Please tell me you are watching this??

Is anybody else watching Hatfields and McCoys???

So good!  It is a mini-series on the History channel.  It is three day long and the last night is tonight.  Unfortunately, it is two hours per night and doesn't start til 9, so we have been having some late nights lately!

Cal Cup - Year 3

Every Memorial Day weekend for three years now, we have gone to Cal Cup.  It is a field hockey tournament in Moorpark, CA. Well, the first two years we went Glenn was actually on the team and played.  This year, we were only 45 minutes away, so we decided to go watch ASU's games and cheer on Glenn's old team!  It was so much fun to see everyone again.  Everyone from the team is so nice, and treated Glenn like a member of the family as soon as he started playing with them, and acted like they were so happy to see us this weekend, even though we hadn't seen anyone for a year! 

Last year at Cal Cup, I was hugely pregnant.  A couple on the team had brought their little daughter, who was 8 months old at the time.  Since they were both playing, I held the baby most of the time, and I kept thinking, "Next year at Cal Cup, I will have a baby this big!" and it seemed so far away.  But sure enough, Violet grew up!  She had a good time crawling around in the grass, and was a great sport about not getting a nap on Saturday!

Now for an overload of pictures:

(we found a field hockey stick just Violet's size! ^^)

Oh, I can't believe I forgot to mention it, Glenn's team won the gold medal!  Go Sun Devils!

Project completed!

Yesterday, I shared a teaser photo with you of a project I had started for Violet's room.  Well, I finished! 

The walls in her room were completely bare, and I saw this tutorial a while back.  Basically, if you go to fed-ex office, they can print giant pictures for you in black and white for $4!  So I picked two pictures of us at the beach with Violet:

And rode my bike to fed-ex office, got them printed in 20x30.  Then rode my bike home carrying 20x30 prints.  You can tell in my picture from yesterday how big they are:

They took up the whole dining room table!  Or couch.  Or bed.  These pictures were definitely in the way while the project was in progress.  Every time we needed to eat, or sit on the couch, or go to bed we had to move them again.  

Anyway, here is what they look like now!

They are just mounted on double thick foam board with double sided tape.  It is nice to finally have something on the walls in Violet's room!

Sneak peek

I am working on a project.  Here's a sneak peek:

I hope I can show you the finished product tomorrow!

The First Harvest

As you may remember, last time we spoke of my basil plant, it was doing very well.  Last night I harvested for the first time!  See how well it was doing?

Practically a basil-forest!  I went overboard on the harvest and clipped far more than I was able to use in dinner.  

Here is what we had:

So good!  One of my friends brought this salad to a party, and it was so good I asked for the recipe.  It came from here, but my friend seemed to have changed a lot of things, so I didn't follow the recipe too carefully anyway.  Basically it is lentils and couscous with garlic vinaigrette, and then I added chopped basil, mint, tomatoes, goat cheese, and lots of spinach.  I actually also added a little chicken per Glenn's request, but he didn't even get a piece of chicken in his first serving because it was all kind of at the bottom, and he loved it right off the bat!

The beach on Saturday

On Saturday afternoon, we made an impromptu trip to the beach.  Seriously, at about 3:00 we were watching a movie, and at 3:01 we decided, "let's go to the beach" and by 3:15 we were on our way!  We had such a good time.

We stayed for an hour and a half!  That is definitely the longest we have stayed at the beach with Violet.  Strangely, she was more nervous about the sand this time than last time.  Last time we took her, she crawled all over the place, and yesterday she would just sit and shyly touch one finger to the sand.  

Parker and Violet

We babysat Violet's friend Parker a couple of days ago.  They were so cute together I couldn't stop taking pictures!  I wish I'd gotten out the real camera:

They had so much fun playing together.  Parker took a nap, and when he woke up, he wanted me to hold him.  So I was sitting on the floor with him in my lap, and Violet crawled right up into my lap and started kissing him all over his face.  Poor guy, she didn't even give him a chance to wake up!