For Valentine's Day

An excerpt from our wedding ceremony:

God created us male and female,

and gives us marriage

so that husband and wife may help and comfort each other,

living faithfully together in need and in plenty,

in sorrow and in joy,

in sickness and in health,

throughout all their days.

God gives us marriage

for the well being of human society,

for the ordering of family life,

and for the birth and nurture of children.

God gives us marriage as a holy mystery

in which a man and woman are joined together

and become one.

I truly believe that getting married was the best decision I have ever made. Eric is my very best friend and without my love for him I would have never had Annie.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Great Day!

Annie is 5 months old today!! I can not believe it! It seems like just yesterday that I found out that I was pregnant!!

She has sleep through the night the past two night. We have started giving her a bath, feeding her, and she goes right to sleep. Last night she went to bed at 9:30, woke up at 5:30, and is just got up at 8:00! I stayed up this morning after she went back to sleep. I went for a walk/jog for about 25 minutes before Eric went to work. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I can actually jog. It's been over a year since I really tired to run, so I figured I would hardly be able to run.

I then came home spent a little bit of time with Eric, washed some dishes, started a load of laundry, and did 15 minutes of Denise Austin's fat-blasting Yoga. 15 minutes is about as much as I can handle. Denise Austin is no joke!

Eric's uncle died late last week so our weekend didn't really start off to wonderfully. Eric went to the wake on Friday night. His uncle had been sick with Huntington's disease for 15 years, he wasn't getting any worse, but could no longer speak or walk. So everyone was partially comforted that he is no longer suffering, but it is always sad to lose your husband/father/uncle/brother. His Aunt Liz and cousins Danielle and Ashley are really sweet and I feel really bad for them. I can't imagine what they are going through. Eric also went to the funeral on Saturday. He said it was sad, but he was able to meet some family members he ha never met before.

Other than that we had a great weekend. The weather was so nice. On Saturday we went to Stone Park and Annie played on a swing and slide for the first time.
On Sunday we decided to go visiting and go on a picnic. We went to see Eric's maternal grandma and then we went to Sunset Park for a picnic. I love to picnic. Poor Eric had to take me on a picnic nearly every weekend when we lived in Greenville. I really miss the town commons there.
Annie loves to be outside, something I am very grateful for as Eric and I also love to be outside.
She was such a good baby yesterday. After the picnic we came back to the house to feed and change her. Then we went to visit Eric's mom and the rest of his family. After that we went over to my mom's house for just a little bit.

Annie is on the floor playing with her cute little feet, her favorite past time lately. I hope to take her for a walk later on the afternoon. Maybe after she takes her morning nap. I'm also planning on planting some bulbs my mom gave me.

I'm still waiting on Annie's cupcake cloth diaper cover. I really expect it to be here soon. I can't wait to have something other than the noisy plastic diaper covers I have right now. I wish I had a waterproof diaper cover as cute as the one Sissy got for Annie for Christmas!