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. 

round 2

We did another little photoshoot this morning. Sawyer pee'd all over the sheets so putting those in the washer is now next up on my to-do list. 

snaps

So the "something productive" I did get done today was taking some photos of Sawyer. I am trying to do a little set of photos of him for each month of his life for at least the first year. 

Luckily, after his long nap he was happy and cooperative for his photoshoot. 

i love this next one for some reason. probably cause it's more candid...

i think this last one will go on our picture wall...

straight off the kitchen floor

So yesterday I was able to find a few things for Spencer for our anniversary. Cashmere socks and some new dress shirts to replace the ones that our dryer mysteriously ruined. It was a real mystery, because of an entire load of clothing, only his 2 dress shirts came out of the dryer looking like they had grease splatters on them??...

After the gifts were purchased, I hurriedly searched online for some new recipe ideas to make something tasty for dinner. I settled on pepper crusted pan seared sirloin steak , twice baked baby potatoes, a salad and butterscotch brownies with chocolate and butterscotch ganache. 

I wish I could say it all came out perfectly, but I did drop the brownies on the kitchen floor and subsequently had a mini meltdown. But then I salvaged what I could of the brownies and proceeded to make what might have been the best dinner I've ever made (if I can be so

 conceited). After the brownie debacle, the rest was easy! 

While Sawyer is still sleeping in his swing, I should probably go do something productive...