M.I.A.

7 days without a post... and here I set myself a goal of posting more often! Boy oh boy... well actually now it’s girl oh girl! ha! It has been a busy week and I am checkin’ in just for a moment.
I have lots of pictures and projects and events I will be posting about in the next little while. I am still recovering from a hectic week of work and baby stuff. We had a few doctors’ appointments last week that had us running around as well as the daily grind making everything chaotic.
Our doctor’s appointment at the hospital went well... after 3 hours of uncooperative baby :)
This little Miss is apparently as stubborn as her father and mother.
Three hours, 2 nurses, 4 ultrasounds, one quick jog around the hospital, a coffee and three chocolate bars... we got her moving and visible. She is either really camera shy or really stubborn, lol! Ricardo and I think it’s more along the lines of stubborn!
Everything is coming along well. She is growing and kicking and pulling a few karate moves now and again and I love it! So, while I could post our ultrasound pictures, I will spare you. I am probably one of few that can admit that my little girl, on photo, looks like an extraterrestrial being...so instead, I am posting two cute picture of baby bump (quality: poor ... but you try taking a full body picture via webcam!)
Till soon!

it's a ....

image found via AmigurumiKingdom.etsy.com

Y it's a baby girl Y

please baby, be cooperative tomorrow

images found via funkymoose.co.uk

tomorrow is the BIG day!

we find out if the jelly bean swishing 'round my belly

is a boy or a girl!!!!

(granted he or she is cooperative and not camera shy)

don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight

we have waited for this day for a long time

count down going

we are finally here

2pm, 23rd of March

what's your guess?

mini-ricardo or mini-kirsten?

:)

check it out!

*image from the guilded bee*

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You need to check out Ashley Ann's blog called Under the Sycamore

She has finally added a button to her blog that I have added to the right of my blog. You can click and go directly to her blog.

Why check her out? Because she is an amazing photographer, because her children are adorable, because she gives you wonderful crafty ideas for your home, for you, for your babies... I love love love reading what this wonderful mom of 4 is up to.

Check her out and let me know what you think.... her tutorial for her Spring Wreath... I wanna make. Adding it to my endless list of "Things I must do, 'Things I must craft!"

homemade pasta

Homemade pasta, seriously the best thing eva’!

My ex-roomy and I had said, just like that one day, “Hey we should make our own pasta”... then he went out and bought a pasta machine and started without me!
I am not mad but now he is better than me.

A few weeks ago we made ricotta and parmesan filled pasta goodness with homemade sauce all from scratch. I have never in my life tasted something so good... fresh pasta is the bomb!

I got to roll out the pasta sheet ONCE till ex-roomy fired me and assigned me to an easier more foolproof task...stuffing the pasta.
This weekend we are going for round two.

Have I graduated to level 2?
Will he let me use the fancy pasta maker machine?
Or will he just show off his incredible skills and make me watch?

I swear I will do better, my pasta sheets will be more proportional and less slanted and weirdly shaped, I promise, scouts honour!

to make pasta you need this machine

and

when hooked onto the kitchen table, rolling pasta towards the outside of the table, you need a pretend wall

to stop the dogs from eating the pasta as it comes out of the machine!

then your kitchen will ressemble a hot mess like this one

once at work

you need a picture like this

of the men in the kitchen, rolling and stuffing pasta

...even though husband's participation started

and stopped at this picture, shhh!

you also need a picture like this so that when I ask for my badge

to pass on to level two, ex-roomy wont be able to say

"when did you make pasta? never. no memory. level one"

you need to cook the sauce while making the pasta

this is where my multitasking skill paid off

and voila!

fresh pasta

Have you ever made homemade pasta?