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.