8th Anniversary

A couple weeks ago we celebrated 8 years of marriage. Hard to believe we are almost to 10 years! I keep mentioning a trip to celebrate year #10!

We went to Tony's for dinner a few days before our anniversary to celebrate just the two of us.

Then on our actual anniversary we started the day with school pictures for Sissy!

Doesn't she look fabulous? We picked out a dress at Old Navy and the night before pictures we had a girls night at Target and did a last minute outfit change.

Eric, Oliver and I loaded up to pick Elle up from school with plans to go to lunch then apple picking.  Elle came down with her class, we got back in the car...and our battery had died. So after a jump from my dad we headed to Costco for a new battery. Keeping these crazies occupied while Eric worked on the car.

Next we were finally headed to the ferry and soon we were stopping for lunch.  I told Elle there were frog legs on the menu thinking she would make a funny face or be grossed out instead she asked to order them!  

When they came to the table she questioned why they weren't green.  I truly think girlfriend was expecting (and hoping for) raw frog legs. This girl keeps me on my toes. Just when I think I know how she will react to something she throws me a curve ball. 

Enjoying her frog legs.

Next stop, Eckerts for apple picking!!

We stopped to say hi to the animals.  Look at Ollie's little arm in a cast waving to them.

We love Halloween!

8 years and 2 babes later!!

We heard "look! look! look!" a lot on this day. :)

Her 3rd year apple picking! My baby has grown so much!

This little dude was more interested in darting through the field than picking the apples.

Or picking rotting apples up off the ground. 

My tall girl!

And my tiny little doodle!

We had the best day!! We did get lost on the way home but at this point it's such a tradition that it would almost be disappointing if we didn't. :)

Ollie's 1st Cardinals Game

This past Saturday we took the kids to a Cardinals game.  This was Ollie's first game and all of ours first game of the year. We waited until the verrrrry end of the season. :)

I received tickets through work for a promotion I help out with and our seats just happened to be in a suite...which I swear is the only way I could take a 3 and 1 year old to the game. Lots of space to move around!

My baby boy enjoying his first game!

As much as Ollie loved the game :) he was more interested in Hotel Transylvania.

Since he was loosing his patience we broke open one of the bobble heads for him to play with, Ollie loved his new "guy!".

At the very end of the game Fredbird finally came out and Sissy was so excited!

And that was Oliver's first time at a Cardinal game, and he got to see a win!

It feels like just yesterday we were sitting in the exact same suite with a baby Eleanor at her first game!

A Broken Arm

My sweet Ollie has a broken arm.  I truly still can't believe that I have a 19 month old with a broken arm.  The mom guilt set in DEEP.

I was folding laundry on our couch one Sunday.  Eric was golfing, Elle was playing and Ollie climbed up on the couch next to me.  He normally tries to either sit by me or when he is a bit hyper he tries to jump/fling himself off of it.  Well this day he stood behind me hugging me. My word how I love this sweet boy.  

I have no idea if he stopped hugging me and turned around and fell off the back of the couch or if he climbed off it and fell...but either way he fell hard.  I immediately jumped up and ran to the back of the couch to grab him.  He cried hard but settled down and he didn't want to leave my lap.  I thought he was just scared.  After about 30 minutes he fell asleep on my lap. When he woke up from his nap he was still fussy so I set him down, made him walk to me, I kept feeling his shoulders to see if he was in pain, he legs and shoulders were both fine. So that night we went to my parents house for dinner, he ate great but was still just really fussy. After dinner and some playing Eric noticed he wouldn't throw a ball or use his right hand so off to the emergency room we went.

A bag of Doritos from the vending machine and a movie kept him pretty calm at the hospital but any nurse or doctor even touching him made him so angry! 

After xrays (this was no fun) they told us both bones in his arm were fractured. (Picture me sobbing). 

Ollie did so great with everything though! Here he is with his temporary splint.

Not only was Oliver a complete trooper but so was Elle.  Girlfriend was going on no nap and was amazing waiting in the hospital until 10pm. I went with Ollie for xrays and just generally didn't leave his side and she totally understood that's what I needed to do. She hung out with Eric, let him take her for bathroom breaks...just little things she would normally insist I do she didn't even question why I couldn't. I was so so proud of my sweet girl this night. 

Home from the hospital in his little hospital gown brushing his teeth. 

The next morning.

He never seemed to be in any pain after the day of the break. 

They told us to try to make him wear this sling...yeah that was a complete failure.  He could wiggle out of that in no time flat. 

The next Friday we went to Cardinal Glennon for an orthopedic doctor to review his xrays and get his cast put on.

Again if any doctor or nursed touched him he was so angry. And getting the cast put on was a complete circus. I was holding him, Eric was holding his phone with Hotel Transylvania 2 playing and holding his legs down so he would stop kicking the lady. There were 2 ladies trying to get the cast on and one started blaring Disney music from her phone in the hopes of calming him down. Ollie just screamed.

When they were done he just clung to me. 

Look how red he is from all that screaming.  He was a sweaty, tear stained mess!

And now life is pretty much back to normal.  He is back to climbing anything he can find, he tries to use his right arm but is predominately using his left for now.

Bath time is a nightmare, he is not a fan of having his arm wrapped in plastic bags but the cast comes off October 11th so we will survive!

Blackberry Picking

A couple of weeks ago we rode the ferry's to Ekerts to pick blackberries.  Our original plan was to pick peaches as well but apparently they weren't available to pick that day.  So off to the blackberry fields we went!

Oliver has never had blackberries before but he loved them! I don't think he put a single one in the basket though.  Every one he picked (which was a lot) went straight in his mouth. :)

It was a wet, rainy day so we ended up being the only people there that day.  I think both the rain and the fact that is was a random Tuesday had a part in it.  One big perk to me being part time and Eric's constantly changing schedule.  A lot of times Mondays and Tuesdays are days all 4 of us go do things together since Eric works so many weekends. 

We filled 2 baskets with blackberries to take home, both of the kids were gobbling them up so we made sure to pick a ton.

Wouldn't you know that they both stuffed themselves silly with blackberries that they didn't want to eat another one once we paid for them and brought them home.  They all went straight to the freezer for smoothies.

Ollie found a big stick and did his best to hit everything in sight.

On our way out the kids played on the playground and Eric and Ollie shared a peach we bought in the market store. 

And I think the highlight of Elle's day was this bag of cotton candy we let her buy. :)

Apple season is next! My favorite!!