tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88066051033651831732024-03-13T06:30:26.505-04:00D Family ValuesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-2303650294054523832012-11-08T10:08:00.001-05:002012-11-08T10:08:38.396-05:00Fall So Far<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hello All! I thought I'd pop by and say hi and share what D family has been up to lately. Just to forwarn you, this will be a lengthy post with lots of pictures!</div>
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To be honest this fall has had some good times and some not so good times. But I absolutely LOVE this time of year so even the bad things that have popped up lately haven't ruined it :)</div>
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Since I want to end on a positive note, I will start with some of the things that have been not pleasant lately. Nothing catastrophic but just unpleasant. Since I last posted, poor Noah has had 2 ear infections :(. Poor guy. I'm just praying that he doesn't continue getting them because I don't want the tubes to have to be put in his ears. He seemed to get better and then just last week he had 3 diapers with blood in them. Definitely FREAKED this mama out! Luckily he was tested for the C Diff bacteria from being on antibiotics and it came back negative. He hasn't had one since, so we're thinking it was a stomach thing or a little tear that's all better. But he did get a cold or bug around then that's slowly going away. Poor guy. I'm hoping he gets better and stays healthy for a long while after this.</div>
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Just the other day I went to the store and went to use my debit card and it wouldn't go through and the cashier said I'm suppose to call the bank. Confused, I called my hubby to see if he knew what was going on because I know we had money in there. He checked our account online and someone had wiped our account clean :(. Yikes! I called the bank and canceled my debit card and since the deductions are pending, there's nothing the bank can do at this point. So I'm playing the watching and waiting game to see if they post. If they do, then I need to go to the bank and file an investigative form and from what I was told, " We'll see if we can get your money back.". Not something I want to hear around the holidays. We'll see if we can get it back? No I better be getting my money back! I'm just praying that the pends just disappear and our money is safely back into our account.</div>
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Now for the good news for D Family.</div>
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My sis came up to visit the middle of October with her family. I was so excited because instead of just her and my neice Caitlynn, it was the entire family including my brother in law, youngest neice Camrynn, and nephew Gary. We had such a good time. Noah became attached to me and clung to me for the first day they were here, but shortly after, he was all over the place and playing with his cousins and reading books with his aunt Becki and Uncle Gary! :) We even had an early turkey dinner since we can't spend Thanksgiving together.</div>
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We took a trip to Mount Washington since my brother in law hadn't been there yet.</div>
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Noah and Aunt Becki!</div>
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Little Cami! I just love this little peanut!</div>
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She loved rubbing uncle Andy's buzzed head lol</div>
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Cousin Kisses!</div>
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Noah has slowly progressed to standing on his own and cruising at full speed while holding onto someone or something. It's just a matter of time until he is walking/running. Pretty much he's just being chicken right now...just like his daddy was at his age :)</div>
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And for the sake of Halloween here's a picture that cracks me up. Not exactly Halloween themed, but somewhat spooky and it made me chuckle.</div>
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D Family also had a great Halloween. While we took our little boy trick or treating, Andy's sisters who decided they were too old to go out anymore, stayed at our house to pass out candy. I don't have a picture of it, but I put up some spookie decorations in our mudroom for the trick or treaters to walk through.</div>
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And here's our little dragon!</div>
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His cousin was a little monkey. Noah would not loosen his grip on the glow stick we gave him.</div>
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D Family before going trick or treating!</div>
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We had good weather but it was still chilly so we didn't stay out too long. Noah just cruised along in his little car.</div>
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Andy and I didn't dress up on Halloween, but we did go to the Halloween party at the Spalding Inn where Jason and Grant from Ghost Hunters were. For some reason I don't have the pictures uploaded on here yet so I will have to show you what we were later. The party was a blast and it was so nice to get out and spend some good time together while nana and papa watched our little boy.</div>
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So that's about it so far! I hope you all have a great rest of fall and a great Thanksgiving. Eat lots of food and spend lots of good quality time with those you love! :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-23120137234676838182012-10-11T10:19:00.000-04:002012-10-11T10:19:08.891-04:00An Unwanted BUT Needed BreakI've been circling around this idea and didn't want to do it. But I need to for now. It has been a long time coming but I've been procrastinating it pretty much all summer. This past year has been hectic and crazy and I've still been trying to manage organizing and catching up on things and have only been mildly successful. <br />
