Weekend Bliss.

This was one of those laid-back weekends that you never want to end.  le sigh.

So, what did we do?

Grocery shopping (always exciting).  Ate at Q'doba for the first time (delicious!). Dinner and a movie with friends (watch Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer for the third time).  Woke up at 7:54am on Sunday due to the damn time change, but subsequently got the entire house cleaned by 12:40pm.  Nice.  Family dinner followed by Dexter and The Walking Dead (OMG OMG anyone else watch this????  I was in near tears for the last 10 minutes!!!)

Our weekend in pictures:

Harper ate all the marshmallows. Def my kid.

Got nostalgic about my wedding dress. I could wear it everyday, seriously.

Pic is dark bc she wouldn't leave the curtains alone, but she wanted  to wear my wedding heels.  Look at the butt cheek!

ARG dark pictures.  Sleepy eyes

Just being all beautiful.  No big deal.

Firefighter with a dirty face.

Seriously terrible quality but super sweet <3 br="br">

I swear I lightened this pic.  But she has a hilar double chin, yet she looks good.  Not fair.

My Girl.

Just starting off the week sharing some adorableness.  Hope you have a great week!

She wanted a big girl cup at Starbucks.

Reading with Daddy.  Be still my heart.

Showing off Daddy's glasses.

If You Give A Two Year-Old Your Phone . . .

these are the pictures she will take:

Some Randomness.

After yesterday's serious tone, I thought today could be a calmer, happier post.  Completely random and with less words.  Enjoy your weekend.

Cuddling with Charlie the day we got her back.

Quality time with daddy.

Just too cute for words.

I love this girl

Just looking at these pictures makes me want to squeeze her!

Okay, so this was from Pinterest, too...

This was a breakfast for Harper, by Harper.  This child of mine loves cheese, eggs, butter, and chocolate milk.  So what better breakfast than one that involves most of her favorite things? (I excluded cheese from this, only because if given a choice, that would be all Harper would eat.  She loves it so!)

So I taught her how to use cookie cutters.  I gave her her own piece of bread and let her select what size cutter she wanted to use.  I let her help me scramble the eggs.  She helped to butter the bread.  

And then, of course, she helped me to gobble it all up.

Quiet Mornings

There's nothing quite like a smiling face, bed-head, and a darling (almost) two year-old on a quiet morning.

Slowly Transitioning

As I stated before, we're slowly transitioning to a more whole foods diet.  I read Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food last weekend (so much good information and a quick read = excellent book) and reevaluated what we were eating.  This lead me to purge almost all of our processed foods by giving them to people who wanted them (my brother and cousin took some, the rest I donated which I'm not exactly happy that I gave my processed food to other people, but they were content with it I guess).  I say almost all of it because Wade kept his soups, tuna fish, and some crackers that he likes and can finish up on his next work rotation.  We also kept some bread, self-rising, all-purpose, and cake flour, white and brown just because you never know.  We might really be craving something not-so healthy, but in moderation (like serious moderation) I think that's just fine.  So here are some pictures to show you what's been going on:

The food that we got rid of.  A lot of food (obviously not what we gave away) had just been sitting in our kitchen for a long time.

The food that I bought at Trader Joe's

Our pantry after shopping and cleaning it out.

Our fridge after shopping and cleaning.

Our cabinet after cleaning.  The top shelf has the non-whole foods items, the second shelf has a mixture (the mac n cheeses to the left are a bit questionable, but okay in a pinch.  The bread crumbs actually have homemade ones in it and the oatmeal can on the right has homemade granola in it.)

No knead whole wheat bread with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, and orange zest dipping sauce

After I made smoothies for breakfast one morning, I froze the left overs to make popsicles.

We are by no means perfect at this.  We are just beginning.  Each day is a new day at this and some days we struggle more than others.  But the more processed foods we cut out and the more real foods we eat is better than before!

From My Phone

Just a few pictures and a video from the past two weeks.  I've several other videos that I will be posting soon!  Enjoy...

Curling up with Daddy

Harper has a new love of coloring

Her mornings

Fall = comfy pants and boots.

Organization.  And finally finishing a project.

Colts game (and the obnoxious meatheads in front of us)

Little Silly

Warning:  If you didn't come here to marvel at a plethora of adorable 18-month old pictures look away NOW.  Otherwise, soak up this delicious cuteness.  Enjoy.

 

10 pictures and not one captured her ponytail.  (Actually I took 38 pictures and none of them had it in there either. How is that possible?)