my week via instagram

well this week flew by!

how is it mid-april already??

this week mike started a new job at the y.

there are a few perks to working at the y...discounted membership, seeing tons of people...

but the best part is that we live 2 blocks away so eli & i can visit any time!

eli is growing & growing & becoming more fun everyday!

he's becoming an expert raspberry blower.

he's also curious about everything.

it won't be long until we have to start baby proofing.

and all you ladies better watch out for this little flirt.  

we had to go to target (yes, had to) to print some pictures out for mike to make a portfolio for a job interview.  

eli got a fun ride in the cart as daddy would send him cruising down the aisles in the runaway cart.  

he got a big kick out of it.

friday we hung out with some friends from church at a local park.

mommy enjoyed hanging out with other adults outside the house & eli enjoyed watching the older kids playing. 

we are looking forward to more days like these!

we also got in some good family time.  

here are 3 generations of rubins. 

here are my pics from this weeks photo a day challenge with fat mum slim:

1. "younger you" - this is a picture taken on my first trip to the dentist. 

2. "cold" - on this day my feet were not just cold, but freezing. we actually turned on the heat.

3. "where you ate breakfast" - i had to have breakfast on the road: chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie = YUM!

4. "stairs" - not too exciting...pretty self-explanatory

1. "how you feel today" - i was so tired all day & couldn't wait until i could take a nap.

2. "sunset" - not the greatest sunset pic, but a sunset nonetheless.

i feel like this was a pretty light post. 

i guess i wasn't too active in photographing our lives this week!

oh well, there's a new week to come!

until next time....

my week via instagram

well, here it is tuesday already & i'm just now getting around to my blog post for last week.

 i don't know why, but today really feels like monday to me. 

somehow i lost a day.

BUT this is supposed to be about last week, so moving right along...

i finally {FINALLY} tackled the project of transitioning eli out of our room completely.

up until last month he was still sleeping in our room in the pack & play.

when we returned from our mini-vacation, we moved him into his room.

however, all of his clothes & diapers were still in our room....piled high on top of our dresser.

 {mostly because his dresser was still sitting in the box}

so...momma tackled the dresser

my supervisor made sure i was putting it together correctly.

and the final product:

& because this was done, we were able to take our dresser back:

woo hoo!

i should've done a before & after shot to really get the full effect.

last week mike & i watched the movie "forks over knives". 

ever see it?

after watching it, we decided we wanted to go vegetarian.

it's a really interesting movie & changed the way we view food. 

now, we haven't started yet because i wanted to use up the meat we had in the house.

but we did make a trip to five guys for lunch to have a last burger.

we are trying the vegetarian thing for 12 weeks to start & to see if it makes a difference for us.

i'll keep you posted on how it's going. 

this week, because it was easter, my brother came home for a few days.

he lives in tampa so we don't get to see him very often...only a couple times a year.

it's always so good to spend time with him.  

the 4 of us went to full moon.

best sushi ever! 

i hadn't had sushi since before i was pregnant, so this was a very special treat!

and on a side note, can i just say that asian women LOVE eli. 

earlier in the week we went to a hibachi buffet with my parents & the waitresses spent 75% of the time we were there at our table playing with him.

at one point when mike was holding him, one of the waitresses came & took him from mike!

then at full moon, our waitress kept sitting down at our table to talk to eli.

we told my brother if he wanted to score an asian woman, he could take eli out & he'd have his pick!

of course, sunday we celebrated the resurrection of our savior....victory over death!

our service was awesome! 

we had 4 people from our food pantry come to church with us.  

after 2 and a half years, we are finally witnessing God's hand at work!

{more on this later}

then we headed to my aunt's house to be with family.

this is eli with one of my cousins' daughter.

she is almost exactly one month older than eli.  

they were having a blast hanging out!

almost forgot eli with his easter basket.

hit up the dollar bin at target for these sesame street books.

the boy LOVES books! 

daddy showing off his juggling skills.

eli got a kick out of this!

i started a new photo a day challenge linking up with fat mum slim.

it seems this month i'm going at it alone, but i don't care, i'm having fun finding ways to use my creativity to complete the challenge.

