Zoe has been carrying around my purse lately. I love the way she holds her arm up so that the purse won't slide off. These are some pictures we took on Friday waiting for Daddy to get home.
XOXO,

Holly & Co.

Last night Zoe spent the night at Grandma & Granpa Humbert's house so Ryan and I got a date night!
We went to Macaroni Grill and discovered they had re-done the whole menu. Simplified, added, and changed the whole thing. It was great. The menu also now includes a nutritional information panel, so you can see exactly how many calories, sat. fat etc. you are getting. (EYE-OPENER!) I was shocked that one of my favorite dishes was almost 500 calories more than the Fetticini Alfredo! But it helped me make a positive decision. I got the Pollo Caprese, so Yummy! However out food was extrememly late coming out, so they comped us a dessert, which threw the whole calorie count out the window. (but is was divine)
Then we headed over to Fry's Electronics to walk around and ooh and ahh over expensive gadgets we don't need. We ended up buying printer ink which we needed.
It was an early night, but nice to get some one on one time with the Hubby.

Zoe is feeling much better. While home sick, she learned what the cow says, "Mooo" (said in the most adorable little Zoe voice)

Our dear friends/neighbors welcomed their second baby boy on Wednesday afternoon. Little Noah is as perfect as they come. Mom & Baby are both healthy and well. We're excited to have a brand new baby right next door. You can see pictures on their blog.

We'll be having a PJs & Pancakes breakfast next saturday for our ward Relief Society. I am thinking I need to get some cute jammies for this event. Don't wanna show up in Ryan's giant BYU sweatshirt and yoga pants, which is what I normally wear. Poor Jamie can attest to that. I wonder if Target has some cute ones.

Last weekend I got the urge to re-do Zoe's room. I took down all her alphabet canvases and bedding. I want to redo it in the color scheme/fabric from the quilt the Julie made her. Kind of a 70's mod feel. But then I got tired. So her room is less than cute right now but I'm hoping to make some changes during the long weekend.

Ok enough rambling for now. Have a great weekend everyone.

XOXO,
Holly & Co.

With a double ear infection!
Yep, Zoe has more ear infections. It's only happened right after we've been traveling, so I think from now on, we'll watch her much more closely after we go anywhere exotic. (ie. UT, etc)

For now we're just laying low drinking lots of fluids, cuddling and watching Mickey.

We're hoping to take her to Disney on Ice in October. Anyone else going?

XOXO,
Holly & Co.

On Friday, Zoe went to the Temple with Grandma Julie for cousin Kristi's wedding. Zoe stayed outside with cousins Amber and Melissa, they took these adorable pictures.
We attended their reception that evening, it was beautiful. It was at the same venue as our own, fun to take a trip down memory lane.

Saturday was our Ward BBQ. Turned out over 100 people showed up. It was hot and there was a few bumps but overall we had a good time. Ryan and Zoe came a little late due to naps. Zoe gobbled up her hot dog. Who knew she loved hot dogs?

Ryan starts school tomorrow. He'll be taking 4 classes this semester, he will be quite busy!
My creative juices are still absent so I apologize for the lacking of blogging (blogging is included in the creative juices part)

I'll try to be better about posting this week, but no promises.

XOXO,
Holly & Co.

So sorry about the lack of blogging lately. Getting back into the swing of things always takes a few weeks. I've got some big ward events coming up so my evenings are full of phone calls and errands instead of blogging. But I definitely have something to blog about today.....

My sister, Natalie opened up her Etsy shop today. She makes beautiful jewelry. Last year, she interned with jewerly maker in Italy and found her love and talent.
To celebrate her Grand Opening, she's giving a 10% discount and free shipping for any purchase before September 11th.
Stop by and take a peek.

Big TooT!
One of my scrapbook pages was featured on a manufacturer's blog today! I was so excited this morning when I checked their blog and found my layout the first picture. (link is above)

The layout is of my brother at my wedding, playing with a glass soda bottle.

