TGIF <3

I am PUMPED that it is the weekend. This has been a LONG work week. Maybe because we were coming off of the holiday weekend? I didn’t like working 5 days….luckily next week is a 4 day work week b/c I have Friday off since Ry and I are headed north for a wedding!

We don’t have many plans for this weekend, so that is a relief. It will be nice to relax a bit! We are going to register for the wedding tomorrow! Getting Ry to go to the store is like getting him to pull out his own tooth (impossible)…so I am keeping my fingers crossed that plans do not change!

We went to the jewelry store this afternoon and picked up my wedding band and ordered Ryan’s! CRAZY that the BIG day is coming up so soon! Now that I have my beautiful band in my possession, it will be hard to fight the urge to wear it before the big day….you know how I LOVE my bling :)…how sad for it to be sitting in a drawer! haha

Blake and I went to the park last night and watched the friends play volleyball….he is QUITE the flirt with the girls. Lots of winking and smiling. We are going to be in trouble when that boy gets to be about 16!

Blake taking a little snooze in the swing...look at that belly!!:

MORE Jamaica pics!

My babe catching a ride to the private island: the fam:

out in front of the main building:

Double whammy weigh-in

2 weigh-ins to report about today!

1st (and most important) is that Blake had his 6 month check up today. He will actually be 7 months on Monday, but we are a little off on our timing of these visits. SO, the dr. said that he looks great…but he is still kind of a peanut. He is growing though, so that is all that matters!! Ha. He is actually quite tall….in the 90th percentile….at 28 inches. The weight is a different story. He weighed in at 17.6 pounds…which is ok, in the 50th percentile. Is head is a little pea-head, in the 25th percentile….but that has been like that right along.

The dr. said that he is good…just tall and slender (I’m a little jealous :o)). He got 4 shots. One oral, and then three in his legs. Poor little guy! He is actually quite brave, and only cried for a few seconds, but he was fussy later this afternoon.

He can’t start eating 2nd foods not, meat and potatoes….sounds so sick to me, I would rather keep him a vegetarian, but I guess I will see what he thinks about the meat! We are also introducing oatmeal…instead of just the rice cereal. BIG steps for our little one!!

The other weigh in was ME. I stated back at WW last week after a few weeks off (after vacation). Last night was my first weigh in back on the program. I had gained .2 lbs. from my hiatus, but this past week I lost 1.8, so that put be back in the range of my “lifetime” goal…and I was FREE!! SO, now I just have 1.4 lbs. to lose to get back to my target! Yay. The end is in sight…then it’s just the maintaining :o(.

Little peanut in the stroller while dad was doing yard work:
you can see that his hair is coming in here!

Here are the "daily' Jamaica pics:

Ry and I lounging by the beach:

lounging by the pool (we did LOTS of lounging)!
View of the main pool (early in the day so no one was there yet!)

Sleepy baby…

Blake has been such a good boy. On Sunday night he fell asleep at about 9 p.m. and slept through the night until 8:15 a.m.! Last night he fell asleep at about 7:45 p.m., so I was worried that he would be up at 5 or 5:30…BUT, to my pleasant surprise he slept until 7:20 this morning!

We he is ready for bed at night he is SO ready! You cannot keep him up. Ryan was out for a bit and I tried to keep him up so he could see him before bed, but Blake would just close his eyes and roll his head back….NOTHING would keep him up. It was pretty funny!

A couple of pics of Blakers:
This is blake playing in his bouncy seat at g-ma and g-pa sanders house...he is getting a little big for it!
This bouncy chair has two little toys hanging down and B can just RIP them right down now! What a monster!

Here are a few more Jamiaca pics:

mom and dad at dinner on our first night there:

We ate outside on a veranda-type thing over the ocean. It was pretty cool!

Ryan and I at dinner:

Mary and Eric at dinner:

Welcome July….

CANNOT believe that it is July already….and that the wedding is only 2 ½ months away. I am starting to freak out about all of the things that we have t do in the next couple of months! Order invitations; decide on cake, flowers, songs, gifts, etc., etc. OMG….when will we do it all?!?!

You would have thought that we would have done SOMETHING this past weekend…but we didn’t. we were too busy celebrating the 4th! We had a great time at the lake with the fam, and went and celebrated with our friends on Saturday while Blake hung out with my parents. He LOVED the fireworks! Can’t wait ‘til next year when he can enjoy them even more!

I finally uploaded pics from Jamaica…but there are LOTS of them….so I will just post a few on the blog here and there!

Jamaica 2009:
Here is a pic of Ryan and I sittng on the beach the afternoon that we arrived:
Mary and Eric on the 1st day...

my sister and i celebrating the 4th of July on saturday!