Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Oh my...

Emmie likes dressing herself lately. Being the good Montessorian that I am, I encourage this. BUT I now realize that I encourage it more when it's not MY daughter. These are her recent clothing choices:
Last week she came out wearing this number....can you see it all? red polka-dot pants, totally awesome 80's inspired "LOVE" shirt, Tinkerbell necklace, bucket hat, and blue sunglasses. One word: rad.

Since then I have learned that if i want her to match I need to layout her clothes for her.

Well that's exactly what i did this morning...BUT i forgot the socks. I told her to go get some and she came out like this:

PAAAAAAHAHHHA!!

She had a melt down when I tried to take them off of her so what did I do? I took her to school like that. (heaven help me) She found out real quick that it was too tricky to use the bathroom with her "socks" so by 9:00 they were a thing of the past....but now I know not to forget the socks!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The best I can do for now

So, my camera and iphoto are still giving me grief. I thought I fixed the problem but I didn't (insert frustration scream here). So since picture uploading makes me want to rip my hair out, I haven't been using my camera much. I did however manage to take a few monumental pictures and get them uploaded via that picture machine at Walgreens (I have to spend 3 stinking dollars to get my pictures loaded onto a cd THEN I can upload them to iphoto - good grief)

Have I mentioned yet that I LOVE our new home? Daily I give myself a pat on the back for scoring us such a sweet deal.

The monumental first load of laundry. Definitely picture worthy! I almost cried. Emmie was so excited she gave a thumbs up too.

Okay, not a flattering picture of me...BUT this is the first picture Emmie took that isn't a blurry finger or her eyeball! Plus can you see how high our ceilings are?? beautiful...and the natural light...do you see all that light?

And these next 2 pictures about sums up our moving experience....exhausting.

(toilet paper anyone?)precious

Sunday, August 22, 2010

4 months...plus some


Now that we are settling in to our new place (a post to come on that) I've finally sat down and caught up with a few computer things. Blogging has not been at the top of my To Do list but I'm beginning to get back in the groove.

Prime is four...almost 5 months now. Crazy!He is 14lbs, 14oz and now 29 inches long. He is in the 75% for his height and the 50% for weight and head. Tall and skinny like his daddy. We absolutely love this little guy. He is such a blessing to our family.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Waiting for it all to hit me

This post is a little lengthy...if you want the reader's digest version just know that we're moving and skip to the next paragraph!

A lot has happened in the past week! I don't even know where to begin. Well, over my 2 week break we got really serious about wanting to find a house to rent (we are MAJORLY growing out of our apartment), but then as we started to really search we realized that we would be making some BIG financial changes in order to move into the kind of home we were wanting in the area we wanted. So we looked at a few places with no expectations except to see what was out there. We found one in a great neighborhood but the set up of it was slightly awkward and the price was too high. We decided to move on. BUT the next day the realtor called us and told us that the owners just dropped the price drastically on craigslist. (to the same price as we're paying now at our apartment....wowzers) so we jumped on it! At that point, who cares if it's a little awkward! The day after we submitted our money and application the realtor called use again, come to find out the craigslist listing was a scam. lame. We thought we lost the place, BUT by some miracle the owner compromised on a very reasonable price. One that we couldn't pass up so we jumped on it! and now...tut tut...a week later we're packing up shop and taking off!

It all hasn't hit me yet. I know it will sometime...I get a little emotional thinking of how wonderful our apartment has been and all the memories that took place within these walls. It's where I brought my two babies home to! There are definitely things I will miss (walking to church, doing 2 loads of laundry at once, being so close to my mom and dad, our hand held shower head, our vintage 1970's oven, just to name a few)

BUT I am looking forward to the prospects of living in a house. (not having to pay a $1.75 for each load of laundry, a back yard, a garage, an extra room for Matt's drums, etc, being able to store our stroller(s) in the garage rather than our kitchen)

These are a few things I've learned so far from doing our spur of the moment move:
1. No matter how much you want to "go green" while cleaning the oven, if it hasn't been cleaned in 3 years you'll have to pull out the big guns (easy off) or you'll end up spending 2 1/2 days with your head in the oven only to have raw fingers and give up in the end. chemicals 1, going green 0.

**side note: and those people who say cleaning an oven is "so easy" spray this and that and let it sit and then it will just "wipe off" must have super powers of some kind...or are just mean.

2. It's good to know people with boxes
3. Use all the help you can get
4. Have a system
5. Some security guards frown upon dumpster diving for boxes.
6. No matter what kind of system you have, or how organized you think you are the house will still look like a war zone.

That's it for now...and when I say "you" in the list...I'm referring to me...not you...just me... Time to pack some more...but before I go let's take a look at some of the good times in our Apartment on College Avenue.Bringing Emmie home from the hospital
Emmie's blessing day
Emmie's first drum lessonStroller rides around the neighborhood
Luxurious sink bathes
Hanging out with dadOff to ASU
Lots of hours practicing
Running around in the front lawn
Emmie's first hair cut
The girl's got style
Bad hampster

The beginning of an artist
Hygiene is very important
Lot's of cousin love
Watching the train pass by
Bringing Prime home from the hospital
nap time
Cousins
My boys


okay...I was only going to put 3 or 4...but once I started I couldn't stop...we've seriously LOVED this place. Gilbert may be my new address, but Tempe will always be my home.


Monday, August 2, 2010

While mommy's away....

...the rest get to play!
Today I went back to work...bitter sweet.
This picture made my day!