Monday, February 26, 2018

Jason’s 1st Fiesta! (Super Late Post)

FINALLY getting around to blogging Jason’s first fiesta! 11 months late, but who’s really counting? 😉

We celebrated our sweet baby’s first birthday in April 2017 with, what other than, a Mexican fiesta! (We sure love our tacos around here.) Jason’s small family celebration was everything we hoped it would be…sweet and simple. We invited family over to our (old) house for a taco bar, tasty margs, the obligatory cake smashing, and a little gift opening! What more could a 1-year-old ask for? Jase especially loved having all his girl cousins there to party with, but wasn’t totally sure what to think about indulging in his mini birthday cake. I think he secretly LOVED it!

Now that I am posting these basically a year later, it is crazy to see how much my little 1-year-old baby has changed! What stuck out the most to me is HIS HAIR! It was super red and that has definitely changed over the past few months (it’s a WAY lighter dirty blonde, sorta gold color now!), as has his little baby face, that looks so much more like a toddler/big boy now. Time PLEASE slow down!!!

We love you Jason, and can’t wait to celebrate your 2nd birthday in just a few weeks! xo.

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from LAHOWIND http://lahowind.com/2018/02/26/jasons-1st-fiesta-super-late-post/

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Anchor Communication

Too much yelling while anchoring? Try this tried and true method for ghosting in silently, and getting underway without waking your neighbors. Search for anchoring information and you’ll likely find article after article discussing the virtues of an anchor, windlass, or other gadget. Get a few sailors together and inevitably someone asks, “What anchor do you have,” launching a long …

from Sailing, Simplicity, and the Pursuit of Happiness http://sailingsimplicity.com/anchor-communication/

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Jason Favorites

Months 9 through 16 have been a blur around here. And I’ve been seriously slack-a-lackin in the blog department. I’ve literally had “blog Jason’s monthly photos” written on my to-do list every month to no avail. We’ve had birthdays, and vacations, and house sales, and moves, and a new school year, and more. Enough crazy to fill up my daily schedule without room for much else, especially documenting.

Until now.

I finally sat down this weekend to pull some of my favorite photos from the past seven months!

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Where should I start?

Jason has officially gone from “baby” to “toddler” as we celebrated his “First Fiesta” back in April (separate blog post to come!).

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We took a mini vacation up the road to Sanibel Island with friends this July. As hard as it sometimes is to enjoy slathering sunscreen all over an antsy-pantsy toddler and dragging that one year old to the beach (while remaining on full-time lifeguard duty so no one drowns) and going out to early bird style dinner every night so no one gets cranky, it.was.SO.worth.it. Really, it was! We had an amazing time with our friends and made memories to last a lifetime.

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We unfortunately experienced “baby’s first stitches” at the end of August when Jason mysteriously sliced open the heel of his foot while playing in the back yard. We spent the next 4 hours that afternoon at our local pediatric urgent care getting him patched up! He was a tough little trooper through the whole ordeal and has the scar to prove it.

What else? We started PreK-1 this year in Miss Kasi’s class! And are now eating at toddler tables and taking naps on floor mats like a big boy. Jason absolutely adores his school and I can’t say enough positive about how much the ‘busy toddler/preschool/working parents’ type of lifestyle just works for us. We are all so happy.

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We sold our beloved first home the first week of September and waved goodbye to the one place that has held so many of our cherished moments and memories over the past nine years. Talk about bittersweet.

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We also experienced “baby’s first hurricane” when we had to evacuate to Grandma and Papa’s house (alongside some of our cousins) in September as category 4 Hurricane Irma made landfall and a direct hit in Naples. We were so fortunate not to be majorly impacted by the storm, other than the typical nuisances of hard-to-find gas, no cable for a week or so, and Jason being out of school for 12 days. I hate to admit this publicly, but we never even lost power for more than a few hours at our house!

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(stole ^^those two photos^^ from my sister!)

There was also Easter, and Mother’s and Father’s Day, and 4th of July, and lots of visits with family and friends all mixed in between these last few months. And I can’t believe how fast every day, every week, every month flies by. Someone please make it all slow down! xoxo.

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from LAHOWIND http://lahowind.com/2017/10/05/jason-favorites/