A Day at the Park

Brendon got home early from work today; after he and baby girl took extremely long naps (while I worked on a sewing project that failed horribly) I decided that we needed to get out of the house. We have had the wackyist weather in the D.C area this winter, today was in the 50s! So we took advantage of the beautiful day and went to the park, and Cordelia took her first try at the swing.

These are photos from my phone so they aren't great, but I love how happy she looks it helps me remember to focus on the good things in life. 

A Trip to the Shore: Part 2

We finally made the trip to take Cordelia to meet her Great Granddad. He lives on the eastern shore and we aren't able to visit him as much as we would like.  As you read in this post, every time I go to visit I always have to stop and see the tiny little beach. 

This was Cordelia's first view of the ocean, she wasn't quite sure what to think of it! 

She did think it was way too hot to be outside, and I really did agree with her. 

Cordelia is very blessed to have great grandparents, and for that matter so many grandparents. 

We went out to lunch, and Cordelia was great- she sat and watched us the whole time without fussing! As a fun side note, both of these handsome fellows are wearing shirts that I made for them. 

A trip to the Shore

This is an old post, that I never finished, about a trip that Brendon and I took in September of 2010.  I'm not sure why I never finished/posted this but I was thinking about the trip that Brendon and I are preparing to take so that Cordelia can meet her Great Granddad and decided that it was time to finish the post.  

My Grandfather lives on the eastern shore of Maryland, and Its a bit of a hike out there and I don't make it to visit as often as I should. However the last weekend before school started my hubby and I made the trip out there. This picture is from the drive over the bay bridge, for some reason I love riding across the bridge, its such a pretty sight.

These are the rock roses that grow in my Grandfather's driveway. I think they are so cool, I mean roses that grow in rocks! you don't get much cooler!

Inside Granddad's house- note the Jackalope, When I was a kid I thought they were real because my granddaddy had one hanging on his wall. He's kinda super cute too. 

Brendon and I at "Granddad's" beach. We call it Granddad's beach because he helped raise money and planned the development of the tiny little beach. Every time I visit Rock Hall I visit the beach :) 

Outfit:

Tank top/ Vest: Forever 21, Skirt:made by me, Flip Flops: Tidewater, Necklace: from Tiara Day

Snow

These pictures are of the first snow of the year (back December 16th). I had to drive to school for a final, and I was a little miffed to have to do it in the snow, but I was really excited that it was snowing. I wish we had gotten a good snow during break, but alas, I start back to school tomorrow and we have gotten a few teaser snows- like the one from the pictures- but no real snows. 

A Trip to the County Fair

So, I kinda kept putting off this post because I knew it would have sooo many pictures in it! In August we have the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, and my family has been volunteering at the fair for as long as I can remember; because of this I normally don't walk around the fair for fun- but this year I did. I went with my nephew chase, my hubby and our two good friends.  

I always enjoying seeing the animals, especially the bunnies. My Favorite type of bunnies in the Rabbit barn are definitely the huge fluffy ones.

These are all pictures from the "Old Macdonald's Farm" barn, which is kinda one of the only animal barns I go into (besides the rabbit barn) because they normally have baby animals.

There is my hubby checking out the sheep!

Next stop was the "Home Arts" barn; this barn contains sewing, cooking, crocheting, knitting, quilting, and other things considered "home arts". The pictures above are all things my sister created and entered! To see more of her stuff go here.

The "Arts and Crafts" barn is where my family has always volunteered, so it is always my favorite barn.

Look! its the things my mom and I made during our crafting day :) On the Left is our plaster cloth creations (I blogged about mine here) my mom made the snowman and won a first place, and I made the day of the dead bride and won a second!

 On the right I made the cat (on the left) and my mom made the hippo on the right (I blogged about them to). I won a first place and mom won a second place. 

My nephew entered a bunch of stuff too, I am really proud of how well he did!

For the past three years (I think its been three years that is. . .) my sister has made a huge collage for the fair, this is the one she made this year. Its a sea dragon, which I didn't know even existed, apparently its a type of fish that lives in the waters near Australia. They are neat looking. 

The building splits entry's up by age, so there are children's, teen's, and adult's sections. The teen's section had tons of neat entries, so I had to take pictures of the ones that blew me away. 

My hubby and I feel in love with this entry in Adult's of a hippo eating peanuts. The artist said she painted the peanuts from memory.

In addition to arts and crafts, the barn also houses the photography department. Normally I get overwhelmed walking through this part of the building, but these three photos caught my eye.

Next we took a swing through the "Old Timers" barn. People can enter flowers, veggies, and assorted other things in this barn.

and the blacksmith is always set up outside of the old timers building. 

It was a really fun evening, and I'm glad I got to enjoy it with such fun people.

Ikea

Top and Leggings: Forever 21/ Faith 21

Tidewater flip flops

Bag: Target

My hubby and I only live about 15 minutes from our local Ikea, so we go there a lot, its one of the best places to eat a good, cheap meal. We get lazy when it comes to cooking, especially when our house is messy!  This mural (I'm not sure if thats the right thing to call it, but I'm not sure what to call it) is hanging in the food court at the Ikea and its so cute I want one. 

I'm in love with the fabric they have at the moment, and I thought this sign sums up the way I want to live my life.

This is a shot of the fabric I picked up while we were there. I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet, but I couldn't leave it! 

Here is some of the other cute fabrics they have (taken from the Ikea website)

Adventures with Patrick!

Skirt: My hubby made for me

Necklace, "sweater", and belt: forever 21

T-shirt: made by my nephew

So it was super hot outside so please excuse the face I'm making :) This was Tuesday's outfit and one of the coolest things about it is that I am wearing a t-shirt that my twelve year old nephew designed (ok, yes he had his mom's help) and screen printed (with supervision from his uncle/my brother who is a screen printer) he made them for his boy scout troop, and I told him I had to have one. However I cut the neck off of it because I hate the feeling of t-shirt necks.  

Tuesday was super fun, I got to see one of my best friends and his good friend, neither of which I have seen in forever. We went to one of the malls that is near-ish to us, and these pictures we took while walking around in the Bass Pro Shop.

Isn't this fox pretty!

I almost died when I saw this Jack-a-lope stuffed animal, I want one sooo bad! Saturday when I go and visit my Granddad I will have to take a picture of his Jack-a-lope to show you all.

This is too perfect as well, its a stuffed mounted deer head; much less scary then the real thing.

This isn't the best picture of us, but my camera decided it was done for the night so it was the only one I got, next time I will have to get tons :)