Well that didn't last. I told all my friends to take the extra candy. In a fit of pregnancy induced craziness, obviously! So I have been dismantling it with my paper piercer. I got desperate, you see I'm a bit trapped: (the backyard, normally I wouldn't show you a picture of it, since it's full …
Category Archives: Family Life
Crew girl fun times
Yesterday was our annual crew girl holiday party. Note to the casual reader: I call them crew girls because we were all on the Oregon State Crew team together (rowing). In addition to our evening festivities this year we had a joint baby shower for Tracy and I, who are due on the same day …
Hello?!?! Is that you?
That was the sentence just yelled to me when I answered the phone. Yes, it was me, but not the Bonnie the super old caller was looking for. Anyway. House progress chugs along. Right now I have a couple of guys out my window working on putting in a new gas line. I'll get to …
snapshots
I'm going to focus on the positive. Maybe tomorrow I'll talk to you about the water heater fiasco. Yesterday I went to Corvallis and had lunch with Sarah (so fun thanks again Sarah) and picked up the rest of our newborn diapers. Here is what I wrote about when we first chose to cloth diaper. …
Dailies
I know I'm not the only one doing the December Daily thing with Ali. But I thought I would share my (really simple) take. Each day is like the one on the right, with a simple band of Ki Memories attached by staples, and a number stamped on Bazzill (orange peel texture, my favorite). I …
Progress… on all fronts
This past weekend was the most relaxed I've been since the remodel started. We started out having thanksgiving at Brett and Michele's. Ah the wonderfulness of a casual holiday. And of course my wonderful god-daughter V who couldn't be more adorable. Unfortunately I was so relaxed I took zero pictures of the day, oops! I …
Monster Shower
Yesterday Sciarrino through me a monster baby shower. It wasn't actually monster huge, but literally about monsters. You may have seen this link in my side bar. Bj and I loved the monsters so much that Sciarrino came up with the idea to throw a shower where we made them. Her place looked so cozy …
Baby Book
So right after I moaned to Sarah on her blog that I wasn't going to be able to make a baby book for my little baby I realized, that I had to do it, regardless of where my supplies were. And so I drug everything upstairs (including the table to which Bj said, "AMBER!!!!"). I …
It’s good to be home
Yes, it's good to be home, no matter how much of a disaster home is right now. Bj and I got home very early on Saturday morning from a trip down to California. We went down to take grandpa's remains to rest with his wife at Riverside National Cemetery. It was sad, as I knew …
Baby love – a baby shower!
This weekend my grandma threw me a baby shower, which was so lovely. It was up at her house so a lot of my family got to come (we live an hour south of most of my mom's family). My mom called me the day before to see if I had bought my grandma a …