Forest Friends

Micah Lyric is one of Káel's little buddies. She is the sweetest thing with the cutest smile and most endearing voice. Her momma, Lorean is pretty amazing and a dear lady love friend of mine. She has a pretty cool blog you should check out HERE. She is awesomeness. We were on the journey of being a baby spa around the same time so when both our babies finally decided to make their debut, they were destined to be friends. ;) Lorean's husband is an amazing illustrator, designer and videographer. Check out this stop animation vid he made, documenting Lorean's pregnancy. I think you will love it.

micah with her mommy and daddy- lorean & david

An Incredible Journey Begins from David Stanfield on Vimeo.

Tunes and Such...

The Civil Wars are one of my absolute FAVORITE bands right now. They have deep, sweet and raw textures in their melodies. Their voices blend with an old grace and perfection. If you haven't listened to their album you have missed a bit of beauty in your day. :) I've been listening to them all week in my house and thought you might enjoy some tunes and such. ;) Sam and I are going to a super bowl party at some friends of ours house now. I hope you have a lovely beginning of the week.

If you want to listen to their music you can check out The Civil Wars' website or click HERE.

Beautiful Someone Sunday Week 5

It's Sunday already! While my little boy talks away I have been planning some pretty neato things. I'm planning a baby shower for one of my girl friends at the end of the month and writing out some production ideas for a video maternity series Sam and I will be doing as a project for the blog. An amazing February giveaway will be announced next week that you don't want to miss on top of that! Here are a few pics of some of my lovely friends for you this Sunday. :)

my beautiful friend mary-ellen.

the lovely miss jessica just got married to her love in a fabulous winter wedding.

the ever pretties, tori and molly

my childhood friend and gold medalist ice dancer love, morgan

oh, anna...so stunning,

Dinner Talk

I have very exciting news! Right after we made this little clip last night...Káel looked at Sam and SAID "DA DA"!!! Aaaaaahh!!! It was THE coolest thing! He just started doing this intense baby talk on Thursday night. While I was with my girlfriends, Sam sent me a video of him being put to bed, just jibber jabbering away. Makes my heart have so many warm and fuzzies. Sam was quite the proud daddy knowing that his boy's first words were "dada". ;) The last few days I've noticed Káel likes to talk after his morning nap and right before bed. Oh, by the way...excuse the pink bumbo chair, we thought we were buying green. We got home and low and behold, pink. We have never stopped to take it back. So, yeah. haha. It's been kinda a hard week so Forest boy's little conversations have been the best thing for my heart. Eeee! I love my boy. Enjoy.

Fabulous & Favorite Friday

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red hair....dreamy sigh

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i want to get some soft gold matte finish nail polish. free people used it in their last catalouge

probably the prettiest tattoo i've ever seen. artist: Amanda Wachob

one of my favorite things to do...find vinyl treasures.

leeeeaves!

sweetest baby mobile find on etsy

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5 Months Old

Have you been having a lovely February so far? I have some really neato news! The blog has reached a whopping 400 followers! Oh my goodness. Wow. I'm excited to meet you guys as you peek in and enjoy the tid bits and musings here. It makes me smile to hear about you and your families. So, please drop me a line or scribble a comment. Hey, hey and welcome lovelies!

My little handsome is 5 months old already. Is that even possible? I find my days are more colorful and humorous than they were in the early days of Forest's babiness. His smiles, expressions that I interpret as a number of thoughts, make me laugh all throughout the day. One of my friends told me that as they grow some of the things that were hard early on will get easier and some of the things that were easy will get more difficult. um...WORD. haha. Where I used to just lay him down and he'd be content for long periods of time...now he constantly wants to move, explore and be a boy. Very loudly and vocally letting me know when he needs more distractions. Which, I love by the way. At times, when I just want to finish those last few dishes in the sink, it might cause me to sigh and blow a frustrated puff of air to tussle my bangs. It can be hard but when he busts out that smirk... it's over. I can't be upset. That is one of the easier things to me - He interacts with us SO much now. It makes the daily duties and caring so much more rewarding on the tired soul. He loves being on his belly and is starting to scoot. Most of the time he looks like he is sky diving. haha.

Little boy loves the computer and ceiling fans. He talks all time, telling me all his thoughts. *wink* His favorite thing to do is pull his blanket over his head then freak out because he doesn't always know how to pull it down. Then, he smiles and does it over and over again. He constantly is kicking his LEFT leg and is like a fish in the bathtub. He also loves sitting in his daddy's lap while he plays the piano. It's quite amazing and an awe filled moment when I walk in on those daddy/son times. Káel is genuinely fascinated and observant of Sam's fingers, realizing they are making the sounds. I love it. I love my handsomes.

I took these pics a couple days ago. Enjoy.

Káel Finds His Voice

Would you like to see something that breaks the records of cuteness.... Yeah, I know you do. ;) My little person has recently discovered that he can let out baby dinosaur screams. He's quite proud of himself. haha

Enjoy beauties!

Just Because...

Two of my friends got hitched this weekend and I thought I'd share this neato vid of their engagement story...just because we love love stories and the fact that Mel and Tysen are SO amazing. I became friends with both of them when I lived in California a couple years ago and smile so big every time I think about them. Mel is a phenomenal tattoo artist and Tysen is a crazy amazing drummer from New Zealand.

Tysen & Mel - Engagement story from Tyler Faires Productions on Vimeo.

Beautiful Someone Sunday Week 4

Happy Sunday to you! Yesterday Sam and my in laws got our little cabin all cleaned out with the last of our little things out. We are officially 100% moved into our new house. I hope you all have been having a good weekend! Here are some more Beautiful Someone Sunday pics of my friends. Be inspired and enjoy.

my lovely friend sylvia

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my lovely sister in law and friend beka

raechel

the lovely monique

my way too cool friend shaina

sarah

my sister tori

Dinosaur Snowballs & Diapers

I don't know about you, but watching little kids play is one of my favorite choices of entertainment ever. We had play day at my house Thursday. It was fabulous and oh so entertaining as I watched the kids play and giggled about the craziness of motherhood. 6 of my girl friends came over to my house with their little babes for a day of laughing, playing and enjoying one another. There were 6 of us moms and and 9 little munchkins. HA. Yes, it was a mad house of awesomeness. Having heart friends to share your little mommy triumphs and woes with is one of the biggest gifts you can have as a person and as a mom. We laughed so hard talking about boobs, babies, butts and birth stories. When all was quiet at the end of the evening, I let out a happy sigh...it had been a fabulous day.

I'm going to add a new post called "Forest's Friends" next week and introduce you to all of little Forest boy's buddies. So, make sure to visit. It will be a cuteness overload.

Two of the older boys, Noah 2 yr., and Oliver 3 yr. were playing with a big batch of dinos that Oli had brought. They were in the breakfast nook for over half and hour throwing dinosaurs (safely) everywhere, over and over again. Oliver came up with the idea of pretending that the dinos were snowballs. So, on they went, pretending that these big toothed reptiles were wintery balls of wonder for their mini man, macho war. HAHA! It was amazing. They would look at each other triumphantly after a good throw as if they were guys at a football game celebrating a touch down. Oliver was making snow angels on the wood floor later that afternoon as well. What can I say? It was a magical, pretend winter wonderland at my house. ;)

noah and oliver

can i just say the above is a work of art. spontaneous use of my decorative birdcage became dino habitat.

the little ladies, my friend christina took this