The Pierce Family Blog

5 years and counting!

    Today marks five years of marriage for me and Eugene!  It is hard to believe it's already been five years!  They have flown by, but things have certainly changed alot  in those 5 years, job changes, moving...but mainly adding 2 more to our family with Luke and Caroline.  I am more excited today to be married to Eugene than I was on our wedding day!!  He's a wonderful husband and father and a great best friend.  I will really try not to nauseate you while I talk about how wonderful he is but I thought to just give you an idea of how wonderful he is I'd make a list of just 5 things that he did today that made me love him more. 

1.  I woke up to the sound of him grinding coffee beans this morning.  I'm usually the first one up but today since it was our anniversary and since I have a pinched nerve in my neck he said he thought he'd let me sleep a little longer than usual.  When I walked in the kitchen he greeted me with a cup of coffee, a hug and a "Happy Anniversary!" 

2.  I ran a few errands this morning and what I thought would take about 30-45 min took me about 2 hours!  (I did score some fabulous new Euro pillows for our bed, but that's beside the point).  I called him a little before noon very apologetic, I told him I'd stop and get him and the kids something to eat but he said not to worry, he'd already fed the kids and they were getting geared up for nap time.  

3.  We hadn't discussed if we were getting each other anything for our anniversary but I really assumed not since we're going on a cruise next month to celebrate.   Well, this afternoon while the kids were napping Eugene gave me the cutest little ornament for the tree!  It was perfect, so suiting for me!  I presented him with my new drivers license with Pierce as my last name!  (Something he's been after me for awhile to do).  Then he pulls out a little jewelry store box.  I opened the box and there was a perfect little pair of white gold ball earrings!  It was probably one of the best things he's ever given me because it was exactly perfect for me.  I am the queen of ball earrings, I understand that they are not in style anymore but I love them.  I lost my pair a few weeks ago, they were just cheapy ones.  He said he figured I'd need a new pair now!  I know that seems so little but to me it's such a big deal.  It tells me he listens to me, he knows what I like, he just gets me!

4.  Tonight we went to dinner and a movie together.  Eugene and I have so much fun together still and he's my favorite person in the world to have a conversation wtih. 

5.  Tonight as I was making candy in the kitchen he walked in and just starting unloading/loading the dishwasher.  I asked him why he was doing it and he just said "Well I figured with your neck hurting it might be hard to bend down and load the dishwasher"

I hope I didn't bore you with the details of things.....but this is how my life is with him everyday!  He is my center, he grounds me and makes me calm.  When I met him when he was 18 all I knew then was that he was just alot of fun to be around!  Now, 9 years later having fun with him is the tip of the relationship iceberg! .....

okay, I'll stop now, I really could go on and on but I don't want to embarrass him anymore.....oh, and I made him an anniversary cake!  Like it?

Yeah, yeah.....

I know I'm way, way behind on posting!  We've been having so much fun gearing up for Christmas this week, lots to share!  And I haven't even posted about Disney World!  I will get to it all, promise, but for now I'll leave you with a few pictures from tonight.

Caroline is "almost" off the bottle......we're trying really hard!  She has greatly reduced the number per day though, so that's good.  Anyway, she's really really started enjoying eating at meal time, she gets such a kick out of feeding herself!  Can you tell?  Could she get any cuter than this?

She's also officially out of her little bathtub chair, she loves the freedom now at bathtime!!

Disclaimer: Eugene just came in here and told me I cut Caroline's head off in the first picture....just FYI, I meant to do that!  And actually, according to the rule of thirds, I probably should have chopped it off a little more so her eyes were the focal point.....but that's a little too much info for you!  Just know I totally did it on purpose!   

Our week!

I can't believe it's almost Friday already, this week has flown by!  I'm sorry I've been absent from blog world lately.  Honestly, I haven't given it much thought at all.  My mind has been focused on Christmas!  I love Christmas, it really almost makes me giddy!  All this week at night Eugene and I have either been adding to our decorations around the house, or I've been making Christmas candy. 

Monday night T'ville had their annual Christmas parade.  We met the fam downtown and enjoyed it together.  Here are a few pics from our evening!  Both Luke and Caroline really had a good time this year!

I took this pic of Luke before we left the house, he was so proud of his Santa hat!

Caroline hit a milestone this week, we finally have her off the bottle!  She's been without it for two days so far and she's doing just fine!  As for Luke, he's his usual crazy self!  The other night after Caroline went to bed Luke, Eugene and I laid beside the Christmas tree on the floor and had a very long conversation about Christmas.  Luke is full of questions about Santa, baby Jesus, the reindeer.....everything!  Every time we ask him what he wants Santa to bring him he says a telescope and a violin!  Where does he come up with this stuff?  We were trying to explain to him that we need to really try and think of what we could give or do for others at Christmas time.  He looked at me like I'd just said the stupidest thing ever.... "We don't need to give presents to other people, they get presents from Santa....(laughing) ..you're so silly mommy!"

Today....well, I guess technically yesterday.....I met my friend Andrea downtown for some lunch and shopping!  We had a good time as usual!  I really got to thinking today about how incredibly wonderful it is that I have my mom so close and how she's always there for me.  I really don't take her for granted, I realize that most mom's with small kids don't have someone on stand by all the time that is more than willing to babysit their children.  It's so nice to be able to meet a friend for lunch, or catch a movie with Eugene without having to worry if the kids are being taken care of.....anyway, was just really thinking about that today, thanks mom!!!!!  You're the best!