2nd Time Around

We're down to single digits folks!!  Just shy of 9 weeks and we'll have a new sweet little girl in our home!  I am getting excited, Tyler is totally excited, and even Melanie is ready! 

Here are some ways my sweet girl shows her sister love already:
- Flashlights on my belly...doing her own ultrasound
- Laying her head on me and grinning ear to ear with excitement when she feels a kick
- She puts diapers on everything!
- Rocking her baby dolls
- Making me laydown on her blankets next to her babies and tucking us all in

I am so anxious to see a friendship blossom between my two little ladies. 

My Garden!

So, last season was a bust, but my Winter garden is turning out to be quite the little harvest! 

 

There are 2 cabbages and 1 broccoli at the far end, yellow onions in the middle and I use their end sprouts as green onions, the near left is cilantro, and the near right are snow peas. 

Not too shabby!! 

The cilantro is the only thing I've actually harvested so far and it's awesome! I've gotten about 4 peas from my snow peas...so a stir-fry with 4 peas may be a little lackluster. We'll see how they go since I've got a ton of pretty little white flowers ready to turn into pea pods.

Keeping up the tradition!

Helping dad with the star

We always got to put the star on the tree when we were kids...and though she's still too little to technically 'put it on' we let her adjust it and make it just how she wanted it.

Putting an ornament 'in' the tree

 

It is so fun to have a little sweetie pie for Christmas this year!  She loved decorating the tree and wants to help wrap all of the presents, and don't even get her started about Christmas lights!

 

If we go anywhere at night we see our neighbors lights up on the way out and she starts whining and signing 'more' because she wants to see more Christmas lights.  All through town she can spot them!  It's amazing to me for how little she is she definitely knows the difference between a bunch of regular lights and the twinkle of Christmas lights.  

My Sweet Fairy

Halloween 2012: 16.5 Months

I was ALMOST the terrible mom that didn't dress my baby up for halloween because we weren't going anywhere fun.  Boy am I glad I didn't listen to myself!!

We had such a good time handing out candy and chillin on our front porch and this little girl was loving all the attention. 

(that tutu ps. cost me $3 to make...SOOO easy!)

Puppy Love

Melanie loves her puppies (they're actually nasty old beasts....but they'll always be my puppies). 

Yesterday morning she fed Joey (the dachshund) all of her food piece by piece and Joey was so patient and sat by her bowl waiting for her next bite.  That little rascal has totally redeemed herself in my eyes because she is so good with my sweet girl!

Step up from trying to feed them rocks like a few weeks ago :)

Heaven in my mouth

OH MY GOSH

I finally worked up the courage to feed my husband two things and not care what he said about it:

Chicken
Curry

This recipe is AMAZING:  http://chaosinthekitchen.com/2009/07/lime-and-coconut-chicken/

It's called Lime Coconut Chicken, but it's really more like Coconut Curry Chicken and it made me SO happy inside.  Like....SOOO happy. 

You need to make this.  It's sweet and spicy and I don't even know how to explain how it tastes. Just please make it and make yourself as happy as I am right now. 

Meatball Sub Recipe

So....boring title....but AMAZING sandwich:

Rachel Ray's Meatball Sub

The picture is not nearly as appetizing as it is in real life.  Toast some tasty sub rolls with some provolone or mozzarella and load that bad boy up. 

Plus its a great way to get some stretch from your ground beef since there is so much egg, breadcrumb, and onion in the meatballs themselves. 

Please try it.....you seriously will love it.

OH!! 
And the 5 minute marinara sauce...you can't beat that stuff...once you get it just right for your tastes....you will put it on everything.

Hey Girl (Ryan Gosling Edition)

So I know not everyone that comes by this little corner of the interwebs is a Latter-Day Saint like myself....but I just couldn't help myself!!! 

Seriously after a bad day I just look through this website.  I read them out loud to my husband and he listens politely and hates it quietly inside while I laugh my FREAKING GUTS OUT!!!

http://mormonheygirl.tumblr.com/

If you need any help deciphering the mormon jargin to get the joke...just give me a shout....I'll help :)

It's my freaking birthday!

That's right folks...the hubby did it right this year! We went to Tucson and spent a lovely evening at the El Conquistador!  We swam in the pool, watched the olympics in our cozy bed, and walked all over that place...like 5 miles...I'm not kidding)

Dinner at PF Changs (which Tyler hates, which makes this a significant point)

Shopping at 2 malls (which Tyler also hates and I didn't buy anything and he didn't complain ONCE)

Gelato (Alpencarmel= creme brulee burnt sugar and gianduia=chocolate/hazelnut  SOOO GOOOD)

Midnight trip to Taco Bell (nachos bell grande and cinnamon twists)

It was our first night away from our sweet baby who stayed with her grandma Curtis.  According to grandma she was great and as terrible as it sounds...Tyler and I were also great.  It was a much needed break for this momma.  I just wrapped up 13 months of non-stop baby due to breastfeeding so it was so nice to have some Tyler time :)

P.S.

The garden's a bust....more watering neccesary maybe? 

I got sprouts, so according to my intial post here, I'm not allowed to be mad.

ugh....