Doesn't this melt your heart?

I LOVE...

1. I love hotels. I love the escape it gives me. No bills, no laundry, no stacks of things I can do or should do, no kitchen to worry about what to cook for ANY meals. Also, hotels are just fun. Maybe the association they have with vacation, but I love me a nice fancy hotel. The Bellagio tops my list, but locally, Hotel Monaco is my fave. Just a little FYI...it has been said that I had the honeymoon of hotels. 2. I love the ocean...the calming sound of the waves....the gorgeous sunsets...boogey boarding for me, body surfing for Steve...My feet in the wet sand as the waves come in and get sucked back out...the rush of the first time you go completely under...so cold but so fun...and salty.

3. The third thing I love is MUSIC. I really love all kinds of music with a very strong exception for country. I just can't do it. But we recently went on a road trip to St. George and that gave us a good opportunity to pull out some music old and new. Some of my favorites are:

• Modest Mouse, Good news for people who love bad news
• Jimmy Eat World, Bleed American
• Foo Fighters....anything and everything...(i love david grohl)
• Nelly Furtado, Loose (very different from her last album, but I love it)
• Justin Timberlake, Future Sex/Love Sounds
• No Doubt, Rock Steady (I love Gwen, but when is she going to get back with the boys?)

So these are 3 unconventional things that I love. I Tag Kim and Mackenzie...tell us three things you love that we may not know.

7 hours of sleep....GLORIOUS

Just wanted to share with you all that this week has been a great week with Owen in the night. He has never been up all night or crying all night, but he just liked to eat frequently. Well three nights this week he has gone 8 hours or more between feedings. Last night I got a solid 7 hours of sleep. I feel like I am one step closer to normal. Oh, how I love my sleep.

5 Weeks Old!

What nobody told me...No one told me I would be an emotional mess for weeks...months...from here on out just always? No one told me that with every milestone I would cry...he is 5 weeks and 1 day old, boohoo. No one told me that some one would say he is so big, and I wouldn't realize it. No one told me that I would forget so soon how small he once was. No one told me I would feel as if I could never do anything else again. No one told me I would feel socially backwards once I stepped out into public after being home for so long. No one told me I wouldn't want to be social anyway. No one told me that my fear of him growing too soon would pass and I would anticipate every moment of growth to come! No one told me that Owen would get more and more beautiful everyday. No one told me how much love and joy I would feel from just a grin and smile.

What an emotional month it has been. I'm feeling good and a little bit more like myself everyday. I just love my baby and I can tell you anything and everything you experience is well worth it! As for New Year's resolutions...there is just too much on my plate to really even think about what I want to do better this year...most of last was spent pregnant. All I can tell you is that I look forward to 2008. Our family has changed in a blink of an eye, it seems, even though we've been preparing for so long. This year will bring about so much joy with Owen here to bring it everyday!