Surprise B-day Date

Jon did some sneaky planning in order to pull off a surprise early birthday present for me--dinner downtown and tickets to see the Lion King. I had made a simple request a LONG time ago that I would love to go to that show. He hadn't brought it up so I figured he had just forgotten. Boy was I wrong!

Little did I know he had already bought tickets and researched Mpls restaurants to perfect an evening out together. I was clueless when my friends cancelled a get together Saturday morning when Jon instead talked me into driving to Fairmont to meet my sister, Adelyn's babysitter for the night (yes, she went all the way to Sioux Falls yesterday and is still there!). I had earlier argued that Sunday was the better day to make the road trip there, where we would be picking up a new (used) furniture set. Jon had a hockey game Saturday evening, I had a playdate in the morning and I didn't want the trip to be rushed. He and Stacy tricked me into Saturday though once my day was now open (thanks to Jon cancelling the playdate) so off we went. Once there he finally revealed to me that he had snuck an overnight bag for Adelyn into the vehicle and she would be spending the evening with her Auntie Stacy and Uncle Nick. My mom is nannying for the weekend in Fairmont so Stacy will meet her there today and Adelyn will finish the ride home with her. I must say I was SHOCKED! I'll give partial credit to the pregnancy hormones for the happy tears that followed. It was such a fun surprise!

We had an awesome evening. Dinner at Solera was different then anything we have tried before and we felt very trendy and urban. The Lion King was SO neat. Neither of use knew what to expect, only that we had heard such good things. Not being very theater cultured we couldn't imagine quite what it would be like, but it was beautiful. The costumes stunning and the music amazing. New baby seemed to be dancing along to the fun tunes and enjoying the night as well.

Thanks honey for the wonderful surprise. Your efforts are Very much appreciated! And thanks Auntie Stacy for taking good care of our little sweetheart so we could relax and enjoy the evening out. I love you both!


Look closely and you can see the rapidly growing baby bump!

Cancun

Adelyn liked playing 'chase me' with the waves

More Strawberry Daiquiri please!

No time to put on the swim suit-lets dig!

Her new camera pose accompanied by "cheese"

Ahh, this is the life...

Cancun was awesome! We had a blast watching Adelyn check out the ocean and squeal with delight when the waves chased her. We spent a lot of time in the water between the ocean and the pool. I had to wrestle her for the poolside smoothies we were 'sharing'. While there she started squatting down and saying "cheese" when she saw the camera so we have a lot of poses like that. The weather was sunny and warm, the days relaxing and so nice to spend time with Jon's family. The flights went very well too. It was such a fun week and of course hard to leave.

Off to Cancun!

Our flight leaves Saturday at 6 am and by 9 we will be in Cancun! We are spending a week there with Jon's family. I can't wait to spend a whole week in the sun with everyone. We'll take lots of photos I'm sure.

Tuesday was the 20 week ultrasound. I had hopes of figuring out how to scan the ultrasound photo to post but that hasn't happened yet. The baby was waving and moving its hands around a lot which was cute. We decided to keep the gender a surprise and the ultrasound tech didn't give any hints. It was so neat to see our little baby moving around and now we have some cute photos to gaze at.

Have a good week. Hope it doesn't snow for you!