Walking Practice

Choo-choo train

Giggly Miles

Miles crawls!!

Miles' half birthday!

Our little fashion icon

Poor guy is getting over a cold. Colds are never fun, but at 5 weeks old I think they might be especially annoying. On top of being dressed like this, it's almost enough to put a baby over the edge. :) Luckily, Miles is a pretty mellow dude. Most of the time.

Diaper Free Time on Mother's Day

The Greenhouse is Ready!!

After hours and hours of hard work by Paul (and Jerry!), our new greenhouse is ready for action!! We've planted peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, melons, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, zucchini, summer squash, and some herbs. We can no longer use rain as an excuse for not gardening!

Miles & the fan

18 days

Miles Alexander Neel

On Tuesday, April 6th 2010 at 5:31pm little SNIP became Miles Alexander Neel!! Well...we didn't actually decide on his name until Thursday, but here he is - all 9 lbs 9 ounces and 21.5 inches of him!!! Isn't he just the cutest thing ever??? :)

SNIP - our latest project

Well....we haven't just been sitting around on our butts for the past six months. Well....maybe there was some of that. But really, we've been hard at work on our most recent project.....YES....GROWING OUR VERY OWN ALIEN BABY!!!! Queue scary music.....

AAAAHHHHH!!! As if we thought becoming parents wasn't scary enough, we end up with SKELETOR-IN-UTERO!! Luckily, baby SNIP (Seager-Neel In Progress, thanks to Marin) seems to have at least some human features as you can see by the much more reassuring picture below.

Judging by our recent blogging history, be on the lookout for our next post sometime in April, after SNIP decides to venture out into the real world. Ah, who knows....maybe we'll get inspired and do an update or two before then! :)

Uh....Happy March!

Well....it looks like my blogging has slowed down a little lately, to say the least.  :)  But that doesn't mean we haven't been up to some fun adventures!  Paul bought some cross country skiis and even used them twice!  And because it is nearing spring, we have planted some seeds and they look like they just might survive the great drought of 2009.  (An embarassing episode in bad plant parenting).  Paul built the boxes for the soil blocks and designed and built a cold frame for when they are ready to venture outdoors.  I even helped a little.  And I got to use some power tools.  It reminded me of 7th grade shop.  I can't believe they used to let 12 year olds run band saws.  Do they still do that anywhere????  Crazy.  Anyway...we've got some more seed babies and cold frames on the way and we're all pretty much looking forward to spring break.  Kendal is bringing the wee one up to Seattle soon so we are all excited to get to spend more time with her and Edie.  Maybe I'll even have some pictures for the next blog post, whenever that may be.  :)

Holiday Fun

Here is our Christmas tree!  We chopped it down from our backyard!  And here are some of the award-winning entries of the First Annual Seager-Neel Sort-of Christmas Tree Giveaway Holiday Party!  

Jerry won Best Beverage with his delicious homebrew AND 

he won best appetizer with his homemade red pepper jelly and 

brie combo.  I don't have a picture of either, so I'll include a picture of Jerry's spectacular artichoke dip instead.  Man that guy can cook!!!  

James & Keri won Best Holiday Attire hands down!  James will say that he won, but we all know that it was the collective effort that brought home the gold.  Get a load of Keri's advent calendar outfit!!  Those kids are outta control!

Ahhh...

the idyllic sugar-frosted cabin in the woods complete with fish pond AND garden!!  Moon and Wes took 

home the coveted best gingerbread house award.  Nice work, team! 

My sour grinch martinis didn't win any awards, but look at that layering!!!  Forget teaching...bartending, here I come!!!  Just kidding.  ;)

THANKSGIVING!!

We got to host our second Thanksgiving this weekend - the first one in our new house. I'm so thankful for so many things. The first one is for having such a helpful husband!! Paul typed out a cooking schedule and copied all the recipes and started brining the Turkey on Monday. Then he made stuffing and pumpkin pie and gravy and vacuumed the house on Tuesday and Wednesday. The only thing we had to do on Thursday was mash some potatoes and roast some veggies! And cook everything according to the schedule! What fun!!

We had a smaller crowd than expected - Jacqueline, Becca & Andrew flew down to sunny San Diego, and Kendal & Edith Emily are still in LA - and even though we miss them all dearly, we've been having quite a good time playing our new games (Bananagrams, Dominion & Agricola), eating lots of tasty leftovers, cuddling with the kitties, doing sudoku, crosswords, &"homework", taking walks (okay, A walk), watching movies & decorating for Christmas!

As you can see, Robby's girlfriend, Elizabeth is quite good with the kitties! Pepper especially loves to be carried around inside Elizabeth's zip-up fleece. I don't have a picture, but it's kind of similar to Mojo's picture with Dad at dinner. Pretty darn cute!

Hooray for relaxing family holiday weekends!!!!!!!

Blah

This is our blah post. We don't really have anything to say right now. Except for that we finally decided on names for our kitties. Mojo & Pepper. They are awesome. Except when they try to eat our noses and our ears and smother us before we wake up in the morning. And except when they try to climb up the new curtains that we just hung last night. And except when they scratch the hell out of the back of our computer chair. And except for when Mojo isn't careful where he is sticking his tooshie. But otherwise, they really are quite adorable and cuddly and fuzzy and all the great things that kitties are. They are our cuddle monsters.

Cuddle time with the Kitties

We had our first full-on cuddle session with the kitties last night. They are really nice kitties. They like to purr alot. Maybe all kitties do....it's been awhile since we've had little ones around the house. :) We've been starting to call them Peanut and Jammers, but as in typical Seager fashion, we're not quite decided yet. Penny and Jude are also potential contenders. Jammers has really beautiful blue eyes, but they keep turning out red in my pictures. Oh...bundle of cuteness!!

Processing Produce with the Pipsqueaks ;)

A few weekends ago Bill & Jac & Andrew & Becca came to visit and we picked up some peaches at the market from our good friends (well, sort of....) from DeVine Gardens, and then we went apple-picking at Sm'apples (since we don't have any nice huge old apple trees in our yard yet). So we spent all day making applesauce and apple cake and dried apples and canned peaches. Andrew was a pro at the apple peeler. We spent some time hunting for Patches out and around the farm, but to no avail. We had a good time hanging out with the fam though. :)

Welcome Miss P & Mr. J!!

We brought the kids home from the hospital today. They didn't exactly enjoy the car ride home, and they are not exactly pleased with each other, but they seem to be getting used to their new digs. Miss P is a little scared. Of course, she did just have a hysterectomy. On top of that, her brother keeps growling at her! How rude. Mr. J is super cuddly and likes to purr (and growl) alot. He also seems to like the shower. I guess when the bathroom is all that you have to explore, you better get to every nook & cranny, even if it means wet paws. Paul and I are excited to be kitty parents again, but we are still missing Patches. We haven't been able to agree on official names yet....so if you have any recommendations....send them our way! We want to honor their predecessors by choosing P & J names so that should help narrow down the field of choices a little. :)

Kitty Eulogy

We went to the animal shelter on Saturday and found a pair of adorable kittens to adopt. They are getting fixed and we'll pick them up tomorrow. So on the eve of new cats we thought we'd share a few pictures of past kitties. Especially we want to remember Patches who left us just a few weeks ago. We miss you Patches!