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I haven't been able to blog like I want and it isn't for lack of interest in doing so. Mostly lack of time. Lack of time to do anything creative, lack of time to snap enough pictures to capture special moments, lack of time to visit other blogs and to put together as good of posts as I would like. I can blame it on my crazy horomones which have shown their ugly face these past few months, or all the craziness that happens around me, or just my inability to better time manage. Whatever it is I need to figure it out and refocus. I'm not saying this is a year long or even 6 month long break. Just a short break to in a way regroup until I can better focus and get my act together so to speak. <br />
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This is one of D Family's ultimate favorite times of the year, aka the months that end in ber lol, with the holidays approaching and I just want to spend as much time with my men, family, and enjoying the season. Of course with it being the most exciting time of the year, I do want to share those fun special holiday memories, crafts, baking, shopping sprees, parties, you name it with all of you. But in an effort to create better posts without stressing out about time, I'm going to take a slight break from the blogging world. I will check in on your blogs from time to time and maybe make a post once in a while. I'm just eliminating any stress about doing so. And I don't want to post unless I feel like it's a good one. <br />
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I don't know if this will just be a month, 2, or 3 but I plan to be back before the New Year. I just know I need to regroup. I have always been into crafts, prims, and decorating. I've just not had the time or energy to do much of anything in a very long time. I'd like to incorporate more of that into my blog as well. <br />
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I hope you wonderful ladies whom I have met in this great blog world will understand. I can't wait until I really come back and get to see what all everyone's been up to. I hope you all have some great times and memories in these next few months. Remember to make time to enjoy the holidays with those special people in your life :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-82899678808966491952012-10-08T12:52:00.001-04:002012-10-08T12:53:56.585-04:00Autumn Off The GreenD Family had a great weekend and I hope everyone else did too!<br />
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Every year on the first Sunday in October, our town hosts a fall Octoberfest type of event called Autumn on the Green. Well currently, there's a lot of road work and landscaping work going on where the green is. So it was hosted on the town's school grounds to which the nickname Autumn off the Green was made up. Either next year or the year after it should be back where it belongs. <br />
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It was a chilly day yesterday, but there were still a good amount of vendors and visitors. This is just a view of one strip of tents. At the end of this strip to the right were more and a ton more down the hill at the end.</div>
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Noah seemed to have a good time and was all bundled up with his monster hat. He was such a good boy! Hubby and I love to get some delicious food at these types of things. We also got some Vermont made fresh apple cider...YUM!</div>
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Since Noah is an animal lover, he loved these Alpacas. He was talking to them in his baby voice which usually has the most understandable words being dad and dat (that).</div>
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While I always enjoy all of the homemade crafts. I just LOVED these chairs which I called rag chairs. The lady made them out of any leftover material she had. I thought these were amazing and she had them in all styles and colors. I even tested it out and sat in it and it was very study. These were definitely my favorite item I saw there.</div>
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Now it's back to work for me. I hope everyone has a great rest of the day and week!</div>
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Yesterday was mine and Andy's Anniversary. These are what he had waiting on the counter for me for when I came home! He's such a sweetie :)</div>
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I was recently in an extremely fun swap which was hosted by Amy from <a href="http://bumblebeelanecottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bumble Bee Lane</a>. My partner was Cindi from <a href="http://cindiscountrycorner.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cindi's Primitive Country Corner</a>. I have to appoligize because I'm a little late on my posting. </div>
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She spoiled me so so much! Here's a peak at what she got me below!</div>
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A candle mat with pumpkins and flowers and 2 AMAZINGLY smelling candles! I've already starting burning my candles and I have to say they make the house smell heavenly! She also got me a twig pumpkin which is so cute, a sunflower wall plaque, and can I just express how ridiculously cute those 2 turkey sitters are? :) A box with paper which will be perfect for writing our grocery list. Right now we write everything down on the chalkboard or dry erase board and take a picture of it with our phone to take to the store with us...I know lame lol. And finally...</div>
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This adorable scarecrow couple! Andy knew exactly when I opened these two because I believe I made the most joyous noise. I bought some scratch tickets earlier that day and he thought I'd hit the lottery jackpot lol. Maybe not the lottery but definitely the fall jackpot! Thanks so much Cindi for the gifts and Amy for this swap. Everything is just WONDERFUL and has quickly found their fall homes already! :)</div>
