New Friends and Coffee

I've been working at my new job for about five months now. I teach a boot camp class at a local gym on MWF, 9-10am. This was a new class that started when I started teaching there mid-December. The class has slowly grown from 2 people to an average of about 8 people each day. I am so much enjoying this class! It's great to get paid to work out and it gets me out of the house for a few hours. Lucy does well in the daycare area and can stay in there for up to two hours at a time. It's just a great setup all the way around.

Another plus to the job is new friends! Most of the girls who come know each other from being gym members for a while or having kids in the same class at school. I noticed that they would hang out after class and have coffee in the commons area of the gym. When I realized this, I wanted to join them, but just wasn't brave enough to ask if I could! And I've realized over the years that you just can't force stuff, especially friendships. I so badly wanted to be friends with all these girls, but didn't want to come across as pushy or needy, so held back. I hoped that eventually I would become friends with them, even hang out with them after class.

And one day my hopes came true! One Friday, one of the girls brought a dessert to share after class and invited me to join them. I was so excited about this! And it was perfect because that day my Mom was babysitting Lucy, so I didn't have to worry about her being in the daycare area for a long time. It was so much fun just hanging out with them, and ever since that mid-February day I've been haning out with them having coffee after class. I really look forward to this time and am enjoying the new friendships I've formed. As I mentioned, I can keep Lucy in the daycare area for two hours and I take full advantage of this, as do the girls that I hang out with. Most of them have little ones in the daycare area, too.

Cheers to new friends!

Happy #4 To Us!

Ross and I have been married for four years now! Our anniversary was Thursday, April 17. I'm a little late in posting about it, but oh well! We had a nice anniversary day. I took Lucy to swim lessons and then to Gumma and Poppy's for her to spend the night with them. Ross and I went to dinner at Jim's Steakhouse and then went mini golfing. It was nice spending time together alone and not having a baby in tow!

I still remember our wedding day like it was yesterday. It was the absolute best wedding ever and one of the best days of my life. I'm so thankful to have found Ross and so thankful for the great, caring, kind, loving husband he is. I am a lucky girl!

We don't give each other big anniversary gifts, but I always get a bracelet from Ross for our anniversary. We started this on our first anniversary and I love the tradition. I have a picture of the bracelets below and here's an explanation of each bracelet:

 

1. The first bracelet (at the top of the picture) was bought on our honeymoon in Cancun, so I guess that's what really started it. I remember the night we bought it...it was the last night we were at our resort and we ate at the restaurant by the pool. It was such a nice night and our food was really good. There were several local vendors set up around the pool and we walked around looking at them after dinner. I saw the bracelet and loved it. It was priced at $20, but we got it down to $10. I bet we could have gotten it a little lower, too, had we tried more!

2.  The second bracelet was bought in Hawaii on our first anniversary trip. Oh, this was absolutely the Best. Vacation. Ever.! We both loved our trip to Hawaii! We found this bracelet at the swap meet held at the Aloha Stadium. It's a huge swap meet with all sorts of Hawaii souvenirs.

3.  The third bracelet was for our second anniversary. We went to Jamaica for that anniversary and I tried to find a bracelet while shopping, but never did. I found this one at Kohls and loved it. Side note: gotta love Kohl's pricing...this bracelet was originally $60 and I got it "on sale" for $12. :)

4.  The fourth bracelet was for our third anniversary. This anniversary was spent in good old Springfield, Mo! April 17, 2013, was one week away from my due date and just 11 days away from Lucy's birthday. Ross bought this bracelet at the $1 Jewelry Galore Store and I love that! He's bought me other jewelry from this store in the past and again, I love it! You can read about it here.

5.  The fifth bracelet is from our fourth anniversary this year. And yes, it's from the $1 Jewelry Galore Store! It's a shell bracelet because we couldn't go to the beach for our anniversary this year so Ross brought the beach to me! He's so good to me!

I look forward to adding to this post with all my future anniversary bracelets. I hope to rack up 50 or more! :)

 

 

Happy Birthday to Lucy!

Today is Lucy's first birthday! It's so hard to believe that one year has already passed by, and fun to remember back to what all was going on a year ago today. Lucy has just been the best thing ever. She is so fun, happy, loving, and the sweetest little thing. We love her so much and have had the best time with her. Today has been a fun day. We woke her up with breakfast in bed, of which she loved eating her cinnamon muffin! Then we went to the zoo and she's now taking a nap. We might take her to the park later today and then have a few presents to open tonight!

We had a little family party for her last Saturday and will have a big "friend" party next Saturday. We hadn't planned on having two parties, but Lucy had an ear infection last week and we thought it was best to postpone her party, not knowing if she would be okay or not. It will be fun to celebrate with friends! We gave her a little smash cake last week and she will get another one this Saturday. She seemed to like it!

Hush Little Baby Don't Say A Word - Part 2

Last November I wrote a blot post about rewriting the song, Hush Little Baby Don't Say A Word. You can read about it here. I have since completed my updated version of the song and wanted to share it with you!

Hush little Lucy, don't you cry

Mommy's gonna rock you till your teardrops dry.

 

And when your teardrops are no more,

Mommy's gonna play with you on the floor.

 

And when your floor playtime is done,

Mommy's gonna take you along for a run.

 

And on that run you'll get to see

The flowers and the birds and the sky and the trees.

 

And when the winter winds start to blow

Mommy's gonna play with you in the snow.

And in the snow we'll build snowmen

And if they melt we'll build them again.

 

And when the grass turns green in the spring

Mommy's gonna play with you on the swings.

 

We'll pump our legs to and fro

Up and up and up we'll go.

 

And in the summertime we'll play

Out in the sun everyday.

 

And in the sun we'll go swimming

Running, jumping, biking.

 

But now it's time to go to sleep

Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, don't say a peep.

And in your sleep please dream of this

Mommy's hugs and her sweet kiss.

 

So hush little Lucy, don't you cry

Mommy's gonna rock you till your teardrops dry.

Flowers and Candy

I'm a lucky girl! Ross brought me flowers and candy last week, just because! I love that he does this for me! Thank you, Ross!