My mom spoils Lincoln to pieces.  She bought him this little climber/slide last summer.  Lincoln loves it, even if he is already the length of the slide!

On Sunday we headed over to my aunts house for the day.  She has three daughters, and Lincoln just LOVES his big cousins!  And, I think the feeling’s mutual…

Lincoln also picked a flower for his Momma….and then my heart burst into a thousand pieces. This is the best flower I’ve ever received 🙂

Jared came back Sunday night to pick us up, and we headed back home.  He had a very successful weekend playing hockey, winning 3 out of 4 games…and scoring 3 goals.  He’s on defensive, so he basically kicked some butt! 

A fun weekend all around!!

 I need to find a cute stocking for our Evy pup.  Right now our cat Oliver has two!   Speaking of Evy, her and Lincoln have been playing so nicely lately.  I really think they are going to be best buds.  I just love how protective she is of him already.  He’s her boy. 

 Sunday Jared had to work, so Lincoln and I had a pajama day.  I wrapped presents and sipped on pumpkin spice coffee while he played with his new Little People airplane and spaceship. 

Of course we also watched some football.  GOOOO PATS!!! 

And Lincoln took a little nap on the couch 🙂

Yes, before you remind me that today is Thursday, I know. I am just a little bit late with my “Weekend Recap” post. Oh well, life gets busy sometimes, what can I say!

We did have a VERY fun filled weekend. Although Jared had to work on Saturday, he was off Sunday & Monday. We took full advantage of this, and had some much needed family time.

On Sunday we had a few errands to run, but we ended our day with taking Lincoln to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner! He was just there a week ago in Orlando, but not with his Daddy. Lincoln really likes it there, with the exception of the thunderstorm every 30 minutes. Here he is with his Daddy, while we were waiting for our yummy food.

Monday we headed out to a local fair nearby. I know it’s not *technically* fall yet, but I love all the fairs that come with fall! A lot of them are no different from the next, but it just reminds me of my childhood…& who can pass up yummy fair food?! Lincoln was all about the corn dog…

& with the exception of letting his Daddy have a few bites…he literally devoured the ENTIRE corn dog!!!

As much as he enjoyed his fair food, there was also a dog agility presentation going on. He LOVED that! He was pointing at all the dogs saying “puppy.” And, each time when the dogs finished running the course he clapped, threw his hands up in the air, and celebrated 🙂

We had a wonderful holiday weekend, & I think Lincoln would agree 🙂

My parents spent the weekend with us…well, more like with Lincoln and myself. Jared worked double shifts both days. They haven’t been here since February. With my Dad’s current state of health, he hasn’t been able to make the 2 1/2 hour drive, so normally we’ll just go visit them. He really wanted to come and visit us, at our house before he goes to Florida for a few months, so him and my Mom decided to come this past weekend.

They arrived on Friday, late afternoon, and stayed until Sunday late morning. Friday we just relaxed and visited.

Lincoln is SO sweet with my Dad. He completely understands that my Dad cannot do a lot with him right now. He can’t even sit on the floor to play with him, because he’s too weak. Lincoln will just randomly give my Dad a hug while he’s in the middle of playing. I’m amazed at how intuitive he is.

Saturday morning we hit up a local flea market. My Dad LOVES things like this. Anything like garage sales, flea markets, auctions, etc….that’s his thing! We were there for around 2 hours. When we came back to our house, he was wiped out. He took a 2 hour nap with Lincoln….which I’m sure he loved, immensely.

Unfortunately, the walking for 2 hours really tired my Dad out for the rest of their time here. Honestly, he’ll probably be pretty wiped out for a few days. That’s the whole sucky part of his condition.

Sunday morning I made them blueberry pancakes, before they left. They were scrumptious!

As much as I’ll miss my Dad while he’s in Florida, it’s something he has to do. His quality of life is so poor right now. He’s only 56 years old, and honestly looks SO much older. He NEEDS this transplant. I want Lincoln to know my Dad. I want him to be able to share many more memories like this…

and this…..

and especially this…

We had a great weekend together. I think they’re planning on making the trip here again, on Father’s Day weekend, which would be wonderful. Right now we’re just trying to spend as much time as possible with my Dad, before he temporarily moves to Florida. Then we will try to visit as much as we can. We’re really not sure how long he’ll be there for, it really depends on how quickly he gets the transplant.

I’ll keep you all posted on his prognosis, and everything that goes along with it. We had a great weekend together, and right now, that’s really all I can ask for. I hope your weekend was fabulous!

We had a relatively low-key weekend, which was nice because our weekends have been crazy since Jared started the Academy. Saturday Lincoln woke up and enjoyed his morning bottle snuggling on the couch with his Daddy 🙂

We had a lot of errands to run…one of those errands included stopping at Target to pick up the necessary items to make Lincoln a ball pit!!! Our original plan was to try to buy a pool on clearance for the “pit,” but I think we were a little too late because there were no pools left 🙁 However, we decided to try putting the balls in his pack n play.

