Latest Pinterest Success

Ah, Pinterest, you are my best friend and the bane of my existence. I feel inspired by so many cute crafts and delicious recipes, then immediately after I feel ashamed and discouraged because I could never come up with so many uses for a mason jar. Seriously, I thought they were great for putting jam in. So I find small victories when I try something I pinned and it turns out as promised! (how often does that happen??) My latest exciting discover is baking eggs in a muffin tin!

Seriously, a genius idea. They make for a tasty breakfast and since they're already cooked it's super easy to prepare!

yum.

Basically just grease the muffin tin, crack an egg in each spot, and add salt/pepper to each egg, or any other desired ingredients. I did cheese on a couple, you could also stick in some spinach, whatever gets your mouth a droolin'! Then bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. I mashed mine and put it on toast, but they are also the perfect size for an english muffin. The eggs store great in the fridge for about 5 days. I've done this twice now and both Todd and I have enjoyed it. Thanks Pinterest!

Now, how about some cute baby pictures? :)

Rah, rah, rah rah rah!

happy guy

goofy face

being cool with Daddy

Happy Halloween!

Watch out for neck-eating vests. They'll strike when you least expect.

Being a baby is hard work!

Enjoying some conference talks

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Late as Usual

Well most everyone knows by now... Baby Asher came!

"Well hello there."

Ha ha this is what he should have looked like according to one of those baby morph websites. You know you've all done this before. Don't as me why he looks........well, like that. After seeing this and laughing so hard I cried, I started to wonder if he would really look like that. After all, the internet is always right, right? But I'm sorry to disappoint you that, because he actually looks like this....

Ok so we think he's pretty darn cute! And I'm sorry this post is 2 months late, but let's face it, who reads this blog anyway?! :)

Asher made his grand entrance into the world Friday, July 27th, 2012, at 7:09 pm, after being induced because the stinker was a week late! He had to be evicted from his place of residence, on account of there being no more room!! (I just realized he probably got this habit of being late from me. Oops.)

You're time's up, baby.

I'm just trying to catch up on things so I won't go into great detail about the whole process, but it went very well! I was on cervadil through the night on Thursday night, then Friday morning around 7 they broke my water and started Pitosin. I got an epidural(blessed be the inventor of them!) a few hours later, then was ready to push around 6 pm. I was fortunate to only push for an hour and out he came!

"Put me baaaack!"

Craziest and most amazing feeling ever!! Words cannot describe the experience of having a baby. I'm still in awe every single day of how this perfect little person grew inside of me and how blessed I feel for how smoothly everything went and continues to go.

First family picture!

Welcome to the world, Asher! Sorry you got stuck with such crazy parents. We are crazy.... about you!

Just Some Rambling

I'm back again! I'm really on a roll... Well we found out what we're having...................it's a baby!!!! Ha ha just kidding, well it is a baby, but it is a baby boy! Yay!! We are really excited, I have already started to make a couple of clothing purchases, and thanks to the idea from a friend, I made a couple of ties for the little man, with more to come!

I got the tutorial for the regular tie here, and to bow tie here. They were both really easy!

And how sweet with the paisley bow tie look on the little guy? Ha ha I fully intend to make him some little suspenders too... Oh and for the back of the bow tie I didn't do the fancy back that the tutorial said to with the size adjuster thing, I just did a plain strip and sewed a snap on the back. If you want to be able to adjust the size, I'd just make it a bit longer and do a couple sets of snaps so you can adjust it that way.

Anywho, I have enjoyed crafting lately, I'm still very amateur but I like doing little projects like these things. Maybe someday I can get into the mass production of crafting and open an Etsy shop! Oh the possibilities! Ha ha I just think all the time about how grateful I am for opportunities, and how if we are passionate about something or want to explore something new, we can! Granted time, life circumstances, or money can limit us sometimes, but really there are so many fascinating things in the world to discover and experience, and we can experience so many of them if we want to! I just feel blessed that I was born in the circumstances and time I was so I can have a lot of diverse experiences. That seems like a weird thing to be grateful for, and sometimes having so many options in life is overwhelming and I wish I only had to choose between A and B, but for the most part I'm just grateful.

