Evan and Emily: April 2013

We gently eased our way into April this year, as we sloooowly put our basement back together, in awe of how amazing it turned out. We are in love with the finished product and find ourselves spending a majority of our time down there, wondering how we ever survived without it "complete" like it is now.

Evan had his annual bank conference in Vegas and I definitely made sure I found my way onto that trip somehow. It was great getting to spend some time together, even if he was working for a few days. I took advantage of the down time to read a lot and relax by the pool, shocking to no one. We did enjoyed fabulous dinners out, and even went to an incredible Cirque De Soleil (spelling is completely wrong there, I think you get what I mean) show.

We also started potty training Luke this month and were amazed at how well he did. I think he only had a few "accidents" in the first few days and very quickly caught the hang of it. After only a few nights, he was completely pull-up free! I may have mentioned it once or twice before, but Luke loves listening to music and playing DJ in our house. We have a CD-player alarm clock, and he can be found constantly shuffling CD's in and out of it and playing them over and over. He is genuinely occupied by this for hours. His favorites are the storytime audio books, with Finding Nemo taking the top spot. He also loves the Beatles, but only because his daddy does too. We used this passion for music to our advantage to aid in our potty training efforts as you'll see below. Hard to believe that we're out of diapers (more like ecstatic)....and just in time, as we revealed in April our exciting news: we're going to have another baby in October! We are over the moon thrilled, and even more grateful to be sharing the news as this pregnancy has taken a terrible toll on me this first trimester - my tiredness, naseau, acne, heartburn, food aversion whatnot can now finally be linked to the best news of all - we will be a family of 5 this fall!!