September happen'ns...

Crazy hair day at school...

That little face is just too cute!

 Matt wins. He totally wins.

He surprised me and took me to the TAYLOR SWIFT concert!

It was AMAZING! Amazing doesn't even begin to describe it actually.

 He actually bought tickets the day of the concert and ended up getting 

dang good seats for a pretty good price. I am dying...still...thinking about it!

 It really was hard to contain my excitement all day long!

 Her concert was really less of a concert and more of a show!

She was all over the stage, and had this cat walk that would rise 30 ft

above the stage and swivel around. She was able to get pretty close to so much

of the crowd. The crowd was NUTS. And the special effects were awesome.

I sung my heart out and danced danced danced! Matt was swaying and at least

he stood next to me all night so I wasn't dancing all alone (I was in the

seat next to the isle:). But at the same time I didn't even care! It was too fun!

After the concert we went and got breakfast at a diner at 12:30am.

Such a fun date night!

 Luke's new cool hair cut. Little stud!

Some more pics from Dev's birthday...

 My handsome men!

 We took a drive through the Alpine Loop and had a picnic on a Sunday afternoon.

The leaves are changing and the fall weather is gorgeous!

 We've even had some good rain storms lately too!

 Funny James got this cheap helmet stuck on his head. Like really stuck. What the?

 Finding Halloween teeth

And the DIRTY DASH!

Another fun date this month...we teamed up with some other people from Matt's office

and we did the Dirty Dash in Heber. It was such a blast!
We basically climbed through a bunch of mud obstacle courses, waded through

freezing cold, muddy water and more. It really was so fun!

Afterwards Matt and I rushed home, showered and went out with our neighbors

for date night. I'm so glad we've been able to get out and have some fun dates recently!

 Dr. Young and Dr. Matt-good sports!

The Month of May

Here I am trying to catch up on what happened in May, before my awesome fam came into town.

Here's what I've got.

Dev usually looks like this after church at 4pm.

 We went downtown to the International Children's Film Festival....or something like that.

It was fun. There was all sorts of fun, FREE stuff for kids, all up and down the street.

  I love this pic of the boys in the hats they made.

After all the creative, fun stuff we headed over to Playhouse Square to watch this fun drum show with drums from all around the world. The kids had so much fun! 

Chagrin Falls

  Luke was pretty freaked out by the falls.

 Right above the falls is this adorable popcorn/ice cream shop. We always make a stop here when we come to Chagrin Falls.

  Some of our friends...

  Mother and Son's Date Knight at Chick-fil-a!

Luke and I went on a special date to Luke's favorite, Chick-fil-a! I LOVE that place. They are such a a great family place and are always doing lots of fun, FREE things for families. They get quite a bit of business from us! 

For this night, it was extra special. We made reservations, the tables were decorated with table cloths, flowers, chocolate kisses and conversation starters (with Knight/mid-evil theme).

 Some of our friends were there, including Jenn and Emmett. 

They had a clown, who tied balloons for the boys. The employees were dressed up in mid-evil clothing. We had to buy our dinner, but we got dessert for free and they gave the boys roses to give to us mom's. It was so fun!

Happy 5 Years to Us!

Last Friday Matt and I celebrated our 5th anniversary!

I can't believe it's already been five years. They have flown by and have been pretty darn great if I do say so myself!

Friday was Matt's last day of nights, so we needed to like, double celebrate. 

We hired a babysitter, headed out to the DELICIOUS Maggianos. Mmmmmm. We enjoyed our cozy, candlelit dinner, which was amazing. Then we did a little shopping at the Beachwood mall. Then we picked up a movie from redbox and picked up some dessert to take home. It was fabulous! Just what we needed.

Before we headed out, we asked Luke to take our picture. Here are his two attempts.

Oh and Matt surprised me with some pretty flowers. 

I know flowers can be totally lame and some women don't really like getting them or just think that they aren't practical. I can understand that and agree (sometimes), but I will say that I definitely DO enjoy getting them every once in a while.

Oh and while I'm at it....we finally bought a new van on Saturday too! It's so nice having some freedom once again. And Sunday was just perfect too. It was a gorgeous, warm, spring day. We went to church and Devin spent almost the entire time, and first time, in nursery! Matt and I were able to sit in peace for almost 2 hours. It was amazing. Then we went home, ate a delish dinner and then went to a park to play. Matt didn't have to rush off to work and it felt so good. 

It was a great weekend. And just what we needed, finally!

Les MIZ!!!!

The other night we saw Les Miserables! Our good friends (who are moving...sniff, sniff) watched the boys forever. THANK YOU THANK YOU KATE & DANIEL!!!! 

It was so fun going out on a much-needed date. We left Devin for the first time. We got all dressed up, had our binoculars and sneaked in some brownies...hehee. It was such a great play (minus a scene or two)!!! I've never been to a Broadway play that was just singing the entire time! I stayed awake (I have a history of falling asleep in expensive Broadway plays. I can't help it!) and it was amazing! It was such a great story and we both loved it. 

We paid for close parking and Matt even let me buy a drink that cost $3.25!!! Haha it was great. When we were in Med school we tried to still do fun things and if they cost a lot we tried to save money in other ways, even if that meant parking a mile away for free parking. So this was a real treat! Haha.

Enough babbling.

It was a blast and Matt is the best husband ever.

One year older

Yesterday twas my birthday and it was awesome!!!

Matt was post call (just got off a 24+ hour shift), the poor guy was exhausted, but he wanted to make sure it was still a special day. And it was. He's the best. 

My friend watched Luke while the rest of us went to PF Changs for lunch and it was, as always, AMAZING! I love that place.

Then we hit up some sales at Nordstrom Rack.
Picked up Luke.

(Matt) napped for an hour.

More shopping at Target. (Where I scored on the clearance racks, 4 pairs of shoes, a sweater & jacket all for around 60 bucks!).

Came home and Matt threw me a little birthday party right before Luke went to bed.

He put a candle in a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Gave me a cute new journal.

Sent me on a little treasure hunt.

1st stop-3D glasses (which really didn't have much to do with anything).

2nd stop-tickets (like the kind you get at the carnival).

3rd stop-binoculars.

Final stop-tickets to...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's coming to Cleveland in April.
I am so excited!! I haven never seen it before, but he really likes it.

I figured the seats weren't great, since he gave me binoculars, but they are actually pretty good seats.

I can't wait! 

Thanks to all my wonderful friends and family who called, texted and left birthday wishes and for all the great birthday gifts!!!!