Loving our big boy

Owen has grown up so much! He's becoming more of a boy, rather than the baby we've known. Sometimes I really feel like I have a 5 or 6 year old! He's also becoming very even tempered. He rarely throws temper tantrums anymore (He went through the "terrible twos" stage WAY early... like when he was a little over a year he started that temper tantrum phase.) Now, we pretty much only see mini-tantrums when he's tired or hungry. It's so fun being able to take him to do fun things now too. Over the weekend, we took Owen to this amusement park that I have a lot of memories of. The Great Escape (Now, also known as Six Flags apparently) in Lake George, NY. It's only about 25 minutes from our house. Which is GREAT! We're thinking of buying season passes now, so that we can use them for the rest of this year, Fright Fest, and for the 2009 season. Owen had such a good time, and didn't want to leave.

It's just so great to finally be able to make some wonderful memories with him. I'm currently planning a December 2009 Disney Cruise! I'm so excited about it because Brian and I have been wanting to go on a cruise together, and the thought of getting to take Owen and do fun things with him is pretty cool too. We were going to go to Vancouver, BC, for the winter Olympics. But, we decided that Owen will still be a little young to grasp the winter events that he's watching, and it might be better to go to the Olympics when he's a little older. Plus, we decided it's more tempting to go on a warm vacation, rather than a cold one.

Officially fall?

Wow.... is this falls' entrance? A couple weeks ago there was a frost advisory, so I covered all of my tropical plants, and annuals with sheets so that they didn't have an early demise. Well, there wasn't a frost advisory last night. It actually seemed like a typical late summer night. There was a gentle breeze and it was probably about 65 degrees outside, so we kept out windows open at night. (Nothing better than hearing the crickets at night. I always take advantage of a comfortable, reasonably chilly night where we can turn off our a/c and enjoy the breeze) But anyway, this morning we woke up and it was freezing! 62 degrees in our house, and 42 degrees outside! Brrrrr!! We usually keep our thermostat between 68 and 72. Immediately I was like poor Owen! Because he sleeps alone in his bed and doesn't have anyone to snuggle with to keep warm. So we did the unthinkable.... we turned on the heat! hahaha! I can't believe it. It's September 17th and we have the heat on! I hope it will warm up a little bit so that Owen and I can go pick apples today.

From Spring to Fall?

Yes, it's been a while since I have updated... and it's already almost fall! I can't believe how quickly time goes by. The summers have always seemed to go by fast. I remember as a child, feeling like the summer months were the shortest out of the year, when in fact, the sunlight hours were the longest. I guess those sayings are true: "Time flies when you're having fun" "Busy hours are short hours". Which reminds me, that's probably why my summer went by so fast. We have been incredibly busy lately with tons of house projects. I can't wait until we get to see the completed result. The final product. Well, I don't know if there will really be a final product anytime soon because we are planning on living here for about 20 years (Until our kids are out of high school) and you know how we are with our house projects- we are constantly doing something. So I'm sure we will find a million things to do with the house after our projects are completed.

In other news, I'm sure a lot of you have been asking about #2. We haven't started trying yet. I still have my IUD (it's great being able to just plan not to try until a certain date. Because we already had our surprise baby and we wanted to have a little bit of a plan with this one) I knew that I wanted my kids to be 3 years apart so the time is approaching soon! It's still going to be a couple more months until I get my IUD removed. It's really exciting though, planning for another one. I have to keep reminding myself of what it's like to have a baby in the house, because Owen is a toddler now... has been for over a year now. I've been sorting through Owen's baby clothes, and setting up the nursery. (It used to be an office, and I moved the office to another room) It feels like I'm already pregnant. I call it being psychologically pregnant because I'm not physically, but emotionally I'm getting prepared for it. I loved being pregnant so much and I enjoyed every minute of it. I'm just really getting excited for experiencing it all over again with my next.

I'm not sure who even reads this thing because most of you keep up to date with my blogs on myspace. But Holly commented on how I should update, and I realized that it had been a wicked long time ago. Oh and don't take it personally if you're not on my "friends and family" list to the right. It's so time consuming, putting links & labels on here, that I haven't gotten around to it.