sweet christmas

had a great christmas. baby did too.  we spent christmas eve at my parent's house, like we do every year.  adrian had a great time opening his and other's gifts (hee hee).  stayed up way too late, tho.  went to patrick's mom's house in north georgia on christmas day.  had a wonderful time there.  he really likes his "gigi".  also went to the annual ikea pilgrimage.  awesome.  finally got a new, bigger bed!  yea!  a queen, what will we do with all that space?  baby will fill it!  hope everyone had a great holiday.  

happy holidays

happy holidays everyone.  i am so grateful to be living in such a great country and have the opportunity and wealth that i have.  i saw "god grew tired of us" the other night, and it just puts things into perspective.  i really have so much.  this season, i really want to focus on family and love and giving.  (i had to have 4 new tires the other day, so i would rather NOT focus on that.)  but we are headed to the annual pilgrimage of Ikea in Atlanta, and have some money to spend. i have been dreaming of bigger beds since i have gotten preggers!  now that adrian is almost one, i can truly appreciate the size difference a queen would make.  we'll, see.  anyway, it will be a fun trip as adrian will go to his gigi's house for the first time.  he has seen her a few times, but not enough.  it is hard when we live a hike from each other.  and with my maternity leave taking up all my vacation this year, i had no spare trips.  looking forward to getting away for a few days. anyways, safe travels everyone.  see ya'll after the holidays.  hope to have a few snapshots to post of baby's first x-mas.

i'm a little airplane now

here is the finished product!  the airplane is finally finished.  originally a gift from breeze and stuart a year ago, craig pimped out the plane with pinstriping and initials.  he is truly an artist.  thanks, craig.  it totally makes this airplane sweet.  patrick and adrian reassembled it and tonight he rode it for the first time without help and dismounted perfectly by himself.  yesterday, he was 11 months old!  

juniper's first birthday!

we celebrated juniper claire's first birthday yesterday.  she is going to marry adrian one day, for those of you who don't know.  she just turned 1!  we all had a blast, especially the kids.  looking forward to planning adrian's birthday next month.  i think we may have a monkey theme.  i already have some invites in mind - to make, of course.  Bananas!  we'll see.

i'll take the stairs

we went to our dear friends ann and pete's house last weekend for dinner.  their kids are so cute and really like adrian vega.  he had his first crack at climbing stairs here.  (we live in a 1 story house.)  such a smart child or daredevil...hmmm.

caps to cap haitian project

here is a sampling of my baby hats for the project.  these are so cute and fast and fun!  i am going to make some for my friends who have new babies too.  recycling is good.  you can tell which one is my shirt and which are my husband's.  but that is okay.  experimented with the double knot cap.  too cute.  my son had a few of these when he was born.  so, off to the postal office to soulemama.  congrats on the new baby to you too.  check out www.mamatomama.org to see the progress!

baby got a new hat

this crafty mama used one of the patterns from the Crafty Mama book by Abby Pecoriello.  took me about an hour and i think he loves it!  he wore it throughout the entire Publix store on our saturday shopping trip. too cute.  check out the book.  i got it for my birthday back in september along with my Bend the Rules Sewing book by Amy Karol, who also types the Angry Chicken blog. both books are fantastic!  especially if you have little ones or have lots of friends who have little ones.  watch out, this driver is wild!  

first boo boo

my baby just got his first boo boo today.  he pulled over a very heavy and tall piece of furniture on his face.  super scary. and blood was just a runnin' down his face and into his eyes and mouth.  i had no idea what to do.  i just tried to nurse him and calm him down.  i think he cried for like 5 minutes straight.  so sad.  and of course i felt like the worst mother in the world.  my honey and i were putting together his new crib and had our backs turned.  sucked!  needless to say, i have moved that piece out of his room and may put it by the curb.  here he is in his new crib and cut!

here comes winter!

winter weather is upon us full force this week.  the temps have dropped to the 20's and the wind is howling outside.  time for the coats and gloves and caps.  it is good to hole up in the home tonight and not have to go anywhere.  life is good.

book making

been busy as a bee putting together my free book on snapfish.com from the oprah show last week.  it makes mama sad and pleased to see how much he has grown in the past year!  adrian vega will have a beautiful hard-bound picture book of his first year.  what a great deal.  

oprah rocks.