Friday

We tried to play outside in the grass last night with Chad but the mosquitoes were HORRIBLE!  

Not even worth it.  

So, we went out today after lunch!

Sadie enjoys being in her yard and getting to lounge and eat grass to her hearts content.

We have a lot of these in the yard from the vacant houses and lots surrounding us.  Soon the fence will be up and or lawn will be sprayed for weeds!

far away

closer up

"Hey mom, this blanket is the best idea ever! Now I don't have to touch that green stuff!"

I know, horrible mom here.  But he tried to turn around to find Sadie and fell into the grass.  Didn't hit hard, but that dang grass touched him.  And it was too cute not to take his picture. 

Hangin' out

We've been busy!

 Hangin' out in our jumper (not jumping, just hanging out)

Swimming in the ocean (hanging out with dad for the day)

Playin' on the floor with Sadie (trying to scoot around)

More jumper cuteness...

We had company for the weekend!

 The icicles were as tall as her!

Parker thinks his cousins are pretty fun!

Chad showed us how deep the drifts are out back....

Then was asked to make a snow angel (which he had trouble getting up from!)

Ending our weekend relaxing.

Weekly recap!

Recapping our week!

Wipes make THE coolest noise ever!

Many clothes got packed away this week...dang kiddo is LONG!

Daddy read me my bedtime story!

Parker helped "organize" the utility room!

We got to FaceTime with Lizzie!

Weston and his family came to visit!

Not too sure about this outside business.....

Hanging out inside is MUCH more fun right now!

This is how we found Parker after his afternoon nap today {Saturday}.

He has slowly becoming a rolling machine!  

Starts out on his back and goes over to his belly! Woo hoo!

A Pinteresting evening

I went out and had some me time on Saturday night!
(Chad went out Friday night with friends)

This was, for the most part, my first night out since Parker (not that I had a lot of those pre-Parker).

Megan threw a Pinterest party and invited me to come on up!

You've never heard of a Pinterest party?  
Me either!

The rules were simple:

The host provides the main dish and the craft.

The guests bring a dessert, appetizer, or drink.

All must come from Pinterest.  

Sounds fun to me!

I didn't take any pictures of the food or the process....

I was taking everything in and working on some strategies to help myself get through it.

Everything that was brought looked really yummy 

(however I only tried a few things since I was a little anxious to be there)!
I opted to bring fruit salsa and cinnamon/sugar chips.

Megan had a fun and simple craft picked out!

This is my finished product.  

Her original pin can be found here (I assume that's the pin she used anyhow).

We used liquor bottles instead of wine bottles though.

Alysha found this fun pin to add to the fun!

Everyone (minus Jen) and their finished products!

(stole this picture from Megan's Facebook)

Thanks Megan for a great "first" night out!

(PS this totally counts as one of my "something new in 2013")

{shenanigans}

I finally convinced Chad into making the coat hooks for the front door (would have done the back too but we bought Menards out of the hooks we needed). We may or may not have messed up and now it has a fancy decoration on it =)

I also finally finished the set of word blocks that I had started at the beginning of January.  I've got the most awesome head cold that started today so I didn't get to snuggle much with Parker today.  Don't want to get him sick! So I sat at the table and finished these up.

They spell a bazillion different words and I've made them for a few family members and friends but never myself.  Now I have my own set!

We also put together Parker's high chair today.  It will get brought upstairs this week and he will start joining us in this for meals!  He may or may not get to start solids soon.  Most books tell you 4-6 months so we will talk to his pediatrician at his 4 month appointment to see when to start and what to start with!  For now though, he will just hang out and play in it.  He didn't seem to mind it all that much so that's a bonus!!

We all hung out in the "man cave" last night.  Chad hooked up one of our cable boxes to the TV down there to see if it would work and voila! As long as we use the AV jacks and not the HD we have TV downstairs again!  He took the box out of our room and used that.  We need to find somewhere here that sells the boxes so that we can just have one for down there instead of using the one from our bedroom.  Loves me some Nick at Night before I go to bed!

Chad shoveled earlier this evening.  We have quite the drifts from the "blizzard" we were having.  We are expected to get another 1-3 inches tomorrow!!!

I hope your weekend has been as productive as ours has so far!

Pizza, pineapple, and games!

I had the privledge of hanging out with our friends little guy on Wednesday night!  He's such a hoot!  Between eating pizza, pineapple, and playing games, I don't know who had more fun, us or him!