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Amarantine
by Enya
We took Little Miss swimming for the first time today. She was scared and cried a lot. We never let her go and she relaxed a bit, smiled and laughed while we all jumped up and down in the water (while I still held her tight). She even had a bit of fun when some nice boys let her play with their ball. Hopefully, I'll have pictures for you soon. Teen Miss took some at the beginning.
Mo is being transistioned to the spare bedroom (which used to hold a roommate before he moved out). Here she is napping on the air mattress we have in there so that I can get her to sleep in there and sleep in there myself, if need be. Monday, I will probably start getting her crib and dresser in there too. Once she gets used to her new room, I hope to start night weaning her too. I'm actually feeling kind of sad thinking about it all now, but, it's coming time and nursing off and on all night is wearing me thin. We'll take it slow for her... and me.
I did acrylic tips on Teen Miss this week. Best acrylic nails I've ever done in my life! They were nice and thin and needed minimal filing. Now, if I could just figure out how to keep nails from lifting, I'd wear an acrylic overlay myself all the time. I've already taken mine off, they started lifting the next day. I even roughed up the natural nail and used a primer.
Stu and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary on Wednesday. We went to dinner at a bar and grill called Fiddler's Elbow. Best, bad for me, burger I've ever had. I ate only 430 (healthy!) calories for breakfast and lunch that day to save up for this... then prompltly ruined my efforts by having dessert on top of it. Oh well.
This lovely shawl collar circle jacket I'm crocheting is almost done. I get so tired of projects like this that are worked from the center out, because every round takes longer. Recipient to be revealed soon!
Bruce and Marissa came to get the mei tai I made for them. Marissa got Abigail all snuggled into the carrier and said, "Amber, this is beautiful." And I don't really think she was talking about how pretty the carrier was (but that's just a guess). Baby wearing really is a beautiful thing, especially with a mei tai. They are my personal favorite style of carrier.
Here's sweet Abigail!
You know you're addicted when there's knitting hiding in your kitchen fruit basket... I'm just sayin'.
These are the freezer pop socks I knit for my sister and her two girls.
These are some freezer pop socks that I knit for my friend, Marin. She saw the pic of Little Miss's on Facebook and told me she wanted to buy some and even let me do them however I wanted.
Walking to the bank and library. Do raggin' it as she has no hats to protect her little head and ears from the sun.
She got a grape sucker from the bank. Mmmmm.
First ever clean dinner plate! This is an awesome milestone for her! She has been slowly getting better at trying proteins. The only protein she ever eats for sure is chicken and it's only certain she will if it's covered in some kind of crunchy breading or batter. She often now asks for eggs (and eats every bite), will eat beans and, in this picture, it was her first time trying pork chop and she ate every last bite that she was given! She also had corn and mashed potatoes with it, two of her favorites. Trying a new protein and eating all of it in the same meal has been unheard of until now.
Blue nails with pink polka dots!
My new flip flops from the Old Navy $1 flip flop sale this morning! Thanks to my awesome hubby for watching the baby so Teen Miss and I could go quickly. I have SO many flip flops already, these are colors I didn't have yet. Seriously, I had like, 12-15 pairs before this?
And, I'll finish up with a cute captionless photo montage...
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Come Undone
by Duran Duran
Post three for the day! I'm on a roll kids! This is rad!
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Okay, so now, we're staring a new life...
Of course we went out for sushi shortly after coming back from the honeymoon and look what I found in my miso soup...
There's a little heart shaped onion in my miso soup! Ryn said it was a sign that I was pregnant. I was not. But thanks for the thought Ryn!
Then we got a new place in the city. A two story townhouse apartment!
Here's our front door. Living room, kitchen and Ryn's room (behind the tree on the right) windows.
We have a garage! We'll use it for storage, instead of paying for public storage.
This is our rock. Stu named it Arnold. It's on the corner of the building.
Living room.
Living room and dining space.
Living room and stairs. We have stairs!
The kitchen. Not enough light for my taste and even less counter space for baking and such. But, that's what lights and kitchen tables are for. I'll deal.
The stairs. We have stairs!!! Oh, wait, I already said that.
The bathroom.
Ryn listening to her MP3 player in her new room. I'm happy for her. It's so much bigger than her last room.
