nifty 50

After reading this article I decided to go with the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II and I love, love, love it! It is a great bang-for-your-buck lens for this newby. If you are just getting into photography, or if you have kids- get one!

all the pictures were taken on family vacay in colorado. many more pictures to come.

i married a rockstar

so this week was birthweek- that's right- birthweek. Why only celebrate your birthday for one day? Drew planned something special for each day and it was amazing.

monday- sonic and new lip gloss and chapstick. (one of my favorite things)
tuesday- more sonic, an awesome new waterbottle
wednesday- gerber daisies and breakfast waiting for me when I woke up, thai pepper for dinner
thursday- mcalisters for lunch and new shoes
friday- breakfast date and farmers market
saturday- morrocon tea glasses and green tea
sunday (my actual birthday) peace o' cake cupcake, (seriously the best cupcakes in town- try them!) lunch with friends, a massage, dinner and a movie...oh yeah- and a new camera lens.

I am SURE Drew went over the budget for the birthday this year- but I can't pretend that I mind that much. He's awesome.

painful?

I love this face kead makes when chewing gum. She is trying extra hard to chew the gum without swallowing it.

0 for 3

me: Keadryn, do you want to go play in the back yard? (which these days almost always means playing in the kiddie pool/sprinklers)

kead: Yup! I need my baby-soup (i.e. bathing suit) and my man-bopper (i.e. spider-man swimming diaper...they were on sale) and my sub-cream (i.e. sun screen).

I have to really pay attention these days to catch what she's saying.

lollipop, lollipop

oh lolly lolly lolly- lollipop, lollipop oh, lolly lolly lolly

lollipop, lollipop oh, lolly lolly lolly



lollipop *pop* ba- dum dum dum.

lately

Here some of my favorites from the last couple weeks...

calling all muggles

if that title doesn't make sense, this post isn't for you, but if you have ever:

• craved butterbeer
• said "That store looks like it belongs on Diagon Alley."
• Wished you could ride the Hogwarts Express
• Thought about going to where the visitors entrance to the Ministry of Magic would be while touring London (I'm serious- I really wanted to do this, Drew said no.)
• giggled at the relationship between Ron and Hermione.
• wished you owned a Marauders Map
• felt like you've lost a friend when you finish reading the series...for a second or third time...
  

Then, friends, you are probably as excited as I am that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie is coming out tomorrow! This is my favorite book of the seven so I can't wait to see the movie. I tried to convince Drew to go to the midnight showing with me, but again, got turned down. He doesn't share my H.P. love.


I must admit that part of my absence from the blog world has been due to the fact that I re-read the entire series over the past month. Just like last time, I am now having withdraws and Drew is ecstatic that its over.

I know this post is super nerdy...I don't care. I just love H.P.

UPDATE: I did get my way and we went to the midnight showing. It was my favorite movie yet. Go see it.

uninspired

I know, I know, it's been weeks since my last post. Not that we haven't had anything going on, I just have not been in much of a creative/inspired mood that past couple weeks. I haven't taken any pictures, I haven't made any new cards, I haven't cook anything new...and, you already know, I haven't come up with any fabulously inspired blog posts.

Things around here have been pretty boring, but it has been boring in a good way. We have all recovered from our fun, but exhausting, vacation and I have gotten over a dreadful cold AND, miraculously, didn't pass it on to anyone.

We have been enjoying the slow pace of summer. I will be back soon, but for now I am just taking a break and enjoying life without doing.

favorite so far

love this pic of trish and adam.

visiting the idaho kids

Having a great time visiting all the aunts and uncles in beautiful Coeur D'Alene. So far we have been to the lake, out on the boat, lots of parks, downtown and all sorts of spoiling by the aunts and uncles. good times.

"home" sick

When Keadryn was only 1 week old, a dear Omani friend of mine gave me this little traditional house dress as a gift. At the time is seemed like it would never fit my little 6 pound baby, but now it does! They wear them around the house all the time and they are made of really light cotton material which makes the 130+ weather more bearable.

Kead has been using it as pajamas and every time she wears it, it makes me "home" sick for Oman and my dear friends. (Kead really wanted her baby to be in the picture...)

solid food

I, like most moms, have a love/hate relationship with solid food. I love that I don't have to think in increments of 3 hours, I don't have to constantly survey every public place for a good/quiet/discreet place to nurse, and it means Drew can do some of the feeding! But that little Sayla is getting bigger and moving into the next stage is not so fun. I know its good and I know I'll love the next stage, but it seems like once solid food comes into the picture it is a rapid change from baby to toddler. Also, can I just say I LOVE the convience of nursing? 7-10 minutes, no cleanup, sweet time with my baby girl and we're done!

Well, whether I want it to happen or not, Sayla has started to wean herself. She L-O-V-E-S food. So far she has eaten everything we have given but squash is her favorite...which brings me to my next conflict with food- it is so darn messy! Look at this picture closely, someone asked me if Sayla had pink eye and I realized she had squash in her eyelashes from lunch!

...and then I won one hundred bucks

Sayla was in rare form on our trip home from Dallas the other night. Very uncharacteristically she wouldn't sleep and was not happy about being in the car seat. We kept stopping for mini feedings, and I was done with her fussing. At one of our random stops Drew, sensing my frustration, bought me a scratch off loto ticket. Since we have been married we have bought maybe three of these little guys and I have never won. But I still love them and, for whatever reason, they make me smile. Drew decided it was a good purchase to make some time pass and get my mind off Sayla, so I played the scratch off bingo game and didn't get a single bingo...bummer.

but, just when all hope was lost- I saw a little "instant bonus" scratch off and (you already know the ending) I scratched it away to find $100! whoo hoo!

I bought a new vacuum with it. That makes me really cool, I suppose.

baby announcements

I have been doing these photo birth announcements for friends (and family) lately and loving it! I just send mama the jpeg and she can get the photos printed wherever is convenient, and then order 4x6 envelopes online. so fun.

(I changed the name and stats for the example, so that little addie's full name and info weren't one here for who-ever to read...)

weekend with the remkes

We had a fun and relaxing weekend with Drew's family and got to do all sorts of celebrating and spending time with family.

celebrating addie's baptism:

little addie with mama, daddy, the priest who baptized her and her God parents, Dan and Grace.

celebrating kead turning two:

great-grandma and grandpa remke got to meet addie (and sayla) for the first time:

Other than that we generally had a great time relaxing and enjoying each others company. Good times.