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Gone Fishing

I have gone fishing.

Actually, a more appropriate title should be...Gone to the Beach, because that is what I am going to try to do, figuratively of course because I do have to keep working every day.

For the next month and a half, I will actually go to the beach every weekend and in my mind I will try to mentally go to the beach at the end of each work day.

It seems in the past few months I have become a little tired. A little tired, and a tad bit uninspired so I have decided to take a break from blogging for the rest of the summer.

Since I have been blogging here at heyMamas for the past three years, I have never taken a break. So now seems to be the perfect time. I fully intend to be back in September with a renewed vigor, but until that time, I am vowing to spend the rest of my summer nights laying in my ridiculously large king-sized bed, hugging my girls and loving that the only thing they have to do the next day is have fun at camp.

I hope you all return to me in the Fall and I hope even more than that, that you all have a great summer and take some time to relax and go to your own beach....whatever that place may be that makes you the happiest.

Love always,

Sadie

 

Summer Vacation Part I

This summer I am taking two vacations, one right now and one at the end of August.  We spent the first two days at the beach and the last two days at our favorite hotel out East. 

There was a whole lot of this...

And this...

And still more of this...

And about four hundred and fifty of these...

We just got home tonight, but are heading to Adventureland {and if you don't know what Adventureland is, it is exactly like this movie!} tomorrow and then off to the beach for two more days. 

And Friday, Drew and I are going back to our hotel for two full days and two full nights of uninterrupted ALONE time.  Holy crap!

NO breaking up fights, or getting interrupted, lots of sleeping in, quiet magazine reading, swimming without carrying kids on our back, ohmygod.....I can't wait.  We have only done this once before which was on our ten year wedding anniversary and Belle was nine.  We waited forever to be able to go away without our girls!

The girls will be at my Mom and Dad's house and I am so excited to just be Drew's girl for two whole days.  The sad thing is, as excited as I am, the second I drop them off I will miss them so completely. 

Here's to hoping I can get over that and enjoy my time alone with Drew.

xoxo

 

Pretty in Pink

Belle went to a birthday party this past Saturday night and when we showed up at the house to drop her off, this SUV limo thing was sitting outside the birthday girl's house.

 

 

Part of me was like, " WTF?  Seriously?  For a ten year old's birthday party?  This is what we do around here?"

And then another part of me was like "Oh my God, that is too cool!" 

I thought about how amazing these little girls must have thought this was.  Riding around the neighborhood having fun kid drinks in the back of this freaking pink preposterous gigantic limo.

They went to a restaurant and then down to the beach to take some fun pictures of everyone at the party and Belle said it was an absolute blast. 

This was either genius or totally over the top, I can't seem to figure it out.

What do you think?

 

Father's Day 2011

We had a great Father's Day yesterday with Drew. 

For one of the first times ever, I was prepared with a gift!  Drew and I are not big gift-givers although there have been a few great exchanges over the last 15 years.  Usually though, if there is ever anything that we really want, we just go and buy it and rarely wait for a special occasion to do so.

So, this year I actually made a gift!  

I made a photo book, which is even better than buying a gift.  It took me hours.... but he loved it and it was so worth it. 

Here are a few pages...

{This was the front page.  Lily got a little cut out....she wasn't very happy about it.}

{Then I wrote a little story to go along with the pictures.}

I am sure for many of you that have made photo books in the past, this is NOT impressive at all, but if you knew me, you would be sooo impressed. 

 

 

Drew absolutely loved the book and will always have it to remember why it is that we love him so very much.

Belle and Lily gave Drew wonderful gifts and Lily gave him a card, of which the cover is featured up top and the inside picture is below. Please trust me when I say this drawing looks exactly like Lily when she is on the field playing soccer. 

For real....this is what she looks like right down to the peace half shirt with the sugar lip tank top pulled all the way down over her bicycle shorts.  When she wears this outfit, she literally leaves Drew speechless as he is not sure where she is headed when she leaves the house. 

The mall or the soccer field??

 

 

And Happy Father's Day to my own Dad for always being such a beacon of wisdom, well except maybe the time he called me right after Drew asked his permission to marry me to tell me what was going to happen and then ok,  I guess when he did it AGAIN to my sister after we told him specifically, when this sort of thing happens, DO NOT TELL THE BRIDE TO BE. 

But what are those two indiscretions in a lifetime of sound decision making?

I love you DAD!

Twelve

Yesterday marked the 12th anniversary for the day I married Drew.

My love for him leading up to my wedding day was an all consuming love.  One that often times made me feel as if I couldn't breath without him. I couldn't imagine ever loving someone more than I loved him.

Than I had two beautiful babies with him and my definition and ability to love quadrupled infinitely and instantaneously.  In between the moments of sleep deprivation, late night feedings and wanting to kill him, I found myself loving him in a much more complex way.

My love for him and the role he played in my life completely changed.

A little less like I can't breathe if he is not around me, to a little more like I am strong with out him but stronger with him. Less of a need to be around him, more of a want.

Drew is the absolute center of my universe {corny but true...} and without him I don't think I could face the world everyday. He makes me so much better than I am alone.

He is an incomparable father. He is an amazing husband and generous friend and frankly I don't think I have ever loved him more than I do now after twelve years of ups and downs.

One of my many hopes, is that Drew and I have the opportunity to grow old together and have countless more anniversary's. 

{And next year I think it would only be fitting that he write a post about me.}