wordless wednesday...kind of...

first boat ride for Bubbles...

smallest life vest they had...

new vacation...

soo we were supposed to go to ocean city, md this week but with Irene we were scared to wait and not be able to go. so we cancelled that vacation on friday afternoon and reserved a house in deep creek, md

bubbles slept the whole ride....and was ready to get out after the 2 hour drive...

it's WAY different than ocean city but there is soo much to do here.

today they had an apple butter festival...which consisted of 2 craft stands, a taxidermy stand, and a food stand...so that didnt last long but there was a trail through the woods that led to 3 waterfalls....

we made it to one waterfall but it scared me to go any further with the baby so we might go back later in the week without him...

but the waterfall was so pretty! first one i've ever seen

later we went to the deep creek state park...the only 'beach' here but it was still pretty! water was freezing though!

and of course he slept through it all...he loves our new sling! falls asleep almost immediately after i put him in it!

we have soo much more to do this week....kayaking, tubes on the lake, amusement park, putt-putt, and tons more....

have a great week!

~christina~

our 101 in 1001!

so I keep reading about so many people doing the Day Zero Project and it sounds soo fun!  an excuse to try lots of new things.  so i talked the husband into making a list with me and trying our best to complete it!

some things are individual but most things will be done together!

here's the list...

me:

1.       Get a new job

2.       Take a photography class

3.       Learn to golf

4.       Make scrapbook of 365 Days of Cole

5.       Floss every day for a month (and hopefully continue!)

6.  Learn to locate all 50 states on the map!....yes for real! I'm terrible at it!

7.       Successfully make gingerbread man cookies!!

8.       Try 5 new foods! Eek!!

9.       Get & learn how to use Photoshop!

10.   Restore an antique piece of furniture

11.   Watch 3 of rich’s favorite movies that he quotes ALL the time

12.   Sell at 10 craft shows

13.   Sew a quilt

14.   Finish wedding scrapbook

15.   Make honeymoon scrapbook

16.   Find a Mommy group I can actually go to

17.   Take real estate class

18.   Learn to be a good ‘couponer’

19.   Get realtor license

rich:

20.   Get a tattoo

21.   Invest in penny stocks

22.   Tweet

23.   Golf at Oakmont

24.   Run a 5k

25.   Go skinny dipping

26.   Go jet skiing

27.   Take multivitamin

28.   PGA tour event

29.   Learn how to change the oil

30.   Hang smoke detectors!

31.   Have a poker night

32.   Run on the beach

33.   Learn how to drive a stick

together:

34.   Visit 5 new cities

35.   Go to 3 museums in Pittsburgh

36.   Try 10 new restaurants

37.   Go to the Cleveland zoo

38.   Go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC

39.   Potty train Cole

40.   Have baby #2

41.   Read 10 books…each

42.   Pay off credit cards

43.   Buy a bigger house

44.   Take a cooking class TOGETHER

45.   Go golfing together!

46.   Complete 365 days of Cole

47.   Go to a national park

48.   Go on a Just Ducky Tour in PGH

49.   Complete 100 push up challenge

50.   Complete 100 sit up challenge

51.   Write a will

52.   Sell all of our ‘junk’

53.   10 random good deeds

54.   Stay in the house for one entire weekend

55.   Go one month without buying anything but necessities

56.   Put $25 a month in Cole’s savings account

57.   No eating out for a month

58.   Organize all storage spaces in the house

59.   Get a new camera

60.   Vacation with friends

61.   Wine tasting

62.   Niagara Falls in the summer

63.   Go to Vegas

64.   Go hiking

65.   Bike the riverfront trail

66.   New GPS

67.   New TV

68.   Paint basement

69.   Paint kitchen

70.   Paint Living Room

71.   Rustoleum-ize the cabinets

72.   Go fishing

73.   Shooting range

74.   Nascar Race

75.   Hockey game at Consol

76.   Teach Cole the alphabet

77.   Go to Disneyworld

78.   Volunteer at a soup kitchen

79.   Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity

80.   Horseback riding

81.   Make 5 new recipes

82.   Go on a picnic

83.   Watch a movie in the park

84.   Watch 10 movies neither of us has seen

85.   10 DIY projects

86.   Spend a Saturday morning at the Strip

87.   Go to Falling Water

88.   Stain console table

89.   Put up drywall in the basement

90.   Sell the water softener

91.   Watch a sunrise

92.   Watch a sunset

93.   Take a couples massage class

94.   Give a loan via Kiva

95.   Give a well deserving server a 50% tip

96.   5 new putt putt courses

97.   Get rings engraved

98.   Go rollerskating

99.   Glass blowing class

100.  Clay café

101. Go ice skating

we're at the lake this week so there are a few we might get done while we're here!


have any of you successfully completed one of these lists?

wordless wednesday

not a lot of time today - getting ready to leave for vacation on Saturday so I'll do my first wordless Wednesday....

putting himself to sleep...

cuddling with daddy...

have a great day! :)

~Christina~

3 Months Old!

I can't believe Bubbles is 3 months old already!!

It doesn't seem like that long at all!

here's his three month picture with his tie sticker

sitting up like a big boy!

he's still pretty tiny...around 10.5 oz.  the dr had me increase the bottles he gets while I'm at work to 5 oz and now he's starting to spit out which he never did!

we were at the grocery store tonight and some woman was like....aww look how tiny - you must have just come right from the hospital...really!?!? he's clearly not a newborn!

we took him to JCPenney yesterday for pictures and it took us 45 minutes to get 5 decent picture...we couldn't get him to give us his big grin at all! he slept all morning and had just eaten but he was not having it....until we got home...

the smile we tried so hard for!

we've been busy trying to get everything done before vacation! cleaning, packing, shopping, and finishing up my Etsy orders.

