Birthday parties

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This past weekend was birthday party central weekend. On Friday night my husband and I went out for my birthday since it was one of the only nights that we would have a sitter. My friend's younger sister came over to sit and we had dinner and did some shopping. I found a good deal at Banana Republic on a sweater for only 12 dollars! Neela our doggie spent the evening relaxing with our sitter in her normal nonstress doggy style evening.
On Saturday morning we woke up and took Neela to the doggie groomer for a haircut because as you can tell in the photos she had gotten very long and scruffy. It's a little drive away, about 40 minutes. But it's well worth it because it's hard to get a groomer who is used to cutting a Bolognese dog like her. All other groomers cut her like a poodle instead of more similar to a Bichon so we do the drive every so many weeks. Plus she seems to like them, so it's worth it for our furbaby. Saturday afternoon we went to the birthday party for my friend's son who turned four. Her aunt and uncle made some great Mexican food (most of the family is from Mexico) and so my tummy went home happy. It was pretty warm out and so we gave Brynn a few extra bottles since she was looking a little sunned out if you know what I mean. At night we put Brynn in the normal bathtub for her first big girl bath in the beach bath chair we had gotten for one of our showers months ago. I think she really likes it. We all ended up really wet, but we got a lot of good smiles out of the deal!

Sunday my husband brought up Brynn's Mustang car which she seems to absolutely love. I swear this child has more toys than we have room for. She honks the horn and it "Beep, beep beeps!" She squeals in delight and it cracks me up. Later that morning we went house shopping and although finding a few that caught our eye, I still don't think we're quite ready yet to make that next jump. That is a whole another post for a different day. Then Sunday afternoon we went down to my mom's for a birthday party for my day and myself with my side of the family. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and my sister's kid's ran around like wild horses. It's so funny that just a year ago this weekend we were 19 weeks pregnant with Brynn and had just found out she was a little girl. Now we're marching towards number two and it's making my head spin. I have so many worries, but most of all I'm just excited and have been happier than I have in the months past.

Tonight I'm planning on getting caught up with the first two episodes of Big Brother. I don't think I have a favorite character yet. How about you? Candy...come on now...spill the beans!

At the moment I'm drying the cover to my Graco high chair that Brynn decided to projectile vomit on this morning. It's the first time I've had to washing machine wash it so we'll see how it goes. For dinner I think I'll do some Spicy Thai peanut bake pork chops and some rice. Hopefully in the evening we'll be able to squeeze in a walk or so. The weather has been gorgeous here lately and with Michigan I know you have to soak up every last minute of it. Only 3 more weeks to our appointment with M and the RE to begin our frozen embryo cycle. YIKES!