Okay, so it's actually more of a re-enactment of his first steps earlier last week. But we're still excited.

I feel like this past weekend lasted a long time but seemed incredibly fast at the same time!

On Friday night Ric and I stayed in. I made homemade crockpot jambalaya to celebrate Ric's vacation, which started that night, and we started watching Die Hard 3. Ric fell asleep, so I'm being kept in suspense right now.

Saturday I went to do laundry at my folks' place, then Jenny and Ric and I went to China cottage for some good food. We ran a few errands around town since Ric was getting ready to take a mini vacation. Jenny and I watched The Office finale for the second time back at our place, and a couple episodes of Ninja Warrior were plenty to entertain after that.

Sunday morning Ric left for the open road and is figuring out his trip as he goes. He calls here and there so I know he's still alive. I went to church to see the Andersons (Happy Birthday, Liz). Emily seems to recognize me now and had a smile/laughing craze in the middle of church because she was having so much fun staring at me. After church Jenny and I went out shopping. Five hours later, my feet were so sore, and 6 hours my back realized what I did to it. I laid around watching tv until the later night hours, then started the long process of packing books.

Have I told you guys we're planning on moving? A rental house is in the works! And if we don't get it for some reason, we're determined to find somewhere else. Man, I have a LOT of books, and running them down stairs is a long (and hot) process. Not sure why I let Ric convince me to move them up there in the first place!

Up this week: running many errands tonight, International Meat Day tomorrow (dinner inland), the Lost finale party at the Neals' on Wednesday, a farewell to my partner-in-crime at work on Thursday (which I have to bake for), lots of wedding flowers prep in Carlsbad on Friday, and the big day for Ryan and Amy on Saturday! Ric and I will be out of town next weekend for the wedding and are planning to stay down south and go see the zoo while we're there. Wow. I'm already getting tired just thinking about this week. But it's going to be a blast.