Toots and toddles

Locked out of the office....

2010-12-30T05:22:00.000-08:00

I know I can't homemake everything Pottery Barn sells. The pottery, the lamps, the quilts...but a good portion of the insanely overpriced art look extremely diy friendly. The problem is finding the perfect supplies.

Here are some examples that I might attempt to make with a few small tweaks

Seriously-$39.00 for books with their covers torn off with a piece of twine? Goodwill 25 cent books here I come...

Take away the advent part-and this would make a very cute calendar-if I can find straight branches I am sure I can remake this for less than $200

Empty large picture frame, wires and clips-add your favorite family photos. Again, certain I can remake for less than $200

For all you pottery barn/restoration hardware "window shoppers"

2010-05-12T18:38:00.000-07:00

If you have a handy husband, or you are(or can be) handy yourself....check out knock-offwood

Austin made me a table-Samantha and I did help with the "antiquing" of the wood-but other than that...it was all Austin :) Quite good for a first timer.

All-in-all, this table cost us about 80 bucks-and that is with an entire can of paint spilled....the caster's were the most expensive-they were $40 bucks. This table is sold at Pottery Barn for $500. Take that you overpriced store-I can have your stuff now on the CHEAP.

Now we have a list:

Dining Table
Side Tables
Guest Bed
Our Bed
Outdoor Table/benches

Srsly. This Ana girl is a badass...she need to have her own DIY show.

PS

IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME!

Elmo, Ernie and PINK!

2010-01-11T10:23:00.000-08:00

I had this idea...because Samantha loves Elmo and Ernie so much, I was going to help her learn her colors by using them. Elmo is red and Ernie is orange. Well...it kinda backfired on me...well not kinda, it did. Everything red is "Elmo" and everything orange is "Ernie" I have been trying and trying to get her to call them by the correct name...but no. Good job mom.

Well, yesterday, I painted her fingernails and toenails pink. She holds up her little hand and says "pink" Yay! My efforts are not in vane!! She knows the correct name for a color!

To her credit-blue, purple, yellow and other non elmo/ernie colors are named correctly when I work with her. lol!

She is getting so big...we made cookies yesterday. Oatmeal raisin cookies. She poured all the dry ingredients into the mixing bowl and waited patiently when I mixed them together. She dropped the cookies onto the pan and watched them bake. I just can't believe that two years ago she couldn't even hold her head up! Now she talks, sings, dances and pee pees in the potty!!! Amazing!

Instead of telling us "No" when she doesn't want to do something, she says "No Way! No Way!" Pretty funny...I have to try very hard not to laugh at her.

She sleeps with her Teddy(the one you gave her Michelle!) and her baby doll. And! She has been napping in her big girl bed! Very cool.

I just want to snuggle her all day!

Sam's 2nd Birthday

2010-01-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

Umay's mom made the birthday hats! Very cute!

For those of us that didn't want to stain our mouths red ;)

Elmo cupcakes!

They are so sweet together! Umay is moving in two months! Sam will miss her!

The whole group! Umay's family to the far right, Cammi(my friend from work) and her two kids in the middle, Penny, Anna, Emily and Whitney to the far left. Austin was at the store!

Cupcake time!

"its my party and i'll cry if I want to!" Poor thing has chapped cheeks, red icing on her chin and fell off her trike the day before and has a big bruise on her other cheek. This picture was around 3pm and she had not had a nap all day :) She only had a five second melt down...not bad!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2009-12-28T09:06:00.000-08:00

Haven't updated in awhile! Sorry! I sign on and read everyone's....but then I neglect my own blog :)

Samantha had a great Christmas and birthday! She got all kinds of great toys! Legos, shopping cart, stroller, wooden food and baking set, Elmo Tricycle, tonka trucks the list goes on. And she LOVES everything. She says "Mommy, Dadda! Come! Play" its sooo cute. She also bakes. She gets her little mixing bowl, pours from the measuring cup and makes the pouring sound, then stirs it, then licks the whisk. Its adorable. She is adorable.

She calls Austin and I "hunny" Yesterday, I was in the bathroom and not answering her. She was calling "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!" she stopped and then called "Hunny! Hunny!" Like maybe I would answer to that instead. Austin just about died!

