The woot.com of baby stuff: Green Baby Bargains.
Each day at 12 PM EST they post a baby deal. Today it was cloth diapers (sold out before I saw it)....tomorrow...who knows? Check it out!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
I've been eyeing this $2000 pic from Anthropologie for a while now. After I finish up my in-the-works projects I'm gonna paint this and save myself $1990 or so!
UK part 2--the people we came to see!
Isn't it funny how you can travel halfway around the world and the most memorable moments have nothing to do with the sights you see? One of my favorite days on the whole trip was our Saturday in Edinburgh, and I didn't see anything that would show up in a guidebook. In the morning Rachel and I took the babies charity shopping while the guys went to an organ concert at the Edinburgh International Festival. Charity shops are the UK equivalent of thrift shops, only they are smaller and nicer. On the downside, they're a bit more expensive, but it's nice that you can figure out if there's nothing good in 5 minutes rather than spending 3 hours in a Goodwill and coming out frazzled and empty-handed (and then feeling like you should treat yourself to a 3 dollar Starbucks drink to compensate for your exhaustion). I didn't find any clothes, but found some cute things for the the house and some gifts for family members. I also could have stocked up on the entire UK version of the Harry Potter books for about 3 dollars each. But we already have all the American ones, so I let them go and just got a couple for gifts. Aren't they cool though?
After a picnic near Brad's school (which I spent, like every picnic, standing up, poised to run from bees), Rachel, Brody, and I went to see a Fringe Festival production of Rodgers and Hammersteins' Cinderella. There are two festivals in Edinburgh in August--the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe Festival. The Edinburgh International Festival is very prestigious and is very selective about who they invite; the Fringe festival was started as an open for all chance for all other artisans that wished to perform in Edinburgh at the same time as the EIF. So, some of the Fringe stuff is fabulous (like the candlelit performance of Faure's Requiem we went to later that night), but some are really stupid--like Cinderella. It was done by American high-schoolers, and I've seen some great high school plays but this was not one of them.
After the play finished up, Rachel and I were supposed to take the bus home, but we elected to spend our bus money on coffee and walk the hour and a half home. It was awesome--we got lost, took pictures, people-watched, popped in H&M, and just got to talk. Finally, after dinner, Ellis and I went to see Faure's Requiem at Old Saint Paul's church and walked home through the park at night. I think that was my favorite thing about Edinburgh--how wonderfully walkable it is. I hate that in Virginia Beach, the only place I can walk from our apartment (without walking on the grass by cars going 50) is a little walking path around the campus. Brody and I love that walk, but man, I wish we could walk on errands too!
After a picnic near Brad's school (which I spent, like every picnic, standing up, poised to run from bees), Rachel, Brody, and I went to see a Fringe Festival production of Rodgers and Hammersteins' Cinderella. There are two festivals in Edinburgh in August--the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe Festival. The Edinburgh International Festival is very prestigious and is very selective about who they invite; the Fringe festival was started as an open for all chance for all other artisans that wished to perform in Edinburgh at the same time as the EIF. So, some of the Fringe stuff is fabulous (like the candlelit performance of Faure's Requiem we went to later that night), but some are really stupid--like Cinderella. It was done by American high-schoolers, and I've seen some great high school plays but this was not one of them.
After the play finished up, Rachel and I were supposed to take the bus home, but we elected to spend our bus money on coffee and walk the hour and a half home. It was awesome--we got lost, took pictures, people-watched, popped in H&M, and just got to talk. Finally, after dinner, Ellis and I went to see Faure's Requiem at Old Saint Paul's church and walked home through the park at night. I think that was my favorite thing about Edinburgh--how wonderfully walkable it is. I hate that in Virginia Beach, the only place I can walk from our apartment (without walking on the grass by cars going 50) is a little walking path around the campus. Brody and I love that walk, but man, I wish we could walk on errands too!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Happy Baby
Until the next post about our amazing trip to England and Scotland, I'm cleaning out the archives and posting this a month late! This is Brody almost a month ago down in SC doing a little bit of talking. His happy talkative moods are a lot more impressive now, so I'll have to get a new vid sometime soon!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
UK Trip Highlights Part One
Highlights of Our First Day Touring London
--Pret A Manger--this amazing sandwich shop in London that uses all natural ingredients and donates their daily leftovers to local charities. I got a lemon chicken sandwich and it was amazing!
