This was inspired by the dish at
Corner Bakery. I love caprese salad, and with pasta it made it even better!
8 ounces Cavatappi pasta
3 Roma tomatoes, sliced or cut into wedges
fresh basil- about half of a 3/4 ox package (3-4 leaves)
fresh mozzarella- I used half a 8 oz container of ciliegine- sliced or cut into wedges
Caprese dressing
Boil pasta in salted water until al dente. You don't want to overcook it because once you add the dressing, the pasta will become softer. Chop up your basil, cut you mozzarella and the tomatoes. Once the pasta is done, cool in the refrigerator. Once cool, add you pasta, mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes all into a big bowl. Add caprese dressing, and stir. This tastes even better after it sits for a little while. I used
Marie's Caprese dressing, you can find it by the refrigerated salads and dressings. I used about half a bottle or so.
Super easy and fast to make!
A second pair of boots. Made with 100% wool outers and fleece lining. I figured out the two things I am still unhappy with in the pattern, and I believe my next pair should come out better.
These have been a WIP for far too long. I finished up all 10 floral centerpieces for the wedding reception. I am glad I didn't have grand plans of making more of these. I think it took about 10 hours to finish all 10 centerpieces. Probably should have just went with silk and called it a day. I will be the only one looking at them and appreciating all their handmade-ness. Oh well. I will just need to stick a little light in the glass gems so the vase illuminates during the reception. I also tied a ribbon bow on one- can you see it? I think it looks lame, but sweetie likes it. Anyone care to tell me what they think? Bow or no bow?
I picked up some fabrics from Joanns this weekend. Some plaids, shirtings, home decor weight fabric and some twill.
Baby Shoes, 
Baby Shoes, 
And trying to figure out a pattern to make baby boots. This is all wrong. I think I am going to try to figure out how to do an opening on the top 'boot' part. And the sole needs to be longer and skinnier. Ah well.
Cristian playing in the tiny rocks along the water's edge.
Cristian throwing rocks into the water. Yelling 'Big Splash!!' Chiquitin liked playing with the little rake.
And enjoyed looking around. He just loves being outside.
Wiggling his chubby little toes in the sand. He also had his first taste of sand. And a rock, which he kept licking until I threw it into the water.
Whew. 90 tissue paper flowers folded up. So grateful that my Aunt and cousin came to help out and we got 2/3 of them done. (in two hours)
Only 9 to go. I was very optimistic, and thought I was going to make twice this many for the reception, and also make some small ones in paper cones for end of aisle decorations at the church. Yeah, no time or energy for that now.. 
Here I am as Momma giraffe with Cristian. He thought this was just so funny that we were giraffes.
Chiqutin did really well in the carrier, and enjoyed sitting in the wagon with Cristian too. (which surprised me, Cristian would have nothing to do with that when he was 10 months old...) I think he just enjoys being outside, and was looking around at everything.
Cristian and I outside of the brown bear exhibit. I couldn't get him to stop making silly faces. And I ripped my contact that morning, so had to wear my glasses which I now despise. I tried explaining to Cristian how the bear inside the exhibit was the same as his teddy bear 'oso' but he just said "Nooo" in his little grunty voice.
Cristian and the giraffe. As soon as he spotted the giraffes, he wanted nothing to do with the other animals. We were by the elephants and they were playing in the water. Cristian thought this was so funny, and kept telling me 'Silly elephants, you taking a bath". The elephants were one of the animals he knew the name of when he saw them, and also knew what sound they made.
Felt Food Farfalle and Felt Food Raviolis. I made up extra farfalle for my 
This is the whole order together. That was a lot of hand sewing, now I remember why I stopped making so much felt food!
Here are the kiddos checking out the eggs hatching.
Cristian looking at the ducks. He was excited to point out the patos (ducks) and doodle doodle doo's (roosters- he just knows what noise they make thanks to the farm behind out house)
Paige, Haylie and Cristian climbed up on some big tractors. This was one of Cristian's favorite parts of the day. When we went to playgroup this week, he asked if he was going with Paige and Haylie to see the tractors :)
There was an awesome petting area, with so many baby animals. Here they are looking at the baby chicks. I tried getting Cristian to hold one, but it would jump out of my hand before he would grab a hold of it. He enjoyed seeing the ducks, baby quails and the pony.
Little Paige is such a sweetheart. She was eating a snow cone and I saw her tongue turned blue, but when I tried to take a picture she got all sad!
The kids went on one ride together, and I was amazed that none of them were not too scared to ride with one of the parents. The all seemed to love the train, and were smiling and laughing as it went around.
Cristian loved the train :)
Making up some tiny newborn shoes. I am using Kokka 'Trefle' Japanese fabric with Joel Dewberry's "Deer Valley". It is so fun to make things that are tiny :)
Some quilt blocks. I am working on a grey linen and various oranges quilt. I am going to make a throw quilt, but nice and big -60x70 or so. That way I can cuddle with my kiddos or my sweetie. I have used up all my linen, so I need to go pick up more to keep working on this quilt top. I have 12 blocks finished, and need to sew 30 more. I used 
I made up this tiny version of the 
It sewed up in about an hour or so, this is a comparison to the original pattern. Sure enough, when I went to playgroup last week she walked right up to me and asked if I had her purse :) I thought it was so very sweet that she remembered. I will definitely have to make more tiny bags in the near future..
And just because, well I needed another two year old model. Kiki enjoyed showing off Paige's bolsa (purse)..JPG)
He has started crawling around. It is more of a scoot, since he can't pick his belly all the way off the floor yet. It reminds me of a turtle. :) He has also been reaching for everything, especially electronics. He can turn the dvd player off much to Cristian's dislike.
Last week he didn't nap. Not at all, and Cristian doesn't nap anymore either. It made for one looong week. I finally got him to stay asleep after grocery shopping by laying him on the couch.
He has been eating everything. He is such an independent eater, so very different than Cristian was at this age. He is really into feeding himself. I got him some biter biscuits and they are just the best thing ever to him. (they are actually pretty yummy too)
He is completely on table food. We grilled last night, and here he is eating a jalapeno. It wasn't spicy at all to me, and he took 3 bites, and cried when it was taken away from him. This week he has tried rice, beans, chorizo and liked it all. Hopefully he wont be such a picky eater when he grows up.. 
