30 Things I Love... About my Love

I have been thinking about all the things I want to say in this post for over a week now... I just never seem to sit down and finish it. Is anyone else like that?! As you know last week my husband turned 30. I thought that it would be fun to do a post all about him... 30 things I love about my husband. It is important for me to always remember the wonderful gift god has given me in Micah. The old hymn " count your blessings" is so true... I find that remembering all of the good and wonderful things, things I love completely changes my perspective on any situation. Here we go! 1. I love the way he makes me laugh. 2. I love his smile 3. I love it when he wakes the boys up and gets them dressed. He always does and says the funniest things just to make them laugh. 4. He makes me coffee every morning 5. He takes pride in our home. He loves to make things just the way we want them to be... From flooring to painting and now a beautiful headboard! 6. He quotes movies all the time! Funny quotes of course! 7. I love his conviction to do what is right no matter what people are going to say or do. 8. I love how he holds my hand during worship at church 9. I love all the love letters he writes me 10. He puts up with all of my crazy crafting, baking, decorating fiascos! 11. His passion for ministry. God has given him amazing gifts in this area... I'm excited to see what God has in store for us. 12. I love his love for naps ( they are few and far between) 13. I love that he passes out sometimes as soon as his head hits the pillow 14. I love that his eyes are the most amazing blue when he wears contacts. 15. I love the way he looks with facial hair... Oh how I love it! 16. I love his smile 17. He always smells so good. 18. He dresses nicer than me... Most of the time 19. I love that he is such a late night snacker! 20. He comes home so happy to see us! 21. I love his passion for teaching the word of god. 22. I love it when he sings 23. He has the best hair. 24. I love it when he prays with our boys every night 25. I love that he randomly brings home Ben and jerrys for me. 26. I love how much he hates the rainy weather where we live 27. I love how he irons EVERYTHING! 28. I swear he can fix anything! He took apart the porta filter on my espresso machine and somehow got all the pieces back together! 29. I love his love for coffee! 30. I love how he loves me. I love you Micah, I will love you as long as I live. Every day I will work my hardest to show you how much I love You "I was walking along looking for somebody and then suddenly I wasn't anymore" -A.A Milne

Micah's Birthday Extravaganza

 This week we celebrated my amazing husbands 30th birthday. I planned a simple dinner at our house on his special day, my mom, brother and sister in law came too because it was on the day they normally come over. We are trying to spend as much time with them in the next few days because Brendan and Angela are moving out of state this week.  We were so glad they could come over on thursday to celebrate with us. I made stuffed shells, ( Micah didn't ask for them but he always comments that I never make them so I thought this would be the perfect occasion) I made Banana cream pie cupcakes for dessert. If you have never heard of it... Annies Eats Blog is awesome! I seriously have made 3 things from her blog this week! The cupcakes turned out amazing... of course they took about 3 hours start to finish. They were sooo worth it! My man is well worth it! It turned out to be a great night!

 THE CUPCAKES!!!!

 Daddy and his boys

 Noah insisted on decorating the house for Daddys Birthday. We hung these blue and white pom pom's above the table, Noah insisted on hanging the " Handy Manny" birthday banner ( you can see it in the background) I also put a strip of craft paper on the table for us to write notes to Micah on. It was definitely a hit with the boys!

 I have been planning a " Mustache Bash" surprise Birthday party for Micah for months! I have been so incredibly stressed out, because I swear he knew what was going on! I had to hide all of the decor at my in laws house because I was afraid Micah would find them! We had the party at our church this Saturday. We arranged a " man date" for Micah that afternoon, some of his friends took him out for the afternoon and brought him to the church. A huge thank you goes out to our decoy's! You guys are so creative and I am so thankful for friends that love my husband! Micah was completely surprised! It was a wonderful time with friends that we love like family! Of course... I remembered as soon as the party started a handful of people that I forgot to invite.

 Our uncle Mel and Myron wearing their mustaches

 Aaron and Shelbi

 Micah Joshua and I

 Baby Matthew

 Ginney and John

 Jenn and Gino

 I made mustache lollipops... they turned out so stinkin cute!

 cupcakes  with mustache cookies on top! Thank you Jennie for the delish cookies!

 Lacie, Mason and Mark

 Me and my Mom

 Angela, Brendan and my Mom

 Aaron and Naomi

 Micah's parents

 Micah and his dad

 Jennie and Lance

 Danica, Crystal and William

 Noah refused to put a mustache on... I finally caught him right before he took it off!

 Alyssa, Kyle and baby Autumn

 The centerpieces

 Me and Micah

 The Eagle family

 Look at these guys!

 The Terry's and Hernandez families

 Cammie and baby Matthew

Matt, Cammie, and Baby Matthew

I would have not been able to pull this off without help from so many friends! Thank you so very much to everyone who helped out with food, set up and everything else! You have no idea what a blessing it was to Micah to know how much you all love him. This will forever be a day that we will remember! happy Birthday to my wonderful husband!

Jumpin Rattlin and Rollin...

 I wanted to share some pictures from a recent play date we attended at a bouncy house place in our area. We went with 4 other moms ( and 1 dad tagged along) and all of our kiddos! It was such a nice time! The last time we went to this particular place it was craziness... kids everywhere! This time we planned to go on a day that we knew most kids were at school. A much better idea! Of course the photos are not very good, the place is in a warehouse... too dark so I had to use my flash.. ick... Anyway here are some pics of our day.

 Noah was so excited to be there

 My sister in law Cammie and baby Matthew

 Who is that sassy red head??? Love you Jennie!

 Joshua found this little car and played with it the ENTIRE time! He loved it!

 Joshua ( still on the car) and his cousin Matthew sharing secrets

 ... sweet boys

 Look at Matthews blue eyes! Gorgeous!

 Noah having a meltdown because his friend Grace didn't want to play with him, Oh the life of a 4 year old...

 Joshua still on the car

 Landon playing air hockey.

 Joshua so badly wants to be one of the big boys!

Oh look, Joshua found another car!

Thank you Jenn, Lacie, Cammie, Sarah and Sam for coming! I love my time with friends!

My Sweet Boys

  I Love snowy mornings! I know... I know... most of you will hate me for saying that, but I just love them.  (well, as long as they stay in the winter season I do) I love to take pictures of my boys out in the snow! It feels like it is the only time I can actually get the two of them to look at me for a picture! I wasn't too successful with Joshua this time around... but Noah sure seemed to ham it up for the camera! Enjoy!

 Noah calls this his gross face

 ... and his nice face

 my not so little baby...

I am so blessed to be a mommy to these two precious boys. I love them so much! My cup runneth over