Sunday, January 25, 2009

January 25



She is so artistic and loves to make crafts and color. And she's good at it too! Clearly, this is a talent inherited from moi!

January 24


Spent a fun night with my girlfriends from Jr. High. The flowers are because it was a Mexican theme (one of us just returned from the Mayan Riviera - can you tell which one?) so she bought us flowers for our hair!

January 23



He is all over the floor now. A mixture of crawling, creeping and rolling! The baby gate is officially back up and I have to make sure there is nothing around him that he could put in his mouth. Sigh! I already miss the days when I could put him down in one spot and he'd stay there quite contently!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

some photos and a challenge...

First the photos...

January 22


Day 22
My poor girlie -so sick today. As I write this she is sleeping on the couch and High School Musical is on the TV. She even knows the names of the characters! And she's only THREE! Clearly we have an older girl in the house too.

January 21


Day 21
I LOVE this far too much. I would like to have one every single morning if I could justify it. Unfortunately, I prefer them from Starbucks and don't really enjoy the mix you can buy and make at home.

January 20



Day 20
Took him to the zoo the other day (his first trip). It was nice and warm so it was quite enjoyable although a fairly rushed trip in order to get home for naptime.

Now for the challenge...I think I'm supposed to write 16 random facts about myself.

1. I hate cleaning the floors. If you stop by my house on any given day you'd likely be disgusted at the state of my floors because I rarely sweep or mop. Yeah, I know that is gross but it is my least favorite chore to do. I'd rather clean a toilet. Except my husbands.

2. I love having the house to myself. My favorite is an empty house at night because then I don't feel guilty for not getting things accomplished and can have guilt-free alone time.

3. I want to take a photography class. I have a nice camera that I got for my birthday and I don't know how to use it except on automatic so I'd love to take a class to learn how to take really good photos.

4. I consider doing my hair and make-up a "necessary evil." I hate how long it takes to straighten my kind-of curly hair (when left to its own devices it looks like I just got a bad perm) and then doing makeup after that just bores me to tears. Unfortunately I wasn't blessed with the kind of looks that requires no make-up, so on it goes.

5. My love for organization far outweighs the effort I put into being organized. One day I SWEAR I will be...

6. I have a heck of a time making decisions regarding the design of my own house, but find it so easy to make decisions on the design of other peoples houses.

7. I feel guilty spending money on myself. Whether it is clothes, furniture, kitchen appliances, etc. I almost always have buyers remorse.

8. I could eat snacks or appetizers pretty much every single day instead of big meals. I love snacks.

9. I don't drink nearly enough water. I miss how much I craved water when I was pregnant.

10. I love her. I still think its the neatest thing that we are really good friends.

11. I shave my big toe. Well, both actually.

12. I really want to take my kids to some exotic locations such as Africa, China...places like that so they can see how other people live and hopefully feel grateful for all we have.

13. I'm really blessed to be good friends with my Mom.

14. My new favorite jeans are Lucky Brand.

15. Having all the laundry done is one of my favorite things.

16. Even though I have about 4 years to go, if my plan to go on a trip with my girlfriends works out, I can't wait for my 40th birthday. Not the number so much, but the trip.

Monday, January 19, 2009

January 19

January 19
Day 19
The forecast calls for +17 today! Woo hoo!



January 18
Day 18
Check out that bed-head! Man, is he cute...




January 17

Day 17
You play with me TWO minutes?



January 16
Day 16
One of his new expressions...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

tuesday, wednesday, thursday

Day 15
January 15

I love that they are friends and live just two doors down from each other. It also means I can get stuff done while they play!



day 14
January 14

Before and After. So gratifying to get to the "after".



day 13
January 13...

Mmmmmmmm...I LOVE this stuff. I can't stop eating it lately. Notice the chopsticks there friend? Yeah, you know who you are.

Monday, January 12, 2009

another day down

So beautiful outside today! Finally a warm day for the kids to play outside. We are all so sick of these minus temperatures this winter...where are all the chinooks we usually get?

Day 12
Lily eating snow outside. At least it was white!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Day 10 and 11

I love having a challenge like this to do - it really makes me conscious of taking my camera with me and taking picutres.

Even if I take just one or two I think it is going to be great to have 365 pictures after one year.

Not exactly sure what I'll do with them but I think a scrapbook photo album would be ideal. Gives me the itch to get scrapbooking again too!

Day 11
Grandma's 87th Birthday lunch...



Day 10
Lily's first day of ballet class...she loved it!

Friday, January 9, 2009

A bit late...but a photo a day starts now!

Attempting to do a Year In Pictures with a picture a day...starting a bit late obviously! However, I discovered a few photos on my camera that qualify and besides...who cares if they qualify when I am doing this just for me!

What a good way to remind me to pull out the camera for every day stuff and not just the big stuff. Its the every day stuff that matters anyhow!

Day 9
This is the face I look at every day...sigh...lucky me.



Day 8
Lily's first day of Pre-School!



Day 6
Max sitting on his own...I'm so not ready for what comes next!


Day 5
Drooly boy...



Day 3
YUMMY! Our annual girls appetizer feast. I look forward to this all year long.



Day 2
G. all bundled up for playing outside.



Day 1
She got her ears pierced!