Two Years Ago...

I was doing this:

 

 

By far the best day of my life. We had such a great time with our wonderful family and friends. Everything was perfect (thankfully the big man upstairs blessed us with a cool spell and it wasn't 105, like it is today).

I can't believe it has already been two years. For the most part it seems like it was yesterday, but when I stop to think about all the changes in our life that have occurred since that day, I remember what a crazy two years it has been.

•  We moved to Lawrence.
•  The Mr. completed his Master's.
•  The kidney-stone debacle. Not the best Thanksgiving ever. 
•  I lost my Grandmother.
•  We moved to St. Louis.
•  The Mr. passed his CPA tests (on the first go around, praise the Lord!)
•  I started my new job with the crazy three.
•  The Mr. started his new job.
•  We finally got our puppy =)
•  I lost my Grandfather.

There were so many things to be thankful for over the past two years, but also so many things that brought serious heartache to our family. It takes your relationship to a new level when you go through the grief of losing someone close to you, and we unfortunately had to do it a lot, very close together (I actually lost my three remaining grandparents in a span of two years and three months.) But we made it through, and I am thankful that we had each other during those times.



Today, two years later, my day has been oh so different. It was spent sweating my life away at the Zoo because dear old Curly only wanted to see the animals today.

 Although I did get a kick out of both this turtle and the lion. You don't get to see the big cats too often and in Curly's words, "That lion is handsome, he's just chillin'." It's been a good day, just not what I envisioned two years ago.


Now just time to wait for our date night. Maybe we can wear this again:

Maybe not. I am a lucky girl and got to wear my dress two times though. More on that another time though.

keep it simple.

Kids and Food

Have you tried these?

They are delicious. They are a nice little pick-me-up sugar rush to keep in your bag. The trick is trying to keep them away from certain little hands.

Easier said than done. 

We've been having a fun week around here. We made it out to the zoo to see the sharks and stingrays. FUN! If you go to the zoo in the first hour that it's open, all the extra exhibits are free (sharks, carousel, children's zoo) so that's a big plus. Nothings like a fun free day at the zoo. I am glad that we didn't pay for it, Curly wasn't too sure about sticking his hand in the tank to touch the stingrays and sharks, but he did enjoy looking at them, so it wasn't a total bust.

We split a pretzel and cheese. Curly didn't like the pretzel dipped in cheese so much so he took a different, more unconventional approach...

yep that's a raisin.

The blond might quite possibly be the messiest eater I have ever had the pleasure to know. It has gotten to the point of being comedic really. He can eat a granola bar and have it spread around the entire room, while he stays in one place...really it's just impressive. Here's the aftermath from eating two, yep only two raspberries yesterday. 

Like I said, it's a gift.


I'm making a  balsamic roast chicken tonight for dinner. I'll keep you posted on the progress of that =)


keep it simple.