Two green critters...and pony tails

People who live near by keep saying that they have seen frogs around their houses, on porches, even in their apartment. I have never seen one by our apartment, until Saturday. And I saw not one, but two! I was pretty excited. We love to play with the toads by my parents house, but these frogs were much smaller. Daniel found the first one on our back porch in the morning. I almost stepped on the second one in our dining room that night. I put both of them back out side in the grass. Here are some pictures...

Her hair is just long enough to pull back and put a pony tail on the back of her head instead of on top. It looked really cute...before she got in the car. I realized right after I spent like 5 minutes doing her hair that it wasn't going to make it through the 15 minute car ride to the church because her head rubs the car seat. By the time church was over it was pretty messy, but cute while it lasted. :)

Museum of Flight

We finally made it to see the Musuem of Flight after almost 2 years of living here. Since Addie points at every plane she hears or sees, we thought she might enjoy it. She liked sitting outside watching the planes take off and land at Boeing Field, but most of all I think she enjoyed walking around and not sitting in her stroller!

This was on the way home...these never get old!

Last one for now

I am almost caught up! For those of you who did not get to see the house before the company took it off the website, here is the outside. We are super excited to get the keys tomorrow! We still have a few weeks before we will actually be living there, which is good because I have an amazing 1 box packed so far! The outside needs some TLC, which Daniel is very good at. The inside needs some love too (Mom it's not too late to buy a plane ticket!) But that's what you can expect when you live in a house that was built in 1900. It has so much charm, it's cute. We will be going from a 2 bed, 1 bath under 1000 sq. ft apartment, to a 4 bed, 1.5 bath 2344 sq ft house. It will be pretty empty for a while until we get more furniture. As long as I have my own craft room I am happy! I will post more pictures of the inside when we get it decorated.

The front.

The side, from across the street.

Our small back yard, at least we'll have something!

This is a picture of what Daniel did for the yard in Rexburg. I can't find the 'before' picture, but it looked nothing like this!

More from last weekend

Also over the weekend we attended a Bradley Method baby reunion. It was at a park with a wading pool but the weather turned out to be not so nice. We spent most of the time inside. But since Addie is like a fish, she wanted to go swimming. We let her go in even though it was freezing! We decided it was time to get out when it started raining pretty hard. Addie got to see her friend Patrick, she kept wanting to grab on to him! They were pretty cute though.

Just thought I would add this one in. Here are the babies back in October. Look how much they change!

Rummage sale and car show

Saturday morning we got up and went to a few yard sales. I am trying to find some good/cheap furniture to fill our new place with. Daniel didn't really want to, but he didn't really have a choice. :) We went to a couple places in Sumner and accidently came upon a huge rummage sale for some charity, I think. I found some cute things, Daniel found some yard tools. There were also some classic cars on disply, which he loves! I think this one was his favorite.

This lady handed us some tickets her kids were not going to use so we got Addie's face painted. I don't think any of the girls working the face painting wanted to try painting a squirmy 1 year olds face, but it came out pretty cute. Addie refused to look at the camera so these were the best ones we got.

It turned out to be a fun little outing. I think Daniel was glad he went after all.

While I was gone...

OK so I wasn't really gone, but it sure felt like I was out of touch with the world for the past 5 days. After I posted my last blog about my day without the computer, the charger we bought for it quite working! We had to order one from HP and it took forever to get here. So my 1 day without my computer turned into 5. Daniel did bring his work laptop home over the weekend so I wasn't completed isolated. But it seems like I have lots of pictures to post now that I have my own computer back. Where to start...

I mentioned in the previous post that I worked on Addie's little chair. Here's what it looked like originally:

And here's what it looks like now:

The blue still shows through a little bit so I am trying to decide if it looks antique of if I should put another 2 coats on it. Here she is watching Fantasia in her chair and with crazy hair. She just woke up :)

A Day without the computer...

So I know this is going to sound really sad, but I know many of you will understand. This morning I came home from the gym and my computer wouldn't turn on! I tried everything but apparently the charger wasn't charging the battery which doesn't last for more than 5 minutes if it's not plugged in! Crisis! I called Daniel and asked him if he knew how to fix it. He didn't seem to think it was such a big deal. He said he would stop by Fry's on his way home and get a new battery and a charger. I had to think of things to do today that didn't use the computer (there are actually a TON of things I should be doing right now!) so here's what I came up with:

1. Finished organizing my sewing stuff. Everything is in a plastic bin, not a grocery bag!
2. Started sanding Addie's chair to get it ready to repaint that we also got from my Grandpa's house. I'll post pictures when it's done!
3. Visited Katy and Jack, at least I got to check my e-mail!
4. Painted something for a vinyl order
5. Packed my maternity clothes in a plastic box because we won't have the closest space in our new place

By then it was dinner time. And after dinner, the day is pretty much over. So I survived my day without the computer. I actually had a lot of work to do on the computer, but I got a lot done around the house! Maybe I should leave the computer off more often and actually get some packing done!

