jackson david sure does love to clean. he is the first to do ‘clean up’ at any friends house, play group or gym class. even before taking his naps or going to bed for the night.. he is a very good cleaner-upper

just a few weeks ago (as you may remember from a post below..) he has become very interested in the swiffer, the broom, the vacuum, anything that he can clean with… sooooooo what better way to help him then to get him one of his own! not a REAL one silly — the cutest little vacuum you’ve ever seen… Elmo (he says: memo??) and Cookie (he says: num num num) of course!

How cool is this: It can be BOTH Elmo and Cookie! you just flip the top and its a new face!! It even says funny things … Cookie says “num num num, I love to vacuum with you! …. and….. ohhhhh big dust bunny!’ haha… Oscar says ‘Hey Cookie, you missed a spot!’ … and Elmo just giggles of course!

also the new thing is — whenever he is focusing on something or concentrating – he sticks his tongue out! ahha.. still so cute nonetheless!!

Lastly – jackson LOVES to put change in his piggie bank. Whenever anyone comes over he runs into his room to grab it and asks for ‘money!’ haha.. he loves the idea of putting it in so now we just take the bottom off.. shameful i know. Until we saw THIS toy! His own TOY piggy bank!! I’ve always been pretty grossed out by him touching all those coins – let alone if he pockets one and tries to eat it later or something crazy… so now, no more worrying! we can put the real one away and he can play with his very own cute piggie who sings and counts and everything,…. the new favorite word of the week: YEEEEEHHHH-DOOOOOOHHHH (as in yellow) (pronouced – yed-oh!) check out the coin he’s putting in…

and just a few fun ones from the past few days…

playing peek-a-boo through the tunnel before bath time!

my little baby is growing up too fast… where is my little baby???

ohhh i love that face!

sad to report Nemo took a hit… Jackson ripped his tale off but DONT worry! he still wears him all day… he was tearing it off saying ‘Uh-Oh… Oh no..’… well STOP silly!!… I wonder how long it will last…. poor Nemo……

Thanks for checking in…

Hugs,
K

mmmmmmmm some serious owey goewy goodness below…

we’re having dinner with our bestest neighbors tomorrow so of course we had to break out a new recipe to try … i went with the pioneer’s ‘bestest chocolate cake you’ve ever had in your whole life’ cake… and honestly – no lie, it is the best chocolate cake ive ever had in my whole life. icing and all.

mmmmmm -mmmmmm…. check it out…

a whole (note the spelling!) cookie sheet of goodness!!! check out that icing too!!

doesn’t it look awesome! too bad it didn’t stay on the fork that long…. hehe…

and then just to have another option I made the old Raspberry-yummy-delicious-cake that I make for a lot of things…
Especially pretty around Christmas or Valentines day… Stay tuned for the inside shot tomorrow…

i spelled ‘hole’ wrong on the image below??? nice. the elementary school teacher can’t even spell ‘whole’ correctly.

thanks for the HONESTY PEOPLE!

pictures to come hopefully tonight….

thanks for checkin’ in!

hugs,
k

**Edit.. ahhaha shut up Fed!!!!!!

i’ve been a terrible blogger i know.. its been a rough week or so in this house..Rick and I got hit with some NASTY food poisoning and it sent us for a loop. We’ve never both been sick at the same time so having a crazy wound up toddler running around as you sicker then sick was a bit of a challenge… luckily Neighbors-of-the-Century came by and scooped up our little man for a few hours while we felt like garbage on the couch. We are so super grateful to have some of our bestest friends as our neighbors — what would we do without Paul and Donna!? So after that fiasco things have returned to normal a bit… thank goodness!

even though i’ve been a bad blogger…. i do have some super exciting news…… GUESS WHO IS MOVING?!?!?!?

Yep! thats right– right after we decided everything we had looked at wasn’t worth moving for we decided that we’d just stay one more year… well the very next day an awesome couple we met with last year told us their property is going to become available march 1 if we are interested…. well wouldnt you know our lease ends Feb. 29th!! So we headed right over, checked it out and fell in love with it just as much as we did last year! We didnt move last year because a few minor things that we thought might have been a problem but turns out – we can make it all work out this time — I can’t even begin to tell you how excited we are! Its our very own house — no lugging up 3 flights of stairs (or the elevator!) – with groceries, laundry, a dog, and a toddler! just open the door to the fenced in yard to play!!! We are close Nana and Papa and close to Mi-Mi and Pampy, close to where jackson will go to preschool, it overlooks some marshland into the ocean – it has LAUNDRY! im telling you – it couldnt have worked out better if i prayed any harder… and good thing as i wasnt sure how much more i could pray! isn’t if funny though.. somehow when i get to the point that i just surrender everything things work out… you’d think id have more faith by now… i guess im a little slow on the uptake somedays at any rate we are so so so grateful things are working out…

my fellow photographer friends will appreciate this — we have 4 windows in our place right now – we live in a building so there obviously only on the front side of the buidling… i feel like some days we live in a cave the way sunlight gets blocked by our building and it sure does make for difficult lighting situations…. BUT… check this out below… the entire length of hour house is not only windows along side — but SKYLIGHTS! — imagine going from a cave to this!!!!!… we are very super excited!

so although ive been a bad blogger — and an even WORSE picture-a-day blogger (which i hope to update soon too!!) we at least have a few good excuses… we decided on a place to move (which means we’ve been crazy trying to go through each room to throw out anything and everything that isnt moving with us in order to make packing easier!!) AND we had that nastiness around for a few days… so loyal bloggers– stay tuned! things may get a little crazy over the next few weeks trying to pack and all but at least we have brighter days ahead!! (ugh, the thought of packing, right!!!!)

here are a few shots for ya… dont you love it — they even have the colors the way i would have done them too!! so cozy!

thanks for keeping up with us despite the lack of love for ya!
hugs,
k

I was sitting in my hair dressers chair getting my hair put up for our WEDDING! I remember the whole day like it was yesterday.. I can’t believe it was already 2 years ago! I was sitting in the chair in front of a dozen long stem red roses my love had dropped off the day before so I would have a little something special while I was getting ready with all my girlfriends.. sweetheart, I know

When I think back to our wedding and wedding planning it makes my head spin a bit! (if you do the math, yes i know, i was 6 months pregnant when we got married!) we decided we wanted to get married before Jackson was born and that was very important to us… but had a very small window to do that! In 3 months we planned a 180 person wedding – while finishing my Masters in Elementary Ed, teaching 1st grade, being pregnant and while Rick was out on tour.. it was chaos and if you told me i had to do it again, im not sure i could do it the same way! haha.. it worked out like a dream and went off without a hitch.. it was the greatest day of our lives (before our son of course!) and everything was just as we wanted it! we even had 60 degree weather here in Boston in january on our wedding day! The next day was filled with 8 inches of snow! Gotta love New England!

*note- i was 6 months pregnant and that was the only dress i tried on! I knew i had to have a little wiggle room for the little man growing in there – this dress allowed for some room to grow as you can see it comes together at the empire waist! cute huh! — and yes, that is all my real hair – how Jacki got it up I have no idea, but i swear it was all mine!

Rick – thank you for choosing me to share your life with… I’m so grateful you are my forever – You are more then I could have ever prayed for and I can’t wait to see what’s waiting for us in the future…

I love you with all my heart and soul..
Keri

And of course a few pictures for fun…
A quick stop at the beach for a few shots!

escaping on the stairway for a few minutes alone!

cutting the cake — janet made such a beautiful cake -we loved it! carrot cake no less! YUM!!

no chance i was going to miss that piece of carrot cake!! and a chocolate covered strawberry… yuuuummy!