This last weekend we had amazing weather and we spent a lot of time outside and a lot of time spoiling Bennett, since these are his last days of being an only child...it's pretty obvious that he's feeling insecure about this big change that's going to happen, but he's also excited to meet his little brother.
Needless to say I'm still pregnant.
I technically have a week left but I really think it's going to be sooner!
I'll keep you updated!
We had a family movie night.
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (not as good as the original)
and homemade stovetop popcorn:
I baked. A lot.
(what's the point to measuring vanilla...always overestimate)
had some Dole whip covered in juicy fresh fruit:
I made
these energy bites again:
(I made a double batch and froze them for once little brother gets here.
I'm sure we will need all the energy we can get)
Lauren and Fern came over. I'm convinced they will get married...or maybe Fern will be more of little brother's type. Maybe little brother will like older women.
(Chris and Craig did go for older ladies afterall)
For date night we decided to grab the spiciest thing we could think of.
("spicy" is an understatement. I don't like spicy food but these are amazing and I was willing to eat them for a good cause...trying to vacate little brother!)
Were we in PDX or did we go to Thailand for the evening?
Before I eat the wings I layer on the chapstick for extra protection
and I always end up eating all of the cold veggies:
(after rubbing them all over my lips, eating every last ice cube and grain of rice)
(did I mention I'm a spicy food wuss?)
"did we just induce labor?!"
What better way to counteract spiciness than with some ice cream from
Salt and Straw:
Obviously, the spiciness did not do it's job, but that's the sacrifice I was willing to make.
We spent the rest of the weekend outside playing and being crafty:
a wagon ride before bed:
finishing up nursery projects:
(painting an arrow)
(Chris definitely had to tape that up with his engineering skills)
I pulled out my sewing machine:
and the boys pulled out their tank tops:
Strawberry lemonade and arnold palmers definitely happened:
(if you have a costco membership you need to get these pitchers...they are amazing and there is a coupon right now!)
Oh yeah, back to the nursery...
there's the finished arrow:
and I made the triangles into a mobile:
Our cherry trees seemed to blossom over night:
and we spent some time under them coloring with sidewalk chalk and running around:
And that was our lovely weekend.
(and Portland is back to the rain)
Happy Wednesday Friends!
We had a weekend that was packed full, but totally fun!
Thursday,
Abi came over and helped me break in my new sewing machine by showing me how to do a few basic sewing projects I had picked out. She is such a great teacher and taught me how to do a zipper on my first project:
(I actually feel like I know what I'm doing...somewhat!)
(first project = this little zipper pouch, isn't it cute?)
(Have you seen the clothing she makes? Pretty amazing!)
Abi also helped me make a playdoh/coloring mat for B:
(I made a second one all by myself after she left too!)
Friday was grocery shopping day, and usually I make a very detailed shopping list for each of the 3 stores I go to with 2 weeks of meals on the back of it. I love my paper lists but I thought I would try to embrace the new and I tried out the Grocery IQ App.
It's awesome guys, and once you put prices in for items, it keeps a running total at the bottom so it's easier to stick to your budget. I may do a whole post on it once I use it a little more. Grocery IQ was super helpful and I didn't miss my paper list at all!
Bubs did a great job shopping (it's always a long morning) so he got some chocolate milk when we got home. He was excited for it, but I made him pose for a picture because he was so darn cute!
Friday night we went down to Bridgeport to try out
Joe's Burgers and spend some Christmas giftcards.
We were pleasantly surprised with how good Joe's was, though since it's only a kiosk, you get to eat in a plastic enclosed area and only half of the propane heaters were working. It was literally in the low 30's but the food tasted so good we didn't even care. Chris even got a milkshake!
Saturday morning B woke up and promptly wanted to play playdoh:
We played while we waited for Chris to get home from his run...and he came bearing a latte from
Barista. Mmm.
Then we made homemade egg mcmuffins:
and B took a super long bath:
Sunday morning we woke up to this:
Chris was playing at church, but B and I waited for my mom to come over
(so we could work on a few more sewing projects)
then we went out to play in the little snow we had before it melted:
I had been wanting to use up some ricotta so I made
these muffins, but tweaked the recipe a bit.
(I left out the lemon zezt, added mini chocolate chips, doubled the vanilla and added some milk)
They turned out amazing, and it was a nice warm treat to eat after coming in from the snow!
One of the projects my mom helped me with was a bigger clutch to match my little zipper pouch.
B thinks I made it for him to keep his cars in:
Sunday night we went to church and heard an amazing message from John Mark on anxiety and depression...
(it's the first in a short series, and I can't wait to hear the rest of them...podcast it here.)
I didn't really take any pictures on Monday, but I did make this:
(now I can finally use my poor abandoned scrapbook paper collection!)
and today we woke up to this (!):
so we played:
and built a snowman:
(and B gave it a third arm)
...which didn't seem to help much when he fell over:
And now we are going to get cozy, make some granola and have a family movie night!
Sorry for picture overload!
