love thursday... jones brent martindale

jones brent martindale is here... he arrived march 1st 2008 at 11:45 pm... after a few minor complications we released from the hospital tuesday, march 4th 2008, around noon and now are safe at home and doing well... we are so excited to finally have him here in our arms...

(brents pretzel name creation)

... the hospital brought us this dinner as a "congratulations on your new baby"... you can tell it is mexico, always coca-cola

we wonder if he will have my green eyes, they look like they are a dark grey/blue/green depending on the light... we will see...

this is his martindale nose, it is so similar to brents... or "light bulb nostrils" as karen would say....

19 1/2 inches long... 6 lbs 10 ozs...

maybe he will be a swimmer like his grandpa clark with these long legs...

he always has his lips pursed...

profile shot... i love those lips!

i love this picture... it seems that he is smiling at us...

his feet are huge!!! these are what i felt everyday!!!

love thursday...a few of my favorite things...

... here are a few of my favorite things

biosilk silk therapy... i love how it conditions my hair and i love the smell, it is like perfume for your hair...

...my rainbow flip flops, they are so worth it! so comfortable and not flimsy...

... i love and have been wanting a frozen hot chocolate from serendipity 3... so good, you have to have one if you are ever in new york! ...and i am not saying that because oprah did, i thought it before i even knew she did...

...or a ghirardelli chocolate brownie sundae from ghirardelli square... these are two of the best desserts in the world... can you tell that i love chocolate right now... crazy...

... lemon poppy seed muffins from paradise bakery... do i have to say more

smells are a big thing right now, being pregnant... so i had to include one of my favorite body butter scents, brown sugar and fig. it is such a nice combination.. plus bath and body works is having a sale right now... buy one get one free... nice huh?!?!

i love how a clean house smells, so fresh!!!

... what are your favorite things???

the nursery...

almost finished... other than the drapes, the room is finally complete! (so dont pay much attention to them, they arent finished yet)...

... as i have said before, i have fallen in love with the color blue... there is not one shade of this color that i do not like... so one wall is "heaven" blue while the other is "floretine" blue...

close up of the crib... i love this bedding... and it will help with coordination and development because of the black and white contrast... or something like that...

i had some different ideas of how i wanted to decorate this wall... but also had many difficulties trying to get what i wanted... especially when i was not supposed to be doing very much... so i finally decided on painting my own pictures... and i am very pleased on how they turned out... even better i used the two blue paint colors from the walls and a black that i used to paint the book shelf to paint both pictures... making them match the room perfectly!

the changing table/dresser... gatta love ikea!!!

i found this picture... which is actually a postcard... while in spain at a picasso museum... when i bought it i had not noticed that the woman is pregnant... but i loved it... after looking at it later and figuring out that she is pregnant i loved it even more... so i named this our first family picture with baby #1

someday my hair might be that long...

the other side of the room... and the reasons why i had to incorporate brown... seeing as how the closets are stained brown and the tile is a beige brown tone... it could not be ignored...

i have not used this yet, but absolutly love and am intrigued by the idea... sleep sheep... it has four sound setting that will help sooth your baby... i am so excited to try it out.

I never thought that at the age 0f 24 the days of styling my flowing mane of hair would be over.

Maybe it's my bald ancestors.

Maybe it's the prenatal vitamins I used to take in high school so my hair would grow faster.

Maybe it's the Argentine lice.
Maybe it's so I'm not so dad gum beautiful.

Whatever the reason may be, a buzz is all I'm able to do with my hair anymore. But not with the new mane on my face.

This one is for all my pop-culture-magazine-reading-peeps. It's called "Tom Selek meets Adnan"

Hillary Clinton asked me to come up with a cool way to show her hipper, younger supporters that she believes in equal rights. As you can see, upper and lower lip are treated the same while both co-existing in their beautiful separate ways.

i never thought i would say...

i never thought i would say, "can we have steak for valentines day"... yeah, can you believe it, i dont know the last time that i have ever asked for steak, i am pretty sure that has never happened... pregnancy is weird... since being pregnant with our baby boy, i have been trying more and more meat, and actually enjoying it... weird... and even more weird, the steak was so good!

we went to the armida steak house last night and i almost ate the whole steak myself!

and since the guy could not figure out our camera and i didnt like the picture he took, we took our own... kind of a family picture i guess.... since you can definitely see where the baby is!

i made it to 36 weeks, we'll see how much longer i last...

...and since i am technically still on bed rest and not supposed to be going anywhere, brent had rented this movie, i thought it was really sweet, sad... but sweet

hope you all had a wonderful valentines day!!!

our hospital...

here is a picture of the hospital that i will be having the baby at... cima hospital.... it is across the street from my doctors office...

i had another drs appointment today... and the news is good! i am almost 36 weeks along, which about a month ago we were not sure if i would be able to get this far... but after 4 weeks of bed rest, medications and other precautions i am almost there and have not dilated anymore or had too many contraction scares... the baby is very healthy... weighing in at 5 lbs 7 oz today.... i am 35 weeks and 2 days... valentines day, february 14th, i will be 36 weeks... what a great way to celebrate!!!

"19 and ooohhhhh no!"... fox sports

14:17

how sad... can you believe that the patriots lost... what more is there to say...

brisk saturday morning...

i cant think of a better way to start off the day... you know when you havent had something for awhile and then you finally find yourself cooking it and after eating wondering why you had abandoned or forgotten it... well that is how i feel about french toast this week...

i know, it is actually something very simple... but i fell in love again...i had forgotten how much i love french toast...

it started one morning of this week, i cannot remember the exact day... we had everything but bread to make french toast, so i opted for english muffins... and to top it all off we even had strawberries!!! i would recommend anyone that likes french toast to try it with english muffins, the density of the english muffins made it so wonderful...

...this brisk saturday morning we had french toast made with hawaiian sweet bread. this bread is one of my favorites ... i am pretty sure you can find it at any grocery store in the baking aisle and you have to try it!!!

back to the french toast... i added a little coconut to the egg mixture, an idea that came from the back of the box... so good, and i just had to share...

what a beautiful morning it is... hope you are all having a wonderful saturday!!!