daily happenings:)

here I sit at 1155PM. Teeny glass of red wine - I'm told it's good for the baby:):) - and my Mac. Hard at work updating you on our lovely lives;)

UP mom and Lukey out flying the first kite of the year!

UP/DOWN nasher-man on the slide. And in style, I might add:) This kid cracks.me.UP!

UP i tell him to stop and stand still so I can take his photo. He holds this pose. Lordy;)

UP normally Friday's are designated as 'coffee mornings' for me. And for Mal. And most often, her boys. 

PS. I'm not a coffee drinker. This one mug of sugar/creamer & a dash of coffee coffee, keeps my poo situation moving. It must be done;)

on this particular morning...Jax-man was having a rough go of it and was put in a Time Out. Man. Nothing cuter than a little one sitting staring at the wall. Unless they're naked of course. Photos of that to come:)

UP/DOWN i was having an amazingly bad day today. Starting with dropping my entire jar of jam at 555AM - it busted ALL over at work and I cut my thump while cleaning the hot mess up.

and then I started to wonder how similar Jessica Simpson and I were starting to look!? Believe me...my ass owned ALL today. These photos do.NOT. do it justice.

i would say the tally of throats slit (mentally, of course) was very high today. Gruesome. Many...mannnny casualties.

POINT: the baby moved ALL day (see video above..it's super short but if you look close you can see it trying to break out!!!:). 

These last few days the baby has been seriously active. It put a huge smile on this killa' face and all was right with the world. This baby calms me...must take after his dad:)

UP/DOWN walks alwaysssss do me good:) Sigh:)

I picked the kiddo's up from school and then we took a nice long walk home.

UP austyn

DOWN lia

tighty/skinny/purple cords with little Robin Hood boots...Lia rocked it.

i really can't imagine there will be any of my days where these kiddo's aren't a huge part of it. But I know that once Jacob and I have our own little one...we'll have a bit more on our plates. And we may have to give a weeeee bit of this time to our baby;)


i'm lucky the kids are so happy and excited for us. And have actually volunteered their own time to come help me while I'm on my maternity leave. Whether it's just to hold the baby while I shower or to make me some Mac & Cheese or PB&J - they've already been schooled on exactly how I like my Mac & Cheese (with Cream of Mushroom Soup) and PB&J (peanut butter ALL the way to the edges and no tops:). P is going to make me proud:)

bar to the ce to the lonaaaa:)

the long awaited Barcelona, Spain post is HERE:) Sorry for the delay but we haven't had access to the Internet in over 24 hours (OMG!!!). But we're back up and running. I'll try to keep this one photo heavy and less wordy.

it is surely photo heavy. SO be prepared to scroll till your finger bleedsssss;)

we began our first outing in Barcelona by catching a cab to the Sacred Family Church - Temple of the Sagrada Familia by Gaudi. It was large. And very much under construction, as you probably know...construction has been going for MANY years and will be going on for at least another 30 years...or so we're told.

we would have loved to get inside to walk around and even get some views of Barcelona from up high. But the lines were insane:( They looked to be moving fairly quickly but we just took our photos and walked around before heading in another direction.

UP/DOWN after walking 30 minutes towards the 'shopping district', we took a short break to people watch and regroup. Frappy's were involved!!! Num Num Num:)

more walking allowed us to get some more interesting photos of local buildings. Some having meaning...some just very beautiful:)

UP/DOWN all our walking lead us to some actual flea markets. The first we've encountered in Spain. Oh, how I love me a flea market. Unfortunately, the marketers had done their research and I wasn't leaving with any amazing deals! DARN. How amazing are those old stamped letters and vintage cameras!? No fair:(

UP/DOWN...and boy were there people. As you make your way 'downtown' the crowds just appear out of no where!!!

UP the only thing we could afford at this store was a self photo in one of their dressing room mirrors;) The shopping district we ran into was quiteeeee out of our price range:)

UP another little market. This one had homemade jams and oils, cheese, etc. Loved this. We picked up just a couple small things for our family at home:)

UP/DOWN and all the art! I've been telling Jacob that we need to start getting some art in the house and we have future plans to do this. For now we picked up a small water color painting from a local artist. I can't wait to get it framed.

From here on out...we decided to start 'collecting' and even budget for some 'artwork' on all of our future trips:)

UP/DOWN more people watching...I mostly just love the clarity of the camera with close ups. Love:)

UP we found THE best fruit stand and this little bowl of fruit was officially the best thing that happened on this honeymoon;)

and then we found dinner. A small Italian place (with no pictures outside - we were told that these would be less 'touristy') that turned out to be, officially, THE best thing that has happened on our honeymoon! So delicious:)

UP and why we haven't been making and eating Bruschetta every day of our lives...!? We shall start as soon as we get home!

later that night we went out for another long walk (meant to be one hour...got lost..turned into 2 hours - in the rain - and a cab ride back to the hotel....oops:). But got some cute shots of all the adorable umbrellas:)

jacob's photos:)

UP what the Sacred Family should look like when finished:)

UP jacob was/is/has been blown away by the wildlife here. Parrots! Everywhere!!

barcelona has turned out to be very large:) Not that this wasn't entirely expected...but it's big:) We're having a great time exploring and are always finding that we find the prettiest things when we get lost!

today is a gloomy day in Barcelona. We had our big breakfast (I suggest no one EVERRRRR go on another vacation without making sure you get a breakfast every morning...well, in general. Do not go another day without having breakfast...it's just a wonderful thing...even if it is just a bowl of Honey Balls:).

Now we're chilling in the room while we catch-up on blogging and some snoozing and movies and orange eating. It's a great day for it.

tomorrow, however, we get back to business. It's our last day in Barcelona - seeing as we leave so early Wednesday morning. We are walking to a park and then off to visit another huge building/castle. I'm hoping to get in some more self-timer photos with the camera in the park:) And then we have a few local stores that we've made note to stop at before the day's end to pick up some last minute things for home! YAY!

we're both excited to be coming home and sad to see our honeymoon end. BUT it's been amazing, perfectly paced, relaxed, food/smiles and laugh-filled:) I hope we have a few more things to show you tomorrow before the honeymoon blogging comes to an end:)