Connor Ryan Marrelli

We are so excited that Connor has joined our family! He was born on Monday October 27th at 12:19 in the afternoon! He was 6lbs. 7oz. and 19 1/5 inches long. I will postmore pictures later but her is here and Sydney couldn't be more excited to be a big sister! Thanks for all the love and support!

A little catch up

Life has been a little crazy lately and I know it is going to even crazier as the arrival of baby Connor is just a few days away! We are getting very excited. In fact I am taking a little break right now from cleaning my house from top to bottom so everything is ready for Connor to come. Here are a few things we have been up to lately:

-Ryan has been keeping us busy with all of his sports. He finished up a great season of softball by winning the regular season and taking second in the tournament. He has also found another new thing to keep him busy: Flag football. He plays with some friends from high school as well as with the guys from our ward. He is also playing indoor soccer right now. Sydney and I love to support him and go to all of his games.

-Sydney is just growing by the day and keeps us laughing. She has such a funny personality and comes up with some wacky stuff. She loves anything yellow and is very excited to teach baby brother all there is to know in the world. She asks me all the time "Mom, when baby brother gets big can I teach him...pretty much anything from kneeling up to the table to dancing when the music comes on" She is so funny.

-We did take a trip to Disneyland in September and had a great time. Sydney loved it and we pretty much catered to anything she wanted to do.

-I have just been enjoying the nice weather and also getting bigger by the day :) Just kidding but I have decided that baby number two is harder on the body then number one but I know I will look back and miss it when he is finally here. Some of our good friends have had babies in the past few months so we are looking forward to having some play dates in the future.

Sorry to go on so long but I have not written in my journal for a long time so thanks for letting me vent some feelings and memories! Enjoy :)

Fun Tag

8 t.v shows that you love to watch...

Amazing Race
Chuck
Life
Survivor
The Bachelor/Bachelorette
The Hills
Criminal Minds
Law & Order

8 favorite restaurants...

Cafe Rio
Olive Garden
Market Street
Deli at the 5th
El Matador
Lone Star
Mandrin
Cutlers

8 things that happened yesterday...

watched General Conference
played with Sydney
cooked dinner
took a nap
Ryan's parents basement flooded
talked on the phone
That's all I could come up with :)

8 things I am looking forward to...

Connor's birth
Mexico in January
Seeing Sydney in her Halloween costume
Meeting my new little man
watching some good TV tonight
Ryan coming home from work
getting my house in order for the baby to come
the upcoming holidays

8 things on my wish list...

a finished basement
Connor to be born just perfect
a sewing machine
my house to be magically spotless
a good nights sleep ( I know I am kidding myself:)
my pre-baby body
tickets to Wicked
for my family to be happy and healthy

8 people that I tag...

Tiff M
Tiff R
Brooke
Karen
Amanda
Heidi
Amy
Heather
(or whoever wants to :)

Five Years Later

So here we are five years later. Ryan and I celebrated our five year anniversary on September 4th. We were on vacation in California and spent the actual day at the beach and just being together. SO here we are with a 2 1/2 year old and now I am eight months pregnant with number two. We are loving life and look forward to many more wonderful anniversaries in the future! I love my husband so much and and I am grateful each day for the father and husband that he is!

A few new things

So Ryan and I have been without a computer for a while now. Our laptop crashed and we have been debating what to do and so finally we have ordered a new one but it will still be a few weeks till it will be here but at least there is an end in sight! We have been having a great summer. I am loving just being a mom and playing with Sydney everyday! We have played in the backyard in Sydney's little pool, we have gone to the park and played alot with cousins and Grandmas and Grandpas (probably Sydney's favorite thing to do :) Sydney is now potty trained! It is the greatest thing in the world. My goal was to have it done before the baby comes so I guess I have accomplished my goal. She loves to sing and talk on the phone. She has learned to sing "Called to Serve" and it has got to be the cutest thing ever! There are days that she tests my patience but for the most part we have so much fun. We are getting very excited for baby brother to be born. Only about 10 weeks to go. I can't believe he will be part of our family so soon but I know that Sydney is very excited. She talks to him all the time and sings him songs. Since I have no computer I don't have access to any of my pictures but I do have some new ones to post so soon enough hopefully I will have some fun things to add here but for now that is what our family has been up to :)

Happy (Late) Birthday

I know it is a few days late but I have to wish a happy birthday to my wonderful husband. I love him so much and he is so wonderful to provide for our family and is the best dad anyone could ask for! On Ryan's actual birthday he took the day off work and we went and saw the new Batman movie. It was really good. Next Ryan got to do his favorite thing.. play a round of golf- then we met up with his family and had some great Chinese food at the Mandrin and to our house for some cake and ice cream. Ryan got a Wii for his birthday so we are looking forward to many fun times with the Wii. The birthday celebrations continued Saturday when my parents took us out to one of our favorite restaurants... Market Street! Thanks everyone for making it a good one for the most important man in my life! I love you babe- and look forward to 28 more wonderful years with you :)