the adventures of megan and bobby

ho ho ho

2011-12-25T12:56:00.000-07:00

a message from our little guy.
excuse the camera lady... she doesn't know what she is doing!

proud mama moment

2011-10-11T20:24:00.012-06:00

though evan was sleepy face and walking around with his blanket smothering his face, he apparently wasn't ready for his nap yet.

20 minutes in the crib brought about a lot of chitter-chatter and a throwing of everything in sight, out of the crib. when he was no longer appeased in the crib, and i went to get him, he just started giggling.

i decided that this was the perfect time to run my errands. about 20 minutes into it, it was apparent we were revisiting the need for nap time.

this is where the mama desperation set in. you see, falling asleep in the car would result in not transferring to the crib, and a very tired, somewhat miserable afternoon -for both of us-

and this is why any good mama needs to have emergency snacks in her purse- but i didn't.

so then i looked around for what would keep him awake for the 10 minute drive home.

krispy kreme. the drive through was right there...

done. i went through the drive through and bought a dough--nut. for the boy who i hardly ever feed junk to.

i then proceed to toss bits of doughnuts into the backseat at the bebe boy hoping to keep him awake.

a few minutes later i look in the rear view mirror and see a boy, with his eyes closed, still doing the hand-to-mouth motion. poor tired thing. then the motion slows and he is drooping, eyes closed and wad of doughnut in the fist.

i tried to sing every song i know and make it the last 3 minutes home.

when we pull into the driveway, and i go to retrieve the bebe boy, i find a glaze and crumb covered sleeping boy.

wish i had a picture of that.

that was a proud moment as a mama. the insanity i attempted resulted in a 20 minute nap. better than nothing.

***warning: a summer's worth of procrastination has been looming over my head. i finally gave in uploaded an entire summers worth of photos, apologies for the bazillion posts that follow.***

bebe brother!

2011-09-26T11:12:00.004-06:00

couldn't be more happy to say that the little munchin fluttering inside me is a bebe brother!

full disclosure: the husband and i were watching the munchin on the monitor at the doctor's office, hoping to hear that everything looked healthy and find out what awaited our family next. we saw immediately that we were going to have a bebe brother. (he wasn't shy). we grabbed hands excitedly. there is nothing that makes me more excited about this that imagining my bebe playing with his bebe brother!

sunday afternoons: take two

2011-09-25T22:11:00.011-06:00

our little bebe man loves animals. he has no fear or inhibition at all. i think this is a great thing, yet a bit nerve-racking at the same time.

we took him to a friends alpaca farm. i knew he'd love it, but he really loved it.

sunday afternoons

2011-09-18T21:44:00.005-06:00

we spent sunday afternoon chill'axin on a grassy little corner of byu.

the husband and evan forts with pine needs. well, the husband built and bebe kept asking for the pine needles and saying thank you in his stellar signing skills.

evan even got a chance to practice his fancy new walking skills...

pears

2011-09-16T21:37:00.001-06:00

i helped myself while mama was picking the pears off our tree...

taxidermy

2011-09-10T19:08:00.003-06:00

i'll be honest. taxidermy has always pretty much creeped me out. i never really understood going to a museum to look at dead animals.

however, this bebe man has suddenly opened my eyes to the beauty. he loves animals, and was thrilled to check them all out. only problem is trying to get him not to want to climb on the animals like he does the pup.

farmer's market

2011-09-08T19:03:00.001-06:00

nothing like enjoying some of the locals goods from the farmer's market down the street!

ski lifts

2011-08-27T14:01:00.002-06:00

we headed up the canyon to ride the lifts up at sundance. it was gorgeous. we missed most of the wildflowers (i always seem to miss the wildflowers!)

although holding a wiggly bebe/toddler on a ski lift is beyond nerve racking. it slightly distracted from the view! he was way to interested in exploring that lift, and i wanted him securely sitting between on one of our laps.

new toy

2011-08-26T20:15:00.002-06:00

check out my spoon. it is the newest cool thing. i won't let it out of my sight. it comes with me to the bath, goes to bed with me, keeps me occupied through costco. i pretty much love it.

first harvest

2011-08-26T20:11:00.001-06:00

this is the first harvest from our tomato plants out back. hopefully the first of many!

15 weeks

2011-08-19T20:01:00.002-06:00

15 weeks and showing already.

must i always take these pictures in the rooms that are under construction??

bonneville

2011-08-15T19:40:00.002-06:00

after a long drive home, we stopped at the salt flats for speed week. we went to watch byu's electric vehicle, but weren't able to catch one of their races.

you are right little buddy. it is really bright out there...

oregon: picking berries

2011-08-08T19:21:00.003-06:00

picking blackberries along the river. and eating a fair share too.

letting this little man explore the wild outdoors. and trying to keep him out of the prickly berries.

loving the green everywhere.

oregon: flying kites

2011-08-05T16:30:00.002-06:00

we spent a very windy day on the cape, flying kites. it was gorgeous. literally sitting on beds of wild strawberries.

i attempted to get photos of the kites, but alas, ended up more of this little guy!

oregon: the toys

2011-08-04T16:24:00.001-06:00

loving exploring all of the cousin's toys. especially playing them with dad.

oregon: the beach

2011-08-04T14:43:00.004-06:00

we took little man down to the beach to test out the water. i wasn't sure how he would react. turns out it was nothing but love. he would erupt into giggles when the freezing cold water would creep up onto him. okay the speed of the water was way more than a creep and would take my breath away when it hit me.

priceless.

and when the water was gone, he was perfectly happy in the land of rocks.

watering

2011-08-02T14:35:00.001-06:00

watering the lawn while simultaneously entertaining bebe boy. love summer afternoons.

little climber

2011-07-26T14:05:00.004-06:00

my little monkey may not be able to walk a flat surface, but he sure is a climber.

he scales the couch, over the half wall, and helps himself to anything he pleases on the other side.

toys

2011-07-21T12:21:00.004-06:00

this is what happens when daddy helped clean up all the toys...

cowboy

2011-07-20T12:12:00.002-06:00

look at my little hunk?

this was at the 24 of july float preview...

like father like son.

2011-07-12T21:13:00.002-06:00

little man can't help but jump in when the drill is out and dad is putting stuff together.

hanging out with dad

2011-07-04T20:46:00.003-06:00

i like hanging out with dad.

especially when he give me whipping cream with my veggie patty for lunch.

and then gives the rest to the pup!

balloons!

