A Surprise trip to the Beach

So my mom came down last Friday to visit on her way to Ryan's for MLK day.  Well when push came to shove I wanted to go too.  What can I say, I love the beach!!  So we tagged along on her trip and had a great time.  Other then getting caught just behind a accident that closed 101 for 2 hours.  So we went around on forest service roads, in the rain, at dusk in the cloud bank.  It saved us some time but not a whole lot and Natalie was not too into being in a dark car.  She let us know by crying almost the whole time. It was fun, we really needed those martinis when we got to Ryan's.  On the second night there was a big storm with winds and lightning and the kids had a blast.  Natalie is all over the place with her crawling now, she gets her butt a wiggling when she kicks it into high gear.  She got her first top tooth on Tuesday and has two more right behind it.  My little gummy grin is going away.  I loved the two bottom teeth look. We (who are we kidding, I have been) doing EC with Natalie.  She has really gotten the hang of it and I have been catching most of her poops and a number of pees during the day.  I even got her some tiny little underwear for when we are home and working on her awareness.  I feel like it doesn't take much longer then changing a diaper and it's easier to clean up! So yep, my 9 month old (can you believe she's 9 months already??) uses the potty.  And she looks so cute! We hope you all had a great weekend.  I am looking forward to some weekend crafting of a Valentines Day bunting/banner and Aiden has requested some wings. We'll see, I might just end up buying him some Sarah's Silk wings and saving myself the trouble. Happy crafting and have a great weekend, who knows I might surprise you and post again!!

weekend crafting

So weekends with Loren home is the only time I can sew anymore so I often spend all weekend crafting (other then nursing, putting kids to bed, cleaning, cooking, baking, putting things away, doing laundry..well you get the point) So this weekend I had me a few projects to get done.  One a fleece shirt for Soren's 1st birthday (on December 25th) but he's understanding that I had holiday crafting to do.  And a pilots hat for Natalie because she's outgrown Aiden's old green one.  So the feece shirts idea came from the Polar Chamies they sell at Market here in town for oh... 35 bucks I think?  and it's just fleece surged together so I traced Aiden's old pair and cut out a shirt from left over from diaper fleece I had sitting around.

The pilots hat I made by tracing Aiden's old hat, I then added a little over a 1/4 inch all around and cut it out of some knit I had sitting around and also some more diaper fleece to line it with.  I want it to be warm and bulky for her to wear under the bike helmet that is very big on her.

I put a snap on it instead of the tie the old one had because it seem to annoy her and get in the way.

Side view of it

she seems to like it and I'm happy with how it turned out.  It even matches her jamies (that she's still in at 2!!)

What the hell it's Sunday, right?

Christmas In Portland

So Here is Chirstmas week in a nutshell.   Natalie in Nonnies hat

Playing with Brother.

Here is "soft soft bunny" with his Christmas decorations on... nice huh?  Aiden did it himself.

The kids with Nonnie, Aiden is at this phase where he doesn't want his picture taken.

Here is Natalie in Aiden's house, she was SO proud to be able to crawl in to it.

Opening the gift on Christmas eve...

Natalie's sexy look!

A new Halrold book, Harold at the North Pole!!

Christmas Eve dinner

Natalie playing with the parking garage

New matching Chirstmas Jamies!!  So cute and SOFT!!  I have a new found love for Hanna Anderson!

The kids and I christmas eve

 

I think this is the ONLY picture I have of opening gifts.

Natalie with Cousin Carolyn...

Playing Dress up with Jane

Paper crown!

These about sum up christmas with the Family!!  Drinks... and sillyness... but seriously we had a GREAT time with everyone, I should have taken more pictures but there were so many people to talk to that I haven't seen for so long and dinner to eat, and well I was just too busy.  But know that we had a great time, the grab bag was fun as always and the kids did really well considering we were there from 3-9 something and Natalie only had a little nap on my back.

 

The kids playing with Uncle Ryan.

All in all we really enjoyed our time in Portland, Aiden keeps asking if we can go back to Nonnie's house and have Christmas again.  Silly kid.  We hope you all had as great a time as we did and you were embraced by good food, warm hug and wonderful family as we were.  Merry Christmas... and much love.

Happy New Year, may this be the year of many posts!!

So I've been rather busy and also my new computer only shows me a stock image when I try to add pictures to blogger instead of a thumbnail so I would have to guess. So I kept putting off adding pictures thinking I would get on the 'big puter' and do it real quick, tomorrow. Well tomorrow has come and gone and a week or two have also. So, let's talk about Solstice. Here are a few pictures from that day. Aiden opening a book, Natalie playing with the ribbons (why buy gifts when you can give them ribbon?) and some pictures from our walk. It was a beautiful day and then we had a nice dinner of "roast beast", potatoes, sparkling cranberry juice and gravy. Next day we headed to Portland for a almost week of Nonnies house.