For My Long Lost NC Friends

Here is a little update on our lives (although, I wouldn't mind hearing the same from you "Anne B" and Emily S):

Tyler is doing a joint program with the University of Idaho and Boise State. We were in Northern Idaho for the past 2 years (and I LOVED it). Now we are back in our hometown of Boise (and I'm liking a lot more than I expected after leaving a place I loved). So, we are no longer trailer trash. Its a big step down to being back in a regular old apartment. :) Its still fun. We live close to the greenbelt and parks and the zoo and my favorite grocery store so we go on lots of fun little bike rides and walks to fun places.

I've also started painting my fingernails, which I have never enjoyed before. Its going pretty well. I'm sure you are anxious for a status update on that. :)

Lincoln is one and a half, and he has been getting really big. Like he is a boy now. Not a baby. He is totally a mama's boy and I forgot how fun it is to show him off on the blog.

And I'm due the beginning of January. So ... I expect a baby around mid-January.

He totally looks like an Oakes boy here to me. (My maiden name). He is landing his 'hop.' He is really good at jumping for a 19 month old.

He got to pick his hat out of the treasure box at summer reading and he was really proud of it for a few days. He also loves to tote around his suitcase from his cousin, 'ZZuuzz.'

My lil' bro is leaving on a mission next week to Argentina. Tyler's sister's family just moved to London for 2 years. I should have lots of pics from recent family gatherings, but I don't ... yet. Maybe that will be next week's nap-time blog.

I love nap time because it turns into me blogging about this ...

Last night I decided that this baby is either the next karate kid

or I accidentally ate fireworks.

(thats right, I just went public)

Oh ... and have you seen how big this boy has gotten recently?

(Sussanah Warr took some family pictures before we moved and they are great! The above picture is compliments of her).

PSS- We have the internet again!

for Emma

We will miss you!

for auntie lindsey

so, I never watch videos on other blogs, so don't feel that you need to. but ... this is for auntie lindsey. that cutie pie nephew of hers' has moves. and his mom can't hold a camera level.

Baby Shower Season

Its almost here. This spring in Moscow it will be much more mellow than the last. (Seriously, last spring there was a baby shower every Saturday for 8 Saturdays in a row!) It also means I have been working on some seemingly small, quick projects. I always start thinking that a project will be so quick and easy and I always get so frustrated about half way through when it is taking me 30 times longer than I planned. Always! But this most recent project turned out pretty dang cute. Despite the broken needle and upside down sewing I had to do to complicate things. But I can't post a picture until I have given them away. So, Diana, let me know when you get it.

Stout

My parents came to visit this weekend (and it was really fun). They kept commenting that Lincoln looked a lot 'thicker.' 20 years down the road that won't be such a compliment. But ... here is the picture to prove the thickness.

Sin Dawg

About a year ago, more or less, my grandma introduced Tyler and I to Dave's Killer Bread. Have you had it? It is my grocery shopping treat. It is expensive, so I can't get it all the time, but its SO GOOD. I care very little about the organic-mumbo-jumbo. Its just simply delicious. Get this kind if you want to try it:

Anyway, I was looking for recipes on line to try to copy it a little. I didn't find anything that looked too promising. (So, if you know where I can find something PLEASE let me know). But I did find a little video and recipe of Killer Dave himself making a 'sin dawg.' Basically, a portland-health-hippie version of a cinnamon roll. I made them Saturday. Too much work to prob make again, but really good.

Thats right ... I even bake ... from scratch on occasion.

Thanks for looking at my post about my Killer Dave crush. Better to blog about it than to act upon it. Tyler might get jealous ... that I'm eating all the bread.