I got this pool on sale at Target, very happy with the end of summer sales.. thinking that Gabe would love it. Pff. He cried so much! I think it was also all the mosquitoes, and maybe the water was too cold. Who knows, he just loves being in the water so much. He's got time to grow it out anyway :)
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
More and more steps
More and more steps
Originally uploaded by manueb
Primed walls
We've primed the bedroom with friends this last Saturday. We were going to paint more on Sunday but some of us had too much to drink and were not exactly up for duty... :P
This is going to take us forever!!! Argh
This is going to take us forever!!! Argh
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Gabe is discovering the painting I made for his bedroom
He absolutely loves it, it makes me so happy. I have so very little time to do anything right now besides caulking, spackling, cleaning the house... all this house work is driving me crazy, I have zero time to myself. But, it's always when I think I don't have any that I manage to stretch it and make things, I need that to relax!!! anyway, my baby has a new pretty colorful painting over his bed and he loves it :)
Happy birthday my hubby! bis
For his birthday dinner, I cooked mini cherry tomatoes clafoutis, then duckbreasts in a honey- szechuan pepper sauce with pineapple, and as requested, a peach pie for dessert. It was not easy fitting the 31 candles on there, but I managed :)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Gabe is giving his daddy his birthday presents!
It's Shad's birthday today!! 31, still younger than me... damn :P
Monday, August 11, 2008
Green siding almost done!!
Wow, the exterior siding is almost finished! I feel like it's taking for ever, but try to paint in the sun by 105... It's kind of tricky! Once they guys will have put in the final window, we can paint the trims and be done with the exterior work, and attack the inside...
Dinner with the gang :)
Carol and Kurt, and Lucas, are back from their holidays in Brasil.. and the drinking gang is back together :P Let's t waste any time, let's just start drinking and eating straight away :P
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Gabe hugging Winnie in his sleep
Just when I thought Gabe could not get any cuter, we go check on him tonight and we find him sounds asleep hugging his Winnie - upside down. Love u my angel.
Morning photoshoot
My baby's the most beautiful baby in the world! He inspires me so much, and I love him more than words can say!
Our brand new car
Here's our new car, after having the Saturn totaled last week... booo. We now have a car loan, makes me sad! Oh well. At least this car seems great and comfy, roomy and most importantly safe. A good family car :)
Gabe, Alex, Eric and Sylvia
This picture makes me very happy. Our friends John and Mikal came for dinner with the gang, and look at that! Could the kids be any happier? While we were sipping wine, enjoying adult conversation and relaxing. Fun fun fun
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Master bedroom remodeling - Day 2
There we go, in only 2 days, the windows and the door are up in the old screened-in porch. Our guys work fast! I'm loving it so far :)
Monday, July 21, 2008
House renovation, master bedroom - Day 1
Here we go!! The construction started today for our "back of the house" project. No more screened-in porch, no more back kitchen! Instead, a nice bedroom for my hubby and me!!! Our guys gutted out the kitchen today and took down the screens and exterior sidings. It doesn't look bad like that at all!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Kev and Vlad in Austin
Kev and Vlad came over to spend a few days after a Microsoft conference in Houston. I had 3 gentlemen to myself for 4 days, I have to say it was really nice :) You guys can come back whenever you'd like!!!
Altough I have to say, we drank too much :P But without Vlad we would not have discovered an Austin treasure: Sam's BBQ on East 12th: OMG! The best bbq meat we've had, ever! Not baby friendly though, but delicious and well worth the stop.
Altough I have to say, we drank too much :P But without Vlad we would not have discovered an Austin treasure: Sam's BBQ on East 12th: OMG! The best bbq meat we've had, ever! Not baby friendly though, but delicious and well worth the stop.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Gabe goes everywhere
Gabe goes everywhere
Originally uploaded by manueb
Gabe is standing very easily.
Not an issue for him anymore. Standing is E.A.S.Y.!
Not so easy for us, having to chase him around and stuff :P But even cuter, if that's possible.
Not so easy for us, having to chase him around and stuff :P But even cuter, if that's possible.
4th of July - Austin
Gabe wanted to grab the fireworks.. priceless! I absolutely loved loved loved the fireworks, the final gave me the chills. It was awesome to hang out on the pedestrian bridge over the lake with our friends. Good times.