2011-07-02T20:37:00.006-06:00

we ventured out in the early am again to check out the hot air balloons.

yep! still love them!

evan was much more excited this year too (being one month old and sleeping through them last year...)

except the whole fire thing. that pretty much freaked him out.

baking

2011-07-01T20:16:00.003-06:00

daddy was baking bread and i found a little bit of the mess...

swimming

2011-07-01T19:56:00.025-06:00

bebe and i spent the day up at payson lakes with kristin's family. the view up there is gorgeous. everything is gorgeous except the murky pond-ish water. which of course is where evan wanted to spend the majority of the time. pretty sure he thought he was a pretty good swimmer too.

watch out mama. i'm about to jump back in!

conversations with the husband

2011-06-29T10:29:00.001-06:00

we have been trying to eat our fruits and vegetables around here.

really trying- like at least 6 servings a day trying.

and no, this was not all my idea, the husband is a motivated participant....

most mornings, that means breakfast consists of a smoothie.

this particular morning, that smoothie was dominantly peach flavored, due the the yummy abundance of fresh peaches on my counter top.

the husband takes a sip and makes a sour face.

"you don't like peach??" i ask.

"i don't know, maybe not" he replies.

how is it possible to not like peaches??

he continues, "i don't ever remember grabbing a peach, eating it and loving it."

i feel sad for him at this moment. fresh fruit, right off the tree i think is one of the best things on this planet.

"okay, so what do you love?" i ask, thinking i might get it right one of these days...

"pizza." he replies simply.

"can you make it pizza flavored?"

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someday remind me to fill this journal in with the last 2 months of life's adventures- birthdays, father's days, road trips with girls, lots of bebe boy craziness, bathroom remodels. currently when i pull up the blog and think about writing, i end up saying "nah, " and immediately close the lappy...

check me out!

2011-06-28T19:52:00.002-06:00

i'm sporting my mama's sunglasses!

thinking about it...

2011-06-14T16:00:00.001-06:00

birthday boy

2011-06-06T21:56:00.002-06:00

happy birthday to the husband and bebe daddy.

we enjoyed a celebration at the park with pizza's, wiffle ball, and friends. perfect evening.

love you bobby.

road trip!

2011-06-04T21:05:00.007-06:00

this is what the morning nap in the car looks like after you think it is a good idea to drive all night to california and you aren't 20-something anymore!

i'll leave out the part about the groggy irritated voices about me trying to take pictures...

studly merissa- and the reason for the girls weekend to the beach. too bad it was raining at the beach, and on her 26.2 miles.

i think i'm pretending to drive the dingy in this picture, but i'm not really sure...

birthday balloons

2011-05-30T22:03:00.004-06:00

we had a pretty big birthday around here.

bebe boy turned the big one.

since he is pretty nuts about balloons, we threw him a party, all about balloons.

we started by slipping these little balloons into the mail to a few of bebe's little friends and family.

i had visions of our spring green yard being lined with balloons. but mother nature wasn't up for that. she wanted to rain and rain and rain. so plan b. fill the neighbor's basement with 100 helium balloons.

turns out that there is no better way to celebrate and entertain a few of evan's little friends than to let they run through a room of ribbons attached to balloons.

i don't know how we didn't have lift off when a 20 pound darling girl was amassed in 50 balloons and their attached curly ribbons.

happy birthday to you!

not so sure here... mom's never let me have sugar before...

i think i could get the hang of this!

not quite sure what to do with the birthday loot...

then we each tied wishes for the birthday boy to the balloons. grateful that the sun showed up for this part!

and sent them up, up, and away!

then we sent all the littles home with their very own balloon. the animal crackers assisted in preventing lift off...

happy birthday evan boy. a year ago i had no idea what it would be like to love you. now i don't know what it would be like not to.

mysterious ways

2011-05-25T15:39:00.000-06:00

who the? what the? what is that picture of?

yea, bono, and some awesome nose bleed seats from the u2 concert.

kat's hubby was out of town for the postponed concert, so yours truly became the benefactor of his misfortune.

i had a great time with kat (and about 50k other people...)

we played, "pretend the trax train is a cattle car and guess how many people can you cram into a car." (turns out it is as many as will barely allow the doors to close, i repeat- barely. you know those signs that tell people not to stand in the stairwell? yea right! me and 4 other people were in that stairwell...)

we played trivia with all the factoids on the "claws" monster screen with great anticipation for bono (and the edge who is ~~the hottest~~ my personal favorite.)

we lost our hearing in the first 30 seconds of the concert (good thing for those nose bleed seats- can you imagine if we had been closer)

we danced and be-bopped among lots of crazy fans.

i discovered that i am getting old. at 11pm the concert was still going strong, and i was drooping.

good times. these u2 folks sure know how to put on a crazy good show.

***bonus factoid- the last u2 concert i went to was in 1996. crazy. i can't believe that was 15 years ago..

wind advisory

2011-05-15T22:02:00.006-06:00

i checked the weather forecast, and there were little icons of wind gushes, and a flashing red dot for a wind advisory.

what did that mean?

perfect day to bust out the kite. - the kite we bought and used on our honeymoon in san francisco and have forgotten to make use of since. no way was i going to let this wind advisory go to waste.


yea, that's my dad flying the kite. i'm just going to sit here and eat my cheerios...

yes. i think we have found a perfect way to use those wind advisory days.

my weekend

2011-05-08T21:59:00.006-06:00

oh my. this weekend was just for me.

the husband returned home from his 10 day excursion racing the byu car in new hampshire.

so nice to have a husband back.

i bought a badminton set to celebrate the weekend.

celebrate the sunshine, celebrate cinco de mayo, celebrate the birthday & mother's day.

the bebe apparently has another use for the badminton set. there seems to be a theme...

we spent a fabulous weekend together.

the husband didn't get home until late cinco de mayo, so making the pinata by myself, i just made a mini one this year. and we busted it open with friends sunday evening. the culmination of a great birthday and mother's day

and to this little guy i say:
thank you for the mother's day.
thank you for making me a mother.
thank you for unconditionally loving me and letting me love you more than i knew i could.
thank you for letting me soothe you.
thank you for smiling and laughing at me.
and letting me read you books,
and sing you every song i know, as well as quite a few i don't know.
thank you for helping me discover everything for the first time again through you.
it has been quite a year. you rocked my world and totally changed my life, and i love it.

ps. the husband gave me the most thoughtful mother's day gift. a new book for the little guy. i'll be honest, i didn't understand or appreciate it fully at first. huh? i got a book for the bebe for mother's day?? until the next day, when i had a great new book to explore with evan. ten points to the husband for trying to make my life home with the boy just that much better.

the car

2011-05-06T21:24:00.001-06:00

the husband has been out in new hampshire.

they spent a year building this car, and the formula hybrid international competition is the chance to show it off.

and guess what. they came in 2nd overall for the competion. (more on all that here)

and i would like to add, that they had to pass technical inspections, and didn't meet the deadline for 1 event and they still came in second. pretty much that means that had they been able to qualify to race that event, i'm pretty sure they would have finished 1st overall. that is pretty good in my book.

when they brought that fancy little car home, they had a bbq for family members to check out and drive it.

so of course, here is our little racer (pretty much wanting to get out of the car as fast as possible...)

worse before it gets better...

