Four Years Ago...

...we were on our honeymoon in Tahiti!!!

Our wedding day!

In beautiful Tahiti...



My how the time flies! Four years ago, October 1st, I married the man of my dreams. We have had an amazing four years, ups and downs, getting my nursing degree, going on many amazing vacations, camping and backpacking trips, and most recently - having a baby! We had a great time last Thursday going out to dinner at Tapa the World (a great tapas restaurant downtown) to celebrate an awesome first four years, while my mom came over and watched Noah. While we have left Noah a few times to go to bible study on Wednesday nights, this was our first "official" date night out!! (And I did okay! :-))

Getting ready to leave for dinner.

Andy enjoying an olive...they were really good assorted olives, and balsamic olive oil dipping sauce for bread...we are total foodies :-)

Andy stopping to pose while enjoying his fried potatoes.

Really yummy sangria!

Assorted roasted vegetables with manchego cheese on the left, mussels on the top and kobe beef with blue cheese on the right (what's left of it...)

And dessert...chocolate strawberry addiction (with pistachios, walnuts and chocolate mousse) and vanilla bean flan.

Andy very focused...:-)



A couple of months ago we were talking about what we wanted to do for our anniversary...we talked about maybe going camping. Then we decided we wanted an "off" weekend, where basically we stay in our jammies, rent some movies, make really good food, veg out and enjoy each other's company! It's crazy how simple this sounds, but as busy as life can get (especially now!), we really need to schedule these days in! So we slept in and made really good breakfast of "puffed pancake" and watched movies! Noah and Kona seemed to enjoy the "down day" too.

Scrambled eggs, bacon and puffed pancake.

Andy about to enjoy his coffee, mimosa and breakfast!

Mmmm....


RANDOM NOAH PICS AND VIDEOS

These are some random pictures taken between the last post and now...Noah is getting very talented in his rolling skills. So much so that he can no longer lay on our bed...long story but thank GOD he is okay from his very first tumble (unfortunately probably the first of many...). I think he actually recovered faster than I did...I am still recovering!


About 15 seconds before this picture was taken, Noah was laying on his mat on the left on his back. I turned my back and as soon as I looked at him, he was almost at the sliding glass door!! Like I was saying...very talented rolling skills...can't take my eye off this kid! :-)

He seemed pretty proud of what he accomplished...:-)

He is also getting a lot more focused on grabbing what he wants, and more skilled with his hand-eye coordination. He decided he wanted to grab the hanging turtle that was behind him...too cute!

Close up of his determination

Noah laying on his new blanket that Anne, a friend from church, made for him...this thing is huge and fluffy and awesome to take places for Noah to lay on!

Oh, and Kona likes it too! :-)

Noah getting very strong!

Like father, like son with their cute big grins! Noah in an outfit from his Great Aunt's Kathy and Debbie, and cousin Chris! It has cute little fox feet that Noah loves to play with.

After Noah was finished nursing in the boppy one night, he fell asleep, so I transferred him and the boppy to the floor...where he looked too cute continuing to sleep...

A video of Noah kicking like an airplane on his new blanket.






Noah playing in his bouncy seat.





Noah playing with his toes on the couch.



HARVEST FESTIVAL

Yesterday we went to Elk Grove's annual Harvest Festival. It was a lot of fun walking around looking at the big pumpkins, seeing all the little kid games while thinking of how much fun it will be to take Noah when he's bigger. He had fun seeing pumpkins for the first time! These were all pictures taken in the little pumpkin patch.

Our cute little pumpkin sitting in a barrel.

Another update: Noah slept in his crib for the first time last night! We decided it was time...he was going to sleep before us and we would sometimes wake him up when we came in to get ready for bed when he was in his cradle. He did pretty good, woke up at 4:30 this morning, ate, and then went back to sleep. Our big boy is growing up so fast! We are talking about starting him on some rice cereal. We wanted to wait a little longer, but it seems he is really showing signs that he is ready to eat. So, I'll for sure be posting some pictures and video of that when that happens!! Hope you all have a great week!