cashmere mafia

here is declan in his special easter outfit from our friends, the botts in charlotte, nc. you can't see it in the photo, but it has his monogram on the sweater. he looked so cute and since easter was snowy and in the 30s this year the comfy sweater set was ideal!

he did so well in church on easter sunday! grandma nancy held him for all the singing and he flirted with the lady behind us!

tim buble

tim was on a business trip to toronto this week. he said SO many people stopped him and told him he looked like the singer michael buble who hails from canada. i happen to think michael buble is very cute and also love his music! he started getting this a few years ago when buble had a cd out in starbucks, that was when we first noticed the resemblance.

i think it is especially the hair, eyes and ears! if tim grew his hair out 3 inches and wore a metrosexual slim-cut suit with the shirt untucked he'd be charging for autographs!

you be the judge...

michael buble


tim

9 to 5

"mom's back to work right when my sweet new stroller arrived and we're about to see the sun again"


after four glorious months off, i headed back to work today. i don't think i'm really allowed to blog about my new place of employment, but it is abbreviated in some circles as ml. i am on a team of 5 and they seem as happy to have me as i was to find them! i decided to scale back my hours with this new opportunity so i can still be home most days with my little man. i work m/t/th and can tell that this is going to be the perfect work-life-balance i was looking for after having declan. today was a great day!

tim is working hard in his career at a place that is known for its baby shampoo... but he's not a shampoo salesman, more along the lines of large medical diagnostic machines. life is good!

the boys

another successful stewart-mitchell pizza night occurred this weekend. parker is 12.5 weeks and declan is 18 weeks.

i don't know how parker can be mad - look how cute his outfit is with his gap tee, new jeans and trumpette socks? declan freaked after the picture was taken... they're a little young to appreciate our new rocking chair from grandma nancy. won't be long though.


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naked babies are very funny

a painted house

as pledged, here are more photos of our newly painted interior, specifically our family room and kitchen. looking back at the "before" photos from when we moved in, i am reminded of the truly blank slate this house was... about as blank as a prison cell. this was part of the appeal for us however! the house is beautiful from the outside, has beautiful dark wood floors and cabinets inside and just needed some tlc along the lines of paint and furniture. sometimes i think i missed my calling, it has been so much fun to decorate this place! p.s. normally this room is accented with an exersaucer, swing, bouncy chair, boppy, play mat and various blankets and toys, but they were removed for quality control purposes for these photos.

the family room is a beautiful olive green (turned out exactly how i had hoped), and the kitchen complements it well a few shades lighter. love love love!

family room before (can you believe we wanted to move in to this?)


family room after, i like to say it is "cozy elegant"




kitchen before (including tim and our beloved realtor, delia huffman) good thing i could see past the chintzy, dusty, dollar-store silk flower arrangement in the window sill. why do people do that?

kitchen after

bunnies

tim and the bunny cake he requested for easter. my mom was happy to oblige as she hasn't made one since i was little and said she needs to get practice for declan!

he ate the bunny's entire head for breakfast today before he went to the gym. ha ha!

family - happy easter!

great grandma betty

grandpa & mimi

grandpa

us!