M&M Long Family Blog: Fun

Sunday, July 21, 2013

The good life :)

Well this past weekend we had the opportunity to have a Stay-Cation with some of our friends we haven't seen in a while. We started early Friday morning with some fun and adventures paint balling and getting pedicures. Followed by some shopping for the girls and showers for the boys! Lunch was Zupas, followed by a bust of a time at Trafalga (note to self, don't go in the afternoon.. WAY too many people!!). After a quick-ish game of mini-golf we went back to our house and played some games and just talked before heading out to Tempanyaki for dinner. I love the experience of Tempanyaki, but I don't think I would go again, unless I was taking someone from out of town there. It was a lot of fun to watch the chef cook out food and talk with us and attempt at getting us to catch the shrimp (or chicken in my case). All in all I think the boys were better at catching the food then they girls were! Friday night we came back and talked some more. Saturday morning we had a blast at 7 Peaks! It was so fun to be able to go on rides and not have to stand in long lines! I'm all for going at 9:30 and leaving at 11 when it starts to get overly crowded. For lunch we did Tacanos and loved the new meats and the addition of BBQ sauce on the tables. So worth going back for lunch! Lunch was followed by a few games of bowling (That I did TERRIBLE at (78 was my best game) and Matt did AMAZING at! 167 a new high for him!). Then we were back to hanging out before going to see IRON MAN 3. Personally I liked it, but I wouldn't go see it again. After that we had games/ice cream and then all the ladies went home to bed/kids and the boys stayed up until 2:30ish playing games! It was hilarious and uber loud to hear them all acting like high school students again. It was funny hearing them talk about who was winning what and who was causing all the problems.

All in all I would love to do it again and I'm so grateful for all of our amazing friends and for our amazing babysitters (Thank you Megan, Grandma, Grandpa, Jules and Emmy!!!) who made all of it possible! I think the next stay-cation will be a lot of fun and I look forward to it! Hopefully the kids will all be a little older and we'll be able to do more kid friendly activities.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

And then one morning it was OCTOBER!!!!

      Do you ever feel like time just flies?? This is so how I feel right now. I swear I was just in the hospital giving birth and now I have a 3 month old!! I keep trying to tell him that he's not allowed to grow anymore... we're still working on the whole listening thing... But Eric had a big mile stone today!! He had his first ever solid food! Peaches and rice cereal for 2nd Lunch and Peas and rice cereal for 2nd dinner!! He was so funny eating them! I seriously wish I would've had a camera with me. He would make a face like he was trying to figure out what I was feeding him and then laugh and gobble it all up. It was so cute! Currently we are just making his baby food from either frozen veggies that I already have or from fruits that I canned. I totally prefer making his baby food this way because then I know EXACTLY what is in it and I know it's ALL good for him.

       Currently my little angel is snuggling with his daddy and loving his thumb (or middle two fingers, which ever he can get into his mouth first). It used to worry me when he started doing that, because I thought it meant he was hungry. and then he started doing it right after having eaten and spit up. So now it know it's just a comfort thing, and just makes me smile.

       Anyways to play catch up, Matt and I have been doing great. Just keeping busy being new parents, going to school, working, sewing clothes for Eric and teaching sewing classes. All of which has been wonderful!! (except the homework part of school...) Eric has started to sit up on his own a little, so we've been letting him sit up more and just put his boppy/nursing pillow around him so that if he does fall he doesn't get hurt. He has loved being able to sit up and see the world. And I've loved that I can do more now that I can just let him sit up and look around at the world. Other then that, we've just been watching our little baby grow into a little boy.

      Oh as a side note, We are going to be a Jedi family for Halloween. I told Matt that it couldn't really work because Jedi aren't allowed to get married... but he just laughed and said "Well, fine we can be bad Jedi then."    Silly Hubby...