2011-04-25T09:34:00.000-06:00

why is it that i have to make things a giant mess when my intentions are to clean then up??

i emptied the cellar and barn with the theory of cleaning and organizing. suddenly our yard looked like a giant yard sale (or episode of hoarders - my worst nightmare!)

really cleaning and organizing also becomes the sentimental time to look through everything before i decide what to keep and what to toss.

i used to be a keeper. now it often goes something like this, "oh, sweet! remember when _____?" toss or d.i? someday i might regret some of it, but mostly, it feels so good to not have so much stuff....

thankfully, with many hours of elbow grease - yea for the husband being done with finals!- we now can walk into both the cellar and the barn.

bonus: while cleaning i can hang out in my random cowboy hat. and bebe can try it on too...

yes- all belongings were neating in place before days end. and we were tired.

eggs

2011-04-24T21:42:00.000-06:00

i love that holidays are chances to create silly traditions. we all got socks for easter this year. i guess the easter bunny really likes socks!

and i love that the bebe gives me an excuse to act like a silly kid even though i did it long before he came along....

and apparently we are searching for our favorite way to decorate easter eggs. each year we have done something totally different- too many ideas for something that comes around but once a year. and i don't love hard boiled eggs (or have the energy) to try them all in one year!

this year we tried natural dye. the eggs here are beets, coffee, onion skins, blueberries, and dried chili peppers with tumeric (really the dried peppers were a flop, so i threw the tumeric in there to get some color going on. spinach was also a total flop- white egg was not what i was going for.

who is this guy?

2011-04-22T21:02:00.000-06:00

the husband has finished yet another semester. 1 more to go... (for now...)

in true bobby fashion, he combined skill and creativity and created this beauty for one of his classes.

we have been thinking about building an abacus for one of our walls. he loved the idea of kinetic art, and i thought, you know, that it would look good. apparently we know where the talent lies in this marriage...

then when he had to do a project for his creativity class, just any old abacus wasn't going to cut it any more (in his mind) and the wheels began to turn.

my favorite toy in the doctor's office waiting room -random fact, i know- were those bead maze, roller coaster thing-a-ma-bobs. he combined that with our dream of an abacus, creating a demonstration of chaos and order. there is even quite the word puzzle built in with history, our family, and who knows what else is in there.

yep. i think it, and he, are pretty great.

we should be allergic to peanut butter

2011-04-04T05:59:00.004-06:00

remember when i got peanut butter in my hair? before even having bebe to blame it on?

well, the husband did even better- makes that like ten times worse. except i guess he didn't make a public display of his... so i've got him there...

once upon a time i was mixing up our peanut butter. (you know- mixing all the oils in to that natural kind)

has anyone ever done this gracefully?

i usually approach it with a butter knife and gently stir it slowly, trying to get it to mix in and pray that i will not spill the oil everywhere, since it is like a millimeter from the top.

so bobby, the tool master, walked in on me, laughed and decided that he had to find a better way to do it.

and i let him.

he got the hand mixer out- put some crazy attachment on it, and whipped that oil in. presto.

i was impressed and gave him all the credit he deserved.

so the next time we opened a jar of good ole pb, bobby tried a repeater.

then i hear a gasp and a thud. and a cry for help.

power tool fail. the mixer had flung the jar spilling all the oil (which is very necessary to not have serious dry peanut butter mouth).

i helped save what we could, and bobby began to mix again.

the next thud, was well, a thud/splat.

i can not even begin to tell you all the places i found peanut butter. but if you took an inventory of our kitchen from end to end, that would just about cover it.

poor bobby. i was laughing so hard at him, and he was really not very happy.

all be wanted was a pb and blackberry jam sandwich for dessert...

the run down

2011-04-01T21:34:00.001-06:00

the last two days have been so action packed, i have to journal a summary.

++ i quit half my job. we have been trying to work out details for bobby to get a job/internship experience. i knew and hoped that would likely mean i would be quitting. i can't stomach the day care idea, and juggling both of us having full times jobs and the bebe is more than i can juggle. wait, i can't juggle- at all.

enter anxiety here- quit- lose a salary that covers the needs and benefits, or work and leave the bebe... it was a cycle without solution...

then (in the temple- going to go ahead and call this a blessing...) it dawned on me that i hadn't approached the thought of going part-time. i nervously approached the subject with my boss. they aren't very keen on the part timers at my office, and he wasn't very promising. we went to a staff meeting later in the day that basically ended up in a restructuring of our whole team, and one of the other members asking if she could go full-time.

suddenly, what had started the day as a "what if" to throw in the mix of all our life decisions, became a done deal.

enter anxiety here again- i just gave up half my salary and yet to have a job for bobby...

++ the husband is a stud.

his capstone gave their final presentations on this baby yesterday. bebe and i rushed over to ooo & aahhhh over it between my work mayhem..

did i mention that the husband pretty much was the mastermind behind this beauty? there is a team that built this car together from the ground up. and from conception to paint- bobby was the brawn behind the entire body. it has come to be known as body by bobby.

this is a time lapse video of a small part of the process

formula hybrid from Ryan McLean on Vimeo.

more to come on this later when the husband goes to new hampshire for this in may.

++ double bonus- this car being done = i have my husband back.

++ the husband went in for a second interview this morning.

++ this afternoon he got offered the job. no joke people. part time at a local engineering company. part time me, part time husband + bebe = perfect.

++ anxiety slips away. 48 hours or less, months worths of questions and anxiety worked out better than i ever could have schemed.

++ starting prepping the garden for the spring crops. yum.

++ we have movement.

ten months + 1 day, and little mr finally decided to crawl. made it across the room. it only took him about ten minutes to do it, and some serious carrot dangling.

same day, he walked along the couch (with a death grip mind you). yes he wanted my keys that badly.

