Weekend Rewind

This is me writing my blog post for the second time... Thank you blogger...

Our weekend was jam-packed with fun!! A few glitches came up but we made the best of them!

Friday the dogs had their first spa day!! They were soo good, but it was too much for Lily. She did get finished, but just didn't enjoy it the same as Gracie! Lily had a rough car ride on the way there because she fell off the backseat. Ever since Lily had liver failure, we knew that would take years off her life, it is our goal to make sure she is comfortable and happy, but Mike and I will both be surprised if we get another year out of her. Gracie on the other hand love every minute of being pampered - she was in heaven! 

We had dinner at the farm and once we got home we just worked away on a few small details for the party and did some food prep! 

We woke up Saturday morning and sure enough we got another 6 inches of snow and wind chills of -40 C. The weather took a turn for the worst when the wind picked up causing very poor visibility. Of course we had big plans on Saturday including 2 parties, one in town and the other one being Hannah's birthday! 

We made it to Harper's (Noah's birthday buddy) party in town very slowly and late because of the weather. The party was fun, it was great to see all the kiddos together with them all being a month and a day apart from each other, aside from Noah and Harper. S had them all do some handprint art, which we were able to take home at the end of the party:

After the party we stopped at Winners where I found a steal of a deal and brought home this table for the dining room:

We attempted to head to sisters after that but we had to take the back roads because the highway was closed with a 40 car pile up. The visibility was just soo bad, and the snow drifts from the wind were intense! We ended up turning around and heading home instead! 

We were supposed to go to the firemans wing night, but my mom was unable to make it to babysit because of the weather, so I stayed home with my little Valentine:

Sunday the weather calmed down, although if was still crazy cold! Our morning was busy with food prep for the party and decor! I totally failed at taking pictures of the decor, I got a few after at least! 

We had about 40 people in the house for Noah's party! It was great having everyone here celebrating our little miracle!! He loved his first cupcake: 

I will go into better detail of the party later this week! But as I look back at pictures I was overwhelmed with joy and happiness having everyone here to help us celebrate!! We are soo blessed to have soo many people supporting us! His party was perfect!! We couldn't be happier with how it went! Everyone was gone by 5 and we had a nice quiet evening. 

We let Noah stay up a little later than usual as he was playing soo contently with his new toys! 

I managed to snap one last picture of Noah before he turned one, his last 11 month photo: 

Monday was a holiday here (family day) and we did just that, hung out as a family!! We gave Noah his ball pit for his birthday gift! He loved it and so did Daddy:

Mikes parents came over for the afternoon and then dinner as well, as we had to have our pancake supper (the day before shrove Tuesday so we didn't miss it with them being gone). This little birthday boy had another great day! 

Tuesday we had another little family day, which included a walk with Noah's new sled:

Yesterday was back to normal, with a trip to the library for songs and stories and then an afternoon at home. More to come on yesterday's excitement in a separate post, as this post was supposed to posted yesterday but blogger was kind enough to delete it. 

{Friday Fun}

Soo we are pretty pumped about this weekend!

Saturday is filled with Birthday fun including Noah's birthday buddy Harper's first birthday and little miss Hannah's birthday after that! M and I have a little date night, if you want to call it that, for the Fireman's Annual Wing night! We actually plan on attending this year!! We planned on it last year, but My body had other plans! Of course we will be helping out with the event, but I'm sure we will get some time to enjoy it too!! 

Sunday is party day!! We will have a very full house, but I look forward to the celebration of our little man!! I'm most excited about him having a cupcake for the first time!! 

Monday is Noah's actual birthday and I know it will be filled with joy and most likely a few tears! I will say Noah has been spoiling me with extra snuggles this week and when I put him down for a nap yesterday I just held him as he slept and found my eyes welling up. Babies just don't keep! But man this age is lots of fun!! 

Lily and Gracie are going for their first spa day! And Daddy is going to Costco with my FIL - I would love to see this go down! Haha.

And just before Valentine's Day, I will share how my Pinterest project turned out: 

I hope everyone has a great weekend!! I think we will!! 

What I am Loving Wednesday

It's about time I shared some of my current loves with you all!!

I am loving having this new spa in the village!! My nails look gorgeous once again after a long 2 years without gel nails. Feels great to have them back!! 

I am also in works with a website designer for the village website and we have come up with some great ideas that I am really excited about!! I love living in such a small village!! 

My enjo cleaning products have not let me down yet! I cleaned my blinds in 5 minutes and I mean they were thick with dust!! My windows look shiny, my fridge has no fingerprints and our stove looks almost brand new - a few more times and it will look brand new!! Soo happy I invested in these products!! And I love how easy it is to clean with!! 

So as I mentioned previously we kind of got off track with the 21 day fix this round. But M and I were both happy to see weight drop off this morning and we have upped our weights, so that should make a difference as well or so we feel it anyways! 

Our little guy is cutting another tooth and is therefore not the happiest camper! He is trying not to be grumpy, but sometimes his teeth just hurt! Last night he was asleep and crying at the same time! Poor guy! 

I am loving the way my Valentines Day craft is coming together, except I ran out of buttons last night!!! And I have less than a quarter of the heart to do! I also burnt my finger last night on the hot glue! Man that hurt! Here's a sneak peek: 

I am also looking forward to the dogs spa day on Friday! I've never taken them to get them professionally done, but I found someone used to doing Goldens and her price was great! I think they are looking forward to it too!! I know I look forward to not having to do it myself!! 

What are you loving today?? 

