Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Mark Your Calendars

Summer is almost here, I'm hopeful anyway, and as I know summer books up fast with various things. I decided to set a date for Collin's first birthday party (mostly for Ben so he doesn't plan something). So, mark your calendars for Sunday, August 7th. It will be at our house in the afternoon. Further details will be mailed out at a later date. Thanks!
Tayah is going turkey hunting for the first time with Ben on Friday. She will be getting up at 4 a.m. to head to the woods and hopefully watch her daddy shoot a turkey. She is excited. She is definitely a little bit of mama and a lot of daddy. So, look for a blog post on that....of course.

Watermelon


On the move.

Look what I can do!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Styling

We tried some styling product in the hair today.


Love Weekends

26 DAYS UNTIL MEXICO!!! 


We had a great weekend this weekend! Friday we had a wonderful dinner at Wildfire in Eden Prairie with Ben's mom and dad. Ben was gone over Mother's day weekend and wanted to take his mom out for dinner to celebrate that, so Friday it was.

Saturday we ran up to St. Cloud to run some errands and did a little shopping at the mall while we were there. Over the course of Friday and Saturday being out with kids I was told several times (6 times!! but who is counting) that I had a beautiful girl, or I heard "she is so cute" or "how old is she"...and they were NOT talking about Tayah. The first few times I just thought, "Are these people idiots because Collin does not look like a girl what so ever." He is totally dressed like a boy and definitely has little boy features, I think. So, It was about after comment number six of him being called "her" I decided to go get his hair cut. I had left his hair a little longer on top because he had some adorable curls but I had been cutting his hair around the ears and neckline since he was 9 weeks old. Still very much a boy hair style. But apparently people don't understand that boys can have big blue eyes and curls. So, now there is no mistaking this little boy. Still cute, minus a few curls.


Sunday I met with some mommy friends in St. Louis Park for lunch at Crave. Background Story: Way back in February 2006, just after finding out I was pregnant with Tayah, I joined a mommy forum , www.pregnancyweekly.com, with different moms from all over the world who were all due to have babies in October 2006. Well, eventually some of us mommies separated from the larger website and developed our own private forum where we could mommy-talk together about our pregnancy and later our little ones. Today, we all pretty much just catch up on Facebook (gotta love Facebook). So, 5 years later and with almost daily discussions over a common bond of mommy hood, we have gotten to know each other quite well. A few of us mommies from MN have met up before and decided to meet up again on Sunday for lunch. It's pretty cool because we are all about the same age and have similar lives so we have much in common, even if we don't see each other very often. It's a pretty unique relationship as I know other mommies from other states and countries have met up from our group for lunch or play dates. I know some have even met up with mommies from other places as they have traveled on trips. Very cool!! So, here we are: The MN Mommies.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

9 Month Checkup

Collin had his 9 month checkup last night. The best thing about it was NO SHOTS!! He is right on track for everything and things are looking good. Dr. said he is now free to eat whatever he so chooses as long as it is small enough. He will be happy to get free range to get his hands on more food because he so would like to eat whatever everyone else is eating. He had french toast yesterday for breakfast and pancakes today and LOVED that. Still no teeth yet but she said she could feel the teeth and they are RIGHT THERE!! Yay, at least they are in there somewhere and will hopefully be seeing them pearly whites soon.


Height: 29 inches  (75th percentile)
Weight: 18lbs 5 oz. (15th percentile)....he's a peanut.

Naptime

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Minneapolis Art Institute

Tayah had her first field trip for school last week at the Minneapolis Art Institute and Ben went with as a helper. I think this is a great photo of the two of them so I had to post...even if I am a week late.



1 Month until MEXICO. I'm ready for a mini getaway.

2 More weeks of P90x. Then it will be time to take a little break from the intense workout routine. I'd like to do 3 or 4 days of workouts a week rather than the 6 I am currently doing. Goal!! 

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Deck is ON!!

Before
Before


After

The deck wraps around the side of our house to a patio.

We have some wetlands in our backyard so we couldn't make it too wide, but it sure is LONG.
Our view from our deck. No we don't live on a farm but I love that we have cows that visit.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Bruno Mars- The Lazy Song

Loving the P90x reference. Ha!