3rd Trimester!

 

 

27 weeks!

 

Movin' right along!!

Hi ya!

Consider the halls decked!

 My DIY Pinterest find :)

Trimming the tree. Cocktail for Todd, sparkling cider for me!



Put a fork in him...

 because he is done!! My sweet husband is officially a college graduate!! After years of saying school just wasn't for him, he decided to take one class to see what he thought and he got some ridiculous grade (like 99%) so he took another....and then another until a couple weeks ago he came downstairs and announced that he was done. I am so proud of him. I barely got through college and I wasn't working, paying my own bills or doing much of anything other than playing with my friends (wow that was sad to write or pretty awesome depending on how you look at it...). Todd did this during a second tour as a Drill Instructor in Newport, a cute little baby, neurotic wife and Afghanistan deployment. I guess we now know who is the overachiever in this family. ;)

 

Proud receipient of a B.A. in Criminal Justice. I'm not even going to mention what his GPA is, it will make my previous admission of my own college experience just that much more pathetic.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As my dad reminded me recently, the saying 'life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" could not be more true this thanksgiving. I had big plans. Lots of baking and cooking, hosting a Thanksgiving breakfast brunch for our friends, spending time with my family, black friday shopping, putting up christmas decorations...we were going to be busy...and then life happened. The week of Thanksgiving, while out on one of his daily 6 mile runs (we can discuss how nutty that is later), Todd felt the slightest pull on his back.  What was initially just an annoyance turned into a pretty serious muscle strain that literally left him crippled, on the floor and sedated. He literally couldn't move and therefore neither could our plans. Poor guy. We made the best of it though, instead of brunch with friends we just had a big family breakfast and thanks to some last minute shopping enjoyed a small Thanksgiving at home just the three of us. In the end, I still went black Friday shopping and even got a wreath up or two ;).

 Comforting his injured Daddy

 Black Friday Prep!

A little Thanksgiving breakfast and parade

 

Makeshift TG dinner :)

Marine Corps Ball!

 

 24 weeks!

We are famous!

The things I will make my family do for free stuff. About a year ago we agreed to sign a stock photo waiver in exchange for free christmas cards. Now we are in a Navy Fed ad!