Hamming it up for the camera...

She is going to have some personality... I can't wait till she can laugh real hard :D

My little Peanut...

She is starting to smile... Just little smiles here and there but it's so cute. Most of the time it's not even at anyone in particular - although she does coo and smile at each of us here and there, but mostly she's looking off into the corner of the room laughing and smiling and interacting with something... Mom says she's talking to her angels. I say she's interracting with her fairies. :D

I took a couple videos of her...

This first one is of her waking up:




This second one is of her talking to her fairies or angels (OR BOTH!)




This third one was taken today... i caught her laughing! :D

Blog Tag

I took the tag game from Leslie - mostly cuz I was interested to see what the 6th picture in my 6th folder is... SOOO Here it is:

This is a picture of Eleni, Julia and Myself in Maine. It was the year that us and Colleen had cabins on the same stretch of road right down the road from that amazing blueberry field and nature and wildlife conservatory. Eleni came to visit us for the day and when she was leaving the next day, we took this picture in Colleen's cabin before I brought her back. I love the expression on Julia's face. She is so little here. Time sure does fly!

NOW I TAG - Becca, Kate, and Laura to post the 6th picture in your 6th folder and explain it! :D

Green Crafting

Soooo I have a swap I needed to create something for.... and It's due on the 11th. I decided that I wanted to crochet something, but what?!?

WELLL In an effort to try something new as well as reuse/recycle, I am going to be making a purse made out of recycled plastic bags.

I have not started crocheting yet, HOWEVER I am in the process of making my Plarn (and yes that's the official word for plastic yarn). I am currently using walmart bags. But you can use any kind of plastic bag to make plarn including bread bags... how cool is that?

Anywho, this is the Plarn I am in the process of making:
fisrt you get the bag and then cut the bottom off and the top two handles to get the bag/empty tube below:

Afte you have the ends cut off you cut the bag into strips

Then you link the loops that makes together like you can see below

wrap it up and VOILA! The beginnings of a PLARN ball! :D

The many faces of Olivia

This is Olivia sticking her tongue out lol what a cutie I love this...
A look of wonder... more like - That Camera AGAIN MOM??? and the poor thing has baby acne. :(
Olivia in the sling that Aunt Deb P. gave us for the baby shower... this is how I got laundry done today. HOORAH something got accomplished.... next I tackle my room and the rest of the baby shower gifts lol
She looks like an angel here...
Another look I love... well sort of... The blank stare is adorable, except we all know what that blank stare means.... Time for a diaper change! :)
I love my little peanut...

More of Olivia... :D

So I left out some of my favorites...ooops!

Baby's First Road Trip

We went to my Grandma's this weekend for mom's 40th High school reunion and so the cousins and aunts and uncles and great grandparents could meet Olivia. It was a 2 1/2 hour drive and she slept the whole way there AND back. My Aunt April paid for a fantastic hotel room for mom and I to stay in with Olivia - we called them after the reservations had been made to inform them of the baby and set us up in what they called a "quiet room". Basically all that is is a room on the end of the hallway that is secluded from the rest of the rooms and not in the middle of the strip of rooms. So we were on the first floor right next to the door pretty much.


Here are some pictures of her while we were there and of Russ holding her and Great Grandpa Bear holding her.





On our way out of town, mom and I detoured to the Cider Mill and got some apples and some donuts and some Apple cider... MMMMmmmm They are all soo good, but expensive too so I guess it's a good thing that the Cider Mill is 2 1/2 hours away :)

My First Swap

I Just recently completed my very first swap. It was called the Travel Bag for Tea Swap. Basically the goal was to make something pretty for your partner to bring their tea along with them on trips as opposed to using something like a zip lock bag. So I got to sewing... I had the travel pouch sewn before I had Olivia, however I didn't have the closure sewn onto it until after we came home from the hospital. And my Travel pouch was waiting for me when I got home.

This is the Travel Pouch I made for my Swap Partner who lives in Germany. She is fond of autumn and earthy colors so I found these fabrics that I thought were perfect.




This is the Travel Bag I received from My partner. She also played off of my love of autumn and spiced tea. As you can see in the first picture of it, It was packaged so adorably that I almost didn't want to open it up, but I'm glad I did.

More Pictures of Olivia

My little peanut is 17 days old today and I can already see a difference in her face. She's gained her weight back (she weighed 7lb. 7oz. today), as she should since she has a very healthy appetite (meaning she is permanently attached to me haha).


Olivia and her boyfriend Zackery (notice the linked arms - that was Olivia's doing lol)

SHE'S HERE!!!!

Olivia Gabrielle is FINALLY here!!!

Born Monday Septemer 29th @ 7:04PM weighing 7lbs and measuring 21 1/2 inches long!

Here are some pictures of my beautiful baby girl!