Thursday, February 20, 2014

this is why we can't be friends: sandwich

Why do you do when someone you care for isn't living up to their potential?

Perhaps provide encouragement? Helpful words of advice?

I may have mentioned before that Andy and I have our own morning roles.  

(Andy, I encourage you to ONLY READ THE WORDS IN BLUE from here out...)

Aside from getting ourselves ready, I also (typically):
  • Wake up baby girl
  • pack the diaper bag (including diapers, change of clothes, whole milk, etc.)
  • pick out cora's clothes (including finding socks that nearly always match)
  • wrestle cora into clothes for the day
  • look for cora's shoes then put them on her
  • bribe cora with food so she will put her coat on
  •  AND...make smoothies for Andy and I
In addition to getting himself ready, Andy also:
  • makes us sandwhichs
hmm. I guess that didn't really need a bullet point...
Anywho, that's our routine and that's fine...EXCEPT. Mr. Andy has not been living up to his sandwich making potential.  I have been "encouraging" him to cut my sandwich in half forEVER -- he KNOWS that is how I prefer it...but he is pretty hit and miss...with this week being ALL MISSES.  To the point where I have sort of given up (cut it in half myself this morning)
Okay, you are thinking, "hey the guys making you a sandwich let it go."
First of all, I do make him a smoothie every morning, BUT, even if you had a point and I did decide to embrace mediocrity in this way....TODAY I OPEN MY LUNCH TO FIND THIS: 



WHAT???? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE CHEESE AND THE LETTUCE/SPINACH BOTH GO ON THE TOP.

everybody.

knows.

that. 

I mean seriously. What has a girl got to do get a properly made sandwich?

This is why we can't be friends.



Monday, February 17, 2014

Spice it up!

So this project has been on our minds for MONTHS...maybe even years.  This weekend, we finally got started.  Moving our spices from randomly shaped, hard to organize containers....


to pretty, and similar glass jars!
(please excuse the rest of the messy house in this photo, it's one of the laws of nature that only one thing can be organized at a time.)

I LOVE these jars! I didn't get quite enough for all our spices..and need a couple more large containers for other dry ingredients...but loving that we have gotten started!!!  so. pretty.


Of course Cora got in on the action...she figured out how to open the lids on the wire bailed jars...then enjoyed a nice snack of parsley leaves...which she apparently liked because she kept eating it.


weirdo.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Friday 5


Another week gone already? 2014 is flying!

1. Last weekend I whipped out this giant floor pillow for Cora.  It is 36 in x 36 in x 7 in.  So it is BIG. and she loves it.  AND I made it out of an old slip cover I had made back in our Estes Park days, so it was pretty cheap to make!


2. The sunflower seeds are slowly but surely leaving...you can see the shape of Kansas is slowly breaking down....the slips of paper are people identifying their home counties...who knew there was so much county pride?

3.
Olympic watching continues.Here are our Friday night opening ceremony snacks from last week.
(sorry it's sideways)

4. We've almost made it through 2 weeks of insanity.  We look like this now: 



5. Had a great start to Valentine's Day today with some fresh strawberries on waffles....yummers.

 

 Have a great weekend!

Friday, February 7, 2014

Friday 5

Here's highlights for the week....

1. Snow day #1.      2. Snow day #2.

Overall we got about 12 glorious inches of snow and had a great time just hanging out at home, playing in the snow, and eating yummy food.

3. Also during our snow days we started the "Insanity" work out program...we have now completed day 3.  So far it is a lot of fun...someday I'll get a photo of our basement "work out area" posted.

4. THE OLYMPICS STARTED!!  Tonight we kick off them off with an Olympic opening ceremonies watch party.  get excited.

5. It just occurred to me that we are celebrating 1 year with our Vitamix....and still love it and use it almost every day! best. purchase. ever.

(seriously jen b you NEED one.)

Have a great weekend!!!!

Thursday, February 6, 2014

baby down

All ready to go outside!!!!!


BABY DOWN! BABY DOWN!!

  

uh, guys? how do I get up?