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D family has recently entertained some very important and special guests for toddler D's Birthday. I already mentioned my amazing friend Michelle, but we also had my parents (or as Noah knows them as mamaw and pap). He was in such a great mood from seeing everyone, even considering he had an ear infection :(</div>
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He loved playing with my dad! I must mentioned that my dad was originally going to be called papaw. As toddler D and papaw were playing puzzles, Noah didn't seem to like it when papaw put the puzzle together when he was trying so desperately hard to take it apart to bang the pieces together. So everytime papaw put it together, Noah exclaimed, "Baba dada mama blahblahblah PAP!". I think he was trying to tell him that he was doing it wrong...So cute! :) So now my dad is just "pap" instead of "papaw".</div>
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I think I have seriously gained a ton of weight from all of the good food I ate while they were here. Between my mom's southern cooking and eating out, I may have moved up a pant size lol. Noah was of course our dinner time source of entertainment. This is him making him "angry face" which is always followed by toddler D going, "haha haha haha". </div>
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And everytime we have company, a trip to mine and AnDy's ultimate favorite spot, Mt. Washington Hotel and Resort,is in order. We always have to share our story of how we met there while pointing out exact locations of where D family's story started. I can't wait until the day we can tell Noah our story there when he will actually understand and remember :)</div>
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It was a slightly windy and cool fall day which made it perfect!</div>
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It was such a great, relaxing, and enjoyable time! I wish I could have all of the people I love and care about up here with me all the time. But since they can't, I will enjoy every ounce of time I can when I do see them. In the meantime, we can enjoy our skyping sessions.</div>
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Now I must leave you with a crazy picture of me and some cute pictures of toddler D eating puzzle pieces! I hope everyone has a great second half of the week!</div>
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Busy Busy once again and so much to catch up on, including the emails in my inbox at work I got from my nice long vacation. <br />
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His Green Monster Personal cake which was chocolate!</div>
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Noah' s photo collage and the favor boxes for the kids. The older kids had the boxes to the left with candy and small toys like little bouncy balls, little yoyos, monster stickers and other goodies. The younger babies had their own special favors. Their little boxes had little stuffed monsters with baby cookies and mum mums in them!</div>
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Mama and the birthday boy. We are currently trying to get him off of the binki. I just couldn't say no to him at his birthday.</div>
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One of my besties, Michelle, from Ohio came up for his birthday! We had so much fun! I don't know what we would have done without her and my mom and dad's help.</div>
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Noah loved getting spoiled by aunt Shell!</div>
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He spotted his birthday present from nana and papa early and just had to check it out!</div>
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He doesn't look it in this picture but he LOVES this little car! We pull him around the house and he puts on the blinkers and honks the horn...it's so darn cute! :)</div>
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Here's a good view of his birthday outfit. A litte monster which matches his shorts and the number 1 and his name underneath.</div>
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Big Bird! He is absolutely crazy about sesame street but more importantly, big bird elmo and cookie monster!</div>
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Cake time didn't start out too well. He wasn't exactly thrilled about his cake at first.</div>
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Then we gave him a spoon and he got his first taste...YUM!</div>
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And dug in some more!</div>
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I think he ate a little too much! But I think cake time ended up fairly successful.</div>
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Especially our little monster of a birthday boy! I think we can count this as a successful first birthday! :)</div>
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I'm so excited for this post today. This is part of a challenge hosted by my new friend over at <a href="http://mycolonialhome.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-post-challenge-that-will-have-winner.html" target="_blank">My Colonial Home</a>. The challenge is to basically give you a little history as to where you blog name came from. <br />
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Well D Family Values started a little over a year and a half ago on January 14, 2011. To be honest, the blog existed long before the name...</div>
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When I first started this blog it was a new year and I had only been married a couple of months. I had moved away from my family and everything I had ever known in Ohio to come up to Vermont and live in the mountains with my hubby. It was all exciting, new, and EXTREMELY TERRIFYING to move my entire life. So many new things were happening at once, newly graduated college, new career, new state, new husband, and my very first home. Overwhelmed, I turned to blogs and hearing from other people all around about their trials, challenges, and day to day life. I thought, what a perfect place to share all of these new experiences than the blogging world! </div>
