Flitterin'

Life for us the past few weeks has been consumed with short spurts of busy-ness followed by short spurts of lazy-ness. The weekends were the busy times, filled with trips home to my parents' house, visits with family and friends, playing with nephews, sleeping in a different bed, packing and unpacking. We spent the weekdays playing catch up--on sleep, on work, on cleaning, on groceries, on cooking, on Mad Men. 

As fun as the past 4 weekends have been, I'm glad to have a quiet one coming up.

I want to make good meals, go on a couple long walks and hit up some yard sales, if I can find them.

In other good stuff kind of news, if you want to know what my most favorite part of nannying is lately,

it would be bath time.

It's like bathing fat, wet noodle.

And there's nothing sweeter than a clean, calm, soapy baby.

Just in case you wanted to know. :)

saturday walk

the beautiful weather on saturday made for a perfect opportunity to take a walk around the neighborhood and test out the new lens ryan got for christmas.

while ryan pretended he was a bird photographer, i instagrammed things that looked pretty.

you know. as usual.

another year over, a new one just begun

Happy 2012!!

It shall be declared The Year of the iPhone

because Ryan and his parents gave one to me for Christmas

and I am about to Instagram your FACE off.

We spent New Year's Eve in Fond du Lac with my family, and it was wonderful.

There were lots of good meals.

And lots of snacking in between good meals.

And I don't think I'll eat another bite of chex mix until 2013.

(that's probably not true at all.)

We were all getting a little sleepy around 10pm that night, so to wake ourselves up, my sisters and I ran around the house outside while blowing noisemakers, and I laughed harder than I did all year I think.

We spent the first couple hours of 2012 listening to my parents tell funny stories, 

and then I kissed Ryan and fell asleep.

The next day we played with these cuties:

I made some resolutions, too.

Some will be easy, some will be really really hard, and some are wishful thinking.

I wrote them down, and I'm anxious to see how much I check off.

And then I made list after list of 2012-y things:

Did I take that picture of my lists because I thought anyone needed to see it?

No.

I did it because I CAN.

I'm so glad about this new year.