Baylor Baby!

Yesterday my Mom and I loaded up this cutie and drove to Waco!

Emma Claire got to meet her Uncles for the first time!

Emma Claire and Uncle Daniel

Emma Claire and Uncle Marcus

She loved them.

Uncle Marcus' girlfriend Melissa came to visit too.

After visiting the twins we went to Schmaltz's. It's my favorite. Paige and I ate there for lunch every Friday our Senior year.

Emma Claire obviously enjoyed Schmaltz's...

After lunch we went to the library. I love the BU etched glass in the elevators. When I was a student I never used the elevators so I hadn't seen that until yesterday!

We had some good quality Aunt Paige time before we left.

We even read some books at Aunt Paige's house.

We had a great time!

As much as I wanted pictures of Emma Claire around campus, yesterday was just not the day. She was much happier in her carrier so we didn't take her out. We were mainly in Waco to visit people! I am so glad she got to meet her uncles! She was just so cute with them. They are identical so I was interested to see what she thought of two people who look and sound alike. She was great with them. This trip she has been very wary of new people but was great with the twins! Emma Claire also got to meet my friend Ellen up at the School of Education. While there Emma Claire also got to meet Jessica, my grand little in AXO. Then we walked to the library to meet up with my old roommate, Vanessa. I wish I had pictures of all of these meetings but I was worried about keeping a certain baby happy! I am also bummed that I forgot to get a picture of Emma Claire with the bears! Oh well...next visit. Now I'm looking forward to our first visit to Baylor as a family of three! We missed Daddy while we were there!

 

We Did It!

Well y'all...we did it! :-) This little beauty and I made it to Texas!

Saying bye to Daddy at the airport!

What Emma Claire did on the plane.

She woke up right before we landed....she wasn't too sure what to think!

I. Love. This. Picture.

Her eyes are just so pretty to me! I'm also amazed that my phone can take such great pictures!

After Grammy picked us up we went right to Target, of course! ;-)

Sporting our new spring Grandma bib.

Emma Claire loves laying on Grammy's Grandma blanket!

All in all we have had a great few days in Texas! We have had lots of visitors and Emma Claire has done great sleeping in a new place. I can't wait for her to meet more friends and family and share all of the fun pictures I've been taking!

Weekday Weekend Wrap-Up

After the Hubs worked two six day weeks in a row Emma Claire and I were ready for some quality Daddy/Hubby time! I've decided that I like having our "weekends" during the week! When we go to Target we're the only ones there, running errands is just so much easier in general, and we get to watch all of our favorite shows together! This weekend we spent lots of time together playing, shopping, and we did a lot of cooking. The Hubs was a grill master and grilled every night! He is a great chef and I love when he cooks. His meals are always so much fancier than mine! It was nice to be cooked for all weekend!

Everyone got some Moby time with Emma Claire this weekend!

The Hubs wore the Moby for the first time! How cute is this?

Our first trip to Target without the carrier! It was the BEST trip we had ever had! She just wanted to be out of her carrier!

I was also able to have my first glass of wine in over a year and a half! (Yes I was so excited I felt the need to document the occasion!) I am SO grateful that I decided to sleep train! It has really changed our lives! Emma Claire LOVES her crib now and goes down easily and the Hubs and I have had so much fun just having "us" time. We put most of our time into cooking this weekend...

Monday Night

The Hubs grilled chicken, we had half of the breasts marinated in Italian dressing and half were barbecue. We also did veggie pockets that cooked on the grill also. Those were AMAZING!

Tuesday

Tuesday night was all the Hubs. He got super fancy and soaked pork chops in a brine before grilling and made an apple compote to top them. He oven roasted sweet potatoes with onions and pepper as a side and also made hands down the BEST greens I have ever had. My man can COOK! He also made decaf sweet tea just for me because he knew I have been craving sweet tea something fierce lately.

 Wednesday

Most people would think hamburgers on the grill aren't fancy, but then again they probably haven't met my husband. He can make anything fancy! For his first hamburger he added grilled onions and poblano pepper, and also had pepper jack cheese, tomato, and some baby greens. Then he created a salsa from the grilled pepper, onion, and tomato to top his second. I would just like to say that mine weren't near as elegant ;-) I like my burgers simple!

This weekend I also got a bunch of cute Easter and spring decorations that I'm itching to put out...but I'm making myself wait until after St. Patrick's Day! ha!

In response to my earlier iPhone Photo HELP post...

The wonderful Emily responded and said..."...I started over rotating it and saving it. Then after I did that I would rotate it back to where I wanted it and save it again. THEN upload to blogger..." So I went to my image that I wanted to upload and rotated it 180 degrees then saved it and uploaded it and what do you know, it worked!!! Thanks Emily, you are a lifesaver!!!

iPhone Photo HELP!

Well y'all...I've been TRYING to post a little recap of our "weekend" however I've had a little hitch in my giddy-up. Every time I try to upload a photo it's orientation goes back to it's original state. Here's an example...

I uploaded the picture and opened it in the Microsoft Office photo editor to rotate it. I then saved it.

All should be well, right?!

However when I try to upload it in blogger...

THIS is what I get...it has flipped BACK to it's original state.

Grr...I have tried EVERYTHING to fix this.

- I saved the file as a new image.

- I flipped the image in paint and saved it as a JPEG...then when that didn't work I saved it as a PNG. Neither worked

- I rotated the file online in Picnik and saved it.

- I even tried editing the image on the iphone, emailing it to myself, and then editing it on my computer.

I tweeted about this and a few of you said you've had the same problem, so I know I'm not the only one!

What I'm hoping is that one of you has a solution so I can post about our super fun weekend! Plus I have some darling Emma Claire pictures that just won't be the same if they're sideways!

 

The Most Popular Bib...

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I'm loving...

This sweet face! We did our 4 month sticker photo shoot yesterday and got some GREAT big smiles thanks to Daddy! I can't wait to share all of them!

So I'm pretty sure every bloggy mommy that reads my blog has this bib as well but I still love it!

Her little faces are just TOO cute! She is so expressive...I wonder where she get's it from ;-)

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Monday Musings

This is going to be a pretty random blog post! Just a little of what we've been up to lately!

This handsome fella is home today for a THREE day "weekend"! Don't you just love his shirt ?! ha! It's one of his High School shirts, very cute right?

Emma Claire has been getting "hands on" with Daddy's school work.

The other day was a VERY good mail day! I got my Erin Condren address book and Emma Claire got her second book from the book exchange! Also, if you have heard about the book exchange floating around in blog land I still need ONE MORE PERSON for mine. SO if you want to join just let me know!!!

I've started gathering Easter decorations! I just love this little bunny!

I bought these waffles when I first went dairy free and just tried them this week. They are SO yummy!!! They're also egg, wheat, and gluten free!

Since I have my iPhone a TON of pictures of Emma Claire are on there, as well as some pretty cute videos. iPhone photo posts are going to become necessary! I'll work on one of those soon. Until then, here are a few cute ones to tide you over. ;-)

She is SO happy after bath time...until I try and put her clothes on. Girlfriend loves to be naked!

I'm convinced that she is going to roll from front to back before back to tummy. She is SO close and will rock back and forth now! It's the cutest thing to watch. I have a few videos that I will try to get up!

I cannot get enough of this hat! Sadly it hasn't been cold enough to use it. However, it was chilly yesterday when we went to check the mail so of course we had to put on the penguin hat to check the mail!

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