ecstatic.

She stole the show!!!  Way too cute for words.

My little lovebug.

So, I just brought up my blog to see if my pictures had miraculously appeared on Thursday's post...and while doing so, I looked down at the bottom of the post, and saw that I had TWO comments!!!  I thought when you received a comment it gets emailed to you, but I now realize this is only the case if you have that as a setting.  And then!...I looked at the post before Thursday's post, AND 'LO AND BEHOLD, I had TWO posts there as well!  I feel like the luckiest woman in the world right now!  And it seriously makes me want to write more.  I have to give a HUGE shout out to my three amazing readers who posted and totally made my day. 

I decided to forget about the pictures in the last post and completely start over.  Here is a hodgepodge of pictures from last weekend, and then later this week I'll post pictures from THIS weekend.  We had Julia's bachelorette weekend and it was AMAZING!  The pics are on everyone else's camera so I will steal those soon.  And seriously, I love when others post pictures on their blogs with their entries, so enough of my "words only" theme - I will be sure to add pictures too! 

I hope everyone's weekend was so much fun!  Thanks for reading.  :o)

hotttt.

Well, I am now a Bikram Yogi!  I did Bikram Yoga when I lived in Chicago...during my pre-married, living young and in the city stage of my life.  I loved it but didn't get to pursue it once I moved back.  I researched and found a place on the Main Line.  I'm in love again!  I started Monday and I have gone EVERY DAY SINCE.  And that is dedication!  Each class is 90 minutes long, and for those of you new to the Bikram style, it means the whole class is held in a 105 degree room with humidity at 40%.  It is HOT and it KICKS MY BUTT.  But I am so in love with it again and am definitely wanting to do it for the long haul.  I convinced my sister to wake up early tomorrow morning and join me.  I encourage everyone to try it!  Robbie even joined me one time when he visited me in Chicago.  He had NO idea what the heck "Bikram" yoga was, and when I told him that a lot of football players came to the class too, he decided to give it a try.  He was shocked at how great of a workout it is.  I'm so excited for my newfound niche.

Robbie is back from his trip and I'm happy to have him home.   He had an awesome time and I had a great weekend too.  Addy was the CUTEST one at her recital.  My heart just melted watching her.  Oh, and I mentioned in my last post the block party I was going to on Sunday - they always have a firetruck come for the kiddies to ride in.  There was a good hour where the kids were off doing something else, so...let's just say Jena and I kept ourselves quite entertained.  Here are some pics!

(okay...my pics ARE NOT uploading right now.  Why is this?!  They keep going to the top!  Please let me know if you have an answer!  I'll try again later.)

Have a great rest of the week!  I'm off the State College to celebrate our sweet Julia and one of her last weekends as a single gal!!  Can't wait to post all about it when I get back!

hip hip.

HOORAY!  It's the weekend.  As sad it is that my hubbo will be leaving me for a guy-trip to the Adirondacks tomorrow morning, I am so excited for this weekend and the quality time I will get to spend with my family.  My little niece Addy has a big dance recital tomorrow (the first dance recital of my nieces that I've been able to attend!), tomorrow night Jena and I have a hot wine date and Sunday is my parent's annual block party AND Father's Day.  It's going to be such a fun and relaxing weekend.  I will miss Robbie terribly, of course, but I love having my family so close by and I know it will be harder to see them once we move.  This weekend will be spent making so many fun memories.  And let me mention all of the pool action I'll get!  I think I may possibly use my parent's pool more now than when I lived there.  I don't mind this heat wave at all if there is a pool to use at my leisure.  Bring it on!

So this is kind of random, but this is something I want to talk about...shopping cart returns at the grocery store.  Or really any store for that matter.  I strive to be one of those shoppers that always returns their carts, after they pack their car up, to the cart return in the parking lot.  Yesterday, after I finished unloading my Target purchases into my car and shut the door, I scouted the parking lot to try and find the nearest cart return.  It was seriously about five lanes over, and five lanes over separated by about three different mounds of pavement and grass.  What would you do in this situation?  Would you maneuver back to the main street in front of the store and walk five lanes over to the cart return?  Or would you simply put your cart in the empty parking space next to you where it so CONVENIENTLY fits?  Well, I just left it by my car.  And it consumed my mind all of yesterday and last night.  So today, I had to run to the store to pick up some pancake mix for the breakfast I want to make for Rob and his friends before they take off tomorrow (they leave around 7am - I'll let you know if the breakfast actually happens), and I made a POINT to ONLY park my car in a spot right next to the cart return.  It is my pact and promise to only park my car near the cart return from this day forward.  This way, I can do my part to be a loyal customer and patron by making sure my cart gets back to the appropriate spot.  I feel like this is such a brilliant idea, to make sure to park by the cart return at all times, that I just had to share this with all of you.  I know, I know...THIS is what consumes my mind?  Yep.

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend! Don't forget to take this awesome opportunity to enjoy and love on the daddies, uncles and grandfathers in your life.  Happy Father's Day!!

gooood.

