Day 3, yellow

Day 2, purple

We do not have many purple things at all, but then I found a few things and they both relate to baby. Just like yesterday was blue and Nelson themed, today is baby and purple themed.


not really maternity shirt but i wear it as one


an excellent book for helping to save a few dollars as it relates to a baby

the color blue

since I am always needing inspiration for my blog, I like to copy off of other people's blogs. this time i am copying off of Steph's blog and doing a color theme for a post each today. today's theme is the color blue. I am not much of an artsy photographer so my pics are not going to be as good as hers, but i figured that is ok. since today is blue day and nelson's favorite color is blue, i thought it would be all about him and the color blue as it relates to Nelson.


Nelson was wearing this blue sweater today-worked out perfectly!


the light around our DirecTV on/off switch


The on/off button of Nelson's computer


the background of his monitors


I tried to capture his blue eyes, but I am not sure if that worked so well

tasty dinner bite!

after a busy day full of errands, registering at Target and Baby's R Us, cleaning, taking down Christmas decorations, putting up new decorations etc, we were pretty tired and hungry. I had seen a delicious recipe on Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals (Rachel Ray is one of my least favorite food network hosts because her voice gets on my nerves but her recipes are usually pretty good), I thought it was just what we needed. So we enjoyed a great meal of Florentine Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken and salad (with extra olives added). We ate our meal on our new placemats that Nelson got me for Christmas. Now we are just relaxing this evening and catching up on a few shows we missed from this week!

rock star!

today I got a little package in the mail from a good friend Erin. I was excited to find a few surprises inside, one was a "hooter hider" to be used when nursing, the other was an awesome onsie (see pic below).



We figure that our little guy will indeed be a rock star for a few reasons:

#1. We love guitar hero (see this post)

#2. Nelson can do a great impersonation of the Edge:


#3. Our son's honorary Uncle Matt, Erin's husband, is basically a part of U2:


Thanks for the gifties Erin! Can't wait to really use them!

a post about salad

i love salads, they are one of my favorite foods. many times, like Elaine on Seinfeld, I just really want a big salad (no this is not a pregnancy thing, i have always loved salad). A few years ago, when I was first dating Nelson, he introduced me to the Greek salad and the olive. I had never really had many olives or greek salads growing up I think because my parents do not like olives. ever since that first taste of the greek salad and the olive, my world has pretty much been changed forever (the fact that my world was changing could have had something more to do with the fact that I was dating Nelson but I am not sure if that would be giving the olive enough credit :) ). anyway, i learned of a new salad while we were in dallas and it involves both the green and black olive. lettuce, chopped red onion, green olives, black olives, diced banana peppers, feta or parmesean (or both) cheese, and italian dressing. fantastic. but the olive is actually a side note to the point of this post (I just had to give it credit though for changing my life). The real point is that my love of salad has now been taken to a new level because of my new salad spinner and lettuce knife. Nelson got me both of these for christmas and i used them both tonight. i was really feeling a salad and macaroni and cheese. so that is what we had (plus hot dogs for nelson). the lettuce was perfectly dried after a few twirls in the spinner and perfectly chopped after some swipes with my lettuce knife. so all of this to say, if you love salad and do not have a salad spinner or a lettuce knife, you need them both. Here is where you can get them-
lettuce knife
salad spinner

just a little disappointing

so tonight we decided to get a sweet bite at Sonic. It usually treats us so well and we had a gift card thanks to Santa and a coupon for a free cream slush. So we went and I thought I would try the new junior sundae. Well, upon receiving my sundae, I was just a little bit disappointed. It was not a junior sundae but more like a baby sundae. It was so sad. i was going to offer a bite to nelson but then the whole thing would have been gone so i enjoyed the few bites of it myself. at least it tasted good!