Thursday, January 20, 2011

January 19, 2011




January 19, 2011

Today is our due date.  40 weeks! 

My stomach just keeps getting bigger.  Baby is completely happy hanging out in there!


January 16, 2011

January 16, 2011


Maris asks almost everyday to go out and build a snowman.  The snow hasn't been the best for packing, but her daddy made it work with a spray bottle and some help from the garbage can.  She was so proud of this!

It was a sad day two days later when it warmed way up and the snowman drooped to the side and lost his eyes and nose!

January 15, 2011



January 15, 2011

Okay, I know I said I was going to do meaningful updates, but I was really proud of this.  For some reason, it took me months to make this bow holder happen!  
I needed the right ribbons.  I needed the right backing.  I needed the right frame.  Then I realized that she'll probably allow me to put these bows on her for another year and after that it wouldn't matter what it looked like.  So I pulled out the glue gun and finished it in about five minutes. 

January 11, 2011

January 11, 2011

We have a budding artist on our hands.  We aren't sure but we feel like this is a little advanced for our 2.5 year old. This is a drawing on her Magnadoodle of herself.  She has her curly hair down and everything.


Then she took to the chalkboard to include her whole family.  She's in the middle with her curly hair.  Mom and Dad are on top (I'm on the left with long straight hair) and at the bottom is her "Baby Auggie" who hasn't decided to join us yet.

I was really hoping the baby would come today.  I love numbers and 1.11.11 would have been a fabulous birthday!

January 5, 2011

January 5, 2011

Maris received an easel for Christmas from Uncle Dan and Aunt Vicki.  
However, I'm pretty sure this is not how you are supposed to use it!!



January 1, 2011

January 1, 2011

Our blog will be changing a bit for the year 2011.  I started out last year trying to take (at least) one picture a day.  I did great for awhile, but summer rolled around and it kind of fell by the way side.  I ended up taking 223 daily pictures.  That's' only 61%.  Yikes!!  

This year, we'd like to do things differently.  Instead of posting random pictures we take, just to take them, we hope to take meaningful photos to help family and friends we don't see often stay connected to our day to day lives.  2011 will be a big year for us.  We will welcome a couple new members to our family.  One through birth and one through marriage.

I hope you'll continue to read and share with us as we embark on 2011!

December 29, 2010






December 29, 2010

37 weeks pregnant.


December 26, 2010





December 26, 2010

Wow!  Three days of Christmas.

Maris with all her cousins on her dad's side.  They tried to get my to lay down there on the bottom with my 9 month pregnant belly.  Um, no.

December 25, 2010

December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas! 

 A silly family tradition for us is Santa leaving a potato in the toe of your stocking.  Maris really got into Christmas for the first time this year and thought the potato was pretty funny!

 Santa's big gift for Maris was a trampoline.  We got her a few Sing A Majigs which she liked too!

And what is a better stocking stuffer for a two year old then a fake mustache?

December 24, 2010

December 24, 2010

We celebrate Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family.  We have a traditional Italian meal with various fishes, and pasta.  Yum!




Monday, January 17, 2011

December 23, 2010

December 23, 2010

Time to show off all our Christmas projects!

Cookies
 Clockwise from left: Chai Gingerbread Bars, Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies, Cherry Cheesecake Cookies, and Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies  They were all fabulous.  I really can't pick a favorite.  Whichever I was eating at the time was my favorite!

Wreathes
 
Directions can be found at Moda Bake Shop.  I really enjoyed making these.  They were extremely easy to do and look great hanging up on the wall or door!

Ornaments
Directions can be found at this site.  Maris loved this the best, of course.  And now her grandparents will have a nice Christmas reminder of how big (or tiny) she was for the Christmas of 2010.


Christopher - Our Elf on the Shelf
This was not a craft, but we still had a lot of fun with him.  If you don't know the story behind Christopher Popinkins or the Elf on the Shelf, please read up on it.  It is a fun tradition that I look forward to with our family for many years!  We had a great time each morning looking for Christopher.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

December 11, 2010




December 11, 2010
We like to visit the Santa at Petitti's Garden Center because not only is he wonderful, but they let you take your own pictures.  The photographer even encourages you to get right up behind his/her shoulder to get the best shot!

Before we got in line, Maris visited with the dinosaurs.  I think she wanted us to bring one home.