Food. New Reading Material. A Great Weekend!

Do you ever have those weekends when you go to bed Thursday night and feel like you wake up on Monday morning? That was our weekend.

Lots of food was consumed in this house!

 

Rice.

We entertained a great group of friends on Friday night. We served "Blenheim Dip", pot roast (my fave), and chocolate eclaires. Have I mentioned how much I love this table?

If you are in the market for a new kitchen table, I highly recommend a lazy susan.  This particular table is passed down with lots of love from Evans's dad's mother, "Nanny."  Crowding eight good friends around this awesome table with a warm fire blazing is my idea of a perfect evening.

We topped the night off with  Rolling Stones, Jay-z (and a little Jimi Hendrix if I remember correctly...) and my favorite sorts of conversations on everything from healthcare to global warming. I am grateful to have friends with a variety of opinions, because it helps me stay open-minded. (I'll save the details for another day).

So that means lots of leftovers to snack on :)

Van experienced his 4th snow! Just a sprinkle. (He wasn't too enthused).

We picked out his baptism outfit. It is precious. (I'm adding a small LEL monogram to the center).

He likes it.

I need to do some major Van milestone updating.  He is starting to really enjoy tummy time, and can hold himself up on his arms. (Had trouble getting a good picture of that).

He loves to smile and he is a little wobbly on the sitting up by himself--but almost there!

{I said almost ... }

He spent the night (a full night!) with my parents, and YES I made the entire night without crashing my parent's house to check on him. He slept beautifully, undisturbed all night long and did just fine without his mommy and daddy!

We dogsat Raleigh and Lucy. Sophie had a great time playing with them.

 

An update for the hair growth chronicles:

Van is enjoying his exersaucer. I will try to get a funny picture of him jumping around in it. He puts weight on his feet, bounces, then smiles really big like "hey...did you just see what I did??"

Its precious.

The new reading material is my sister's (Auntie Snags) blog.  It is sure to be entertaining (did I mention she is a well-published author with an agent?) Yep...she's good!