We've made it through 7 years!!

Today we celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. The day was a little hectic .. still dealing with Ezra and his crankiness from his surgery and on top of that Michael fell and cut his lip open which got me a trip to the ER but no stitches. After all this, I was very happy to find out that Nino actually remembered we had an anniversary this year. Still no card -- he didn't have time .. hmmm -- but I'm trying to learn that it's the thought that counts. He took me out to a nice dinner at my favorite place --Olive Garden, although even McDonald's is considered nice when we don't have 3 kids screaming and crying. After dinner we drove to the park where we went on our first date and went for a romantic walk and then he serenaded me with our song .. oh wait a minute .. that was the dream I had last night. After dinner we went and got his haircut and then went to Target. Not quite as romantic but hey we were alone for almost 3 hours. It's been a long 7 years, a lot of ups and downs, things didn't go the way we planned on them, but I can honestly say today that I am married to my best friend and I wouldn't have wanted to go through the last 7 years with anybody other than him.

Goodbye Tonsils and Adenoids!!

Anybody who has ever heard Ezra breathe / sleep / snore etc knows that he was a very loud guy. He was seen at Valley Kids ENT a few weeks ago and we found out he had to have his tonsils and adenoids out. He was showing signs of sleep apnea and had enlarged tonsils. He had his surgery on 9/23/08 and the doctor said that when he actually got in there his tonsils were about 3 times as big as they looked from the outisde and the adenoids were also enlarged. Ezra did fine through the surgery and is still a little bit whiney but I'm sure he'll be fine. He just doens't want to eat much right know although I don't blame him. We took some pics to docmuent his eventful day. The first one is before surgery but after they gave him versed. The second one is after surgery - he lost that excitement I guess!

Today's The Day We Got Ezra Day!!

Oh my how time flies! Two years ago yesterday I was sitting at work contemplating whether or not to go ahead with my next infertility procedure since the last one had just failed. My whole world changed about 30 seconds later when my phone rang. It was the lady from the adoption agency asking me if we wanted to take a little boy about 7 months old. He was ready to be placed for adoption. Of course, my answer was YES, obviously, and so September 1, 2006 became "The Day We Got Ezra Day" and every year we celebrate him! Many things have changed since that day, we have 2 more children and Ezra is no longer a quiet, shy little baby, but as we celebrate having him with us for 2 whole years I look back and think of how blessed I am to have him in my life!