Sophie and Dave are in Austin
They came to visit for a few days, and spent the 4th of July with us. We had 4 good days of drinking, eating, drinking, swimming, eating some more... Went to Barton Springs, Clarksville pool, walked around, had margaritas, and some Veuve, played with Gabe, etc.. very very cool weekend! Hope to see you again soon!!
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Gabe is "napping"
That's what you get when your baby starts not only to crawl everywhere, but pull himself up with ease.. Putting him down for a nap now if quite challenging and I often find him bouncing in bed, talking to his teddy bears. It's just too cute. Also he started climbing up stairs a couple of days ago at the Alamo Drafthouse. We were watching "Kung Fu Panda", but I guess the stairs were much more interesting to him :)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
My first Blurb book! Father's day.
Finally we gave it to Shad today for Father's day! I got it in the mail about 2 weeks ago, and I've been dying to show it to him. My first Blurb book of many, as I just started making lots of photo books after realizing we have ZERO printed pictures of ourselves anywhere. Blurb/booksmart makes it super easy at an affordable price. Thank you Blurb :)
Friday, June 13, 2008
Hanging out at Ramsey pool
And our tour of the Austin pools continues. I think Ramsey's my favorite so far. Such a wonderful neighborhood, and the pool is the perfect temperature and depth! NICE! Thank you Austin for being awesome in the summer!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The squirty pool is FUN
A hell of a lot of cuteness involved here! Andrew invited us over to play in hiw new pool he got for his first birthday :) That was very sweet of him, and Gabe had a great time with his friend - as always.
Playdate at Little Stacy pool
Yesterday we started our "tour" of Austin's wading pools. This one sure is pretty, hidden under that big tree! As usual, Gabe met his buddies there, Charlotte, Clay, Beck and Andrew.
The cutest founds at at local fleamarket
We got those on sunday for a total of $30, a great deal! Gabe loves them already. We do need to do some work on the wicker bench though, some sanding and repainting. Pretty!
Laguna Gloria / Austin Museum of Art
We went for a stroll with Gabe a few days ago. Can't believe the Laguna is so close to our house and that we had never been there before! Right in Mayfield Park.
A little treasure of quietness, very romantic place. Gabe had fun with the luxurious vegetation all around him. We'll have to go there again, and we'd love to take art classes. Gabe will when he turns 4... :) we have time!
Friday, June 06, 2008
(De)construction work in our street
The last couple of days were quite tough and nasty in our street with the new waste water line project. Every single street around ours had been torn apart, it "finally" was our turn. Gabe enjoyed watching the tractors and everything, although he didn't manage to nap for 2 days with all the noise. After the storm that hit us, what a mess!!!
With Carol and Angele at Deep Eddy
Another playdate at Deep Eddy pool, which makes everyone HAPPY! the boys love it, their mommies love it. Life is good! :) If only we could have margaritas aaaaalll the time :P
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Gabe and Andrew in the pool
I got that pool for 5 bucks at Babies R Us - not worth one penny more! But even if we used it just that one time, it was totally worth seeing those two little men haev fun and try to get out of it :) Good to have with this insanely warm texan weather when we're too lazy to go to Deep Eddy...
San Francisco
We went to San Francisco for 3 days over Memorial weekend - first time for Gabe, I hadn't been since I was 12 basically, and Shad had last been a few years ago for work. We just chilled and ate quite a lot of food. During that weekend Gabe cut both his upper teeth, what a brave little man, didn't complain once! We did manage to see quite more than I thought we would, many streets and neighborhoods, the piers, the golden gate bridge (Gabe slept most of the time, surprise surprise), Chinatown and the Japan Center (sooooo very cool), etc.. We were in a hotel downtown on 3rd, quite fancy, Gabe loved the room overlooking the buildings, he gained more independency with his crawling too!
A very lovely windy (and cold! brrrrr) weekend.
A very lovely windy (and cold! brrrrr) weekend.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Swimming at Deep Eddy
For the first time! Ok, the water is definitely cooler than the YMCA, but than it's clear water, no more horrible chlorine that stings the eye! And Gabe loved it, as was to be expected :) I just love that place.
Fun on the Rody!
Gabe got the Rody rocking horse from his Mamino and Papilou! He LOVES it!!! It is such a cute fun toy, that the entire family can enjoy, hehehe.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Austin Lightning storm may 15th 2008
Amazing storm pictures from Streetranger, found on flickr... No wonder it was SO scary..