First sewing project...

FINALLY completed! Whew, this took awhile. My Grandma Lee passed away a few months ago and one of the things I inherited from her collection of things is her sewing machine. It's from like 1970 and the front page of the instruction book says "Dear homemaker," and it cracks me up every time I read it, but it works great! She loved this machine more than any newer one that she tried. I also brought home a lifetime supply of thread, bias tape, needles and pins. I couldn't wait to get started sewing! But it was missing the needle clamp screw which is quite important. So...after about a month a searching for a screw I finally found one that fit my old, all metal machine. I thought it would be easy from there. I was wrong! After 2 visits from Katy (Thanks!) to help me figure how to thread the silly thing, 1 broken needle, a couple of headaches from trying to figure out why the thread was jamming underneath the fabric and a few late nights of working on them, here they are. My beanbags. Are they very pretty up close? No. Will I find beans all over the place one day because I didn't sew them shut all the way? Probably. But I did it. Next project: A blanket for Addie.

I just thought this picture is cute. She is my little helper when I am working.

I want one of those!

I have always wanted to go geocaching, but we don't own a GPS. I have also been trying to convince Daniel since before we were married that I NEED a GPS. He is taking his young men camping this weekend and they are planning on doing some geocaching with a GPS that he borrowed. So he had to practice using it right? Daniel found some caches that were actually pretty close to where we live. The first one was within walking distance actually so it was a nice after dinner stroll. This one wasn't too hard to find, took like 2 minutes once we found the general location. We hopped in the car to drive to the second one. We found the general location but it took awhile to find the actual cache. Whoever found it last hid it really well! It's crazy how many people do this geocaching thing. After you find the cache there is usually paper inside that you can write your name and the date on to see how many people have found it. Both caches had people from only a few days ago on them. We decided that we are going to set one up in front of our house and watch people walk around trying to find it! Should be pretty funny. Here are a few pictures from our little adventure. I am not sure how the geocache owners would feel about me posting these pictures, but it's not like I am telling you exactly where they are, right? Hopefully this finally convinced Daniel to get a GPS. Or mom, my birthday is coming up. :)

So sad

So this morning Addie woke up with a runny nose and was kind of cranky. I was hoping she was just teething but when I came home from work it was apparent that it was more than that. Our little happy, smiley baby girl was sick. We haven't really had to go through any sicknesses with her yet (thankfully) so I really didn't know how she was going to handle it. Daniel was not home for most of the night so we did what I would do if I was sick (and didn't have to take care of anyone else!)...put in a movie and ate ice cream! She loves watching Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 so that's what we watched. I managed to put her down for a minute and got these pictures but for most of the time she had to be sitting on my lap!

Her face is sad compared to her usual cheeriness.

Please ignore all of the stuff in the background, she dumped my purse out a few minutes before this.

I thought for a minute maybe she would fall asleep on the floor. She didn't but she looked cute laying there!

She's already woken up once since I put her down an hour ago. It might be a long night!

Here comes trouble...

So last night we were over at our friends Katy and Clay's apartment watching Addie and their little boy Jack play. Jack has a little red bicycle that Addie decided she wanted to play with. So, she stretched out her arm, let go of the TV stand and took some steps toward it! I wouldn't exactly say she's 'walking', but she definitely figured out how to move her feet. Katy was ready with her camera when she did it again. It's cute and all having her take her first steps, but are we really ready for this?

Hiya

What do these things have in common:

Puzzle piece shaped like a horse
Calculator
TV Remote
A hand
Keys

They can be used as a phone of course! I don't think I talk on the phone that much but appearently enough for Addie to learn that it goes up to your ear, you say "hi" (or hiya, as she says) into it and start talking. I managed to get her talking into the calculator on video.

What I like about Washington

So there are many things I do not like about living here, BUT one thing that I do love is...

Fresh Flowers!!

They are so beautiful and inexpensive here. I picked these up at the Puyallup Farmers Market today.

Getting Brave

Just recently Addie has been letting go of the furniture and standing on her own. For a few seconds. But it's progress. She thinks it's the greatest thing, she laughs and makes 'ooh' noises. She also really likes looking at herself (I think she gets that from her dad!). In the video she is looking at her reflection in the fire place glass, laughing and clapping. We're still waiting for her to take her official first step!