Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mommies out there!!! Yesterday, we spent a fantastic day with my Mom and it was a great time for us girls to get to spend the day together.

Today was an interesting Mother's Day. I intended to get on here tonight and blog about the irony in my Mother's Day. Because it was very "motherly". I spent the day doing my normal Sunday activities, womp womp womp. Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, etc. And it was just me and my girl. Cory spent the day at my Mom's house working and my Dad was actually at work. So obviously not just a relaxing day. So I was going to be ironic and joke around about the normality of the day....

But then my normal bedtime routine with Sydney happened. And so while we rocked, which is our normal nightly routine, I thanked her for my presents that they made at school this week. Because I really do love everything that they made and I can't wait to take it to put up at work. But then I just started talking to her about how much I love her. It was quiet and she was just laying there listening to me...and then my emotions got the best of me. She is just so truly amazing and being her "Mama" is the best thing that I could ever be. Forget every title that I have ever had or ever will have. "Mommy" is the best job that I could ever have. It just blows my mind. I just told her how amazing she is, how smart she is, how beautiful she is, how special she is. How much I absolutely love being her Mommy and how proud I am of her and how great she is. She really does blow my mind. So that part of my day won over. I had the best Mother's Day ever. Because not only was it a day for Sydney and Cory to thank me for what I do for them, but it was a day for me to sit back and look at how amazingly lucky I am to be a mother. So I hope you mommies got the chance to sit back and do the same....and may every day be Mother's Day for us all :)

Lost it...

I may have lost my marbles....literally. We have been talking about converting Sydney's bed to her toddler bed for quite some time now. We haven't had any accidents yet, but knowing my curious little angel, we knew that it might be time soon. And I would like to avoid the middle of the night crashing to the floor which would surely take us to our local emergency room. And one morning when I was in there about to get her out of the crib she looked at me with these questioning eyes, stuck one foot up on the bar, both hands at the top of the rail and said "Climb?" No, little one. we should not be climbing anywhere. Unless it is on our local jungle gym and nothing inside these four walls signify jungle gyms. But we still thought, surely we have time before we take this HUGE step. Until my usual Sunday morning CRAZY decision making. And within twenty minutes, we set this up and immediately after...we are left with this....

And yes I was crazy enough to go into her room and take these pictures while she was sleeping... and yes, in case you are wondering...we are aware that this rail is NO BUENO when it comes to making sure that Mommy is not a giant nutso worrying about her falling out...hence this for this nap time while Daddy is out getting a more substantial safety rail...

Oh and while I am here and don't need a full blog for it...check out her new sweet art board for all of her fun projects from school...

and her new book storage. The old book shelf I thought was A. getting old (I got it while I was in college) and B. too dangerous for a little one. It was also quite difficult for her to stack everything to aid in cleaning up so we went to something more Sydney appropriate.

International Children's Festival

Today we went with Nana and Opa to the International Children's Festival in Hampton. Since Opa is the President of the Executive Board of Bay Days, we often get strongarmed invited to go to various events in Hampton's downtown area. But the International Children's Festival is actually a lot of fun. They have activities, performers and food, etc from all kinds of different countries and they are all grouped by their various areas of the world.

We actually got really lucky today with the weather. We originally thought we were going to have to bail on the festival because of rain. Turns out, the rain starts tomorrow. So we trekked over to Hampton and got our festival-ing on. We enjoyed all of the different musical performers and dancers from all over the world. Got a glitter tattoo that will last 3-4 days, probably 1-2 for the toddler that will be messing with it. We also got our face painted. And since it is nicely dubbed a children's festival, we let Sydney run pretty free. She ran herself silly. It was so much fun to watch her take in all of the different scenary. We also let her get way ahead of us to see just how far she would go without us. Turns out, we still aren't that brave and after about 4 steps we are turning around to look for Mommy. Love it!

Anyone actually surprised the Elmo goes pretty much anywhere with us? Either Elmo or Dora. :)



Lucky 26...

Today was my birthday! Smooth lead in right? It was a very very nice day. Cory took the day off with me which pretty much NEVER happens although I never work on my birthday. Cory took Sydney to daycare in the morning and then brought me breakfast in bed. It was magical. :) So then we did what any parent would do with no child in the house.... we slept. No lie. Wasted the morning away. Then we went for a drive down to the oceanfront just to enjoy the daylight since we had slept off the morning.

Our goal was to pick Sydney up and take her to lunch with us and get her home for a good nap. We had hockey tonight so we wanted her to get a really good nap. Instead, we got to school and she was already napping. Miraculously, we got her out of school, into the car and into the house without waking her up.

Tonight we went for birthday dinner with Papa at Applebee's and the hockey. Admirals won! Last year we had birthday hockey but it didn't go so well. Much better this year. I also subtly hinted that I wanted a birthday message on the video board. When Cory kept talking about how he couldn't find the page on the website to add the messages, I was getting very aggravated. I thought for sure I would not see my name in lights. Luckily, I have a wonderful husband who very forcefully thoughtfully heard my wishes.

All in all it was a great day and it will finish out with a great weekend all around!

Now Pronouncing...

The new Mr. and Mrs. Obrynba!!!

Bridget and Eric got married yesterday and it was one of (if not THE) most touching ceremonies that I have ever seen. And the reception was THE best party that I have ever been to. And Bridget was probably THE most beautiful bride that I have ever seen! So all in all...it was THE most beautiful day overall! I will definitely share more later, but this bridesmaid needs to catch up on all of her recently ignored housewifely duties!!

Congrats Eric and Bridget!! I love you guys! Have fun on your honeymoon in the Dominican Republic!

Easter 2012

Happy Easter Everyone! We hope that you enjoyed this holiday with your closest loved ones. We did! We enjoyed coloring Easter eggs on Saturday. Then on Sunday we had breakfast and easter egg hunting at Nana and Opa's and spent the afternoon watching the Master's with Papa!

Neglect

I have been neglected this here blog. What have we been up to, you may ask?

Well there was Spring Cleaning on St. Patrick's day...

The wallpaper take down project...

This has actually been completed with the painting all done and everything. Once the real project is finished, I will update with more pictures.

Then there is the whole 25 game win streak that the admirals are on right now...AMAZING. And this girl loves her hockey...

And then there are the impending nuptials of my bestie! The wedding is next Saturday and we are very very very excited. Obviously, the pictures that I have involving this are inappropriate to share at the moment, but I promise to upload more after next weekend!! yay! :)