Winter Weekend!

Man o man did it snow this weekend. I'm not complaining. The snow covered up all the leaves on our lawn. Amelie and Tyler played outside in the sled while I clocked in some sleep on Saturday morning. How crazy is it that it can go from being almost 70 degrees to a blizzard in less than a week. I love MN.

I'm (un)patiently awaiting the birth of what I think will be my niece. My very pregnant sis is due any day now. I think Monday is the day. Not sure why, I just have a feeling. I'm so very excited.

Tonight I made White Bean and Kale Soup and it is delicious. I bopped over to Target at 5pm to pick up the ingredients and I will never go to Target on a Saturday again. People are crazy competitive, cruising through the store at top speed cutting people off. Also, don't stop in the middle of an aisle and have a conversation with your friend. You're in my way, and his way, and her way...move please.

We went over to play with Grandma, Abby and Tracy on Friday. Look how cute they are...


Amelie is nuts about her bed still. She has gone to bed like a champ every single night. I still can't believe it. When she wakes up in the morning, she sits in bed and waits for one of us to go get her. She's so cool. Check our her and Evi "sleeping" in the bed.


My really manly husband was hunting last weekend. He murdered, err...shot 2 deer. Although, it's really a shame that I hate venison. I do love my manly husband though. Speaking of manly, he sure did a lot of man things this weekend. He drank some beer, played video games, put away all of our yard toys and furniture, spent some QT with Ami, shoveled, built some things upstairs, took out the garbage and recycling, AND took me out to dinner (actually, I paid). What a man.

Happy Birthday Krista!

Today my BFF Krista turns 30. Happy Birthday Quizzie15!

We haven't gotten much further on the upstairs remodel, but we laid it out like a gigantic blueprint so we could see how it would be. That reminds me of an old episode of friends where the gang is in London for Ross's wedding to Emily, and the only way Joey can figure out which way to go, is to set the map on the ground...and "get into the map." That's what I'm like with maps. Photos follow:




I can't wait till it's finished.

Amelie has been waking up at either 3:30am or 4:45am every day for the last week and a half. It's forced us to start going to bed early. The other night we were both so beat, we went to bed at 8:30. Shhhh, don't tell anyone. I hate to admit it, but I feel so great when I wake up with 8 hours of sleep. So what's better...getting a couple hours of alone time after she goes to sleep at night, or feeling well rested in the morning? The old lady in me says it's getting the sleep. Since I have always been a night owl, this should take some getting used to.

I snuck in after her morning nap and snapped a photo 2 days in a row. She's so cute sleeping.




Then she woke up and did this


Which forced me to turn her crib into this

which I had not mentally prepared myself for. It only took 2 hours. You'd think all you would have to do to convert her crib into the bed, would be to replace the tall rail with the shorter one. No, I had to take the whole crib apart, then put it back togther with the toddler rail on it. Meanwhile, Ami was jumping on the mattress on the floor and the bed platform as well as shaking the rails as I was trying to screw them together. When I finally finished, I felt like I just did a triathalon.

I knew she was going to love her new bed, but I had no idea how easy it would be to get her to sleep in it. (At least the first night) We did her normal routine and she came over to me and said, "night night," which is her telling me she wants to go to bed. She ran in, let me tuck her in, and fell asleep for the rest of the night. She woke up at 6am calling for me and when I went in she was laying in her toddler bed snuggling with her dolly. This dolly, the same one she strips down and throws on the floor when she gets mad.


We'll see how tonight goes. She's supposed to be napping now but I can hear her in there beating on a tambourine...

Auntie Tova came home for a busy wedding filled weekend, we got to spend some time with her at my mom's house. She pulled out the mini 4 wheeler and Ami loved it.


We took her trick-or-treating on Halloween with some of the neighbors. She picked it up pretty quickly. We only went down one side of the block, but she was running up to doors holding her bag open. I ate all her candy.