In the quiet round these here parts…

I continue to become larger and larger. Speaking of my expanding abdomen, Brian says, "It's like an Imperial Star Destroyer, you can't ignore it..."

Everything is perfect! Perfect I tell you! I kick my mommy ruthlessly, following in the footsteps of my big sister! Oh yeah, did I mention I'm a girl? And my name is Alice Elizabeth?

Note to self, girl’s got attitude. Also? Must find scanner, to scan in decent pictures of Alice’s cuteness. Also? Must buy new camera. Must.  Cell phone camera not cutting it.

We were wondering where poor Alice was going to find room to snuggle... I'm guessing Boo is going to be finding a new snuggle spot...

God, I REALLY need a new camera... This is a normal evening activity at our house. Emma will balance Alice on her, and then our circus act will be complete. It's nice to know we'll always have employment.

The real thing

The real thing- she was spot on perfect!

And I was super nice and even invited Jeff.  I am so nice, aren’t I?

She LOVED being up on stage.  Wonder where she got that gene from ?

Outtakes

Brian is a fly fisherman.  He’s kinda snobby about it (In a fun not serious-way he calls the other kind “worm dunkers”- but that doesn’t apply to ocean fishers????)

Anyway, we were freezing out asses off by the river having our engagement pics taken and he reaches down, pics up a rock and hands it to me.

He says “Under the rock you can see the little nests of the bugs my fish like to eat.”

But then of course, we had to pose with “the rock”

And once again I prove that I BLINK IN EVERY PHOTO.

He makes me laugh and he makes me smile.

Reason 7,124,678,655 why I love Brian

I tell Emma it’s time to go, and she says “I can’t because I need to snuggle Daddy for just a couple more minutes!” and runs and jumps on the bed (he has a 10 AM class this morning, so is sleeping in late) and cuddles up to him.  The look of contentment on her face is priceless.  This is how things should be.

“You are the best daddy in all the world!” she says, and kisses his cheek.  I take off my heels and climb in bed too and for five extra minutes we all snuggle and forget work and school.

Christmas Recap

Christmas was awesome.  FREAKING AWESOME!

I got proposed to.  Did I mention that?  With a ring and everything.  AND I CAN’T FIND MY CAMERA!  Here is a picture from my camera phone:

We are tentatively talking about July 11th.

Brian surprised me- He’s been so grumpy about money etc, and we’d talked about waiting until after trial was done in January to get the ring etc…

He’d said he’d found some pretty earrings for me but I’d forgotten he’d told me that.  We’d opened presents first thing and I was so happy with everything I’d gotten.  I was sitting on the couch, and told him I was going to shower before we went to his parents house and he jumped up and said “I forgot one present!”  And came out with a gift bag with FISH on it.  I took out the tissue paper and there was a little white box and I said “Are these my earrings?” and then I opened it and saw it was a ring and started to sob.  I was(AM) so HAPPY!  I was laughing too.  And then he said (on one knee) “Nothing Witty, will you marry me?”  And I said “YES!”  and then cried some more.

I am SO happy.  If I had your cell number I texted you right away- sorry if I woke you up, I know it was early   I couldn’t contain my joy!

I get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend, my soul mate and the most wonderful, sweetest, most honorable, HANDSOMEST man- who loves Emma and I with all his heart. We are so so lucky!

This Christmas was also two years to the day Brian told me he loved me for the first time (Did I mention he is romantic?)!  So yes. I love Christmas.  I love Brian!  We are happy!  Thank you so so much for everyone’s good wishes, they mean the world to us!

Emotional me

So I can cry at the drop of a hat.
Weddings, births, deaths, songs on the radio- hell, even commercials make me cry!

So I’m doing payroll for a company and in it is a note from a girl- written on the paper she has her social security card copied on.
It reads :

“Boss” I got my name changed because my wonderful stepdad adopted me. Will you please change it?”

And I cried when I read this because in this world there are wonderful men who take broken families and make them whole again.
And I have one of them.

Ring

I’m still waiting for my ring to come back- I had to have it sized down. But I got tired of not having a picture of it, so I went online and found the picture from the store’s website. And I couldn’t take as good a picture of the ring anyway This is what my “pre-engagement ring” looks like. It looks even better on my finger

* Update It came in today, So I ran and got it! And it’s perfect!*