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Thursday, July 5, 2018

Fourth of July Weekmid


Hey Everyone, hopefully you all had a fun and relaxing 4th of July. It was a little bit of a bummer being smack in the middle of the work week, but hey I'll take a day off wherever and however I can get it. 
Our celebration started Tuesday, the 3rd with tacos and a seriously stressful show. I have to give Chase a major shout out, because not only did he grocery shop for our weekmid, he made homemade, from scratch tortillas! They were thin, soft, flexible (it's important for taco wrappage) and delicious! He also made me a ginger ale mocktail with lots of lime since I am currently bun-in-oven status. It's not the same as a nice cold ginger ale and captain or margarita, but it's damn refreshing and it's the thought. We vegged on tacos followed them up with these delightful little treats that he found and then we proceeded to start season 2 of Handmaid's Tale. I swore I would not watch this while I was pregnant, because let's face it, this show is terrifying, dark and anxiety-producing. It is also sooooo very good that once you start it, you literally can't stop until you're done and completely wrung out emotionally. We are 4 episodes in, and things have already gotten very dark and crazy, but I am sitting here even now wondering if we will be able to sneak in an episode tonight.
Fourth of July was really low key for us this year. We jokingly named it "Thorntonpendence Day; Freedom from Oppressive Family Members" RELAX MOM IT'S ONLY A JOKE. In all seriousness though, it was a Wednesday and we wanted to just stay low key and spend time just the three of us. I think I said the same thing in our "Norah's First Movie Experience" post, but I find myself really wanting to have as much one on one time with Norah as I can get before we are a family of four. It's weird to think that she will never remember a time before Nolan, but I will and I want to give her my full attention while I can.

To start our Thorntonpendence Day we got up, had breakfast together, and headed off to a little park near our house, where we spent 0.3 seconds because it was REALLY hot! This is one of her favorite things to do, so we loaded up on water and watched her climb and slide, and climb and slide and swing until her heart was content, or until my ankles looked like balloon animals. Then it was off to the puppy store, another one of her favorite things to do. We played with a crazy little shiba inu, a snuggly little cavapoo, a sweet little basset hound and a few more until she was puppied out. We left just in time, because it started pouring shortly after, which Chase can attest to since he got soaked buying some fireworks for us. Once we got home we did some sparklers, snakes and some neon colored smoke bombs, ate some hot dogs, french fries and apple pie while watching some Master Chef. Norah hadn't had a nap so she was getting pretty sleepy and her bedtime was getting pretty close, so for her it was bath and off to bed after some Halloween books (they are her favorite, I don't know what to say). Chase and I cleaned up a little and then hunkered down, watched some more Handmaid's Tale and crashed. All in all some would call this boring, I call it perfect. I would say Norah enjoyed the day as well seeing as how when I woke her up this morning, she proceeded to tell me her dreams, which was a creative recap of our previous day, with night night bear getting all the credit. I am pretty sure he even made the tortillas Tuesday night to Chase's ultimate dismay :)  

Is there anything sexier than a man who knows how to use a rolling pin?

How about a man who can sprinkle flour like an 87 year old Italian Nonna 😋


Perfecto!

Pre-Thorntonpendence Day Festivities

Lookin red, white and cute at the park thanks to Aunt Lolo 😄

Oh this lab was just pulling at my heart strings....until I saw the price 😱

Norah loved her too


First sparkler, and she was fearless



Chase's take on festive plating, I made him take the picture 😁

Here's hoping your fourth was fantastic, and bright side to the weekmid, it's already almost Friday!

A.



Evergreen Bough, Urban Garden and Germinating Green; Nolan's Room Update

Who knew green could be could be so tricky! I envisioned a deep olive green, what I got was the darkest hunter green known to man, and then a slightly more olive toned darkest green ever, and then finally after painting what looked like Gak on the walls, we found our perfect color! The weekend before last we were able to get the room painted and Norah's clothes re-vacuum sealed, and some art on the walls, but we've got a lot of little projects to finish up. Here's just a quick look at the painting fiasco ;)

Seriously, I have never seen an evergreen bough this dark, truthfully I've never seen an evergreen bough, but who's gonna call me out on that....

Hard to see but the majority of the wall is evergreen bough, the next lightest is urban garden, and the baby puke colored one is the winner, germinating green (all by Sherwin Williams)

This color reminded me of a mood ring, I hated it going on, but decided to chill and let it dry to see what would happen. What happened was magic, it dried into the perfect rich olive green color!

You can kind of tell that it's getting darker here

Cave paintings

More cave paintings

Yea, you would think like normal people we would empty the room before painting, but no, we prefer to test our balance and patience by leaving it as cluttered as possible 😔

More to come soon.......