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| Rad and his buddy Eliana enjoyed the MOPS water playdate. |
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| Rory and her BFF (who lives in Eurasia) have been reunited! |
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| They are so silly together. |
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| Bashy and Rory love to sing and dance on the picnic table. |
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| Our handsome 2 month old! |
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| Sweet Radish! |
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Enjoying Summer
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
1. I love that I'm in Arizona in July and I am cold. Hooray for monsoon season!
2. I can't stop eating French onion sour cream dip with potato chips.
3. I feel a little sorry for the Royal Kate. Becoming a mom for the first time is so hard; I can't imagine being under the scrutiny that she is. Sure, she looks completely lovely and put together in the pictures splashed all over the media, but she also looks exhausted. And overwhelmed. And a bit nervous. Just think: all those postpartum emotions and she is not allowed to burst into tears whenever she needs to and she can't leave thehouse palace in baggy sweats, unwashed hair, and crazy raccoon eyes. I hope she finds a MOPS group!
Here's a little something just to make your day, in case it still needs making:
2. I can't stop eating French onion sour cream dip with potato chips.
3. I feel a little sorry for the Royal Kate. Becoming a mom for the first time is so hard; I can't imagine being under the scrutiny that she is. Sure, she looks completely lovely and put together in the pictures splashed all over the media, but she also looks exhausted. And overwhelmed. And a bit nervous. Just think: all those postpartum emotions and she is not allowed to burst into tears whenever she needs to and she can't leave the
Here's a little something just to make your day, in case it still needs making:
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| Our grinning Raddish! |
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
No Huge Updates
Not much new going on, just a few musings:
- Indian food is SO good. Every time we patron our favorite restaurant (most recently for our anniversary) we wonder why we ever go anywhere else.
- Monsoon season is amazing! It's been raining and thundering all day; it's so nice and cool and slows down our pace.
- My husband is amazing!
- Society makes me so angry sometimes; the whole Trayvon Martin trial was completely infuriating; if anyone credited the media with good intentions I hope this past month made them jaded.
- The Sound of Music is such a good movie; we watched it with Rory this week and I loved it even more than when I was a kid.
- Conrad is smiling and cooing! He is so stinkin' cute. He's the most stereotypical of our babies so far: He loves his swing with the cheesy music turned on, mobiles, being swaddled, all the stuff babies are supposed to like.
- Indian food is SO good. Every time we patron our favorite restaurant (most recently for our anniversary) we wonder why we ever go anywhere else.
- Monsoon season is amazing! It's been raining and thundering all day; it's so nice and cool and slows down our pace.
- My husband is amazing!
- Society makes me so angry sometimes; the whole Trayvon Martin trial was completely infuriating; if anyone credited the media with good intentions I hope this past month made them jaded.
- The Sound of Music is such a good movie; we watched it with Rory this week and I loved it even more than when I was a kid.
- Conrad is smiling and cooing! He is so stinkin' cute. He's the most stereotypical of our babies so far: He loves his swing with the cheesy music turned on, mobiles, being swaddled, all the stuff babies are supposed to like.
| We made cow costumes so we could get free lunch at Chick-Fil-A on cow appreciation day. |
| Bash went to touch a truck- he loved it! |
| Thrift store find |
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| She wanted to get married! |
| Rory shared her baby doll |
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| Lovely anniversary roses! 5 amazing years... |
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Of Mice and Math
Updating:
Still waiting on housing in Williams. Trusting God and waiting until it's apparently action time.
Mice. Ugh. I never expected cute little mousies in my house would make me so squeamish. I've always been disgusted by the movie Ratatouille. We found little mouse poops last week and set a trap. We caught a mouse. We moved on. Then I saw a mouse dart across the kitchen floor a few evenings later. In half an hour we had packed up, woken the children from slumber, and moved into my inlaw's house indefinitely. After I had a meltdown and assured Blake it could not wait until morning. It would be one thing if it were just us, but with babies who are constantly playing on the floor and (shudder) eating off the floor, I am completely not okay with rodent roommates. We have since set more traps (no success), had one more sighting (I screamed, I'm embarrassed to say), threw away almost everything from the pantry (mouse doodoo on every shelf- appalling), and begun a serious bleaching of the house. Unfortunately, we have not caught any further intruders, and have no idea where they are coming from.
