Day with the Ladies

Today I spent the day with the ladies of my family and my Grandma's Red Hat friends on a B&B Riverboat. We had gorgeous weather and a great time. My sister's birthday is on Thursday so my Grandma brought her a birthday hat and had everybody on the boat sing to her, I love my grandma! Here are some pictures of our day.

A couple weeks ago Dave and I got an ultrasound done to find out what we are having AND...... it's a girl!! : ) We are very excited and I am glad the nursery has a walk in closet because this baby already has SO many clothes! The day we found out we went and bought a couple of outfits.

She now has many many more! Little girl clothes are SO cute. I am going to be in big trouble when it comes to shopping. I have been looking at nursery stuff and think I have found the one I like. 

I like the colors of the bedding and that it isn't all pink. There are a lot of different patterns in it as well that I like. I have not bought it yet but think this might be the one. Any thoughts? 

Hope you enjoyed the quick update. I plan to be updating more as we start to work on the nursery! 

Pink is good, life is great!!! : ) 

Updates in the Jarnot House

Things around here have been going well. I am very ready for summer to be over and for fall to be in full swing. We have several updates to share on this blog: Charlie turned 2 years old yesterday, we just got back from a lake weekend with our friends, AND we are expecting baby Jarnot in February! : )

I will be 15 weeks on Tuesday. This has been a pretty rough pregnancy. Starting at week 6 until about week 11 I was extremely sick all the time. Here is a picture from one weekend where I didn't leave the couch. The dogs were good company, I think they knew I did not feel good.

I think I have had almost every pregnancy symptom possible! I cry all the time for no good reason. Like when we went and saw Planet of the Apes and I cried the entire movie about the poor monkey who signed. I even woke up the next day and started to cry about the stinking monkey!
 Now that we have started the second trimester I am not feeling sick very much and am so thankful for that! I have been wanting pickles all the time but not the pickle chips with ridges but the smooth pickle chips that you get from a fast food place. So yesterday after standing in the pickle aisle for about 5 minutes and Dave not understanding why we could not just buy the regular pick chips, I found these!!! Who knew they even made them.

We are very excited for February to come and I will keep you posted along the way! Now onto some of our other updates. Charlie turned 2 yesterday. I can't believe how big he is. Here are some pictures of his birthday : ) And Sammy got a new haircut, he looks very cute.

Last weekend we went to Dale Hollow Lake with our friends Chad and Courtney. It was so much fun and the weather was perfect. We took the boat out everyday and just floated in a cove. It was super relaxing and was good to finally get to spend time with them. One of the best parts of the trip were these cheese sticks you can buy from one of the docks called Boscoe sticks. They sell them at GFS foods and I need to go get some ASAP, they are delicious! Here are some pictures from our trip.

Have a great week. Life is good : ) 

Las Vegas Trip

It has been SO long since I have posted. Time is flying, I can't believe it is already August but I am okay with that! I am ready for fall. It is my favorite time of the year. I love the leaves, football, the cool weather, chili, scarfs, boots.... everything really! Dave is good, he is in his new position and is liking it. He is also getting his Masters degree through Air University, the Air Force school online so that keeps him pretty busy.
Last week we went to Las Vegas with my family for my brother's 21st birthday trip. Before we left we took the dogs to the kennel for the first time. Usually when we go out of town my parents watch them but since my parents were going with us we had to board them. Some of Dave's co-workers recommended a place called Diamond Dog Kennels up near the Dayton airport. I must say our dogs are spoiled, they got socialization time with other dogs their size, ice cream everyday and Charlie got private play times so he could have his frisbee thrown to him. When we dropped them off I was a hot mess. I cried so hard, it was horrible, they probably think I am nuts. Before we landed in Vegas the man from the kennel called and left me a message telling me how good the dogs were doing. The place and people there were fantastic. I feel very comfortable knowing we have found a good place we can board the dogs!

The trip to Vegas was fun. We stayed at the MGM grand and did some shopping, gambling and swimming. We rented a cabana one of the days we were there and that was very nice. We also saw KA and I would NOT recommend it. The show was a huge disappointment. Of course we had really good food and did a lot of sight seeing. I love family vacations, they are my favorite! Here are some pictures of the trip.

