Friday 5

Happy Friday folks!

This week:

1. Andy got a lot of work done on Cora's crib...it will look something like this when it's finished only stained much darker!

2. Cora's hair is so fun -- bows, pony tails, mohawks, oh my!

3. Been deep cleaning my office and storerooms at work...it's so bad 3 people have asked me if I'm moving offices...


4. Watching Cora trying to figure new things out is so funny.  She really couldn't grasp what was going on as I brushed my teeth.

5. Donuts at work today! YAY!!!

Fa fa fa fa fa-riday!

Happy Friday! This week was all kinds of exciting:

1. First, I got my hair cut!  8 inches to donate!! I'm diggin the new locks so far...definitely a lot faster!!

2. Summer is in full swing -- don't tell anyone but I kind of like the super hot weather! Makes it really feel like summer!  (it wasn't really 108 BTW...after I started driving it dropped to a chilly 101)

3. I finally got a new car seat ordered for Cora.  It won't be here in time for our first trip...so this will be a nice last big trip with the old seat!

4. Shopping FAIL.  After forgetting my wallet in the cart at the grocery store this week I decided I should probably go back to carrying a purse...not trying to juggle a baby, wallet, phone and keys all the time.  So I went everywhere in town but couldn't find what I was looking for.  So bummed.

 

5. Last, it's vacation day!! We are headed to the northland for a week! YAY!!! (on a side note I CAN NOT believe it is the 4th of July next week -- eek!!!!)  It's going to be in the 70s and 80s there, so I need to remember to throw in my snow pants and wools socks before we leave this afternoon.

Friday Five

Well, hello Friday, we meet again...

What a fun week! Last weekend we relaxed with some fishing...

it's summertime! LOVE being outside and out and about...

our neighbors got an indoor pet goat...yes.

Cora has taken her new bike trailor out for a few rides...

and she has been crawling and pulling up all over the place.

 

also, I often get comments about her good picture on facebook, etc.  I'd just like to say that for everyone one of these really cute bottom left type pictures...we get 10 of the I'm trying to eat you or your phone bottom right type pictures.

Friday 5

 

Wow! The weeks continue to fly by!!!

1. We took the new chariot stroller for a test ride behind the bike! 

2. Cora turned 9 months old! Crawling, pulling up, she is so much fun right now.

3. got to spend LAST week with some great people at FFA convention -- always a fun time to see old friends and make new ones!

4. K-State Ag is enrolling some great new students -- so fun to see the next leaders of the COA as freshman!

5. Andy has been gone a few nights this week -- always kind of fun to just be us girls! But we are glad he is coming home today!!

Friday 5

Oh what a week.....

1. Cora and I helped Apa clean the shop so he can seal the floor and Andy can get to work on Cora's bed.

2. Andy took Jordan on a tour of the fire station -- Jman loved it and so did Cora.

3. I got a new arts and crafts project to start for C-Dazzle's room

4. this is my marathon work schedule of the year....12 days of work in a row, then a weekend off, then two more weekends of work. sigh.

5. the worst part of all the work is missing time with this little face:

FRIDAY 5

Oh hello Friday, glad to see you.  This week:

1. The fam decided to take a week off of our healthy eating challenge before going another 8 weeks.  So, naturally the day before the new challenge start my mom was treating us to a pan of bar cookies...she nicely asked me to get them in the pan and put them in the oven after she mixed them up. 

When we went to take them out of the oven the chocolate chips had done the weirdest thing....

bahaha.

2. The trees are flowering! and although my allergies were super crazy -- we discovered the tree outside our apt is my fave! Look at the gorgeous flowers!!!

3. Bread. I love it. what else needs to be said.  This loaf was from the K-State Bake Club - always delicious.

4. Cora slept in her own room last night.  We missed her.  And guessing from the number of times she woke up, she missed us too, but it was nice to be able to turn the lights on in our bedroom when going to bed and getting dressed.

 

5. Got to have a quick, spontaneous, glorious chat with the bestie on my way to work this morning! day made.

And just because it seems wrong not to have a snapshot of cute little girls on this post....

This also proves that she is glad it is Friday, and that she's no worse for the wear of sleeping in her own room!

Happy Friday!  Leave your best moment of the week in the comments if you are so inclined -- it'd be great to hear what you've all been up to this week!!

Friday 5

Happy weekend!  

1. This week Cora turned 7 months....as you can see here.  She is really into rolling around, sitting up on her own, laughing and smiling at her daddy and eating my face.  Yea, I don't know, she thinks I am delicious.

2. So, I couldn't figure out why I kept having so many messages on my phone.  I really am not out of my office that much.  Then there was that "oh yea, remember when I was meeting with someone and my phone kept ringing so I shut the ringer off. awesome."

3. Of course Easter was this week.  The high point of the church calendar and a day of wandering around in a sugar haze...in search of more cookies.

4. Yay! great weather for playing outside! Hopefully spring is here to stay.  J-Dizzle had to take a break from picking up rocks with his pliers to have a snack.

