Twenty Four Months

I have some serious catching up to do here. I will start with the latest news: we are moving!

Rob and I have been ready for a change for a while. And by a while I mean A w-h-i-l-e. From the day we got married, we have been talking about moving. Eleven years passed and zip, nada, nothing. Last year we decided we were done with school and the planning began soon after. Should we move up north? Near mountains? Do we want hot or cool weather? Big city or small town? The options were endless for us. Our final decision was to live near the beach. We absolutely love it and visit every chance we get. 

We started researching different cities and immediately knew that we didn’t want to move far away from our family. On my birthday weekend, we met a local in Port Aransas, TX that could not stop talking about how much her children loved growing up there and how great the schools were. That sealed the deal and we decided to move near that cute town.

Rob patiently waited for an opportunity and applied for a position within his agency late last month. His employer confirmed two weeks ago that he reports to his new office on September 3. I am staying behind to take care of some last minute packing. 

We found a cute apartment 10 miles from the beach and we are hoping to purchase our forever home in the next couple of years. Yes my friends, we get the best of both worlds by moving. We get to live near the beach and we are 2 hours south from Rob’s family and 2 north from my family. We are smack dab in the middle of both :-). And of course, we get to stay in Texas y’all. We are so, so, so excited. Yehaa!

Now, back to business. We have been on the wait list for:

Current longest waiting family has been waiting for (months):

35

We are about #44 on the list and #37 on the single child list.

On our 24 month waiting anniversary, we went apartment hunting. We stopped by the beach afterwards and sat near the water to decide on which place we would call home in a few weeks. That day was beautiful. The sky was bright blue and the weather was perfect. I can already see us in the near future building a sandcastle with our son…every. single. weekend.

Happy 24 months waiting!!!

Twenty Three Months (plus a few days)

Months on the wait list:

We have been incredibly busy this past month. We didn't even get to do an activity from our list but we did do plenty of activities to keep us smiling. Even though we did not post any updates in July, we did, as usual, celebrate our 23 month waiting anniversary :).

This is a brief summary of what we were up to in July.

Ran a 5k dressed as Frida Kahlo.

Celebrated 23 months on the list at BJ's.

Went to a John Mayer concert.

Visited a museum in Houston.

Ate at an Ethiopian restaurant for our 11 year wedding anniversary.

Celebrated my little sister's recent engagement.

Happy 23 months waiting!!! 

(We miss you everyday little guy).

Fun Activity #6

Romantic Beach Getaway

Although we would have loved to have gone to Hawaii or the Bahamas for this part of our list, we have to be realistic because we are adopting and preparing for a child my friends! Therefore, we ended up going to Port Aransas, TX. It is a cute island 2.5 hours from our house. We had never visited and absolutely fell in love with it. So you ask me, for this activity did you guys:

1. Go to the beach? Yup

2, Would you consider it a getaway? Absolutely

3. Was it romantic? You bet ya!

We left on Saturday, June 15. We wanted to give camping another shot and camped out that day.

This was our view.

Rob got to fly his brand new penguin kite.

Sunday morning, we headed out to the jetty and did some fishin' and watched some sea turtles swim in the ocean.

We then headed to the cute condo we rented for the next couple of days. 

We spent some time by the pool, spent the evening by the beach, showered, ordered a delicious pizza, and ate it on the balcony.

Monday was my big day. Rob woke me up with a tiny cake with princess candles. 

We drank coffee on the balcony and went to the pool. We rented a couple of bikes and went bike riding for about 4 hours! 

We rode on the beach.

We also decided to check out the town on our bikes. 

We rode by the bay and saw some cool boats. 

And of course, stopped by a few places to claim my free birthday drink.

We then cooled off by the pool until sunset. Got dressed and had dinner at the restaurant that was highly recommended by all of the friendly locals.

We had a blast! The only thing that would have made the weekend more special is having a little guy help me blow my candles. Maybe next year :)!

Twenty Two Months

Months on the wait list:

On our twenty two month waiting anniversary, we went to work and watched game 3 of the NBA finals. I made home-made chips and guacamole to snack on.

