Thank You for the Peanut Shower!

It was great to see everyone come over for a little baby bbq! Thank you all for coming. Ray and I feel truly lucky to have so many wonderfully supportive people in our lives.

Making Way for Peanut

This last weekend was super productive, we got the guest room emptied out and converted to little peanuts room. I'm still not sure about purple wall color if it's a boy, but Ray thinks it'll be fine; the one thing purple's got going for it is that coordinates well with green, orange and yellow.

Ray researched the infant carrier and we're going with a Chicco KeyFit 30. And he found a place online that had great information about cloth diapers. So two more things checked off the list...

Maggie's obsessing on the dangle turtle on the bouncer and snatching it away whenever she can, so that's a bit annoying. But, she spent most of Sunday hopping in and out of a bucket full of water - super cute!

We also cleared out the Burningman shed, so be ready for a post in the coming weeks regarding coming to grab supplies from the pile.

Summer?

Where in the heck is the time going?? I'm finally back from our honeymoon - France and Spain were great. France was wonderful. I highly recommend just going and sitting in all of the parks in central Paris. This female sculpture was in the Tuileries Garden - at the base of Champs Elysees.

Thanks to my mom and dad, we had AMAZING acomodations in Paris - right on Champs Elysees across from Laduree's (amazing macaroons and desserts). One of the best afternoons we had in Paris was just sitting behind Notre Dame under the trees watching the colors change.

This large head sits in the Jardin du Luxembourg, just watching over the happenings of the sailboat pond. I think this huge sculpture spoke to me because of it's stillness - during our visit to this park we took a bit of time out for meditation and the head seemed to be appropriate matched to that mood. I've not come back from a vacation so deeply relaxed!


Spain, well really just Barcelona, was an interesting contrast to Paris. It was a huge architecture expedition and the Catalan style stood in contrast to that of the average French person (who even in Paris, were very friendly).

So, now back to work. I think this little paw tied lion summarizes my back to work motivation. Website updates, finishing my thesis, and getting ready for the arrival of the baby. What a heck of a year!!