The week of 3's

Our little Lucy is 3 years old today! For those of you that love numbers and number connections...it was also 3 years from Todd and I's first date, 3 months since our beautiful little miss was born, and Todd is turning 31 (33 really would have brought the whole thing together right?, I'm sure he is glad it's not there yet though :)).

...and only 3 more episodes of Oprah left. :)

Happy Birthday Little Lu.

Our little 3 month darling

Took a few pictures this morning of our 3 month birthday girl! I couldn't decide from the ones I took so far, so here are five! :)


Grandma Dalton made this special 3 month shirt for our little miss Quinn. And she is quite adorable in it, if I say so myself. :)

I'll be really trying out my camera skills this week for many 3 months pictures. Hope I can get some good ones!

Conference Champs!!

Todd was pretty excited to bring this trophy home last night! (just for the night though) He coached his varsity boys volleyball team to become conference champs. He is very proud of the boys and this next week they head into the start of Regionals. It's been a good season for the boys and has flown by. Looking forward to Regionals. :)

places to go, people to see

Quinn has quite the little social calendar. :) This weekend she attended her first graduation party. Kara Snowden graduated from Erie High School this weekend, and a party was a great way to meet some new family members. Quinn was quite the little social butterfly and was so tuckered out from all her greetings she fell asleep so quickly in Great-Grandma Weimer's arms. Congrats to Kara, she will be attending Benedictine University and playing basketball there.
Quinn with Aunt Shirley:

Some Favs

In spirit of the speedy update, I figured I should post some new pics of Quinn as well. Here are a few of our favs from the last few weeks. Enjoy! :)

Lots of Updates!

Sorry it's been so long! We had a busy week last week preparing and heading out to Cali, and this week...well I'm just enjoying every little second with our little Boo after being away for about 5 days. So, I'll give you a speedy update version of the last 2 weeks. :)

My childhood home has officially sold! (home to our family for 24 years)

Before it was official, I took Quinn over there. She smiled and added right to the joy of mommy's family home.


Grandpa and Grandma Dalton were in town for a while with the house closing and watching Quinn for us so we got lots of time together. We also snuck in some time with Auntie Amy, and cousins Aidan and Liam too.

Cali ~ I left Wednesday afternoon and headed out to Southern California with some girlfriends. The leaving part was very hard but once we were on our way, we had a blast, so many laughs and it was much needed after a challenging pregnancy (and bedrest). We headed out to Temecula (Southern California Wine Country). We spent a day on a jeep tour through the vineyards and stopping at three wineries to taste (yum!) It was my first time drinking in a year... haha I jumped right in with a total of 18 wine tastings that day (and many were quite generous tastings of a half glass). It was absolutely gorgeous there, and an amazing day with the bride-to-be.
Todd flew out on Friday and joined us for the start of the wedding festivities, with rehearsal dinner and the wedding on Saturday. (The wedding was beautiful ~ I'll do a little wedding post later.) By the time we knew it, the wedding weekend had flown by and Sunday morning we were at the airport headed home to Chicago and our baby girl!

Many thanks to grandma and grandpa for taking such good care of our little Quinn.

I think they soaked up how snuggly this little girl is. :)

Grandma Ginny is home from Arizona and Quinn was able to meet her for the first time while we were away. I'm sure they got some good snuggle time in too. :) We are looking forward to seeing Grandma Ginny again real soon now that we are home.

Mother's Day ~ My very first Mother's Day! I was so excited because I think I had been looking forward to being a mom my whole life. We got home late in the afternoon and I just snuggled with our beautiful baby girl. We are so very lucky.
Happy belated Mother's Day to all you mom's!