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I was so eager to start that I created an account without any idea on a blog name, what my first post would be, or even what all I would blog about. Reading other blogs I saw some pretty niftly names and wanted something eye catching as well. Without having any other plan, I settled on the title of "A Crazy Little Thing Called Life". I wrote my first post and then....didn't see blogger for an entire year! What happened? I didn't know what in the world to write about. I had so many ideas, my new life in Vermont, my faith, ghost hunting, or being newly married. I couldn't settle on any one idea. So I just decided to stop before I really got started and continued to visit blogs and be a lurker. </div>
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FINALLY, one day I was reading a long favorite blog of mine <a href="http://mabelshouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mabel's House</a>. She started her blog to focus around decorating and fixing up her first new home she bought with her husband. But as I was reading her posts, they were not all just about her home. She brought in her favorite books, family (including her beautiful baby girl), funny stories, and even talked about other trials and tribulations she had experienced. A lightbulb popped up in my head and I realized, I don't need to focus on one topic. It's my blog and there's so much I want to talk about and if nobody reads...NO BIG DEAL!</div>
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I went back to my blog and started writing my first post since I started this blog. I thought about deleting the account and starting from scratch but decided...I want to see my first post and remember where I started from. I knew I would have a lot to talk about regarding my family and new baby boy and that most of my posts would focus on them. Since our last name is DeMasi, that's where the <strong>D </strong>came into play. I am constantly learning new things about life and who I am and what I value. Besides my family, I value decorating and creativity focused mostly on prim :) , ghost hunting, my faith, and all of the little things that pop up in life that you just want to share. I honestly didn't know what would be in my blog and decided that I liked it that way. So since <strong>Family </strong>is the focus of my blogs , that's where that came into play. And since I want to share any and everything my family and I <strong>Value</strong>, it just fit. Plus I like the slight play on words with the D hehe! I'm still learning about blogging and I still don't get to post as much as I like. But it sure is nice to have a safe place to share a small part of my life and get a peek at some other wonderful people and their lives and passions!</div>
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So there you go a long post not only about where my blog name came from but also my journey into the blog world.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-32277920819419829392012-09-03T17:45:00.001-04:002012-09-04T08:13:23.568-04:00These Past 3 1/2 Weeks...RecapWoah it's been a while since I made a post!<br />
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What has D family been up to these past almost 4 weeks? Well......a lot of CRAZINESS...let me explain....<br />
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When I decided it was time for AnDy and I to start a family and for me to be a mom, I had this idea of being a mom as being something like this...<br />
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Reading a nice book to my kid and relaxing having everything be nice calm and normal.</div>
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Crazy thing seems to happen (to me anyways) after having a baby. My hormones get all crazy and I turn into a nutball! Neurotic, hypochondriac, nervious wreck, and the world's biggest worry wart. I have been feeling the complete opposite of sane lately and like I've been hanging on to sanity by a string of thread. Luckily, I've been in the process of getting my hormones in balance and hopefully my sanity along with it (Well at least the little bit of sanity I may have previously had :)). </div>
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Besides my craziness, little things have been going on.</div>
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I decided to move all of my Americana decor over to my kitchen from my dining room. The dining room ends up being the coldest room in the house once winter happens, and in the summer we are outside more when we are home. I wanted to be able to enjoy all of my Americana stuff more. Maybe I will eventually change things again, but for now it suits. </div>
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I still have work to do in there, like change the tops of the cabinets and some other small changes. But so far I'm liking the change. <br />
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This summer D family has also been watching our favorite summer show, Big Brother. Here is a peek at 2 of my favorite players.<br />
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Ian Terry. I must mention that I love his shirt! He's a chemical engineering student and with that being my degree, this shirt, and the fact he wore it on tv, just makes me chuckle.</div>
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We've also been getting rid of some junk with a yard sale. It feels so good to get rid of the unnecessary clutter! AnDy and I have given each other an early anniversary gift...2 tickets to a Halloween party hosted at the Spalding Inn by some of our favorite tv personalities, Jason and Grant from Ghost Hunters. We cannot be anymore excited than we are about this. We haven't seen then in a couple years and with Grant leaving the show and not doing anymore events, this is a chance to see him outside of those. CAN'T WAIT!!!</div>
