Date night!

While baby's away... mommy and daddy will play!

I need to point out the above photo of Mike... he almost always refuses to let me take a nice photo of him... and, I refuse to stop taking photos of him. The result: see above. SO, you will be seeing more of these... I'm going to continue to post his silly photos. ;)

We brought our poor neglected furry chihuahua child with us to a little wine bar. Poor lonely neglected Angus (he's not really neglected... he just acts that way).

Yummy treats. Not pictured here: the delicious S'mores cake I had. Whoa. Yum. More please. S'more please. Ha! ;D

BY the way... winners of last months giveaways have been chosen! Here you go! Congrats to the winnerssssssss!

Spirithood giveaway: Tara of Tugboat Photography!

Just.Lovely.Things. giveaway: 3 Boys Plus Barbie!

Tiny Treehugger giveaway: Knit Purl Baby!

Prince Lionheart Wheely Bug giveaway: The Curly Cues!

♡ Chelsey

Father's Day 2011

{“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.”}

Soooo.... can you guess which one of us wasn't very happy about the family photo above? ;D Mike's 2nd father's day was a lovely relaxing one. We spent the day out at my uncles house where I managed to eat 5 gallons of jalapeno popper dip that Mike made... not even joking... it was probably 5 pounds. I'll have to share the recipe... so freakin' yummy. I wish I had some right now... enough about that yummy dip... lets talk about my Living Healthy!

A quick update on my 30 Day Shred (which is more like my Every Day Shred since I've been doing it since the beginning of May. :D). I did actually put myself on a scale and found out I lost 5 pounds. BUT, it's not a weight loss thing for me. It's seriously how my clothes are fitting. And, they are fitting better! I'm so much more comfortable in my old clothes! Yay!

I've just moved onto Level 3 of the shred! Yes... it took me that long to get to it! I actually have to modify the workouts so I'm not jumping on my bad knees... Even though level 3 is WAY more difficult... I think I like it best of all the other levels! Maybe because it seems like it goes by faster? Hmmm... Ok, that's my update! If you're shredding... or, you'd like to shred... click the button below to link up with Naptime Momtog!

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♡ Chelsey

I found flowers.

I found flowers. That's it. It made me smile to be able to walk around the neighborhood and see flowers. With the sun shining. With my family. I hope you all had at least one sunny day too! :D

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I wear my sunglasses at night.

Well... it was 6 pm. Not technically nighttime... close enough. ;D I just bought Ruari those sweet blue shades! You like? I can't keep sunglasses on her... she's just starting to understand they keep the sun out of her eyes... but, she still pulls them off.

Sooooo, whenever my brother holds her she gets very quiet and doesn't move much (he's a big guy). She really likes him... says his name (Aaah-um = Adam), but she's just not completely sure yet. While he was holding her I thought it would be the perfect time to put her shades on. Oh man. I love these photos! :D They look so bad-ass in the photo above (hee)!

BY the way... if you're wondering where Ruari got her sweet shirt... it came from Melon Dot! She made it custom for her. I LOVE it! You can now buy one for your little baby in her shop! Check it out!

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❤ Chelsey


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Interview day.

A couple weekends ago I was contacted by a writer from the Flux magazine. This is a University of Oregon magazine. It's mostly an online magazine, but also has one annual print magazine. Great photos and lovely stories! So, she wanted to interview me... while reading some blogs she stumbled into the world of "mom blogging". Somehow through clicking through a ton of blogs she stumbled onto mine.

Since I'm an Oregon blogger she emailed me to see if I was interested in an interview. Sooo... after making sure it was a real magazine and her and the photographer were real people (turns out they are. Click here to see the photographers website) they came to my home last Wednesday. Just because I'm paranoid... I didn't want to be alone when they came by. My friend Kim and little Danny came by to hang out while they were here.

I was worried that I would be too boring... I mean... what could they photograph me doing for 2 or 3 hours? But, it turned out to be fun. Both of them are great people and I really enjoyed it. Ruari was shy at first... but, then she warmed up... then she was SO comfortable she even showed off her melt down skills. Ha! That's my girl. 

So, I'll know in a couple months or so if it will be in their annual print in June. I'll let you guys know!

After they left the skies were clear and everything was fresh after all the rain/hail we were having... and, my Mom and brother showed up... so, we wandered outside to get a couple photos.

One more thing: I caught my brother playing with Ruari's toys in the play corner... I snapped a quick photo. Of course. I told him this photo has to go on my blog. Hee. I guess the sibling teasing doesn't end even when we're old. :D Look how happy he is playing there! What a good boy. :)

It was a long, but fun day! I very much enjoyed it.

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❤ Chelsey





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