1. "your reflection" - heading off to church last week with some more pink eye, hence the glasses!

2.  "color" - eli's room definitely has the most color in our house.  i love how bright & fun it is!

3. "mail" - this is where our mail goes after we open it & it usually hangs out here until we get around to taking it upstairs to file it away.

4. "someone who makes you happy" - i know, way too predictable right? what can i say?

1. "tiny" - this is one of many tiny little toys that aunt jen & aunt jess decorated with at my baby shower. the moose is my favorite.

2. "lunch" - using up the meat this week i made some chicken pot pie & had some leftovers. 

3. "shadow" - stealing a shadow kiss with my love.

4. "inside your wallet" - pretty boring but at least right now it's organized!

as i mentioned, i do have some very exciting news regarding the food pantry, but i'm going to save that for another post...keep you on the edge of our seat & require you to visit again!

until next time.....

my week via instagram

just when we thought we were in the clear this week, the sickness decided to stick around.

and that's the thing....it just keeps going around & around & around.

remember how my dad started this whole thing with the pink eye?

well, he got it again.

and so did i.

and so did mike.

and so did my mom.

i'm really not sure how we are supposed to get rid of it.

or maybe we will set a record for the number of times the cycle goes around?

thankfully eli has been dissed by the sickness.

we had his 6 month appointment this week & he received a clean bill of health.

and it turns out that our little guy is in fact little.

he's only in the 20-30th percentile for weight & height! 

but i'm totally ok with this because i've seen some other babies around his age that aren't so little.

eli is absolutely perfect the way he is!

i love the days when i get some time to myself to just sit & relax & enjoy a cup of coffee.

eli's sleeping, mike's working & i take a break to put my feet up.

 i soak up the warmth of my coffee & just rest.

one day this week became a baby food making day.

i love making food for eli.

it brings me fulfillment knowing that i make what he eats.

my new favorite thing is to create fun combos of food. 

one thing the doctor was very impressed with was eli's ability to sit independently.

one thing i've been fascinated with lately is watching him sit & play on his own.

he grabs his toy basket, pulls it over & pulls something out.

it's just amazing to watch him grow & explore & discover, ya know?

sometimes mike goes to panera to work for a change of scenery.

this week we met him for lunch.

i tried the tomato soup & sadly, it was a big fail for me. 

saturday we had some kids over from church for a painting party.

we needed their help with painting a mural that will be hung up at church.

though it was a little chilly, the kids had a blast & it turned out great!

sunday afternoons are one of my favorite times.

eli takes a super long nap because of church in the morning & usually we sleep then too.

but this week i did a mini parenthood marathon.

i recently started watching "parenthood" on netflix.

i don't know if you've ever watched this show, but i cry at every episode! 

i don't know what it is, but EVERY single episode i've watched, i've cried.

and for me, this is how i measure greatness in a movie...or in this case, tv show.

this week the #marchphotoaday ended & a new challenge for april begins.

1. "key" - this is my key to my parents' house. mike says i'm a fake fan now that i have a kid. i'd like to disagree.

2.  "your name" - this is from a page in eli's baby book.  i love that "mommy" is now synonymous with my name.

3. "trash" - mike is the lucky duck who gets trash duty.

 1. "feet" - these are the cutest feet i've ever seen & the only {excluding future baby feet} that i will ever love.  if you know me, you know i HATE feet.  but these little toes i could eat up in a heartbeat.

2.  "toy" - this is my toy, which surprisingly hasn't gotten a ton of use lately.  

3.  "where you relax" - anywhere with a cup of coffee is where i can find relaxation.

my week via instagram

ok, so we are back on track!

as i mentioned before, i have those "i think i'm getting sick" feelings.

i just finished gargling with salt water.

yep, sore throat.

and just you wait to see what this week has held for me!

the week started out like any typical week.  

we hung out & enjoyed having the windows open in the house. 