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I've been working on Noah's first birthday party. We just got his birthday gift in the mail, a jumpoline which will be turned into a ball pit. I am SUPER excited to put this up; I know he's going to LOVE it! Oh...speaking of Mr. Noah himself. He's been busy getting bigger and getting excited for his birthday party. He still has yet to crawl. I think he may skip crawling and will jump straight to walking. Although he's a bit of a ways away from walking too. He just likes to do things at his own pace I guess. He has, however developed a love for Sesame Street and the characters Big Bird, Elmo, and Cookie Monster. He even got a new tub that has his favorite characters on it.</div>
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He's also developing quite the personality. He's definitely not as shy as mommy was when she was younger. And here's Mr. Attitude himself......<br />
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Recently D family had a photo shoot done. We had some family pictures taken but this was mostly a shoot for Noah. I guess you can say it was his 1yr photo shoot but because we wanted pictures taken for his birthday invitations and needed them to be done soon, it's more like his 10 1/2 month photo shoot. He did such a good job! He's like his daddy and is a big Ham when it comes to cameras. I decided to post some of my favorites from the shoot.</div>
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The next 2 give baby D's 1st birthday party theme away. We chose little monsters. This was just a little monsters outfit we chose to have pictures taken in for his birthday invitation. I had a personalized outfit made for his actual party. I will have a picture of him in that taken at his party for his thank you cards.</div>
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Anyhow...as part of the relaxing and enjoying family time, D family took an extended weekend trip to Boothbay Harbor Maine. I was so excited because I've always wanted to see Maine, lighthouses and other historical places. <br />Beware, lots of pics ahead :)<br />
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Baby D was excited for the trip!</div>
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The Harbor. What is it about a harbor with boats and the ocean that automatically relaxes me? So peaceful!</div>
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He loved the boats. Getting him to look towards the camera was an extremely difficult task because he couldn't take his eyes off of them.</div>
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We stopped and toured Fort William Henry on Pemaquid Beach, Maine. </div>
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This is pretty much what's left of the fort. Most of it was burned down and I can't remember when or details. The picture below shows a view from the top of the tower. You can see part of the outline of where the fort was along with remnants of the captains quarters.</div>
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Views from the top. It was so cramped up there and we could only have 5 people max at the top. I don't know why I always envisioned more space at the top of lighthouses. Either way it was super cool!</div>
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And of course what is a trip to one of the oldest states in our country without at least a tour of spooky haunted places around Boothbay? The lady in the red cape gave a tour of supposed haunted spots. Besides the explanation which was given saying orbs were anything supernatural or paranormal instead of dust or bugs and cool lighting effects, it was an good family tour. It definitely gave me extreme craving for a ghost hunt. It's been too long and it looks like it might not be in the plans until October (mine and AnDy's anniversary) when we stay at the Lizzy Borden House. We would be the type to plan on an anniversary ghost hunting trip! </div>
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All in all it was a very relaxing and much needed trip. Seeing all of the old buildings and antiques gave me a renewed boost to do some crafty things. I'm thinking I may redo my end tables (FINALLY) since I've been wanting to do them since I bought them off of craigslist.</div>
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Well that's about it. Enjoy your Friday and weekend everyone!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-72111897924590828772012-07-25T08:32:00.002-04:002012-07-25T11:03:18.160-04:00D Family Summer Vacation<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello all! D Family is still here but we've been taking our version of a short summer vacation. We have an exciting weekend planned this coming weekend and I know I will have to share! I hope everyone is having a great summer. It's flying by isn't it? And from the majority of the pictures I have taken of Noah recently you would think all he's doing this summer is eating. </div>
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He seems to enjoy yelling and making socially acceptable farting noises at his food. This is him caught in the act.</div>
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First I want to thank everyone for the kind words yesterday. Andy loved my hair which surprised me because he usually doesn't like bangs. But last night as we were watching our current favorite <strike>addiction </strike>show "LOST", he couldn't stop playing with them lol. </div>
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Anywho... I'm very excited to share this fantastic giveaway by my friend Step over at <a href="http://frontporchprimitives.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Front Porch Primitives</a>. If you are anything like me then Christmas time is your absolute favorite time of the year and you love to celebrate it more than once a year. Or maybe you just love all of the decorations that come with that time of year. If you like anything to do with Christmas, then you will LOVE this giveaway! In celebration of her first year blogging, she's having a Blogiversary Giveaway with these great items she's handmade! </div>
