Happy Early Birthday, John!

John's birthday is September 21st, Baby's due date. Since the baby will only be a week old we decided to go out for his birthday before Baby makes his grand entrance. And since Carter and Preston are at John's parents house this weekend we thought this would be a good weekend. John picked Red Lobster and Cold Stone Creamery. We were so full from dinner that we were only able to eat half of our ice cream and brought the rest home. We also stopped at a Redbox and rented a movie. Two movies in one day!!! It has been a great day!

John ordered lobster with a side of king crab and I had coconut shrimp and garlic grilled shrimp. For dessert, John had coffee ice cream with roasted almonds, heath bar and carmel. I had sweet cream with heath bar.

First Night Away From Home

John and I dropped Carter and Preston off with Grandma and Papa(John's parents) this morning. Carter was so excited to go over there. As soon as we told him he was going he kept asking to go now. I hadn't even gotten out of bed. When I told him I had to shower and get dressed he told me that I could do that afterwards.

This is the first time for me to spend a night away from Preston. I never understood the moms that had a hard time leaving their children overnight. I never had that problem with Carter. I'm not sure if it was due to the fact that I spent his first 2 weeks of life away from him while he was in NICU or the fact that I had to go back to work when he was only 8 weeks old or what. But I totally get it now. I know Preston will be just fine and Beckie will take great care of him. I just miss the little guy. It is nice to have a quiet house but goodness, it is almost too quiet!

After we dropped the boys off, we ran to the bank, ate some lunch and went to see a movie. We are in money saving mode so we decided to go the dollar movie. We saw Star Trek. I am not a Star Trek fan by any means but the movie was really good. It almost made me want to start watching the show...almost. lol We then ran over to Babies R Us and came back home. John has been working a little bit and I have been cleaning out Carter's room.

Speaking of cleaning out rooms...it is a lot of work. I need to get all of Baby's clothes put away but right now all of Preston's clothes are still in the nursery. So, I need to move all of Preston's stuff into Carter's room but before I do that I have to make room. I have been putting away clothes that don't fit Carter and just cleaning things out and organizing. Maybe it's the nesting kicking in but I really want it all done before Baby comes.

We are getting ready to go out to eat. We have decided to have John's birthday dinner tonight. He chose Red Lobster so we are off to Red Lobster and then to Cold Stone Creamery. Nothing fancy but it will be nice to have adult conversation without kid interruptions. Granted, we will probably just talk about the kids the whole time! :)

Roses

A couple of weeks ago, John surprised me with roses! He said he saw them and thought about me so he bought them! I really couldn't have asked for a better husband!! I love you, honey!! They bloomed for two weeks which was an added bonus!!

I Feel Like A Real Adult!!

John and I finally took the plunge and finally got ourselves brand new bedroom furniture. It is something that we have been wanting to do for a long time but it just never fit into our budget. It still didn't completely fit but it was definitely time. We were both so tired of having mix matched furniture and our kids had nicer furniture than we did. My cousin, Brittany, told me about Weirs Furniture Clearance. Weirs Furniture is known for its well built quality furniture and to find out they had pieces we could afford was very exciting. It only took one trip there and we picked out exactly what we wanted. We upgraded to a king size bed which is heavenly!!! We bought the bed, two night stands, 5 draw chest, and entertainment chest. We also got our new mattress from them. It is the first time either of us has had a truly good quality mattress. Our room finally looks like a REAL grown ups room. lol As soon as I get the bedding we want I will take pictures.