She LOVES the "Boom Boom Pow" song by Black Eye Peas. She says " I want my Boom Boom" Also, "gotta get that...boom boom boom" Cracks us up!!!

She is really talking. Its amazing!

We had her little birthday party yesterday. I made her Elmo cupcakes and she had her friends over. She played and played and played...and then crashed. Success :)

Susan, Austin's mom, sent Sam some hair clips as one of her gifts. She got them here http://www.sosweetnsassy.com/ if you have a little girl you MUST go to this sight. They are so pretty! I just l.o.v.e. the clips.

I miss all of you!! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and that your New Year is fun too :)

gloomy day

2009-10-19T11:58:00.001-07:00

its such a grey day...I need a peep of sunshine

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Weekend Recap

2009-10-19T10:05:00.000-07:00

The skies have opened up-so we had a pretty soggy weekend. We were going to take Sam to the pumpkin patch again. But it was just too wet-she already has a runny nose and we didn’t want it to get worse. So, we went to check out some of those portable DVD players for our trip to visit the parents next week. A five hour plane ride with a 22 month old has got to be fun. Right?? I traveled with her at three months-that was GREAT all she did was sleep. Ever since she has been crawling(four/five months old) traveling has been quite exhausting-try keeping a bundle of energy in one place for five hours-you have to constantly entertain!! Basically, I am hoping that a portable DVD player will save my sanity.

Sunday was a declutter our house day. Pretty uneventful weekend, but we made some yummy chili and watched a few games. Pretty good weekend J

mom stuff

2009-10-15T10:47:00.001-07:00

Samantha loves Penny-I know I should be eternally grateful that I have such a wonderful person to watch our little girl and that Sam adores her. Don’t get me wrong, I count my blessing every single day- but, every day I have to fight this intense feeling of guilt and jealousy. I am jealous of the woman that watches our child. Jealous of the 9-10 hours a day she gets to spend with my little girl. Jealous of the meal times, snack times, play times, craft times, cuddle times and all the cute things I miss. I get, at most, two hours of good time with Samantha at night. Most of that time is spent making dinner and getting ready for bed. I miss her so dang much ALL week.
Penny lives across the street from us…so every morning I walk her across the street and then I walk back home. She waves and blows kisses as I walk back. I can’t help but wonder if she thinks I take her over there and then just go back home and hang out without her….
In a perfect world I would be the one kissing her booboos and fixing her lunch. For now, I need to focus on how sweet and perfect the time I do get to spend with her is.

my girlie girl

2009-10-14T15:55:00.000-07:00

This morning when Austin took Sam over to Miss Penny's, she saw one of those big yucky spiders on Penny's porch. She said to Austin "I want that" Austin said "that's a spider" she then said "Ewwwwww"

good girl.

Welcome back cold toes and super high power bills

2009-10-13T10:25:00.000-07:00

So it seems that the cold weather is here. Samantha LOVES her fleece-already its become as necessary as her shoes before leaving the house. She is so cute.

She has really started liking Elmo. It was pretty much out of the blue. One day while I was getting ready for work she looks at me and says "I want Elmo" I haven't a clue how she picked up on it...she probably only watched Sesame Street 2-3 times and maybe has one or two small Elmo related toys. Somehow...she ended up LOVING Elmo. So, we got her a little Elmo doll that sings the Alphabet-she gets frustrated because his shoes dont come off. lol! And we got her a little Elmo movie so I dont have to fast forward through all the Non Elmo parts of Sesame Street :)

She really is a sweet kiddo-she says please and thank you. She told Miss Penny that she loved her mommy and dadda. Made my heart melt when I heard that :) She LOVES her molly dog and her baby dolls. She loves to read books..although she reads faster than I do-and I read pretty fast ;) its more like she loves turning the pages of books really fast and seeing how many books she can read in one night.

She has the sweetest little voice I have ever heard! Everyday something cute and hilarious comes out of her mouth and I love it :)

She wore an....

2009-05-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

I am all for a cute bikini. And not that this really matters since we live in WA and probably wont even go swimming. But try carrying a toddler around in a two piece. Its not fun worrying if your top is going to get pulled the wrong way.

