Here's What's Happening on the iPhone...January

Just starting to sit up at the beginning of this month.

Sitting outside on a pretty, winter day.

Big-boy pajamas from Krysti.

Katie with Callan in the hospital.

Graham and Anderson in Tiff's car before "the incident" outside the clothing boutique.

After sleeping in bed with us for the first time...a good two hour nap.

Nathan has titled this picture "Quasimodo."

It's Magic

Still not sure why this is so funny...Nathan claims he can do magic tricks since he watched The Prestige on TV last night.

Babies in Auburn

This year's trip to Auburn had a different dynamic now that everyone has babies. We stayed with Tiffany and Ryan for two nights and got approximately three hours of sleep each night. Graham was on a sleeping strike and screamed every time we put him down. Normally this would be okay, but with a sleeping Anderson in the next room, things got a little stressful. The picture above is by far the cutest pic of the weekend. We were stripping both of them for a bath, and they started playing on the floor together. I love their opposite hair and eye color.

Here's big sister Auden. Nathan and I drove straight to the hospital to see little Callan. He's so handsome. (See pic below.)

Callan Rex Rainer

The progression below sums up Anderson in three pics.

She loved Graham and was always on the move!

See Graham's cute striped outfit above? There was a lot of drama behind its purchase. Graham had been grumpy and grunting that day, and Tiffany gave me some prunes for Graham to try for the first time. We only gave him about ten bites. Tiffany and I were set on taking the babies to some clothing stores in town, so after lunch we packed them in the car. We pulled up to the first store, took the babies out, and I said, "Yay! The prunes worked. I smell something!" I wanted to run into the store first, then change Graham in the back of Tiff's SUV. The store was closed, so we popped the back and proceeded to change Graham. When I pulled his sweatpants off, the insides were completely coated in poo. It. Was. Everywhere. I basically gave him a head to toe bath with wipes. I then dove into my diaper bag to discover that for the first time in six months I was without an extra change of clothes. So Graham went into the carseat in a diaper. Then he went into the next boutique in said diaper. Then we purchased the adorable ensemble above. I've never felt so judged in my life...except for the time Nathan and I drank beer in Salsaritas with Graham sleeping in the carseat next to us.

Happy 2012!

This post is a little late...

The three of us made it down to Glasgow on Sunday to celebrate the new year with friends. Crazily enough, we now have lots of connections in the tiny Kentucky town. Jenny is from Glasgow, so she and AJ visit her family there. Jeff and Anne were both hired at the same church in town and recently moved into a great house. So this week we didn't have to drive to Lexington and Texas to see our buddies. Good year so far!

A Month of Meals - Meal #3

Meal #3 - Pork Chops with Roasted Beets and Oranges

Nathan prepared this meal while I took care of a sick baby. Graham and I sat in a steamy bathroom trying to ease a cough.

Just call him Dwight Schrute...he chopped up beets for the first time. The meal was really good, and I think the pork chop was one of the best I ever had.

A Month of Meals - Meal #2

Meal #2 - Tomato Soup with Roast Beef, Cheddar, and Horseradish Panini

This meal went well. I'll admit that I didn't even read the recipes when I went to the grocery with the shopping list. If I had, I would have been tempted to just buy tomato soup. I made this in the blender; it was pretty easy. The yummy part was the sour cream/horseradish topping for the soup and sandwich.

Real Simple has all of these recipes on their website. Their pictures are much more impressive.

But more importantly...guess who has two thumbs and ONE TOOTH?

THIS GUY!

A Month of Meals - Meal #1

Our New Year's resolution is to start cooking more at the house. This is a big deal for me because I'm not a cook. It's one of the things in life that stresses me out the most. So for the month of January, we're cooking twenty meals from Real Simple magazine. They provided the shopping lists and "simple" recipes.

The process started yesterday with a visit to the grocery. It only cost us about $80 to get all of the ingredients for the first five meals, but it took us around two hours and a trip to Wal-Mart and Kroger. Items we purchased for the first time ever - bok choy, beets, Asian hot sauce, savoy cabbage, fresh sage. We had to read every tag in the produce section to find some of these items. "Is a scallion a small onion or the long green onion? Wait...what's a shallot?" Questions like this filled our Monday morning.

Tonight kicked off the twenty meals, and I'm going to try to update each night.

MEAL #1 - Salmon with Gingery Green Beans and Bok Choy

Not too bad...a little burnt. Here's why:

Graham decided that his four day poop strike would end in the middle of cooking. This was the most epic diaper yet. It even called for a bath before dinner could begin. This is the most comfortable he's been in...well...four days.

Sacrifice for a homemade meal - one Ugg boot. I'll need to visit the dry cleaner tomorrow. Awesome.

Here's What's Happening on the iPhone...

Practicing sitting up with Uncle Scott.

Cracking up at MeMe's house.

With my Bruce before Christmas.

Salt dough ornaments we made for the grandmothers and aunts.

Lexie making it impossible to do laundry.

New kitchen sink!

Go Cats! Beat the Cards!