This is a picture of my husband with our kids, taken on Easter in 2009. It's definitely one of my favorite pictures of all of them. The kids have made daddy some cards and mommy is letting daddy sleep in today - for a little while anyway. ;o)
I'm also a bit behind for this weeks challenge over on Women Living Well and the Completing Him Challenge.
June 14 – Post Pictures from your dating days (or tell us all about it!). Think about one thing you used to do or have as a couple that you have lost in the shuffle of life. How can you regain it?
Well, I don't have any pictures on the computer of our dating days, so I'll just have to talk about it. Joel and I didn't date long before we were married, around 8 months. We enjoyed going to the movies, eating out, going to the creek, and just taking drives out in the country. Which leads me to our favorite thing to do which was muddin'! My husband used to have a big green 4x4 Dodge pickup truck. It was so much fun and we never even got stuck! After we learned that we were expecting our first child, we decided to trade his truck in for something with more than two doors. While we BOTH miss that truck, I know my dear husband misses it more than either of us. ;o) We haven't done any muddin' since and that is a little sad for me since we used to have so much fun doing it. Maybe one day again we'll be able to afford another 4x4. We do still go for a drive - with kids in tow. But, we all enjoy it. Maybe that could be something we could do when we have some alone time as well. (Although we don't get much of that.)
I also wanted to say that another BIG milestone passed this week in our family. Our youngest son, Grayson, turned TWO on the 15th! I can still remember being up all night with contractions, and waiting to go to the hospital til after this big thunderstorm passed around 8:30 am. It was so loud, thunder and lightening all the way. Strangely it's one of the first things I think about when remembering that day.
Grayson was born at 1:08 pm, at first they weighed him in at 6.12 and I just knew that couldn't be right. I had gestational diabetes and while I did a very good job managing it, I didn't think it could be possible. Later that afternoon they weighed him again and he was 7.12. I guess the scale was malfunctioning. ;o) I couldn't get enough of my new boy and made sure he was with me as much as possible. We didn't get much sleep those first couple of days in the hospital, but they are very special to me. And now he's two and I just can't believe it!
Happy Birthday to my sweet little Bittle!