--Hearing a little kid yell at us for saying the word "kiss." As we were walking away, he started calling for his mom, presumably to get her to lecture us.
--Watching two geese attack each other in St. James Park.
--Cuddling with Brody on the tube.
I knew if I waited to post on our trip until we got back, I'd be overwhelmed and not get around to writing anything! So I'm hoping to jot some short posts as we go along, and then a slew of pictures when we get back!
We were very thankful Mom didn't know about the first adventure of our trip: almost missing our flight out of DC. We encountered the craziest day of traffic ever, and so what should have taken 4 and a half hours, tops, ended up taking over 6 and a half hours. So we got to the airport less than an hour before our international flight--we (and our bag!) made it on, but we got a dirty look.
Once we got in Saturday morning, we hopped on the tube to the town of our friends Brad and Sarah Belschner and discovered that our international phone coverage wasn't working as planned, so we bumbled our way to their house. They weren't home, but as we were sitting on their front step wondering how we would ever find them, they drove up!
We spent our afternoon in the town of St. Albans, touring the gorgeous cathedral and windowshopping among the cute shops. We hit a fantastic pub for dinner (The Snug or something like that) during "Happiness Hour" and got two cocktails for the price of one (I got Mai Tais).
Today we went to the Belschners church and had a great fellowship lunch afterwards. Then Brad and Sarah, along with Maria and Alex, two of their friends from church, rode the tube downtown! We headed to the British museum and then Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square (my favorite!), St. James Park, and Big Ben and the Parliament Building. Tomorrow's our long day, and we're hitting Covent Garden for some shopping! Can't wait!
--Pret A Manger--this amazing sandwich shop in London that uses all natural ingredients and donates their daily leftovers to local charities. I got a lemon chicken sandwich and it was amazing!
--Hearing a little kid yell at us for saying the word "kiss." As we were walking away, he started calling for his mom, presumably to get her to lecture us.
--Watching two geese attack each other in St. James Park.
--Cuddling with Brody on the tube.
I knew if I waited to post on our trip until we got back, I'd be overwhelmed and not get around to writing anything! So I'm hoping to jot some short posts as we go along, and then a slew of pictures when we get back!
We were very thankful Mom didn't know about the first adventure of our trip: almost missing our flight out of DC. We encountered the craziest day of traffic ever, and so what should have taken 4 and a half hours, tops, ended up taking over 6 and a half hours. So we got to the airport less than an hour before our international flight--we (and our bag!) made it on, but we got a dirty look.
Once we got in Saturday morning, we hopped on the tube to the town of our friends Brad and Sarah Belschner and discovered that our international phone coverage wasn't working as planned, so we bumbled our way to their house. They weren't home, but as we were sitting on their front step wondering how we would ever find them, they drove up!
We spent our afternoon in the town of St. Albans, touring the gorgeous cathedral and windowshopping among the cute shops. We hit a fantastic pub for dinner (The Snug or something like that) during "Happiness Hour" and got two cocktails for the price of one (I got Mai Tais).
Today we went to the Belschners church and had a great fellowship lunch afterwards. Then Brad and Sarah, along with Maria and Alex, two of their friends from church, rode the tube downtown! We headed to the British museum and then Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square (my favorite!), St. James Park, and Big Ben and the Parliament Building. Tomorrow's our long day, and we're hitting Covent Garden for some shopping! Can't wait!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Brody's Animal Noises
I say he sounds like a pterodactyl or velociraptor....Ellis pointed out that I have no idea what that actually sounds like, but Jurassic Park pretty much sets the standard across the board. So we all know what we mean by a pterodactyl sound.
Hoping to get a vid of his kitten sounds soon. (video taken July 21)
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