7 Things Sunday

Hello everyone!  I am so excited that I am writing this on Sunday around 4 and not later :D

1.  Congrats to my brother-in-law Chris for Graduation with his BSW yesterday from Spring Arbor University....we are extremely proud of you!

2. Nataleigh is now 10 months old today!  She is getting sooo big!!!  She cut another tooth within the last week!  She looks so cute with her 2 teeth on the bottom!  I will be taking her pictures this week and will do a post with them and her 9 month pictures!

3. We find out tomorrow if my husband gets a job he interviewed for last week.  If he doesn't get the job he has another interview with the same hospital on Tuesday afternoon at 215.  Please keep us in your prayers :D

4. This is so sad for me but we finally gave in and started Nataleigh on formula.  She does really well with it.  She just is not that interested in nursing anymore and want her to get the nutrients she needs.  Does anyone have any similar experiences with this?

5. I am torn about what position I should apply for at the hospital where Nate might get the job.  I will wait to apply for them until I know he is hired.  I don't want to work full-time because I have Nataleigh and don't want to be away from her that much but at the same time it is very appealing because I want to help my husband pay off the debt as fast as we can.  Nate and I have discussed it and we are hoping that if he gets the job that I would be able to go back to my old job being on-call and choosing the shifts I want to work...we think it would work out better for our family instead of having a set schedule...we still need to pray about it more.

6. I am looking forward to this summer.  There are a  lot of things going on with Nate's family (weddings, showers and babies oh my!)  We are going on a few vacations (Ohio for Jesse's wedding and Wisconsin for Ben's wedding)  we mine as well have some fun while we are there :D 

7. I am going to planning Nataleigh's 1st birthday and want to come up with some ideas...does anyone have any suggestions on themes for a 1st year birthday party for a girl???  I would love any help!  Can't believe she is going to be 1 in 2 more months!

Well got to go...Nataleigh is hungry.

Till next time!

7 Things Sunday

With only 40 minutes left on Sunday, here are my 7 things!

1. Today is my FIRST Mother's Day!!!!  It was a good day overall and I felt very loved and appreciated by my husband and of course by Nataleigh!

2. My Mother's Day gift was a can opener (electric!!!  woot woot!)  I kept complaining to Nate that my new can opener that we just got a month or two ago doesn't work right and he took a hint!  Thanks Nate for listening to me!  (p.s. Men actually DO listen to their wives!!!)

3. Here are the cards I sent to my sister-in-laws that are expecting.

               Sent this card to Megan.

                   Sent this card to Anne.

4. We went to Olive Garden for Dinner ***MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT!!!***  We had the soup, salad and bread sticks.  (my favorite meal is the chicken parm though :D)

5. Nataleigh's second tooth poked through today....hopefully she will start sleeping better at night. 

6. Here is a picture of when Nataleigh was born:

Here is a picture of us from today:

7.  Here is my family picture from today when we were out at Olive Garden. 

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and mothers-to-be out there!

Till next time!

Graduation Festivities

So this last weekend was a huge weekend for my family.  Nate graduated from Bethel College with his degree in nursing.  His parents, Megan & Patrick, Jesse, Marideth & Sam, and Grandma Cumings all came down on Friday.  Nate, myself, his parents, Megan and Jesse all attended his graduate dinner later Friday night.  The food was really good and Nate won a sticker to go on our van.  The Alumni Board gathered info and the most popular car on campus was Honda Civic.  Nate's broke down in January but was still registered on campus so he won the decal.  He also received these beautiful Bethel College glass cups (set of 4) that will look nice in a display case with all of his memorabilia from college (someday!)  We only stayed for dinner because the program would have lasted a few more hours and we wanted to spend some quality time together as a family!

                             Here is a picture of us from the dinner.

                                      Nate's parents at the dinner.

