green without envy

Julie and Amy(you two are awesome) invited me to join them at two different smaller craft shows within the last two weeks. I sold 3 baby hats and 17 chocolate easter bunny popsicles. I realized that it was really tacky to be sloppily scribbling my name and email on scrap paper to give interested customers so i started another blog just for my wares! Introducing(drum roll) Green Without Envy! It's my new baby so bear with me...

Also, this past saturday we took the boys and (dragged) Matt to the Smithsonian Kite Festival. It drizzled rain the whole time and the wind came and went, so technically we did get our bald eagle and stealth fighter kites(awesome if i may say so) to fly, but technically it did suck. We met up with the Sanchezes & company(which made it suck a lot less) so Isaac got some girlfriend time in with Miji. Gerardo made Chilean kites for the kiddos which unfortunately were awesome but made out of paper which did valiant battle against afore-mentioned drizzle but in the end lost.

the glorious duet of eagle and stealth fighter.
Matt says the fact the the eagle kept crashing is ironically reflective of the American economy. Also this guy with a huge chinese dragon kite was doing fine.... hmm.

can you just see how miserable/drizzly it was?

and isaac STILL had fun.

i feel your words through my buttonholes...

so it might be due to the fact that i need a lot of peace and love in my life in order to not go crazy or the fact that i like dancing to catchy music in my socks in the kitchen or the fact that i am eating the words i so frequently uttered in high school vowing never to like any female vocalist or that i am currently trying to control my obsession with buttons and button-related art, but i love lisa hannigan.
also this.
enjoy!

sorry it's been a while...

the sweetest thing in the world miiight just be a sick baby passing out on my chest.

we have a LOT of cardinals who were loving the bird feeders we made.

my wonderful tolerant helpful husband making me a shelf for the console table in the kitchen the night before ezra's birthday party.

isaac helping

THIS BABY IS A YEAR OLD. that is so weird.

trying out ezra's new chair!

going to feed the ducks with Miji

a little bit of green to share with you

a little bit of yellow to share with you

isaac is so into gardening this year that he gets upset if you don't want his help...

so i have come to the realization that i'm not that great at blogging(at least on a regular basis), just like i wasn't that good at being a pen pal in middle school... i don't know why i expected myself to break that mold now.



also... http://buildabeard.helloatto.com/ ...in case you think adam's beard is awesome and want to have your own but don't have the patience or facial hair to do it...

all i can say is when you marry a handsome man...

you get cute boys.

...and frogs accompany you on EVERY outing.

Adam was working in the city today, so we went to visit "Daddy's crane" and watch it sloooooowwwly pick up something and put it on top of a building and bring something else back down.... over and over again. Isaac never got tired of watching but did have a rather somber look on his face the entire time as if to say "I don't think that's how I would do that."

speaking of love...

i love this necklace.

http://eclecticeccentricity.bigcartel.com/product/you-keep-me-captivated-birdcage-necklace

the sweet singing Bird i am in love with.

I recently was fortunate enough to get to see the amazing Andrew Bird live in Richmond with Matt and Devin. Let me tell you this was by far the best show i have ever been to in my life(of which there have been many... shows not lives...) and i highly recommend it to you. Here is just a taste...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7fuzgYrc4

also Matt emailed me this little nugget this morning! enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HmkLu24w2o



ANYWAYS... i knit my first sweater this week for isaac out of recycled yarn(yes from another sweater which i know might seem counterproductive, but it helps me stay home and not spend money so it's worth it...). He loves it(thankfully) and told his sunday school teacher that his mommy made it... *heart melting*

buttons on both shoulders so his large noggin can fit

and i didn't use a pattern! Matt(dork) says Isaac looks like one of the unfortunate wretches in Luke Skywalker's neighborhood in Tatooine(i had to look that up). He might be right.

put a little love in...

so it's a good thing janna doesn't read my blog, cuz this is her valentine! Recycled crocheted scarf with isaac's heart buttons... super skinny, long, and obviously for cuteness as opposed to warmth.

just hanging out in the dryer...

and wearing a tea-cozy for a hat.... you know, normal 2 year old boy things to do.

white outside

white inside

yay for funky journals... and for remembering what you planted last year. ha.