Our baby girl

We are totally in love with this little angel! We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

Love,

Us

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lots of love,

Niki

Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and a Basement

I know I am a little behind on this blog...right now I am working on 4 separate blogs and sometimes one or two gets a little neglected :( Anyway...we have a had a good couple of months with getting ready for our new baby girl. We have been working hard on getting our basement done. This was a lot of work...but it is DONE! Yay!

For Valentine's Day, Flavio took me to Thanksgiving Point for a really nice dinner and then we went to a movie...I love the dinner and movie date :) Before we left, he had left me a rose and my favorite chocolates with a beautiful card. Very sweet :)

In the next pictures, Hannah and Lia are getting their "green" lunch for St. Patrick's Day. Hannah and Lia both love salmon...so I dyed it green (gross, I know) and then they ate it with celery (which they both like as well) and a pickle :) I did add some grapes after, but they were purple so I didn't put them in the picture ;)

Here are some pics:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Here is our basement:

This is my photography studio! So excited for this one!

This is our new guest room...

The bathroom!

We put a little playroom under the stairs for the kids...I wish I would have had one of these.

This will be our TV room...now we just need to save more money to fill it ;)

Last but not least, Flavio's "Braves Themed Man Cave" I am sure he will really need this in a few years with 3 daughters and a wife ;)

Next, for our next adventure...a new baby girl.

Hopefully that will be my next post...pictures from the hospital!

lol

Niki

Hannah Banana

So I was told by my four year old that I couldn't wear what I was wearing to drop her off at school.

Hannah: "Mom, are you wearing that?"

Me: "What?"

Hannah: "You can't wear that to take me to school."

Me: "Why not?"

Hannah: "Those are inside clothes, you will look funny."

Me: "I don't get out of the car though, no one will see me."

Hannah: "Mom, please change your clothes to outside clothes."

Me: "Okay."

I had no idea the embarrassment factor was already coming. I am in big trouble. And to my defense, what I was wearing wasn't all that bad...sweat pants and a sweat shirt. I am pregnant and getting to the point of comfort over fashion. But, I guess my 4 year old has other ideas.

On Valentine's Day...My car gets tagged.

Who would do such a thing? Tagging my car on Valentine's Day?

No one else other than my sweet baby Niki! Thank you!!!

Super sweet and totally unexpected. Plus, she does all of this while I am at work, and she has 2 kiddos with her and is 8 months pregnant. Simply amazing.

Thank you for seven wonderful years. We've laughed, cried, been together through good times and bad. Here's to many many more years together. I love you.

Fun in the sun...

We were able to got to St. George last weekend, and although it wasn't as warm as it normally should have been...it was a huge improvement from our freazing weather here in the North. We had a lot of fun with my mom and dad. The girls always love to see them and Flavio and I were able to sneak in a date :)

Here are some pictures of us hiking. I hadn't done anything like this for awhile, but I made it all 2 miles :) It felt good to get out into nature. I sure do miss the warm sun!

I am really ready for Spring!

Hockey = Acting young again

So for our anniversary this year we were able to talk our good friends, the Sniders, into watching our kids overnight so Flavio and I could have a night out. We decided to go see a hockey game. We have been to a game before and had so much fun! So, we decided to do it again. Hockey is an interesting sport. These guys are so good at ice skating and can do almost anything while wearing these huge, crazy uniforms that I am sure weigh a ton. And not only are they athletic and talented and amazing to watch...they also get to act like little junior high kids out on the ice. I mean really, they are able to have school yard fights right there on the ice. They whip off their helmets, throw down their sticks, and duke it out with one another while the crowd cheers. The refs, for the most part, just stand by and watch. I will admit, I laugh through the whole thing. This may not be the best reaction, I should probably be upset that they allow such a thing to happen. But I will admit, live hockey really does equal hilarious entertainment!

We had a lot of fun, and after the game we acted a little childish ourselves and decided to go see a movie. Well, we didn't get back to our hotel until after midnight. All-in-all, it was fun acting young again. Although we both paid for it the next day, as we were exhausted ;)

Thank you Sniders for letting us have a night of youth. :)

I love you Flavio. I hope we get to have many more of those fun times together!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo