Green - Day 2

Green patchwork pants with green John Deere socks from Grandpa Jacks. Tony is not a fan of these pants what so ever, I like them.

All three of the rugs in our house are primarily green. This rug is my favorite because I love the breadfruit pattern.

Tony's old surfboard. Deemed unridable by Tony, now has a happy home above the fireplace.

Groovy

Our new green couch on top of a green rug next to some greenery ( with some sun damaged leaves). There is nothing like a sectional. I don't think we can ever go back. We can seat like 10 people on that thing. Worth every penny!!!!

A tired baby wearing a handmade sweater next to his green loving mommy.

And last but not least, the green soothie. They are sprinkled all over our house. They turn up in under the bed, in dresser drawers, washed in many loads of laundry, nestled in between seat cushions, appearing in too many family photos. What can I say, he loves it.

2 posts in 1 day... special thanks to the color purple

2 posts in one day? The answer is a yes after accepting a bet from Agatha. A fan of games of any sort and gambling, I was left with little choice. Purple makes me thing of fluffy bridesmaid dresses and wet and wild make up.
Not a lot of purple in our life.

Crucial for morning coffee and really moist scones. Seems less sinful than the heavy cream called for in most recipes. Way too much mention of scones on the blog.



A purpleiscous fishy float. A treasure from my parents visit to the San Juan Islands.











And just like the book says... it is so easy to make your own baby food. Fun and messy family food fun.













A mini tent ready to hit the beach to shield fragile young skin from the sun.

Here is my latest attempt to use up the bolt...yes bolt of fabric I purchase shortly after Brayden was born. While I still love the fabric, I don't know quite what I was thinking purchasing such a large quantity of it. Especially since I own lots of other really cool fabrics in my "stash". If all goes well, the end result will be a cart/ highchair cover. We will see how complicated the " Sewing for Dummies" pattern is.








Sunday morning walk to the Pannikin for Scones and Coffee.













Watching Sesame Street!














A belated Mothers Day photo of my grandma, mom, Brayden and cousin Rachel. And a belated Happy Mothers day to all of the mom's.

beating the heat

It was hard to believe it was in the 90's yesterday. It seemed like 100 degrees at the street fair. Brayden got to cool off in his new float and swim diaper from the magical child. Another sad attempt at trying to use cloth ( or in this case nylon ) diapers. Uncle Jason had the very same float at his age ( 20 years ago...yikes). I remember when my parents had the pool installed, being so excited to take who was then baby Jason in the spa for the first time in his yellow floatie. Time flies.








Brayden at Sea World with friends Lily, Evan and Roman on his 5th month birthday. So fun!

This week we also invested in a new camera. We bought the Nikon d40 and love it. The shutter speed is super fast and can do lots of fun tricks that we will probably never figure out. With a wiggly baby you usually only have a nano second to try and capture the moment. We have had lots of fun trying it out.

Speedy racer.

It has been awhile since our last update. Over the course of these past two weeks we have been passing this nasty cold back and forth to each other. We are finally over the hump and feeling great.

Since we have been out of commission for a couple of weeks, our last exciting family event was the Carlsbad 5000. Was it our fastest race ever ran? no.... Let's just say our time was over 30 minutes but under 32. I will blame Brayden and his heavy stroller for the slowness. As you can see he was unaffected if not bored at the event. That's ok. Next year they have a diaper derby and he will most definitely not be allowed to sleep through that one. Especially since free diapers for a year are at up for grabs.

Grandma's are cool

Brayden got to spend last week with Grandma Wendy and Grandpa Mark. They came to visit from North Carolina for Tony's 35th...yes 35th birthday. We did lots of fun things and enjoyed having them visit.

Having a quick massage!

Tony blowing out all 35 if his candles! ( a Grandma Judy tradition)

A fun family photo.

Anything but quickbooks

I have sat down at the computer to install and learn quickbooks. We have owned the program for over a month and it still not made it's way out of the package. Every time I attempt to open the package, I get distracted. Our Cpa "strongly encouraged" us to use the program for our retail business. So I find myself yet again procrastinating. Here is a photo of our little endeavor inside leaping lotus. Maybe tomorrow.