Our Week

Welll...maybe its been more than one week. But still progress! Better than no posting in a month! This week we tried out a "vegetarian" diet. I am trying to think of ways to save money AND be very healthy. We had multiple vegetables every day. It was quite nice. Above is "roasted veggies"..and they were just as wonderful as they look. Mrs. Cindy (my mother-in-law) makes this all the time..and it was so easy we will definitely do it again. We did have some meat. I had a REALLY good roast that I had made last week, I froze the leftovers and we had that over rice one day (along with the roasted veggies).
Above is a vegetable soup I made, it has about 5 vegetables in it. I cooked them all, blended them up, added some whole milk and cheddar cheese and WALA, delicious soup! I pulled out my bread machine, made some homemade bread and we called it a meal. It was great. And we didnt get hungry later. So that was nice. And Ness LOVES bread and vegetables (I kept his whole so he could pick them up and eat them) so he was happy too.
The two "men" in my house are chocolate nuts. And I found this AWESOME blog (www.themuffinmyth.com) that has all sorts of healthy ideas. This was one of them. These are zucchini chocolate muffins. They were supposed to have quoina (darn! cant spell it!) in them but instead I put pureed sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and pears (leftover baby food). It was good, although Ness liked them more than Michael...
And last but not least, this was my attempt at making "cheese-nips". They tasted fine to me..but good old OCD Michael didnt like them. I told him had I cut them into squares and dyed them orange he would have eaten them (and he would have!). Oh well, old habits die hard...hey, maybe if I put a carrot in them...hmmm.....

Ok, before you get worried. I KNOW I need protein. We all do. And we do eat some meats. But next week I am going to try hard to make sure we get protein other places as well as in the little meat we do eat. Like beans, nuts, eggs...I will keep you updated.
But on the plus side, Michael and I had our blood tested for life insurance and we are both as healthy as horses! yay!
Above is my little helper. We got this pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. The website I mentioned above told us how to "process" it..so that's what we did. We now have 4 bags of pumpkin in the freezer. I am not sure what I will do with it (besides muffins and soup) but it will be something delicious!
This is the parade we went to. Ness was sleepy but did well. He had to be held tightly during the loud parts but he loved the beads.
Look at these cute sneakers! I found them in a box labeled "boys shoes" in my shed. I didn't think they would EVER fit him...so cute!
Ok, so Ness's hair was getting a little bit out of control. I had been putting off cutting it (for the 4th time!) but then I thought of a brilliant idea! This is what I came up with. It worked like a charm, he didnt even look up while I cut his hair, no mess-ups!
Afterward he took a dunk in the Halloween bin, he thought this was pretty fun too. Then he ran around the yard naked for about 15 min.
Last picture! Healing Place has this super park open to the public! Ness (and Michael) LOVED it! It was very clean and wonderful. We will go again.

Soo..what else. Next Thursday is our big "anatomy scan", yes, we will find out the gender then. I am more nervous than excited. BUT I did start to feel baby move last week so at least I know her/his heart is still beating! I guess whatever news we get we will be able to handle (gender, anatomy issues, etc) but keep us and baby #2 in your prayers!
My business is doing well still...I had a few weeks off but its picking up now..so thats good!
Well, thats all I can think of at the moment....have a great weekend!

Of course I wont forget the "cute-ness"!

Busy Weekend

Above is the pie I am so proud of. I thought pies were really hard to make, and was kind of dreading it BUT it wasnt bad at all! I did everything from scratch including picking the pears at my grandmas house. Pretty cool eh?
So I was going to type this blog yesterday BUT I sliced the top of my finger with a knife and that made typing difficult. SOO I am doing it today, the only problem is that I now hear Ness waking up....gotta hurry...
We had a very busy yet fun weekend. Ashley came down and we carved pumpkins, it was nice, and we hope to do it EVERY year!
Ness slept through the carving but woke just in time to get his picture taken with Ashley's pumpkin.

We took Ness to the pumpkin patch in Hammond and it was really fun! The weather was pretty hot (and next year we will be SURE to go when its cool) but I still think he enjoyed himself. Even though his face was a red as a cherry..that boy is not good at handling the heat....
Family picture!
Ness spent a lot of time on Daddy's shoulders...

This was a fun game where you pump the water to make the duck move.
This was his favorite. It was a giant bouncy pillow type thing. He LOVED it!
Daddy loved it too...
Merry go round...
It was fun! Ness is getting so old and is enjoying things like this..man, I love this age!
Ness has been sleeping wonderfully, I think its because he plays outside at least once a day (he loves the outdoors). Ok, Ness is officially awake and since he has now slept 13 hours I'd say its time for him to get up...but before we goooooo:
here are some cute-ness videos!

Husband Brag Wednesday!

I couldnt think of a better title..sorry!
This past weekend/weekend has been very nice. I am pretty sure that the weather has something to do with it but there is a happy feeling in the air! This past weekend we went to New Orleans and it was nice, the weather was super. (this is where the brag comes in). We went to a baby fest to drop off a box of stuff that I had made for a boutique in New Orleans. It had been about 2/3 hours since eating (as much as I could eat but it wasnt much) and I was feeling a tad hungry. Hunger pains in pregnancy for me arent normal, I just feel gross and sick (this feeling usually doesnt make me want to eat unfortunately). Anyways, I was picking up little candies at the tables trying to fill the void in my stomach and make the nausea go away but it wasnt working. I got to my friend Hannahs table and she had some candy corn in a little basket. I ate two, and about 3 seconds after eating I literally felt like I was going to hit the floor. My head was spinning and I felt the need to throw up...mid conversation I told my friend and Michael "I need to sit down"....I walked as fast as I could to the recliners (for the daddy's! what a good idea!), not sure if I was going to make it or not, and sat down. After sitting I felt a bit better but still had cold sweats. As I did some nice breathing and told myself that I wasnt going to puke and that I just needed to sit and rest I see my lovely husband coming with a giant pretzel and a glass of water in hand. I never asked for anything! I was so happy! He was so sweet! After taking only one bite of the pretzel I felt 100% better...ahh...what a nice husband eh?
So there you go, husband brag!

Ness and I have been going outside quite a bit, he gets so excited when I say "lets go!" and head for the door. He can walk around and dig in rocks forever in our backyard. He is such a happy boy, we are so thankful for him!

This weekend we are invited to a party...we, of course, COULD bring Ness but its at Blakes apt and it is NOT baby proof and he would only get tired and grouchy and cause a fuss..SO we have a babysitter AGAIN! Twice in two weeks! I almost feel to lucky! Mikes mom has graciously offered to watch him again.....he is so good for her, he also loves her a great deal and doesnt even cry...could be because she spoils him rotten.

Anywayz! I would post some pictures here but I hear the child awakening so I had better go. Here is a link to our newest facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2746928&id=23442110&l=e0e0192329