Happy 33rd & Dewey Beach!

They boys(I mean Men) were so proud of this!

Enjoying a refreshing drink at Dos Locos!

Happy 33rd! I love you!

Love this picture of my sweet hubby!
The kiddos at the beach!

Last week we celebrated Colin's 33rd birthday! The kids and I made him a sign, baked some banana cream cupcakes and had a baby back rib diner! I hope that he enjoyed his day as much as we did! We packed up the car Thursday after his birthday and headed down to the beach with our wonderful friends the Kuhns. It is always such a laid back time at the beach and I was ready for it. The kids now are almost like siblings and get along so well. We had a wonderful time eating at Dos Locos and enjoying some awesome dough nuts from fractured prune! Oh did I mention that I managed to create a huge fire ball in the gas grill that was outside of the beach house that ended up singeing my husbands arm and burning off half of his eye lashes? Yes very scary. Other than that we had such a wonderful vacation. Thanks to the Kuhns family for inviting us. We love you guys!

Strawberry picking!

Avah last year picking strawberry's!

Avah this year picking berry's!

1 cute horse and 1 cute cow!

Look at my own strawberry! Avah loves to say that everything
is her own! So funny!

Christian and Carter! They are so cute!

Gunga was in heaven!

C what is that?

Yesterday was an awesome day! We woke up to some pretty nasty weather but that wasn't going to stop our hard core strawberry picking hearts :-) We went to WestMooreLand Berry Farm in Colonial VA with the Stevenson family! While we were driving there I kept thinking of how big of a diaster this was going to be since it rained the entire time we were driving down there. Once we got there the rain had stopped and the kids and adults were ready to pick some awesome strawberries! The fields were loaded with juicy strawberries and we were basically the only ones there! After we picked we wanted to have a picnic lunch but this year they wouldn't allow you to do that so we drove a little way out of the patch and pulled off on the side of the road next to some creepy house to eat our lunch. It was a wonderful day and all the kids got a long so well. Once we were home Gunga made an awesome strawberry pie! Yummy! I will be sad to see the grandparent's return home on Monday morning!

Happy Mother's Day!

Dear Mom,

Thank you for all of your amazing support through some of the hardest times of my life. Thank you so much for understanding my choices and decisions and for being there for me even when I didn't think I would make it. God has blessed me with such a caring and loving mother. The day I became a mother and the next 5 years after that were the years that I truly understood what you did for us as a mother. All of your sacrifices, working long hours at work and just truly caring for us. I am so thankful for everything that you have done for us! I love you! You are a wonderful mother!

Your daughter,
Desi

6 years ago today...

Saying Goodbye 6 years ago!!

It was six years ago today on Colin birthday that we loaded up my 95 Camero and hit the road with Colin to the big city of Washington, D.C. I'll never forget that moment. It felt as if we were going in slow motion getting into the car as my mom and my sister waved outside. I had so much anxiety about leaving my childhood home and my childhood city. I also had anxiety about my future! I would be going to a new college in a new city that I had never stepped foot into and I was also leaving with a man that I had no idea if things would work out! Through these last 6 years God has changed my life in so many ways... Colin and I finally got engaged, we gave birth to Christian, I lost my Dad, we had a wonderful and beautiful formal ceremony and then a year and a half later we were blessed with our sweet daughter Avah might I mention we also made friends with wonderful people who have taught us that you can have family away from your real family. Still in all of these situations my heart longs to be closer to my mom and for the kids to be able to know cousins, aunts and uncles. I do get envious after years of praying every time that I hear someone is moving and someone has sold their house(which we may never be able to do). However I need to ask myself what is God telling me or trying to teach me at this moment. I do feel that I have become more patient in our situation and that I have learned a lot of important life lessons as I see many of my friends come and go... I just need to be patient and learn how to ask the right things of my God, my Savior. So here's to waiting this morning and to trusting God because I do know that he has a plan for all of us and a right time for everything!