Music of the Night

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying nice weather like we are in Seattle. Summer has decided to make a come back and all week it has been in the 70's. Way nice. Unfortunately  Brock is now on the one nap a day schedule, so he sleeps all afternoon anyway! I still enjoy the sunshine! 

Tim and I had the opportunity to go to Phantom of the Opera the other night! It was so much fun to get all dressed up and go out like fancy people (no vomit on me here!) and enjoy a night out. The Paramount Theater was beautiful inside and the play was amazing.  The tickets were a little pricey, but we figured it would be a long time until we would be able to do this again. I am so glad we splurged! I have been a fan since Jr high. I alway sympathize with the Phantom though. Just give the guy a little love?!!

Brock also started swimming lessons today! All we learned today was how to kick our legs. Brock did not like being on his stomach to kick. He would wrap his arms around my neck and hold on for dear life.  He didn't mind kicking on his back so much as long as he could rest his head on my chest. I think Brock had a lot of fun. The pool was a little cold however, and by the end of the lesson his lips were deeply colored blue! Poor kid. I'm going to have to bring my camera next time so I can show you all. It was funny.

AND LASTLY

A new Page!!!

My older brother in Pocatello sent me some pictures earlier this week and one of Dani is my desktop background. Sorry Brock for now you've got the boot! Anyway, this picture has been staring me in the face for days and I just had to scrap it. She is so cute and Tim and I are always talking about her, so now all our friends can see who we are talking about. I remember the day she was born, we went to visit her in the hospital and as I held her I looked at Tim with puppy dog eyes and said "Please?". He firmly refused. But low and behold after being Danika's favorite secondary care givers, Brock was born 2 years later. So this is a thank you to Dani for being so dang cute! 

Credits:

irenealexeeva.blogspot.com for the kit called Caberet Punch

Lets Get Digital, Digital

(to the song Let's Get Physical... Anyway,)

Due to my recent acquisition of Adobe Photoshop Element 6, I have been obsessively scrapbooking on my computer. It is a lot of fun, much faster and absolutely NO clean up! I still love my paper crafts, don't get me wrong. I can't completely  abandon them yet, mainly because I have a TON of supplies, but for now, Digital is where it's at. At least Brock can't ruin my page before I get it safely into it's plastic protective sleeve. I thought I'd share some of my creations with you because they are so fun! I bought a book all about Photoshop, and hopefully I can start creating my own "kits". I've been looking into it, and it looks like a lot of fun! I am definitely interested! Well, let me know what you think!

WWAMI-ly Love

Labor day weekend we had a fun camping trip to Snoqualmie, just outside of Seattle. We were right by Summit. Tim found a huge cabin that 13 adults and 6 kids fit pretty comfortably in. It was so much fun to hang with the WWAMI-ly (WWAMI family, I wasn't clever enough to coin the term, but I'm going to steal it!). We played lots of games, rockband, darts and went on a few hikes. There was two sets or stairs so I didn't even hardly see Brock as he spent the majority of his time honing his mad skills on the stairs!  Tim played a lot of foose (spelling?) ball and playing horse with the little basketball set. 

Here We are, wives rocking the rockband! I'm partial to the drums myself. Singing is fun too, especially because I have no reserve and like to get into it!
Due to the look of intensity on my face I'm going to say I was playing on expert...
Brock had his first taste of Red Vines this weekend. Yum. Here he is in the basketball thing.
Yes stairs!!!
We had just gotten out of a waterfall that we hiked to. Notice how I look like a wet dog and Jo manages to still look pretty. No fair!
Most of the WWAMI-ly at a waterfall. Poor Brock got soaked. It was pretty cool though!

Good Bye Cabin Sweet Cabin!
Tim Sean and Lane playing ball. 
We had so much fun, and just a quick thanks to Mandi for taking such great pictures and then posting them so I could steal them, because the dork that I am forgot my camera! 

NEVER AGAIN!!!

So last night after bath, Tim talked me into giving Brock's hair a trim. I agreed as long I did the cutting. So behold below how cute Brock looks when mom cuts his hair. Nice and handsome right?

