Five years! :)

Well, Derek and I officially made it to the five year mark in our marriage! Last Saturday was our 5th anniversary! The past five years have been awesome! I am so lucky that I found Derek! I always think about when I was younger and things I would have done way different in relationships and just life in general if I knew then what I do today. I really feel though that wrong choices and bad decisions helped me develop into who I am now. They help me appreciate the good man that I get to spend my life with even more. Life led me to him and I'm so grateful for that! On our anniversary he brought me roses when he got off work and then we went to Roseville and had dinner just the two of us. Its always good to spend time alone.

This week we took another trip to Tahoe, but this time we took the kids with us. It was a lot of fun. We took them swimming, in a heated inside pool of course. We also took them bowling. It was Jax's first time and Peyton's second. Her first was when she was to young to walk so it might as well have been her first too. They loved it! I adore the picture above! You can see Peyton so excited about the two or three pins she just knocked down and Derek is loving her excitement!

Jax was just excited to throw a ball and hit some pins! He did have a hard time though waiting for the ball to come back and also waiting his turn. He's saying, "cheese!" in the picture. He actually got his first haircut this week! I'm excited that he doesn't have all of his little fly aways that had just recently started to curl, but sad because he's starting to look more like a kid and less like a toddler.

Peyton is starting to turn into a careful little girl! She kept telling me to get back when Jax and daddy went to take their turn. I've been noticing her worrying about little things every once in a while that kids her age normally wouldn't think twice about. She's becoming aware of dangers which is good, but I do enough worrying for the both of us lol!

Jax was getting cranky, but Dora Gummies changed that quick. He's been saying, "ya!" now which is soo refreshing from his, "mo" which is supposed to be no. It's funny when he says no he sounds like Gary off of sponge bob, "meoo"... I'm still not used to it though. When I ask him a question and he shouts, "ya!" it's still totally cute! It's sad to think that one day he'll say it and it will be another normal response instead of making me smile every time.

Three kids is definitely going to be an adjustment. I'm so excited to have one more angel to add to our happy home, but nervous at the same time, which I think is normal. I remember being nervous with Jax. I just want to make my children feel that they are loved equally, but different because they are their own little person. I always want them to feel like I will take time out of every day to appreciate them, tell them that I love them and set that time away just for them individually. I know that life gets hectic and I'm sure when they're older it will be even crazier, but I really feel that's important in building my relationship with them. I want their 18 or so years at home to be remembered as happy times and for them to know that I will love them no matter what and they can always come to me with anything.

The best part of it all is knowing that Derek feels the same way. I love him even more every time I see him with the kids.

Yesterday I had to get my blood work done in Roseville so we took the kids to a park that was like a block away from our old apartment. We used to take Peyton there when she was one. 

Jax actually swung! He loved the swings when he was just old enough to sit, but lately he's been too afraid to even get in one. I was shocked that he let Derek push him in them.

OK, so the craziest thing happened while we were there. When we lived at our apartment we would always see two ducks swimming in the pool out back and Peyton, who was only one at the time, would go outside and feed them bread with us. We even named them Willard and Willamina. She loved it. When we would take her to the park some times they would be there. I swear these are the same ducks from two years ago and we saw them yesterday in the park. I know ducks look the same, but I'd put money on these being the same ones that we used to feed and play with. We were able to relive that fun memory for a minute and it was pretty cool.