Babies

on babies.....oh babies. Thinkinng about babies pulls me in many different directions. On one hand I think about my future children, what will they look like, what kind of personalities they will have, what kind of mother I will be - and I feel like I'm ready, I want one. Then I think about the realities of motherhood, your life is never really yours again - and that's a good thing, a new chapter in life, but am I ready for that? Probably not. But to be fair, I don't think anyone is ready until it is thrust upon them, because you can't ever be ready for something which you know nothing about. And, though I don't know much about parenting, I do believe I know that you have no idea what it is like until you experience it. I don't know what has prompted this post. I guess it is just that so many people I know are having babies, and I think about it. Okay, back to reality. We are not having babies until we are done with school, have jobs, and hopefully have a house. That is final. I know, how boring. But I really do think about it, I have names picked out, I have even mapped out the preferred months to give birth, and consequently the months in which to try and get pregnant. I know, I'm crazy (and it probably won't work out exactly as planned), but I feel it is a gift I will give to my future children to give them a birthday not overlapping the holidays, etc. For now I guess I will just dream about babies and wait my turn.

Oakley Loves the Holdiays too!

I just love the holidays, it makes me so sad that they are just about over. I always think taking down the Christmas tree is the saddest day of the year. But it was a good Christmas, Oakley thought so too! Here he is showing off his present, he looooves it.

Oakley also loves the snow! Mostly rolling around in it and eating it, but he is just so cute, I don't even care how silly he is.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Belated Halloween Treats!

I know I know, I haven't posted in FOREVER!!! I have been extremely busy with schoolwork (yay for my last year of graduate school!) and have therefore been spending all of my free time being extremely lazy/baking/reading. Well deserved. Anyway, I have been feeling awful all day (I would get sick right before the two busiest weeks of the semester *angry face*) so needless to say I do not feel like doing homework. I figured that if I wasn't doing homework I should still do something to feel productive, so I am posting to my greatly deglected blog. Don't get too excited.

I'm way late, but here is a fun treat I made for Halloween. They were a great hit!

Pure Joy

I am just giddy over what I got today....

A Library Card!!!! I got this one with a cute little fish on it, along with a book I am about to settle in with for the night. Just the thought of this has brought me happiness all day. Goodnight.

AAAHHHHH!

I'm tired. Why? Because I just ran two miles. Yep. I don't care that in the grand scheme of things that isn't really a long distance, it is a big deal to me. Two miles, straight, without stopping, even though I really, really wanted to. It's the longest I've ever run before in my entire life. I pretty much hated every minute of it, but I am nonetheless very proud of myself now (hence the post) and I will definitely be doing it again.

On other news, Chris left last Wednesday for wildland firefighting duty and he was called out to a fire Thursday and Friday so I didn't get to talk to him on our anniversary. He came home last night and I've got to say, the absence thing so far is a good thing. He has been so crazy lovey since he got back. We celebrated our anniversary tonight with a date and saw Inception (good, but confounding). Tomorrow we are planning a hike and then have a birthday party in the evening, then he leaves again on Wednesday :( Missing a picture? Oh ok. Here are a couple pics of the babes doing what they do.

on my husband

Well, today is the anniversary of our first year of marriage, and what am I doing? I'm sitting here at home just relaxing with a sleeping puppy. Chris is out of town on fire duty and I'm expecting to be alone for the next several days. I am sad we won't be spending the day together, but I am looking forward to some down time to read a book and work on some paintings I'm doing. Absence is good, you know what they say about fondess and such.

Anyway, I just wanted to reflect on some of the things I love about him:

1. the way he takes care of me when I'm sick

2. how much he loves our furry babies

3. that he is really good at cleaning

4. I never have to fight him over chocolate

5. he says he not a snuggler, be he totally is

I'll leave it at that.

Happy Anniversary Baby!

the table is done!

As you might know, I hate my kitchen table. It has been hand-me-downed for several years, and no offense to any of the previous owners, but I really loathe it. I am very into interior design, and let's just say, it is not my style. It has killed me that through all of my efforts to make our little apartment lovely, I still have to deal with this knotty pine, country table. I told Chris I would be requiring a new table by the time we buy a house. Chris, ever resourceful and having extra time on his hands, offered to refinish the table in order to squeeze a few more years of use out of it. Well, it took a while and it was a lot of work, but it is finally done!!!

here is the before...not working

in progress

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need to see it again?
before

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Special thanks to my wonderful husband for working so hard on it for me, it is definitely invited to stay with us a bit longer...