Happy Birthday Brian!

My dear hubby turns thiry-something (cough, six) today. Happy birthday!

A new car

We finally broke down and bought a new (to us) car for Brian. We decided on a 2006 Jeep Liberty. It was low mileage, a good price, had only one owner and looked manly enough for Brian's masculine sensibilities. : D It's a big step up from the 12 year old two door Honda that the girls barely fit in. :D

A Very Nice Anniversary

After briefly toying with the ideas of going away for the weekend or having a fancy dinner on the town we quickly vetoed those options for a MUCH better suited idea for Brian and I. We bought ourselves 9th row seats right off the third base line for yesterdays Phillies game. The seats were amazing. The game was fantastic (they won and we saw two Howard HR's including a grand slam!). The food was yummy. The clothing was casual. And the company was perfect. We laughed. We ate. We watched and talked baseball. And all in perfect 70 degree weather.

It was a VERY nice day!

10 wonderful years

Happy Anniversary to my love. My life. My heart. My reason for being able to be who I am. It has been 10 years. Somedays that feels like forever. I can't remember being without him. Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday we said our I Do's.

It has been a crazy and wonderful ride, these past ten years.

I'm better with him than without him.

Brian's confirmation

I am not sure if I posted much about this but for the past 9 months Brian has been taking classes (every Tuesday) at our church to convert to catholicism. He has always been Christian but decided about a year ago that he would like to become officially catholic and raise our children that way. I grew up catholic, going to catholic school until I was 9 (when we moved and couldn't get into the local church school... waiting list and all). I have always felt very at home in this faith and secretly hoped maybe someday my husband would be okay with going to our church. I never pushed or even asked. He needed to do it on his own.

Before we had the girls we were not regular attendees at church, but had a church we called "home". Once we had the girls we knew it was time to get our butts in church and raise our kids as we had been raised. It was at that point that Brian decided to make the leap and become catholic. I think it started more about how to raise our kids. Having two parents the same religion is the way we both wanted it even if we didn't say it out loud.

So for a couple hours every week for almost the past year Brian has been attending classes and making his steps towards conversion. What started as something that he did for his kids has become something amazing for our whole family. I won't drone on and on but as a family (extended too) we are stronger than we've ever been.

Tomorrow Brian makes his sacraments of first communion and confirmation. He officially becomes catholic. I know to many it might not seem like a huge deal. For him it has been a long road of hard work, deep soul searching and self-discovery. I am very proud of what he has done for himself, for his children and for his family. Congratulations, my dear, for making it through and standing by what you believe in.