{anyone else disappointed about the forecast for this week....which is, in reality, typical march weather LOL}

we also enjoyed some freebies this week:

first was rita's

& then brewster's 

{yes, we got free ice cream....a HUGE ice cream...just for wearing our pj's}

so 2 weeks ago i was at my parent's house & discovered that my dad had pink eye....

while he was holding eli {commence prayers of protection}

turns out, my dad loves to share...

 this was me thursday night.

hot, right?

mike took this pic:

i don't remember pink eye being so painful.

friday morning.

this doesn't even do it justice.

the entire white of my eye was blood red.

still is.

i tried hiding my eye by wearing my glasses for a few days.  

{we sent this pic to daddy one day to let him know we were thinking about him}

 we took eli to his first baseball game.

it was a very special day for mike.

a day he's been looking forward to for a long time!

saturday was a special reason for 2 reasons:

 it was dink dink's 10th birthday

&

 we went dress shopping with smit.  

can't wait to see what she chooses!

 i was supposed to go to the midnight showing of hunger games on thursday,

however, pink eye ruined that.

{though, to be honest, i don't know how i ever would've managed that one}

but i did get to go.

i thought the movie was pretty good, but sadly, i realized while watching the movie, there weren't too many details i could remember from the book.

i couldn't even remember how it ended!

thanks, post-preggo brain.

 i'm linking up again with fat mum slim for #marchphotoaday

1. "funny" - eli sucking his middle finger. not many funny things happened that day!

2.  "before/after" - drinking water...which lately i've been terrible at

3.  "delicious" - i love popcorn & it's become my new evening snack

4. " kitchen sink" - i'm getting better at keeping it semi-empty of dirty dishes...one day at a time

1. "moon" - a page from eli's new fave book {one that his friend, bauer, left at our house before he was born}

2.  "an animal" - dink on his b-day

3.  "breakfast" - this will become my new fave breakfast: nutella & bananas on multi-grain waffles

 thanks for sharing in my fun for the week. 

here's to hoping i wake tomorrow with a clear eye & an unsore throat.

until next time.....

 

 

my week via instagram {missed week}

so i'm sure everyone was worried about the fact that i missed a week of posting my pics.

i got busy & then i started feeling like i was getting sick, so i laid low.

now i'm back with tons of pics to share.....though i can't say the "i think i'm getting sick" feelings are gone.  

i blame this crazy weather....and my dad.

stay tuned to my next post to find out why!

we headed down to williamsburg on tuesday thanks to groupon!

our first family vacay!

 this was our little home away from home for a few days.

we stayed at the historic powhatan inn & would highly recommend it.

it was a really great place to stay.  

here's eli testing out the bed for us.  

now as for colonial williamsburg....not exactly our cup of tea.

unfortunately we learned an expensive lesson in figuring this fact out.

mike took this pic to represent our feelings towards this lesson.

this was one of the highlights of our trip...taking eli swimming!

he was pretty indifferent towards the giant bathtub.

but he certainly looked ADORABLE in his swim trunks!

every friday i want to try to sneak some pics of our connect group & i finally managed to do it.

this group is a very important part of our lives.

we're very blessed to have them in our lives!

and yes, charlie is an active participant in the group.

 for the last {maybe...can't remember exactly} 7 years we have celebrated what we call 

"the sager family christmas".

it started with just myself, smit & the sagers.

then mike came along.....

and this year we added caleb.

we have never actually celebrated at christmas....it's always been late january.

but this year our schedules were so crazy that we put it off until st. patty's day.

we exchanged gifts with the kids & gift cards between the adults.

we had to shoot them with the nerf gun in order to claim them. 

to top it off, we had breakfast for dinner:

green pancakes!

and just for fun:

green beer.  

then smit asked jen & i to be her matrons of honor.

woo hoo! smit's getting married! {finally :)}

 finally, we have the #marchphotoaday pics:

1.  "fork" -  monday of this week we had some of mike's family over for dinner. what a great time!

2.  "a sign" - our entrance into colonial williamsburg

3.  "clouds" - i was totally on cloud 9 when we found a sweet frog in williamsburg.

we LOVE sweetfrog & can't wait for it to open here!!

4.  "car" - this was the view from the car on our way home from our trip.

1.  "sunglasses" - my new faves

2. "green" - old faves

3. "a corner of your home" - where i rock & sing eli to sleep

now it's on to the next post....see you there!