Followed my little one around with a camera for a while..

I may be just a tad bit biased, but I think I have the makings of a future model here. Too bad he hates the camera.

Swedish baby clothes are the Cutest. Hands down.

And they are seriously SO well made. I have yet to encounter any baby clothes that hold up as well as the ones we bought while we are there. I can't wait to go back next summer and fill our suitcases, but until then Im super excited one of my bridesmaids from Sweden has offered to pick up Jasper some warm winter clothes. Because lets face it, nobody makes  nicer/warmer winter clothes than the Swedes.

These will soon be a part of Jaspers winter clothes- these gloves are Amazing. They go up super high so snow doesn't come in and they Never fall off. We can play outside in the snow for hours (which we do) and when we come in his hands are still warm and toasty. Mamma's hands on the other hand- not so much. I need a pair too!! And these little pants are cute by themselves- or can be warm underneath pants, to keep Jaspers legs even toastier when we are out!! Thank you Polarn o Pyret!

Pics found on polarnopyret.se

Baby FEVER!

I've majorly got it. One of my closest friends back in IA just had a baby boy, several more there are pregnant, and one of my closest friends here in CO found out on Monday she is pregnant! I've had the fever for a while now, but it hasn't been the right time. Drew was finishing up school and starting a new job plus the whole getting married in October deal made us want to wait as well :) But when is the Right time?!?! Most of me is saying NOOOWWWW!! But thinking ahead right NOW isn't the best time either. We have plans to travel to Sweden at the beginning of next July for a friends wedding/vacation/late honeymoon- and doing that with a newborn probably isn't the absolute best idea (especially since I will most likely have to have a scheduled c-section next time around and I know the recovery could take a while.) Also I wouldn't really want to be like 7-8 months pregnant either, and you aren't supposed to fly the last 30 days I've heard so that's out of the question.

 And I need to take into consideration that I was really sick the first 3 months with Jasper- I mean throwing up 12-15 times a day, all day kind of 'morning sickness'. So spending thousands of dollars to go to Europe and being sick the entire wouldn't be the best. So I'm thinking being 4-6 months pregnant would be ideal. That for me was the' honeymoon' stage of pregnancy. I wasn't sick or even very tired anymore. I wasn't huge yet, it was actually perfect. But that only gives me a three month window when we decide to start trying! Decisions decisions.

I had to add in some baby Jasper pictures. And the pregnancy picture is of me two weeks over due heading into the hospital Aug. 2nd to be induced. 20 hrs later I was a mamma!

Weekly Organic Meal:Twice Baked Potatoes

I LOVE potatoes. So much. And I'm always looking for different ways to make it. Sunday evening I made these Delicious, organic, twice baked potatoes.

Ingredients

Organic large potatoes (doesn't really matter what kind, as long as they are BIG)

organic sour cream

organic butter

organic chopped up chives

cayenne pepper

salt *pepper

organic shredded cheese

Bake the potatoes in the oven until you can easily put a fork through- usually about an hour, more if they are bigger potatoes

Once you take them out cut them in half and scoop out all the insides into a large bowl. Leave the skin- so they are like little bowls.

In the bowl add all the ingredients(except for the cheese) together and mix. I taste a lot during this process so I can get it just how I like it.

 Once it tastes delicious- and it will- use a spoon to add the potato mixture back into your skin bowls (sounds kind of creepy) fill it to the top and set back into the oven for about 8 min. to warm up the potatoes. Add shredded cheese to the top of the potatoes then put in oven on the broil setting. This gets the cheese a little bit crispy. Leave in for 3-4 min. Take out and EAT!

I usually serve this with a bunch of stir fried veggies, or a grilled chicken breast. But this time I served with a side salad and it worked really great also. They also make great left overs for the next day so I always make more than I know we will eat. 

Weekly Organic Meal: Waffles

I think breakfast is super important (though I'm such a hypocrite and rarely eat breakfast) but I do make sure Jasper get's a good breakfast. We keep it simple and don't have a Ton of variety to breakfasts- he will either have yoghurt with fresh fruit, eggs and toast or waffles. I was buying those DELICIOUS frozen Eggo waffles- but on the quest to go organic those had to go. Sad face. So when I was looking at the frozen waffles at Whole Foods I saw that they were $4.99 for 6 waffles! I think that is CRAZY for frozen waffles! So I found a 10 grain organic waffle/pancake mixture for $4.99 and decided to make my own.

Last Thursday I whipped up a batch of it. I think all I did was add (organic) eggs and water to the mixture, bust out the waffle iron(kind forgot we even had one) and voila I had I think 13-14 waffles for J! I used Maybe 1/6 of the bag- so for $4.99 (plus cost of eggs) I can make Jasper almost 100 waffles!! Yay for me! And these ones are even healthier! I froze the 12 waffles we obviously didn't use in individual baggies and stored them in a big freezer safe container in our freezer. And this morning when Jasper asked for waffles I was able to reach in my freezer, grab a waffle baggie and pop it in the toaster! Jasper likes his waffles with some powdered sugar and chopped up fresh fruit.

I was emailed this because CF is an important cause to me..it only takes Maybe 30 seconds to vote..

My cousin has Cystic Fibrosis, and I was tested when pregnant for the gene and I tested positive..so needless to say this is a very important cause to me. I voted and it took me 20-30 seconds, so please log on and vote!

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This looked fun: Meet me on Monday

I love getting to know more about the ladies whose blogs I read so I figured I would join in on this!

1.  How many TV’s do you have in your home?

Two. We aren't too big on TV in our house so really we should only have one. We have one in the living room/family room and Jasper has my tiny old dorm room one in his bedroom that has a VHS attached (yah, told you it was old) so we keep that in there and once in a while we will get a bunch of blankets/pillows and make a little nest and watch an old VHS disney movie together. It's quite cozy.

2.  What is on your bedside table (nightstand)?

My new lamp- which I LOVE- my kindle, my night facial firming creams (yes creams, I have 3 that I rotate between because I love them all!) and a class of water.

3.  How many pair of shoes do you own?

Not counting gross Old Navy flips- because I have about a dozen of those, I have about 25 I'd say. Is that a lot? It sounds a lot when writing it down. 

4.  Can you change a flat tire?

Not to save my life. That's what AAA and cell phones are for!

5.  Do you prefer sweet treats or salty treats?

Sweets for sure.