Nothing Much

My mom reminded me/pestered me today about the fact that I haven't updated this blog in 2 weeks. I'm sorry, but we really haven't been up to much of anything fun and I have no new pictures to share. Here's what we have been doing:
-I woke up last weekend with the sudden urge to re-arrange large pieces of heavy furniture. Actually, every piece of heavy furniture that we own. Poor Chris. He was such a great sport about moving the large dresser, the piano, the TV, Sydney's kitchen set, the piano again, the toy cupboard, a large table, and once again, the piano. All in all, our master room, Sydney's room, and the front room are now all completely different, and much more open and spacious. Thank you to my dad who came and helped!
-Nesting seems to be in full force as this evening I was gripped with a determination to clean the oven. And no self-cleaning cycle would do, I was half-way in there, scrubbing every nook and cranny. Then I did the same thing to the microwave. Then I swept and mopped and scrubbed the appliances and cleaned out the deep freezer in the garage. The only reason I didn't move on to organize the laundry area was because I needed to stop for some ice cream.
(Am I boring you yet? Aren't you glad I don't have pictures to post of these thrilling activities of mine?)
-I went on a trip to a spa last weekend with Melissa and some friends. Melissa treated us all to lunch, then a complete day at the spa with massages, facials, and mani-pedi's as a thank you for the last year of help with bedrest and twins. It was so much fun! I had never been to a spa before. While it was completely unnecessary because I love Melissa and her kids to bits and pieces, it was very much appreciated!
-Chris went down to Eugene to see some friends and played at a poker game. He came in second and bought Sydney and I Red Robin with the winnings.
-Savannah's room is still not cleaned out, but a lot of Sydney's old clothes that will be passed down to her are washed, sorted by size, and ready to be put away. We have 3 boxes of diapers and a box of wipes so far, with my goal being to buy something each paycheck to stock away.
(Have you fallen asleep yet? Except for the spa, nothing much fun here.)
-Sydney continues to be adorable. She is becoming a little tyrant at bedtime, though, which is a surprising and challenging struggle. We are trying to work through it without going completely crazy. She is becoming more of a girly-girl every day, and I couldn't be happier! With the exception of bedtime or when I am on the phone, she is sweet and loving and sings and dances her way through each day. We are blessed to have her!

I think that's about it. Hopefully we'll be doing some more things in the weeks to come with the warmer weather and I'll have some pictures to post. And because I feel so guilty about depriving you all of a picture of my adorable little miss, here is one from a few weeks ago when she was helping me with laundry. She took a pair of Chris' shorts from the dryer and put them on! You can see in the background all of the tubs of her old clothes before I sorted them for Savannah.

Sneaky Little Trickster

Sydney has this bad habit of going into my purse and getting out the things she is not supposed to play with, like my phone, or the IPOD. Sometimes she will even get out the camera, and somehow she can use it better than I can. When she does this, she will take like 50 pictures of random things, like her toys or the kitchen cabinets, and then turn off the camera and put it back. The next time I go to use it, the memory card is full of random things from around my house. A while ago I started leaving the camera on the counter and this is what I got...

...you can see the edge of the counter there, and little Miss Sydney, being naughty and taking pictures again. I can't get mad, though, because look how cute this is...

I think I've posted these before, but a few weeks ago I once again found some more random Sydney shots on my camera, and it made me think of these. This is my favorite one from the last batch:

That's my girl! She took a picture of my Gilmore Girls DVD collection! She loves that show, too, and it made me laugh to come across this! What a silly girl!

Tator Tots, Unplugged

Weeeelllll....tator tot casserole didn't go quite as planned. I didn't make the Duggar version because I didn't have evaporated milk. The one I threw together was really good...except for the tots. I accidentally bought onion seasoned tots, and oh man, they were like biting into an onion with every bite! It would have been great with regular ones, though. We helped calm the taste down by dousing it with cheddar cheese, but still! I already have pregnancy induced heartburn, and the onion tots didn't help it any! I'll make the regular version again, but I really don't think it would freeze well, which is kind of the point of this whole experiment. Any freezable ideas? Not just for tator tot casserole, but for other dishes? I am specifically in the market for things that freeze well, but would be great in summertime.

On a side note, this whole freezable dinners things makes me think of Steel Magnolias. Remember when Daryl Hanna's character, Annelle, makes the dinner of beans to take to the Eatenton's after the surgery? And she says she picked that recipe out of the "freezes beautifully" section in the cookbook, because she wanted to take them something that would freeze beautifully? Ah, great movie! I wonder if there even is a cookbook with a freezes beautifully section?