Math. Blake's final math class began this week. It's online, and it's condensed into five weeks. It's pretty awful. Back to survival mode...
In other news, we had a pleasant Independence Day. Blake likes his job. Williams is a very, very small town. I'm nervous. I think Flagstaff in the summer is just about the most wonderful thing ever. The monsoons are here and they are glorious. Rory talks nonstop. She yells everything she says. Bash adds a new word or so everyday; he's such a boy- his words are generally vehicle, sports, or food related. Rad is such a sweetie boy! He's watchful and calm and handsome and has begin to make cooing noises and give brief smiles! He's five weeks old today and I'm anxiously awaiting his personality. I'm also starting to put together a casual preschool curriculum for Rory Williams has no preschools (like I said, it's a small town) and I decided it would be good practice for me and provide some positive structure in the day for all of us.
Oh, we got a free tank of gas today! A local auto dealership was offering free tanks of gas to Honda owners; since it was right by home we decided to check it out and got our almost empty tank filled up for free! Little blessings are sweet.
Still waiting on housing in Williams. Trusting God and waiting until it's apparently action time.
Mice. Ugh. I never expected cute little mousies in my house would make me so squeamish. I've always been disgusted by the movie Ratatouille. We found little mouse poops last week and set a trap. We caught a mouse. We moved on. Then I saw a mouse dart across the kitchen floor a few evenings later. In half an hour we had packed up, woken the children from slumber, and moved into my inlaw's house indefinitely. After I had a meltdown and assured Blake it could not wait until morning. It would be one thing if it were just us, but with babies who are constantly playing on the floor and (shudder) eating off the floor, I am completely not okay with rodent roommates. We have since set more traps (no success), had one more sighting (I screamed, I'm embarrassed to say), threw away almost everything from the pantry (mouse doodoo on every shelf- appalling), and begun a serious bleaching of the house. Unfortunately, we have not caught any further intruders, and have no idea where they are coming from.
Math. Blake's final math class began this week. It's online, and it's condensed into five weeks. It's pretty awful. Back to survival mode...
In other news, we had a pleasant Independence Day. Blake likes his job. Williams is a very, very small town. I'm nervous. I think Flagstaff in the summer is just about the most wonderful thing ever. The monsoons are here and they are glorious. Rory talks nonstop. She yells everything she says. Bash adds a new word or so everyday; he's such a boy- his words are generally vehicle, sports, or food related. Rad is such a sweetie boy! He's watchful and calm and handsome and has begin to make cooing noises and give brief smiles! He's five weeks old today and I'm anxiously awaiting his personality. I'm also starting to put together a casual preschool curriculum for Rory Williams has no preschools (like I said, it's a small town) and I decided it would be good practice for me and provide some positive structure in the day for all of us.
Oh, we got a free tank of gas today! A local auto dealership was offering free tanks of gas to Honda owners; since it was right by home we decided to check it out and got our almost empty tank filled up for free! Little blessings are sweet.
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| Mmm fresh whipped cream |
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| Rad's awesome new space pod! Keeps out the siblings! |
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| Duck lips after his first bath |
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| Making muffins! |
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| Rory and Kale'a! She's Rory's favorite friend to shriek with. |
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| Playdate fun |
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| Talking Tina is no more! |
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| The first trip to Zips |
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| Siesta time |
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| I had a good mom moment and made some playdough. |
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| Rad! |
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| 4th of July |
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| Perhaps a future lumberjack? |
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| We went to the parade! |
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| Blake and I had bad attitudes. It was hot. We got over it. |
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| Balloon creations! |
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| No words |
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| Bash was unimpressed. |
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| Matching shirts! |
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| We take this picture every year. We add a baby every year! |
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| Bash loves Blake's old trucks! |
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| This is the greatest thing. |
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| We went to the wedding of a couple friends! |
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| They really look like siblings here! |
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| I just love his little loafers! |
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| The monsoons made them hyper! Well, Rory's generally hyper. |
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| A friend took these pictures of cute little Raddie! |
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| Sugar snap pea fun times. At lease they're good for something in her mind! |
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| Eating is exhausting. |
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