Sewing Project: barstools & pillow

I have completed my second sewing project and I'm not going to lie I am pretty proud of myself.  We have a spot in our new place for two stools so my parents gifted me two of their stools (formerly dark wood with forest green) and we made them our own.  Rick painted them blue to match our shelves and I picked out this fabric to reupholster them with.   I watched a couple tutorials online and went for it.  It was a little tough because these well loved stools are no longer very circular but it was manageable, and I'm happy with the way they turned out.  Sorry for the horrible quality pictures, I need to find my camera and stop using my phone.

One of the stools.

A pillow I made with extra fabric.

Happy Easter!

We are all moved into our new place and are lovin' it! I shouldn't say all moved in because we still have some unloading to do but we are getting very close. We moved in the first weekend in April and hosted Easter here the next weekend with my parents, Eric, my uncle Kevin & aunt Kathy, and Justin. Adelaide had her own little Easter egg hunt (thanks to Eric the Easter bunny) and thought it was pretty great. There were about 50 eggs filled with candies or stickers or cuties and she wanted to see what was in each egg as she found them. That wasn't working for us so we taught her a better way, but it was pretty cute while it lasted.

Mav is too young for egg hunting, so he just chilled on the grass.

I wish I would have taken a group picture with everyone but here is one of our little family.

We ♥ Beaches

We have ventured over to the beach a few times since moving back. Oh how I missed the beach when we lived out of state. We've gone for long walks, played in the sand, watched surfers catch waves, checked out tide pools, spotted naked sunbathers and did a little (fully clothed) sunbathing of our own. Life doesn't get much better than this!

Oak Meadow

It has been fun to spend time with Adelaide in the same park I played at growing up. On Saturdays the train and carousel are open and Adelaide looks forward to riding the "horseys" all week. We don't normally take Maverick out in his PJ's but there was a diaper incident and it was the only spare we had :)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

I know this looks gross but our Saint Patrick's Day breakfast was actually quite good!

Hootinannies with green buttermilk syrup and green eggs!

And dinner was good too! Corned beef is eaten but once a year....

Life Lately: Phone Pics

Lots of mother daughter time.

Our quick roadtrip to SoCal for Freddy and Ashley's wedding on Leap Day wore Adelaide out!

Adelaide loves the Library, although she likes collecting the books more than reading them.

Mav liked the library too.

Most Saturdays we head as a familyto a farmer's market to get produce for the week.

I loved this interesting cousin of a cauliflower.

We've gone out to Pleasanton a few times to visit Rick for lunch and ice cream.

Adelaide knows all her letters and now we're working on numbers so we painted them on rocks.

I finished knitting a blanket for my new nephew Soren.

Adelaide loves having her nails painted red or pink.

We've had some good times in the car with Eric squished between the kids in back.

El Metro is our new favorite Mexican spot... The El Pastor tacos are amazing.

Adelaide was a little hesitant at first, but eventually really got into the fountains in downtown LG.

Grandpa is very adventurous and took these two for a run on the LG creek trail loop around the dam.

Maverick finally got to meet Naomi!

Adelaide loved spending time with Naomi and her iphone full of pictures & loved her new fancy rose purse.

We visited Chanel for Lunch at Yahoo, what an awesome place to work.

At Uncle Howard's funeral Adelaide reconnected with some relatives.