Da Baum's Adventures of the Last Frontier

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Easter

Hannah's Easter dress & basket!

Her bunny ear's from Grandma Petty!

Her Easter hair "pretties"

Hannah reading her Easter card!

Hannah's Easter "stickies." Stickers are her new favorite thing!

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Greenhouse...

My husband hard at work building me a greenhouse!

My veggie starts soaking up some sun

Hannah & Jeremy filling pots with dirt

My kitchen table!

Baking Bread

Last week was spring break so I decided to make bread, minus the bread maker. Although I did have a helper...

The bread turned out great and I am making it again today! It makes three loaves so you don't have to constantly be making bread. I took 1/2 of one loaf to make a pizza and the other 1/2 to make a calzone!

Here is the recipe! Simple Whole Wheat

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Hannah Dressed Herself! Then Mom!

Yes she did this ALL by herself!

This is how it started!

Ta Da The Finished Product!!

Hannah loves to play dress up.

Maybe I should get her some dress up dresses

to play with instead if my underwear! :)

After she finished dressing herself she turned her "magic" on me!

This time she included some of her "underwear."

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Jeremy

This post is to shamelessly brag about my husband!

God has surely blessed Jeremy this year at work. Recently the Anchorage Daily News ran a story about one of his big cases!
Click here to read it.

I think it is awesome how my husband will go to the extremes of sitting out in the cold, without a fire, to watch over all God's creatures. It is good to know he is doing his best to make sure there are plenty of bears for Hannah to kill when she grows up! :)

Jeremy also received the NASBLA's Boating Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for Alaska! On his plaque it says he received it in recognition of outstanding public service, unmatched professionalism in marine law enforcement and personal commitment to ensuring safe & enjoyable recreational boating! His name is shown on this website.

Ok I am done :)

Latest Hannah Happenings!

Hannah & her baby doll!

This baby was Kristi's doll when she was a kid!

The baby doll is almost as big as Hannah!

Hannah riding her dog Shylo! Yeehaw!!!!!

Taking her other dog for a walk!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Pootastic

Mothers....Do you ever have moments where your children make huge messes and you aren't even sure where to begin? Well we had several of these during our Peruvian expedition.

No that is not chocolate. Yes that is poop.

After we stripped her down and threw her in the shower I just sat their saying now what? There was poop EVERYWHERE. Her entire bed was covered, the sides of the port-a-crib were covered, the top rails of the port-a-crib were covered. Poop was in abundance!

It gets better. Our hotel did not have any sort of laundry. They send all theirs out. What is even better, there was not a laundry mat to be found for miles.

So I jumped in the shower with a bar of bath soap and started scrubbing away. Her blanket, pillow, sheet, baby doll etc. Then I found some limes we had and cut them in half and rubbed them all over everything. That helped with the smell. Oh the smell it was AWFUL. Then we hung them on the balcony to dry in the sun. We looked so WT!

Then on our way back to the USA we were getting ready to go through customs when we smelt something. Yup more poo.

It was in her onsie all the way up her back and then seeping out her legs. Oh geez. I had no idea what to do with that much poo. Where do I even begin?

I took her to the bathroom, which had NO paper towels just a blower. So I used about one million baby wipes. Meanwhile making my daughter sit in the sink so I could bathe her. The sink was covered in poo by the time I was done. I feel bad for the people who had to clean up after us. But that is what they get for not giving me paper towels!

I had a plastic grocery bag in my diaper bag just in case we had another blow out. But I ended up throwing her onsie away because it was SOOOO gross.

Awh motherhood, ain't it grand!?!?

Monday, February 09, 2009

Peru

Here are numerous pictures from our trip to Peru! They loaded backward so the ones in Lima are at the bottom and the ones after the wedding are at the top.