Catch Up

Well today I am home sick. I HATE being home sick. I feel so unproductive, I know the next day at work will be busy with catch up, and I just hate feeling sick. But since I have some time to kill, I thought I would update this.
Since the last time I posted things have changed.
First off - Justin got a new job. He will now be working at Midfirst Bank. We have been waiting to see about this for a while. The interview process was a month long it seems. He will start his new job June 1st.
Since we have been waiting to see about this job, we couldn't book a trip. We didn't know how the vacation leave would fall and all until we knew if he got the job or not. Good thing we didn't!
So no big trip for a while. Which is sad but we are so excited about the opportunity he has that it makes it ok!
His last day at his current job is May 27th. That is on a Wedesday. He starts his new job the following Monday. So we have decided to just do an extended weekend trip! We are going to leave for Dallas Thursday the 28th and go on a mini vacation! We are going to go to six flags, and a ranger's game. We just found out that Casting Crowns (one of our all time favorite chrsitian groups) are the pregame concert and the baseball game! We have been wanting to go to one of their concerts so we are SO excited that it happens to all work out like this! Se we ar ejust going to go and stay in Dallas for 3-4 nights and just have fun there!
Hopefully once he gets in this job and gets going for 6 months or so, we can take a week and go somewhere bigger for vacation. But to be honest, we will have just as much fun in Dallas as anywhere else. We just have fun together.
This weekend we decided to be spontaneous. We left Friday night and headed to the city. We have had some crazy weeks at work so we just wanted to get away. We went and stayed the night in the Marriot and just had fun. We shopped and went to the movies and ate at our favorite resturants. It was so refreshing and fun! We got back late Saturday night. Sunday we mowed and worked in the yard. I am loving the weather!
It was one of the best weekend I can remember in a long while! That is why me being sick is crazy. I have had a great weekend and felt fine. Woke up in the middle of the night last night so sick! Oh well - I just hope I am better by tomorrow!

Granny turns 75!

The other night we all got together and had cake and ice cream from my granny - she turned 75! Garrett saw a picture of the Queen of England and started point to her thinking it was Granny. She got a kick out of this! So I got her a princess crown to wear to celebrate this event! She actually wore it!
This toy that Rece has was what my brother and I use to play with when we were kids. It has been broken for a while. Rece sat there and figured out how to fix it. This kid amazes me!

If you remember from my earlier post about Garrett's 2nd birthday, he loves to blow out candles. Look how excited he gets when my brother goes to lite granny's candles.

. The kid loves cake and of course granny (or GIGI as he calls her) isn't going to make him keep his hands out of it.

Just a little taste test(that eventually turned into him grabbing handfuls of icing and eating it!)

Blowing out candles with Granny. (We were still singing at this point, he had to beat her to it!)

Granny actually helped this time!

Look how big he looks. He isn't a baby anymore!!! And he is turning into quite the photogenic child!

Garrett gets so frustrated because I take pictures constantly. If I am annoying him and I don't see him all the time, just think how annoyed our kids will be with me one day! :)