looking back...

 my little baby will be 12 weeks old next week...

I can not believe how much he is growing and really coming into his own personality.

He is such a joy and we have more love for him than our hearts can hold.

I was gonna pick a few pictures to share, but kinda got carried away. a grandma's dream.

 

 

crescent roll palooza!

I'm not sure what possessed me to make nothing but crescent rolls for my husband for dinner, but I did, and he loved it! I found all of these ideas on pinterest. I could lie and say that we had a side of salad or some kind of vegetable... but, nope. we had carb overload.

pizza crescents: 4 slices of peperoni, half a string cheese, rolled up in half of a crescent.

meatball slider crescents: thawed frozen meatball, spoon of spaghetti sauce, and 1/4 piece of cheese, rolled up in half a crescent.

desert crescents: spoon of nutella, a few chocolate chips, and a few marshmallows, rolled up in a crescent.

it is extra sweet if you have a cute little helper.

before they are cooked...  pre-roll and post roll.

and the finished plate of delightfulness... yummy in my tummy.

This year I have two valentines...

Today is Valentines Day! My first valentines day with two sweet boys. (well, three if you count Cole-nugget... man, I am really out numbered here!) I feel so blessed. A caring, loving, supportive, hard working husband, and a healthy, snugly, delicious little baby. Our life is not perfect, but it is ours, and I would not have it any other way.

It is rare that I get overly sappy these days, unfortunately that is a negative side effect of my ppd meds. Not paralyzingly sad, but not overly joyful either.

But, not today.

because today is Valentines Day! 

what better way to celebrate tonight than with hamburgers on the grill, sweet potato fries, home made desert, and some snuggles on the couch while I force my valentines to watch two of my favorite shows, dance moms and teen mom! Does not get any better than this people!

Happy Valentines Day!

Ombre Cupcakes

This is only the 2nd time I've made cupcakes since baby d was born... although I did make LOTS of cookies around the holidays, cupcakes take a little more time because you have to frost them.

I made these last night for my girls at work (gotta sugar them up since I'm about to go back!) to enjoy for valentines day. I like the ombre look... I used 'electric purple' food coloring, and just did four bowls. 1-drop, 2-drops, 4-drops, and 6-drops. I think next time, I'll leave the first bowl white, and not do the 1-drop, that will give it more delineation at the top of the cupcake.

our weekend

with only two more weeks before I head back to work we decided to take a short weekend away. The hubs, baby durham, cole-nugget and I all headed south to stay at a lake view cabin in Indian Springs. The weather was made to order... sunny and felt like 75' most of the time. We had the entire place to ourselves on Friday, I think we only saw one other couple the whole day. We hiked (we did not go the short way, I can promise you that), went down to Daucet Trails to see the animals, walked around by the lake, grilled out, played with the baby, and snuggled by the fire roasting marshmallows.

I love catching pictures of my boys together... there is something indescribable about the man you love being sweet and loving with your baby. It never gets old. I don't think it ever will.

Traveling with a 2 month old was not as scarey as we anticipated. We DID have to bring a TON more stuff and we are always heavy packers to begin with, so I'm surprised that cole even had room to ride in the car. haha. We used the pack-n-play for the first time, and durham loved it. We brought his sound machine from home and tryed to re-create his environment and routine as best we could. Seemed to work.

I am so glad we had a chance to sneak away... it was a great weekend!!