

Happy anniversary to me!

Remember how I said that Jonathan had to go to Florida during our anniversary? We decided to take an entire day off of work to make up for it, and have a date! I knew we were going to go to Caroling at the Adolphus, as I told Jonathan that I always wanted to, but never had. Being a choir nerd myself, I always enjoy a good choral performance, and the Adolphus serves cookies and cider to munch on during the concert! I really must find a good local group to sing with again! (Any suggestions anyone?) We knocked around downtown Dallas for a while, saying hello to old friends from our days of working there, and Jonathan had a couple of business matters he had to take care of. After that, off to the Gaylord Texan Hotel, where I knew we were going, but had no clue why. When we arrived, there were signs posted everywhere for something called "Ice", but I still couldn't imagine what that might be. We trooped through the entire hotel, which was decorated beautifully (think I'll bring the girls back and take some pictures of them.) and on to the attached convention centre, where I finally got a clue what we were doing. Ice is the HUGEST ice sculpture exhibit ever! There were animals galore, a skating pond with ice sculpture people skating on it, a gigantic Santa, a "gingerbread" house, 10 foot tall Christmas ornaments, an ice slide (that was oh-so fun!) an ice cathedral complete with trumpeting angel, and a larger-than-life-sized nativity scene! I wish I could give you more pictures of everything, but blogger will only let me post so many! Jonathan promised that he would "make it up" for being gone on the actual day, and he certainly did! I think he might just like to remind me what a big kid I actually am! ;)

...And now!

Now: Jonathan (you do the math on everyone’s ages) works at Freeman south of Dallas doing computer tech stuff at conventions all across the country, and I work at Stone Resources in Carrollton as the receptionist / everything girl for a granite and marble company. We live in a 3 bed 2 bath house with a 2 car garage in Anna,TX, and have 3 (count ‘em 3) mutts named Arynson (lone pic) Floppy (black & brown) and Calypso (orange and white). Celestia and Tatiana are in 5th and 3rd grade respectively, and are home schooled by their Nana. I chopped all my hair off several years ago (but am seriously considering growing it back out) and Jonathan finally got to have his goatee back!

We’ve had an amazing life together so far. Sometimes it’s been perfect, sometimes, quite frankly, it’s stunk, but we promised to love each other in the good times AND the bad, and there’s always been a lot of love to go around. Happy anniversary, Honey. I love you bunches!!!

Then...

6 years go today, I married the most wonderful man on Earth, and what an adventure it has been! I thought it would be fun to take this opportunity to look at our lives then, and now.

Then: Jonathan (23) worked at Renaissance Tower in downtown Dallas as a security guard, and I (also 23) was a shift supervisor at Starbucks, also in Ren Tower. We lived in a 2 bed 2 bath apartment on the corner of Coit and Frankford, and had a green water dragon named Sampson for a pet. Celestia (5) and Tatiana (3) were both attending Sunshine School at Prestoncrest Church of Christ, where I went to church as a teenager. I sported hair down to my bum, and Jonathan had very little hair at all, as he wasn’t allowed to have a beard at his job.