++ this little bum got diagnosed with ear infection #2. good thing he is much better spirits about it this time!

phew, what a day...

my little conductor

2011-03-30T06:23:00.002-06:00

we are a fan of trains around here.

this is our favorite book these days.

and since we live a stone's throw from the tracks, the choo choo is our regular lullaby. (though really not always a fan of falling asleep to that...)

so when i got the little man dressed in our awesome hand-me-down conductors cover alls, i decided that it inspired a field trip down to the tracks.

although actually trying to get brave enough to put him down for a picture on the tracks was a different story -insert paranoia here-

the outakes:

it will take a miracle to get a shot looking at camera with all these dirty distractions...

ahhh mom... can i please?

success! i got one!

and with that, i scooped him up. enough dirty things in the hands and mouth for the day.

sunday lego creations

2011-03-27T19:14:00.000-06:00

legos are a preferred sunday activity around here.

when we actually like our creations they become the display of the week in the living room.

i build things like flower gardens (yes- I was that little girl who drew the same flowers and puffy clouds every time someone gave me crayons.)

then the husband sees them and tells me they look like super mario flowers and creates a whole mario world.
(and a car to 4 wheel through my flowers- just for fun...)

it is always a little sad to break them up for the next weeks creations (especially when they bomb- like my un-flower looking daffodil- and bobby's map from this past week...)

love languages

2011-03-10T20:14:00.002-07:00

the husband planned the anniversary festivities this year. and he used some good ole' fashioned brainstorming to come up with the perfect balance between he and i.

the husband loves food.

i love time with/ effort by the husband

and voilà! he planned to spend the evening together, make and enjoy a 4 course meal.

fruit - asparagus salad - pomegranate glazed salmon with armenian rice- and carrot cake.

um. yum....

and i really like this husband of mine.

let them eat cake

2011-03-09T05:38:00.002-07:00

4 years ago, i knew enough of what i was getting into marrying the husband to be pretty sure that some cake smashing was going to take place.

good thing we kissed and made up.

love you bobby. happy anniversary. i'll smash cake in your face any day.

coconut

2011-03-07T21:03:00.000-07:00

in effort to cure the boredom and impending insanity that accompanies being quarantined, we busted out a coconut, stabbed (literally stabbed) a hole in it, popped in some straws, and dreamed that it would take us to exotic places.

too bad it was gross.

i must have forgotten that when i lived in thailand, i hated drinking coconut for the first 6 months i was there, and then magically loved it. i'm guessing this love/hate relationship is back to the first stage...

yeah for byu

2011-03-04T17:13:00.010-07:00

since 2009 i have been involved with the PACE (partners for the advancement of collaborative engineering) program, where i have been mainly working on a formula one race car. yes yes, a formula one race car. these things (professionally built) can cost several million dollars, and in some special cases 100 million+. you could buy a fighter jet for that much. the one that us students built only cost a little over a quarter of a million.

working on this project has been pretty amazing. and this last thursday we were able to show it off. BYU's school on engineering and technology received a hefty 10 million dollar donation from the Weidmans, BYU alumni, for the creation of the weidman center for global leadership. and on stage was our car, a prime example of global leadership. needless to say i was pretty proud to apart of such a great university and a great project.

note from the wife

my favorite part was when students would walk into this forum where the announcement was made, see the car, and say things like, "wow, cool car!" , "hey, check out that sweet car!", or just plain "whoa..."

it took all i could muster to not jump up and say, "yea, my husband did that."

pretty sure that might have been embarrassing...

public service announcement

2011-03-02T11:44:00.001-07:00

do not enter. stay away. you do not want what we have.

we are under quarantine

have been for a week now.

me and the little guy are not leaving the house these days.

i thought that we just had a cold, but finally took a jaunt to the doc on monday to discover the bebe has rsv and double ear infection.-thanks to the mama for waiting for the 6th day to go to the doc. way to go mama...

i had a little something, but i think it was the zero sleeping that was kicking my behind more than the cold.

yesterday i thought we were on the up and up. i even snuck out for some me time at the grocery store and good company at book club. and yes, i just said me time at the grocery store...

then this morning the husband called from school feeling yuck-o..

and we are down again.
the only thing worse than being sick is a sick husband or and child.

our condolences to the other half of the planet plagued with this beaut.
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ps- a love letter to the antibiotics

dear antibiotics,
i thought you were supposed to make my little man feel better.
you took my sweet sad sick bebe and replaced him with an irritable grouchy one that i have never met before. no thank you.
sincerely,
me

saying goodbye

2011-02-26T18:13:00.010-07:00

so there i was eating my morning granola, and megan gasps, her face going green with her hand over her mouth and those "i'm gonna puke" cheeks, you know the ones. she was just staring me, and after a few long seconds she motioned with her head, mouth still covered, toward a box of cereal. "yes, i am eating granola and that, unlike other foods i have eaten, should not make you wanna hurl" i thought to myself. but after more prompting I get up and look behind the box and there it was, a dead gold fish.

our almost 4 year anniversary gold fish has died. we received the fish as a souvenir from our wedding reception (they were the center pieces for the tables). our first 'real' introduction to the fish was when we arrived in our new apartment after the honeymoon. he or she (is this even possible to determine on fish?) was chasing the other two fish in the bowl and nipping at their fins. and we, oh so creatively, named it 'chaser'. there were 4 but one had an unfortunate run-in with a sink and garbage disposal with ensuing hysteria by the women in the room (that part was pretty funny). chaser quickly killed the other two fish in the bowl, and frankly i thought that was kinda fishy... but he was our fish.

the next 3.8 years chaser had his ups and downs, like the time we forgot to rinse the glass pebbles at the bottom of the bowl after washing them with soap and we found him swimming on his side.

somewhat sarcastically i often told megan that the fish could hang around until the fish food ran out. we only had one container of fish food, purchased with all the fish for our reception, and he has been surviving on that all this while. as fate would have it, the night before we found him, i had dumped the last few flakes into his bowl.

On a similar note, we had fish growing up in a octagon shaped standing tank. i don't remember the fish dying or there being a big announcement that we no longer have fish, they just went away... kinda like how our dog kodiak mysteriously stopped coming around and about a month later, maybe longer, katie asked "where's kodiak?" "oh he died..." replied my mom. those were simpler times. oh ya and we had cats too... who knows what happened to them.

love and romance.

2011-02-15T19:49:00.008-07:00

it was my year for valentine's day.

i decided to to create a night in after putting our little bebe to sleep.

here i was thinking candles, fondue... nice romantic dinner together.

here is the reality.

i love bobby. he and his bebe are the best things that have ever happened to me.

we are not really very romantic.

we are practical. sometimes comical really...

it was too dark to turn off the lights and eat the dinner, so we had candles and florescent lights.

bobby burned himself 3 time and spent dinner with his finger sitting in a tupperware full of water.

then he sat in the living room with his cup o' water while i did the dishes.

pretty sure it was lights out by 9:30pm

i love you bobby. happy love day to you.

be mine...