This is how we spent our evening on Friday. Driving. This picture was taken around 4am Saturday morning. Zoe slept a lot of the drive to Utah, but work up just before Wendover. anticipating that my 14 month old, may not like being in her carset for 10+ hours, Ryan loaded Mickey Mouse cartoons onto the iPod just in case. So here is Zoe in her carseat at 4am, watching Mickey on the iPod.

We had so much fun seeing lots of family. It was a busy 3 days. We went all over town, shopping and going to old favorite candy shoppes and visiting family. Zoe took a little while to warm up, but had lots of fun with her cousins, and 2nd cousins.

Sorry to everyone we didn't get to see, we should be back in a couple months for a longer stay, so we'll try to get everyone in then. It's amazing how fast 3 days goes.

Back at home......

Last night we had our Relief Society Service Auction. We had lots of fun and great attendance. I won a red coral bracelet/anklet and some babysitting. Thanks to everyone who helped/donated/bid on items. Next activity up: Ward BBQ, August 29th.

R yan will be starting a very FULL semester in a couple weeks. It's been nice to have him off this summer without math homework or labs to be completed in the evenings, but I think he's getting anxious to have homework again...lol...you can only play so many video games (his words)

Zoe is cutting ANOTHER tooth. This will make lucky 13...it's a canine. She missed her bff, E while we were gone. When we got back at 6 am on Tuesday morning, and we walked past there door she started waving. So cute. She's saying lots of new words, Grandpa, PaPa, monkey, and others, but I can't remember them all now.

Campbell was so good while we were gone, thank you to the Boyce family for taking such good care of her!

Stay tuned for more crafty happenings...

XOXO,
Holly & Co.

Nothing says Tuesday like heat and humidity...yuck! I don't actually like Tuesdays, so rather than explain why I don't like Tuesdays, I'll leave you with a link to Zoe pictures. (thanks jamie for the pictures) Z & E Off to get a diet coke and beat the heat! XOXO, Holly & Co.

Last night Ryan and I got to go on a date, something we haven't done in a long time. We went to Mas in Roseville and had a Mexican feast. I got a shot of Ryan and his Carnitas, while the Mariachi band played in the background. After Dinner, I convinced Ryan to take me to my favorite scrapbook store, Green Tangerines. There was a lot of new stuff in and I picked up some great Cosmo Crickets products to make a mini album for our ward service action in a couple weeks. Here's a little peak. If you want to see the full thing, you can look at my scrapbook galleries, I loaded the whole thing there. And here is Ms. Z wearing her new Milk & Cookies pjs. I asked her what was on her shirt and she said "Cookie." She surprises us with new words ever day. XOXO, Holly & Co.

*supposed to be posted on Monday....accidentally saved instead of posted* Who knew a 14 month old could go ballistic over chicken....Well we had our proof on Saturday. We decided to go out to lunch at one of our favorites, El Torito. We got all seated, with drinks, and chips and salsa. Our food took awhile to get to us, and Zoe was not content with chips and lettuce. So when her chicken tenders came, she immediately grabbed one to knaw on. They were pretty big so I started to cut the other pieces up for her. When I finised cutting up all the other pieces, I took the one piece out of her mouth to cut up while she ate the little pieces. Well she was not having any of that. She proceeded to scream to the point of silence and then some. Even after I returned the large piece of chicken, she was still crying. I had to get to her of her high chair to comfort her. Zoe is normally very content in restaurants. I felt so bad for the other patrons. * If you were at El Torito on Saturday afternoon and sitting near us, I'm so sorry. I tried to calm her down as best I could* She did eventually calm down, but man who knew she would get so upset over chicken... She is learning her "No-No" all over again and responds to every questions with a "No" even when the answer is "Yes." She is also quite the dancer when she is in the mood. I entertain her by singing "Apples & Bananas" in the car on our way home. She laughs when Ryan runs around with her blanket on his head and does Kung Fu moves. I think she's getting more teeth. I'm back in a crafty slump although I did make some home decor for fall, it's a pencil bouquet, inspired by the line from the movie, " You've got Mail" about freshly sharpened pencils. I think I'll be decorating in a school theme this fall. I still need to change my throw pillows. Ugh, the "To-do" list never ends. XOXO, Holly & Co.

