11 on 11, with one to grow on

Pics from my seester-in-law's baby shower:

While we were all downstairs, Averi and Maci were upstairs "washing" Maci's hair for the "party...in the park...for Grammy."  So funny.

 

amelie and my resurrected plants

Sorry no new blogs lately.  I just haven't found the time and/or motivation (at least not at the same time). Yesterday I watched Amelie all morning so Amy could go fulfill her jury duty.  So I did the huge favor of hanging out with an adorable one and a half year old for a few hours, and I got blueberry pancakes, a sushi lunch, a vase of fresh scabiosa flowers, and a morning with one funny little girl out of the deal.  It was really generous of me, wasn't it?

Here is a picture of one of my many succulent plants that have miraculously returned to life the last few months.  I moved them all to the kitchen window a few months ago and started paying closer attention to when I watered them, and voila, they seem to have responded to the sunlight and water.  Pretty breakthrough.  The one in the purple shot glass broke off a larger plant, so I put it in this glass hoping it would grow roots.  When I first put it in, it barely fit on the rim of the glass without falling into the cup.  The one in the foreground grew these hot pink flowers out of the center.  A nice surprise.  Daly doesn't eat any of these, so that's a plus :)

photos

As promised, here are the pictures I described in my previous post:

One freshly painted reddish-orange table:

Many magenta peonies lovingly delivered to me by Amy:

 

Two things you should never buy me (and probably should never buy period):

Two shots of Gabe in the shower at Lowe's:

Later this same day, I found Gabe trying out the inversion machine at Sam's Club.  He was hanging upside-down, not strapped in, on the floor model of the inversion machine.  Gabe made errands much more fun that day.  Every time I turned around he was hiding in showers, inverting himself, or who knows what else.

One little Dooly napping in the kitchen window:

A dozen, or so, overripe  bananas thawing in order for me to bake them into banana bread in order to end the two years of Gabe teasing me about putting ripe bananas in the freezer for banana bread that never seems to actually get made in order to win a fifteen minute back rub in the bet made by Gabe that this time would be no different:  (I won.)

Seven envelopes I sent to Gabe (with letters inside) while he was in Costa Rica (I found them when looking for something else):

The journal I made for Gabe before he left for Costa Rica:

Nate and Jenn got here Monday.  We've been up to Ft. Collins for the New Belgium Brewery tour, where we ran into Collin L. during the free bear tasting after the tour.  Yesterday we went on a 7+ mile hike in Eldorado Park, and then to Keri and Charlie's for dinner and a bonfire.  Today we'll be heading down to the Springs, and then they leave tomorrow afternoon.  I've got a bunch of pictures from the week, but I think I'll wait to post them until the end of their stay with us.  

p.s.  Summer vacation doesn't yet feel like it.  It seems like the weekend--but it's been really nice so far...