Ballpark

We spent a morning last weekend at the ballpark and, courtesy of Grandma and her fancy season tickets, we got to be one of the first onto the field for “Fan Fest 2010″. Much fun was had…see for yourself. Excuse the silly Coen poses…he has an aversion to the Camera lately, arg.

ps Anyone seen the new campaign for California milk? It features a cow named…you guessed it. Kirsten

Click on the image to see the full commercial.

January 26th

 

Dear Blakey Blake,

Today you tried to return my smile, even though you were crying to be picked up. I think it was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Kisses, Mommy

In other news…I decided to join this Quilt Along. I been wanting to make a quilt for our living room, and this quilt looks pretty easy, and since I’ve been wanting to learn more about quilting it seemed like a perfect opp! Join me if you like! It is broken up into 6 weeks…this week is the fun part, picking out fabrics. Here is a little preview of the ones I chose.

(pssst, don’t tell Dave I bought more fabric…I have some kind of weird fabric addiction that I’m trying to hide)

Oh, yeah…have you seen my cute new baby boy? He’s the best.

Been awhile…

…since I’ve done a selfie! I can hardly believe that I actually did 100 self-portraits in a row last year…it seems like forever ago! I have to say I don’t miss it, LOL! I was feeling very Breck girl today and actually got myself put together enough to look presentable to go lunch with my ladies (we missed you Lish!) and decided it was occasion enough to document, since I’ve been spending way too much time in my comfy sweats (eeew, I know!)…Blake got to meet the girls for the first time and he was very well mannered during our lunch. Such a gentleman! He’ll have you girls fooled that it is so easy to take care of a newby!

Dave officially goes back to work Monday so wish me luck! I’m excited to play stay at home mom for a couple more months before I have to start back to work too. There will be cookies baked and art projects created I tell you!

Oh and p.s. I added some more links to my video page…if you’re bored and want to see Mr. Geyer’s awesome video montages of our family, check them out!

4 reasons i love you…

(excuse the brevity of this post, typing one-handed here…)

#1 – I find surprise acts of housekeeping (labels on the drawers, lol) when I wake up from sleeping in ’till 10am.

#2 – Upon waking up, and seeing me look like this, you tell me I’m beautiful. (that, and I wanted to show off my new glasses)

#3 – I have a whole box filled of tons of these little love notes…(you’re slacking a bit on this lately, fyi :) )

#4 – You helped me make this guy…and he makes me so happy.

January 10th

Finished quilt…crinkly goodness. I don’t think my cousins read this blog, so I’m safe posting this (If not, SURPRISE! I hope you like it!)

Someday I’ll have to actually sit down and read a book on quilting…for I’m sure I’m doing it all wrong. But it’s fun to pick out pretty fabrics and sew them up together!

Our farm box bounty…so far so good!

Just a little somethin’

I’m sure most of you have seen this cool poster (I see it everywhere these days)…so I thought I’d share this little goody that I found today that made me laugh. You can go here to download and print your very own, if you like!

I’m putting one in my little crafting/computing corner as a reminder for the year to come!

A couple of lovelies

A couple of lovely moments from today…

• Sending out a homemade loaf of french bread to some friends who just had their first baby (to go along with some store-bought tomato bisque soup, hey cut a girl some slack, I have a new baby, too!).
• Almost finishing up a little floor quilt for my Cousin’s yet-to-be-born little girl, and getting to use some of the insane amount of girly, but NOT pink, fabric I’ve been hording.
• Coen’s hugginnes…he’s becoming quite a little hugger lately. I think I can count at least 5 really great hugs he gave me today…now I don’t have to mug them from him all the time!
• Eating my favorite Vince’s pesto pizza with my men-folk.
• Exchanging “are you sure we shouldn’t hold on to these….?” taunts and teases with my hubby when sending along Blake’s outgrown newborn sized clothes with the above mentioned bread and soup.
• Watching my husband play Yahtzee in the kitchen with Coen, while simultaneously putting away dishes, AND with Blake strapped to his chest.
• Blake smiling up at me when he hears my voice…in his little “I can only figure out how to make one side of my mouth work at a time” way.
• Realizing that one of the benefits of rocking my children to sleep every night is having the quiet moment to reflect on how lucky I am to be able to love them both so completely.

Happy New Year!

Just a quickie post wishing you all a happy New Year!

Blake and I will be celebrating this one together, minus the other two boys since they are off playing in Cabo San Lucas with Dave’s family. We wanted to include little Blakey in the annual after Christmas tradition of skipping all the snow and bad weather and heading to the warm beaches of Mexico, but I thought dragging a newborn across the border would have been pushing it a little. Next year!

I, unfortunately, came down with a cold (second time this month!? Give a mom a break already!) the day they left and so Blake and I have been snuggled up on the couch watching TV (the whole 2 channels we get, sans cable) and keeping each other awake for most of the night hours (me with the coughing and him with the nursing). Although luckily I’m not feeling too tired since I have been able to nap freely in the afternoon!

One of my New Years resolutions is to eat less “from the box” this year. There was a time when I would shop and the food we bought was either a) plucked from the earth, or b) meat, but as time has become more precious with a little guy around, more and more of our shopping cart is being occupied with processed food and I want to change that! We signed up for an organic foods delivery service that brings us a variety of 12-15 seasonal fruits and veggies every week (right to our doorstep!) from a local organic farm and I’m going to do my best to plan our meals around that. Wish me luck…I’m not so good with the whole “thinking ahead” concept.

Of course I have to post a pic of “Blakey Blake” as we have come to call him! Such a sweet sweet baby!

I can’t get over this outfit…so cute!

Have a happy, healthy New Year!

Holiday Fun

We had a bit of a rough week with colds going around so we thought it’d be nice to get out and do a couple fun holiday activities…activity numero one, ice skating! Dave had taken Coen ice skating a few weeks ago (see cute video here), but I got to see him show off his stuff this time around.

Then across the street we went to see the miniature train display. The kids all stand in line to get their chance to be the official “conductor” and run the train for a few minutes. Of course that was a big hit!

And finally we took our first portrait as a family of four! Blake was seriously confused as to why we were all shoving ourselves into a tiny photo-booth…

I hope you have all been good this year so Santa brings you something special! Me? I’d settle for being able to type faster than 10 words per minutes with my one unoccupied arm!

Just Chillin’

Hope your weekend has been as chill as ours…