Our room.
Our walk in closet.
This shelf is in our walk in closet. Is it just me, or could you totally fit a baby there? I'm kidding, please refrain from begging me not to reproduce.
We're starting to pack. Okay, here we go!
Well, we're nearly all packed and the movers are coming soon.
Even though I'm really looking forward to moving back to the city, I will miss this apartment dearly. It's where Stu and I's relationship started and grew over the last couple years. Lots of memories. *sniff*
Stu and Ryn in our new place. I'm sitting on the stairs. We have stairs! ...And two floors! I love it so much.
I hung some prints in the kitchen/dining room. I plan to do the kitchen and dining room in dark brown and red with a coffeehouse theme. It's feeling more like home all the time.
Ah, Scentsy! I was so glad to get my Scentsy out. Our townhouse has that old house smell, it's weird. Oh! And there's my fishy, Picot!
Spock is home! ...But, I don't think he likes his new neighbor, Shine Bright Bear. See the unenthused look on Spock's face?
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Follow Me
by Uncle Cracker
Okay second post of the day, yay! The honeymoon!
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We got slurpies after the wedding when we had changed and started out for our honeymoon.
I love this picture of Stu! He looks so handsome in his new khaki shorts, flip flops and "Just Married" shirt!
I got Stu and I these shirts as part of a wedding present. The shirts actually got us some free guacamole and sour cream for dinner at Costa Vida. Not much, but that's okay. That wasn't why we wore them.
This was the morning after the wedding at a hotel in Salt Lake, before heading off to Mesquite.
We're on our way to Mesquite, NV for our honeymoon.
A lavender farm Stu spotted on the way. Purple as far as the eye could see. It was beatiful.
I took a picture of my tummy the morning after our first night as man and wife, hoping that there was the beginnings of a baby in it. There wasn't. But, from this day forward, my tummy and possibility of a future baby has been called "The Maybe Baby".
Arriving in Mesquite, NV for our honeymoon.
I loved the different kinds of palm trees everywhere.
This is where we stayed.
The fountain in front of the hotel we stayed in. It was huge.
Hubby was looking for a movie theater in the phone book and I put my hand on his and then I thought, "That would make a nice picture." It's grainy, but I still like it.
Isn't he handsome? Our first night in Mesquite, NV.
We took a day trip to the Grand Canyon during our honeymoon.
Stu surprised me with a sushi dinner after we got back from the Grand Canyon. It was the first time I had ever had sushi. I almsot cried because it was so cool that he did this for me and the food was SO good. I know, I'm a dork, but the whole expirience just seemed to move me. He's made a sushi monster out of me. I can't get enough now. Oh, the place we went is Sushi Masa in Mesquite, NV. If you're ever there, I highly recommend you go!
I actually ate a piece of ginger by itself. It was THICK and HOT. I almost died, haha.
Califonia roll. I know it's so American, but this is one of my favorites. I've also since adopted, shrimp tempura and vegas rolls as favorites as well.
I had to try at least one thing with raw fish, so I had a salmon roll. It was quite good!
We returned two more times during our trip for lunches. I LU-HUV sushi!
These knitted sushi keychains were on the register at Sushi Masa.
Stu won $261 dollars on $4 on a slot machine one morning while getting coffee for us from Starbucks in the hotel lobby. So, we got massages! The spa gives you a day pass with any service, so we enjoyed the mineral pools, steam room, quiet room and all the free juice and tea we could handle. It was so relaxing!
This was the view from our hotel room. My God man! They really are everywhere!
I just wanted to take a harshly artsy photo of us in the middle of our funtabulous time.
That is all.
We had to do a buffet once while we were there. It's required when you stay in a casino town, right? So, we went the last night there. It was nothing special though... I would've rather had sushi.
This sign made an ass out of me. When we arrived in Mesquite, I saw this sign from across town and told Stu to drive towards it. But I couldn't see "next exit". It was blocked by trees and buildings. So, yeah, we found the sign... and found a dead end, instead of our hotel.
Bye, bye Mesquite. We had a blast!
As you may or may not know, my niece loves hats. She got to play with Uncle Stu's hat when we got back from our honeymoon. Just had to include a picture of this girl's sillyness.
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