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Here is the link to Ryan's pics from Turner first baseball game!!

Fun Long Weekend

After a really stressful day last Thursday, I am happy that Ryan had taken off Friday for a super long weekend. Thursday Sadie went in for surgery and what the vets all thought was the issue was not the issue after all. She had a liver biopsy and she was spayed and now we are waiting for the results from the biopsy. Hopefully they will be coming in this week! We are hoping it is going to be good news too! I will keep everyone posted, so I am not going to go through all the options of what it could be. However they did the surgery late in the day and anyone who knows small dogs, knows that they have problems coming out of anesthesia if their temperature drops too low. Well, that is exactly what happened and I had to go and get the dog and take her to the Pet ER. She was there for 12 hours and a huge amount of money later we now have her home. (I got her at 6:30 am on Friday!!)

Also on Thursday, Ryan had to have all the brakes replaced in the Element because he was not thinking and ran them all to basically nothing! So add that bill to the one for the dog and I was clearly and little frustrated with him. I would not have been upset if he would have had them checked all along and they needed to be replaced, but of course he did not and he just figured the AWFUL noise his car was making would go away! I took care of it, and now his car is drivable again!

After getting the dog on Friday morning, we had to take the kids to have blood drawn for their lead tests. The was uneventful, even though they did not like it! They were really good and we were really proud of them. Ryan held them, and after Reese was done she gave him the evil stare down for about an hour! It was hilarious! He kept telling her she was bothering him by doing that, but she was really not happy with him!

Friday night we had Haley, Carl, Chrissy and Brian over for some Wii time and some wine! It was a lot of fun! I look forward to doing it again soon!

Saturday was Jeffrey's 3rd Birthday party. The kids had a good time. Ryan stayed with them. I had baby Ryan too and so I brought him home and Haley and the girls came over and we cooked out. Baby Ryan was tired that he fell asleep while eating dinner! It was a lot of fun, and the kids are still talking about Jeffrey's party!

Sunday we went up to my in laws and cooked out! It was so pretty out and the kids had a blast! We let them run out a lot of their energy and of course they loved seeing their Grammy and Pop!!

Yesterday was the best day of the whole weekend! Ryan, his dad and Turner all went to the Yankee Oriole game for Father's day! They had a blast! Reese, Grammy and I went to the Baltimore Aquarium and then to lunch to the Cheesecake Factory! Reese loved the fish and the frogs at the aquarium! I think a membership may be in our future! Everything is so geared towards the kids! I can't wait to take both kids again soon! She loved the dolphin show too! The Cheesecake factory had amazing food and I loved hanging out with my mil! She is awesome and we are really close! We are looking forward to doing more boy/girl days in the future!

I have pics from this weekend, but I just need to get them off of everyones cameras! I will post them hopefully in the next day or two!

Awesome Weekend

This past weekend was great! Friday night Ryan had the graduation for the Lockheed class the year above him. He said it went well and now all the planning for it and him being crazy all the time is OVER! Well, the planning is over, but him being crazy may never end!!

Saturday we ran errands in the morning with the kiddos. Then Ry cut the grass while they napped, and at 3 his mom came by to get the kids! We cooked out with our neighbors, Marge and Dave! It was a really yummy dinner and then we had game night where we all got more than a little intoxicated! It is midnight and Ryan is requesting more shots!! It was a lot of fun, and needless to say one of the 4 of us did not make it up before 6pm on Sunday... Marge!

Sunday Ry and I woke up a little after 10 and got ready to meet Haley and Carl at the light rail. We all went to the Orioles game, which started with a 2 hour rain delay and us drinking at Sliders! There was beer, Carl disappearing on the phone, the 50 year old grinder, more beer, tiny bathrooms, more beer, lots of laughing, more beer and then a short little walk to the game! Once that the game we found "our seats" and got nachos and had a great time, especially when the second rain delay happened and we found even better seats! I am looking forward to our next game and trying out our new game out!

