Sweet Summertime

It really is crazy how quickly time flies; I can't believe that we are only a couple days away from July. So what's been going on lately? Titus is almost six months old. He is about 12 pounds and I think 24 inches long. He can roll front to back and back to front now. He also loves to scoot so I've had to start keeping a much  closer eye on him lately. He is always smiling now and chuckling a little too. A smile from this little boy makes my whole day :) He is also eating cereal at night. We have been doing this for about three weeks; the first couple were rough but he is really starting to get it now! Last night I mixed a spoonful of banana baby food in with it and he 

really liked that. He still spends Mondays and Tuesdays with Dawn while I work; which I feel like I have been doing a lot more of lately. But I love staying busy so it's nice. He spends time at Aunt Cole's house on Tuesday nights then we all watch 'Love in the Wild' together. Adele's cousin , who is also one of Joey's good friends, made it onto this reality TV show and we get a kick out of watching it and rooting for him. He spent the weekend before it premiered here in Boise and we all picked at him trying to get all the behind the scenes info on the show. It was weird hanging out with someone then seeing them on TV only a couple days later! It's been fun cheering him on but I think next week is his last on the show and we will all be very sad to see him leave.

Titus and I have been enjoying the warm weather and soaking up the sun as much as possible. We go on walks when it's not too hot outside and we've been going to the farmer's market every Saturday for a little over a month. Aunt Cole always comes with us and sometimes mom, Mark, and Joey tag along too. We stop and get bread every time and we 

usually snag a couple flowers too. Titus also took his first dip in the pool a couple weeks ago. He wasn't quite sure how he felt about the cold water and kept pulling his feet up as far as he could but then the next week we went swimming with Nana and he didn't seem to mind it as much.

Papa is still out of town and we miss him like crazy! I try to send him a picture of me and the little guy at least once every couple of days and he calls about once to week to talk and catch up. He's been gone for over a month and we still have another full month until he gets home. I miss him. I could really use a daddy hug right now..sometimes it's all a girl needs to make everything better.

Anyway, I've been spending more time with Adele and Ben lately; she is in love with Titus and just can't seem to get enough! Ben just started working very long days so I'm sure we will be seeing even more of each other now; neither of us like being home alone! We always have a great time together and we somehow can turn the most 

boring situations into something fun. We've met some pretty interesting people this summer and the other week we actually ended up hanging out with the production crew of a series that will be premiering next week about paranormal activity. We were both pretty skeptical and keep asking if it was actually real or all just set up; they said it was all real but I'm not sure if I'm convinced. Too bad Adele and I are both too chicken to watch a show like that! I guess we will just have to take their word for it.

Well, that's pretty much June in a nutshell. I think I've covered everything except for the fact that I cannot wait for baby June to get here and that I have recently become completely addicted to country music again! Hopefully July takes it's time a bit more and doesn't go by so quickly. Happy Blogging!

'Whoop, Whoop, Graduation!'

A couple weeks ago Titus got to go on his first road trip. Leading up to it I was pretty anxious; how would he do in the car? How would he do at night? What if I forgot something important, like diapers? Well I definitely didn't forget anything; Titus had the most luggage out of the three of us!

The whole trip from start to finish was a grand total of 48 hours, short but sweet. Eric and Joey both had to work but Cole was able to get the time off which I was so thankful for; the trip wouldn't have gone nearly as smooth without her help. After work on Wednesday we loaded up the car, stopped at Moxie for a couple peach Redbulls, then hit the road. We made pretty good time considering we stopped five times and Titus did fairly well in the car. He was very cranky and ready for bed by the time we made it to our dad's house but so was I so
I couldn't really hold it against him. The next morning Chantelle had graduation practice, which is why we went to Utah by the way; Chantelle's high school graduation! So Cole, Tiffany, and I all did our hair and make up together while we talked about school and boys, it was a lot of fun catching up with her and learning more about
 the wonderful woman she is becoming. The rest of the day was pretty busy; we ran some errands, helped Chantelle do her hair and makeup for the night, decorated the house for the after party and I somehow even snuck in a little nap since there were plenty of people just itching to hold the little man for a while.

The graduation ceremony was nice; Chantelle is in choir and they sang some very beautiful pieces, the band played of course, and the speeches from the students were entertaining as always. Unfortunately I hadn't really thought about all the noise and how Titus would feel about it. Let's just say he was not a happy camper; about ten minutes in he was done and pretty much cried for the next four hours straight. Poor little guy. We hung out in the hall until the 'W's started being announced. I popped my head in just long enough to see Chantelle get her diploma and snap a couple pictures. The rest of the night was a lot of fun. A bunch of Chantelle's friends came over for a little party and cake. She looked like she was having a lot of fun and so did everyone else. It was great seeing her so happy! 

The next morning Cole and I packed up pretty early and headed out around 9am. We drove 20 minutes in the wrong direction to grab some Starbucks from the only coffee shop in a 60 miles radius! It kind of blew our minds since there is a coffee shop on almost every corner in Boise but it made for a fun mini adventure. Nichole's birthday was the next day so we both thought it would be fun to hit up an awesome mall in Salt Lake City on the way home to do some pre-birthday shopping. The mall had a lot of stores that we don't have here and we basically spent all our money in H&M. I think we went back into that store three separate times, each time leaving with yet another bag. Titus did great in the stroller; he was pretty drowsy most of the time but when he did wake up he was pretty content just staring at all the pretty lights. After a few hours of shopping and some lunch we finally heading back to the 'home land.' We listened to the same seven songs on repeat the entire way home. 'Call Me Maybe' and 'Payphone' were played the most. Titus slept from
Salt Lake until Mountain Home and was relatively happy till we made it back to Boise.

All in all it was a great trip; Titus did wonderful, it was so much fun seeing our family in Utah, and the best part was spending a straight 48 hours with Nichole. Literally, there was one bathroom break and one time that she ran back inside a store for a minute that we were apart, other than that we were together the entire time. And I loved it! I'm so glad our first trip with the little man went so smoothly and it makes me that much more excited for any trips to come.

Catching Up

So I've been trying to organize all my journals over the past couple weeks. I have about seven notebooks laying around the house with thoughts and quotes in them and I figured it was about time to transfer everything over to a thumb drive. I got to thinking it’s probably not the best idea to have all my deepest thoughts scattered around; I would really hate to lose any of these notebooks. It’s been very interesting re-reading through past thoughts and stories as I type them all up. The notebooks I’m working on start about six months before Eric and I got married and end just about a week ago. There are so many happy memories and also many sad ones, good times and bad, inspirational thoughts and ridiculous ones. If nothing else it’s been nice to take time to reflect on who I used to be and how much I have grown and changed over the past three years. I'm only about half way done with this little project of mine and it pretty much consumes what little free time I have, which is way I haven’t updated my blog in over a month, but at least here is an update and hopefully it won’t be so long until the next one.