Kid Pics

I'm lucky. There are many reasons why I feel like one of the luckiest gals around. The two main reasons are my two main guys... my husband Chris and our sweet little son. Not only are they both kind, sweet, funny, and charming, they're both crazy handsome and I love to take their picture! When our son was born, I decided I wanted to take a photo every day of our boy! I was pretty good the first year, and not super great the year after that. One of my resolutions this year was to get back into it! I've been doing pretty well... not perfect, but I'm ok with that! After approximately 1200 days (3 years & 4 months), we have a great little library of 708 photos. I just uploaded a new batch of photos from the past few weeks. Here's a link to the Flickr site and below is one of my favorites from the new round of pics. 

Overall, I think it's been a great way to document his first few years. We haven't kept a baby book, so this is kind of our thing. Well, we do have a Twitter account for the silly things he says. How are you chronicling your days with your kids?

Juice Cleanse

Ok, party people. I've decided that we need to do some major juicing in our lives and we're joining Lacy in her juice cleanse this weekend. Here's a picture of all the goodies I snagged at the farmers' market yesterday in Daly City! Quail eggs and Afghani food will be consumed after the cleanse ;)

We've added a lot of other fruits and veggies than Lacy's recipes calls for. They're on her site, but I can't link to that post :(

In our green we're using kale, spinach, sunflower sprouts, cucumber, apple, pear, celery, ginger, and maybe other stuff, too. What do you love in your green juice?

If you're wondering why I'm doing a 3 day cleanse, it's simple: to detox my body. We already eat pretty well, but we're having trouble staying pregnant. After 4 unsuccessful pregnancies in less than 2 years, I'm ready to get down to business... spend a few quiet days drinking juice, reading, relaxing, drinking more juice, and hanging out with my son. Luckily, my husband is along for the ride! 

This morning I met some awesome mom friends at the park and they brought some picnic food from the local market. I was fine with seeing them eat all that delicious food until they busted out chocolate. I'm pretty sure my mouth started watering and I'm not usually a chocolate person! That makes me a little nervous because it's only day 1.

Have you ever done a juice cleanse?? Or another kind of detox diet? Which one did you choose? Or did you create your own?

Update... it's afternoon on day 1... feeling pretty good. A little hungry, but not nearly as hungry as I thought I'd be! The juices we've been making have been have been awesome!

For Sale

Woohoo- it's time to sell some stuff. Get it out of our garage so that we can make room for our floors that are supposed to be delivered later this week. 

2 Chippendale chairs, $100/pair. This chair has a white finish and the other has been sanded. They're cool chairs, I just have run out of time and space to re-finish them. Your gain... looks like you can turn quite a profit on these guys! This is the frist link I found for a cleaned up version of these crazy chairs. SOLD

Ikea bookshelf, $100. Great shape, just not the right style for our new place... it almost reaches our 8ft ceiling. Solid wood and disassembles. Also has a level system at the bottom. Available next week. 

Sander, $5. No commentary. Husband assumes it works, we can check it before you come over ;)

Metal sliders for the inside of cabinets, $5 for all. Taken from the kitchen, before the remodel. SOLD

Wall mounted microwave, $25. Seen here, in the old kitchen.

Awesome West Elm Desk, $100. Like new, only used for 1 year. Great for small spaces because it expands! 

9 Gallons Martha Stewart paint, $50for all ($250 originally). Interior Semi-gloss. My sweet husband wanted FLAT. Whoops!! Great colors! Seen here in our living room and kitchen and here in our son's room- stripes!! 

Living room carpet, $20. They put this carpet in our home before staging it, so it was in for just a few short months before we pulled it. No stains. Probably 25ft x 13ft. Seen here in the old living room! SOLD

Big Black Suitcase, $5. Well-loved

Chicco Baby Carrier, $5. New in box, never used. 

Wire baskets, set of 4 (2 not pictured), $10 for all. The two in the photo are band new- just took them out of the plastic. The other two have been used for 1 month for clothes. SOLD

Oven & Stove Combo, $50. From the old kitchen. Seen here. SOLD

Double bed... Mattress, Boxspring, and metal frame, $20. The boxspring is in good shape. The mattress is older, but fine. We needed a trundle bed in the guest room so we don't need the double bed anymore. SOLD

Poster Tubes, $5 (originally $30) . A full box of 35. They look like this... pictured next to the cute sleeping baby!

2 Sliding closet doors (mirror), free. From the remodel... working just fine!

2 interior doors, $20 for both. From the remodel... working just fine!

Ikea coat hanger, $5 (originally $30). We have closets now and don't need it :)

Big ole mirror, $10. From remodel- seen here above the fireplace. SOLD

Cabinets, $20. Upper cabinets from kitchen. seen here before the remodel.

A Pretty Little Mess

Our house is still a work in progress, but we love living here! The community is wonderful and the house is coming along... slowly but surely!

We've unpacked a lot of boxes, but there are many left to go. Here are a few pretty pictures of our current state of living. I think they're kind of pretty. I'll be glad I have them once we're renovated, unpacked, and settled.

On tap for this week: finish painting the hallway so we can lay down some floor already!