What's been going on in our world? Ben went to his first birthday party (outside of daycare) for little Aubrey two weekends ago. He was the only [big] boy there, but he still had lots of fun. He sure does love seeing Aubrey. He also loves his cool sunglasses and orange necklace and other little fun things he got in his grab bag. They had pizza, and cupcakes and Ben got Aubrey a My Little Pony. He did very good at giving her a present. He found the ONE boy toy there, a tractor, and held on to it for dear life while he pushed a baby doll in a stroller a little too!
This past weekend Ryan and I went on a date and went to dinner and then watched a movie in the theater. The BEST part of it all (besides my incredibly hunky husband's company) was that it only cost us about $8! We had a $50 gift card for dinner, but ended up only tipping the waitress because we got our meal free. The manager felt like we had waited too long for our food, and we had to send Ryan's burger back for being undercooked. We hadn't even complained or made a stink, and the waitress did nothing wrong- so we were happy to tip her still and get to go back and use our card for reals. The movie tickets were given to us by Jennifer, who also got to hang out with Ben when we were out. We love and appreciate all of our friends who are so good to Benny. AND he LOVES them too. Especially Jennifer, I think... if I dare say, that she is his first crush. :) It's pretty cute. Saturday was a bunch of errand running. Most of our time being spent at IKEA which, I have a love/hate relationship with. I love that store. I love how cheap things are. And inventive too. We found some stuff for Ben's room that we needed but I tell you what.. That kid... made us SO angry while we there. He acted AWFUL, like the worst he's ever been in a store. Granted, he was SUPER tired and hungry... but man... people were staring and watching as if it was their business, he carried on... it was NOT fun. After calming down some, we ate at the cafeteria there, which I love to do. It's SO inexpensive and I LOVE their meatballs. I even had their Lignonberry juice and it was delish! Anyway, Sunday we spent the day with the Terry's. Literally just about the entire day was filled was Terry babyness and friends! It was awesome! Little Savannah was blessed and given a name at Church, and then we all scooted back to their house to get set up, cook and clean for the open house they had for friends/family that couldn't be at church for her blessing. 
Little Miss Savannah has A LOT of fans, she's already the popular girl in town. The blessing was super sweet and Jacob did a wonderful job. I even got misty-eyed. We already love her so much I could burst in to a heart cloud! Uncle Ryan got her to smile so big and cute in that picture above. I think SHE already loves us too! Yay! It was a special, fun and busy day. Both Sat & Sun, Ben didn't sleep so he was asleep in his car seat with in 10 mins of getting in the car after leaving their house around 6:30. He still hadn't eaten dinner so we had to wake him up so he could eat something before he went back to bed. He ate about half of his food before he started falling asleep in his highchair (is it bad that he still sits in one?) so I got him out and put him to bed. He was definitely a sleepy guy... which sparks tantrums and such. Oh well.
Let's see... what else. We're hopefully expecting a visit from my brother John for a day at some point soon. That's one thing I'm looking forward to! I am super homesick for family right now. And we just love John and don't get to see him often enough!
Next weekend we are going on a double date with the Kranendonk's to see Guster in concert downtown. Benny is going to hang out with Nana & Poppy at a Cross Keys (where they attended high school) basketball game they're going to. I think he'll have lots of fun! And I think we will too!
Well... we're kind of all feeling under the weather. Didn't sleep good, and this week has drug (dragged, drugged... whatever) on and on it seems. It's only Friday tomorrow? Darn. I've got some back posting to do, so don't be surprised if you see entries for the beginning of January that weren't there at the beginning of January!
This past weekend Ryan and I went on a date and went to dinner and then watched a movie in the theater. The BEST part of it all (besides my incredibly hunky husband's company) was that it only cost us about $8! We had a $50 gift card for dinner, but ended up only tipping the waitress because we got our meal free. The manager felt like we had waited too long for our food, and we had to send Ryan's burger back for being undercooked. We hadn't even complained or made a stink, and the waitress did nothing wrong- so we were happy to tip her still and get to go back and use our card for reals. The movie tickets were given to us by Jennifer, who also got to hang out with Ben when we were out. We love and appreciate all of our friends who are so good to Benny. AND he LOVES them too. Especially Jennifer, I think... if I dare say, that she is his first crush. :) It's pretty cute. Saturday was a bunch of errand running. Most of our time being spent at IKEA which, I have a love/hate relationship with. I love that store. I love how cheap things are. And inventive too. We found some stuff for Ben's room that we needed but I tell you what.. That kid... made us SO angry while we there. He acted AWFUL, like the worst he's ever been in a store. Granted, he was SUPER tired and hungry... but man... people were staring and watching as if it was their business, he carried on... it was NOT fun. After calming down some, we ate at the cafeteria there, which I love to do. It's SO inexpensive and I LOVE their meatballs. I even had their Lignonberry juice and it was delish! Anyway, Sunday we spent the day with the Terry's. Literally just about the entire day was filled was Terry babyness and friends! It was awesome! Little Savannah was blessed and given a name at Church, and then we all scooted back to their house to get set up, cook and clean for the open house they had for friends/family that couldn't be at church for her blessing. 
Little Miss Savannah has A LOT of fans, she's already the popular girl in town. The blessing was super sweet and Jacob did a wonderful job. I even got misty-eyed. We already love her so much I could burst in to a heart cloud! Uncle Ryan got her to smile so big and cute in that picture above. I think SHE already loves us too! Yay! It was a special, fun and busy day. Both Sat & Sun, Ben didn't sleep so he was asleep in his car seat with in 10 mins of getting in the car after leaving their house around 6:30. He still hadn't eaten dinner so we had to wake him up so he could eat something before he went back to bed. He ate about half of his food before he started falling asleep in his highchair (is it bad that he still sits in one?) so I got him out and put him to bed. He was definitely a sleepy guy... which sparks tantrums and such. Oh well.Let's see... what else. We're hopefully expecting a visit from my brother John for a day at some point soon. That's one thing I'm looking forward to! I am super homesick for family right now. And we just love John and don't get to see him often enough!
Next weekend we are going on a double date with the Kranendonk's to see Guster in concert downtown. Benny is going to hang out with Nana & Poppy at a Cross Keys (where they attended high school) basketball game they're going to. I think he'll have lots of fun! And I think we will too!
Well... we're kind of all feeling under the weather. Didn't sleep good, and this week has drug (dragged, drugged... whatever) on and on it seems. It's only Friday tomorrow? Darn. I've got some back posting to do, so don't be surprised if you see entries for the beginning of January that weren't there at the beginning of January!
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