10 years today!!

WOW, it has been 10 years today since John and I made it official and became a couple!!! In that 10 years we have gone through A LOT!! From me graduating HS, to him moving out on his own, me going away to school and him following a year later, to getting married, and having 2 beautiful children. I wouldn't change the last 10 years for anything!! I can't believe it has been that long already!!!

I know that once you get married you typically don't celebrate dating anniversaries, but I'm a goober and still at least acknowledge them. Since it is 10 years today, I thought it deserved some recognition!! John and I weren't able to go out for our wedding anniversary just shy of a month ago, because of family being in town, and because we went out to a nice dinner while on our weekend getaway during July. We figured we would save it for now!! So, since this "dating" anniversary falls on a Wednesday, we are going to shoot for going out on Saturday!

Who ever thought that John and I would be still going strong 10 years later....ok, most everyone of our friends said that we would grow old together!!! That was back when we first started dating too!!! Look at us now!!!

Aidan took this one....it was in our kitchen while we were making dinner/feeding the baby/putting dishes away.

Us at Brookie's baptism...not great but it's one of the most recent. We were up on the alter hence no smiles.....

**We obviously don't take many pictures of the two of us....better change that. Then again I'm in next to no pictures!**

I was lazy and posted them through dropshots...

Ok our videos were posted separately through our dropshots account so don't forget to read the post below the videos!! Isn't she stinking adorable!!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Brookie's crawling and a new camera!!

Well, we survived the heat...just barely. We had gotten to the point of caving in and buying a new A/C unit....or rather one in general (we don't have one) when the temps started dropping and our apartment started cooling off again. So no A/C unit. Otherwise....what a week.

Brookie got her 5th tooth, and started crawling all within 2 days of each other. I FINALLY got a video of it tonight while we were at my in-law's house for dinner. She is so cute.

We got another new camera this week....well it wasn't planned exactly. So I asked John to clean out my car and bring everything up to our apartment and he did. Everything except one back that was a plastic grocery bag that was tied shut. In it I had an outfit of Brookie's, my crossword puzzle, a burp rag that we got as a gift, a bunch of her toys, both my favorites and hers. AND the thing I was initially most upset about, our nice camera. John thought it was garbage and was trying to help and threw it away in our dumpster. When he got home from work on Monday I asked where the camera was. He thought it was still on our counter. I told him it was in the plastic bag in the car. He got this oh crud look on his face and told me that he threw it away.

I got upset.

He dumpster dove.

Camera was gone forever. They came and got the dumpster during the day and tossed the contents. Bye bye camera. Boo. He felt so badly and I yelled at him for a bit...then apologized because I knew he wouldn't deliberately throw it away. We ended up at Target that evening and bought ourselves (or rather me-he calls it my camera) a new camera. I like it but don't love it. Some features are a bit weird. I was just going through and was noticing that a ton of our pics are really grainy and I'm really frustrated by that. I got spoiled on our nice camera and so now nothing compares to that. I guess we might have to sit down and read over the owner's manual. Oh well.

He still feels badly but at least I have a way to take video and pictures of our kiddos. Anyhoo, I need to head to bed now. I have been pulling nights that are WAY to long and I am so tired today....even the dishes are going to have to wait and if you know me that doesn't usually happen. Alrighty....good night!!

99...100...101...102...103...104...105....110

Yes you read that right that is EXACTLY how our thermometers went today. We started our day in the 70's I believe (ask my hubby-I was still asleep when he left for work). By the time the kidlets and I woke up it was 88 outside and only 10:30am!! Or at least that was when I finally turned the computer on. Our apartment was a toasty 85. We were on track for a VERY LONG and HOT day. I decided to wash our towels since all our pool towels were dirty or wet (not that they wouldn't dry but I hadn't had my morning coffee so I wasn't even thinking). By the time I was finally showered, and ready to go along with the kidlets, it was 90 degrees inside and 95 outside and only 11:15am!!! YIKES!!!

I had decided at that point that we were NOT eating at home and that we would go grab me my ICED coffee and then head directly to Target....I did do a slight detour to Lane Bryant (their A/C was HEAVENLY) to buy some shorts but ended up buying the wrong size so now I can't even wear them. Grrr.....then we were off to Target!! We grabbed lunch since Aid wanted oatmeal for breakfast and I didn't want to feed him that because HOT day+warm food=way to hot for oatmeal day. He then refused cereal so he didn't eat. He scarfed 3 (count them 1...2....3!!!) hot dogs and I didn't even care today....he was happy!! (normally this would NEVER happen). We did our errands and then hopped in my cool....err....I mean melting car and headed to Alexa's.

We hung out all afternoon there waiting for the Comcast dude to hook up her cable, phone and Internet. He came at the end of the time and he said it had been a day for him too. Her place was cooler than mine but the kiddo's weren't having it or rather Brookie wasn't. So she finally crashed and Aid was shortly behind her. Of course it was like 5:30pm. I got them in the car, couldn't drive because the steering wheel was hot, does this ever happen here??? and headed straight to DQ. I might buy stock in DQ because we have been going so frequently lately. Got some ice cream and went straight to the pool. Thank goodness we had swim appropriate clothes....sort of. Jumped in and stayed there for about 2 hours. When we were done we came home to a 99 degree apartment. So fun. Changed into dry clothes and went to an air conditioned restaurant for dinner. This heat is going to cost me a lot of money in food I think....

We tried to go chase a sunset but got there to late so that's on the agenda for tomorrow. At least it will be cool. Came home and tried to sleep. It's now officially 1am and I have to work at 6am. Our apartment is 88.4 degrees and hasn't dropped anything for the past 2 hours. I am suppose to sleep in this??? Oh well. Supposedly we are going to cool off a bit....I'll believe it when I see it!! Anyhoo, off to grab a bunch of wet wash clothes and hit the hay for a few hours anyhow. Hope everyone else is staying cool.

Oh and the high in Redmond was 110 degrees at 5:30 today. YIKES!!! Wonder what tomorrow has in store for us??!!!! Nighty night!!

It's getting hot in here....

WOW it is a hot tamale in our apartment!!! What a week we are having!! Yesterday got up to 94 and today, well we are already at 95 and it is getting hotter. Our apartment is 93 degrees and both kiddos are O-U-T!!! Brookie fought it and Aidan was just a stinker because he was tired and hot. I finally dragged him back to his room (I was putting B to sleep and he kept waking her whining and trying to lay next to her, on her everywhere!). He C-R-A-S-H-E-D on his bed. The rest of the week is suppose to be hotter until Friday.

So this morning, we woke up and went to the park and met Janelle there. We only lasted an hour. The kids didn't argue at all about leaving. It was interesting because usually they don't want to leave. Janelle and met up again at Target and walked around for awhile and got a few things that we both needed for our families. I then treated everyone to ICEE's which were definitely much needed. The kids were a bit out of control (as usual around each other) but next best thing to hot apartments.

We are doing everything that we can to stay cool but it will be a long next few days.... Lots of pool time. Both kiddos slept in underwear and diaper respectively. We are just trying to stay cool.....ok, gotta run....Brookie woke up...now to survive the heat until Aid wakes up. Stay cool!!