sábado, 26 de octubre de 2013

Nana in LA

This week my mom came to help out a bit and we loved having her here! She helped with lots of day to day stuff that is harder now with 2 kiddos and gave lots of snuggles an hugs to make sure everybody felt special. 

One of the first things we did was go to the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert last Sunday. It was a blast! They are from LA and wanted to have a old timey circus feel so they set up a big top and had concerts four nights in a row, including a family matinee on Sunday afternoon so kids of all ages could go. Such a great idea! There were contortionists, acrobats, sword swallowers, etc etc etc. 

And of course, the music was awesome. They played on a rotating stage and the concert was in the round. They were so down to earth, walking through the crowd during the concert, opening up the mic if anyone wanted to tell a story,  and Suzy got to meet the lead singer after the concert! She loves their music as much as we do, so it was a success all around. 

under the big top!








Mom also kept the kids one evening so we could go out to dinner and coffee. We ate some delicious Vietnamese food.  


I was so worried about Emory b/c we had never been away from him that long and he doesn't really take a bottle well, but this is how we left him and this is how we found him when we got back:

snoozing all evening with Nana
 Some other random pictures from our week:


thanks for the Papi hat, Nana! 

attempt at a family picture


THanks Nana for everything!!! Come back soon!

jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013

pumpkiiiiiiiiiin!

Suzy and i have been experimented with pumpkin recipes this week...different pumpkin cookies (why have i never tried making these before??!), pumpkin muffins, etc. Today we made these healthy pumpkin cookies (really!! they don't have any butter or oil! and little sugar)
http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2012/10/24/healthy-pumpkin-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies/

You should definitely check them out. They are so healthy I may have eaten 5.

This blogger has apparently made a ton of batches of pumpkin cookies, looking to perfect her recipe, so I'm trusting her. Here is a page with a ton of pumpkin recipes (cheesecake, bars, etc etc)

http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/category/pumpkin-recipes/

Tomorrow I'm making pumpkin frappucino from her recipe! I finished up my homework early this week so that while Suz is at school tomorrow, I can enjoy my frappucino tomorrow while watching the season finale of Project Runway. Anybody else watching? I dreamed the other day that I went to Heidi Klum's beach house. She offered me marijuana flavored sorbet (what?!), and I put E down for a nap there and when he woke up, he was a fully grown Will Ferrell. What?!

Speaking of pumpkin, check out this sweet lil pumpkin who is 3 months old today!

jueves, 10 de octubre de 2013

picture update

Don't have time for many words (gotta do homework!) but here is a picture update of the kiddos:


heart breaker smirk!
first pair of shoes! thanks Marcie!

this guy is all smiles these days!


at a Pumpkin Festival...where they ironically ran out of pumpkins!


Festival loot!