2011-02-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

house of bricks

2011-01-23T08:26:00.003-07:00

santa gave us some legos for christmas.

maybe he was preparing us for 4 years from now when the bebe can actually play with them.

or maybe he knew the husband just might enjoy them until then....

either way, they magically arrived in this perfect little replica of our house. barn, pear tree and all...

forcing spring

2011-01-22T17:23:00.000-07:00

it really is too early to be thinking about or hoping for spring around these parts.

so i couldn't help but plant a little happiness to enjoy inside.

i think it is pretty cool that i can watch it grow, before my very eyes. every day.

i'm entertained.

friday word of the day: bleach

2011-01-21T09:41:00.000-07:00

today anything and everything that is non-porous and doesn't move is getting the bleach treatment. the baby and the pup are both porous and move, so they are safe from the megan attack...

no one is sick around here. there is no major incentive. it was just time.

i'm sure someone in the vast out there thinks i'm probably paranoid, and another can't believe that i haven't done this yet... but today is the day for me...

now is the time that i publicly apologize to my microbiology roommate of old who would tell us about everything that could be growing on very surface of our apartment.

i mean, she was paranoid, but i could have been nicer about it!

problem solving skills

2011-01-18T22:21:00.000-07:00

this is what happens when the husband sets out to bake our bread

he decides he is sick and tired of dumping the flour out the cup and subsequently half in the bowl and half on the counter.

he results to just taking a giant spoon to the whole big ole' bucket of flour.

i almost fell on the floor i was laughing so hard.

but then again, so did he...

the 2011 door

2011-01-18T21:50:00.001-07:00

gotta have a party...

2011-01-16T21:50:00.001-07:00

(wo)man's best friend... (after the husband, bebe, a pretty great fam, and some choice besties that is...) had another birthday. was he ever really that little??

we added a new party attendee from last year...

and though we did forgo the party hats this year...

there was indeed a cake. the husband may scoff at the idea of having a party for the puppy, but he did not scoff at carving up, nor eating a cake...

and it looks like the bebe knows just what to do with that cake...

i tried to talk myself out of it...

2011-01-07T12:25:00.001-07:00

all week actually.

i enlisted a friend to help talk me out of it.

i even exercised first in case i was just going stir crazy and needed to get some of the impulsivity out.

but in the end...

i just cut my own hair.

see i have this problem. when i finally decide i want to do something with my hair, i want to do it right now. i don't want to wait for a scheduled appointment. not to mention with the little guy i'm bumming around with these days, i hardly have a schedule!

but shhh.... don't tell the husband. he doesn't know yet. and he's probably going to have to fix it later...

report

2010-12-31T19:36:00.003-07:00

check.
check.
check, check uncheck-shed
check- wedding album complete. uncheck- mission (oh the mountains of mission photos!)
ummm..check? (does a few times during my maternity leave and once one new years eve eve count??)
check.
check.
check. although sometimes i show it imperfectly, i do love that man!

how to eat pie...

2010-12-25T16:20:00.000-07:00

christmas eve leftovers.

our dear neighbors had us over for a christmas eve feast.

with the bebe rapidly approaching bedtime, we left before pie was served.

without knowing which kind we would like, they naturally brought us two of each!

now that is a lot of pie...

christmas morning

2010-12-25T15:28:00.000-07:00

filled with lots of new things
we might not quite understand yet...christmas cereal.
santa always seems to know what the favorties are.
and enough new goodness to just wear a guy out!

gift giving guide

2010-12-24T21:54:00.009-07:00

new tradition around here.

christmas morning finds you with:

something you want,
something you need,
something to wear
and something to read.
the mama version:
admittedly our definitions of want and need are a tad blurry...

the husband version:the bebe version:

______________________________________________________________________
credit for this little poem needs to go to my sister-in-law sarah... she did this with her family and i decided it was a keeper....

christmas-izing the place

2010-12-23T21:28:00.001-07:00

the stockings all hung from the dresser with care...and topped with our new nativity (love my talented in-laws!), sure to be a favorite with the ~~mama~~ bebe.
i think i found my new favorite locale for keeping the christmas cards. they brought colorful adornment to our door, and i got to peek at them regularly on my way out of the house.

thank you to all who sent one our way, and merry christmas to you too!

and, of course, bringing the bebe in on all the traditions!

by the light of the snow

2010-12-20T04:10:00.000-07:00

took this photo at dark- thirty a.m. on one of my rendezvous' with the bebe.

i couldn't believe how much light the snow brought to the dark night.

what i'm up to

2010-12-15T08:44:00.012-07:00

this is what i've been up to for the last semester at school:

worked on the prestigious year long senior project known that the FSAE formula hybrid. it's a gas and electric powered vehicle that we will be racing in new hampshire next year.
created a 3D game in C++ called toilet toss, kinda similar to paper toss for the iphone. it was pretty awesome.

and modeled in CAD an RC car. this too was pretty awesome.

a little tired...

2010-12-12T09:19:00.004-07:00

the little one is working on getting over croup...

the husband is working on getting through the flu, then a cold, then finals...

i'm working on my sanity...

good thing today is a day of rest!

o christmas tree

2010-12-04T21:08:00.001-07:00

is it okay that i love this picture, even in all its blurriness?

i dressed bebe up all warm in his little bear suit, and picked up a sickly husband up from school to go scout out our christmas tree.

the bebe was taking in all the sights/trying to figure out where in the world we were, while bobby and i searched for the perfect tree.

we are more into the charlie brown types.

it smelled like heaven. oh how i love the pine scented air.

and you are certainly not the pine-scented air. there is just no way you are the pine-scented air.

garden to table

2010-12-04T18:25:00.002-07:00

i trucked through the melting snow out to the garden to pick the last of our carrots before the ground froze.
i love feeding the bebe food when i know where it came from.

bonus, we made impromptu massaman curry with the carrots too..he likes it too.

man that kid has cheeks! kissable ones at that...

funny story. i was talking to a friend at work (aka... the other megan) about baby food.

my comment, "it is so easy to make baby food with the food you have and eat at home."

her response, "yea, but it is so easy for me to just reach out and grab a jar off the shelf when i'm already at the store."

touché!

cold cereal cocktail

2010-11-30T20:54:00.001-07:00

breakfast = the leftovers from all the cereal boxes taking space in our cupboards even though they are all almost empty.

why didn't the last person to eat them just put another 1/8 cup of cereal in their bowl and throw the box away???

this may or may not be the only breakfast option left in the house when life gets ~~chaotic~~ a tad busy and i happen to neglect grocery shopping.

~~spring~~ fall cleaning for the cereal cupboard?

black

2010-11-26T21:19:00.002-07:00

i think they call it black friday because it is still black outside when people start shopping.

the insanity that is my sisters' in law, started this morning at an insane hour.

thanksgiving down time was spent scouring ads, making christmas lists, and determining strategy.

i found exactly zero items in the ads that motivated me to get up early.

okay- not true. i saw a scarf i wanted to look at (which ended up being ugly) but that was only motivation to go to the store, not to go to the store at dark-thirty in the morning.

however, i didn't catch a last minute flight to california to sleep in on the day after thanksgiving either, so off i went, waking up at the ridiculous hour of 2:15 for some sister-in-law bonding time.

what loot did i come home with you ask?