Friendships

So I have been thinking a lot lately about how lucky I am to have some of the friends that I have. I have been so blessed in the friend department. I have some amazing friends from my past! My best friend from childhood is really happy and living in Baltimore with her girlfriend. She is awesome and I love all the time that we spend together! I look forward to the cookouts this summer ;)
I still talk to my best friend from high school, who is pregnant with her 3rd! She is living with her hubby who is in the Army! They have beautiful children and I am so happy that they are still such a lovely couple! Being in their wedding it is awesome to see them taking life by the reins and really thriving!! I still continue to wish them all the best!!
Then there are my good friends from Gettysburg who made me some of who I am today! Rachel is an amazing friend who has really impacted my life in a positive way. There are times that I feel we are in completely different places in life, yet we are still close. I love her to pieces and I am so happy that she an Matt are happy in love! I hope that through time we are able to keep our friendship close!
Homie is also one of my closest friends from the burg and we are still close too! I love her, she makes me laugh and smile all the time! She has a beautiful little boy and another little one on the way! I know that she is always there and I look am happy to be her friend:)
Greeny is another friend from gburg and even though we were roommates, we have really become closer since leaving! She and her amazing hubby are expecting their first son in July! YAY! I am so happy we have become closer and I know I can talk to her about anything! She is truly and amazing person, and I know she is going to be an amazing mom!
Then there are all the friends who I see regularly and I can't imagine my life without! My mommy group friends are amazing! I have been part of the mom's group since Turner was born and all my friends have little ones around Turner's age and then again around Reese's! I run so much by these women. I don't think I would be nearly as good of a mother as I am today without these women! Each one of them brings something to the group and I love that we are all different! It is awesome to be part of such an amazing group of friends!
My neighbors are incredible! Tracey across the street is so fun and makes me laugh all the time! I used to watch her son Jeffrey on a regular basis while she was teaching, but now that she is home with her second, Cooper, we see them for playtimes! I am thankful for her keeping me sane sometimes! My next door neighbor, Marge and her husband Dave, adopted a little boy from Korea last year! Ryan is 2 months younger than Reese and thinks that Turner is awesome (they are in trouble)! We love having dinner and adult nights with them! They have all welcomed us to the neighborhood so nicely! It is like extended family!
Last, but certainly not least, Haley has become a close friend who I respect as a parent, admire as a professional, and enjoy as a friend! I run so much by her and she always listens and gives good advice. She has really become a good friend, who is in a very similar stage of life as we are. I enjoy spending time with the girls while they are here and Carl is a riot! We are looking forward to having a lot more fun with them (especially with girls nights)!
Sorry about the long post, I just needed to voice how I have been feeling so blessed, and even though I know that some of the friendships are changing and we may not be as close as we once were, I really so appreciate these people in my life. They make me a better person, and in turn a better mom and wife;) Thank you!!

Happy Mother's Day

I wanted to wish all the wonderful Mother's I know a very Happy Mother's Day! Without the support of all the amazing Mom's that I have around me on a regular basis, I know I would not be a good mom! I hope that all Mom's had a great, yet very hard earned, Mother's day :)

Taken from a friend

A good friend of mine posted this article that is posted below and I loved it. I think that people need to worry about themselves and less about what others are doing, and this is included in the government. This story is amazing and it is because of people like this that our world is a better place!

Loving for All

By Mildred Loving*

Prepared for Delivery on June 12, 2007,
The 40th Anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia Announcement

When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn’t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married.

We didn’t get married in Washington because we wanted to marry there. We did it there because the government wouldn’t allow us to marry back home in Virginia where we grew up, where we met, where we fell in love, and where we wanted to be together and build our family. You see, I am a woman of color and Richard was white, and at that time people believed it was okay to keep us from marrying because of their ideas of who should marry whom.

When Richard and I came back to our home in Virginia, happily married, we had no intention of battling over the law. We made a commitment to each other in our love and lives, and now had the legal commitment, called marriage, to match. Isn’t that what marriage is?

Not long after our wedding, we were awakened in the middle of the night in our own bedroom by deputy sheriffs and actually arrested for the “crime” of marrying the wrong kind of person. Our marriage certificate was hanging on the wall above the bed. The state prosecuted Richard and me, and after we were found guilty, the judge declared: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.” He sentenced us to a year in prison, but offered to suspend the sentence if we left our home in Virginia for 25 years exile.

We left, and got a lawyer. Richard and I had to fight, but still were not fighting for a cause. We were fighting for our love.

Though it turned out we had to fight, happily Richard and I didn’t have to fight alone. Thanks to groups like the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, and so many good people around the country willing to speak up, we took our case for the freedom to marry all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that, “The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men,” a “basic civil right.”

My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right. The majority believed that what the judge said, that it was God’s plan to keep people apart, and that government should discriminate against people in love. But I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry.

Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the “wrong kind of person” for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.

I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.