Wednesday, April 19, 2017

april & spring break 
it has been a crap spring (actually a crap summer, fall, winter AND spring. i am so ready to move to california) with soooooo much rain. we have omld growing on our bodies at this point. but a couple weeks ago the sun made an appearance so i lined up my girls' pretty eggs and admired them in the sun for a second. 
i have also been baking a ton. what else is there to do when you are stuck inside?
picked out the baby's coming home outfit. white on white on white!
we were walking around this crappy indoor mall when tess spotted a pink bear pedicure chair. she waltzed right on in and sat down. she loved her first pedicure. it was the cutest thing ever. especially when she just stared at the lady during her massage. 
lets hope she's a little more gentle when the real, live baby is in the bassinet. 

tagg participated in his second pinewood derby. he ranked better this year and there were no tears so i would say it was a success! 
my mom finished the baby quilts. and i finished the baby's room, i mean closet. :) now we just wait to see which pretty quilt we get to use! 
when we had the latest ultrasound with the baby craig and i both thought it looked like a boy. but then i found this picture of tess when she was an hour old and they look like freaking twins. so who knows! four more weeks.....
we had to be (or got to be) very creative for this year's spring break because i couldnt travel since it was so close to my due date. that meant lots of quality park time. 
we went down to the fun center one day. tess tried the frog hopper for her second time and actually lasted the whole ride. 
ever since she watched beauty and the beast she looooooves anything to do with the movie and the characters. she saw this "castle" on the mini golf course and said "BEAST HOME!"
holy crap. when i noticed she was licking her finger (and not even using it!) to turn the pages on her "mermaid bathroom" book i was belly laughing. 

one day, we took the kids downtown. we walked around gasworks park in the sunshine. 

the boys rolled down this huge hill like five times. a couple days after this, sully had an allergist appointment and we found out he is super allergic to grass. so in hindsight, rolling down an enormous grass hill wasnt the best idea. :)
sunny seattle is the best. 
tagg and sully loved the fremont troll. tess wouldnt have anything to do with it "it's creepy!".

tagg and sully are having a great time with their piano lessons. sometimes their teacher sends me a video of them playing. here, sully is playing a duet with miss teddy and tagg is being insane in the background. 
34 week belly shot. 
we got a bunny! organic non gmo cotton ball smith. and he is sooo cute and friendly.
i made cinnamon and sugar baked donuts for the first time. they were pretty yummy. 
my extended family is doing a challenge where someone in our family attends the temple (or temple grounds) each day in the month of april. for our day we took the kids and walked around. it was such a gorgeous night and they LOVED the fountain. 
it was ken griffey jr night at the mariners so of course we had to attend. we took all three kids and they loved it. especially the food. they may have had a little toooo much sugar.....
in front of the new KGjr statue.
sully finally had his first game of the season (freaking rain) and loved every second of it. 
he really is so talented.

the whole situation was made even cuter by the fact that sully wore taylor's vintage padres jacket. oh my gosh.
tess is also in love with the little mermaid. they had these super cute fins in the target dollar section. mid-afternoon bath to try them out!

Thursday, March 30, 2017

st patricks day
it took quite a long time to separate a huge box of lucky charms.... the marshmallows from the non-marshmallow things..... but it was worth it. :)
a little leprechaun. 

Saturday, March 11, 2017

OC babymoon
last week my mom and i flew down to orange county for one last getaway before the new baby. the sun was muuuuuch needed.
first stop was thrifty ice cream. duh.
view from our huntington beach  room.
that night we waited in a 45 minute line to try a new (to us) ice cream shop. they make the each serving of ice cream right in front of you after you order it with liquid nitrogen and then put it in a puffle (a soft waffle cone. so basically a waffle).
my mom ordered a puffle with s'more ice cream (that they shaped into a pretty rose) with a toasted marshmallow on top. i got sweet cream ice cream topped with frosted flakes inside a churro puffle. yes.
the next morning we rented bikes and rode down the boardwalk.
my mom and i agreed that seagulls are ugly birds but i love the new portrait app on my phone so i used it on this guy.
that night we had FANTASTIC pizza at this little restaurant in corona del mar.
afterwards, we tried out another new dessert place. they had macaron ice cream sandwiches and organic cotton candy topped with fruity pebbles. another win.
on our last day in southern california we soaked up as much sun as possible on divers cove beach. and i had my mom take a few belly shots. ha!
on our way to the airport with had dinner (and pina coladas!) at javiers. the sun was setting and it was a wonderful dinner. also, a real housewife was eating dinner in the booth behind us. entertaining!
i love javiers.
a great babymoon with my mom.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

 oscar party
edible best picture cupcakes for the occasion.
hell or high water. lion. trolls. suicide squad. moana. hacksaw ridge. la la land. florence foster jenkins.
we have so much fun coming up with our costumes each year. craig scared the living daylights out of everyone this time around.

Thursday, February 16, 2017

valentines day
tess was feeling it in her heart headband a couple weeks ago. pink, pink and more pink!
i saw a picture of a manicure that had these cynical conversation hearts on the girl's nails and tried to have my local nail lady recreate it. yeah..... that didnt go over so well. lets just say (its shellac so i cant just take it off) i have been hiding my nails for the past week and a half. i had to get some sort of revenge on the situation so i made cynical conversation heart sugar cookies. 
minute-to-win-it valentines candy game for sully's class party. 
sully's valentines. 
valentines day morning. she loved her nerd rope and princess shoes!
craig took me out to dinner and dessert downtown (date night on a weeknight!) that night. the space needle was pink! very fun. 
my valentine. 

Monday, February 13, 2017

snow & my birthday
a couple days before my birthday we had a surprise snowstorm. it was the most snow i have ever seen in seattle and it was so fun/pretty.
my snow bunnies. 
tess was loving life. 
i even taught her how to eat the snow. she wouldnt stop.
couples night down at the fun center for laser tag, go-karting & bowling. 
my dad was out of town but he had arranged it so we had the vip bowling section with birthday balloons and my very own sign! it was so sweet. 
my parents joined us for dinner at daniels to celebrate my birthday. 
afterwards, i met up with my friends for a movie and dessert. it was the perfect day. 

Monday, February 6, 2017

science party for tagg's ninth birthday
tagg is constantly begging me to look on pinterest for kids' science projects ideas so i decided to kill two birds with one stone and do a science theme birthday party.  
it was a blast gathering up science gear and reinventing it to work for a birthday party. 
i especially couldnt get enough of the jello petri dishes. ha.
i put craig in charge of making the atom balloon situation and after a few quiet tantrums he figured one out. :)
personalized lab coats/badges and our new skeleton friend. 
as soon as the boys arrived, i put them straight to work. first up, lava lamps. so fun and easy. 
next, they made homemade flubber. 
freaking cute scientists. 
our last "experiment" was the magic shell ice cream sundaes. my kind of experiment.
birthday boy with his beaker cake.
as always, we had the polaroid camera out to take pictures for the boys to bring home in the frames they decorated. 
science favors. 
i have so much fun putting these parties together. its the best seeing the smile on my kids' faces when it all goes down. 
on tagg's actual birthday night he requested dinner at red robin. its the only place around here where they sing "happy birthday". :) i love how he wanted to be sung to sooooo badly but then acted like he was over it during the actual serenade. 

birthday sundae with mom and ga. 
tess' face. happy birthday, tagg! a wonderful week, celebrating our wonderful boy.