2 $7 pillows and a $8 compact vacuum.

yep- totally not lying. things i could have and should have bought in utah on any ole shopping trip to the walmart. but hey- i was there and not doing anything else anyway, so why not purchase them and stuff them into a suitcase?

logic is not my strong point at that time of day...

after those amazing purchases, the husband called to tell me bebe had woken up and was having nothing to do with his bottle.

thus the end of my shopping madness a mere 3 hours after it began.

the sisters continued until 2pm. insanity. i repeat, insanity.

food, flying, family and thanks.

2010-11-25T21:40:00.000-07:00

caught a last minute flight to go be thankful with the fam.the bebe was a champ with the tight space. he decided to make the most of it by 1) bouncing on my lap to get all his wiggles out, and 2) giggling at all surrounding spectators...

i think he was thankful we let him stay in his pjs all day long...

cuddling with papa + intense scouring of black friday ads
the bebe's first thanksgiving (and first meal) consisted of avocado and sweet potatoes. i think even the cheering crowd couldn't convince him that this was equal to the feast he had just witnessed the rest of the family partaking of...

ready, set, go!... almost

2010-11-23T07:36:00.003-07:00

i can't really say what i've been doing for the last couple of weeks, but i'm sure it has involved lots of singing songs, changing diapers, watching tiny boys do amazing things, and making preparations for adventures that may not always come to pass... and taking pictures of almost none of it!

adventure 1
this past week was my dear friend kat's birthday. plans were made to embark on a weekend getaway to a yurt in the snow.

my adventurous spirit was excited by the plans. even with the seeds of hesitation deep inside about an unknown amount of hiking in the snow, with a baby, possibly in the dark.

so i ignored above said hesitations, and friday we embarked on said adventure.

we drove a couple hours, arriving in the high uintas and started out the trek in the dark.

after about an hour+, the snow was getting deeper and deeper, and the hesitation was turning into a sinking feeling that i couldn't ignore.

there was this possibility that the yurt would be just around the corner. but i didn't think so, my gut was telling me that we still had at least an hour to go...

while little mister was being quite a frozen trooper, we had to decide that this wasn't going to be a good idea for our little family.

so the u-turn happened, and we traipsed back down. at least the moonlight on the pines and the snow was pretty dang beautiful. it was more time than we've had together in a long time!

turns out the snow just got deeper and deeper said the friends that continued the trek. little mister will have to wait a bit longer for an adventure like that...

adventure 2
and we have looked forward to this week's road trip to the husband's hometown-- and more importantly, to see his great family.

we had it all planned out.

and me the planner/stress-or, was actually feeling pretty good about it.

we were going to take it easy, be flexible (this from the girl who doesn't know how to be flexible!) and enjoy it- thus not to allow mother nature to wreck our plans.

we had a day to drive and a back up day, just in case. bobby was willing to skip a class if leaving early would make it for a better drive.

so last night, after warnings from family and friends, we parked ourselves down in front of weather.com to find the perfect window of time to escape.

turns out the storm we had been watching for, has turned into the doomsday storm. all safe escapable windows of time disappeared.

we decided to let it go for the night and get up this morning in last hopes of finding a safe time to drive, but mostly realizing that this might be a cozy thanksgiving at home...

i woke myself up at 5am this morning with a renewed excitement, sure i would find a way to make it happen.

wrong again.

the forecasts got worse.

across the entire length of i-80 in nevada the warnings say things like:

visibility will be reduced to zero at times

dangerous whiteout conditions

many roadways becoming impassable

travel is highly discouraged

travel extremely dangerous

do not travel. if you must... have a winter survival kit with you.

okay, okay already, i get the point.

so now i'm going to head to the store and stock up. we've let ourselves run out of pretty much everything, thinking an empty fridge was perfect for a vacation.

then maybe i'll deck the halls, and create a little adventure at home...
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update: just kidding, we bought plane tickets and got out before they canceled the rest of the flights for the night.

gobble gobble....

shadow pictures

2010-11-06T05:59:00.000-06:00

i looked up while working on my computer to see that the sun coming through the kitchen window was casting a perfect shadowed image of the vines on our back porch.

i don't know if a photo can do it justice. nature just knows how to make the best art...

i'm the map

2010-11-04T05:59:00.000-06:00

the long debated conversation: what to do with our living room wall.

there has been talk of mirrors, making our own giant abacus, stretched swatches of fabrics...

then it was decided upon, and the hunt began.

we were looking for a map.

i'm the map

once upon a time we were planning to put a map up in the bebe's room, but it got trumped by frog & toad.

visions of maps must have still been dancing in our heads.

although, mental note, must not teach geography based off of this circa 1950's ish edition.

with the chalkboard door and the little shoe cubby, suddenly i feel like this is the schoolhouse corner...

lazy mans' silver lining

2010-11-02T22:09:00.001-06:00

when you never get around to carving your halloween pumpkins, you have the perfect decor to last through thanksgiving!

super fam

2010-10-31T21:30:00.000-06:00

could this picture get any cheesier?

and my hand may or may not be covering up the only thing that identifies my costume: the lois lane press pass- aka my old byu id card....
here is the bebe practicing his faster than a speeding bullet posing.

a happy halloween was had by all!

the real deal...

2010-10-25T05:59:00.001-06:00

i don't think i could pay a professional photographer any amount of money to create a photo that i would love any more than i love this one...

for the love of yard art...

2010-10-21T21:26:00.005-06:00

one day bobby was a little late coming home and told me he was getting his friend to help him bring something home that was leftover from one of the school projects.

i think he thought this was one of those better to ask forgiveness than permission situations.this was the beauty he came home with.

the shell off one of byu's old race cars.

apparently they were going to dump it. but the husband couldn't have that.

he suddenly had visions of go-carts, bicycles, you name it, and bobby has thought of transforming this race care into it.

where is this beauty you ask?

well they quickly discovered that is was way too big to fit in the barn.

they had the brief but ridiculous thought of mounting it to the fence.

and then it ended up here:
yep. the roof where our herb garden (and a very pregnant megan) once sat.

you know i am loving this.

i am truly an activist against yard art.

i think the only thing that belongs in our yard is gardens, flowers, swing sets and perhaps a radio flyer.

at least right now my view out the kitchen window is full of fall.oh what am i going to do when the leaves are gone??

take out

2010-10-20T21:48:00.005-06:00

last night was one of those nights.

take out was on the menu.

we decided on chinese.

it was a first for our marriage. we just wanted some good ole, mediocre, from the carton, chinese take out.

no, not the good stuff, that is a whole different kind of craving. we really were going for mediocre....

so what does it say when we were only aiming for mediocre and it still ended up bad?

maybe we just weren't made for the world of chinese take out.

i ended up making myself a blt for dinner. it was pretty tasty.

ps- also pictured are our newly acquired countertops. check.

radio flyer

2010-10-18T06:10:00.003-06:00

i can't say that i wasn't very excited when my sister called and asked if we'd be interested in their old red wagon.

ummm.. yes. thank you.

to put it to good use, we strolled approximately 5 houses down to the farmers market to pick out some pumpkin goodness.
bebe: "dad, why am i sitting in this mound of lumpiness?"

dad: "i don't know, ask your silly mom, she's the one that put you there..."

we brought home some pretty good loot.

we brought bebe home too, but the husband wouldn't let me put him in the radio flyer...

holy cow batman

2010-10-14T21:36:00.003-06:00

i . love . this . child

just another reason...

