Celebrations

We have a lot to celebrate at our house lately... Mother's Day, Layla's 1 Month Birthday (kind of a cause to celebrate, right?), and our 3rd Anniversary. My first Mother's Day was nice. Mitch always makes sure I feel extra special and loved. He gave me two dozen white roses and a beautiful necklace that I love. He also made me breakfast. But the best gift was his attempt to get up at 2:30 a.m. to feed Layla so I could get some rest. The problem was that Layla has only had a bottle twice before ... so it didn't go so well. Pretty much she absolutely refused to eat from the bottle. The good news is that I did get some extra sleep so I felt more rested the next day, and I really appreciate his effort. (Now we need to teach Layla to eat from a bottle! Any tips?)

We were able to spend time with my family and Mitch's family to celebrate our awesome moms. I must say, I understand my mom a lot better now that I am a mom. Funny how that works, huh? Here's my mom and Layla laughing at each other ... so cute!

Layla was such a good little girl all weekend while we shuttled her from place to place and passed her from person to person. I'm so thankful that she is such an even-tempered baby. She is having a growth spurt right now and is eating like a horse, which means I got absolutely nothing done today, but at least she's growing, right? I told Mitch I want to take a pic of Layla each month with the same object to see how much she's grown. I asked him what object we should use, picturing a stuffed animal or something cute in my head. Of course I should have known better when I asked an engineer to suggest an object because he suggested a tape measure. Definitely not cute. But I know exactly why he thought of it, I mean, it's only logical right? I said I wanted something to show how big she's gotten so what better than something to measure her with? Ha,ha. So, here she is on her one month old birthday with a measuring tape to see how big she is, kind of, since she rarely straightens out her legs. And don't worry, we'll use the tape measure next month too.

We also had our 3 year anniversary! I can't believe it's been 3 years. It went by so fast and we have done so much in the last 3 years. Mitch graduated with his Master's, I graduated with my Bachelor's, we remodeled a bathroom, the kitchen, and painted most of the house (it really needed some color), we traveled a lot (St. Maartens, Cambodia, California, London, Latvia, France, and New York), Mitch had his 5 year anniversary at work, I got a part-time editing job working from home, and our biggest accomplishment: we had Layla. Whew, that's a lot for 3 years! It's been the best three years of my life and not because of what we've been able to do, but because I've been blessed to spend them with Mitch. So, in honor of our 3 blissful years, here is a list of the top three reasons why I'm glad I married Mitch:

1. He always knows how to cheer me up and make me smile.

2. He is good at the things that I'm not so good at. For example, he has an excellent memory so I know I can count on him to remember things when I forget.

3. He makes me the happiest I've ever been.

And, he is such an awesome dad to Layla. He loves her so much and is so sweet with her. She is definitely a daddy's girl already! No one else can make her smile as much as Mitch does. It's pretty adorable.

The last three years have been great and the rest of our lives and eternity will be even better! I love you, Mitch!!!