What will it bee?

Boy, we had one busy week last week. We spent the week in Kissemmee (or Orlando, really) because Paul had a work convention since he's now the big boss man at work. So, while Paul was working, Gracie & I were playing. Jordan stayed home with Granny because he couldn't miss school. The coolest thing about the hotel we stayed in was that it had a mini water park on site, right next to the pool. We only got to use the water park on Thursday, our last full day there but Gracie had a blast. I on the other hand got sunburnt. As it always goes that way. But regardless, we had fun!

Earlier that week we took Gracie to Downtown Disney to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to be made into a princess. Disney took such great care of her. They wound up comping the whole experience for us since in November when we originally went, our appointment was pushed back 3 hours, which meant she wouldn't of been dolled up till after closing hours due to how busy it was that day. I made sure to make this appointment for first thing in the morning. She even had a little photoshoot when they finished.

I didn't have time to scan them so I just snapped quick shots with my phone.



She's such a ham! I couldn't believe how great she was through the whole thing. Usually she throws a fit when I brush her hair but for them she smiled the whole time and was so well behaved & thankful. I was proud. :)

This week (Wednesday) I have my anatomy sonogram, the big one when we find out the gender! I'm so excited! I really hope our little peanut is facing the right way and shows us their little parts!! As I've said before, we're having a Gender Reveal Party this time, instead of a baby shower. My mom made all of the invites in the Bee theme I asked for. She's crazy talented! I gotta say, they turned out pretty great!



You can view more of them (since she made them all look slightly different) at her blog.

Anyway, looking forward to finding out what baby #2 is! Everyone I come across thinks different things. Some think it's a girl, some think it's a boy. I'll be happy either way but would love a little boy. I guess we'll have to wait till March 10th to find out the answer! In other news, we start working on the nursery in the next couple of weeks. Lots of good stuff happening in March!

Exciting things to come!

So, pretty recently I had a sit down with my MIL about moving out of Florida, since she is able to retire in 4 years, I asked her about moving with us, basically anywhere north. She surprised me in saying that she wouldn't want to wait 4 years that now is the best time to do it. She works for the US Post Office so she can pretty much work anywhere. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am! We actually decided on a state. I'm not sure if it's the one we'll definitely end up going to but it looks so far like it's the one. The last place I'd ever thought about living, honestly. Delaware!

I was even more excited when she told me to start looking at houses online and if I found anything good, to email it to her. Well, boy did I find a good one! A 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home that has a apartment attached to it, also known as a mother/daughter home. With also a small house in the back of it, for guests. And it's in our price range! Now obviously, the chances of us actually getting that house are pretty low since we aren't moving tomorrow or anything. We did talk about visiting sometime next year, probably in the Spring to look at houses, get a feel for the area and see if it's the place to call our new home! As this process continues I'll be sure to keep everyone in blog land in the loop. I'm pretty ecstatic about this whole thing! Finally, real fall weather & real winters! That's the way to my heart. ❤



In other news, I don't think I mentioned that we're taking Gracie to Disney World for her birthday next month. Thanks to some really amazing family connections we actually got tickets for free and get to stay in the new amazing Art of Animation Resort for more than half the price you'd usually pay. Aren't connections the best? We're going about two weeks after Gracie's actual birthday, but we have a great two fun filled days planned for our littest one!



Day one we'll be visiting the Magic Kingdom and possibly park hopping to another park, more than likely Epcot since that's her favorite. Day two we're going to spend the day at the pool area at the resort, then get cleaned up and head to Downtown Disney so Gracie can be transformed into a Princess at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. She gets the whole 9 -- hair, nails, princess dress, a birthday sash, makeup, etc etc! She's so insanely excited, it's all she talks about, and we still have a month to go!

So with that being said, lots of fun and exciting things to look forward to in the future! This is one happy and excited girl looking forward to the next chapter! :)

Miiiami

We left for Miami on Thursday (5/24) and stayed till Sunday (5/27). Before we left I got a knock at the door. It was the UPS man delivering my laptop! I was so happy that it came before we left, because no one would of been here to bring it in the house if it came on Friday or Saturday and who knows what would of happened to it. We loaded up the car with our things, Gracie, our cats Max & Ruby and our dogs Niko & Gloria and headed for my parents house to drop them off.