Hope your enjoyed the pictures. I am in the process of re-decorating the upstairs bathroom and will post pictures soon. Next weekend we are heading down to Tennessee with some of our friends to spend a long weekend on the lake, I will post pictures of that trip also!

Family is good, life is good : )

1 year down

Wow...... time is flying!!!!!!!!! I can't believe this time last year Dave and I were frantically packing to leave for Hawaii-not even engaged. Some say the first year is the hardest and if that is true then I am pretty excited to see how amazing the next 50 are because I think this one was pretty great! It has been a year of challenges, distance, laughter, tears, excitement, adventure but most of all LOVE! I realize everyday how lucky I am to be married to such a wonderful man and that will never change, no matter how many years pass.

In Hawaii last year 

My parents will celebrate their 31st wedding anniversary this week also. One thing that I have learned from watching my parents marriage is that it is not always easy but in the end love will always win and throwing in some laughter along the way will always help.
Our anniversary is Friday but I am a complete sucker and gave Dave his present today. He does not help the cause because when I asked if he wanted his present early he said "It is close enough." We are going to Cookwares, a cooking store near our house, to take a class taught by an Indian chef on how to cook Indian food. Dave loves to eat Indian and I do not so I thought it might be fun for us to learn how to make so he can have some Indian meals at home. I did save his card for our actual anniversary. Today Dave told me we are going to go to Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse for dinner on Friday. About 5 years ago when Dave lived with my sister we challenged each other to a game of Paperboy on the Nintendo and I won the challenge. The bet was that if I won he would take me on a date to Jeff Ruby's and he never did! So over 5 years later we are finally going on our Jeff Ruby's date : ) He is hoping to get the day off work so we can spend the whole day together.
Speaking of work Dave got a new position at work! He is now the Chief of Pharmacy Operations and will be starting his training this week. He also found out he will be getting promoted to Major in December. I am very proud of him!

This weekend we went up to the lake to visit with my family for Mother's Day. It was so nice to spend time with everybody and to get to spend Mother's day with my Mom, Grandma, Aunt and Sister-all of who are amazing mothers or will be soon : )
Dave and I also went to Home Depot to get some grass seed and fertilizer and a new swing for the back deck. Our yard is looking very green thanks to all of this rain! I actually am starting to like going to Home Depot-funny how things change when you have a a house of your own. We spent the evening putting the swing together, grilling out and then finished up with a beer in the hot tub. I can't think of a better way to wrap up the weekend and get ready for the next week.

Happy 31st Anniversary to my lovely parents 

Charlie laying in the bushes while Dave cuts the grass

Dave making the swing stay in the Jetta for the drive home 

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. -Paul Sweeney 

Marriage is good, life is good : ) 

Have a great week! 

Spring has sprung

It has been forever since my last post again! I am really slacking on this blog since Dave has been home. We have not done anything super exciting since the last blog, just been very busy with day to day life and enjoying being married and living in the same country.
The weather in Ohio is crazy as ever which means it must be Spring! It is currently raining like crazy and we are getting more this week. A couple of weeks ago when it was raining our basement flooded because our sump pump stopped working. That was a fun filled day of going to home depot and buying a new one as well as a shop vac to clean up the mess. Dave is pretty handy and figured out how to take the old one out and install the new one while I cleaned up the mess. We even made it to Cincinnati to have dinner with our friends that night! We make a great team if I do say so myself.
 I am very excited for this Spring and Summer since Dave will be home. It will be the first Summer we have lived in the same state since we have been together, craziness. Speaking of craziness our 1 year anniversary is less than a month away and I can NOT believe it. Time really does fly! It is the "paper" anniversary and I already have Dave's gift. It is killing me to not tell him. I am the world's worst gift buyer (well really the best I think) but as soon as I buy a gift I want to give it to the person right then. I usually always end up giving presents early because I don't like to wait!

On my last post I said I would post about our Hawaii trip and I will soon I promise! For now I will give you some pictures to look at. Hawaii is the most amazing place I have ever been and all Dave and I can talk about is when we get to go back.