I actually got excited when I read the headline "Hooray!! The one-piece bathing suit is back" Maybe I am just old. Maybe I should not be so excited about the fact that the one-piece is back. But I don't care...I think they are cute, chic and I am going to get one this year(if i go swimming) http://beauty.ivillage.com/

Dear New Neighbors

2009-05-17T10:49:00.001-07:00

Thank you for your nice introduction a few months ago saying that you want to be good neighbors and to let you know if there is ever a problem. Although we do appreciate this gesture, we all know that you didn't mean it. I wish you did. I would march right over to your house and ask you ever so politely to please shut your yappy little dog up. The constant barking keeps my child from napping, wakes us up at night and quite frankly just annoys the hell out of us while we are working in our yard.

Also, you guys are extremely loud people in general. Do you really have to shout from outside to people inside? I don't care if you are going to the store, so just walk your happy ass inside and tell whomever it is that you are trying to communicate with directly. Thankyouverymuch.

And about the monster truck that you have parked outside in my half of the yard. What the F are you thinking. Just so you know you have killed my grass in four areas where your tires have been for the last week. I would like to let you know that I am calling the city tomorrow and you will probably have ticket. Its illegal to park there anyway. Sorry. Please get off of my lawn.

Sincerely,

Bethany Watson

tub o' baby

2009-05-14T10:49:00.000-07:00

I really wish that I had seen this when Samantha was tiny. She never really liked laying down in the baby tub once she got past 2 months.

She probably would have loved sitting up in this tub! Not to mention the cute photo ops it would have given me ;)

The concept really does make sense. The tub keeps the baby warm and snuggled. Which is what they love. Warm and snuggly. Well...until they learn how to crawl/walk. Then they love to be independent and only want snuggles when they are tired.

Mommy's little helper!!

2009-05-08T13:37:00.001-07:00

Isn't she just adorable?!

ok ok ok...so I put the watering can in her hand so I could take pictures...and then she ripped the petals off of my tulips.

But in twenty years when we are looking at old pictures that won't matter! What will matter is that she is cute, smiling and her hair is in pig-tails.

I will take one order of sunshine please!

2009-05-06T16:37:00.000-07:00

sigh. another soggy day. I want the sun back!

Even with all these soggy days I STILL have to dig up my Japanese Maple this weekend and take it back to Lowes because it is dead/dying. I believe it has a fungus that was aquired before me. It is not my fault this tree is dying.

Since I believe that my tree has a root fungus, I cannot replace it with a new one...because then the next tree will catch the nasty fungus.

The forcast says that there will be five minutes of sun this weekend so maybe I will have time ;)

Austin started his new job this week. I am very grateful that he has found a job "in this economy" but...I wish that it was not in Portland. What are Sam and I going to do without our buddy all week?? We are going to be missing him. Weekends will have to do.... :(

Austin threw a cold...and Samantha caught it.

2008-08-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time I blogged. Its funny because I really didn't have much to blog about. All I had was myself. Now I have a hubby, a puppy and a baby. Not only do I have more than just myself to blog about...I also live 3000 miles away from my family and my friends. After a $300 phone bill (I NEVER go over my limit) I decided that I should find a free way to communicate.

So, here it goes.

Obviously, most of you are caught up on whats been going on in our lives. How else would I have gone 500 minutes over on my bill? Thank goodness the Sprint rep was nice and took pity on me and cut my bill in half.

Anyway, we have a sick baby on our hands. Samantha has been under the weather for the past couple of days. Tummy problems and a fever. Its just so sad because you don't really know what to do!! When we found out she was sick Austin asked "What do we do?!" I responded with " I have no idea! I have never had a sick baby before!" Being a parent for the first time definately makes you second guess yourself. I constantly wonder if I am doing everything right and if I am forgetting something. Even with a 102 degree temp. and a stuffy head Samantha still claps and smiles :) She is such a sweet baby! She seems to be doing better this morning, hopefully she is kicking what ever virus she caught.

The weather out here is amazing. Beautiful blue skies and sun sun sun! A clear day in Seattle is one of the most breathtaking sites. Mountains, lakes and beautiful trees. My drive home from work never gets old! I just love looking. The summers here truely are worth the rainy winter. I highly recommend moving here. If you can't be that extreme at least visit frequently!!

Speaking of moving out here to the good ol NW, an old highschool friend of mine is doing just that! Jaime Thomas now Whitten. Its funny what a small world it is! I am very excited! She promises to run road races and go snowboarding.

Florida here we come!! We are leaving tonight!