27 Years Ago

Today my parents celebrate 27 years together. I'm really proud of them, and blessed to be their daughter. I love this picture of the 3 of us. Strange that I'm now about my Mom's age in this picture, with a daughter (and son!) of my own!

Improptu Party

The other night we were at my in-laws' house and my mother in law mentioned she was going to a party. Olive's ears perked up like antennas and immediately started asking questions about this party and whether or not she could go. When we told her she couldn't go, she was quite upset, and for the next day or two kept asking me when she could go to a party.

I've been sick (still - ugh) and we didn't have anywhere to go this weekend, so Matt and I decided to throw Olive an improptu, "just because" party. We ran to Target this morning for party hats, bought a new game that Olive could play with us, ordered out for pizza for dinner and made a fun evening out of it.

the big 2-5

today's my birthday. i feel very blessed to have loved ones in my life who reminded me of that fact, and made me feel loved. matt took his girls out for coffee this morning, even though it was a work day, and he totally surprised me by having TWO boxes of my favorite gluten free cookies overnighted to me from a favorite bakery in columbus. he also took us out for gluten free pizza for dinner, and let me have some quiet time while he played with olive this evening. i got a few cards and phone calls from loved ones, and lots of well wishes on facebook. all in all a really nice day. :)

father's day..

we had a fun (albeit wet and muddy) father's day camping trip. (yup...rained the whole time.) olive loved the whole experience, and even slept through a long, very noisy thunderstorm our first night.

my favorite part? watching matt and olive have a blast together. they're so much alike, these two... i picked a great daddy for my baby.

gone camping

we're celebrating father's day by taking matt (or rather, allowing matt to bring us, ha ha..) camping. embarrassingly enough, this is my first time camping, and i'm freaking out just a bit. (maybe a lot.) i've been promised there won't be bears and that there will be hot showers, so i think i'll survive.

my camera battery is charging at this very moment, so i'll be able to share lots of pictures on here when we get back on sunday.

happy father's day to my dad, and

all the wonderful dads i know!

xo