Our Weekend

On Friday night, we went out to a nice restaurant (where I had the best crab cakes I've ever tasted) to celebrate our anniversary. A week late since we had a work function to attend last weekend, but still, we had a great time and two hours passed over dinner in what seemed like just a few minutes! Every year I have made a scrapbook with photos of the past year (our "year" goes from June 15 of one year to June 14 of the next- which actually ends up coinciding nicely with Carolyn's year, too!) and on the night we celebrate our anniversary, we go out to dinner and page through our memories of the past year. It's always a highlight of the year for us and a great time to reconnect.
One of my favorite things that has evolved from this little tradition is that I always save the last page the book for a record of a special "discussion" that we have every year. One year, we talked about the current events of the year, another, we talked about things we would miss in Phoenix and what we were looking forward to in Michigan, last year we talked about our hopes and dreams for "Small" (since I was due to deliver 3 weeks from when we celebrated). This year in celebration of 5 years together, we went over the "highlights" of the last 5 years- year by year, the things that stand out as turning points, places where we can now see God's gracious hand leading us. It was a really neat time of remembering His faithfulness to us in the past, and to be confident of His continued grace for the days to come.

After our wonderful dinner together, we kept the romance going- since Grandma was babysitting, we snagged the opportunity to run some errands! We took full advantage of the delights of walking through Target without anybody in the front of the shopping cart! :) Maybe not exactly the way we would have spent an evening in years past, but it really turned out to be a fun time. :)

On Saturday, we attended another graduation party for the senior OB residents who are finishing up this week (these people really know how to celebrate! :)) We (minus Carolyn) floated down a river with a bunch of people Brad works with ending up at the home of one of his attendings, which is right on the river, where we enjoyed a great barbeque with everybody- cooked by Chef Grandpa! :) Carolyn of course, almost immediately found the stairs at the house and had a ball going up and down them. She is actually learning to go down the "right" way, for which we are grateful. :)


Our little gal is getting closer to being a "real" toddler"! More and more she's been practicing her walking and really depends on our support only for some added balance. It's fun to see her so proud of herself when she "walks" across the room.
My sister made a comment that I've not been posting enough video. So here's one for you- Carolyn's first Corn on the Cob. I got the camera out because when I first handed her the corn on the cob and told her it was a little hot, she kept saying "haaaa-t" over and over. Also, she's been saying this funny "mmmmm-ee" sound which I was trying to capture. Overall, you won't hear any of that (someday I'll be able to capture her sweet voice on the video camera), but you might see a cute little girl nibbling on corn, which is something, after all. :)