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For a chance at these great works of love, check out her giveaway <a href="http://frontporchprimitives.blogspot.com/2012/07/christmas-in-julybloggiversary-giveaway.html" target="_blank">here</a>!</div>
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Sorry for the awkward myspace/facebook self portrait pose. It's the only way to get a self picture without asking co workers to take one for me. I finally decided to get the first time mommy hair cut. This is the shortest I have ever had my hair in my entire life. It feels so much better! Noah will still be able to grab it. However, he shouldn't be able to have it wrapped around his fingers, hands, toes, and feet anymore. You wouldn't believe where I have found strands of my hair. It literally is a huge weight off my shoulders.</div>
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Hello all! First I want to say that I hope everyone had a great 4th. Starting Thursday and through Friday, Noah looked like he belonged on the exorcist. His poor belly :(. Andy got the bug on Monday and it hit me yesterday. However, even though D family has been fighting through a case of the yucky tummies, we had a pretty great 4th. </div>
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We went to a parade early in the day. Surprisingly Noah didn't mind the loud band drums, fire trucks, or the huge cannon that was shot in front of us. I must admit, it startled me pretty good but as soon as it was shot, Noah quickly turned his head towards it and gave a big grin. I think this is a hint that he's going to enjoy those really loud toys. Especially since his new favorite thing to do is to hit everything in order to make a sound; the louder the better!</div>
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I must admit that D Family has been very anticlimatic lately. Mostly we have been working on Noah crawling, standing, enjoying his new found favorite word "dadadada dadada" which is yelled at operatic levels, while AnDy and I enjoy any time we can find in the midst of our busy opposite schedules. Besides these tasks, the most exciting thing hs been to witness Noah learning to self feed. It started out that by the time snack time was over, those little baby puffs would end up stuck all over his face, hands, arms, legs, and the rest of his tiny body. He finally learned to grab handfuls of puffs in each palm and them proceeds to pinch another individual puff between his fingers before shoveling it into his mouth. At the end of his treat, the puffs held tight in his tiny palms end up being nothing but mush. So at the current rate about 20% of the puffs actually end up in his mouth with the remaining 80% being split between being smashed in his hands, on the floor, and stuck to various body parts. I can't help but love this process of self feeding he's learning, it's quite cute and entertaining! : )</div>
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First on Friday our little man turned 9 months! I can't believe this little guy is already three quarters of a year old! I'm already starting to get ideas for his 1st birthday and I'm excited because I believe it's going to be a fun theme!</div>
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Happy Hump Day everyone! I first want to thank you all for being supportive of the minor changes that have started and that I hope will continue. Not only is the change needed but I really am starting to think I'm a person who thrives on change.</div>
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Recently I participated in another swap, Bee Happy Swap, hosted by Amy of <a href="http://bumblebeelanecottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bumble Bee Lane</a>. Once again I had a great time and received some fantastic goodies! My swap partner was Kim from <a href="http://blackberrycrowsprims.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BlackBerry Crows Prims</a> and these are the goodies she sent to me. A lovely flower dish towel, a primmed up spoon with some gingham fabric, a cute little star ( I love stars). She also sent that perfect doll in the flower dress with the nest and egg. Lastly, she sent that prim perfect bee hive door hanger with a bumble bee and crow! I LOVE it all, thanks so much! </div>
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Lately there have been quite a few minor changes, which are for the better, that can make a pretty significant impact for D family. Things were just not where we as a family wanted them and frankly put the same expression on my face as Noah gets when I give him peaches. We're still not exactly where I hope to one day be, but we are definitely moving in a positive direction which gives me new hope for the future. Whenever I'm in need of some change and it seems everything wants to stay put and not budge, I tend to get very discouraged very fast. I guess that's pretty typical for type A personality who wants what they want right now! </div>
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DESIRED CHANGE #1 - To be a stay at home mom or to have a job I can actually tolerate. Currently I pretty much despise my job. Not the, "Oh I don't feel like working today." but the complete dread and hatred for the job. I know I'm lucky to have a job and I thank God for that everyday. I'm just wanting something a little more directed at what I would like to do. Right now it's difficult to leave my family to go to a job I hate. Even though being a stay at home mom is far from reach, a job I enjoy more would make leaving my family everyday slightly less of an emotional dissatisfaction. <br />
ACTUAL/CURRENT CHANGE - Well I'm by no means a stay at home mom and I'm still at the job I dislike beyond imagination. I did, however, bid or apply for a different job within the same company but in a different department. If I get it I will be in a lower position than I am now, but I don't care about a title. It still isn't where I see myself in the future but it would be much better than where I'm at currently. <br />
