Fun with Poodle

Today Poodle and I had a photo shoot at Vivian Park, and this is how it turned out. Photo shoots are my new favorite thing to do. Violet and Poodle matched, and it was adorable. I think we need to go back sometime and take family pictures.

Baby photo shoot

I just love this girl.

Goals revisited

I was reading my old journal and I discovered a list of summer goals that I made in 2007. That was the summer I started dating Brandon. It was fun to read them because some of them are things that I would never think about now. Ride horses at least once. I never did, but now that I think about it, I really want to. Do more creative writing. Really? I had forgotten that I ever liked writing. I was surprised to see that goal, but it's a good idea. Establish a music collection. I'm still working on that one. Plan a fun road trip. I actually did that one. TWICE! I went to Colorado to see Poodle and to a few national parks with Brandon. And my favorite: Go the entire summer without having a boyfriend. That one totally tanked. Before school started in the fall Brandon and I had already decided to get married. I remember telling Brandon about that goal before we were officially dating. He told me it was a stupid goal.

Most of these were silly things. Still, it's good to see what was going through my mind before I was a wife/mother/domestic diva. Sometimes when I find my life getting too routine, I need to step back and say, "What would 19-year-old Lindsey do?"

She eats

Violet screamed the first few times we tried feeding her solids, and I was beginning to think she wouldn't eat anything. But tonight at dinner, she grabbed my calzone and got down to business. I was so excited that we fed her a little rice cereal after that and she seemed to like it. She even grabbed the spoon and tried to feed herself. Yay! Violet also got to meet uncle Ryan for the first time on Friday. She thought he was really funny, and it was good to see him. Violet must be jealous of her cousin Devin because I turned around one day and she was wearing her pacifier like an eye patch. Awesome. And for anyone who likes free stuff, my friend referred me to a website where you can get a free photo book every month (hotprints.com). It's free because they come with ads, but the ads are on separate pages and you can just remove the pages. Plus it's free, so who cares.

Shirts

I guess my flower shirt was popular and I am very flattered. For those who said they wanted one, I will be happy to take orders! All I need is a shirt size (or a shirt, if you already have one in mind) and I can figure something out. The shirt I used was very inexpensive but I'm not sure how good the quality will be, and the sizes at that store run a bit small so I think I'll find different ones. Anyways, email me with whatever you want.

Hey, Poodle

Look what I made! It took a lot of trial and error but I like this outcome the best. Thanks for asking me to make these, I am now addicted.

The chill of December in the rioting of spring

I know it's a cheesy title but it's a line to a song that Brandon has, and it is very appropriate. Yesterday started out beautiful. Violet and I went for a walk and it was in the 50s. Brandon even bought me these:But later Utah had one of its menopausal mood swings and it looked like this:Oh well. I guess we still have awhile until it's officially spring. And we wanted to tell Papa this: because he is the coolest gringo/chilango I know! And he was one of the first people to make Violet smile when she was only a month old, which isn't surprising, because he always makes me smile.

And only 24 days till Poodle comes!