Say It Ain't So

I mentioned that Grant is saying the darndest things and here are two examples from the last 5 minutes....

His new habit is to have full conversations with himself so that the conversation has no choice but going the way he wants it. In other words we hear things like this... "Mommy, Grant have cake now? Okay Grant have cake now thats a good idea" from 2 minutes ago
or
"Wow thats a low price!" I can't you tell the last time I saw the Staples price but Grant certainly remembers it. The funniest part is that he was flipping through the Target application on my iPhone when he said it!

and heres a picture of Grant being a big boy and dressing himself:

Alive and Kickin'

Hi blogger world!
We are all well, just been busy with life and finishing the house and all that jazz.

UPDATES
inside of house: Rooms are done so now its on to the nitty gritty of making sure I like the drapes, getting the accessories just so and actually putting pictures into all of the frames!
outside of house: Flowers and tomatoes in hanging baskets are doing nicely, yard/ getting grass to grow not so much... so we had our first date with the TruGreen guy today and hopefully we'll get some grass growing here in a month or so. We REALLY don't want to have to sod!
Geoff's work: French classes have begun, his teacher is Morrocan so he's learning a funky combination of French and Arabic. He jumped today for the first time since going to Airborne school but its something we have to get use to because he'll be doing it a lot with this airborne unit.
Grant: Talking up a storm! Making full sentences that are pretty funny! (Food Lion is the Strawberry store; anytime I say he's being helpful he says "I'm helpful and strong and get the job done" from Chuggington) Singing along to the radio and knowing all of the words to songs played on Sirius 60 the Highway, right now his favorite is the "Tractor song" bobbing his head "big green tractor, go slow go faster" Potty training is moving along not as fast as I was hoping but we're surviving.
Baby boy: growing like a weed, maybe I'll get the guts up to post a picture but lets just say I'm huge! I failed the glucose test and had a brief panic that I was getting gestational diabetes but after the 3 hour test all looked good. He's much more of a mover shaker and kicker than I remember Grant being so sleep is already a thing of the past. Crazy to think that he'll be here in less than 3 months!

Key Lime Awesomeness!

Geoff has stolen a page from Brian's playbook and been on a Key Lime kick recently so I thought I'd share some of the goodies we've found.

The first thing we tried was a boxed mix from the store, super easy (Geoff even made a batch, now THATs a test of its simplicity) and super yummy...

Next came a premade cake from the frozen desserts section. I didn't like that we were FORCED to each the whole thing within a day or two because it doesn't keep well but it reminded me of the Key Lime cake that Longhorns serves as a seasonal special and that is a very good thing!

But todays creation takes the cake!

We had to go semi-homemade and man would Sandra Lee be proud. Here's the recipe:

1 box Lemon Cake mix (Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme)

1 1/3 cup Vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 box -3oz- Lime gelatin (Jello powder)

3/4 cup Orange Juice

mix together and bake according to box directions!

I found a recipe online for icing but decided just to modify my go to Buttercream recipe instead. So after adios-ing vanilla and hola-ing Nellie's fresh KeyLime juice we had some mouth watering icing. Just incase you want it the online recipe was:

1/2 cup butter

1 block -8oz- cream cheese

3 tbl Lime juice

4 cups Powdered sugar

Hopefully there will be some left when Geoff gets home from work so i can share his reaction but I make no promises!

Meeting Miss Dagny

While we were in DC I FINALLY got to meet my future daughter-in-law!

(and yes, Grant approved of our arranged marriage choice for him!)

Our short but sweet visit with Rory and Joe and Dagny consisted of a lot of favorites, onion rings and burgers at Red Robin, LOTS of ice water at Rita's and fun time with the kiddos!

Our DC Birthday Weekend!

Last weekend we took full advantage of Geoff's time off and did what we've been waiting to do for years, BE ON THE EAST COAST! We knew that we needed to get to Richmond to get furniture and things out of storage but we made a weekend getaway to DC to be tourists and to celebrate mom's birthday with Brian and Kate. Geoff hadn't really "done" DC so we went to all of the monuments and memorials on Saturday, had a yummy dinner to celebrate's mom's big day, then Geoff and I headed out to a bar (a bar, whats that?!? hadn't been in one in a long long time) to celebrate our friend Ben's birthday, a finally meet Maia! Then Sunday we dodged the rain and went to some Smithsonians. Grant LOVED Air & Space, every single bit of it even in the old timey stuff when I got a little bored. Sunday night we got to see the Richardson's and celebrate Rory's birthday before heading down to Richmond on Monday. It was a jam-packed weekend but we had a blast!
link to all of the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/laurabchilds/DCweekend#