winters together!

Hello my handsome husband! Right now, you are upstairs cleaning a bit before your parents get home from Mexico this afternoon and I am down here sipping coffee and blogging while June naps and Johanna makes a welcome home card for your mom.  I am noticing a trend in my past few blogs- sick again! What is up with my immune system this year? This is literally like the 3rd or 4th time I have gotten a cold in just a few months.  It is so annoying.  Poor little June too is sick for like the 5th time in her little life- not even a year old! Johanna got snot stuck in her throat and totally threw up all over the other night and then I brought her into our room to change jammies and so that she wouldn't wake up June and she ended up sleeping with us- all cuddled up with you.  You weren't sure if you liked it or not because she smelled like throw up (her blanket) but she was so cuddly haha. I am sorry I do not like to cuddle in my sleep- maybe someday? probably not. We have had so much snow and ice over the past month and have been getting stuck at home all the time because of weather and sickness.  It has been interesting.  We have certainly gotten a lot lot lot of time together! Last year, it took us all the way through November to finish our "best of 100" game challenge, but this year, we are already 41 games in haha. I mean, we did have a newborn last year and I was exhausted the first while because I was pregnant and sleep-deprived but still...we are almost half way done in only like 4 weeks. It is so much fun playing games with you- I am so glad that you enjoy playing together and that we can connect side-by-side and meet your recreational companionship needs through games. You are teaching me a new game each month- it started on the 28th of the month and now it is somehow the 20th of each month and I think you are trying to slowly push it up so you eventually get an extra month...hmm. You love the learning of new games, but me...not so much. so we compromised! I really do enjoy most of the new games you teach me, I just don't like the learning. I am kicking your butt so far on our "best of 100", but you were leading early on.  It is a lot of fun- I like this tradition a lot! We FINALLY have our room back after a year of babies sleeping in it all the time! June is now in the closet and Johanna goes down in the room too at 7:30 so we get every evening together from like 7:30 on and it is magical! I am loving this stage! I am starting to get some serious baby fever again and I have no idea how.  Logically, I totally want to wait at least another year or 15 months before even getting pregnant again, but I am starting to get sad each month when I get my period and start really thinking about baby #3.  I guess I am a little crazy! There is no way we can stay living with your parents with a third kid and we really want to last another 18 months for financial gain- huge advantage! our house will be paid off and we can have a bit of time to save up another down payment.  But we really aren't sure where we will go after we move out- we go back and forth all the time about moving into our Alika house vs building on the property vs trying to squeeze into the trailer again with 3 kids.  There are so so many different things to think about! like $$ and space and the kids and animals and long term goals.  blah blah blah. anyway, I think about this kind of stuff all the time! and i am always talking to you about it and you hardly ever want to really think about it. there is my futuristic for you! i am so excited for our future and that next stage! but this stage is pretty fun too!! we are going to have 2 toddlers and no babies for the next year or 2 years! we will be able to start getting away just us again and I am getting my body back. Now that your parents are coming back, we are really excited to start going out on dates again.  We have been enjoying evenings at home watching tv and playing too many games, but we are planning to go to the gym together and to Goodwill and everything in between until the busy season starts.  I am so excited! You are my very favorite person to spend time with! and i love love love dating you.  you are currently watching the pizza pajama pants I got you for Christmas and you love love your cozy Timbers socks. and Johanna got you an ornament that says "my dad, my friend" and I got you a new body pillow with a fuzzy cover. we went really light on Christmas presents this year (well, we were supposed to), but of course you still spent more $ on me than I did on you...you are always so generous. I think gifts is more of your love language than mine. you got me THREE massages- you know the way to my heart! and the Sims 4- fun! although I hardly have time to play it. someday i sure will and you and the kiddos will enjoy it too! and you got me epsom salts and a new loaf pan (cute blue!).  perfect gifts! sexy Christmas wasn't too exciting this year, but next year I am so excited to send the kiddos off and do it right complete with snowman pancakes and Christmas coffee ;) You have been going to a men's fraternity group on Tuesday nights and I use that night to catch up on messages/texts, clean the house, blog, etc. and it is kind of a nice break.  and then you try to get out once more a week- soccer or a game night etc. and then i am going to start going out sometimes too for mom's night out once a month! and then i like to take detox baths and have a goal of reading 1 book a month this year, so it is good for us.  loving this slow, intentional season in our marriage- absolutely spoiled by time with you <3 Johanna was playing trolls the other day and she was making them go to mom's group and I said ok send the daddy to work and her response was "No, it's winter so daddy stays home." hahah love it! love you! love you! love you!

here are some fun couple photos- working on taking more pics of just us two! seems i mostly take pics of the  girls now or selfies with the girls or family pics, but i want lots of just you and me to remember things too <3

when you have too much time on your hands