2010-10-14T06:37:00.003-06:00

i love having a chalkboard door.

i love the fall

2010-10-04T06:11:00.002-06:00

is there anywhere where it is just spring and fall all year round?

perhaps a week of summer and winter would be acceptable...

bake me a cake

2010-10-02T19:38:00.003-06:00

the husband is off doing his manly duty at conference.

bebe went down for a nap and i decided to whip up a little cake in the husband's absence.

i even felt a little cocky about it. cooking really isn't so hard, i thought. why do i or anyone else buy boxes and mixes anyway?

in the back of my head i was coming up ways to put this cake in a jar and give it away as christmas presents.

side note: i'm not a chocolate cake girl. if i'm going to do chocolate, i go all the way for brownies, but i discovered this little number during a pregnancy craving and i quite like it.

the cake is prepped and in the oven. i've prepared the frosting so everything is done and i can clean the kitchen up leaving just a pretty cake on a plate and a nice aroma of fresh baking.

then i sat down.

and smelled a slight smoky odor.

i must have left the pizza stone in there i thought- i hate it when i do that- then we get the burnt cornmeal scent going on..

i go to grab it, and see something else going on all together.

you know that part of the recipe where is specifies 9 inch round pans. well they mean it. they do not mean 8 inch round pans...
oops.

what a dream of an evening this has left me with.

smoky kitchen.

goopy oven.

funktified cakes.

now would be a good time to mention that baking from scratch is not the culprit here. i'm pretty sure i could have made this good of a mess out of a box mix too..

so much for little miss baking homemaker this evening!

now i have a good excuse to turn my oven on self clean. - so instead of that freshly baked aroma- we have the yucky self-cleaning oven one...

the dishwasher is running, so all the evidence is cleaned up there...

but the best evidence are these two very unpretty round cakes -which to add insult to injury would not come out of the pans, so there was no salvaging them and trying to still make them look normal on the plate-

i'm going to go ahead and call it a blessing tonight that the husband likes to drown all things cake in milk- so it doesn't really matter what it looks like!

now pardon me while i turn on every fan and vent in the house to prevent the smoke detector from going off...

surprise

2010-09-30T06:34:00.000-06:00

i think getting flowers for no reason might just be my favorite reason to get flowers...

busy husband

2010-09-22T12:36:00.002-06:00

sometimes i bug the husband on IM because there is just no other time or way to communicate with him.

but the busy stinker can be on the computer and not see it (or not respond) for very long periods of time.

so today i laid down the law...

me: yo YO

You don't have to pay attention to me ALL the time- you just have to start and finish ONE conversation so that I will leave you alone...

bobby: oh ya

says who

me: ME

i will keep bugging you

bobby: fine

me: fine

how are you

how was your morning

why were you budhas

what is your plan for your afternoon evening

did you get lunch

was it unhealthy?

do you still love me?

bobby: ok, fine, cause i dont want to work for those people, work work work, no, N/A, yes

we make communication an art...

maybe i should do my chores...

2010-09-21T19:02:00.004-06:00

i told the husband when we got married that laundry was my least favorite chore. his is the dishes.

the point of this conversation (i thought) was for him to take the lead in the laundry department, and i'd take the dishes. i'll let you know how that works out when it starts to work out...

the trick for me is that i have to fold and put away the laundry the second it finishes. otherwise we get a pile up. and i never have enough time that i just don't know what else to do with to want to address a big pile of laundry.

so if i don't get to it right away, it goes into a basket- and then the husband will throw clothes in it not knowing that it is clean and not dirty (yep- we're classy folks).

so i gave up and on a massive 4 load laundry day- i just dumped them all in the crib (where they embarrassingly stayed too long). it isn't like the little mister is really using his crib much yet anyway... soon though... soon.

then the husband found a whole new game to make of the laundry. hey mommy, where's the bebe?

oh yes he did...
did i really document my lazy messy laundry? and did my husband really think it was funny to hide his son in it?

yes, on both counts.

sentimental broccoli casserole

2010-09-16T17:58:00.004-06:00

it is true. i said it, and i'm being serious too.

the husband made it for dinner last night and we are having it for leftovers tonight too. (okay, lets be honest, we had it for lunch and dinner tonight. yep, we're leftovers people around here...)

this is not gourmet food. don't get me wrong, it is good and all, but nothing fancy. can a casserole be fancy??

but this food makes my heart do a little pitter patter anyway.

you see, every time the husband makes it, it reminds me of the first time he made it.

we had just started dating. we had plans to go out to a korean restaurant with some of his friends for some korean holiday.

then it happened.

the dreaded phone call. for those of you who have ever worked a job that required you to be on call, you know that sometimes there is nothing worse than the sound of your phone ringing.

and this was a doosy of a call. it wasn't going to be anything quick. i had to go to the hospital and i couldn't make any promises about when i'd get back.

he called his friends and told them we wouldn't be coming.

this is where the guilt prone part of me felt really bad, and wanted to impress this new guy i liked, not ruin his night. i tried to tell him to just go without me...

this is also where i got a glimpse of just what kind of man the husband is.

he was a little bummed, of course, but ridiculously supportive.

he gave me a kiss (gasp!), headed home, and told me to call him when i got back.

fast forward 4-5 hours- probably between 10 & 11pm...

i was finally getting home and he told me to come to his apartment.

the door to his oven was just slightly ajar, and he pulled this casserole out that he had just left in there to stay warm.

i asked if he had eaten and he said no, he figured i'd be hungry whenever i finished.

he had made a broccoli casserole hours before and just left it warming in the oven for whenever i happened to make it back. and then waited to eat it with me.

hmmm. wonder why i fell for this man.

every time we eat it, it reminds me that i got a good one...

be-bop-a-re-bop rhubarb pie

2010-09-13T20:50:00.003-06:00

okay... maybe rhubarb cobbler.

some people compare rhubarb to celery. no offense to all you celery lovers (i try to like celery all the time) but rhubarb is just down right tasty (no need to hide in unsuspecting salad dishes...)

did you know bobby's dad used to sing that song to him? (the one up there in the title...)
did you know my dad used to love strawberry rhubarb pie? it was his fav....

some pretty cool in-laws of mine introduced us to this cobbler. so when i saw fresh local rhubarb at the farmer's market just down the way, i couldn't resist

lost & found

2010-09-10T16:54:00.006-06:00

lost: all newborn babyness.
found: his toes.