HUGE STORM! May 15th, Austin
A HUGE storm hit us 2 nights ago, around midnight, with winds at 90mph!... green sky... We heard our transformer go down, the power went out.. There was hail (2-3 inches hailstones), big 100-year-old trees fell down and damaged our entire neighborhood (Clarksville). We were without power for 19hrs, not so long after all, but still seems like forever, considering the damage in the streets, having to take care of Gabe, ambulances, fire trucks, landscape trucks everywhere, roads closed down. We are lucky, we barely had any damage. It was a loooooong day!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Gabe is starting to crawl (backwards)
Gabe is starting to crawl (backwards)
Originally uploaded by manueb
This is the only video I've managed to upload on Flickr... weird. It appears to upload and at 100% of completion it says that "something went "BONK" with your videos", but doesn't give an explanation. My videos are short and not over-sized either... Don't get it!
Monday, May 12, 2008
Mother's day!
My own first mother's day :) What a treat!! Turns out, as Gabe is teething and is waking up super early, that we managed to do tons of things all together yesterday!
Gabe got me a new Hello Kitty for my collection and a couple of other cute items :) What a cute gift (thank you Shad :P)
We had breakfast at Sweetish Hill, had lunch at Chui's, and after Gabe's nap, we picked up some ripe cherry tomatoes in our yard, we went to Terra Toys (almost as cool as Toy Joy :P), had an ice cream at Amy's IceCream, and finally went to Whole Foods to get some good dinner stuff (Prosecco, bread, cheese...). Gabe had a blast in the cart!
We had breakfast at Sweetish Hill, had lunch at Chui's, and after Gabe's nap, we picked up some ripe cherry tomatoes in our yard, we went to Terra Toys (almost as cool as Toy Joy :P), had an ice cream at Amy's IceCream, and finally went to Whole Foods to get some good dinner stuff (Prosecco, bread, cheese...). Gabe had a blast in the cart!
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Gabe's 1st tooth?
It's been a few days that I think I've noticed a tooth in there, well, it's not out yet, but I can see it's coming, bottom jaw on the left side! It explains some of the moodiness I guess...
And also he started crawling backwards this morning, very cute and extremely funny!
Gabe with Grandma JeRena
Grandma JeRena came to visit this past weekend and we had a great 3 days! Did tons of stuff, went for a swim, had avocado margaritas (seems like we do that with everybody who come to visit), went swinging in the park, bought a few things at IKEA..
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Trims... Finally!!!
This is what I was talking about a couple days ago... Still needs caulking and painting and also quarter rounds but we're "almost" there now... 10 months later...!
Welcome to "Chez Gabriel"
Here's all of Gabe's food for the next couple of weeks (at least; I hope!). There's beef and chicken, and turkey, cod, salmon, tilapia, mixed with every possible vegetable and herbs.. and all sorts of fruity desserts. I just realized there is no pork meal, I might make one of those. He just eats everything! What a good baby... he just knows good food when he sees it :P All organic, straight from Whole Foods!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Spring cleaning!
Phwew! We have just spent the ENTIRE weekend cleaning up our closets (trust me, it hadn't been done for years!!!) to make some room for our clothes and Gabe's stuff and we just got rid of old unnecessary junk. FINALLY!!! It feels good to get rid of crap! No more crappy boxes, no more dust, no more being scared to have a look in the closets, and even less to store our good stuff in them.
Shad also started putting up the trims in the kitchen and upstairs, it's looking good!
In the whole process, I made 8 meals for Gabe. I was on an adrenaline rush :P
It was a VERY productive weekend, although I must say, extremely exhausting. We're happy with the result though!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Vanessa in Austin
She came to visit last weekend and it was so good to see her, after a year and a half, since we left Oslo. It was a short visit but a good one, we did plenty, had margaritas and apetizers at Z tejas, margaritas at Curra's, margaritas at home... :) And also a nice walk on SoCo, and lots of friends over for a late lunch in our backyard. It was awesome.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Turtle vacation
There are a gazillion turtles in Town Lake, which absolutely cracks me up. Two days ago we were walking there on a playdate when we saw these.. What brings all of them together on such a tiny spot? :)
Monday, April 07, 2008
Gabe's first swim - April 5
We went to our first shrimp lesson this past saturday at the YMCA, along with other parent friends and babies. All 3 of us loved it, as I was expecting it, Gabe LOVED being in the pool and was very comfortable straight away. He does have some fatty fat going on to stay afloat. Let's just say he's buoyant :)
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