Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Scenes from the Weekend

We had a super low key weekend. Lots of home improvements. I am finally getting my rear in gear and getting this baby's nursery ready!

I saw this sweet picture from an instagram account that I follow. I am obsessed. The swaddle is made by Beaufort Bonnet Co but it's a little out of my price range with all the other baby things we need to buy. I'm going to work sewing it! Fingers crossed it comes out ok!

Thursday night was our end of the season banquet for CCHS cheerleading.

These girls are the reason I started coaching! Their mom approached me a few days before they started 6th grade because the 6th grade needed a cheerleading coach and she knew that I cheered (my mom also taught them preschool as 4 year olds). They have been with me ever since and are graduating and heading off to college this year. It has been such a pleasure coaching them the past 7 years!

Friday was a DOOZIE. I got home from work and my mother-in-law left to head back home (she watches the babies a few Fridays a month for us since they don't have preschool). It's fabulous that she watches them but I've always got to come home and get things back in order and help the babies adjust to being with Mommy. Jay took the day off to go skiing and had originally told me he'd be leaving the resort at 3:30. I called him around 5:30 with a little panic in my voice to see when he'd be home. Imaging my surprise as he told me he was just getting off the ski lift. AHHH cue mini-melt down! I hadn't planned dinner because I thought he'd be home so there I was in my house with no food and two screaming babies. Thankful for Gigi to the rescue. She dropped off some chinese and stuck around to eat it with us. I put the babies to bed and enjoyed then entire bag of TJ's chocolate covered potato chips... can't wait to have that wine again!

The kids were super messy with dinner and so they ran around shirtless until bed time!



this kid was LOVING hanging all over his Gigi. He's been sooo cuddly lately.


You can't see it here but he picked up my mom's phone and said "Hello Dada". He had it pinched between his shoulder and ear. Guess he's seen someone else do that a time or to! 

Mommy Time!

Just for a little comparison sake! 14 months ago! Geeez it goes too fast!

We were soooo pumped to wake up and find that Daddy had gotten home! We enjoyed a yummy breakfast and some playtime in our jammies.
Check out this little faux hawk.

don't let this face fool you

This child LOVES green smoothies!

yum!

We spent the remainder of Saturday clearing out the guest room during nap time. A huge THANKS to my parents for coming over and helping to get all the furniture moved. I am also selling my old guest room bedding. It's from Pottery Barn and has barely ever been used. Perfect condition. Let me know if you are interested. I've got shams, throw pillows, and a queen size duvet cover.









This is the new bed downstairs in our old office. Our entire basement had a wolfpack theme and now it's pretty much contained in just two rooms down there. I've got to move around a lot of the decorations to make this room a little more "guest" friendly and not so masculine/office like.

On Sunday morning we headed to Southend for some Owen's bagels. There was only ONE person working the line and the register and it took 30 minutes to get our food. We were taking it to go and the twins just couldn't wait any longer for breakfast so they ate in the car on the way home. 

in progress shot
During nap we worked on our gallery wall. We've had these frames for forever and never hung them. Glad we finally got around to it. The scale is a little big for my taste but Jay loves it and our house is definitely a mixture of his design likes and mine. 

almost done. 
We've got to get a few more pictures to put in the blank frames and a few smaller frames to fill in the gaps. I also want two chairs to go on either side of the credenza but am holding out until after the Shep gets bigger. With the twins we put the swing and mama roo on either side and I'm sure we'll do the same with Shep. 

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Snow Day!

We had so much fun enjoying our snow day yesterday. Snow days are extra special because I get to stay at home with the babies! I miss them sooo much when I'm working and love being able to play with them at home (and get lots of stuff done around the house!)

This baby didn't get the "sleep-in-late" memo. Jay brought him to our bed around 6:30 and he snuggled/annoyed the dog until Emma Cate finally woke up around 8.

Playing cars on Sophie's leg. 


Sophie is SUCH a patient dog! Sometimes she drives me crazy because she has just recently started chewing EVERYTHING (she never did this before) but she really is so sweet with the kids.





We had fun playing puzzles and working on shapes and colors.

Sassy showed off her gymnastics skills.

Here Holden, let me do it!


Gigi came over after breakfast to play in the snow with the babies! I am so thankful for her energy. She pulled the kids up the hill a million times.




loved how sweet she looked in all her snow gear.

She did NOT want to leave her gloves on and after she took them off, she fell and her hands were freezing. She cried and cried and I took her back inside. After watching through the front window, she decided she would rather be outside but still wouldn't do the gloves. Fast forward to last night, she found the gloves on the floor and WOULDN'T take them off. She went to bed with gloves on last night.


This guy LOVED the snow! Can't wait to take them somewhere next winter. I'm not sure if they'll be old enough for ski school yet but I'm hopeful :) He ran and played and would have stayed out there for hours. He kept signing "more" after each ride down the hill. He would also scream Wee and OOOhhh each time he went down.

looks like such a little boy. I can't get over it. Where has my baby gone!





we tried to get a pic of the three of us but my mom kept recording instead. I think this is the best one we got. My arms were going to fall off. Holding "three" babies is no joke!

My mom treated us to cheesecake factory for lunch. I asked for a plate of strawberries for the kids and they brought them out with whipped cream. To say Holden loved it is an understatement. The kid went to town and all the waiters came to visit our table to see the "messy baby". 

It was SOOO nice to be at home yesterday! I got all of the laundry done, the upstairs vaccummed, my pictures uploaded, and dinner made (plus watched a show!) during nap time. Jay was thrilled that we didn't have any "chores" to do after we put the babies down. I think he is just as excited as I am for me to stay home soon! 

I cooked again last night and made SkinnyTaste's Crock Pot Santa Fe Chicken last night. It was so good. The babies ate a ton of it. I served it over brown rice with greek yogurt, cheese, and avocado as the toppings. I started it a little late so it only cooked on high for around 3 hours but were perfectly fine.