Wordless{ish} Wednesday: Higher Education

{Rube Goldberg project by 2 UW students, demonstrating the chances of a fetus acquiring "diseases & disabilities"}

{Bubbles, bubbles everywhere!}

 {Can I just say, I LOVE his eyelashes!}

 {A game of Kinect anyone?! He's a dancing machine!}

{"I win!"}

 {Of course the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.}

{You are being watched... I walked right past this the first time, felt funny, went back, and then realized what it was.} 

{"What's down there?"} 

{Cool dude! Some new shades from the Microsoft people.} 

Last Friday Dustin and I packed up our own bags and rode the bus into Seattle with Del for a day of adventure on the University of Washington campus.  Del had class, so Dustin and I were on our own for about an hour and a half.  It was a great day to visit campus because HuskyFest 2012 was in full swing and there was lots to check out!  We got free energy drinks, free Fuze drinks, and free Vitamin waters!  We also snagged a couple reusable bags to carry everything in; a couple coupons good for free chips and guacamole & buy one get one free at Chipotle; and a mini tomato plant to plant and watch grow!  

We met back up with Del after his class and wandered around a little more.  We checked out the Microsoft tent where the boys played a little bit of some dancing game (maybe DDR?).  Then we showed Del the Rube Goldberg project we had seen, and Dustin loved!  Of course we also admired the pretty pink cherry blossoms.  And finally, we headed off for home.

Dustin was surprisingly very well behaved.  Shocking, I know, especially considering we've he's been learning how to throw temper tantrums go all rag doll and ignore us if we try to communicate with him.  Oh three year olds... or is it just boys?  So it was a pleasant day!

Happy Wednesday!

No Words

I love this picture.  It makes my heart melt!

Easter 2012 {picture loaded!}

Normally our holidays are hectic, crazy, disorganized, and just plain rushed.  No one is quite sure what they are doing, everything seems to happen last minute, and there's always something or someone forgotten.  This year, however, Easter was a blast!  We celebrated it with just our own little family of three.  It was simple, but it was exactly what we needed, and wanted.  It was pleasant, and special.

It started out with me the Easter bunny getting Dustin's basket all set up and put in his bedroom for him to see when he woke up.  The Easter bunny made a late trip (about 3am!), so he she didn't get much sleep that night.

{Skittles and M&M eggs, a noisy chick, and a Cars football}

{Cars 2 and Mickey Mouse bubbles}

{Purple peeps}

{Cars 2 charge ups... AMAZING sale at Target last week on all Cars products! We stocked up!}

Dustin woke up and first thing he went for were the Cars 2 cars! {of course!}  We grabbed his Easter basket and proceeded out to the couches and took a peek at what the rabbit had left for him overnight.  

It took him awhile, but he eventually noticed that the big egg holding all the smaller eggs that had been sitting on the kitchen table were gone!  Oh no!  So we got socks and shoes on and went outside for an Easter egg hunt with mama!

He did sooooo good this year!  Last year he would find an egg, open it, dump the contents into his basket, then forget not want to continue on with the hunt!  Silly boy!  This year, though, he found an egg, put it in his basket, then proceeded to find the next, and so on.  So exciting!  When we he had found all of the eggs, we headed inside to see what all mommy the Easter bunny had put in them.

{Look at how well he made out!  Cars 2 cars, $5, and jelly beans galore!}

For dinner, I made my very first ham!  Del helped, of course!  He made the glaze to put on top! {Thank you!}  To go with the ham, I made candied yams, baked asparagus, and garlic sourdough bread.  Yum yum!

For dessert, I made the bunny cake that my mom used to make when I was growing up.  It's nothing unique (I've been seeing a lot more families making it) but it's fun!  And Dustin loves to look at it and say, "baby like rabbit cake!"

{I didn't go all out with this one this year.  Kept it simple!}

And that was our day!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Wordless{ish} Wednesday

I've seen so many people take an avocado seed and start growing it in a cup, but I've never actually seen anyone grow a tree itself!  We may not get to that point either, but I have been wanting to try this since, well, lets just say "years"!  Dustin is pretty excited about it, too!

{Linking up with: and then she snapped, jenni from the blog, & the papermama}