Unfortunately, this is more true than it should be….

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I meant to post this ages ago. This is from one of my Mother-in-Laws blogs….

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Oh No! Edible art

I love this new fondant recipe…It’s delicious and easy to work with…There will be no boring Christmas cookies this year.

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Hunter started crawling yesterday! As soon as I have some video of him, I will put it on youtube and post it here! He’s been on the verge of doing it for two months and he finally got that forward momentum going! Yay for baby!

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Last month I asked my Mom to design a necklace to go with a new diaper bag I got a few months ago. She came up with this….

Matching the diaper bag

January 10th, 2010

My oldest daughter Marla just got a Vera Bradley diaper bag and wanted a necklace to match it, so here is what I came up with. I hope you like it Marla.

Isn’t it lovely? I can’t wait to get it!

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My Mom is visiting next month so I figured I would make count down calender project to help Trent understand when she will be here. We spent his entire nap time getting crazy with crayons, glue, glitter and stickers.

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Over last summer my college roommate asked me to be the matron of honor for her wedding this upcoming April. I was so honored that she would ask me and said of course I would! I am really excited and nervous to have such a big job. We have been bouncing emails back and forth since July full of wedding plans, since she lives on Long Island. She and her fiancee are having the ceremony and reception at the coolest place; an aquarium!

Over the weekend I went and ordered my dress at David’s Bridal. Mine has a different style than the brides maids, but we will all be wearing the same color. Just to note, it is not that horrible pink you see me in up there. It will be clover green!

I had a crazy “it’s a small world” experience when I went to David’s to order my dress, though! The consultant helping me was very nice and we were chit chatting. We were talking about dress sizes and losing weight and I mentioned that if I were still in the Army I probably would drop a bunch of pounds before the wedding. Over the course of the conversation we came to figure out that I know her husband and worked with him at the Pentagon and we have all these mutual acquaintances. We then proceeded to gossip like hell about all of them! It’s a small Army after all!

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When I was a kid, I noticed that my sisters bangs were in her eyes. I decided to give her a hair cut for my Mom. Poor Caitlin had to have the shortest bangs ever at the age of two! Apparently in the twenty or so years since that happened I haven’t gotten any better at cutting hair. Tonight, as Trent was stalling bed time and eating a snack, we were sitting at the dining room table. I was looking at him and his hair was almost touching his nose. I have been looking at his hair for months saying he needs a haircut, and I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I grabbed the kitchen scissors and started snipping. Apparently I haven’t gotten any better since the last haircut I gave. Poor Trent.

Luckily, Garrick used to give haircuts while he was in the Army and was able to fix what I did. It’s not a good haircut, but it’s not a bad hair cut either. It just needs to be evened out a little, which Garrick said he would do tomorrow night.

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I have been meaning to post something about the earth quake in Haiti since it happened. The imagery coming out of Port-au-Prince is absolutely heart-wrenching. Boston.com has been putting up a lot of really powerful pictures all week. A good friend of my mine who is oversees right now is Haitian, and I sure hope that she doesn’t have any friends or family that were affected by this disaster. I got this image from Boston.com. Why is it children always suffer the most?

A boy lies injured in a makeshift hospital after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

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Today, Trent, Hunter and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go to a playground. I have been hearing a lot about Fantasy Playground, so that’s where we went. It’s pretty cool. When I was a kid this kind of playground was my favorite kind. It is all wood with lots of little spots to explore and sort of hide, along with big towers and slides and all sorts of other fun stuff. It was a perfect day for it too. I spent the entire time without a jacket, and even got a little too warm when the sun was really shining. Here’s some pictures.

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So the kids have been sick for the past two weeks. Trent the first week, and Hunter the second. In addition to being sick, poor Hunter was cutting six teeth. I couldn’t do anything because all he wanted to do was nurse. Thank goodness they are both finally feeling better.

Today I have been playing catch up with my organization duties as leader of my Mommies group. I wasn’t able to post anything at all, or email any of my members, because I couldn’t type. I could look at stuff, but with Hunter in one arm it was impossible to do any sort of corresponding or updating. I still have a bunch of things I have to do, but for the most part I am now all caught up with everything, emailing people back and getting events up on my groups calender.

It has been pretty nice here the past couple of days and it is supposed to stay the same tomorrow. Since we’ve been cooped up for so long, I decided to take the kids outside tomorrow. We’re going to check out this neat play ground that I have been hearing a lot about since we have moved to our new neighborhood. I’ll take pictures tomorrow and try and write a review of the place. I’m really excited to get Trent out of the house, because he needs it badly. He hasn’t been good about taking his naps or going to bed, and I know it is because he has too much energy. Tomorrow he shouldn’t have any problems.

I’m also catching up with feeding my family. I have been struggling getting food on the table these past weeks, can you guess why? Anyway, I was at least able to get good nutritious food made every night, even if Trent won’t eat it. This weekend, though, I was able to finally sit down and make puree’s for baby food and to cook with! I have the Jessica Seinfeld “Deceptively Delicious” cookbook and I have been wanting to utilize it forever, I just never had the time to actually make the purees to make the recipes. I made up a ton of purees over the weekend and I am going to start using them this week in recipes. Tomorrow I am making the banana bread with cauliflower puree and the spaghetti pie with carrot and broccoli purees.

I was really excited to make the puree’s because I was using the new rice maker and hand mixer that I got for Christmas. I got the exact rice cooker that I posted about a couple of months ago, and let me tell you it is AWESOME! It has a retractable cord, I can set it to start cooking at a certain time, it has a slow cooking option. This thing is fantastic! I used it steam all my veggies over the weekend and then used my new hand blender to puree them. The hand blender is great too. It only has one speed, but it works so well that it doesn’t even matter. The feature that I like the best is that the stick detaches and can go in the dish washer. Rad!

Well, I have a lot more stuff that I could write about in this post, but I think it’s getting a little late. I can always write another post tomorrow!

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