Friday, January 22, 2010

Give to Hope for Haiti



I have experienced an immense amount of personal tragedy in my life, but I cannot feel self pity. I feel blessed because I have never been buried alive, been without food or water or without a home. Please, if you can, go here and give whatever you can afford, even if it's only $5. They desperately need it.

This is the official website featured on the Hope for Haiti live show which was broadcast this evening. The point is, the site is legit and you can feel confident that your $$ will get to the people of Haiti.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Evie's Party

Here are just a few images from Evie's birthday celebration. Some of the images were taken by my sister.

I just can't believe how fast she is growing. Every day I look at her yummy little face and her delicious little body and I hope that I remember everything about that moment because I know how much I'm going to miss this time. Every giggle, laugh, the cute way she walks. Even the way she has an entire conversation with me in her own baby language. I'm going to miss it all!












This is Evie's good friend Spencer (holding the vacuum). We met his parents in a natural birthing class and we've been fortunate to become good friends. He was so spellbound by this toy vacuum that we sent it home with him for a while :)

Friday, January 8, 2010

First Birthday

First let me apologize for the hiatus. The weeks leading up to the holiday were busy and its been difficult finding the motivation to get back into the swing of post holiday life. I fear that this will be a continuing trend and that I'll need to develop some skills for managing it all; let me explain.

My sweet baby girl turned ONE on the 18th! One is a big birthday so it commanded some time in planning the celebration and since her birthday is so close to Christmas, its important to me that her day doesn't get lost in the usual hustle and chaos of the season. Her birthday landed on a Friday this year so I slaved into the wee hours on Thursday attempting to create a perfect little fondant cake that I had been so nostalgically dreaming about for weeks in my head. Trust me when I say that its much harder than it looks and I give many props to all you professional bakers out there. Needless to say, my little cake turned out perfectly imperfect...

Saturday was the big birthday celebration where I traded in my fondant creation for some more traditional, yet still made from scratch, cupcakes.

So, Evie's Stats:

22.5 Lbs, 30 inches
Favorite Foods: Mandarin oranges, pears, gerber graduates corn puffs, yogurt and ham
Favorite Activity: Bath time with Daddy
Favorite Words: Oh Wee, Oh Yeah, Wow, Cat (more like gat), What's this? (imagine it all slurred together)
Favorite Object: Her minky dot blanket, although balloons would be a close runner up
Favorite Pet: Our cat whom she refers lovingly to as either 'be' or 'bye' rather than cat

This was nearly the one and only shot I could get of her before she was off to explore. She is not the cooperative little darling that I was hoping she would be, but I wouldn't have her any other way.




The little blue bottoms are a g diaper and I really wanted her to be wearing pink, but I never had the chance to got out and buy a pair, just in case anyone was wondering why she is in blue ;)