Six Years

Take me in, into your darkest hour


And I'll never desert you

I'll stand by you



And when, when the night falls on you, baby

You're feelin' all alone

You won't be on your own



I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you

Won't let nobody hurt you

I'll stand by you

Take me in, into your darkest hour

And I'll never desert you



I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you

Won't let nobody hurt you

I'll stand by you

 
Skip, there is no one else I would rather stand by and go through this life with...I love you!  Happy SIXTH wedding anniversary!  Here's to 74 more ;-)
 

Our wedding day
July 29, 2005

First anniversary
Punta Cana

Second anniversary
Long Beach Island

Third anniversary
This picture is not from our anniversary, but I couldn't find one of the two of us!  We just stayed home that year, no vacations

Fourth anniversary
Long Beach Island

Fifth anniversary
Long Beach Island

Before and After - Condo

I've done several before and after posts here about the current house that we live in {and promise a post of Baby C's nursery soon!}  But I decided to show you a before and after of the teeny tiny condo the hubs and I lived in for three years when we first got married!

Skip and I were very excited and fortunate to be able to buy our own condo when we got married.  Sure it was only one bedroom and the only bathroom was in our bedroom {not fun when we had guests over} but it was ours! 

We had no experience decorating a place though, but decided to have some fun with it anyways.  We wanted a red, white, and blue theme....would you expect anything less from a Marine who just back from Iraq?  We had the red walls {blue in the bathroom}, blue carpets, a white couch, and tons of patriotic paraphernalia lying around.  However, we knew it was waaaaay too taste specific to attempt to sell it in that condition.  So we cleared out half our stuff to put in storage and tamed down the color scheme. {sorry the before pictures are so crappy!}

dining area looking into the kitchen

The paintings were our first Valentine's Day gift to each other

Skip's wall of accomplishments

I LOVED this bay window

red trim in the bedroom

Our doorless bathroom medicine cabinet

And after....

So much less clutter!

tiny but cute kitchen

our tiny bedroom

Ahh, the all-mirrored closet...helpful but weird

Check out the new medicine cabinet!

I am so much happier to have a real house with lots of space, but we did have some fun times at that condo.  The best night we had there was hands down our third Christmas party when we managed to squeeze in SEVENTEEN guests!  Good times!

On My Own

So the husband went back to work today...cue sad tears now.  He has been home for six weeks and I had not yet gotten sick of him!!!  We had gotten into a nice rhythm with the girls and everything was going pretty smoothly.  So I would be lying if I wasn't a little nervous about what life will be like with him gone!

I'll admit though, so far it's not too bad.  Little M went down for a nap just before he left, so it was just me and Baby C.  Now C is napping in the pack-n-play and M is watching Toy Story and drinking her milk.  I was even able to throw a load of laundry in!  Though I can almost guarantee that in just a few minutes Baby C will wake up, Little M will want me to have a dance party with her, the phone will ring, and Mr. B will be chewing something.  I speak only from experience as this is what usually happens around 5 pm every night!

Thankfully my baby sis is coming over tonight to help with bedtime, so I'm not totally alone!  Then I'll just have to deal with tomorrow before the hubs is off again for two days.  So it's really not that bad after all!

I know lots of you already balance 2+ kids, but I'm still new to doing this alone {especially since Baby C doesn't like to sleep at night...pretty much ever}  So any tips or mommy secrets that you have will be much appreciated!

Silent Sunday

Little M does the hula!

Keeping Cool Fun

As most of you know, it has been RIDICULOUS hot around here this week.  Now I LOVE the heat, but it is hard to entertain the little ones when it's this hot out.  So we've been trying to come up with some fun ways to entertain Little M in the house.  Her new favorite activity is to 'wash her hands'.  We pull a step stool over to the kitchen sink, tie on her apron, fill the sink with water, soap, some cups and bowls, and let her play.  It is super fun for her and keeps her entertained for almost an hour!

Need more water!

Now for some soap

How cute is this apron?

Mommy, you should play too!

Love her little gap teeth!

Giving Mr. B some water

Happy girl

Four Generations

The other day my mom brought my grandma over for a visit with the girls.  My grandma had already come over once before to meet Baby C, but this time she was going to get to spend a lot of one on one time with the girls.  It was so awesome to have FOUR generations of women all together!  I'm so blessed to still have her around with my girls.

My sweet angel

A new "boutique"!

Me and my girls

Grandma the Great

Four generations!

Saturday Morning Scenes

Another Saturday, another Saturday Morning Scenes!

 

This morning we packed up the diaper bag, loaded both girls into the car, and headed off to the park.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous and we were happy to enjoy the sunshine for awhile!  I wish summer would never end!

Loungin' with her Wub

Tiny toes

Rockin' an 80's hairstyle today!

Not happy about leaving the park!

Dancing Queen

The next winner of So You Think You Can Dance? I think so!

The Pure Joy....

....of eating a cupcake!