Go Spurs Go!

Happy twenty two months waiting!!!

Fun Activity #5

Late Night R-rated Movie

Yesterday we scratched off one more activity from our list :). The reason this activity made the list is because according to some mommies we will rarely watch a rated R movie at the theater once we have children. If we do, we will go early in the evening to get back home to them. This will avoid having to pay the babysitter extra and have a sleep-deprived morning caring for our kids.

We were home from work around 6 and had to stare at each other for about 4 hours to kill time. We ate dinner, washed dishes, sat on the couch, got up from the couch, stared at each other some more, and finally with sleepy eyes got ready around 10 at night. We never go out past 9 pm ...ever!

Because we did, we realized that:

1. The local restaurant has a nice patio full of colorful lights.

2. Every teenager in town goes out to the movies on Friday nights.

3. How old we are by being mixed in with a crowd full of teens.

4. Tons of people do go out past 9 pm (our bed time).

5. Friday night drivers are much more aggressive than the 7:30 Monday-morning drivers.

6. The theater business is booming.

The ONLY R-rated movie that was showing was *drumroll please The Hangover Part III. Perfect, right? I mean, mommies and daddies do not watch such ridiculous movies :P.

Before our movie, we had a cold beverage. Again, there were so many people it took us a few minutes to get that nice, cold beverage in our hands.

I will admit we yawned a couple of times during the movie but neither one of us fell asleep. Success!

However, I don't recall saying goodnight to Rob due to exhaustion.

Twenty One Months

Months on the wait list:

Current longest waiting family has been waiting for (months):

33

We are about #51 on the list and #42 on the single child list.

On our twenty one month waiting anniversary, we went to the local golf course's driving range to hit some balls. 

We ate my favorite dish for breakfast...chilaquiles (minus the oil, chicken, sour cream, and cheese).

We watched a movie while we finished our coffee.

The we got ready and headed out to the golf course.

 It was my first time so I was super excited that I got to drive a golf cart.

And of course learn how to hit a golf ball.

Rob is a natural.

We had a great time! The weather was perfect and it was very relaxing.

And now if you will excuse me, I have to eat the vegan burger my husband cooked on the grill and watch Saturday Night Live :).

Happy twenty one months waiting!!!

Fun Activity #4

Run a 5K

I am extremely late in posting about our 5K run from April 6. However, we did it! We ran our first 5K. Although to some it is not that big of a deal, it was a huge accomplishment for us me. It is extremely embarrassing to admit that we had never been a part of any type of running event due to my inability to run. The reason behind my inability to run are my crazy knees. Yes, my knees are crazy I tell ya. Every time I bend my legs a crackling crack crickity crack sound can be heard for miles away. 

When we started the 8-week-prep-for-a-5K training program, I was terrified. My first day was awful. I stomped on the ground dramatically, could not control my breathing, my whole body was itchy and red, and we won't even talk about the stomach/leg cramps I experienced after 3 minutes of TRYING to jog. We stuck to the program and every other day we were either at the park or in our neighborhood "jogging". Nowadays, I can jog nonstop for 30 minutes. *Applause. Oh why thank you!

Because we are overachievers, we registered for the 5K Foam Fest, which is a 5K that involves mud and multiple obstacles. We invited family to join us and we came up with this great team.

We needed a name for our team and therefore we were the Skull Crushers. 

Side note: we really don't crush skulls. We just wanted to intimidate the other teams.

My little sister spent some serious time making our shirts.

We had a blast!!!! We laughed so hard and got super duper muddy. We cleaned mud from inside the truck and house for days!

The obstacles were a lot of fun. Note to self, never try to jump over a fence if ever being chased by a person or thing. I found out I cannot climb much less jump over ANYTHING. One of the obstacles we encountered was the death drop which is the largest inflatable slide in the world. We also had to crawl through a mud pit under electrical wires. Of course, I was the only one in our team that had to be dragged out of that obstacle because I kept getting shocked...on my behind. Good times, good times.

See why I kept getting shocked? Enough said.

We had such a great time and now we are hooked. Our next 5K is in July :).