Tonight we enjoyed pitchers of Blue Moon beer and double decker pizza with a friend from work. We had a long and interesting conversation about politics. Noone was hurt. Now I have to try to recover enough to get up and run in the morning. Ugh. Fortunately, he’s going with me.
In a totally unrelated topic, here is the bunny that lives in our backyard. This is the closest shot I’ve ever gotten of him! He’s (she?) very squirrely. See the little brown spot with ears back by the “flower beds”?!
A very polite young man came to visit me today. I think he said “Thank you, Leta” approximately 50 times while he was here. We had a great time playing outside and investigating all of Arwyn’s new toys. Thanks for visiting, Henry!
This is what I’ve been doing when Arwyn is gone. Painting anything that’s not bolted down. Bubby sneakily took these pictures of me through the living room window.
My stripey table and chairs. In the background of this one, you can see the next project awaiting my attention: the fence. B has power washed part of it and I need to wait for him to finish before I start painting. I was hoping to get this done while Arwyn was gone this week, but it hasn’t happened. Maybe next time.
Here’s what my boring, ugly front porch used to look like.
Plain dirty white rocking chairs and strangely painted blue school desk.
Here’s the redecorated version!
Bubby has a very nice, very expensive laptop that he brings home from work. Arwyn has been told repeatedly not to touch it. She once colored on it and then yelled, “NO!”. A few days ago she pointed at it and said, “No touch Daddy’s ‘puter” except it really really sounded like “No touch Daddy’s peter”. Um, yeah, that’s right. No touch.
Around 2:30 this afternoon I realized that I hadn’t washed my face or brushed my teeth yet today. I usually do those two things as soon as I get up in the morning. Since Arwyn is visiting my sister, as soon as I get up I head straight for the computer to check my e-mail just in case I might have an e-mail from my sister telling me how everything is going and what they have been doing. As I was belatedly washing my face, I had the thought that this is what it will be like when Arwyn is grown up and gone from our home. I will compulsively check my e-mail 50 times a day to see what she is doing and if she is ok. After two years I’m finally used to her being here and now I wonder if you ever get used to them being gone.
Just add it to the list of “Things I Thought I’d Never Say”. I was changing Arwyn’s diaper one day and she happened to have a blue crayon in her hand. I bent down to pick up a clean diaper, and the next thing I know she’s coloring away in her “area”. When Bubby came home I said, “If you see any blue marks down there, I didn’t do it.” Uh, no photo for this post.
These are the favor bags and CD’s that we passed out at the party. In case you haven’t figured it out, we had a fruit theme going on. Inside the gift bags were fruit stickers, fruit magnets that I made, fruit gummies, Twizzlers, and Runts. You can barely see one in this photo, but I made the little tags that said “happy birthday no. 2 arwyn!”. Bubby and I collaborated on the CD. I picked out the songs (tried for fruit or b-day topics) and he burned all the CD’s and made the labels. Our good friend drew the fruits and Bubs colored them in with his magic computer. B gets bonus points for buying the colored paper envelopes.
These are cards that I made for a garland that hung on the front of the food table. I used acrylic paint and foam stamps and punched little holes in the top and strung them on some curly ribbon. Then I had the excellent idea to take them off the ribbon and use them as thank you cards. My efforts were not in vain, and I don’t have to buy (or make) additional thank you cards.
This was the scene on our front porch Saturday night. B whipped up some strawberry daiquiris (enough with the fruit!) and we lit every citronella candle we owned. I only made it through one game of Skip-Bo (I won, natch) before I had to go collapse in my bed, like a frazzled old lady.
Whew! We have had quite the weekend here at the Horstman household. Friday morning we had a birthday playdate for all of our little friends in the backyard. There was lots of messy painting, snacking and sliding. I think everyone mingled well and had a good time. Arwyn decided to see what the paint tasted like. Not very yummy, from the looks of things.
This is the fruit pizza that I made for the family/friend party on Saturday morning. I made Ju-Ju slice it because I just couldn’t stand to do it. It was very yummy and pretty easy to make. I might have to make it for future get-togethers.
This is the awesome birthday cake that Ju-Ju made for Saturday’s shindig. That girl did everything I ORDERED her to do for the four days that she was here and wanted me to give her more things to do. She made cupcakes and the cake. She went to the store, she folded laundry, she shopped with me, she ran with me, she kept Arwyn out of the way so I could get things done. She didn’t raise an eyebrow no matter how many times I said the f-word. She mopped my floor, for pete’s sake. Now THAT’S a true friend.
Here’s Arwyn opening one of her gifts. She was very excited about presents and oohed and aaahed over just about everything. One of our friends got her a little baby doll and she promptly threw it on the ground and yelled “One, two, three! Wake up, Jeff!!” (from the Wiggles). Almost as funny as in church this morning, Fr. Steve was talking about Jesus being asleep on a cushion and I whispered in Bubby’s ear “Wake up, Jesus!” Gotta love Wiggles humor.
This is one of my favorite photos of the day. I didn’t know Bubby had taken it until I went through all the pics. I can’t believe my baby girl is two.
I don’t think we got a picture, but we did get a video, of her “blowing” out the candle on the cake Saturday. It was rather windy outside and I couldn’t get the candle to stay lit, so we faked it. I just said, “OK, blow out the candle!”, she blew and everybody clapped. Crisis averted.
Arwyn is visiting my sister (AGAIN, I’m such a lucky dog) so I should have time to work on some more projects around the house and catch up on all my blog reading. More birthday pictures are on flickr.
This is the Father’s Day card I made for Bubby’s dad. We are so on top of the freaking ball that we haven’t even GIVEN it to him yet. Yeah, we’re good like that. Plain ole’ card stock base, textured green card stock hills, blue card stock sky, car sticker, tag-line printed on computer and inked edges.
I swear on all things that are holy, I’ll post birthday party pictures of the terrific 2-year old soon, very soon. I am so wiped out, I’m not functioning so great. I kept rolling right up through the party, then crashed. I’m still in recovery mode and my bed is singing me a siren song.
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