My goodness, I just don't know what to write about on these blogs, I could ramble on about nothing for forever! Ha ha well maybe I'll just make this entry a shorty and feel satisfied that I wrote another post in less than one year. So farewell for now, I should probably stick to writing posts when I have something specific I'd like to write about so I don't feel like I could write about everything and nothing at the same time! (On a crazy side note, anyone ever see Mystery Science Theater 3000? Classic stuff. I reminded myself of a line from my favorite one, go to 10:40, or just watch the whole thing, you can thank me later.) :)

We're Still Here!

Ok this has gotten a little out of control... I thought it had been like 6 months, maaaaaybe 8 since I had last written a blog post, but over one year?! I am clearly not cut out for this blogging stuff. I think I put pressure on myself and think I can only post something if I have an awesome story, great pictures, or something terrific to actually post about. And let's be honest, who is really reading this blog anyway? I guess it's partly (wholly) due to my lack of blogging, but that ends today, today I say! If nothing else, this will just become a journal for me to write down stuff I don't feel like posting on Facebook every day, yet things I don't want to forget. Plus sometimes I come up with witty captions or titles in my head, and we don't want those to go to waste now, do we?

Well not posting anything for a year is a little overwhelming, there are heaps of things that have happened that one post would become a novel to catch up, so let's just start with today, and other events from the past year will trickle in on subsequent posts. Sounds good to me! So starting with the most important event that is happening in our lives right now............................. I'm pregnant!! Yes indeed, I'm 19 weeks along and we find out in a week if it's a lady or a gentleman! Todd and I are really excited. Your next question is probably something about pictures, and yes I have been taking the obligatory weekly profile of the (supposed to be) growing belly, but I don't have very many yet. How can this be, you ask, if I am already almost halfway through the pregnancy? Well, allow me to show you rather than tell you:

16 weeks

17 weeks

18 weeks (ok clearly I'm trying too hard on this one, sticking out the belly and all)

Does anyone else feel like I'm just changing outfits or something? Not so much progress yet, but I promise it's in there! So there you have it, little Peanut is in the oven, and life is good!

In other news, Todd has been doing great in school, hooray! He works really hard and studies more than seems humanly possible, but he does really well at making time to hang out with this crazy lady. We really like where we live, and love our branch of fellow students and young couples/families. I am working at the YMCA (It's fun to stay at the...)* part-time, and also dabble in some jewelry making for a lady here that owns her own business. It keeps me busy, but not too busy, which is just perfect. I have really been getting into cooking more, and I love trying new recipes. Todd is nice enough to be my guinea pig, and thankfully I have only had one or two dishes bomb! I am also in the middle of taking a cake-decorating class, I have aspiring hopes of being like Buddy the Cake Boss and dominating the cake world! Not really, but I've had fun so far doing it, at least I can make neat cakes for my kids! Allow me to introduce my first masterpiece:

Tadaaaaa!

I know, I know, it should be put in a museum, or sold for millions. I've actually gotten calls from Brad Pitt and Victoria Beckham wanting one for their kids' birthday parties, but I'm taking this one step at a time. (Totally kidding by the way, if you look at it sideways you might mistake it for a dancing pineapple...)

Well my friends (I say that like I actually think more than one person will read this), I have rambled on far too long, but it feels good to update this thing! I won't get my hopes up, but I think it's safe to say it won't be another year before I post something again. :)

Ciao!

*Ok so I just watched this for the first time tonight, there are so many great things about this video! The cinematography! The easy to learn dance moves/hand clapping! The outfits! The handlebar mustache! If I wore an Indian costume to work one day how many people do you think would get it?