5. Our table is clean!! Unfortunately out kitchen table is right inside the door and often becomes a dropping place for whatever we are carrying when we walk in the door -- but YAY! it's clean!!! 

Looking forward to a weekend of being outside and enjoying the nice weather!!!

Friday Five

FRIDAY!!! 

1. Andy was out of town this week -- aka....there was no one to steal my stuff.  yea, why wouldn't he want to wear my sunglasses?

2. I made baby girl and Easter dress....which I forgot to take a picture of...so this picture represents her previous lack of Easter dress....and her love for being sans clothing.

3. Baby chicks! Although I hate chickens --- they are smelly and dirty and always flapping around -- I love "farm" fresh eggs.  So 8 thumbs up to the parentals for getting chickens.  Plus J-dizzle and the 2 little-dizzles really like them.

4. Baby smiles. I mean seriously. Baby. Smiles.

5. Sugar cookies.  These yummy treats await us on Sunday.  My dad even got in on the action to show us everything we were doing wrong wand how to "follow the lines on the cookie cutter"....but he didn't really get that you did just eat every cookie that you frosted.  So his help was short lived.  This was his 1st masterpiece....before he ate it.

Happy Friday and Happy Easter!!!

Five for Friday

Another Friday already!  Here's the week's highlights:

1. Discovery: As mentioned in a previous post we finally made it to the Flint Hills Discovery Center! See here for more details...

2. Wasteful spending: If you know us very well you know that we don't often engage in wasteful spending...and you also know that we don't often eat highly processed foods...but we had a great time planning for the end of our lenten no sweets penance, and indulging in some yummy frozen pizza and mozzarella sticks.  Yes, we should really plan to pace ourselves with that Easter candy.....

3. In my Easter bonnet...err dress that is. We searched for an Easter dress for little punkers, but couldn't find exactly the right one...so I decided to try making it..that will be a next week project --- don't worry this isn't the fabric I'll be using....or the baby.... just the pattern.

 

4. Spring break: Okay, so I don't really have a picture of this...but spring break is for relaxing..so follow me with the Cora sleeping pic. :)  "spring break" here has meant freezing rain and snow for the most part, but no students so things are a little more chill.  HOWEVER, the downside of no students means high productivity...which means that list of tasks you've been putting off or dreading...yea, it's time to put on your boots and wade in.

5. March Madness: yea for brackets and basketball games! Don't worry I am DEAD LAST in all of my brackets. Cora, is actually doing pretty well.  Here she and "apa" are getting ready to cheer on the cats today!

Five for Friday

It's FRIDAY! Yay!

The happs this week include...

1. Habemus papam! We have a Pope! I was lucky enough to watch live as he was introduced to the world -- huddled around a computer in the student office watching with our student workers - AND I LOVE HIM. I just think he is fantastic and looks like the nicest old guy.  I want to hug him.  But I'm pretty sure that is not allowed....

2. Big XII Tournament is going on and Cats win!! We will face Oklahoma State tonight -- a 9 PM...sheesh! are you kidding 9 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT?? Don't they know that some people have babies that wake up all hours of the night and I can't stay up until 11 to find out the score because I won't get any sleep.

I feel like someone should ask me about these things before creating the schedule....

3. We got back on the jogging bandwagon this week....and it has been exhausting for all of us.  Although not sure what she has to be tired about she just has to ride.

4. This was one of those weeks where I remember how lucky I am to work with students! Ambassadors had a ice cream float party, we had the Pope Watch Party, and elected some great new ambassador exec officers last night.

5. This is a low five for friday -- my office is a disaster.  No really, it is awful. Andy, if I don't come home tonight it's because I couldn't find my way to the door.  This might call for an open window pandora playing cleaning session this afternoon!

:)

High Five for Friday

So on a few blogs that I frequent on a regular basis they have a great "High Five for Friday" feature where they share 5 of the week's highlights.  I have been thinking of adding it here for a while, if for no other reason that it will hopefully help me get at least 1 blog up a week.  In true Kleinlife fashion I cannot guarantee it will always be a "high" five for friday...could be a "low five" or a "yes this really happened this week" five...but we'll start on a high note. Here we go:

1. We celebrated 6 months of Cora! The Lenten season means no cake...but she celebrated by starting to full on barrel roll ALL OVER THE PLACE! EEK.

2. I LOVE OUR VITAMIX. It's awesome. and every morning I get to remember how awesome it is while I spend all of 30 seconds making smoothies.

3. I'm not losing our Lenten fitness challenge.  Our family is competing by exercising and eating healthy...an really official "google doc honor system tracking device" tells me that I'm not losing.  Although I'm pretty sure Andy and Shawna are behind in entering their stuff....so I might be losing...but not in this moment anyway.

4. We celebrated Jordan's 3rd birthday! (technically last week)  Yes, this is clearly not a picture of him on his 3rd birthday...

5. It's 61. and awesome.