Things are good!  I deleted my last post because it isn't applicable anymore. :o)

I woke up this morning feeling SO much better and my fever completely gone.  I logged on and read my last two posts and thought I sounded like an Eeyore with a huge rain cloud over my head!  I've never been one to ask for "unspoken" prayer requests - I'm usually the first one to just blurt it all out.  It felt a little awkward putting something so big in our thought processes right now out into the virtual world.  But really, isn't that one of the blessings about the internet?  If negative information can be spread so quickly, at least the opposite is also true. Bring on the virtual prayers!  

My job situation has taken a drastic turn - God threw something into my lap, an opportunity, that Robbie and I have NO idea what to do about.  And it's getting down to crunch time.  I would have to take a HUGE pay cut, which doesn't come at the best time considering we're moving into our new home next month, but it would be the opportunity of a lifetime and something that I would enjoy SO much.  But are we being realistic about all of this?  What are the effects later down the line?  What if God puts a baby into our life sooner than we would ideally want?  Would it be selfish of me to take the job and leave what I have?  AH!  These are all things consuming my mind right now.  This job would be an honor, and would put me in the position to be a mentor and leader for young women and teen moms.  How can I turn away from that??  Double AH!  Again, thank you for your prayers, this has been all consuming for the past two weeks, but praise the Lord that this is the biggest thing in our life right now!  We really are so blessed with our lives and that we are healthy and about to move into an awesome new home.  I have received some really sweet messages and have been able to keep people updated in a more personal manner, which has been great.  

Okay, enough about me, how are YOU?!  Let us know!!  :o)  

crummy.

...is how I feel today.  I am really not feeling well.  :o(  I wanted to write and say that I will post everything tomorrow.  Truthfully, it took a lot of energy to get myself up to get the computer on and write this.  I wanted to let you know I'm not following through with my last post.  I'm sorry!  I hope everyone had an amazing weekend.  Happy Monday, I will write soon.

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weekend.

Gosh, it's already the weekend again!  I am so impressed with those who update their blogs on a daily basis - it is admirable!  I don't even have kids and still can't seem to find the time.  These next couple of weeks are going to be getting even busier.  I praise God for keeping us busy though, who wants a still life?  Although the key thing is to keep our hearts still.  So far we're good!  But it's a daily process of taking time out to pray and call on the Lord.  He's our Rock and the only one who can get Robbie and I through these busy days!

Hooray for the weekend.  Tonight Robbie and I are heading up to his parents house for the night.  I'm going to a bridal shower tomorrow afternoon and Rob is celebrating Father's Day with his dad and brothers since he will be out of town next Sunday.  My parents opened up their pool (yay!) so we plan on getting plenty of sun-time on Sunday.  I loveeeee cooking out on the weekends!  I am so excited for us to move into our house so we can start BBQ'n a lot more.  We've managed to do a pretty good job here at the apt, but it's just not the same.  My mimi bought Robbie and I a house warming present that I am super excited about - a standing fire pit!!  My parents have a big one at the house and she loves sitting around it and roasting marshmallows (I sooo thought it was spelled "marshmellow" because that's how I pronounce it, but spell-check insists otherwise), so she thought we would like one too.  Thanks mimi, we are so excited!  

I really appreciate everyone who has sent messages saying they are praying for us.  Truthfully, I am ready to post what's going on, but I don't have the energy to type it all out!  If people are willing to take time out of their day to pray for us, I can certainly take time out to write what we are asking them to pray ABOUT.  I will post it all on Monday, or Sunday if I can.  It's my goal.  :o)  It's a strange thing relaying thoughts to a computer - but I find my mac to be a dear friend and inspiration to me.  It's the means of communication by which people can read this.  I feel extremely connected and am so thankful to any and everyone who takes time to read about our lives.  It's pretty humbling.  :o)  Thank you.

Have a safe and happy weekend!

monday, monday.

Hi friends!  I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.  Ours was a lot of fun!

Hershey park was awesome - it rained a lot in the morning, but luckily during the thunderstorm I was enjoying my self at the spa in Hotel Hershey (so posh!).  I mentioned before that I was getting a 'Chocolate Bean Polish'.  OH MY WORD!  I have never, EVER been touched by a woman like that before.  Haha!  It was so sensual, and I couldn't help but laugh and ask the lady if she felt as akward as I did.  Of course she said no (it's just ME) and helped me relax and ultimately fall asleep.  Basically you get rubbed down in chocolate shavings and melted cocoa beans, then they use a warm shower head and rinse off all the chocolate, lay warm towels all over you to soak up the water and then use cocoa butter while they massage.  I met Robbie back at the hotel after he finished golfing and I was done with my woman-on-woman action and he looked at me said, "wow, it really DOES smell like chocolate everywhere!  You can even smell it in the rooms!"...to which I responded, "Nope, that's just me."  I seriously smelled like chocolate the whole rest of the day and night.  Robbie didn't mind!  I forgot to charge my camera battery and managed to leave without any pictures.  At the end of the night after we hit up some roller coasters, we went around and tried all of the impossible games they have.  The last game we hit was the basketball hoop that's a gazillion feet up in the air (yes, a gazillion) and lo and behold, my studly husband made TWO shots, 'swooshes' right down the middle.  I was so proud and SO bummed I coudn't take a picture.  I'm convinced now that if we have a son he will be a pro.                                        

All in all, It was a great weekend.  Now here's to a great week!