After we left the dinner we headed back to our apartment and everyone decided to go to an original Putt-Putt close to our apartment. (His family loves to play and they are competitive!)  I decided to stay back with Nataleigh.  Dorothy said she would stay and watch her but it was already getting late and it didn't make sense to drive all the way downtown and then come back just to turn around and drive back downtown so I stayed home.  I finished up my necklace for graduation day to go with my outfit...I love it! Here is a picture of it.

It's not the best quality picture but it works.  When I was done with my necklace I went to bed only to be woken up by a pounding on the wall our bed is against!!!  Nate didn't have his key to get into the apartment and I had been asleep for over an hour so I was out!  They tried to call my phone a few times but it was on vibrate in the other room in my purse and I didn't hear it...they also were throwing rocks at the window (like in the movies) to try and wake me up...somehow I finally woke up!  I let everyone in and then went back to bed.

Saturday was a fun-filled and busy day.  Got up early and fed Nataleigh, got ready for the day, made breakfast for Jesse, Marideth & Samuel (they were the only ones that stayed with us...the rest stayed in a hotel in downtown Mishawaka).  We then went to the nurse pinning ceremony and it was so nice.  When they said to stand and give then a hand I started to cry because I was overcome with joy and I was sooo proud of Nate.  It was something I will treasure!  Here some pictures from the pinning and afterwards.

After the pinning ceremony we went out to eat with Nate's side while my side went back to the clubhouse to prepare for the after graduation party later that night.  We ate at Culver's and it was very yummy!  While we were there we discovered Nataleigh's first tooth had poked through!  She wouldn't let me get a picture of it though! :(

We didn't have a lot of time between the pinning ceremony and graduation.  The graduation was very nice.  It was a lot faster than I thought it was going to be...altogether around 1 1/2 hours!  Here are some pictures of graduation.

Nataleigh with Nana looking for Daddy

 

After graduation we had a chance to thank Nate's professors for the wonderful job they did and take more pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My sleepy baby!  She was so good the whole day!

We decorated for the graduation party the night before.  Everyone helped out and it turned out just the way I wanted it to!  Thanks everyone for your hard work!  We had great food and played some games.  It was quite the day and I slept pretty good that night.

Hope you enjoyed reading and looking at the pictures about Nate's graduation festivities!

Till next time!

7 Things Sunday

Well only one day late isn't bad, right?  With everything that went on last weekend I decided to just rest and catch up on sleep yesterday.  I took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon and it was marvelous!  Well here are my 7 things!

1. NATE GRADUATED!!!!  I am so proud of him and all his hard work.  He looked so handsome!!!  Here is a picture of us.

2. Nataleigh cut her first tooth on Saturday...it is so cute!  On the other hand she loves to play with it and when she nurses she likes to bite at times so if anyone has any suggestions on how to train them not to bite I would appreciate any feedback!

 Just got a good shot of it and thought I would share with everyone!

3. Nataleigh also learned how to army crawl this weekend...she can get on all fours and scoot forward but hasn't quite figured out the whole crawling thing yet.  She is hot on its tail though!

4. I am so happy to announce that my sister-in-law, Megan is pregnant with a GIRL!!!  We found out last Monday...so excited for Nataleigh to have a girl cousin!

5. I am also happy to announce that my sister-in-law, Anne is pregnant with a BOY!!!  We just found out last night and I am thrilled that Nataleigh will have another boy cousin!  She loves other little kids...hmm maybe we should jump on the baby bandwagon???!!!  We shall see!

6. Now that we won't be moving to Michigan the weekend of May 14-16 we will be able to help friends move into their new house and go to a graduation on Saturday.  I think I stated before I was bummed but I have had some time to let it settle in and both Nate & I agree that God has a different plan for us.  Please continue to pray for our family!

7. Mother's day is coming up next Sunday and I am getting really excited since this will be my first Mother's day (last year didn't technically count since I couldn't hold my baby.  She was still developing in my womb!)  I am looking forward to see what Nate has planned.  There is a local Putt-Putt that has a deal going on that all Mothers play for free that day so I think we will probably do that after I get out of work.

Well that is all for now.

Till next time!