Happy Birthday Baby!

Today is my sweet husband's birthday. For years, his momma let him celebrate his birthday on hers because he was born the day after Christmas. Poor thing! We always try to celebrate it separate from Christmas. Today he decided he wanted to take the girls to North Park Center. We went to lunch at Maggiano's where we had our first date and he proposed. The girls had fun when the waiter brought him cookies with birthday candles and sang Happy Birthday to him in Italian. Tonight we had homemade lasagna and cheesecake. Loads of fun! I just want him to know how much I love him and that I hope we share at least 50 more birthdays together!

13 Things I Love About My Sweet Husband...
1. The way you love our girls.
2. How hard you work for family.
3. The little laugh you give before you whisper on the back of my neck because you know how I will giggle.
4. You love The Lord.
5. Your sneaky little laugh and how contagious it is when something is funny!
6. The smile, look in your eyes, and the way you squeeze my hand when we see something amazing our girls have done or said.
7. You taught Grace to pray such a sweet prayer and now you are teaching Hope.
8. The way my face fits in your hand when you put it on my face.
9. You are my best friend.
10. How you go find some amazing present for me that you know I would never buy for myself and you know I am going to fuss at you, but you buy it anyway because you want to get me something special.
11. You are just as competitive as I am and you put up with my pouting when I loose.
12. You tell me how beautiful and pretty you think I am even though I think I am not.
13. You love me!

15 Things G & H Love About Daddy...
1. You read stories to us at night before we go to bed.
2. We get to play chase around the living room and kitchen.
3. You let us fix your hair to make you look pretty.
4. We get to snuggle up in your chair and you watch movies with us.
5. You teach us big words and how to use them when we talk.
6. You play Booga-Booga with us!
7. You tell us how much you love us every day.
8. You give us big hugs and kisses.
9. You take us to church.
10. You work hard at your job for us.
11. You love being the daddy to 2 girls.
12. You wrestle with us.
13. You make us laugh with your silly stories and jokes.
14. You love us more the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky!
15. You love our mommy!!

Happy Birthday Hunter!

Tag... I'm It

So, I got tagged by my friend Mindy. Here goes my answers...

8 Things I did today...
1. Woke up later than I was supposed to for church this morning.
2. Gave the girls a bath.
3. Went to church.
4. Had the joy of watching a young man at church get baptized. G said when she got big she was going to do that too! :-)
5. Had lunch with Hunter's mom, step-dad, and his Aunt from Houston.
6. Went to the jewelry store with Hunter to help him with my Christmas present. After I looked at what he wanted to show me, I walked away and told him to surprise me with his choice! He knows I LOVE surprises.
7. Went to Toys R Us to do some shopping.
8. Worked on Hunter's birthday present (the 26th).

8 of my Favorite Restaurants
1. Uncle Julio's
2. Tony's
3. Boi Na Braza
4. Cheddars
5. Rosa's (YUMMY)
6. Chick-Fil-A
7. Jason's Deli
8. Pappasitos

8 Shows I Watch... (thanks to TEVO!)
1. All My Children (I have watched since I was 5! Thanks Daddy!)
2. Dancing With the Stars
3. Chuck
4. Hero's (Only when the girls are asleep)
5. Grey's Anatomy
6. Dateline
7. Desperate Housewives
8. Brothers and Sisters

8 things I Wish For...
1. To be a stay-at-home-mommy (I almost Hate to put this on here because I know Hunter wishes I could too)
2. To get pregnant this summer with baby #3 and for it to be a strapping little boy with big brown eyes and blonde curly hair just like his daddy had! (For some reason Hunter and I pretty sure that we are going to get a sweet little girl who would be named Joy!)
3. Hunter to get the Project Management job he wants and has worked so hard for.
4. More people to know Christ.
5. Our new president to make good decisions for our country.
6. A House Elf to keep our home clean (a cleaning fairy would do too).
7. A little bit warmer weather so my kids could play outside without freezing to death.
8. Traveling with Hunter around Europe and getting to see all the things he has told me about from when he lived there.

8 Things I Look Forward To...
1. Taking Grace to Dance on Monday nights and Hope getting to start dance in August next year. She begs to go with Grace every week.
2. Hugs and Kisses from my girls.
3. Snuggling in bed with my sweet husband.
4. Baby #3 sometime next year (Lord Willing!)
5. Seeing my family next week at my sister's new house she just built (their 1st one to own after 16 years of being married).
6. Getting Christmas cards out of the mail everyday.
7. Christmas morning with our girls.
8. Seeing my children grow up to be strong, faithful Christians who marry Christians and have a faithful home for my grandbabies!

Tag, You’re it Angie M, Kelly, Margaret, & Jamie

Grace's First Dance

Potty Time!

Hunter and I bought diapers about a month and half ago at Sam's and I swore it was the last time until we have number 3. Well, I can officially say we are "DIAPER FREE" in the Lynch House! Hope has worked so hard and has not had any accidents in almost 2 weeks. YEEEHAW!!!!!!!!!!! The girls went and spent last week with my mom and she fussed at me for sending plastic panties to cover her "big girl" pants. I kept telling Hunter that if we would just send her to Grandma's house she would be potty trained. I was right. She is so cute in her big girl panties and I am going to have to post a picture. Every time she potties she gets so excited and says “I a big girl mommy! I teeteed for you!" We are so proud. My baby is such a big girl. They grow so fast.