And of course I can not blog without talking about Charlie. He is crazy as ever and is keeping us busy. His latest issue is digging under the deck and coming in the house covered in mud. Last week at work I got a voicemail from Dave letting me know that Charlie ran in the house covered in mud and before he could catch him, he ran up the stairs (white carpet) and jumped on our bed. That was a fun evening of bathing Charlie and cleaning the carpet and sheets. Since then Charlie has needed to get a bath two times now because of digging under the deck. We have decided due to his size and amount of hair that washing him on the back deck is the best bet. I am sure our neighbors think we are crazy.
Sammy is good, he has a food allergy and requires special food, he is a hot mess but still as cute as ever! Here are some pictures of the dogs.

Hope you enjoyed the quick update on our lives. We are currently re-doing the office. I will post pictures once that is complete as well as a blog of Hawaii and add some more pictures of our trip. Hope everybody has a great Easter! 

Baseball season is good, Life is good! : ) 

Update on life

Well it has been quite a long time since my last post. I didn't realize it was before Christmas! As many of you know A LOT has happened since then. We had Christmas, New Years, Dave came  home, we went to Tennessee, had the reception (YAY) and went to Hawaii. Whew! I told you it has been busy.  So I am not going to go back and post about all of these events I will just give you a quick summary.
The holidays were good and my family really helped me not feel alone. It was hard not having Dave home but it will make me really appreciate the holidays he is home.

Then the BEST part of January was when Dave came home! It was so great but really stressful at the same time. He was supposed to be home at the beginning of the week but then it got moved to Saturday morning. Some people might think a couple days after 6 months isn't a big deal but after you have been waiting so long for that day it is really really hard to have to wait even more. Then we found out it would be Saturday night, no check that, Sunday morning. Well I have learned that nothing with the military is ever set in stone because after a million changes and cancelled flights Dave finally got home Sunday night. It has been so GREAT to have him home.

A few weeks ago we finally got to have our reception. It was great to have all of our family and friends in one place to celebrate. The night was perfect for us and we had SO much fun. I really think we have the best family and friends ever! After the reception we went to Maui for our "honeymoon". I think it was the best vacation I have ever been on. I will post pictures of that trip and tell you all about it in later posts. Here are some pictures of the night:

Ugly Sweaters and Christmas time

It is almost Christmas!!!! I am so excited. I love Christmas time, it is my favorite (smiling is my favorite). This year has been a little hard with Dave being gone but it has been a learning experience also (just like the last 5 months). We are approaching the end of Dave's deployment!!!!!!!!! He will be home before I know it and I can not wait. I don't even know how I am going to sleep the last couple weeks before he gets home. He is doing really well, just got a new roommate that snores so he hasn't been getting a lot of good sleep lately.
I have been busy as ever the past few weeks. I am almost done Christmas shopping but I have not wrapped anything yet. I guess I will be doing that this week. I have also finished the sunroom. I am very happy with how it turned out. Now when Dave gets home we just have to finish the office and the downstairs is done! Here are some pictures:

This weekend my sister and Zane had an ugly sweater party. It was really fun and we played Michael Jackson's Wii game. I must say that I am actually pretty good at it. Here are some photos of the family, I think this might have to be the family Christmas card next year. 

The reception is sneaking up on me. I still don't have a cake, have not sent out invitations and don't have what I need for centerpieces. I also don't know how we are going to run the whole thing.... I need to get on this! I did buy some stuff I need this weekend and my goal is to mail some of the invitations this week. Any help/advice for the reception would be greatly appreciated! 

I already gave (mailed) Dave his Christmas present. He opened it before he was supposed to! We are going on a day trip to Lanai when we are in Hawaii for a snorkeling trip, catamaran sail, trip around the island and a barbecue on the beach followed by a sunset sail back to Maui. I can NOT wait for our 2 weeks in Maui, it is going to be amazing. Here are some pictures I put in his Christmas card from the dogs: 

Hope you have a very Merry Christmas! 

Christmas time is good, Life is GOOD!!! : )