My First Mother's Day (and other goings on)

This weekend was my very first Mother's Day. Words can't express how grateful I am to this handsome little boy for making me a mom. I still can't believe he's mine.

It's a little scary to think that Justin and I are solely responsible for this little person. That it's up to us to teach him so many things. But he's the sweetest little guy and has mercifully eased us into this whole parenthood thing with his angelic, fun, and mellow personality. I know we mess up sometimes, but he always forgives and loves us anyway. We can learn so much from little children.

Some beautiful flowers from my Justin and a photo collage from Nolan (via Jeanni :)) for Mother's Day.

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What else has been happening lately...

Hanging out with some friends! It's too bad the Giles have moved to St. George and the Womack's are moving to Logan :( but we had a really fun get together anyway!

(Carter, Will, and Nolan)

 He's getting better and better at sitting up by himself! Although we still need to be ready to catch him when he inevitably topples over.

He's also getting closer and closer to crawling! He likes to get on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. Watch out mom and dad, he's a comin'!

And I know every parent thinks their kid is a genius, or in our case, the next Ken Griffey Jr. :) but he really does seem to like playing with balls. Here's him "catching" his little ball.

All clean after bath time! 

Jeanni sent us this silly picture

 He had his hands in daddy's mouth the other night and thought it was SO funny!

 This silly kid still loves to put burp cloths or blankets over his face. He's been doing it for months so we're pretty confident he's ok and laugh with him. But then, as the minutes go by, we start getting worried haha. We wait a little longer, "knowing" he's ok, but then we just get too nervous and pull the cloth off his face just to be sure. Of course we always find him smiling or laughing underneath!

My friend Carli's mom came to our softball game to watch Nolan for us. He was an angel of course!

Uh oh, this kid already likes electronics.

Love these boys of mine!

Our Dreams Have Come True

Well everybody, our dreams have come true...

He loves BASEBALL!!

We thought that night at Scheels when he was laughing so hard at Justin throwing the ball was possibly a fluke, but after this next video we're thinking we have a baseball lover on our hands haha.

SO CUTE!

Do Our Parents Really Love Us This Much?!

This mom thing is really starting to change the way I look at my parents. I mean, they're still my parents and I still roll my eyes a little and get frustrated with them at times, but I have such a new respect and love for them. Every once in awhile when I'm taking care of Nolan I get a small glimpse of what they did for me and how much they love me. I think to myself, "Wow, did my parents really love me this much?! DO they love me this much?!

Was there a time when they would do just about anything to make me smile? Did it break their hearts when I cried like I just had a bad dream? Did they worry over every parenting decision they were making? Did they take a bunch of pictures of every day things I did just because they thought I was the cutest thing in the world? Did they study my features and watch me sleep?

It's true what people say that you don't really know how much your parents love you until you have children of your own.

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Ok, enough of the sappy stuff, here's some pics from the last couple weeks!

First of all, The other day I texted a girl we met at softball practice a few weeks ago who had offered to watch Nolan during our games. In my text I said, "Hey! This is Meghan (Nolan's mom)," and it was totally weird! That was the first time I had referred to myself as "Nolan's mom."

 I'm still not sure what lottery we won in heaven because we certainly don't deserve this sweet little guy. I've said it a million times, but he is SO good! On Sunday morning I was up doing some things around the apartment and snapped these pictures and videos. He was just hanging out, playing with his toys, barely making a peep for a good 45 min! I kept checking him because I thought he must have fallen asleep! Nope, just being an angel.

The videos are a little boring because he's not doing much, but I had to show how good he was!

Nolan has been doing this super cute thing lately where he looks at you, then smiles with his tongue out and shyly looks away. It's pretty darn adorable!

He still loves to stand and if you only needed your legs to crawl he'd be all over the place, but he still hasn't figured out how to use his arms to push himself up yet. Often if he wants to get something that's just out of his reach he will either roll until he gets closer or bury his head in the blanket and push his little bum up in the air with his legs. It takes him awhile just to move a few inches, but he eventually gets there! We haven't captured him putting his little bum in the air yet, but he sure wants this bat. I kind of feel bad when he tries so hard that he gets tired!

