I Heart Faces: Touch of Sun Photo

To my little man Brendan, there is nothing better than riding a train. In fact, he tells me quite frequently that he wants to drive a train to the North Pole to get presents for everyone...LOVE IT! Here he was in all the great riding-a-train glory on the 4th of July 2010. Just a hint of the bright sunlight beaming down on him; the train car we rode in was used in the movie "Iron Will" and is pretty old. I've posted it today for this weeks' "I Heart Faces" photo contest...check them out by clicking the link below...

Happy Tuesday!



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Piece of Scrap

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Update...in pictures

We celebrated B's 3rd B-Day at the end of May with a Pirate themed party. I made the cake!

Riding his new tractor!

Snuggling brothers...B LOVES being a big brother and wants to hold E whenever he can.

B and his buddy-since-birth Ben at the Princeton Splash Pad! Ben's mom and I were in Childbirth class together, due around the same time and we both had our boys a month early. It's been so much fun to watch the boys grow up together!

I LOVE this picture. Elliott's middle name is Frederick, after my dad's middle name. (Brendan's is Alan after Grant's dad's middle name...we've got a pattern going on here ;D) My dad's middle name is for his dad's brother, Frederick, who we call Fritz. Here are all 3 Fredericks together! Fritz was so excited when my dad told him about Elliott's middle name and he couldn't be happier to get a little snuggle time with him at our recent family reunion. Great-Great Uncle Fritz and Great-Great Aunt Dee Dee were calling E "Snickle Fritz" and cooing at him all the while! :D

Oh so busy with 2!

Whew...life is busy with 2 boys in the house. (Pretty sure that's now going to be the theme of my blog ;D) I'm very happy to report that we are still doing great here at the Lindberg Household. E has been a very easy baby; I am so lucky! We had his 2 week appointment on Monday, which went very well. At birth, Elliott weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz., when we left the hospital he was 7 lbs. 4 oz. and at his 2 week appointment he was 8 lbs. 10 oz.!!! He is definitely a good eater and thriving here at home. He is now 20 1/2 inches long (19 at birth); the appointment was quick as he is a happy, healthy little boy :D

Me and my boys...I set up my tripod to get this picture of me taken with the boys. Sometimes a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do!

A couple of weeks ago, we had my sister and her kids up to play and meet Elliott. It was great fun watching B, Layney and Liam all playing together and Layney LOVED holding her baby cousin!

On Sunday we took B out to fly his first kite. It was the perfect weather for it and we all had a blast.

Brendan is a great big brother! He is so helpful when I need him to be and he LOVES his baby brother. He's always telling us "He's so cute!" and "We have a happy baby!". I really can't wait until they can really play together...I can already picture them both doing silly things to make each other giggle. :D

That's my quick update for today. Gotta get B outside to enjoy this BEAUTIFUL weather!

A wonderful Mother's Day!

This is how my Mother's Day started today. Brendan had to hold his baby right away this morning and I got this super cute picture on my ipod :D. Things are going great having Elliott at home and we are slowly getting into a routine here. We have been very lucky that, with the exception of 2 nights last week, he is sleeping fairly well at night for a newborn. I will post more later...Happy Mother's Day to all :D

T-Minus 4 days...

We are on the final days of the "Baby-Boy-#2" countdown!!! If he does not decide to come on his own (and really, I don't think he will...this one is all tucked up and cozy in my huge tummy), I will be induced at 7 a.m. on Friday morning. That's this Friday, April 29th!!! Day of the Royal Wedding and, more importantly, Grant's Grandpa Jerry's Birthday :D

We had a fantastic Easter Sunday. We decided to start the festivities early this year in hopes that Brendan would make it through the church service with little craziness. Grant and I got up around 5:50 a.m., got the cameras ready to go and then got B up. He jumped out of bed and excitedly found a basket with candy in it, then we "helped" him find the "hidden" Easter Eggs that the Easter Bunny had left around the house. He also got a Playmobil Pirate playset which he has had a great time playing with since he opened it up yesterday morning!

Brendan and his Easter Basket :D

We then got dressed for church; this year I followed some blog tutorials to make him a vest and bowtie. If I do say so myself, they turned out pretty CUTE! I made them using a ladies seersucker skirt (the green and white stripes) and linen shirt (for the inside lining) that I found at the Shalom Shop! I've never attempted to sew something like this before, but I was very happy with the results. I used the following tutorials: Make it Love it Vest instructions, etc... and Dana Made It for the pattern, which I adjusted to fit B better; Prudent Baby for the bowtie.

Brendan in his Easter outfit.

We decided to go to Grant's Grandma Dorothy's church for their Easter festivities this year. We did the early 7:30 a.m. service (Pastor Keith at Calvary Lutheran at Rush Point keeps it short and sweet, so nice when you have a sugared up 2 1/2 year old in the pew next to you!!!) and then had a nice breakfast at the church (eggs, sausage, pancakes, juice and rolls). After breakfast there was a quick Easter Egg hunt. So much fun! I don't have the pictures, yet, but Brendan's good friend Hannah also goes to Grandma Dorothy's church, so we have some cute pictures of the two of them together in their Easter finest :D After church, we checked out the scene at Rush Lake and then headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Lindberg's for the day. The Easter Bunny also left eggs and toys for B to find over there. He was one busy Bunny this year!

This is one of my favorite shots from the day...see how HUGE my tummy is. My back is non-too-happy right about now and my fingers and feet are so swollen no matter how much water I drink a day, but it's almost over!!!

We had a wonderful day and LOVED the gorgeous weather. While B did not get his usual 3 hour nap...he did fall asleep last night at around 8:15 p.m. and slept through the night.

My nesting instincts have been in full bloom and my house thanks me for it...all of the bedrooms have been dusted and vacuumed, the living room and sun room are clean and vacuumed and the kitchen is getting to be close to spotless. B and I will be heading outside to play today and tackle some of the post-winter clean up of the yard. Not too much, though...I get pretty tired very quickly!

That's all for now folks...

Getting Crafty

Thanks to a scrapbooking/Facebook friend, I stumbled upon the very addictive world of crafting blogs. Very dangerous, but very fun! Since that time, I have begun to follow a plethora of talented crafty bloggers to get ideas for some really fun crafts. (I'm up to 19 blogs so far with new ones popping up every day...) I've made a few projects for some crafty fun:


Brendan's Tool belt ala Make it and Love it


A Wonderpets Cape ala Sprout Online

Thrift store shirts into...
A girl's spring outfit...I used this tutorial to make the skirt Make it and Love it and took tips from a few different blogs for the fabric flowers on the "broach".

I'm entering this outfit in Family Pathways' Re-purposing Contest! Wish me luck ;D

I have a few more projects that I'm also working on/beginning work on:

1. a Pirate Vest for B...he's so into Pirates right now (thanks to Disney Junior's new show "Jake and the Neverland Pirates")

2. This vest: Make it and Love it - Reversible Vest for B for Easter. I found a women's seer sucker green and white skirt and a white linen shirt at the Shalom Shop (church run thrift store in town) for a grand total of $3 to use for this project. My sister made her son one and liked how it turned out...can't wait to start on mine! I'm also going to make B a bow-tie from this tutorial here: Delia Creates - Li'l Mister Bowtie

3. These hot and cold packs from Just Another Hang up. The Chick-sicle and the Love Bird

Stay tuned for other great ideas from the crafty blog world...I am OBSESSED!!!

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