Marian and James 9/21/2013

Marian and James tied the knot today.  It was a lovely outdoor wedding that was full of romance due to the rain.  Then we had a lovely dinner at Magnolias.

Full September Days

I love September but man has it been 1 crazy crazy month!  My dad's birthday on the 7th; he turned 62.  My mom had her birthday on August 21st (day after Yara's) and she too turned 62.  Easton's birthday was on our anniversary; 3rd. He turned 11.  We had a huge dinner for the mental/physical challenged group homes in Loudoun County on the 12th at our church with the Relief Society.  That was fun but crazy busy.  Then on Saturday the 14th Ellen, Mom and myself thru a bridal shower for Marian.  Romulo took the first week off in September and we painted our main level floor of our townhome.  Saturday Sept 21 Marian is getting married. Then the following Saturday, 28th, we are holding our family reunion, my dad's side Johns'.  Anoter big activity for YW on the 26th.  Kau'e will get evaluated with Loudoun County School's since I don't know if he is where he should be development.  Oh and I've been weaning Yara from nursing!  OH heavens that's been tough!  I've been thinking of doing it some time but didn't think it would come.  Plus this past few weeks my milk has depleted a lot and well why not add something else to September.  As of last week I knew she wasn't liking the Whole Milk because her bottom was raw.  So Thursday I said some fat is better than no fat so I gave her Almond Milk.  It only has 2.5% fat in it but whatever its been than nothing.  Whole milk has 8% fat in it.  She would only take a bottle from Romulo and well since he isn't home much it was hard.  So for nap time she wouldn't get anything and I would either have to have her lay in her crib cry to sleep or my mom would hold her.  But she would only sleep for 1 hour.  When Romulo was home and she would take a bottle of almond milk she would only take 2oz.  Well after a few days of introducing this new way of life to her she took a bottle from me.  All 4oz of warmed up almond milk.  And she fell asleep.  She did this for me at nap time and bedtime last night.  Today during nap time she took 6oz of milk and is sitll asleep 1 hour and 30 minutes later.  Yesterday she only slept for 1 hour before waking up but slept another 1 hour plus when I held her.  We are making progress.  She is now sleeping from 7:30-8:30pm to 5am.  When she wakes up at 5am I am nursing her.  Sunday night was the last night I nursed her to sleep.  It's pretty sad and so different seeing your baby drink from a bottle after a whole year of nursing her.  But its good.  Life is busy in the Fall!

9 Years

9 wonderful years of marriage to my Romulo!  I am so grateful for him!  We didn't do much today since it was the first week back of school for the kids and my parents were busy with that so they couldn't watch the kids. Plus our nephew Easton who we got married on his 2nd birthday turned 11 years old. He had a MindCraft themed birthday party that evening too. But we did spend all day together painting our main level of our house!  It really was perfect.  Then I made a special dinner; crab cakes!