Anniversary

Seven years!!!
We have been married for seven years, and it really doesn't seem like it at all. I feel like we have known each other forever and I also feel like we just feel in love yesterday. We have been so blessed to have found each other and to have been given a family.

This year it was my turn to take care of our celebration (Josh and I take turns so we both get to enjoy the fun of planning a special occasion). We tried to keep it simple this year by celebrating in our very own home. I made us a special dinner or fresh baked bread

and homemade spinach and chicken calzones

and a last minute cake.

It was just the two of us so although we got lots of pictures of the food ... this blurry one is what he have to remember ourselves by.

Cupcake celebration

This was a cake a did for my brother (again! that makes 3 cakes for one wedding).
This one was for their reception that we held for them a month or so later. The cake is just a yellow cake with buttercream icing but covered with white sugar and real flowers.
The cupcakes were chocolate. This was especially fun to put together and tasted delicious!

T-ball

You can't see it but he is actually stopping a ball.


This is the line up at the end of each game, it is so cute. The all hold their hands out and walk past the other team saying "good game" and slapping each other some high fives.


Thought I would brag about my son a little. Elijah is playing t-ball this summer for the first time. He has improved so much since the first game! He started out having to use the t most of the time and not able to swing the bat (he wasn't used to a real bat, we had him use a foam one for safety's sake). So he has practiced quit a bit at home with me and his daddy and his last game he hit the ball without the t both times he was up! He was so proud...you could see it in the way he held his whole little body. He was also able to get four balls in the field and throw them (we still have to work on the throwing part!)

Anyhow, the whole point of the game is to learn how to play. He has learned some little lessons along the way that I dare say are far more important that the art of the game. He knows that hard work pays off and that if you want to be apart of something you have to be apart of it even when it is boring (the field), and he has also learned that if he doesn't take care of his stuff...he might have to do without (he lost his glove for one game).

I have learned some lessons too.

1. bring your own seat
2. don't forget to wash the uniform
3. I didn't know how proud I would be to see my son succeed.