The Rice Baby $30 Guest Giveaway

The Rice Baby $30 Guest Giveaway

Romeo and Mae Sewing Patterns GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Romeo and Mae Sewing Patterns GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

2009 Book List Recap

Boy, am I behind in updating my booklists. It has been a banner year for book reading. Here's a list of the books I finished:

• The Fencing Master
  
• The Ivy Chronicles
  
• Great Expectations
  
• Bridge to Tarabithia
  
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue
  
• The Age of Innocence
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife
  
• Like Water for Chocolate
  
• The Year of Living Biblically
  
• The Last Battle (C of N #7)
  
• The Silver Chair (C of N #6)
  
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C of N #5)
  
• Prince Caspian (C of N #4)
  
• The Horse and His Boy (C of N #3)
  
• The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia #1)
  
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardorbe (C of N #2)
  
• The Secret Life of Bees
  
• Breaking Dawn (read it twice)
• Eclipse (read it twice)
• New Moon (read it twice)
• Twilight (read it three times)
• The Red Tent (read for the second time)
• Lily's Crossing
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
  
• The Sari Shop
  
• These Is My Words (read it for the second time)
• The Color Purple
  
• The Audacity of Hope
  
• Sarah's Quilt
  
• Eat, Pray, Love
  

Andrew's Birthday Bash

These days, this five year old is all Star Wars, all the time. So it was the obvious theme for his birthday party this year which was held at Chuck E Cheese. We invited mostly the little boys and friends that really like Star Wars and we were only able to invite 5 friends from school. Although the party was large, we were the first party scheduled at Chuck E Cheese, so it was just us for most of the time we were there. What an awesome turn out, with great friends old and new. Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Diana, and the cousins Jacob and Michael were able to attend. Papa was out of town so we celebrated with him the week before.

By the way, the little girl sitting next to Andrew in the horse and carriage is his best friend at school, Kiki, they are so cute together and play constantly.

In case you're not familiar with Star Wars, Andrew is in an Anakin Skywalker costume and Eva has Princess Leia hair.

Pajama Squid THREE Prize GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Pajama Squid THREE Prize GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Storybook Cape and Muff GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

Storybook Cape and Muff GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

Little Mave Bloomer GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Little Mave Bloomer GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Oh my holy cuteness! I want these for Eva :)

My Very Generous MIL

Yesterday my mother-in-law surprised me with a very generous gift. She called me and asked if I'd be home for the next 30 minutes, when I said yes, she said, " Oh good, cause I'm playing Santa Claus." When she arrived, the kids just snatched the gift bag out of her hand and we had to tell them to slow down, the gift wasn't for them. Polly, my MIL said that the gift was an Advent gift for me. Justin and I are taking a trip to Santa Fe in a couple of weeks, just the two of us for four days, and Polly said she wanted to get me something for the trip.

Inside the package was the most beautiful blouse! It's the kind of shirt I would admire at a store, but would never splurge on for myself. The blouse looks really pretty in the picture, but the picture does not do it justice, it's much prettier in person. In addition, there was also a gift card to Anthropologie. Polly insists that I go shopping before our trip so I can pick up something really special, and she's even offered to babysit the kids while I shop. This woman is so good to me!