Zoe has a Old McDonald finger puppet book. We held it up on Saturday and she said "E-i-e-i-o" it was adorable. I tried to get it on video and of course she didn't want to cooperate. She has also been saying "Bye" a lot. She had here "1 year" appointment last week. I say that in quotes because she is almost 14 months. But she's doing great. She's 22 lbs. and we can now get her a forward facing car seat! Yeah. I've updated my scrapbook galleries with lots of new pages if you want to take a look. This layout is for a challenge this month to use Cosmo Cricket products and 2 pictures. I built the entire layout around that Red 2. I was just in love with it. I've also been working on a mini book for our ward Relief Society Service Auction. I was having such a great flow of creativity when Heather was here...and now it's dwindling. But in that time period I think I got almost 20 layouts done, so that took care of most of Zoe's pictures and I'm pretty current. Our trip to Utah will be postponed a bit, but I'm pretty sure we'll be out there in the next couple weeks. XOXO, Holly & Co.

So I have lots of thoughts floating today. I really want to finally decorate our apartment/our bedroom. Zoe's room is done, although I would like to redecoratethat too. But I can't decide on a theme or even a color scheme. Sometimes I like the brights, like Orange & Grey. and other times I want crisp clean, Dusty blue & ivory. I think I might just have to be a pillow person. Get everything is basics and accessorize with pillows. Anthropologie has a gorgeous duvet on sale. I wonder how Ryan would feel about the flowers....they really are only on the bottom. We may or may not be going to Utah in the next couple of weeks and the back and forth is driving me a little batty. My parents will be there next week but we don't know how long they are staying. And since we don't know when/if they are moving I want to make sure I get to see them when I can. My bff/neighbor will be having a baby within the next 4 weeks, sometime and I want to be here for that. Then driving......all night......with no a/c.....On the other hand I could totally go for some sister time and Cafe Rio.....decisions, decisions. This weekend I need to seriously clean and organize closets. My side of our closet drives Ryan nuts. I need a dresser. I also can't decide how much of Zoe's baby clothes to keep. Right now I think I have 5 boxes of stuff taking up a large chunk of her closet space. Should I just keep the nice dresses and donate the rest? or should I keep it all so we don't have to buy anything if we have another girl. Thoughts? Also, what do you do with your wedding dress? should I just fold it up nicely and put it in a box or keep it hanging? It's really poofy and takes up a lot of space. Im really wanting to hit up Goodwill for some housewares, like shelves and stuff. Ryan is so good a refinishing stuff. Maybe I can sneak off tomorrow morning during Zoe's nap. Zoe if growing like a weed. She looks so grown up already. I don't know what I'm going to do when she turns 2. She is loving her new hairbows that BFF Heather made when she was here. (she wore the supcake one to Grandma's today!) When she sees them she grabs them, brings them to me and motions for me to put them on her head. Then we so, " So pretty" and she runs to show Ryan how pretty she is. She cracks me up. Alright, this concludes my randomness for today. If you made it to the bottom, thanks for reading. XOXO, Holly & Co. PS. I'll be back with new pictures tomorrow.

Heather came into town on Thursday. We had a yummy lunch at El Torito. We swapped Ryan for Jamie with the neighbors and enjoyed an evening of "SO you think you can dance" and snacks. Friday was spent going to see The Proposal (which is hysterical) then to Green Tangerines. (Luckily, Ryan picked up Noodles & Co for us) We spent the rest of the evening crafting and preparing for Jamie's baby shower. Heather recreated this masterpiece for the shower. Saturday was the shower, with the best breakfast casserole I've ever had! After the shower Heather and I got pedicures and stayed up until midnight, crafting. I got 7 pages done this weekend and Heather made Zoe the most adorable bows. (Thanks again Heather!) Here's our lovely Mom to be. Here's Ms. Z enjoying some Mickey's ClubhouseHere's my favorite layout that I created this weekend. I debated getting these Basic Grey chipboard letters, but they ended up being on of my most favorite things I bought. (Thanks Heather for talking me into them!)Back to regular work schedule this week. Happy Birthday to Noah (1) and my Mom! We love you both and hopefully we'll get to see you in a few weeks (cross your fingers) XOXO, Holly & Co.

