So this last weekend was quite eventful, but not in a good way...
Chris was playing bass at a huge church event called
Loveology on Thursday and Friday nights.
Chris hadn't been feeing well for a few days but decided to play anyways. I was at home with Bennett sound asleep in his crib, when a little after 10pm I got a call from our friend Stephen who said he was taking chris to the hospital because he wasn't doing very well. All I could hear was Chris gasping for air in the background. I was stuck and wanted nothing else but to be with Chris! If I didn't have B I would have started running to the hospital (a few miles away) but such is life with a baby and only one car (that was parked outside the church event). After a few attempts, my mom answered her phone and was on her way to come stay with Bennett while some of my amazing friends came to take me to the hospital.
The doctor summed it up as 'heart palpitations' which was probably a result of Chris already being sick + coffee + ibuprofin + exhaustion. Not fun. We got home around 1am and collapsed into bed.
Around 4am my body decided it wanted to start vacating everything I had eaten that day...which continued the rest of the night. Needless to say, we were zombies on Friday. Being sick is no fun, but being sick with a toddler to take care of is impossible! Bennett watched his first movie Friday morning (Over The Hedge) and I don't think we left the couch all day!
No parenting awards were obtained that day.
Luckily Chris' parents were able to take Bennett Friday night and for most of Saturday. Chris and I slept pretty much the whole day Saturday which helped me to feel better, but still Chris is just now starting to feel a little better.
It's been 4 years since either of us have been this sick and I hope even more pass before the next time! Thank you so much for all of you who were praying for us to feel better!
To make matters worse, this weekend we actually had amazing weather, something Portland had been waiting for for so long. Go figure it would happen when we were stuck in bed!
Sunday, Bennett and I were able to go hang out at a park with some friends while Chris got some rest.
Bennett hadn't been on a swing since last fall, so he was loving it!
By Sunday evening Chris was starting to feel a little better and just wanted to get outside so we joined Craig and
Lauren for pizza at
Sellwood Pizza Kitchen and played at the park nearby.
Bennett wouldn't mind going to the park twice everyday:
(it was even warm enough to break out the cutoffs!)
driving the ship:
the boys being goofy:
(photo courtesy of Lauren)
Pretty Lauren with the lovely bouquet Craig picked her
from various gardens on the way back to the car:
There is a light at the end of the tunnel...
as I mentioned
here that we are at the start of something very exciting...
we are officially house hunting!
We have narrowed a list of about 100 houses down to 11 that we are going to check out on one crazy day next week. That should be interesting but we so so blessed and excited to be able to buy a house of our very own!
Bennett is back to his old self, but today Chris stayed home sick from work. Lame.
While Bennett took a 3 hour power nap, I was able to finally figure out how to make california rolls. I had all the stuff for them, then we became a bunch of sickies so it kept getting put off.
It was easier than I'd imagined and it's not really that hard, there are just a lot of steps.
The results were definitely worth it though.
I put in cucumber, avocado, crab and cream cheese.
In an hour and a half I cranked out 3 rolls with 9 pieces in each roll.
I'm guessing it will go quicker next time now that I know what I'm doing.
We had our own little dim sum for lunch including bbq pork, satsuma potato croquettes and our california rolls. I also had bought some hum bao but we were too excited to eat them, and they didn't make it past dinner lastnight. Oops!
I think next time I make sushi I will do a tutorial to show you how easy it actually is.
I would have made them sooner if I would have known!
Also, after lots of answered prayer, we are at the start of something very exciting!
:)
We had a packed weekend and it doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon.
Saturday we went to my brother's house to help get it ready to put it on the market. It's such a cute little house, I wish we could buy it from him!
Among other things, I took some pictures around the house so we'd have some artwork to frame when we stage it.
I will post more later this week, but here is one of my favorites:
Bennett (aka city boy) got to play in the dirt and roll in the grass.
He totally loved it!
Sunday, Bennett woke up and found his Easter basket:
and played with the goodies for a bit:
In the afternoon we went out to my aunt's house out in the country on the way up to Mt. Hood.
Bennett was barking at the elk head in the living room.
Apparently he thought it was a dog.
Then we had a big egg hunt in their yard with all of his cousins:
(and he actually knew what to do this year!)
Stealing from a cousin doesn't really count does it?
he got to pet the chicken:
(and we got to take home her very fresh/organic/free range eggs!)
(he barked at the chicken)
and pet the bunny too:
(he meowed at the bunny)
and then he was pooped:
Yesterday (monday) morning he woke up puking and continued to do so at random times throughout the day (including while we were at the grocery store). That was fun. Not.
