Thursday, February 4, 2010
Fortune Cookie Weirdness
Monday, February 1, 2010
8 months and 4 teeth later...
Sorry to blind you all with my glorious white arms, but I had to show you Lucy's favorite place to be these days. She'll bounce up and down like she's bull riding and get the biggest, goofiest grin on her face. I usually get in front of a mirror so I can watch her.
She refused to lean back in her bouncer so she sat like this. I thought it was funny.
Yay for highchairs! Our neighbors are so awesome for letting us borrow their baby stuff. Thanks again Jen & Nate! :)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Ouch!
- Taggie blanky for Lu
- Changing pads (our cute owl ones got destroyed in the wash. oopsies.)
- Beanies - which means I probably need to learn how to knit first :)
- Crochet flowers - to put on the beanies
- Baby booties
- Sock monkey & other cute stuffed things
- Owl hats for Etsy
- Painting more things for our walls
changing pad w/clear vinyl over the material
The taggie. I love love LOVE the butterfly fabric. Thank you Alexander Henry.
Lucy is all about the tags on everything so she had a hay day when I gave this blanket to her.
I'm hoping that because I have all my projects written down on the blarg that I will be more accountable for them and actually start and FINISH them.
My sissy-in-law Lolo sent me this awesome book on all these fun ditties you can make with felt...and the best part is no sewing machine is needed! This is great because I'm currently sewing machine-less.
Ya know what's funny? I haven't been interested in sewing until now. All of a sudden I've been craving a sewing machine...maybe it's something that just happens when you reach motherhood. I just have the urge to sew...strange? I think so.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Just so you know...
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Silly Lu Girl
Here she is going in for a kiss...
She still has her pretty blues.
She's loving her food these days. She's eating all sorts of food. Still loves the bananas the best. I fed her the Gerber macaroni and cheese dinner a few nights ago and she didn't know what to think about it. It smelled awful! Now when I go to the store I try to get the weird stuff just to see Lucy's face. Haha, I'm such a mean mom. I've learned that I can mix something she doesn't like with bananas and she'll dig on it.
We still feed her in her bebe pod chair but it's about time to get a high chair. I keep checking Craigs List because high chairs are so expensive these days! What's up with baby stuff being so expensive?? I would really like to know!
Luce is a lover of rolling, looking out the window, looking in the mirror, going for rides on mom's and dad's shoulders, and talking. She's says dadadada and mamamama and kind of mixes it up sometimes too. She loves jibberjabbering when we start talking. She definitely wants to be in on the conversations. She can get quite vocal. :)
We've been experimenting with things that make her laugh. It's quite entertaining. Trey has this little voice he talks to her in and she gets a crack out of it. She has this high pitched squeal that comes out when her and daddy wrestle. It's pretty darn cute. I'll have to post a video of it sometime.
We finally got to the point where we just lay her down and she goes to sleep! It's soooo nice! No more rocking her for like 20 minutes until she goes to sleep, yay! She's our good little napper/sleeper.
So there you have it. That's our Lucy in a nutshell as of late. She's our little ball of energy and fun.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Another one of those?!
Actually, I've decided I'm okay with getting old and wrinkly, as long as I still feel young inside.
Alrighty, here is my list:
- On my birthday, we found our Lucy mango was a GIRL! We were both SOOO surprised. It was the best birthday surprise ever.
- Oil painting class! I'm one step closer to my dream of painting all the art in our home, yay!
- Crazy craft nights with the Fraziers. We created some rockin' concrete light bulb wall hooks, coasters, light switch covers, and oven mitt dragons!
- After 5 interviews and 3 acceptance letters, we decided on Penn State. Hooray for no more med school application nonsense!
- Reupholstered something (a rocker glider for Lucy's room) for my first time ever. Thanks to my dearest Traci, it turned out pretty darn cute.
- Fish Lake with the Banbury Fam in Feb. Broomstick hockey out on the frozen-over lake rocked my world, as much as it could for being great with child. I was the goalie which was the safest position. I also ice fished for my first time.
- Huzbee and I went on an adventure with the Fraziers to Moab & Goblin Valley. We camped and hiked around and saw the beautiful sites. Oh and did I mention I was 7 months prego? My favorite thing was the delicate arch. Pictures just can't capture the majesty of it. It's one thing I think everyone needs to see in person.
- Goodbye to Icon! It was a bittersweet experience. I may or may not have cried when I started driving home...I blamed it on the pregnancy hormones. But seriously, I left some of the best coworkers ever. And I do miss communicating with the Chinese vendors. They were a treat.
- Birthed my LUCY! This was definitely the highlight of my year. I'm not gonna lie, childbirth was hard work but truly an amazing experience. The end result makes it totally worth it.
- Found out how little sleep I can still function on. :)
- Took our 5 week old camping and she slept through the night for her very first time!
- Attended the Brenchley Fam reunion at a ginormo cabin in Heber.
- Moved to Hershey, PA! It's been quite an adventure so far.
- Found out that being a mom and a med student's wife can be hard at times.
- Taught my first Relief Society lesson! It was nerve-racking but I'm glad I was asked to do it.
- Survived Trey's anatomy class! It was a little rough on all of us.
- Picked and ate crab for my first time ever. It was delicious!!!
- Made Lucy's Halloween costume and discovered I kind of like sewing. I think I might look for a sewing machine this summer when I go garage sale-ing.
- Drove to Dayton, Ohio for Thanksgiving where I met Trey's Gma for the first time and a bunch of his relatives. We discovered that roadtripping with a 6 month old is no bueno!
- Had a relaxing Christmas holiday in Hersh with my little lady & huzbee.
This year brought about all kinds of change in my life. It's been hard but so good for me. I feel pretty much adjusted to the whole being a mom thing (although sometimes it still weirds me out that I'm a mom). I'm still working on being adjusted to living so far away from family & being the wife of a med student. It's harder then I thought it would be. Thank heavens I have my Trey & Lucy here with me. They are my rays of sunshine on those days when I feel all cloudy inside.
Bring it on numbero 26! Let's see what you have to offer...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Wake up sleepies!
One of Lucy's favorite things to do is sit on daddy's lap and watch football with him (yes, definitely Trey's daughter). Check out what happens when it's close to her bedtime.

