Fall Oven Recipes

Last night while I was making our grocery list for the week I pulled out one of my favorite cook books that I haven't used in a month or so: Back to Basics by Ina Garten (the barefoot contessa). I LOVE this cookbook because it uses really wholesome basic ingredients and makes amazing foods! I often add a few things to the recipes too since they're so simple :) Tonight we had butternut squash, cherry tomatoes, roasted garlic (just cook it in the cloves), fresh sage, pepper, olive oil, and pancetta. All roasted in the oven :) So simple and so yummy!

This Morning

Ok. Violet was a crazy baby last night and hit a record of FOUR wakings! Only 2 required me going in there... But oh man! I feel like my brain is still sleeping :)

We had a fun rainy day play date this morning at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach about 15-20 minutes from our house. We met a friend Haylee and her baby June who is 2 weeks younger than Violet :) We met Haylee and her husband Leif (pronounced Leaf) in our Bradley method class and they're really nice people :) Violet and June had a blast together :) We set them on the carpet in front of the main fish tank and Violet was hodge podge crawling to get to June's toys :) She's sooooo close I can feel or in my heart (it skips a beat every time she's on the floor) ❤ She had so much fun that she's konked out asleep in the car now :)

I love babies :)

❤

When life throws you bubbles...

You pee outside in the rain with Odie.

The bubbles I'm talking about are the SAME ones we heard thanksgiving night! Bubble bubble bubble in the toilet... Then the shower wouldn't drain, or the kitchen sink, AND the toilets wouldn't flush again! The WORST was that the water that came up in the guest tub was brownish. Eeeewwww!!! Matt promised me it wasn't poop, but brown + water to me = poop. So I refused to take a shower last night. Because even though I don't shower in the guest tub, our shower wouldn't drain and I was convinced that their MIGHT be brownish water in there... And for those of you who know me, KNOW how much I HATE dirty feet! And I didn't want to have my pee sitting in the toilet smelling all night... So yes, I peed outside... In the rain... In the middle of the night... With Odie (I was also afraid that I'd automatically flush which would overflow our bathroom).

Thank goodness they snaked it again (for free this time) and we got a quote for putting a main line clean out in our front yard (it's behind our house now). That would allow us to pressure wash out the roots which lasts longer :)

Oh joy ❤

A Harrison Confession

How do you know you're a bad pet owner? Your pet tells you. All night, Odie kept Matt up by sitting by his side of the bed and staring at him. At 2:00 he got up and let Odie outside... At this moment Odie decided to frolic and scamper around IN THE RAIN and wouldn't come back inside. Matt enlisted my help, but Odie just looked like he was smiling at our fumbling.

Our confession: we haven't taken Odie on a walk since Monday... and it was Wednesday night. Lesson? Walk your dog at LEAST 30 minutes a day... And don't skip 2 days.

Chewbeads

My sister-in-law Julie first told me about this amazing mommy invention! Picture this: fashionable necklaces and bracelets made for moms which your babies can chew on! Unbelievable right?! WRONG! They exist! Silicone, BPA free beads of all different colors :) I ordered mine directly from the mom who makes them (www.chewbeads.com) and they're just fantastic and Violet looooves them :) Thanks Julie ❤ Just amazing :)

Violet + Odie = ❤ (take 15)