(non) labor day

2010-09-06T23:04:00.001-06:00

what do you do with a day off??
mama- that is me these days- convinces the whole fam to move to the outdoors, while there is still green grass to be enjoyed.the husband de-constructs an old weed eater. what does he do with it you ask? he turns it into an engine on a stick. i don't know either. although, we did have talks of mary poppins. i'm hoping one of these years this creative husband of mine is going get us flying with his engine on a stick...
bebe gets acquainted with his future best bud. (this is what happened after all my efforts to teach the pup that blankets are not for him)the whole happy fam.

then we took ourselves on a stroll to the streets of downtown provo. we cheated and went to a hamburger joint instead of grilling. we have a mini grill = we never grill.
open wide? can it get wider than that? thanks for the flattering pic hubby.

p.s. as uncomfortable as bebe looks all up in my grill, he's actually pretty chill and happy in this little pack of ours. believe me. he lets us know when he's not...they stick whole pieces of pie (or cobbler, or cupcakes) and grind them up into these milkshakes. craziness!

berry-licious

2010-09-06T19:33:00.003-06:00

we went picking berries again this year.

all we could talk about was the bounty of last year- when the blackberries were huge, sweet, and juicy, and i could hardly get them to my bucket- or my mouth -fast enough (one for the bucket, one for megan- isn't that how it is supposed to go??)

it was like last year was the ex-boyfriend, not available, but still getting talked about until people are sick of hearing it.

so the harvest this year was a little less than huge, sweet, and juicy, but provided amply for some blackberry treats around here much the same.

blackberry cobbler, blackberries with cake and ice cream (if you are bobby, this is all mashed up in a cup together...), blackberry milkshakes, blackberry syrup with waffles, and finally this morning- blackberry jam.

i wish i had taken a picture of the mess i can make in my kitchen while making jam. at least it was a yummy mess.

how to build a fort for a three month old...

2010-08-31T19:10:00.000-06:00

never fear, the husband will always find a way to entertain himself and the bebe.anything and everything can become a construction project around here.
he is just a tad proud of his fine work (the toys and his bebe boy)

and i just can't get enough of both of my men.

back to life, back to reality...

2010-08-29T21:46:00.010-06:00

the sweet bliss of summer is coming to a close. i really don't want to let it go. there is something amazing to be said for 3 paid months of work... especially when hanging out with your best friend and a pretty cute kid are involved...

tomorrow i'm back at work and bobby is back at school. really i went back to work last monday, but it didn't feel too real because the husband was at home, so that is where my heart and mind were too.

so bring on the craziness of juggling school, working, and the bebe. we'll be trading shifts with the little man, and i just hope that in it all there will be pockets of time i will get to share with both of them at the same time. that is a bit of my version of heaven.

today we played and played. and i tried to eat up every minute of it.

apparently evan isn't into the whole family picture gig.

this is us trying to play catch in the backyard. substituting a tennis ball for the baseball. partly because the pup chewed it up and partly because us hitting the bebe in the head with a baseball might be part of my worst nightmare. it is a skill that can use a little more practice!

new toy

2010-08-18T20:16:00.004-06:00

bobby really likes introducing new toys to the bebe.

i'm sure it was only a matter of time before he discovered my hair anyway- thanks for hurrying up the process. hope it tasted as good as my shampoo smells...

i'm so glad when daddy comes home

2010-08-10T10:58:00.003-06:00

the husband returned home early-like dark thirty early- this morning from his trip to ohio.

i have to say that i have a new found appreciation for 2 populations: single parents, and those with limited to no use of at least one arm. more power to you!

my to-do list was pretty compromised. i'm learning a whole new definition for realistic expectations from my day. but i think we (speaking of mama and bebe here- the husband's feelings don't really count given that he spent a weekend at the races and can call it work!!) came out unscathed this time- and we are both still happy to boot! (truth be told i did cry once- but only once- and those of you who know me know that is pretty dang good!)

now maybe i'll get the husband to tell y'all some stories from the o-hi-o. well maybe after finals....

here is the site to download your very own printable bunting if you are so inclined....

savor the summer

2010-08-06T11:00:00.003-06:00

what to do with the left over dough in the fridge?

pile high with all the goodness of summer.

yummmmm.

excuse the random shaped pizza. we like pizza around here and don't really care what shape it comes in!

outside my door

2010-08-01T21:09:00.003-06:00

i love this time of day.

stripes

2010-07-29T09:10:00.005-06:00

shhh... don't tell anyone, but i'm actually typing with two hands!!! (this is a big deal, the bebe is sleeping and not in my arms!!) well truth be told, i'm still multi-tasking and brushing my teeth at the same time, but you probably didn't want to know that...

so let's talk about my wardrobe. it doesn't exist. i was aware of the maternity clothes stage, but i didn't know there were two of them. an early maternity, and a big fat last 2 months maternity. then there is the after baby stage. even if i was skinny again -which i'm not- there is the whole nursing thing that requires a whole different wardrobe. who knew? well you probably did, but its another one of the things i never paid attention to...

so i stole a couple hours the other day (meaning that i ran out the door immediately after having fed the bebe, leaving him with the husband with the maximum probability for a full and happy child) in search of a couple attractive pieces of cloth.

i returned with a little buyers remorse, a couple basics tees, and one shirt i warned bobby he probably wouldn't like, but that i did, and it was comfy to boot.

when he saw it his only response was, "don't horizontal stripes make you look bigger?"

thanks. i'm glad this is when he started paying attention to fashion tips!

note: one-handed typing resumed a few lines into the post... i'm counting it as a new skill i'm learning...

day camp

2010-07-25T15:50:00.005-06:00

tis the season that gets me itching to go camping.

however these days, i often don't get farther than exploring my living room.

knowing that i wasn't really in the market for a real live camping trip (am i much more a wuss than i used to be, or is that just my imagination?) we decided to take a fake camping trip.

we packed up the car with all the goods and found a great place away from everyone to spend the day. it was all the greatness of being outside and camping, without the tent and the overnight.

bobby found a crazy korean card game from his mission stuff in the depths of our cellar (we've been cleaning out the depths around here- which means equal amounts of time cleaning to time reminiscing in the boxes we have stored away...)

i think we spent almost as much time learning all the crazy rules as we did playing.

notice: the pup doesn't mind the great outdoors either...

bebe gets the idea already. he knows camping is for relaxing first, then eating good food, and then playing!

translation: whoa. check out all that cool stuff to look at....