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DESIRED CHANGE #2 - Spend more time with Andy by Andy finding a new job with a matching work schedule as myself. Andy and I have less than desirable schedules. I work the typical 8-5 Monday through Friday and he works 1-8:30 Tuesday through Saturday. Which leaves us only a full Sunday to do anything as a family together. Sundays usually end up being the day we spend with the rest of my hubby's family and a day where we get things done which haven't been able to get done during the week. Needless to say, it's not an easy thing to manage when you have completely different schedules than your spouse. <br />
ACTUAL/CURRENT CHANGE - Well Andy has yet to find a new job. He has, however, managed to get an extra day off a week, Saturday, which gives us a whole weekend to spend together. I can't tell you how happy that makes me : )<br />
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DESIRED CHANGE #3 - Get Noah exposed to new people and other babies his age and give Andy's mom a little break since the rest of the kids are out of school for the summer. The intent was to get him into a good daycare at least part of the time to be exposed to new people and kids while lessening the amount of time Andy's family had to watch him. <br />
ACTUAL/CURRENT CHANGE - We did find a good daycare for Noah and he is now starting to go every Tuesday. This will give Andy a full morning to get some stuff, such as mowing, done and give Andy's mom a break. His first day they said he did great and was very sociable!<br />
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DESIRED CHANGE #4 - Take more time out as a family and go on vacations. The last vacation I went on with Andy was our honeymoon. Usually our vacations are to go visit my family in Ohio. I love these trips but they tend to be so hectic with visiting everyone that Andy and I get very little relaxing time together.<br />
ACTUAL/CURRENT CHANGE - We have decided to skip our usual 2nd trip to Ohio and decided to instead take an extended weekend trip to Maine later in the summer. I can't wait to take Noah to the beach!<br />
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There are other things I guess I would like to change but I think everyone has at least some things that they may want different at one point or another. These were my BIG changes which were very important to me. I've felt stuck in a rut for a while and now with some progress I'm feeling slightly lighter and happier! : )</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-26054142722882302282012-05-30T22:38:00.000-04:002012-05-30T22:38:25.279-04:00Great Memorial Day Weekend!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I know I'm a little late but D family had a great Memorial Day weekend! It's always nice to have extra long weekends with my family. Saturday morning we had such a good time. Noah played in his jumper until he fell fast asleep from playing so hard.</div>
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Once daddy went to work, Noah and mommy enjoyed a nice day by the pool. That is, a day by Noah's baby blow up pool. He was accompanied by his cousin and both of them had a great time splashing around!<br />
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He also got to take a snooze with daddy's memere and his great memere.</div>
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At the party they had a big blow up water slide. The kids all enjoyed it and as you can see, my hubby was the biggest kid of them all.</div>
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Then on Monday we had a nice cookout with hubby's family and celebrated all of the men and women who have and do serve our country. It was so nice and we had such great weather!</div>
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Although it started even before he was born, he continues to take over parts of the house. Slowly he's taking over more and more areas of the house. I appoligize for the quality of some of the pictures as they were taken with my phone.</div>
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This first distorted picture is of Noah taking over, you guessed it, my side of the bed. No he doesn't sleep in it all night or anything, he sleeps in his crib, which is still currently in our room. He wakes up pretty early in the morning a little bit before I have to get up for work. I just LOVE snuggling with the little guy and need to get my cuddle time before work. But since he's getting so big, the cuddling with him on my chest just doesn't work because I feel like I can barely breathe. My solution is to give him my side of the bed and curl up next to him. He loves it! But I will NOT let this turn into a family bed situation. I need my own space to sleep in lol. But this fun snuggle time is such a wonderful thing to start my day = )<br />
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Also not only does his play yard, piano, and toys take over the living room, but his jumper is smack dab in the middle of the walk through from the pellet stove room into the living room. This is hooked up on the frame where I use to have my wooden village set ,which Andy's aunt gave us as a wedding present. </div>
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So now they are spread out over 2 windows in the living room. I have to say, I think I like them better there!</div>
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This growing boy use to only take up one whole set of cabinet space in the kitchen but now it's 2. </div>
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The bottom shelf is a little bare in the back but I have a TON of bottles to put away that were just washed. I'm pretty sure that as he grows and starts to have older baby/toddler snack, these too will need to find a home. This may require yet another cabinet space.</div>
