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February 22, 2015

DSC_0035Remember this? While there is still snow on the ground here the weather is certainly warming up.  Between work, travel, and just everyday life I’ve gottten a bit behind on the blog over the last couple of weeks!  So we’re just going to travel back in time a bit to when we had a big winter snowfall.

Finn loves going outside to play in the snow and help shovel (shobel) with his daddy. Since our driveway is pretty long Kevin is happy to have a helper 😉  Albeit on this particular day it was right before nap time so he was a bit bleary not to mention suited up pretty well for the cold weather so it was a bit more difficult to move than in an everyday outfit! The first two pics are from our new kitchen window. It’s just so pretty to look into our backyard and see this. I love the amount of trees we have and the large backyard and when the snow falls it looks so serene.

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DSC_0012 DSC_0006 DSC_0017 DSC_0011 DSC_0015We even brought Lily outside (to be quite honest she was yelping from inside, practically begging to come out). She loved adventuring around the front yard and running super fast through the snow. DSC_0023 DSC_0024 DSC_0040 DSC_0030 DSC_0045 DSC_0047 DSC_0048 DSC_0050We even played a game where Kevin tossed a shovel full of snow on top of Lily, and then Finn wanted daddy to do the same thing to him!DSC_0051 DSC_0052 DSC_0054 DSC_0056 We purchased a basketball hoop for Finn this week – he absolutely loves it! He was shooting so well that I decided to take a video of him. Check this out – he made four shots in a row!

Finn’s verbal skills are getting so good. He is learning new words every day and showing that he understands new concepts too. He often surprises me with what he says. If we ask him to try to say something he is usually game to repeat it – and he is usually quite good! He’s putting 3, 4, or 5 words together at a time, all the time! Some popular ones are “miss you so much daddy”, “love you so much”, “right here mommy”, “that’s enough now, nuff”, “where is daddy at”, “lily (yily) come now”, “lily (yily) that’s nuff” (if she’s drinking a lot of water), “help daddy shobel now outside”. You get the idea 🙂

And here are a few more odds and ends. We now have our pendant lights above the island up! Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles. Finn and I did some early Easter painting. And of course we always enjoy donuts around here!20150216_205738-2 20150216_201306-2 DSC_0001 DSC_0004 DSC_0005 IMG_20150221_120130810

Have a good week!

