Friday, November 06, 2009

My baby brother's 21 today!

Wow. I feel old. My littlest brother is 21 today - we're taking him out for juicy lucy's at the Blue Door Pub in St. Paul for supper tonight, then my other brother (the one that's already legal, but still young enough to drink copious amounts of booze in one evening) is taking him out on the town for the night. The hubby and I decided we would skip that part - especially since I can't partake in the drinking end of things and we both have to be up early for tailgating tomorrow morning!

We did, however, put together a pretty fantastic (if I do say so myself) birthday gift. We found this ridiculous ceramic pig planter and filled it with 21 shooters - he'll literally have to shake them out to get at all of them!




He just stopped by to visit me in my glamorous new office (heavy sarcasm here), and I warned him to drink LOTS of water this afternoon and to not take any cold medicine, which I'm pretty sure he was planning on doing. Based on my hubby's prior experiences mixing cold meds and alcohol, I hope I sufficiently scared him into listening to me!

12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Handmade Christmas

Just wanted to share a link to this great blog that is featuring handmade Christmas gift ideas for the first 12 days of November. I've been following the ideas, and they're all pretty great!

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

No Will Power

This morning I was woken up almost an hour early by Jonas barking (he doesn't get the whole fall-back time change thing). So I threw on some clothes, forgetting my glasses, and ran outside to lock him in the garage (and hopefully shut him up long enough for me to get some more sleep!). Thankfully, he only barked a bit and then calmed down for the next hour, but I was unable to fall back asleep. Instead, as I was laying in bed, I started to crave chocolate covered donuts and strawberry milk. So, I get myself out of bed, walk the dog so he doesn't freak out all morning long, and then make a run to satisfy my weird craving. Meanwhile, I remembered that my fave pretzels are now available in a new flavor - Snyders buffalo wing pretzel pieces - so of course, I had to grab a bag of those, and then Rold Gold fudge dipped pretzels caught my eye, so in the cart they went, too! Yikes! The guy checking me out even commented on my odd array of food items - buffalo pretzels, chocolate pretzels, chocolate donuts, and strawberry milk. I should have told him that this is what pregnancy does to you. You have no control over your random food cravings - I'm still riding the hot and spicy and super sweet cravings, and probably will be until Baby Uno arrives. Oh, and did I neglect to mention that I also ended up with a bag of Halloween candy that was 50% off - all the yummy Willy Wonka faves (nerds, sweet tarts, laffy taffy, and runts), plus 2 more bags of caramels, just in case my caramel craving comes back...

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Crazy Night at the Bank!


What a game! A ridiculous amount of penalties, but at this point, a victory is a victory! After the student section (not including us) started chanting "We want Gray" to start things off, I was very excited to see Weber throw a huge TD pass to Bennett, followed by another TD after a recovered fumble on the kickoff! What a way to shut those idiots up! As an added bonus, even though it was still only in the 30s and it was a night game, it was still warmer in the stadium than the last two games!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Syd says Happy Halloween!


Wow. Forcing the cat into ridiculous costumes really doesn't get old.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Bookshelf for the Nursery

This past weekend I was able to paint a bookshelf we received from my parents for the nursery. They were no longer using it and suggested that we may want to use it for books, toys, etc. Armed with a quart of the same purple paint we put on the walls, it only took me 3+ coats to get the thing covered (for some reason those saturated colors we chose for wall stripes go on very translucently!). I was happy to discover that the lime green fabric bins I grabbed at Target fit perfectly onto all of the shelves - they'll work well for holding miscellaneous toys and other goodies. So far our book collection consists of a few old ones that David and I had, plus a handful that I purchased at rummage sales this summer. Since I'm big into children's picture books, I sure it will quickly expand!

Here's the before shot:


And here's the after:



Notice the lime green chenille loop rugs I found at Target. Love them! The nursery is really starting to fill in, but I'm anxious to get some prints on the walls and the rocker in place to really finish things up!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

30 weeks, 3 days

Okay, after a long birthing class I managed to remember to have David take our 30 week photos. Here it is!


Here's a photo from 2 weeks ago (roughly 28 weeks):


And from 4 weeks ago (roughly 26 weeks):