Family Scrabble

Last Sunday, we had our first Scrabble game. G lasted one round. Mim went for almost 2 and then I quit after 10 or so. I couldn't put my bingo anywhere for the second time in a row and lost patience. J was a bit disappointed in his girls, but he got over it.

Scrabble Cake!

Here is the cake that Mighty made and I helped decorate!
It was super moist and delicious!
Photos courtesy of Lauren Woodbury :)

Buying a House

Chris and I are very seriously thinking about buying a house. The foreclosures and stimulus and the current economy are all good things (if you can say it like that) for first time home buyers such as ourselves. Every time we leave the house Enzo asks if we're going to go out and look are MORE houses. It's starting to get a tiny bit exhausting looking at so many different places and thinking about all the possibilities.

For those of you who own a home can you give us some advice on things we should think about before we make a commitment on something so huge?

The picture above is the house we ( me mostly) are currently most interested in. Yesterday I fell in love with this tiny red house we saw in the middle of the woods. All redwood with a beautiful deck but so totally out of the way and so hard to find that we ruled it out. Whatever home we buy we just might have to paint it red.

PETE!!!

Whenever I say Pete's name, it must be in all caps, and it must be followed by exclamation points. And I don't use exclamation points lightly.

It was Pete's birthday yesterday, but if anyone knows me, they know I do everything LATE. Which is exactly why I am such a hypocrite.

But anyway.

If you don't know Pete (you should) he's Bekah's brother and was our roomate at the old Adam compound.

I stole these pictures from Pete's facebook profile, and hopefully he won't mind.

This is Pete's old driver's license picture. As you can see from the picture, Pete is awesome.

This is a picture Pete found when he googled himself. He says that it's a logo for a Japanese store or something. He said it's exactly like how Homer found out that he was a Japanese caricature for a product label.

And this is Pete more recently. I'm kind of bummed that Amaya hasn't experienced Pete the Uncle. He definitely needs to get his butt to Hawaii soon.

Happy Birthday (yesterday) PETE!!! Pete and I are so in tune in our tastes, so it is really fun to hang out with him and he is super easy to get along with. I'm having Pete withdrawal. I know he'd be loving the bananagrams marathons we've been having over here lately. Hopefully this librarian thing will take him somewhere a little more accessible than Southern Oregon.

Real Baby Love

So much fun baby talk going around on this blog I decided to post some pics of a real baby. This week I got to meet and take some pictures of my close friend's new baby girl, baby Mila. Some of you may know Ana Paula but most of you don't. Regardless her baby is beautiful and Mila made me forget my nausea. It's been really hard to enjoy this pregnancy. It happened a month after my miscarriage and this whole time I've been really scared that something bad would happen again. Yesterday was my 13 week appointment. All is well, the baby's heart beat is very strong and I have already starter to feel some flutter in there. Seeing Mila and being able to hear my own baby's heart beat has been a very healing process for me in coming to terms with the fact that I had no control over my last miscarriage. Life is just rare and and I'm really getting excited about the little life that's generating inside of me right now.

Cute Pammy (a review)

Baby Fever!

Since it's baby season, Pammy, Adam, Tailee, and I decided that we wanted to join you guys too!

How do we look?!

VOTE WHO LOOKS THE MOST PREGNANT!!

Poll

I was talking to Kaity this week and we were talking about how crazy it is that she, sienna, amy and I are all having babies less than a month apart. We wanted to poll the family (and friends) and see if anyone guesses the sex of all 4 babies.

if you win then you might get a prize or you get the recognition of being cool.

my guess is
Kaity: Girl
Me: Girl
Sienna: boy
Amy: boy

what do you think?

it's official...

hello family.  yes, we have a new teenager in our home.  olivia turns 13 today.  thought we'd tell you 13 reasons why we love olivia...

1.    she's a girly girl, loves pink

2.    she very ticklish (she will actually asked to be tickled!)

3.    she's fearless--she snowboards, surfs, you name it, she'll try it

4.    she's the best big sister carson could hope for

5.    she keeps her big brothers in line

6.    she is strong-willed

7.    she's smart as a whip

8.    she's the perfect combination of beautiful and sweet

9.    she's a phenomenal cook

10.  she cares what we think

11.   you want her on your team if you are playing a game

12.  she holds the world record for phone texting (almost 5000 a month!)

13.  we couldn't imagine our lives without her in it

Happy Birthday Olivia!   We love you!!!  

Happy Birthday DA!

Here's Da. Traveling around Brasil with Enzo when he was just a few months old. Da is a great example to me of just doing stuff. She doesn't let other people or other excuses hold her back from having an adventure. I hope you're having a great day. Feliz Aniversario.