Simple updates for today: Zoe's new words/phrases: *Go! *Ball *Quack, Quack *Hi Daddy *Mango Not all of these have been said on more than one day, but she is getting better. We talk a lot in our house. She definitley knows the meaning of more words than she can speak. She especially likes to hear, "Book" or "Mickey". After last week, we were totally out of our routine and are adjusting this week. Although this week is quite busy too. We've got a couple trips to the air port, a baby shower, throw in lots of catching up and good food and that will be our weekend. And something to make Holly happy for months to come.....Sacramento/Roseville now has a Noodles & Company. Although the food is amazing, this place holds a lot of memories for me, and I'm so happy I can visit it whenever I want! (Yes we did visit last weekend. Yes I will most likely visit again this weekend. Yes it is THAT good!) Happy Tuesday! XOXO, Holly & Co.

I'm just in love with these photos Aly took! They turned out so well considering Zoe was being defiant. Here's just a sampling. The tutu was made by my friend Heather. You can see more of her stuff in her shop. I made the rosette onesie. To see the whole photoshoot, you can go here.

Zoe and I have spent the past 2 days enjoying my time off! Yesterday we went to the pool and played our hearts out. We read Hop on Pop at least 20 times. Zoe said "Tree" while we were outside and I was pointing out our surroundings. This morning we started bright and early, Our friend Aly, who toke my maternity photos, was in town and took some pictures of Zoe. I'll post those when I get them back from her. This afternoon, we visiting with the Stauffers. We played with Ethan's plastic golf clubs, those were Zoe's favorite today. While Zoe was taking naps today, I got to scrapbook. June was so busy, I didn't have a lot of time to scrap, so I'm catching up on those photos now. Here's the fruits of my labors.

Tomorrow, it's back to work. Ryan has been at Scout Camp this week. He's actually on his way home. Next week, my BFF comes to town, for more scrapping and fun. We're hoping to get to San Francisco, since she's never been. So you'll be seeing more pages soon.

* Edited to add: I changed the title to the correct date. And WELCOME baby Asher. Mark and Brooke welcomed a healthy baby boy yesterday! We're so excited for them and can't wait to meet him. When I showed Zoe's pictures she got all excited! XOXO, Holly & Co.

We spent Saturday with the Stauffers. We had lots of yummy food. Made mostly by Jamie. The kids played in the pool. We chatted and ate. Zoe fell asleep quite early, she even slept through the fireworks outside our apartment. She got a little bloody nose because of the heat, we think. But other than that, she had a blast!

Here's our darling neighbor Ethan. I just ADORE this picture of him. My little Zoe bug More Ethan. Enjoy and feel free to comment below! *We finally figured out what Zoe has been saying. "Odgie" or "Odie" means hungry or food or drink. Lots of meaning, but at least they all relate to hunger. She is also enjoying saying "Hi" to people on the phone. It's so excited that she is starting to speak! XOXO, Holly & Co.

That was the high today. Yuck. We headed straight to the pool as soon as we got home. I love that just 30 minutes in the pool will tire anybody out, including me. We had a nice short dinner, a quick swim and straight to bed. (Well for Zoe) She has starting say "Uh-oh." Ryan encourages her, because it's just funny to hear. She also likes to say "Odie." But I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. She is also getting better at saying "Hi" on the phone. On Saturday, Ryan's parents took us out for Ryan's birthday. We went to a Mexican place, Mas. It was so yummy. Here's a cute picture we took of Zoe during dinner. We're looking forward to the 4th this weekend. Sad we won't be in Utah but we're planning on watching fireworks and such. I'm planning on making Zoe a cute Red shirt with this tutorial here. She'll be wearing her bow from last year too! Hoping to get in some BBQ this weekend and maybe some pasta salad. XOXO, Holly & Co.

Here's some pictures of Zoe from Friday. XOXO, Holly & Co.