We finally got on the road around 11:30am for Miami. We actually stayed in Pompano Beach, which isn't that far from Miami. About 40 minutes or so. We stayed at the Wyndham Palm-Aire Resort. It was ok. The room we got was pretty big, full kitchen, living room, dining room, master bedroom, two bathrooms. That part was good. The not so good part was the ants in the kitchen, the not so clean looking tub, the location of the room (they put us allll the way at the end of the building and it was a hike to get to and from anything), oh and the A/C in the master bedroom didn't work which resulted us into sleeping on the pullout sofa in the living room. How would I rate this place? 2.5 outta 5 stars. It would of been better if we had a better location & the A/C worked. Let's get to the pictures, shall we?

On our drive down we stopped at a Beef 'O Bradys. I got a cherry limeade. It was delish! Also here's a shot of the view of our hotel from the gate entry.


I took pictures of the hotel room, after we unpacked and messed the place up. Right after, I decided I probably should of taken pictures BEFORE we put our shit everywhere. Isn't that always the way? We didn't have much time between unpacking, getting ready to go & getting to the Marlins Ballpark for game 1 of our trip. So, yes, picture taking of the room at the right time fell at the waste sides. Oopsie.

But here's some shots on our way to Miami for the Marlins game & the view from our seats.


A view of the Marlins bench & the fish tank behind home plate. So cooool!! Also a shot of the "dinger machine" as Paul likes to call it aka the Home run Sculpture.


Something extra cool about Marlins Ballpark is the bobble head museum. Every bobble head you could imagine! Baseball related that is.


I of course had to take close ups of the Yankees bobble heads. I mean, of course I would. ;)


I'm one of those 'I-have-to-take-pictures-of-my-food' people (as you'll notice through out this update), so here's a picture of baseball park food. I heart baseball park food! Oh &&& the Marlins hit a homerun at the first game we went to (& the second game, but who's counting?) & when they hit homeruns the "dinger machine" lights up & dances & spins! Here she is all lit up!


Oh hey a picture of us! Paul said he did in fact smile in this picture or attempted to but my phone takes forever for the actual picture to snap so I got this semi-smile/I hate taking pictures face from him. ;P Also, a snap of Paul in front of the "dinger machine" sign. Oh & yes all of these pictures were taken with my Nokia, hence the crappy quality. My battery on my camera died the day we got to Miami. Like dead dead. Like can't be charged dead. Figures right?

On day two of our trip we headed to a local place called Dawg House (great, great food & locally owned!), checked out Dolphin Mall in Miami & went to another Marlins game. Excuse my stupid looking face. It's stupid. ;P Also bluuurry. lol.

Day three we decided we'd check out the pools at the Resort & play putt-putt golf, since it was complimentary! Here we are on the elevator heading to the pools. Paul once again smiled but yanno camera takes too long so I got this face. hahahha He's still cute to me, so IDC.

We thought we'd head to the Miami beaches for a little while before we went to the Marlins game, the closest we got was two blocks away. Traffic was awwwwffuuulll. No joke. Then on the way out of South beach, we sat in two hours of traffic due to a crazy person eating another mans face off on the overpass. Read about it here. I couldn't make this stuff up.

We wound up missing the game due to traffic, so we went to a great ice cream place after we got back to Pompano Beach (that doesn't even promote their awesome ice cream skills on their website) The Point Cafe. They put on a laser light show & dress as mad scientists & make the ice cream in a fun way. I got cotton candy ice cream with gummy worms! It was super cool. I took video too but my phone won't let me email it to myself, so I'll have to upload it from my phone somehow. Shrug.


Here are some random images of food we ate & shots of our drive to Miami.




Minus the random acts of crazy on our trip, ie: Ants in our hotel room, no A/C in the bedroom, traffic, traffic, traffic & a crazy man eating another mans face off, we had a really nice time. lol. No really, we did. We enjoyed the baseball games, the time alone & the quiet times when we could just sit and talk for hours.

That about sums up our mini-vacay to Miami/Pompano! 6 years down. Here's to another 6... and 6 more after that... and... yeah. You get it. Did I just type 666? Rawr, I'm dangerous! ;) If you made it through this entire post, comment & tell me. You deserve a hug or a brownie, or something. This ish is loong! <3