Family Fun in Minnesota

Lincoln and I spent last week in Minnesota with my family and Some of Glenn's too. Minnesota in the summer is wonderful and seeing family and friends was the icing on the cake. Love it there. Here are a few pictures!

Outside fun

This video is from the spring after a rain storm. He clearly doesn't mind a little mess or water. He's a boy through and through!

Lots of Updates

It's hard to believe the summer has gone by so quickly! We've been busy around here made obvious by my lack of posts!

Lincoln is as busy as ever and since he only takes one nap a day, it's hard for me to get on the computer. We spend a lot of time outside playing and in the water as much as we can. Our little fish loves the pool and the beach. If I'm not looking, he'll just sit down on the edge and hop in to the pool. Needless to say, one of us is always looking!

We are hoping our little man will be come a big brother one of these days, but not how you might expect. Glenn and I have talked for a long time about adoption and in March we started the process. As of this week, all our paperwork, background checks, profiles, fingerprints, videos and everything else is complete! We are so excited about the possibility, but know that things are out of our hands at this point. We will wait until our time is right and the right family comes our way. I'm sure I'll be posting on what comes next as it happens. As of right now, we wait. :)

Lots more changes coming - my last day of work is Friday. For various reasons, I've decided to be Stay At Home mommy for awhile. I can't wait to spend more time with my little man, Lincoln! I'm looking forward to lots of play dates and fun together. Maybe I'll even start cooking again. :)

Lincoln and I are headed home to Minnesota on Friday. Glenn has to stay behind for work. I'm not looking forward to the flight by myself, but I can't wait to see everyone!!! It's going to be a busy busy week, but hopefully I get a chance to see all my favorite people and rub Blair's baby belly.

We found out tonight that Glenn made Lieutenant Commander. Still not sure what our future plans will be exactly, but I'm very proud of him for getting promoted! Congratulations, LCDR!

It's been a fun summer so far and I can't wait to see what comes next.

Rubber Ducky!

For the opening of the newly remodeled art museum in downtown Norfolk, the Chrysler Center brought in the world famous 4-story rubber duck to downtown. Some people thought it was silly (I only thought the $22 replicas were silly) but a certain one-year old thought it was pretty awesome. There were some tears shed when it was time to leave! We still had to run the rest of the way home though!

Homearama

My girlfriend and I spent the Saturday before Mother's Day up in Richmond. We are both avid Young House Love (a home design blog) readers and were super excited to see the house they designed along with 6 other custom built homes. We were dreaming of our future custom homes all day. They had some fun ideas! Here are some of the random pics I took. Makes me want to buy a fixer upper wherever we move next!

Sink in the pantry?

My favorite outdoor space.

Loved this kitchen!

Best idea ever! They pushed down to disappear into the counter.

Easter Pics

My girlfriend Janel took these for fun and because she's fabulous. Love my little guy!

Daddy's 2nd Half

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Glenn ran his second half marathon over St. Patricks day week and he did awesome! A personal record for him of 1:37. 

Lincoln and I were there to cheer him on in the cold weather and early start time. 

So proud of Glenn and all this running has gotten me motivated too. We go on family runs whenever we can. Lincoln seems to enjoy the ride although he falls asleep almost every time. We all ran a 10k last weekend!

I'm excited to cheer Glenn on in NYC in November when he runs his first marathon!

Sunset Cruise

On Sunday night while we were in Costa Rica, the entire wedding group (approx. 80 people) went on a sunset catamaran cruise. It was a little stressful with a walking toddler and only ropes on the edge of the boat, but it was naptime so Lincoln spent most of the time in the ergo.

He did love the nets at the front of the boat though. Kept under close supervision my many many adults.

What's down there buddy?

The catamaran was a lot of fun (and an open bar!) turned into one of the scariest moments of my life though when Lincoln choked on some food and started to turn blue. Luckily grandma smacked and squeezed it out of him in a manner of seconds and two nurses were standing by just in case. It shook both of us up quite a bit- enough that even the bride brought me a drink to calm my nerves. Learn the infant Heimlich! You never know when you will need it!

Hi handsome!

The sunset was beautiful and Lincoln was sleeping peacefully in my arms.

I love vacation!