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Speaking of baby food, I just tried introducing stage 3 food to Noah the other day. I still don't think he's forgiven me for it lol. As soon as the food hit his tongue he started fake coughing (as if he was choking) and screaming and crying. I could clearly see he wasn't choking as I only gave him a tiny bit of food and it was still on his tongue. He can be one dramatic little boy. I am however sensing some texture issues. I will wait a couple weeks and try again. Maybe the next time he won't take his spoon and fling food at me in retaliation!</div>
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With summer approaching, Noah is going to be having lots of new adventures. Starting tomorrow when I fill up his baby blow up pool so we can splash around and maybe have a picnic. He loves bath time so he will probably LOVE this! I can't wait!</div>
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The biggest adventure will start June 5th. The hubby and I have decided to give his mom a break from taking care of Noah for every Tuesday. This may be very much appreciated since hubby's 4 younger siblings will be off for summer break and will be home full time. Where he's going for that 1 day of the week is something we've thought about for a while. We have decided that it might be a good idea for Noah to go to a daycare to be with other babies his age. This will be good socialization and will help him as he gets older to learn to listen to and respect his elders who aren't necessarily family. I will keep you posted on how that goes. </div>
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Yes, Noah has completely taken over our lives, heart, and home and we wouldn't have it any other way = )</div>
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Yes my bay window is making headlines for me once again. I'm still trying to find a decorating solution and not having very much luck. I decided to put the throw pillows from the couch on the seat just to see what it looked like. I didn't even think to take a picture but it was something similar to this except with more pillows.</div>
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This looks like a nice setup and a nice sitting area. My problem, however is not what it looks like from the inside. I loved how the pillows looked while being inside. But as Andy nicely pointed out, "The window looks kind of weird from the outside.". Hence my problem. In the picture above it looks like this window is in the back of the house which would be less necessary to make it look nice from the outside; my window is in the front.</div>
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Maybe I'm just being nit picky. Should I just do what looks nice from the inside and not care if it looks a little weird from the outside. Or should I find an alternate solution? I've entertained the idea of taking the cushion off and using it as a kind of shelf for decorations. But I just love the idea of extra sitting room. </div>
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I'm slightly late on this but we were busy yesterday. But Happy Belated Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms. I had such a fantastic first Mother's Day! It was such a wonderful day filled with good times and spending time with my wonderful family! :) I have so much to be grateful for!</div>
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This picture is the first one of Noah and me on the second most important day of my life! I was exhausted and definitely didn't feel even close to being ready for a photoshoot but I didn't care. I was in complete heaven and loving every second with my little man...and I still am! :)</div>
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Hope everyone has a great Monday! </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806605103365183173.post-64795627807492399532012-05-09T09:28:00.001-04:002012-05-09T09:28:23.777-04:00Back to Mount Washington Grant's 2nd to Last Investigation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well it's getting close to the end for my favorite ghost hunter Grant.</div>
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But I'm super excited for tonight's episode; they go back to <a href="http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/BrettonWoodsMountWashington.aspx" target="_blank">Mount Washington</a>! I've mentioned this before but this is where Andy and I met and where we did our first investigation, with the Ghost Hunters themselves, together! The last time they were there they caught the most intense <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon" target="_blank">EVP</a> (electronic voice phenomenon) I have ever heard, which was caught in the princess room. I'd link the video from youtube of the evp caught but I can't get onto it from work (shh don't tell my boss I'm blogging hehe :)). Anyhow, you can youtube it yourself and just search for ghost hunters evp from mount washington hotel and I'm sure you will find it, it's very creepy. Or even better if you can find the entire episode and watch it! </div>
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<em>Picture of some friends and me investigating wall of names at Mount Washington</em></div>
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During the investigation I did with them there I also had some strange experiences in the princess room which included thumps which came from the floor done in response to us. We even had people in the room below this room to make sure nobody was toying with us by banging on the ceiling. </div>
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As you can see I'm pretty much in love with this place!</div>
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Not only is it probably the most gorgeous hotel I've ever stayed at, but it's haunted, it's where I met the ghost hunters for the first time, and it's where I met my dear sweet hubby :) </div>
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I can't wait to see what they catch tonight! We're going over to Andy's work to have cocktails and watch the episode. If you are at all interested in the paranormal and more importantly ghost hunting, I'd recommend watching tonight's episode. It's on SyFy at 9pm EDT :)</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281743291234365272noreply@blogger.com3