Anna is so close to being potty trained...it's coming along quite nicely! I can't throw away the pull up's just yet, but hopefully by her 7th birthday in July we'll be diaper free! Potty training a 6 year-old with autism takes patience but I am so proud that she is getting it. whew.
May 2012
inspire me
creative inspiration
fabric inspiration
May 31, 2012
May 01, 2012
georgetown cupcake
Have you seen DC Cupcakes on TLC? I hadn't actually seen the show, but I had heard about it and being that I love cupcakes (who doesn't?) I wanted to check it out. After we toured Georgetown Univeristy John drove us over to Georgetown Cupcake on 33rd. Not only did I love their cupcakes I just love their storefront, the marketing, the pink boxes, how simple it all is. I like that they ONLY do cupcakes and they do it really well. I really admire people that start a small business just to follow a dream and who are successful at it. We bought four cupcakes; Vanilla Birthday Cake, Cherry Blossom, Chocolate and Red Velvet. All four were delicious.
April 30, 2012
orchid exhibit
The US Botanic Garden was having an orchid exhibit while we were in town so I took a moment to practice some of my mad photography skills. The Botanic Gardens had to be one of my highlights of our trip. It was so amazingly calm and tranquil inside (also warm which was a perk because it was a cold and overcast day!). I could have easily spent all day there. As we were leaving I made friends with a capitol police officer who loved that we were from Wisconsin. He told us about how he wanted to buy stock in the Packers and how he keeps cheese curds and summer sausage in his fridge. He made me a junior Capitol Police Officer!
April 29, 2012
April 07, 2012
spring
Taking a little break from cleaning the window sills (I know, sounds fun right?) to share a little update. I have been a bad blogger lately...it's kind-of a reflection of life around here. Life is packed full and when I'm not in motion I completely shut down and retreat to watching Mad Men (have you seen the new episodes? I'm so addicted).
So what's going on...
-April is evaluation month at work which means I have 50 evaluations to write in addition to helping out with the Emergency Department in absence of a manager so it's busy and stressful...and we are having more and more babies each month but it is still an amazing place to work with an amazing physician team. I love it.
-We took a 8 day road trip to Denver - us and all 4 kids. I was really nervous at first but the kids were very well behaved and my iPad with movies (My Week with Marilyn and Like Crazy) got me through Nebraska. I offered to drive like 20 times and John would never let me....I think because then he would have been really bored.
-Trying to decide the future of our home...do we want to Love It or List It? It's small but man so full of that 1930's character and like new - new windows, new bathrooms, new interior doors, new kitchen...we went and looked at a 6 bedroom, 3 bathroom listing the other day - built in the 1880's!! It was BIG but man, still full of projects and no garage, unfinished basement...just wasn't right for us. So, we are going to keep working on projects around here that will make us love THIS house more - new deck, remodel front porch and front yard, landscaping...LOTs to do.
-I had my first photography lesson the first week of March and I am really noticing a difference in my photos, so I am continuing to practice. I uploading prints to Walgreens the other day and there was a note on my package that said, "professional?" - if the prints were professional then they are not supposed to print them...so that was a compliment!!
-We are working on potty training Anna - for a six year old with Autism, this is complicated! She wears an alarm that sounds anytime she is wet and then we run to the bathroom and sit on the toilet. Most of the time she just completely goes in her diaper but she seems to be doing a little better each day. I will be so happy when I don't have to change diapers anymore, it's been 9 years!!!
This is a photo I took on our trip, everything is starting to turn green which makes me so insanely happy! Happy Spring!
January 22, 2012
little organization project
I have a new blog crush Mini Manor. LOVE this girl and her home. It's simple, it's fresh and it's ORGANIZED!!! Take a look. People like this are just born with decorating talent and I am equally jealous of her photography. I actually found this blog through a pinterest post about a jewlery organizer that she crafted...
See the entire blog post here.
So, I decided I really wanted to try this because all of my costume jelwery (and I have a TON of it) was hanging on little nails that I pounded into the walls in my closet when I first moved into the house. It was getting out of control! So I followed her blog tutorial and modified things a bit but came up with this-
The utensil trays I found at Walmart were slightly smaller than the trays she used, and I also decided to hand paint my trays with the same color paint that we used for the trim color in the bedroom (she had hers spray painted white). I bought 4 trays (each $9.99) because I had so much jelwery to organize and then the cup hooks were about $0.99 for 6 and I bought about 6 packs of those.
I really like to hooks at the bottom which allow me to hang long necklaces without them getting all tangled together. I actually had to go through all of my jelwery and let go of the necklaces I hardly wear because even with all these hooks I had too much. But I'm ok with that. My rule is now if I bring something into the house I need to take something out (my biggest fear in life is hoarding).
I am happy to say that I have actually DONE something with all those hours I spent on Pinterest!!
January 17, 2012
welcome little henry
Am I not the cutest little puppy that you ever did see??
January 12, 2012
a pretty wonder full birthday
I felt, sigh, just really lucky this year on my birthday. It wasn't a super amazing day or anything but I was surprised by some of the goodness....like my staff rapping a birthday song for me, buying me lunch (and a red velvet cake) and making me walk around the hospital all day with a balloon tied to my office keys and a big pin that said, "it's my birthday, I'm 32."
Then, of course, there were the gifts from John...who always gets me something unexpected and special. You would think it would be difficult to top years past but he did. This year I received a really, really light box and inside were 3 photography lessons from our super talented wedding photographers Adam and Miranda from Reminisce Photography. Not only are they amazing wedding photographers ranked within the top 5% in the country with a photo that was featured in Time Square by Kodak - they are super cool people to hang out with. So, I get to spend three hours with them and my camera trying to absorb as many photography hints as my little brain can handle.
Then I also received this...
Completely unexpected but so amazing!! John actually got the idea in a Men's Life magazine (an article on how to give a great gift to the wife/girlfriend that will really impress them) - but it was bought from Etsy at the jennyleefowler shop. John had to send her a photo of us and then she created the silhouette - again another great photo from Reminisce.
January 06, 2012
January 04, 2012
please vote for us and have a nice day
so, if you aren't on facebook and haven't seen my plea for votes for the best photo of 2011 you can vote for us by going to this link-
I'm not in alot of contests, so I am taking this VERY seriously. I mean it. We are #22. Here's what we'd win...
The client with the first place image (the most amount of votes) will receive their choice of a Metal Mosaic or Gallery Wrapped Canvas with an image of their choice. The second place winner will receive a Print Wrap with an image of their choice! Third place will receive a $75 print credit with us.
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