Girl's Weekend

Amy, Reagan, Jamie Krista, Jocelyn, Stephen and I

I had fun hanging out with my friends from Gonzales this weekend. Friday after lunch Amy drove from San Antonio to Austin to pick up Jocelyn. They drove to Houston and we all stayed at Krista's house in Spring. We had so much fun watching tv, talking, shopping and eating at The Black Walnut. The babies were fun to see interact together. Reagan is 4 months old and Stephen will be 8 months old this week. They just played and made noises at each other. We haven't been able to have many to get togethers in the last 10 years where we can all make it. This was the first in many years other than baby showers or weddings that all of us could make it. Our next get together is going to be in Austin or San Antonio this Fall or Spring. I didn't just graduate from high school with these girls we went to school from kindergarten to 12th grade together. I look forward to more fun in the future with you girls.

Krista and Jamie welcome to the blogging world!

The Girl's

Left (Me, Jocelyn, Krista, Jamie, Amy and Jennifer)
Here are my girlfriends from my hometown, Gonzales. We are all meeting up this weekend to hang out in Houston. Amy and I both have babies so it will change our weekend a little. We won't be as flexible but we are planning to go to Market Street and shop, go out to dinner on the water way and maybe meet up with a guy friend of ours from High School who lives in Katy, Tx. Jocelyn is coming from Austin and Amy is from San Antonio. Jennifer also lives in SA but is not coming. Jamie, Krista and I all live in Spring or The Woodlands. Amy's little girl is 4 months old. It will be fun for Stephen and Reagan to meet for the first time.

July 17th

It is hard to believe we have been married for four years. Our life has changed hugely in four years. We lived in the city of Houston on Memorial Drive for two years. Both of us drove north about 30 minutes to work each day but we drove against the traffic so it wasn't bad. After the city we moved right outside the city limits to an apartment on FM 1960 and 249. It was very different living on FM 1960 compared to Memorial Dr. We were so used to being within a few minutes of everything including all of our church friends and Daniel's family. I became pregnant with Stephen a few months before our 3 year anniversary. We decided to seriously search for a house because the price of a two bedroom apartment was ridiculous.I think we searched off and on for two years until we found a home in the right area that we could afford. We are coming up on our 1 year anniversary in this house in about 3 weeks. Hopefully, soon we will finish the odds and ends that we need to get done along with our backyard fence. The fence will help when Stephen is walking and with our pug, Sadie. It will also add value to our house when we outgrow it after a few kids.

The Grandparents

My parents had so much fun keeping Stephen this weekend. They took him to eat with my cousin Melissa and her new baby boy, Rylan and my Meme for her 86th birthday. Also, my nephew Chance and my sister-in-law, Molly were there to celebrate.

While we are at the beach Stephen cut a TOOTH!

Can you believe while we are down at the beach our SON decides to cut his first tooth. I was a little bummed that I missed it. My Mom said he was fine, no fever and didn't seem fussy. He was chewing on everything... which isn't unusual these days. I am so excited and cannot wait to see his little tooth. Wow, he is growing up so quick!

Daniel and I are enjoying a relaxing weekend at the beach. Daniel does have his work area set up and has had to take a few calls but it hasn't ruined our weekend. We brought our bikes so we have taken several bike trips. We are both a little burned but not bad. It is fun to drive all the way to end past the state park and multi-million dollar beach houses and park the truck on the beach. It's not very crowded and we can relax, read, layout, ride our bikes and enjoy the water. I am the silly girl who likes to go jump in the waves and lost my super-cute $10 panama jack sunglasses. Bummer! I searched for them for awhile but oh well they are gone. Maybe tonight at high tide they will service. We are checking out early in the morning and going to the beach for a few hours. My LOVELY sister is bringing our sweet baby boy back to Houston along with Sadie our pug. It will be good to see our baby boy. Daniel has not seen him since Wednesday morning when I left.

I have a few pictures of the beach (nothing special about Galveston) so I will post when we get back to H-TOWN!

Fun in the sun

We changed our mind. Instead of going to New Braunfels floating down the Guadalupe River we are going to Galveston. I have wanted to go to the beach this whole summer. I really wanted to bring Stephen but Daniel and I need a little vacation. I drove home to Gonzales this morning to spend some time with my Mom and drop off Stephen. I will leave here early Friday morning to drive back to Houston. Daniel is taking off at noon so we can drive down to the beach. I am super excited to get away for a few days.

Sorry, I don't have any recent pictures of Stephen. Daniel has been using the camera for work the last two weeks so I haven't even seen my camera.

All you new Mom's I joined http://www.cafemom.com/ to find new Mom's in my area. I am going to meet some for a play date soon. Just incase you want to feel free to check it out. Have a great rest of the week.

What is going on in the Seale house

Daniel, Stephen, Sadie and I are making our way to Pearland, TX tomorrow for hang out time with the Barton's. We rarely see them since we are on opposite sides of Houston. Brad will be frying fish and we are bringing dessert. I think I am going to make a new dessert my Mom sent me called "Strawberry Pretzel Dessert."

Stephen had his 3 week check up for his ear infections today. He is FREE and clear of an ear infection. I am so happy. He has not had a runny nose and cough in three weeks. Yay!

I made a mad dash for Babies-R-Us yesterday to exchange all of my bottles. They are allowing you to bring all bottles that are not BPA free and you can get a full exchange of BPA free items. So I ended up getting $96 worth of bottles. I bought the AVENT bottles with the tempo liners. I debated and decided I didn't want to start him on a brand new bottle (BJORN ) and I do not like washing the Dr. Brown bottles. These two brands are the only ones that are BPA free at this Babies-R-US. So I hope this all works. I spent an hour trying to decide what to do. I bought enough tempo liners to last me 3 months so hopefully I have made the right decision.

I am moving Stephen to a new daycare. Daniel and I decided this is a good thing because we will now be able to watch Stephen during the day. The daycare has room cameras and we can use our own personal log in at work to check on him. It is only 4 minutes from my school so it will be impossible for Daniel to take him to daycare. It will be too far out of the way. My sister, Jamie now works only 6 minutes from the daycare opposite of my school so she can take him and pick him up if I am sick. I cannot believe it but he starts daycare in 6 weeks on August 11th. I need to work in my room to do some organization that week. Last year was a disaster since I was out for 10 weeks. I am horrible and never really put my books back in theme order alphabetically. Then I will start back mandatory on that Friday, August 15th. So I figure I can ease him in to this new daycare. I will probably take him for a half day for a few days and then take him up to school with me for a few hours. He has recently started crying when he sees someone he doesn't know. I just hope he doesn't cry since he is now at the "separation anxiety stage." He does great though at the church nursery so hopefully he will jump right in to this new daycare.

Stephen is so fun these days. He is showing his true side lately. He screamed at me yesterday because I wouldn't give him the remote that lights up. I gave him one that doesn't have batteries in it so it's not as much fun. He is eating twice a day still. He really has started liking his food more. Now that we are rid of the double ear infection he seems to really start to eat more.

Daniel and I will be celebrating our 4 year anniversary on July 17th. We decided to drop Stephen off at my parents in Gonzales for the weekend of July 11-13th. We are going to New Braunsfels, TX to float the Comal or Guadalupe River. I love my son but I will enjoy spending the weekend with Daniel. I love floating in those hot inner tubes down the river.

I hope you all have a fun, long July 4th weekend!!