The poor little guy has barely eaten or had anything to drink since then.
I called the nurse and once he wakes up from his nap I have to
syringe-feed him 1 tbs. of liquid every 5-6 mins.
I hope this works.
Pray that he starts drinking so it doesn't get worse!
If that meant we could live in
this house...
How is it even possible that this is still on the market for $249, 000?!
Ugh.
I'm filling in the blanks with Lauren today!
1. My favorite daily responsibility is, Walking into Bennett's room after he wakes up (getting your kids up is a responsibility right?). He is always so excited and happy to see me! First he likes to play peekaboo behind his blanket then after I open the blinds he loves to jump on the bed while watching the traffic outside. My favorite part of the day!
2. My least favorite daily responsibility is, Cleaning the food off of my dishes and putting them in the dishwasher. If I'm being lazy I just let them soak for a bit. At least I have a dishwasher I guess...2 years in college without was more than enough!
3. My favorite cuisine to eat when going out is this is a hard one...mexican holds a special place in my stomach but I also love thai and french fries and bread!
4. My favorite cuisine to prepare at home is umm mexican is an old standby (I make a mean chicken enchilada) but I also LOVE finding new favorite vegetarian meals. Let me know if you have any good ones!
5. Andy Warhol said that everyone is famous for 15 minutes. My claim to fame is Umm being Bennett's mom? People stop me constantly when we are out because they think he's so cute and they want to talk to him. This probably happens to everyone with a baby though. The other day in Safeway there was a real creeper of a girl who kept making it a point to walk by and wave to him. Annoying. Is that really a claim to fame? I wish I had a real answer for this!
6. If I could have 3 wishes I would wish that we would own an amazing midcentury house filled with all the appropriate furniture. A vacation home in Hawaii. and that all of our kids would grow up to love Jesus and follow Him every day of their lives!
7. My biggest pet peeve is People walking slowly in front of me (especially when they are taking up the whole sidewalk) .
Question... does anyone use Photoshop? I want to do more than Picnik and Picasa will let me do...you know, the fun stuff, not just editing pictures. I'm planning on downloading the free 30 day trial but which version would you recommend? I don't want to get frustrated and never look at it again but I do want to learn some new, cool stuff! Any tips?
Also, have you joined Pintrest yet? If you haven't, follow me here and prepare to get addicted! I'm working on getting a button up for it!
Have a good weekend!
We got the chairs, and Bennett loves them...
But now the question is, should we build a table or try to find one
that may not be exactly what we want?
The latter may be cheaper, but would it last?
While I was searching online for ideas for midcentury kids tables I came across these shots of amazing kids rooms, belonging to famous designers, captured by Maynard Parker back in the 40's and 50's. I love finding old pictures of people's houses, not only for inspiration, but just seeing how they lived in general.
I'm sure Bennett would love to move right in to any of these!
Check out the original post
here, and more of Maynard Parker's digitalized archives
here.
Calvin Bain residence:
Cliff May (!) residence:
Harold Prince Jr. residence:
Alexander Girard residence:
Liljestrand residence:
Robert and Virginia Stanton residence :
Aren't those amazing?
I'm still not sure what exactly I want to do for his table,
but I want it to be as simple as possible and not $3653.
We didn't really do much this weekend.
Chris had a giant certification test on Friday, which he felt pretty good about (yay) but won't find out if he passed for at least 8 weeks (boo).
He was pretty worn out so we decided to take it easy this weekend.
we went on walks when the weather was nice:
(Jess if you're reading this, he loves the little caterpillar!)
saw some awesome tape art on a window up at PSU:
brought out the old Fisher Price barn:
(I think B opened/shut the mooing door for 30 minutes straight)
had a case of the fuzzies:
(it was later tamed)
Saturday morning,
Lauren and I went to a women's event at
church and met some amazing ladies and had a tasty brunch.
While I was gone, Chris and Bennett had a dance party:
Untitled from
Becca Hardesty on
Vimeo.
They are amazing, healthy(ish) and SO good warm:
(he also made a delicious coconut chai for me and a vanilla latte for him)
Sunday evening we hung out with some of chris' family that was visiting from out of town.
Tonight we are going to pick up two of these(!):
via craigslist
I really want Bennett to have a little table of his own that he can play/eat at.
I knew I wanted some sweet vintage school chairs for him and I finally found the perfect ones!
Now we just have to find a table to fit them.
Happy Monday!
