Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Wanted: New show for Monday Nights

This last week I was getting so excited to see one of my favorite shows...
I've always loved Jon and Kate plus 8 because there are not a lot of family friendly shows you can watch on television. For me it was something that I could watch that I didn't have to change the channel, and I loved seeing the ups and downs of parenting.

Monday night I put the little boy to bed, do a few chores, and then finally sit down to watch the season premiere. To my disappointment, it was kind of like watching one of these:Yeah, pretty painful to watch... and not like "the Office" painful where you can laugh at the awkwardness, but just sad, really sad. I just can't imagine where the rest of the season can go.

So needless to say there will be no more Jon and Kate plus 8 for me... which actually works out for the best, maybe I can use that 30 minutes towards working on that food storage closet :D

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A long time coming...

Yes I need to practice this whole picture uploading, don't know where to start typing, confusion thing... but I have sadly been neglecting our poor blog!! No posts for couple of months... I am sorry to say I am ashamed of myself, I apologize. But on the up and up I have some lovely pictures for you guys... everyone say YAY!!! :D

Above is us at Chris' graduation from bootcamp... I just love Gabriel's expression: Who is this guy?! :D But we are so proud of Chris and the hard work he did!
You have to love the mossy trees!! Aren't they cool?
My loving parents came to visit us a month ago and we had a blast!! I'm so grateful I have such wonderful parents, they are truly amazing. This was outside of the building for tours to Fort Sumter. Gabriel just loved that fountain!
Above us we have the South Carolina beaches... they are fun but they can get oh so crowded! And below us we have Chris and Gabriel at Easter time. Chris is looking spiffy in his Navy uniform :D So funny story about this egg hunt. There were about 5 kagillion kids and parents and only like 2 eggs (okay yes I am exaggerating) But seriously it's not to far off! They had different sections for the different ages and 1-3 year olds had their parents help. So here is the conversation I hear from one of the mothers after the egg hunt is done.

Mother: Wow, that went fast! I don't think a lot of people got eggs this year.
Father: (glances in the basket his wife is holding) Oh yeah?
Mother: Yeah... they really need to put more eggs out there, I think some kids only got one... it's kind of sad.
Son: Mommy didn't we get eggs?
Mother: Sshhh!!!
Eliza:(silently glances over to the other woman's basket to reveal she had 20 eggs all to herself... yes my friends, she was the elusive EGG-HOG-A-MOMMA!!!)
This is our little weed patch outside that floods everytime it rains, which makes for a wonderful pond... if only we had some fish!
Gabriel looking cute :D
We have to keep ourselves entertained during the hurricane season... yes folks that's right HURRICANE SEASON! Luckily, me and Gabriel both love that South Carolina rain so I guess it works out okay :D

Will keep posting... hopefully more often :D
With love- Eliza