Holiday Travel

So what do you do when what should have been only 12 hours of travelling turns into 21?
(oh and that travelling involves a 7 month pregnant woman and her 20 month old, alone-ie no husband).
You:
1) cry at the ticket counter at 5:45 in the morning when they tell you missed the check in time by 3 min. (even though you got up at 2:30 in the morning after going to bed at midnight) because you had to drive 2 1/2 hours to even get to the airport.
2) Buy your son socks (because you forgot to pack them in your carry-0n because he was in his Pj's when you left the house at 2:30am) for $5, which is more than you would EVER spend on ONE pair of socks. Stupid Airport.
3) Buy your son a baseball (at least it was rubber) that he can throw at people and make them trip as they pass by (this is after he was pointing at the SIGN on the store that had a football and basketball lodged in it, saying ball, ball, ball for 25 min straight insisting that you get it for him.)
4) Spend a ridiculous amount of $$ on food since you are trapped in an airport with a baby and are bored.
5) Let your 20 month old eat a whole bag of Twizzlers on the plane because it keeps him quiet.
6) Let your son break the airline headphones because it is keeping him entertained, even though you really wanted to watch the movie they were showing (at least they were free).
7) Laugh when you get a bloody nose on the plane because your son "honked" your nose...and then laugh (only on the inside) that you can't get up because you are stuck between 2 business men so you have to page the flight attendant to bring you tissues.
8) Put Pepsi in your son's bottle and let him drink because again it will keep him quiet while you and your mom get lost driving back at 11pm from the airport that is 2 hours away from her house that you had to fly into because United Airlines is lame and couldn't get you into Traverse City.

Well, that's what I would do IF that ever happened to me.

Snow and Christmas Tree

Here we are cutting down our Christmas tree. I love that we just buy a permit and then drive into the woods and cut down a tree!

Grayson sitting at his early Christmas present from Glam! I came out of my room this morning and he was sitting at the table reading a book! It was about the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Grayson out in the snow. He says snow without the "s", which you would think sounds like "no" but it is different. I can tell, I promise.

We got two feet of snow in less than 24 hours. It was a lot of snow. It's still here.

And here I am 26 weeks pregnant. I need to take more pictures!

Life has been good and busy. We got to spend a lovely Thanksgiving in Raleigh and see Jon's family and some of mine. It is always so good to see everyone, it's never long enough.

I love Christmas. It's been fun with Grayson. He LOVED putting ornaments on the tree, and he oohs and ahhs at the lights on the tree every time I turn it on. He points at all the ornaments and says "ball, ball, ball" over and over. It's pretty cute.

He also can say boots and juice. I am ready for some new words. Everyone now and then the thought of having 2 under 2 overwhelms me and I start to hyperventilate. But hey, my mom did, Jon's mom did and we are pretty normal. And they both survived. Jess does it with three...I know it's doable, just scary! Oh life. Always changing.

Happy Little Grayson

My friend Jen took these pictures of Jon and Grayson at camp this weekend.

Here he is eating the banana peel. I was not there so my friend Jen was watching him for me and she took a picture of him eating the banana peel instead of taking it from him. He did spit out the chunk that he bit off! Hilarious.

I have the happiest baby ever. And the sweetest husband.

We spent this past weekend at camp with 30 crazy high school kids. We are exhausted but it was so worth it. It is not often you get to be a part of life changing events. No really. One of our girls sat in cabin time on Sunday morning and said this weekend has changed my life. That simple. That real. I saw her today and asked her how she was. "Amazing", was her response. I mean to finally realize that you were made for a purpose, that you are loved no matter what you've done or not done is incredible.

Life is good. We are exhausted, busy and in love with each other and our baby...and of course little man on the way. Baby #2 is already making life busy! (it's a lot harder to carry a baby and chase a baby. I don't remember it being so uncomfortable!)

It's just been too long

My Little Rockstar

This is him posing for the camera. He was LOVING it.

I don't really have anything important to say. Life has been good and full and busy!

Last weekend was Jeff and Heather's wedding and it was beautiful and amazing. They are so in love and it was so sweet to be apart of. Grayson was the ring bearer and pretty stinking cute in his little suit. It was so fun to see old friends as well.

It snowed today in Williams. Weird weather. I just couldn't bear the fact that I hadn't updated my blog in 5 weeks. It felt wrong. So until the next time that I have nothing important to say...

And we're alive

Jon and Grayson at the top of Cloud's Rest. It was an amazing rewarding 14 mile hike, and the view was all of Yosemite Valley.

Well we are officially back from assignment, back from vacation, all the guests/nannies are gone and life is back to "normal", whatever that means!

Our month on assignment about killed me in every sense of the word. It was amazing but one of the harder things Jon and I have tackled. It was hard for all the obvious reasons, and on top of having an exhausting job (head leader) Jon and I also found out the week before we moved onto camp that we are pregnant! Baby number two is on it's way and is due to be here around March 17th. We were surprised and excited to say the least. It did make for an adjustment to our JMT hike. Jon and Adam went on the hike and then me, Emily and our friends the Kopicky's met up with them in Mammoth Lakes and then Yosemite. We spent a whole week camping, hiking and just hanging out. It was amazing. I have to say a week of camping with Grayson was hard. I was ready for a nice relaxing night in a king size bed. So for our 5th anniversary (yes, 5 glorious years) Jon took me to Sedona to an amazing bed and breakfast, the most amazing dinner ever and a massage at one of the spas! Amazing.

So much has happened in the past two months. I feel like we dropped off the face of the earth and here is my little attempt to reconnect!

I will post pictures and more details of all the fun events that have happened in the past 2 months when I have a little more time.

Off to our Assignment we go

So Jon and I move onto Lost Canyon property for the month tomorrow to start our assignment. I am thrilled, exhausted and thrilled all at the same time. I most likely will not be updating this blog, or facebook, or emailing or calling much at all this next month. One, due to complete lack of time (our schedule is insane) and two, trying to fast a bit from our slight addiction to technology. We shall see. That said I just want to make sure that all know they are not being ignored or slighted, but we really will have fallen into the abyss known as an assignment at Lost Canyon.

Your prayers for health and rest will be most coveted as both are so important for our month to be enjoyable!

I look forward to updating you all with pictures from the month and hopefully some fun stories!

Custom Gear by Glam

Glam left today. Sad to see her go, but it was a great visit! We spent a lot of time in the garden and at the house just being. It was so nice. Here are just a few pictures.

The girls out by the sunflowers.

Grayson eating one of our first strawberries! They taste SO good.

Glam and Grayson in the garden.

I told Jon I had promised my "readers" pictures of the finished products! So here they are...

Down Baby Sleeping Bag by Glam and Custom Sun Shade, also by Glam.