Well our “new baby” BOY finally came! His name is Justin Alexander and he was born on December 22nd. We had a huge snowstorm here last weekend so we took Christian (our 2 yr old) to my parents’ house just in case I went into labor. On Sunday night I started having regular (but not painful) […]
December 29, 2009This year we had so much fun baking Christmas cookies! Christian is at an age (2 1/2) where he loves helping & doing projects. Our kitchen’s working really well for us… … and as you can see from the pics below, Christian was THRILLED to help bake cookies for our friends. (when we were rolling the […]
December 22, 2009I took this pic last weekend (above) during the beautiful little snowstorm we had. (It was the perfect time to remove the pumpkins!- ha how terrible am I?!) I made poor Ashby sit in front of the doors for pictures. (She’s a wimp & really isn’t that into the snow unless she’s wearing her winter […]
December 16, 2009Ours was one of the worst entryways I’d ever seen. (below) The sickly light from the too-small 70s fixture cast an off-yellow glow on everything. I tried to keep it off so as not to scare guests away but I’m not sure a really dark entry helped either. The walls went up & up and […]
December 10, 2009(Above, some nuts in a vintage jello mold.) Well, since Jonie showed the evolution of our dining room in her recent post, I thought I would share our finally “done” dining room with you! As you might remember, here’s what it looked like when we first moved in: And here it is now: I finally […]
December 5, 2009Yesterday morning I woke up to an email in my inbox from my friend Michele of My Notting Hill informing me that she’d hosted a “virtual baby shower!” She gathered a group of special blogger friends (I have more who weren’t able to attend of course! 😉 and they all picked out “virtual gifts” for […]
December 4, 2009It was really important to us for our little guy- Christian (2 yrs old)- to have a fun, happy & organized room when he transitioned out of the crib/ nursery to his “big boy bed” & new room this past summer. (And of course it had to be budget-friendly!) It’s a TINY space and we […]
December 3, 2009
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