He loves bright colors and feeling different materials. He's always grabbing at buckles or soft blankets or jean jackets or bright bags. It's pretty cute :) One interesting thing though is that he seems to have stopped scratching the mesh in his crib. It's funny how we pay attention to all the new things he does, but often forget or don't notice when he stops doing something he used to do.

 In the morning, we almost always find this silly kid on his belly with his head all the way in the corner of his bed.

 I walked into the living room from the kitchen one morning to see Nolan dressed like this. I guess Justin was trying to give him the illusion of being 'Naked Nolan' without actually taking his pjs off haha. It was so cute I had to get a couple pictures! He looks like a little Merlin with a robe on or something.

 He looked so cute for church last Sunday! I have been loving dressing him in shorts since the weather has been warming up. He looks adorable in them! And this polo his grandpa B. got him? I'm dying over here. Justin teases me that Nolan is just a little doll for me to dress up, which is funny because I didn't even really play with dolls growing up!

Giggling like crazy in the family history center.

 Justin multi-tasking while watching a show :) He's such a good daddy!

 I felt a little bad using the flash so early in the morning to get this picture. It's a good thing Justin was still asleep or he probably would have stopped me. But I just loved how he had his little finger up to his lips haha. 

 Eating some green beans and playing at Jeanni's.

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 Sweet happy Nolan-son!

 I worked from home one day this week and I have to say, work is much better with this view!!

Happy First Date Anniversary!!

The actual day of our first date has long been disputed in our relationship. 

You see, three years ago I called and asked Justin to come to a hockey banquet with me "as my date." I say this counts as a date. Justin says no way. He says our actual first date was two days later when he asked me out for May 5, 2015. That night we went to a Real Salt Lake soccer game and then to Chili's for dinner.

I think he's super silly, but I guess I'll give him the May 5th date so he doesn't have to go through life telling everyone that I asked him out, hehe ;) Plus, it's pretty fun that it's also Cinco de Mayo.

Sooooo...we've decided that it would be a fun family tradition to go out to Chili's every May 5th to celebrate our First Date Anniversary!

I don't remember every single detail of that first date. I vaguely remembered him wearing a light shirt, but Justin remembers exactly what he wore and sported the same white polo last night. However, both of us remember what I wore that night :) We were going to a RSL game so in my head I was thinking, "well I'm going to a sports event, I'll wear my jersey!" I remember asking Brittany what she thought about my attire so obviously I thought twice about it, but in the end I guess I thought wearing the jersey was the way to go, even for a first date. Justin says he was surprised and not really sure what to think when he picked me up and I was wearing a jersey haha. Oh well, I say he knew from that first night what kind of a girl he was getting! 

I don't remember much about what we talked about at the game, but I do remember it was an easy conversation. One notable topic was that his Grandma Corbridge played hockey. Awesome!

At Chili's I remember where we sat, what I ordered, and that I really enjoyed being in Justin's company. I remember we got drinks and a dessert! Big spender I thought :) Now I know he's not really a big spender at all, he just chooses carefully when and how to spend his money. It's one of the things I love about him!

I checked to see if RSL had a game last night so we could completely re-create our first date, but they weren't playing. Oh well, I think going to Chili's is an easier tradition to keep up anyway. I do think we'll at least attempt to go to a RSL game near May 5th in the future. I think it will be a fun family outing once a year and a fun way to remember where things began for us. We also have our annual S'more Day on October 3rd which I think will also be a fun tradition to do with our kids. We'll reserve our actual anniversary for just us, but I can see these other celebrations being really fun too.

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Nolan was of course such a good boy while we waited for a table and liked to watch everyone as they walked by.

 He also really liked grabbing at everything he wasn't supposed to get on the table. It was pretty funny. And he seems to like the thrill of the chase. If we just give him whatever it was he was grabbing at he's over it and looks for something else. 

Nolan definitely turned some heads with his cuteness. When we were about to leave I was standing up facing our table and Nolan was on my shoulder facing the table of people behind us. I heard some whispering and out of the corner of my eye saw one of the men point Nolan out to his wife. As I turned around to leave they commented on how cute and sweet tempered he is. I know! We are lucky lucky lucky to have this sweet boy!

Here he is at the end of the night all tuckered out. 

 p.s. I think baby feet are my favorite things ever.