Date Night Favorites

We got our pictures back from our date night. These are a few of my favorites, both funny and serious moments for us.

 



Love this man.



Making jokes and cracking me up.



We had a funny moment here. It's hard to look at someone lovingly when they are saying funny things.



I love this picture because I was dying laughing here.

I made this picture large because it's my favorite. She was fixing her camera and we didn't realize she was taking pictures. Love this picture and this man who is constantly keeping me on my toes and laughing. :)

Christmas Pictures of Jude

Our awesome friend took our Christmas pictures this year. We have a really good family one for the Christmas card, but I thought I would share all the pictures she got of Jude. We took then in Erin's backyard, and they also took their family pictures as well. It was Jackson's nap time so he was a bit off, but some of these pictures crack me up. 

Our sweet boys

Jude, of course, found the rocks right away.

And he's off....

I think this one is funny. Jackson is crying and Jude is oblivious while he plays with his rocks.

Jude playing in the ball pit in their back yard.

Laughing at Jackson.

Good ole' sweet Riley.

The grass was super wet and after a while we just let them go. The bottom of his pants are so wet they started to weigh his pants down.

Our boys playing after picture taking. They lost their pants real quick!

 

 

We had a fun time taking pictures and I am so happy we got a great family one out of the mix. After the Christmas cards go out I'll have to post the out takes for those. :)

Date Night!!!

So I have the most awesome husband. He told me this past week that we would be going on a date Saturday night and I needed to be ready to walk out the door by 4pm. My first question was "What about Jude?". He said he had everything planned and I wasn't to worry about a thing. Um, ok!

 

Saturday at 4pm our babysitter came to the door and we leave for our date. John drove downtown and parked right next to a strip of restaurants and I was immediately wondering which place we're going to eat at. Instead of walking towards the food, he turns me completely around to a huge park with the Capital building in the middle. Then I see our photographer whom I adore.

 

Side story: When I was about 8-9 months pregnant with Jude I was reading the blog Baby Rabies and Jill had just posted pictures from her date night photo session with her husband. They have 2 kids and wanted pictures of just the two of them. I showed John the blog and said I would love to do that one day. It could be a birthday or anniversary gift. This was when I was pregnant and haven't thought about it since. So anyway....

 

When I saw her I realized it was date night pictures and I was so excited. John told me to dress nice ( and I'm super glad he did) so I felt like I was dressed for the occasion. I was also wondering how he got an appointment with her because by August she was booked for the year and I wasn't even able to get Christmas pictures booked in time. He arranged this in JULY! He said he needed time to plan everything out and make sure he would be home and not traveling for work.

 

We took pictures for a little over an hour and had such a good time with it. It was so much fun! It was also stress free because we weren't on any time constraint and we didn't have a child with us to worry about.

 

After pictures we headed to the area with restaurants and ended up at a place called Chops, which is  comparable to Ruth Chris. We had fabulous steak dinners and just talked the whole time. Afterwards we headed to pick up donuts for breakfast and once we had the box in the car we popped it open for dessert. We got home just in time to kiss our baby goodnight and put him to bed.

 

It was such a perfect night. The fact that John has been planning it for such a long time makes me love him that much more. Alot of thought went into last night and I feel very loved that he did all of it for me. In his words, "You deserve it". Much more was said, but he truly is amazing and I am so blessed for my wonderful little family. :)

 

Kathleen put a few sneak peak pictures on Facebook, so here they are. When I get the c.d. I'll post more.

13 Weeks!

How far along: 13 Weeks.
Total weight gain: 1lb

Maternity clothes: No, but I'm in yoga pants. If I wear jeans I have to wear the belly band.
Sleep: I'm sleeping my heart out right now.
Best Moment this week: Our date night. :)
Movement: Yep. No kicking or anything, just kinda moving around in there.
Gender: Won't know for another 27 weeks!
Labor signs: Hopefully not for another 27 weeks.
Belly button: In
Cravings: Chocolate milkshakes. Thank good ness McDonalds is on the next block.
What I miss: I'm already mourning my one-on-one time with Jude. <----Still this. I love this kid so much I can't imagine not giving all my attention and time to just him.
Stretch Marks: None.
What baby is up to: Hanging out. Growing. Moving.
What I am looking forward to this week: We are bringing pizza over to our friends house  Halloween night, then stroll the boys around in the neighborhood so they can see all the kids dressed up.

12 Weeks

13 Weeks

 

On The Go

Jude can now climb onto Riley's couch, much to Riley's dismay, and look out the window.

 Sometimes he just needs to sit and take a break.

 We went to a going away party at a friends house for another friend who is moving to PA next week. Such a bummer!!!

Aidan playing.

Jude is now obsessed with climbing in/out and on/off things.

 I took Jude to the Children's Museum today. It was a hot and cold adventure. Before you even pay to get in, there is an area with a large Lite Brite. Jude adored it.

 We finally paid and made our way in. Our first stop was the "Baby Boomers" area. It's for tots under the age of 2.

Climb in...climb out.

 In the boomers area he fell down a stair. Even though I knew it didn't hurt, baby boy threw a tantrum. I offered him a snack to which he immediately stood up and had a smile on his face. Then I offered him grapes (his favorite). He looked at me like I ruined his life, threw himself on the ground, and kicked and screamed.

Mid-tantrum.

 I just sat in a chair and let him cry it out until he was ready to try for a different snack. The second time I got it right (applesauce). Then he was off to play.

Looking in his shopping basket.

Checking the cute kid out in the mirror.

 About 30 minutes later he decided to throw himself down yet again and I decided it was time to go. We headed out of the gate area back into the lobby (where the lite brite is). He immediately took off to play and we stayed another half hour.

He loved pushing this chair through the foyer area.

Climb up...climb down...and Mom snaps picture when she sees the best opportunity.

Snacking on the way home.

 

Children's Museum = Success (?)

 

 

Jude is into dancing now and I tried to vget him on video. Little did I know he would start to poop and I thought it too funny not to post. That's just me though.

Playing with a purpose.

His other favorite thing to do in the lobby.

 

We had a great week and now we're hyped up for Jackson's first birthday Halloween party tomorrow!