He didn’t know what to think at first. He kept picking up two balls, studying them, placing them down and picking up two new ones. He did this for awhile…
Soon enough he dove right in, literally!! I think it’s pretty safe to say that the ball pit was a success!

I really don’t know who was more excited about it…Lincoln, or Jared and myself!

Sunday we just spend the day around the house doing what we do best…PLAY!!!

my silly boy… 🙂 🙂 🙂

After all that playing, Daddy and Lincoln crashed! Mommy grabbed the camera 🙂

Hope you all had a great weekend!

We had an awesome weekend….and I have decided that the weekend’s go by WAY too fast 🙁

Since Jared is away at the Police Academy all week, our weekends are really just the three of us. Because our time is limited, we want to soak up as much family time as we can….and Lincoln needs to spend some quality time with his Daddy!

Saturday morning we headed out first thing to the uniform store about an hour away. Jared needed to get a few things. Honestly, the trip was going great until we got off the highway. There was a race going on in the middle of downtown Danbury and literally every road we needed to take to get to the store was shut down. We were in the worst traffic ever for an hour. Lincoln was a trooper for the whole thing, but we were getting quite aggravated!

Once we finally were able to get to the uniform store, we thought we’d grab some lunch. I plugged in the GPS and saw there was a Maggy McFly’s nearby…awesome….we headed there. Unfortunately, it looks like Maggy McFly’s closed down in the location our GPS sent us. It was nowhere to be found, however it did say, “arriving at your destination, on left.” No Lola [our GPS name] there was no Maggy McFly’s there, just a Walgreens 🙁

Jared thought there was a mall nearby, so we were hoping Lola wouldn’t let us down again when we located the mall. Lucky for us, the mall was still standing 😉

We ate at Pizzeria Uno, and then shopped around a bit. I was psyched because there was a Janie & Jack. I love Gymboree, and Janie & Jack is like an upscale version of it. And upscale it was indeed. Let’s just say I didn’t buy anything there…$30 for a pair of knit pants was a bit too much.

We did have a blast though. Before we left, Jared thought it would be fun for Lincoln to have his first carousel ride…

He was all about the straps! Waving to his Momma 🙂

His “pony tattoo” from the ride

Lincoln & Daddy after the ride

Waving to Mommy again 🙂

After all that excitement, he crashed…

I don’t think he knew what to think about the carousel…he was VERY serious for the ride. When we got home, he happily read one of his favorite books…

Sunday we ran a few quick errands in the morning, bought Lincoln a new toy, and then headed home for the remainder of the day. Here’s little Lincoln playing with his new toy…a drum!

We had a great fun-filled weekend…but they go by entirely too quickly. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend!!

Yet another crazy, busy, fun-filled weekend!

We planned to head on over to my parents house on Friday night to spend the weekend with them. The night before we left, Lincoln must have been super anxious, because here he is at 9pm, happily playing away…

We arrived at my parents around 6pm. Lincoln was thrilled to see his Grammy, Grandpa, & Uncle Kyle. Here he is, center of attention, surrounded by toys 🙂

Our weekend was relatively low key, which was nice because it will probably be the last weekend we’re there with Jared for awhile. He’ll start the Police Academy soon, and only be home on the weekends, so my plan is to visit my parents during the week. I figure it will help the time go by a lot faster!

Anyway, on Saturday the weather was beautiful, so we went outside. Lincoln had many toys to entertain him, but he found his sandal much more fun!

Saturday night my Mom brought out this little rocking chair that I had when I was a baby. Here is my sweet boy, rocking away!

We left right after lunch Sunday afternoon….here is Lincoln feasting on a massive amount of Puffs [after his lunch of course!]

We had a great weekend! It is crazy to think that Jared is going away so soon! I’m starting to get a little anxious about it, but I’ll have my sweet Lincoln, & we’ll help eachother get through it!

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

We had a great weekend! Friday afternoon, my parents arrived from Rhode Island to spend the entire weekend with us. We had a huge cookout on Saturday with my Mom’s side of the family. Most of them haven’t seen our house yet, so they all surprisingly brought us housewarming gifts! We so didn’t expect that, but it was still very sweet of them 🙂

Lincoln got SO much attention, of course. He loved every minute of it, & managed to function with only a 20 minute nap before they arrived.

We were able to get a group shot, thanks to Jared’s uncle who stopped by. Here’s the crew…

We also got a really cute picture of Lincoln with all of his big cousins. They refer to him as, “baby Lincoln.” 🙂

And finally, after all that excitement wore off, Lincoln passed out on Grandpa…with his new green monkey stuffed animal 🙂

A great time was had by all! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend!