Girl Time

Thursday night, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Jess and Savannah.

There's something refreshing about spending time with people you love. These ladies are great company.. Savannah is extremely entertaining at 8 months old! She is crawling like crazy, she babbles constantly, and she has the cutest personality! Between Sav and my niece, I am in baby heaven. :)

Don't have much time to write this morning, but I promise I will update again soon!

Love and Lattés,

Katie

Since I Last Blogged...

*I have learned the *right* way to throw a frisbee
*My husband has turned 24
*I have lost two pounds
*I have gotten a tan (okay, I used sunless tanner.. but still)

As part of my plan to reinvent myself, I have given up sugary drinks and started drinking lots of water throughout the day (with the exception of my one cup of coffee per day), and I have made a conscious attempt to get out and enjoy the beautiful sunshine as often as possible. I'm also exercising more - Justin and I bought a frisbee a couple days ago, and we have been having a lot of fun with it! It's nice, because it's the kind of exercise that sneaks up on you, which is perfect for us since we're not big fans of working out. Ha!

I feel like I should clarify the word "reinvent." I am happy with myself in most aspects - I have made a lot of emotional and spiritual progress over the past few years. However, there is definitely room for improvement health-wise, which is why I'm ready to make a few changes. I've gone head-first into diet programs and extreme exercise regimens before, and they just didn't stick.. so my new theory is that one small change at a time will eventually result in good habits that are easy to stick with. Soda (or pop, depending on where you're from!) was the first thing to go, and that hasn't been too difficult. I'm looking forward to keeping up with this in the blog. Now that I've put this out there, I can't poop out anytime soon. :)

More to come!

Love and Lattés,

Katie

Springtime: A Cinquain

Springtime


Sweet sunny breeze


Colorful flowers bloom


Bursting with life, Earth awakens


Beauty

America's New Idol

Confession: American Idol is my guilty pleasure. I watch it, I vote.. the whole 9 yards. This season, I was rooting for David Cook ever since his audition. Who would have thought that he was going to win the whole dang competition? Watching the two-part finale this week, Justin and I were pretty sure that David Archuleta was going to win, even though David Cook was our favorite. So last night, when Ryan Seacrest announced that Cook was the 2008 American Idol, I did a happy dance. :)


Congratulations, David C! You deserved it!

Love and Lattés,
Katie

Yay!!

Lookie what I'm gonna get!



That's all for now. More soon!

Love and Lattés,

Katie

So Sweet

I know I have talked a lot lately about focusing on the present, and not dwelling in the future. And I have been doing pretty well with that, I really have! But this afternoon, I caught a glimpse of the future, and I really liked what I saw.

We were at Justin's brother's house, spending some time with Tim, Shannon, and baby Emily Grace. We got in some fun aunt and uncle time with Emily, oohing and aahing at every cute little movement or noise.

Justin wanted to hold her, so I handed the baby to him and he received her like a pro, being careful to support her with both hands. He went on to bounce her on his knee, and then flip her around to talk "with" her. She started to fuss, and he immediately got up and walked her around the room until the fussiness subsided. A few minutes later, he handed Emily to me, and after a little swaying, she fell asleep in my arms.

Today I saw, just for a minute, that one day the two of us will make a really good parenting team. I was really impressed that my husband already knows how to hold a baby without feeling awkward and provide comfort at the first sign of fussing. Am I ready to be responsible for our own little one? Not yet. But, when the time comes, it's nice to know I'll have an excellent partner to experience it all with.

Love and Lattés,

Katie

Lately...

Lately, I have done the exact same thing every day.

My days are filled with work and a class on the Holocaust.

For class, I am reading parts of Lawrence Langer's Art from the Ashes. It's pretty intriguing, actually.

This morning, my boss brought in a bag of "Belly Flops," which



---Sidenote: We just had a firedrill at work. That was interesting! I even sang a rendition of "Ryan Started the Fire" a la The Office!---



Okay, where was I?

Oh yes. Belly Flops.

Belly Flops are Jelly Belly's irregular jelly beans. A bunch of them look like siamese twins, and

some are itty bitty.. but they taste great! So Katie and I are munching on them as we speak.

Yum! Did you know Jelly Belly makes a grapefruit jelly bean? It's delicious!

Well, that's about it for now. This afternoon, my coworkers and I are having a "Rock Band" party, so I will surely have more to talk about after that!

TGIF!

Love and Lattés,

Katie