Our Home Sweet Home

We are LOVING our new apartment! It's so much bigger than our old place, it's very quiet, we have a big yard, an actual dining area (with linoleum!) and best of all: Dainen has his own room!

No more crib in the living room! YAY!!

It's been fun decorating our new place, I've gone much more minimalistic than before. Our old place was quite small and very covered with pictures. 

Here are some pictures of our lovely abode:

Our living room is bigger than this, this is just the most interesting part. Like the ottomans I made out of jeans?

More of the living room. Dining area on the right. We have a small balcony on the left =).

Our hallway

The rest of the hall

Dainen's room. I got the wrap on Kauai.

Dainen's celing- the lanterns are from our wedding reception.

The rest of Dainen's room, it's a great size for him.

Then we have our bedroom (it pretty much looks like a bed in a room...), the kitchen (which is a pretty typical small-ish apartment kitchen) and our dining area (which looks a lot like a table on linoleum). We have a bathroom too, but I'm pretty sure everyone has seen a toilet before so I'll spare you the picture.

Belated Birthday

A couple weeks ago I turned 25...

Quarter of a century,

The big 2-5,

Halfway to 50...

Yeah, I know.

I feel old now.

I'd probably feel less old if I could sleep more, but that's a different story.

For my birthday Quinn and I had a date to Bowman's bay, it was so nice!

Then on my actual birthday Quinn made heart pancakes for breakfast, we went out to teriaki for lunch. We went to jungle playland after that and then did cake and presents with my parents. It was really nice. Had a couple of good days and felt very loved.

We had a lot of fun playing with Dainen!

That's a lot of candles...

The presents Quinn got me =).

These beautiful cupcakes were waiting on our door step when we got home, thanks Dulce! 

My parent's and Clay and Dulce got us movie tickets for the local theater =). Need a day off so we can have a few dates!

They never tell you...

When I had my son I was told lots of things: "Motherhood is wonderful", "Newborns don't sleep through the night", "Being a parent is hard but worth it", "The first 6 weeks are the hardest" etc, etc, etc.


All true.


What they failed to mention is this: You will never accomplish any one thing without interuption.... ever again....


Case in point: I sat down to do a sewing project. I haven't even gotten the sewing machine out and the following has happened:

I changed a particularly rancid poopy diaper.

I got Dainen a snack.

I read him 2 books 4 times each (he brought them to me).

I pulled standing Dainen off of 2 different chairs at least 5 times each.

I had to stop Dainen from pulling my project off the table too many times to count (he's tall).


By this time it's lunch time. So I push my project to the side and get lunch ready.

I get to eat most of my lunch, but then Dainen wants more lunch and then decides that my yogurt looks tasty so he eats the rest of it. sigh.

Looking around I see dishes that are 90% washed, clean clothes that are half put away and a floor that was tidied but then Dainen got to it... 

I'm about to attempt the project again...  wish me luck!!!