Has it Really Been Almost a Month?

Oops. Life has been pretty busy. Let's go through the bullet points

• We had our family photos taken for Christmas
• We went trick or treating with friends.  Well Squishy actually just hung out in my arms
• My chickens escaped a lot
• A good friend is dealing with some majorly jacked up shit
• We started selling hubbys Magic the Gathering cards
• And the biggest time suck of all....GISHWHES!  

What is GISHWHES?  Only a giant international scavenger hunt full of craziness.  For a week my friends and I went kind of crazy doing some very strange things.  Google it and do it next year.  I promise you won't regret it.

As for Squishy, she can now hold her own bottle and only needs help if she yanks it out.  She sleeps in her own room (usually without needing help in the middle of the night).  She sits up like a champ and enjoys sitting in shopping carts and the high chairs at restaurants now.  Oh and she is no longer short and chubby, she's just chubby.  She jumped from 30th percentile at 5 months to 58th at 6.  She's 88th for weight. 

Now for photos

News Round Up

I've been MIA.  You may or may not have noticed.  You also may or may not have noticed my blog was inactivated for a few days (due to a security breach I'd rather not get into).  BUT, I am back with explanations and various news :)

Ever hear of Magic the Gathering.  The dorky kid you know may have played it high school or junior high.  My husband was one of those kids and played until he was 15.  He is 25 now and we have had multiple boxes of these cards sitting in our garage for months now.  We planned to sell them; but, never got around to do it.  I finally decided we were going to do it.

For the past 2 weeks any, and almost all, free time has gone towards looking up the going price of these cards and figuring out how much his stash is worth.  When I finished Thursday we hit $2000.  We're hoping to get at least half of their worth out of them.  That's the big reason I've been MIA.

Squishy can sit up now

Halloween Nails w/ a Twist

I did some Halloween nails in honor of our trip to the pumpkin patch!

I didn't take the time to clean up the edges but they are Pros and Bronze from OPI with a Sally Hansen black as the tips and the accent nail.  The twist you ask?  All of the black was covered with glow in the dark polish!

It's insanely hard to take a picture of glow in the dark polish but I did my best.

Pumpkin Patch!

We took Squishy to the pumpkin patch today.  Hubby loves, loves, LOVES Halloween so we went opening day and picked out three pumpkins that we'll carve closer to Halloween itself. 

We hit up a new patch that opened last year.  It had a pond with beautiful landscaping, a straw maze, a corn maze, a haunted mine, some cool critters, bounce houses, a tree house, and, our favorite, picking pumpkins off the vine. 

We passed on most of the extra stuff what with having a 4 month old and all.  Plus it was fairly sunny and warm; but, we did check out a lot of stuff. 

Little Baby, Big Pumpkin

Squishy's First Swim & a Photo Shoot!

Have you heard of "Trash the Dress" photo shoots?  The general idea is that when a woman gets married she gets this beautiful white wedding dress that is in perfect condition; but, as life goes on we may have kids, may get divorced, and as time goes on life becomes more chaotic and doesn't stay white and shiny.  These photo shoots aren't some revenge against exes or something out of anger, rather it's a fun way to celebrate life and have a blast with that dress you spent a ton on.

A friend of mine has been doing a number of these shoots in the hope that he'll publish a book with them and this past weekend a girl friend of mine was the subject of a shoot and we went to help out.  Me, hubby, Squishy, the model, her son, and the photographer all headed out to a house boat owned by the girl who was modeling the dress. 

Daddy and Squishy!

The photo shoot was a blast and the photographer was able to get pictures of her going down the water slide off the boat, in the hot tub on the boat, in the mud on the shore, jumping off the speed boat, and even wake boarding in her dress after we cut it off at the knees. 

Paint Splatter Nails w/ Quick Tutorial!

I have had a very strange love of paint splatter for years now.  When I bought a junky desk last year I immediately painted it purple and then took it in the drive way and splattered some neon paint all over it.  If it wouldn't make a giant mess, I'd probably paint a wall of the house that way too; but, alas, it would so I settled for doing my nails. 

Munchy Monday: Zucchini Bread

Yes, yes I'm aware it's no longer Monday; but, I made the bread on Monday so it counts :)

For the past few months hubby and I have been getting a fresh produce (primarily veggie) box once a week.  It's been interesting trying to come up with ways to use the produce and some weeks we are better at it than others.  This past Tuesday we got two zucchinis in our box so I decided to give some zucchini bread a try.

I modified a recipe I found to make it my own and it turned out ahh-mazing.  I highly recommend you make it.  Unfortunately, I didn't even think of the blog as I made it so you only get a picture of the finished product and the recipe this week.