Well, Tim decided that his hair was indeed not even, and look what he did to my little boy!

Tim will never come anywhere near my child with scissors again! Brock I'm sorry that you have to look like the dude from Dumb and Dummber for the next few weeks.

I love my little Man!!!

I thought I would just do a quick little post about how much I love my little Brockster. He has been so stinkin' cute lately that I feel like I am constantly scooping him up in my arms to kiss his chubby cheeks (much to his dismay!). Now that he is walking he gets into all sorts of things that often leave Tim and I smiling or laughing. He has taken a liking to this picture of my grandma that I keep on the nightstand. When ever he goes in our room he grabs it and carries it around everywhere. Why? Don't know. He just likes Grandma Beth I guess! He has also started using a plethora of words. The more decipherable include lots of Mama, baba, Bye, ball, this, and (my personal favorite) yum yum yum. He says that when he is hungry or wants a bite of whatever were eating. I don't know where he picked it up, but I think it's funny. He also "gobbles". We haven't figured out what this means yet. 

This is how huge his hair is when he wakes up. I know it needs a trim, but I can't bring myself to do it!
We have to keep our bathroom door shut at all times because Brock loves TP. He will unravel a whole roll in no time. As seen above, he had trailed it all through our apartment before Tim or I realized what he had gotten into.
A new favorite, PB and J! Easy meal, lots of clean up. But, he sure enjoys making the mess, eating the mess, licking the mess off the high chair tray...

AMAZING!!!

Hello everybody! In my newfound quest to be frugal (City living will do that to poor kids like me ;) I have been constantly searching blogs and coupon sites for the best deals. Some of these ladies buy a weeks worth of groceries for $.40!! That is CENTS not dollars I don't know how they do it, but I am trying to learn because that's freakin' amazing!!! Anyway, while I was browsing my google readers recommendations (thanks to Mandi for the introduction to the wonderfulness that is google reader)  I stumbled upon a blog offering a coupon for mini delights. If you are a woman or just plain NORMAL, sometimes you crave a little chocolate or cake, but don't want to make a whole pan (lest you cave and eat the whole thing; guilty, Guilty, GUILTY!) So Warm Delights seems like the perfect solution, except who wants to pay like $2 for a small snack. Well, I discovered that you can recreate a mini-cake easily with the cake mix I'm sure you all have in your cupboards. According to the post, all you have to do is put 3 Tbs cake mix and 1 Tbs + 1 tsp water in a small bowl (I used a small sized tupperware thing) mix and microwave for 30 seconds. I did not believe this would work.... But it does! And the cake tasted perfectly yummy, especially when smothered in chocolate frosting. Do you have any idea how many mini cakes you can make from a whole cake mix? I'm sure I'll be the first to find out since my mouth is full of sweet-toothes! Anyway, I just thought I would pass this on because one box of cake mix is about the same price, if not cheaper than the minis. Cool huh? I can't wait until Brock takes lunches to school and I can "bake" him cake every morning!

ET the Couch Potato

So lately Brock has been waking up grouchy in the morning. The only thing he likes is to be wrapped up tight in his "lovey" (he seriously is attached to this thing) and sat on the couch until he can properly wake up. I added these photos because Tim made the comment that he looked like ET. I have to agree. Poor kid. What do you guys think?

Seattle has some amazing wading pools. I didn't even know that public wading parks existed. Dang It little Burley! Anyway, we have been going a few times a week to take advantage of sunlight, and tire Brock out for afternoon nap. Brock loves these parks. He is not afraid to walk out in the middle of a group of "big kids" and monopolize the water. Funny now, potentially problematic later. 
This particular spout was supposed to be a sunken ship. 
Brock loves the slide. He wanted to go down over and over agin. He got pretty sad when it was time to go. That is the downside of hard play. Tired and crankiness until he falls asleep.


Brock was using this frog as a drinking fountain. I trust that the city of Seattle uses clean water...
Brock with his multi-cultural friends- an Asian girl, Hispanic girl, Indian girl and the white boy riding the frog.