Little Boy in a Girls World...

Our trip to Florida was for an ER-Pediatric Conference for Darin in Sarasota. Darin's brother just moved to Naples for school. We were able to spend our weekends with them. When we first arrived Nash didn't know what to think about all the GIRL stuff! His cousins Carly and Halle were so nice to share all their toys with him.

Playing with a doll house is fun as long as animals are allowed in the house!

Carly loves to perform and Halle is willing to take part in just about anything her big sister is doing. Carly put on her dance costume and Halle followed suit. They then had the whole family sit in the kitchen and watch the performance. Too cute!

I thought it would be fun to have Nash join in on the dress-up fun....

I think he liked it! ;)

At first glance in the mirror he thought he looked rather fashionable...it was the double look that got him...

Next it was time for Halle to try on her moms shoes. This little girl has better coordination then I do in heels!

Darin thought Nash should try some on too...

Then it was time for all the adults to have shoes on...

Nash survived two weekends of dance recitals in the kitchen, dress-ups, doll houses and shoe parading and had so much fun in the process!

Florida here we come!

On Saturday, February 13th we had the opportunity to begin a fun vacation to Florida. It began a bit stressful since Nash the day before came down with the croup out of no where! We had to take a trip to the ER to see Darin. It is nice having a daddy for an ER doctor, the visit was in and out in 10 minutes.


We woke up at 4am on Saturday morning to get us to Philadelphia on time to make out plane. We got there late and had 20 minutes to get our bags checked, get through security and on the plane. The baggage line was incredibly long and I seriously just counted ourselves out of a Florida trip! But somehow with the faith of Darin we made it through. The baggage people forgot to give me my ticket back and I was in such a hurry that I thought Darin had it. Somehow we got through security without being asked for a ticket...does anyone else find that scary! When our belongings had to go through the metal detector thing, they made Darin take off his hoody. He didn't have anything under but his garments and so he was standing in the middle of the airport feeling pretty naked! Once we got through the embarrassment and security check we loaded Nash into the jogger and ran as fast as we could to our gate, which of course was at the end of the airport. Good thing we are in great shape! :) We made it to the gate right before they were closing the doors. We were happy to see that there were 2 seats open in the back of the plane where we love to ride with Nash. I am positive we were being watched over in order to make it in time. Nash was a gem on the plane. Didn't make a peep. But he had everything a little Nasharoo could want, dvd player, snacks, his favorite toy cow,books, blanky and a BINKY (yes we brought it back just for this trip!)

Story Time...

Nash has a HUGE LOVE for books. Most often when I cannot hear him, he usually is sitting in a pile of books "reading". I have wanted to take him to story time at the library but the Emmaus library told me he was to young...BOOO! So the Macungie library had a private story time for our meetup groups. This library was so kid friendly, and Nash LOVED it. He sat and listened the whole time. Looks like we will be joining the Macungie library. :)

Thanks to Jenae again for the picture.

Super Bowl South Mountain Family Adventure Kick-off Party!

The South Mountain Family Adventure group had a kick-off super bowl party last night. It was a lot of fun. We met MORE families and ate a TON of food. All of these pictures are compliments of our friend Jenae. I forgot my camera AGAIN!

What a group....this is only some of this group. There are 30+ families in this group.
Darin spent most of the night running around torturing the kids. Poor Nash doesn't know that he is about to be attacked by a BIG PINK DOG!

I spent most of the night stuffing my face with all the YUMMY food!

As well as enjoying the relaxing time with friends, while Nash followed Darin around.

Brook (from the ward), Jenae, and I. Two of my favorite ladies in PA.

Nick and Darin the 1st year resident LDS doctors.

This woman is Kathleen. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever met! Kathleen was one of the first people in our other meet-up group "Club Mom" that took me under her wing and showed Nash and I genuine friendship.

Our friends have become our family out here. I love them ALL very much and I get so excited to meet more great new families!

Sushi Night!

Christmas Eve Dinner was disrupted by sickness so we were unable to have our traditional Sushi dinner.  So we decided to put it on the calendar of our Family Meetup Group.  It was a fun night with some new and old friends. 

Brain got all dressed up for the occasion, bow-tie, sports jacket and shocker pen! 

Darin and Nick wanted to see if you could feel the shock current if they all held hands.  Poor Kristen was in the middle.

We had a TON of food.  Everyone brought 2 things to share.  Darin and I made crab wantons (thanks Becky for the recipe), Tonkatsu and rice.

I made a trip to the dollar store (I love that place!) picked up some decorations and printed out our names in Japanese.

This is the night before our weight-loss challenge weigh in so I needed to take a picture of why I was going to be heavier the next day! :)  Oh but it was so worth it....YUM YUM!

After dinner we chatted and played a terrible game of "battle of the sexes." Honestly who makes up these dumb questions, the girls lost terribly!

Maybe it was because Darin was reading the questions?!?
Nick and Kristen

Jenae and Brian

It was a fun and successful night.  I am so happy we put it on the meet-up calendar.  It is great meeting new people, and eating yummy food!  Not to mention, Nash was sound asleep upstairs.  Sooo we were free to enjoy our company that much more.

Jacobsburg State Park

I mentioned before that Nash and I belong to a meet-up club called Club Mom. This has been a great blessing for us in meeting people as well as getting to know the area. This month one of my friends Jenae from Club Mom started a new meet-up club for families called South Mountain Family Adventures. We are always looking for fun things to do as a family, especially on the weekends so we decided to join, and invited some of our church friends to join as well. This past weekend Darin had to work so Nash and I joined the group at Jacobsburg State Park for nice little walk.

My friend Jenae took all of these pictures.

Yes, we did get rid of the Binky but Nash still has some sensory processing issues with certain movements. He is not a fan of the backpack so I needed to give him something to distract him. He did so good. He does not like hats so I solved that problem with the headband...haha...at least his ears stayed warm!
Nash was happy to see his friends riding in backpacks too. Although, I was the only mom who was packing a child. It was great exercise.

It was a bit cold but a very GORGEOUS day!

The kids found a patch of ice to ice-skate on.

We are really excited about this group. I think what I like most about it is the majority of our good friends from Club Mom and church are all in it together, so we get to hang out more with such fun friends, as well as meet new families in the area.

Bounce U

Today we joined our mom's club at a bouncing play land called Bounce U. Darin got off work from the night shift at 9am, instead of taking advantage of the quiet house where he could sleep with out Nash knocking on the door and screaming. He JOINED US! I don't know who had more fun Nash or Darin. I think the lack of sleep and gallons of Monster drinks contributed...

My friend Melissia is 8 months pregnant and couldn't take little Sophia down the slide so we all volunteered to do the FUN job!

Melissia also took all of these photos. I just got my D300 back last night from being in the shop for 3 months. Somehow the band that flips the shutter up got stuck and became bent, which scratched my sensor....ahhhhh. It was sent to Nikon because it was 2 weeks off of its warranty and they could not figure out how it did this. Especially when I wasn't cleaning it at the time. I am happy to have it back but my functions are all messed up now and my pictures didn't turn out as well as I would have liked them today. OH DARN I guess I will have to do some practicing :)! Poor Nash....there will be some fun times ahead.