November 9, 2014

20141108_093940I’m looking forward to a few days of doing just what Finn is doing here, ha! We’ve had such a crazy busy week this week that I hardly snapped any photos. And while some of these photos are a bit fuzzy they capture Finn’s personality pretty well. He is calm and sweet, followed by fun and spunky, and sometimes he’ll mix in a little sass here and there. He NEVER sits down unless he is eating or we play Sesame Street. He is always busy investigating, watching, playing, observing, exploring, running, jumping, dancing, you name it! Every night when I put him to bed and say “I love you”, he replies “wuv you mama” “night night” “wuv you”, “wuv you”, “wuv you”, even after I’ve closed the door. Gives my heart tingles – he’s so sweet. He is speaking a ton, often times 3 or 4 words together (yewwow truck mama, pease choc choc milk, bye bye dada, tank you dada (or mama, or Debbie), pease takta mama).  He usually puts the “please” before whatever he would like and then adds mama or dada to the end. And he is so polite, if you give him something he has asked for he almost always says “tank you mama” without any prompting. IMG_20141108_112030082_HDR IMG_20141108_112103749_HDR IMG_20141104_174811790 DSC_0735 IMG_20141109_202910236 IMG_20141109_091750164 DSC_0743 DSC_0737Now that we’ve partially painted the basement (tv area) and Kevin put everything back in it’s place we’ve been spending time together downstairs. One night Griffin kept saying “out, out, out” so I went to see what he had gotten himself in to and found this, including the pouty/sassy lip:IMG_20141109_200753346And it made me think of how small he used to be when we kept this rocker upstairs in our bathroom and would plop him in it while we were showering or getting ready and wanted to keep him in one place.  Such a little boy – this is from August 31, 2013:august_31_2013-2We spent some time preparing our house and completing a lot of smaller details to get everything presentable in order to host the 40th birthday party for my fabulous friend Sarah. I began to think we were a bit crazy trying to tackle so many things, but it was great to have a deadline to get things wrapped up. We painted the basement ceiling now that it is complete. Brett created a really pretty wood ceiling with can lights that was based on a design Kevin found. Then we painted the walls white (rather than the yucky almondy-yellow color, blech) and Kevin put it all the furniture and various things back together. Kevin and his dad installed several light fixtures. We put up curtain rods and curtains. We purchased a couple of area rugs and accessories. Everything is really coming together and looking quite nice! There are only a few images here, more to come in the near future. DSC_0709 DSC_0713 DSC_0715Around 30 of Sarah’s family and friends were able to join us to celebrate her 40th, and sadly I didn’t snap any photos that were good enough to share. They were all un-posed and not quite flattering as people were eating and talking. I forgot to take any of the setup and food except for the desserts (duh!) – but we had quite a tasty meal of ham & cheese sammie appetizers, grilled chicken, grilled peppercorn pork tenderloin, garlic mashed potatoes, pumpkin-sausage soup, mixed fruit, green salad, and a quinoa and rice salad. For dessert we had a super tasty carrot cake (from Whole Foods – it was so pretty), and yummy macarons from Pistacia Vera  in German Village and delish sugar cookies from  Sweet Tooth Cottage in Powell that perfectly matched the invites. Sweet Tooth does an amazing job – I highly recommend them if you ever want personalized or unique cookies for events! DSC_0729 DSC_0726 DSC_0724 DSC_0727 DSC_5707-2

Finn ~ 7 weeks

DSC_0834It was a pretty low-key week around here this week. On Sunday we headed out after church to run several errands, including shopping for our patio planters and front door containers. It was a beautiful, sunny, 80 degree day! I haven’t had a spring “off” in my 15 years at Millcreek, so this spring has been quite the experience being able to see the light of day and enjoy the spring weather!

Kevin had his first real “interactive” play time with Finn this week where Finn was “talking” and smiling back and forth with Kevin for a long period of time. They both quite enjoyed themselves and it was fun for me to see them interact together. Finn also got in some time on the floor with Cameron and Lily. This has been a tough week for me filled with a lot of tears. I head back to work in about 5 weeks and we have begun the research into childcare. We are looking for someone to come to our home each day to care for Finn, so we will see what the week brings. Everything about it makes me feel a range of emotions: sad, scared, anxious, worried, fearful, and the like. This isn’t an easy task for me, and it has been much harder emotionally than I ever had anticipated. I’ve been praying often for God to provide the right person that I will feel comfortable leaving Finn with. I struggle with whether or not I want to continue working. Some days I do, others I do not. I’ve waited a LONG time to be a mom, and I don’t want to miss anything. On the other hand I do enjoy my job and the professional responsibilities I have. So it is a tough call for me. I’m pretty sure Kevin thinks I am an emotional basket case as I’ve broken down into tears on numerous occasions!

Here are various photos from the week. Finn loves the bath and there are a bunch of pics of a happy boy and a couple where he’s not – but he makes the cutest sad faces!IMG_20130502_200307_558 IMG_20130502_200045_331 IMG_20130502_195856_978 IMG_20130501_083506_144 DSC_0907 DSC_0904 DSC_0845 DSC_0886 DSC_0868 DSC_0863 DSC_0860 DSC_0847 DSC_0852 DSC_0900 DSC_0817 IMG_20130429_155328_679 IMG_20130430_093024_103 IMG_20130430_093347_873 IMG_20130430_093355_848 Z DSC_0805 IMG_20130503_132836_256