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our weekend

living right next door to an elementary school sure has it's perks!

finley chose to make cupcakes to celebrate her potty training success! we're so proud of her!!

my mom taught me how to sew a basic skirt. i'm not sure whether i should be happy that i now know how to make something so fun and easy or whether to be mad at her that she didn't teach me this a long time ago!

And hopefully I can post a picture soon to show what Brian and our friend Corey worked on this weekend. It involved moving an insane amount of junk out of our slop room and laying a slate tile floor. I almost peed my pants in excitement when i saw it, because it looks so good, and also because I could hardly believe how stinking huge the room was once you got rid of all our junk.

thanks to all the random craigslisters who saved us a trip to the dump!

pictures

This last picture isn't anything special, but i thought the story behind it was quite funny. Last week I laid down to snuggle with finley for a few minutes, and because i'm pregnant and can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, i fell asleep. i woke up to the click of the camera and looked up and saw....

brian standing on her bed. with the ginormous tripod set up. who does that?! isn't he hilarious?

park

We took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent the morning at our favorite park. It gave me a chance to try out my new camera, and while i know how to use approximately 3 buttons, i'm really enjoying it.

a bird? a snail?

I think, well i know, that i desperately want to start preparing for our baby girl. but, the major remodel that's taking place in 75% of our house is sort of keeping me from doing what i would normally want to be doing...you know, decorating the nursery, washing and putting away precious baby clothes, etc. Basically, since I can't be doing that I think I'm going a little crazy and finding other ways to use that part of my brain. case in point, i decided that this weekend i needed to learn how to applique. Is that even the correct way to use the word? Shows how much i know about it. Anyway, i made finley a shirt, and i was pretty proud of how it turned out.

Until...

I showed the shirt to my dear husband. This is pretty much how it went:

me: look at what i made!
brian: chuckles
me: doesn't it look like it could be store bought!
brian: what is it?
me: blank stare. what do you mean?
brian: is it a bird?
me: looking at the shirt trying to see how he could possibly see a bird. Ummmm, no!
brian: oh, is it snail?

*for the record, it is neither. I mean come on, even my 2 year old knew it was a flower.

**don't feel bad if you thought it was a bird, snail, or something else altogether. next time i'll stick with something less abstract.