For those of you who aren’t Jake and the Neverland Pirates fans, the password is “yo ho ho!”. 😉

We have had a crazy couple of weeks and on top of also racing to get my deadline finished for book 3 of the Paige series on May 1st (which ironically is also the official release date for Paige Torn!!), I haven’t had a lot of free time to blog. So, I decided to stuff all of the pictures into this one post. ha! 🙂

Some of my favorite moments over the last few weeks:

Lunch date at Costco with my favorite two year-old (I kept hearing the Sonic commercial guys in my head all through lunch: “YOU’RE A CHEAP DATE!” ha!).

 Playground time with my local wanna be football player.

Zoo trips with dear friends. Someday I expect a very elaborate thank you card from Nathan for surrounding him with all these beautiful girls. 😉

 Love how little these two look with my Jon. 🙂

 Fun times with a best friend.

 My beautiful mom and me at the Chocolate and Coffee Festival.

Dyeing Easter eggs. Love his careful expression.

Easter sunrise service with Hayley. Lincoln Brewster was the guest musician this year and Nathan LOVED him. He kept raising his hands and screaming, “WOOO!” The Krispy Kreme he ate during one of the songs may have contributed to his excitement over it.

Discovering the treasures in his Easter basket (yes, that is a “real” pirate sword – thanks Gammy!).

Hunting the Easter eggs.

Laughing with Gammy.

Celebrating two beautiful girls turning two.

Giving the girls flowers. Nathan picked all the dandelions out of the yard and gave them to all of the little girls at the party. We are in trouble.

 Precious friends!!

Biking to the park with the neighbor boys. Love this.

 Cool new aviators. 😉

Love this – everyday we get to dress up in our pirate gear and hunt “Crocodile Creek”. 😉 Love my happy little pirate boy. 🙂

Whew! Okay. What have you guys been up to???

… has included a lot of THIS:

Yo ho, mateys! We are SO into pirates right now. 😉 (Don’t you love his “pirate face”? ha!)

Praying that you all have a wonderful Easter richly blessed by our risen Lord!

For those of you waiting with me, here is our hope for tomorrow: “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.” – Isaiah 40:28-31

Love to you all!

I was going to write a little bit about our weekend and post pics of us going to the zoo with the Lunch Bunch, but a certain little boy who lives here woke up at 1:45am last night throwing up and pretty much did that until close to 6am.

Poor little guy. We didn’t get tons of sleep last night. Poor Jon was up all night cleaning up our baby and still had to go to work today. 🙁 So thankful for my amazing husband! Nathan seems to be a little better this morning. He’s been able to keep toast down for a little bit. Hoping that continues to be the case! He’s so into pirates lately that I did a special treat and rented Peter Pan on Amazon Instant video for him. So far that seems to be helping. 🙂

So, in the meantime, I wrote about my start in writing over on Scribble Chicks. Would love for you to come by!

Stay healthy, everyone!

 Last week, we went to a brand new indoor trampoline park here in town.

And guys, it was SO fun. Nathan went ballistic. We went from nine until ten in the morning and he was fighting sleep as we drove out of the parking lot. You know it’s fun when you are there for an hour and it completely wipes you out!

We all got “tattoos” at the jump place and Nathan thought it was amazing. He is such a boy. 

Afterward, we got all dressed up (ha!) and headed out for an anniversary dinner at… Chick-fil-a. Ha! 😉 Jon was a little sick and we decided to save our real anniversary dinner for another night, so we went to the only place we could think of where we could still have some semblance of a date. It worked great. Nathan scarfed down his nuggets and fruit so he could go play and Jon and I got to sit there for about an hour talking while a sweaty boy would occasionally run off, slurp down some apple juice and leave again. 🙂

Love my family! Excited to see what God has in these next five years. 🙂

 Five years ago, I could never have imagined the wonderful, incredible, fun, exhausting, tearful and joyous adventure God had planned for me and this amazing guy as I said the words, “I do.”

I love you, my sweet Jon. I am so blessed to be your wife! I cannot wait to see what He has up next for us!

S is for Spring Break

Right now, Jon is on Spring Break and while we discussed a lot of different places for us to travel to this week, we ultimately decided that for finances and for just relaxation, it would be good to stay home. We’ve done a few projects around the house and today, we have spent the entire day resting around the house. Very needed! Nathan has been super into pirates lately so Jon made him a “Captain Hook” pancake and a Mickey Mouse pancake. He was pretty stoked. 😉

S is for Skiing

Nathan skied for the first time this last weekend! I was SO proud of him. Big thanks to Uncle Bryant for breaking his back teaching him! 😉

Isn’t he about the cutest skier you’ve ever seen?

S is for Silliness

 
Gammy found these matching snow shirts for her and Nathan – so cute!

And I love this picture. Nathan was “teaching” Pops how to play a game on the iPad. 😉

S is for Snow

Someone loved, loved, loved the snow – he is his daddy’s boy.

Such a fun trip with the family!!

 S is for So…what are you up to this spring break?? 🙂

We have just come back from a fantastic (and very short!) trip to Durango to do some relaxing, playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate.

And guess who went skiing for the first time ever?

I have lots of fun pictures to share tomorrow! 🙂

This week is Jon’s spring break, so we are soaking up the Daddy time. This morning, Jon made us pancakes and we were talking about what we could do today while we were eating. Nathan set his fork down, held his hands up and with big eyes said, “GUYS. Here’s what we could do! Let’s go to the mall and take our suitcases and ROLL THEM THROUGH THE MALL.”

We did not end up doing that today. Just so you know.

I walked in the other morning to find this in Nathan’s play room. So I asked him, “Where are all the cars going, Nathan?”

He looked at me and said, “Well, they are in a race, so they aren’t going anywhere.”

Truer words have never been spoken. Smart boy. 😉