before baby

February 2, 2014

Miscellaneous

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celebrate

for the last five years it has just been the three of us: myself, camden, and kramer and the two years before that belonged to only camden and me. although we are so excited to add on to our family and welcome with open arms a new chapter into our home, a part of each of us knows it will never be exactly the same again. for the last five months and the next 141 days, we have and will continue to celebrate those last few precious moments where it is just us three. taking naps on the bed in the middle of the day, long walks in the morning, date nights out …. and don’t get me wrong, we are so excited and thrilled to be moving on, to be meeting and loving our new baby for the very first time. a part of me even wants to hurry it up a little quicker so we can finally meet our quickly growing child, but i think it’s important, before this big adventure begins, to sit back, relax, and enjoy the time we have left together as a quaint family of three. 

morning drinks

January 31, 2014

brunch

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this smoothie is like comfort in a drink, and also my first smoothie i’ve ever made with granola in it. i’m kind of wishing i had one to sip on right now actually … it would seriously hit the spot.
banana smoothie
this recipe was originally created by martha stewart then modified into this smoothie.

you will need (served about 2-3):
1/2 cup – plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 cup – almond coconut milk
1 banana cut into thirds
1/4 cup – granola 
2 teaspoons – honey 
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup – ice


combine together in a blender until smooth and enjoy. 
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boy or girl

January 29, 2014

Wore

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we found this dresser at one of my favorite mid-century modern vintage stores that is conveniently located within walking distance of our home. my whole idea with creating and designing our quite petite baby room is not to make, what i would call, a classic baby space. but something rather, that can grow with our child and a place we all want to hang out and be. i think this dresser is perfect for that. it can be used as a changing table/dresser in the beginning then transition with us as our family grows and our needs change. i also like it because i think it’s really gender neutral. we both can see it working for either a boy or a girl. speaking of gender … we find out what we are having on monday. although our preference is neutral, i’m thinking it’s girl and camden’s hunch is that it’s a boy. any guesses before we find out next week?

wes anderson – bottle rocket

January 23, 2014

Miscellaneous

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you may remember me mentioning this book a few weeks back. it was a present gifted to camden and i for christmas and we both absolutely fell in love with it. the book is full of all wes anderson’s witty movies, his inspirations in making them, photos from set, and tons more. if you are not familiar with wes anderson or his movies, you may at least recognize two of his more recent films, fantastic mr. fox and moonrise kingdom. camden and i decided we would watch all the films, even the ones we’ve seen, from start to finish and make a series of date nights out of them. the first movie was bottle rocket, one we hand’t seen before and one we really liked. the wilson brothers who make more than a few reappearances through all his movies, were fantastic. all in all a movie we will be sure to watch again.

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if you want to follow along with our wes anderson movie date nights, the next one on the list is rushmore … can’t wait!