I talked hubby into doing one of those 101 in 1001 lists with me. it's really hard to come with that many things - even between the two of us!

we're stuck on 74...any ideas!?!?

have a great day!

~Christina~



weekend and my first award!

it's been a busy couple of days!  Bubbles isn't gaining weight as quickly as the doctors would like (his dad was 92 pounds in 9th grade- I think he's just going to be tiny!) but they have me taking fenugreek and pumping an hour after he eats - so it's been crazy working the schedule around all the feedings/pumps!

but hubbie's boss gave us tickets to his private suite at the Steeler's preseason game on Thursday night! it was my first game so i was excited! and we won!!

here's our view from the box! my favorite part...our own bathroom! there were 10 of us total so it was MUCH cleaner than the normal bathrooms!

my little cookie monster!

this was our latest dinner out...he looked so cute i had to take a picture in the middle of the restaurant!

soo I was given my first blog award last week! i was so excited and shocked since I only started blogging a week ago....so here it is...

I'd like to thank Vicky at Mess for Less for awarding me with the Versatile Blogger Award!  I am so excited that you like my blog!

The rules after accepting the Versatile Blogger Award are:

1. Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

So here are 7 things about me:

1- I'm a new mom.

2- I adore my baby boy! I could watch him make faces for hours!

3- I married my best friend/high school sweetheart a year ago!

4- I love to try making anything to save money.   

5- I would love to be a realtor or party planner but I'm too scared to do either one.

6- I like cleaning-mostly because i hate a mess! especially in small spaces!

7- I have VERY weird eating habits...like i still dont eat the crust of bread or the crunchy ends of french fries!

So now I have to pass this award along to 15 other blogs that I recently discovered and like! I'm still new to the blogging world and working on finding tons of awesome blogs so here's what I have so far.

Please check out all of these awesome blogs!

1. Gumdrop Pass 
2. Happy Hour Projects

3. House on Ashwell lane

4. the mommyhood chronicles

5. Pams Party and Practical Tips

6. The Adventures of Team Pancakes

7. My Happily Ever After

so that was my last few days!

7 days until vacation....

enjoy the rest of your weekend!

~Christina~

halfway through the week...

10 days until vacation! we're going to ocean city, md and I can't wait!

our little guy is on the tiny side apparently.  he's 12.5 weeks and only up 3 lbs 4 oz from birth weight.  he seems content though.  but they're making me take fenugreek and it's...AWFUL...i really hope it works!  i keep tasting pancakes! anyone else have to take that?

on a brighter note...he's getting close to sitting up! he has way more control over his neck now.

he was watching the Pirate game with his Daddy....just needed some support on his back but his head was pretty steady!

his new best friend...

i loved this position...

I also added some new cupcake sets to my shop today:

I received the versatile blogger award today! was really surprised since I've only been up for a week but I'll work on that post tomorrow!

Have a great Thursday!

~Christina~

fun & busy weekend!

we had a very busy but productive weekend!

lots of family fun time and lots of crafting and cleaning!

Batman is filming here in Pittsburgh, so we went down and watched a little bit of that. no pictures allowed though! it was weird to see "snow" on the streets in August!

back in April a friend from high school emailed me to see if I would make her an aisle runner like the one from our wedding.  I was 8 months pregnant at the time so I waited awhile to do it and finally got around to it this weekend!

she hasn't seen it yet but here it is:

i'm a perfectionist so I can see all the little mistakes but hubbie says it looks awesome!

then I caught up on orders and made some new things for my Etsy shop - Halloween and Back to School sets!

we also got some down time so spend with Bubbles! he;s getting a lot more playful now! smiling a ton! even making a little giggle sound!!

laying on the couch with Daddy while Mommy worked...

play time!  love that smile!

half smile with his monkey security blanket! he's starting to hold on to things more and more!

That was our fun/relaxing weekend! How was your weekend?

Have a great week!

~Christina~

Cole's Baptism

We had Cole baptized at our church on July 24!

He looked so handsome! And he didn't cry at all! We were so relieved!

I really wish we had a better picture of Father holding him up here....he spit out his binky and smiled for us! It was so cute!

with his Daddy....he looks just like him already!

His wonderful Godparents.  My sister...Aunt Bri.  and our friend is the Godfather...Uncle Tim!  He lives in NYC though...too far away!  We had an awesome, but crazy busy, weekend with him and his wife, Sarah.  They came in early Saturday and helped us so much with party prep!  We even had time to squeeze in a baseball game and fireworks!  Daddy caught a ball for Cole!

parents and Godparents...I'm really looking forward to our beach trip to get some color on me!!

my parents....his Nana and Pap!

we didn't get any pictures of him at the party, it got a little hectic at the house! but here are some pictures of the party before 35 people came over....

i made the cupcakes and cookies....but not the cake....we ordered that! and it was delicious!

banner, favor tags, and cupcake wrappers are all available in my Etsy shop!

~Christina~



welcome!

hi everyone!

I just decided that as much as I want to have a full record of everything Cole does as he grows up, I just don't have time to make a scrap book right now.  Between working full time, my Etsy shop, and spending every other possible minute with him and my wonderful husband.  So I'll record everything here for now and hopefully, eventually, put it all into a book for him to have!

I also wanted somewhere to share experiences with fellow new moms!  There's so much going on that we can learn about together!  Like I just learned today that at just 11 weeks - he's teething already! I never knew it could start so early!  The breast-feeding side of me is getting scared!  So lets share all the new, fun, and scary things our babies do!

And finally, I wanted somewhere to be able to do giveaways.  With all the new FB rules - I'm afraid to do it on my FB page.  So once I get enough followers, I'll start taking sponsors and doing giveaways here!  I also like to run free shipping specials for my fans...so be sure to follow me on twitter and facebook!