Celebrating 2

We've had a bit of a dilemma about Jayce's birthday each year, because we don't have any family nearby to have just a little family party, and since Jayce is still young, we don't know if a "friend party" includes his friends or ours.  So this year we decided that we would celebrate his birthday as kind of a "2 years of being a family" sort of thing.  Which for us meant that we went out to eat at a place we all like as opposed to a "kid...

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2 Year Old Stuff

Last week, this little babyturned into this big boy.I am okay with it. Last year was different, that whole "my first baby's first birthday" thing, and also the transition from referring to him as a baby to referring to him as a toddler. I didn't like that one bit. But him turning 2 feels right because he has seemed like a 2 year old for a while now, I've just been waiting for the day to actually arrive.I've decided that instead of listing out...

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A Sweet Shot

Jayce received a bubble blowing lawnmower for his birthday, and it is his FAVORITE thing. His other lawnmowers were more for balance as he was learning to walk so they didn't go through the grass and he was always so bummed about this.  There is little that excites him more than watching his dad cut the grass, he was just so excited to be able to do the same thing.And I was so excited about the trees framing my little lawnmower, and the lovely...

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2 Years Old

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Well, Now I've Gone and Done It

I came home yesterday with this.  Boy, am I in trouble.  Not with Chris, but with me.I have, for the most part, managed to maintain an "I don't sew" attitude, mostly because this prevents me from taking on even more projects than I already have lined up for myself.  It also keeps me out of fabric stores and off of sewing blogs.But it's just that, people keep coming up with ways to make clothes from J Crew, and Anthropology, and I just...

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Heidelberg and the John Templeton Award

I know that up until this point I have been writing mostly in a "what we did on which days" sort of format, and I wanted to write a bit more just to process the whole experience.  I often feel like I want to blog so that I can show a few people what we were up to or what we saw, but I also want to blog about how I feel or what I thought about a given experience, so here is part 2.  (Furthermore, I am currently wide awake on the flight and...

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I’m On Etsy :)

While Chris was away at a conference last month I was finally able to work on something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, start an Etsy shop! I am so SO excited to finally have it started and partially filled, so allow me to introduce you to…I have recently had the pleasure of entering the DIY scene, and even though I have always been relatively creative, I was surprised to discover that each successful project left me with a desire...

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Heidelberg Day 6 and 7

Our final days in Germany were good ones. Chris had colloquium on Monday in addition to Saturday, but it was the first time that there had been no activities planned for the spouses, so I was able to just sleep in, get our stuff together to leave the next day, organize our pictures a little and do some shopping.The next morning we headed out for a leisurely breakfast of coffee and pastries, and ended up going back for seconds on both things! We...

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Heidelberg Day 5

On our 5th day in Heidelberg, we went to a castle in a nearby town for lunch and a tour of the gardens.  Both were incredible, the cold and rainy weather finally broke so we were able to enjoy most of the tour in the sunshine, which made for a much more enjoyable experience.It was the season for white asparagus while we were in Germany, which apparently only lasts for 6 weeks of the year, and this is a huge source of excitement for the Germans....

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Heidelberg Day 4

Our 4th Day in Heidelberg was the first colloquium, which meant that the winners and evaluators were busy from 9-6 doing presentations. This part of the trip was closed to spouses and guests, (thankfully!) so they organized a day trip for us to the nearby town of Spryerer.It was a beautiful little German town, known for having one of the largest cathedrals in all of Europe.We had a tour of the city and the cathedral, and started and finished our...

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Day 3: Awarded

On Friday morning, we took a little tour of the city.  We didn't make it incredibly far because it was pretty cold and rainy, and it was really difficult to stay focused on the history of something when I was trying to make sure that my toes didn't fall asleep.  I was so bummed, because we have plenty of clothes that are well suited for walking around in weather like this, but when we had packed to leave on Sunday, the weather was still...

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