Noah - 11 Months

Nothing like posting this 3 weeks late, a week before he turns 1!! 

Weight:

18 lbs 11 oz - 42 weeks

21 lbs 8 oz - 46 weeks 

Height: 
29.75 inches

Sleeping: Noah has a a few rough nights of going down, but once we got him down, he would sleep all night. It was really a team effort to get him down, but we suspect teething to be the cause of this! We are learning that there are no more naps after 4:30 if we want a good bedtime either! We are pretty much down to two naps a day and they range from 40 minutes to an hour, with rare occasion being longer! 

Feeding: Noah is officially weaned! We stopped breastfeeding at 10 months 5 days, just before Christmas! He was really distracted whenever we tried and would only nurse for like 3 minutes on each side, so we decided this was his way of letting us know he was ready and he has done really well with the transition!

This month Noah tried:
- Ham
- Blueberry Apple Oatmeal Muffins

- peanut butter

- clementines - was NOT a fan! 

- chicken noodle soup 

- ribs

Clothing: Suddenly his 9 month pants are too short and heck even his onesies are now either 9 months or 12 months. He is starting to grow out of his 9 month sleepers too! We don't have any plain white onesies hence the sticker misplaced to hide a monster! 

Diapers: We are finally on to size 3's now!!! 

Looks: Blue eyes, and light brown hair. 

What The Doctor Had To Say: We won't be seeing the doctor this month!

Nicknames: No Nap Noah, Little Bird, Sir, Captain, Mr. Magoo, Mr. Man, Bunny, Little Man,  Mama's Monkey. 

Likes: Walking, getting scared by Mommy or Daddy, waving, clapping, his tractor and dump truck, music table, fire truck, his lovies, blankets, remote controls or phones, various toys, his steering wheel, mega blocks, eating, the dogs and cats, singing and dancing. He loves bath time and gets one every night before bed! He also loves his new little house, his digger and his own remote control!

Dislikes: Falling, being told NO, he does not like his stackers stacked and rips them apart as soon as you assemble them back together! Clementines - must be a texture thing

Fur Baby Update: Jazz loves hanging out beside Noah as he plays, Gracie loves the extra attention she gets and Lily is indifferent. Lux loves Noah, but only during quiet times now and Binx could care less! 

Personality/Events: Noah now says "uh oh" and "dada". We swapped Noah into his next car seat. He still had an inch to grow in his bucket seat, but honestly M and I were sick of lugging it around. It is definetely an adjustment getting him in and out of the car now! Noah just wants to walk walk walk non-stop! He is a machine, but he is not able to pull himself up yet to do it himself, so it is only when we "let" him at this point. He loves motoring around pushing his fire truck around and around for as long as we let him! Crawling is still a no go, he can get himself around backwards, but he is flipping himself onto his knees now from sitting position, but then kicks his legs out. He hasn't figured out how to tuck them up yet! Noah's top two teeth are coming down (again). 

Monday Already??

Clearly this week is going to zoom right on by while I'm coping with Noah turning one THIS weekend!! This seems like such a big deal to me and I can't even pretend to not be a little sad about it, although I am super happy at the same time! He seriously is just the best thing that has happened to Mike and I - we are soo blessed!!

So this week we will be party prepping and getting ready for Noah's big day!! Much like we did this past weekend!

Friday night was low key. We went into town to pick up my car (oil change) and grabbed some groceries and dinner!! We came home, ate and then hung out!

Saturday morning we got up, had breakfast and then we braved Costco on a weekend! It's always dangerous when M comes... We spent too much money, but got most of the things I needed for the party, a few extras,  aside from produce, which I will get later this week somehow! Noah had some crazy hair going on while we ate out for lunch!

Saturday afternoon M and I cleaned out behind the bar while Noah napped and then I decided to try a little Pinterest project! We all know how I love Kelsey's spinach dip, so when I saw a recipe on Pinterest that said it tasted just like it, I had to try it! I followed the recipe up until it called for a tablespoon of red bell pepper, well I assumed this was a spice... And couldn't find it at the grocery store, turns t they meant fresh! Oops!! My bad! So our recipe didn't have this! I also forgot to put the cayenne pepper under the cheese on top.

But it was soo yummy!!! We will totally make this more often!! It was also soo easy to make!!

Gracie was tuckered out after her walk with Daddy and Lily while I put Noah down. Up next was the Dirty 30 work out! I actually really enjoy that one!! We have also gone back to following the meal plan instead of calorie counting because we weren't dropping the weight like we expected to that first week of round 2! 

After our work out I watched the movie The Best Of Me, which is another movie based off of a Nicholas Sparks book. I love all his movies! This one was good too and without spoiling the ending completely, I wasn't expecting that ending!! 

Sunday morning Noah woke us at 5:30 with much surprise to our eyes, he was sitting there looking at us (through the monitor)! Sitting being the biggest shock! He just learned to sit up on his own Friday but we still weren't expecting to see him sitting up in his crib!! Little bum! He had his bottle and went back to bed until 8 and I slept in until 9! 

We met C and S for breakfast at 10 and had a nice catch up! Then we worked away at laundry! Grandma and Grandpa popped in for a visit with Noah before his afternoon nap and they had fun playing! 

It was a nice low key day!! We finished up the night with yoga and then I watched the Grammy's!! 

Loved Taylor Swifts dress! Loved Gwen Stefani and Adam Levines performance!! I was happy to see Sam Smith win and of course Beyoncé!! I was happy to see Miranda Lambert win best country album! I don't get the Kayne West interuption...