valentines

I was planning on sending little Valentines to family and friends but my computer was being ridiculously slow as I was trying to get them printed, and I just couldn't deal. I gave up and said maybe next year. I did make red velvet cupcakes and fresh blueberry muffins to give as treats. 

But as far as sending Valentines goes, this is the best I can do...a blog-valentine from our hard drive to yours.

 

sunday sickness

Waking up to a head cold in the morning is the worst. the. worst. Or so I thought. 

Turns out coming home from church, eating a peanut butter & jelly sandwich and then immediately being on the verge of puking is the worst. For real, this time. 

Luckily it is Sunday and the other employee who works here at Sawyer Enterprises was around to cover my shift. So I went to bed and napped it off for an hour. Woke up, ate cereal and cookies. All is right with the world. 

I baked banana chocolate chip muffins (mon favorite!) yesterday and tried a new recipe. Said recipe used unsweetened applesauce in place of butter to cut calories. And said muffins indeed tasted like they had calories, not to mention flavor, cut right out of 'em. I'll stick with the butter and the calories next time, thank you very much. Turns out banana-apple chocolate chip muffins aren't my favorite. 

Sawyer had a rough Sunday. He didn't nap at all during church and the result of being awake for 3+ hours was an all out cry-fest after we got home. This was just after I went upstairs to nap away my nausea, and so lucky for me I only had to hear it muffled through the comforter in my bed. He then devoured his bottle and went to sleep for 4 hours. I had to wake him up to eat his cereal/bottle and he kept his sleepy eyes closed for most of that too. He is now swinging contently and kicking his chubby little legs around. He likes to get his workout in before bed. 

Here's a picture of his current exercise challenge. The dreaded tummy time.

I will punch you in the ovary. Right in the baby maker.

Did Will Ferrell make good on that threat while I was asleep? Cause I woke up to a real nice pain on my left side. A cyst, I think. Had to cancel my hair appt. since I'm not exactly feeling my best. boo. Rescheduled for Saturday and I am still a bit nervous about cutting it off. It will end in tears, I'm sure. 

Luckily Sawyer took nice long naps today (3 hours long!) and I was able to rest with my heating pad and tv remote. Ah, the bliss of the dvr. If it wasn't for dvr'd episodes of SVU, American Idol, and Intervention I would have spent the day watching A Baby Story. Pass. 

But now I am all caught up on my shows and I'm going to watch Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. This was the movie we saw on our last little date before Sawyer was born, and I laughed so hard I thought I was going to put myself in labor. The soundtrack is really good, too. Bonus. 

Lately I have been cleaning out my closet, the cupboards, etc. and getting rid of stuff. Spring cleaning, I guess.  Too bad I'm not really cleaning anything, just shuffling junk out of the house. 

slacker

I've been slacking at my blogging lately. I had a good run for a while there, though. 

Although it may rain today, I have some errands to get done. The only thing I dislike about living out where we live is that most places I need to go aren't close by, because there's still not that much built out here. It's not like I can just run to Costco...No, I have to trek a half hour just to get there. But it is getting better, it seems like every week I notice a new business/restaurant/store being built closer to home. This just further proves that I am a city girl. I would never survive in a small town or rural community. I love living in Las Vegas. I love that most everything I need is open 24 hours. I need the commercial shopping centers and mass produced mega-malls. Sad, but true. It is what I know and love. 

And on that note, time to feed the baby, pack him up, and head to Henderson.

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

the brave

While filtering through iPhoto last night I found this pictures I took of my friend Samuel  just before his 1st birthday. I took these for his birthday party invitations, and I never really looked at them again. But I opened them up last night and couldn't believe that this little dude is about to be 4 years old in a few months. He was a sweet little man (still is). I think I'll frame one for his mama as a little gift. He was scared to be in the tree like this after about 5 minutes. And his Mom and I were cracking up at him for it. We are such nice people. 

Wish List

Since I retired from the rat race and took this new job as a full time employee to Mr. Sawyer, I have started cooking a lot more. When we first got married I barely knew how to fry an egg (which I am actually really bad at for some unknown reason)...over the years I have added more dishes and culinary skills to my repertoire, but it's just been in the past 6 months or so that I've really started to love finding things to cook and trying my hand at them. And when they turn out bad, I swear I'll never cook again...but when they turn out good, I do a little dance on the inside and beam as I serve my successes to family and friends.

But since I am cooking a lot more, I have found that my cooking tools are subpar. When we registered before our wedding I didn't know what to register for and didn't care much. So our pots/pans that we've had for the past 8 years were probably the cheapest set at Target the day I had that registry gun in my hand. Needless to say, I have slowly started to filter out the old stuff for some upgrades. But I am now forming a wish list of kitchen items I want, and since my post partum brain is useless for remembering things, I actually started writing the stuff down as it occurs to me. Too bad I didn't do this before Christmas, but a cast iron skillet is an ok Valentines gift, right?

In other cooking news, I had the youth girls from my church over to my house last night so one of them could teach the rest of us how to make red velvet cupcakes with the most delish cream cheese frosting I've ever tasted. The key was obviously lots of red food dye but the result was divine. Don't know what it is about a blood red cupcake that is so much better than other cupcakes, haha. 

I am trying a new scrapbooking method for the year. It's called Project 365, you can buy the kit for it at creatingkeepsakes.com. It's not so much scrapbooking as it is taking a picture each day, if possible, and doing some journaling about the pictures you take. The concept is simple and really ideal for me right now. I love to scrapbook but I end up spending way too much time (not to mention MONEY!) on it and other things get neglected. This method should help keep me from doing that. 

I want to document our life right now as much as I can in pictures and in journaling, and this allows me to do both and gives me an organized way to do it. I'm not taking a picture everyday but I'm trying to document bits and pieces of our life a week at a time. So far, I think I'm doing good. I will take the weekly pictures/journal cards and put it all together one month at a time. 

Hopefully this works out for me. I really like the idea of just using basic scrapbooking tools/products and focusing on the images and the journaling.