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Jude Alexander Veigel

New Favorite . . .

This post is dedicated to my new guilty pleasure:

Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk Ice Cream. Oh my.

Creamy dark chocolate ice cream the best way you can have chocolate ice cream: with LOTS of chunks in it. Nuts, fudge pieces, and oh yeah, chocolate covered nuts.

And by the way, don't look at the nutrition facts. Just don't.

Park day

It's been drizzly here for several days so we were all feeling a bit stir-crazy.

Plus I have been terrible at taking any summer pictures of my kids (blame my pregnancy brain?). Anyway, the solution was to head off to the park.

The first thing we saw was a big flock of seagulls just asking to be chased.
Jack thought it was pretty fun.

Strike a pose: Like father . . .

Like son. I swear they struck these poses independently of each other.

James loves this tire swing but I think it made him a little queasy today.

Teeter-totter is much more fun with Dad.

The thing I love about parks: seeing a look of pure joy on a kid's face. Priceless.

Preggers . . .

I have very few photos of myself pregnant. If you've ever been pregnant, you know why. Really does anyone feel like having their photo taken when they've put on 35+ pounds?! But I really wanted to remember what it was like and what I looked like. So I swallowed my pride today so Jake could take a few shots.

Of course Jackson thought the photo shoot was for him. To show off his ninja poses.
And his sword.

BIG belly.

Sweet boy.

So, for posterity, this is what I look like 36 1/2 weeks pregnant. Skinny girls, eat your heart out. Hah!

Projects . . .

Summer marches on, and as my due date approaches I seem to find more projects to work on. Oh dear . . .

First, though, my cute boys who happened to dress matching (not on purpose) one day.
We are a bit Star Wars obsessed right now, so here are the boys using "the force".

One project: picking and then finding ways to use 10 pounds of fresh blueberries. YUM! I froze as many as would fit in my freezer (not as many as I would like because it's full of strawberry and raspberry jam!). We also ate a LOT plain, with yogurt, in smoothies, in oatmeal, and made a few yummy little treats like this (for the recipe see my cooking blog!).

Then our HUGE project: repainting our bedroom. We have planned to do this for probably 2 months. I got the whole thing taped but didn't have the courage to start the project by myself. So I had to wait for Jake to have a free Saturday, which finally happened this last weekend. And what a Saturday it was. Jake didn't remind me to take a photo until we had the room primed with white primer. However, you can see what color it was under the primer: that's right, blue. A lovely powder blue color that we've lived with for 2 years!

The fabulous new color, not a lovely title, but a great color: Alpaca Brown. In one day, we did a coat of primer and 2 coats of paint. Jake was the roller man, I manned the brushes for the corners and around all the trim, doors, and windows. And let me just tell you--I don't recommend doing a project of this size when you are 35 weeks pregnant. I have rarely been so exhausted! But we LOVE the new room. I haven't posted pictures of the finished product because I'm still sanding and staining our dressers and looking for a new bedspread and curtains. Then hopefully I can post a picture of the whole beautiful makeover!!

Hope I get the rest of the projects done before this baby decides to come . . . !

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