our yearly smith and edwards visit

for some reason i didn't get a picture of the sign 

but you can see that here.

the husband's parents came up for the weekend 

and what does one do?

take them to smith and edwards

well, we also drove by the ogden temple and the Brigham temple

but the main purpose was to go to the ole smithy store

there is much to see and not really do there

just go and see.

like this fab horn chair that could probably gore an adult

nonetheless i braved the danger and sat in it.

oh, if you are wondering who's polish dog with saukerkraut that is...

it's mine, i know, only your grandma ate that stuff.

oh and second note, i love my moby

even though it looks slightly strange.

Kona needs some serious lovin

i feel that i should post about the kona

she's been quite sad lately

i've been trying to include her more

but she still seems pretty pathetic sometimes.

like i come out of the shower and she's sitting against the bathtub

just hanging out

giving me those big browns

welcome to the club

i feel like she is planning something here...which apparently she was, just biding her time, for just the right moment.

like taking a nap with her dad.  

apparently, baby does not like chinese food. 

(from Golden Jade on Harrison...i am a chinese food snob people.  it was pretty dang good.)

she puked out her entire guts

i was just commenting how excited i was to finally have one of those cute dad's-napping-with-the-baby-picture, then suddenly "help, puking everywhere!" (don't worry, it was in the husband's ever monotone voice, i added the "!")

husband continues lamenting while i'm laughing 

"i'm trying to save your couch!"

well apparently the puke an down both armpits and luckily he had a burp cloth on.

welcome to the club husband.

oh, and yes, that is Aiko's onesie hanging on the faucet...seems like there is ALWAYS something of hers drying somewhere in the house.  if it isn't one end it's the other

i dont even like twinkies

neither does the husband.

but because we know we'll never have them again...

we bought a bunch.

or well, we had mitsie buy some from the hostess factory.

why?

the husband was on a mission.

he went to three different stores to find twinkies only to find empty shelves.

good thing the factory was close

otherwise the kona never could have gotten this picture

hana

so this is partly why we named her Esther

my gram and her make a lot of the same faces

plus they have the same "hana"

which is nose in japanese

i can just imagine gram saying 

"she has my hana."

yes she does gram

miss you grams.

Banana peanut butter muffins

of course, i found this recipe on pinterest

which i altered a little..not much

and then turned into giant texan muffins

they were pretty delicious

but you couldn't eat too many at once

that whole wheat flour is pretty serious stuff.

oh, i had just enough batter for one muffin, 

so i decided to try it as a waffle.

pretty good my friends.

pretty good. 

recipe pinned here.

so i follow a cat on instagram.

so my friend alicia, remember her from here?

well, she also works for Kaffe Mercantile

baby and i decided to go for a little trip.

we had a delicious herbal tea

peach and ginger

then we had a ginger cranberry cookie

and had a lovely time just hanging out.

alicia knows ogden pretty well

oh, about the title...yeah...

so alicia says "so i follow this cat on instagram."

weirdest thing right?

but after i saw this...

colonel meow 

i now know why.

and now i do too.

motherly advice . . . harmony style

this post may or may not relate to boobs, mainly, because i have some profound thoughts as being a newfound food source for my raptor baby here.  

(i swear she has teeth hidden in there somewhere)

my vast knowledge learnt in the past 2.5 weeks

engorgement is not mastitis (thank goodness, but that doesn't mean it's fun.)

babies can shoot their poop approximately four feet, horizontally that is.

it is possible to have to wash your sheets three days in a row.  why? because babies puke and pee and mama's...leak.

according to the doctor, we shouldn't take the baby out until april.  APRIL.  henceforth, i shall known as "hermit harmony"

carrying a baby carseat is near impossible, i just won't/can't do it.

my MOBY is our new best friend.

new mamas need lots of naps to avoid complete heart breaking emotional outbursts

not all bras are created equal, not even close.  but more to come on that later.

breastfeeding is tough at first, give your baby affectionate names like : vampiress, raptor baby, greedy little thing.  (she's sleeping at the current moment, so she's baby cakes right now)

avoid asking new mama's what they did for that day. . . because really, having a child attached to you for 8 hours a day is a full time job.

real men wear MOBY's

oh, just so you know. 

she is favorite.

good company theatre

good buddy alicia just opened a new theater in historic downtown ogden.

it's a lovely place.

good company theater

i'm super excited to go see the shows!

alicia and i have been friends since the early nineties 

(which makes me feel and sound super old right!?)

she and i would wear red bandanas whilst running amuck on the soccer fields.

aww, the good old soccer days. 

how we both miss you.

we are both kindred spirits through knee surgeries

both wish we could play again, both realizing we shouldn't.

love this lady.  

she's always bettering the world.