drat

lately my blogging has been less than interesting. normally i can think of something clever to write....but not as of late....could be lack of sleep, fighting a family cold, no time, or perhaps i am losing my creative and clever brain cells and i am just not as funny as i thought.......drat. at any rate, here are some pics, perhaps the clever, funny ideas will return soon....

nova and i constantly listen to music all day. she loves it. here is nova and dan dancing before dinner.














nova being polite for the camera......














and.....no more pictures please.....

a day in the snow

this morning i woke up to a complete blizzard outside.......couldn't get out of our mountain of a driveway because it was so slick...sigh.....the groundhog was right....winter isn't over.....i guess you must embrace it eh? we took nova out in the snow today for her first time. she loved it! i'm trying to be happy about the white fluff.....but really....it can leave whenever it wants to.....nova doesn't agree though....

getting ready to go outside....










































outside with dad watching the snow.....














kind of a close up.....trying to get a picture of the little snowflake on the eyelash....

valentines day what?

so, i have a bone to pick about this particular holiday. the day of valentines that is. (who even came up with the expression....a 'bone to pick' anyway.....weird....)

first, i am all about sharing the love. i love to love. there are many things and people that i love, and don't mind sharing love with them. so in a way i can appreciate a specific day dedicated to love....but shouldn't we be sharing it all the time? and not merely one day a year? hmmmMMMmm......i know its a good point....

second, its just stressful for everyone involved. dan cOmPleteLy stresses out about valentines day. i feel that most men probably do. and so do women. women spend all our time thinking of what the perfect valentines day will be and it never really happens like we think it should, and then we are bummed. we also put time and effort into doing special things for our man and doing our part to be as romantic as possible all week long. this stresses the man out even more. men are stressed simply because it is the one day a year that romance is a must and some men haven't busted out the romance since LAST february 14th and are a little rusty and afraid of the expectations. they ask, 'what do i get, what does she want, what will make her oogle and want to kiss my face off because it is the epitome of perfection and romance?' ugh.

why make them stress. who likes a stressed spouse....not me. first of all, men, my husband included SHOULD....(in a perfect world) be busting out the romance daily. whether it is a love note, a small gift, a hug, a back rub, or a mere 'i love you' or their time. thats all most women want. sure there are women who are the exceptions to this thought, (maybe its you...which i am not judging) who want flowers, dinner, chocolates, a teddy bear, and hot cocoa by candlelight, but REALLY.....is it right to put such high expectations on men? i know there are men out there that are REALLY good at the romance thing and they woo their women all the time. awesome. great. but its just not how it works in most relationships. thats all i am saying. at some point or another every married and non married women has had too high of expectations for their man, and been savagely disappointed. (myself included) and its not fair to them. they don't read minds and romance isn't as natural as leaving the toilet seat open. so maybe help them out a little and ease the stress. give em ideas....maybe its not AS romantic, but its better than eating stale chips at 10:00 watching the news right on the night of february 14th.

and thirdly.....my last issue with the day starting with the letter V.......pink and red is a bad psychedelic combo.....PLEASE....lets move to the prettier holiday of easter shall we....pastels are much easier on the eye.

and with all that being said, i need to go wonder what dan is doing for me tomorrow and what romance he will bust out.....after all, this week i have sent him love notes, heart shaped sandwiches, strawberry pie and chocolate covered strawberries in his lunch.....and that doesn't even come close to what i have planned for tommorrow. i am thinking he probably will take me on a hot air balloon ride with micheal buble singing in the background and then he'll give me the perfect gift (that i can't even tell you what it is, because i don't even know what the perfect gift would be.....but i'm sure he does,) and we will embrace like they do on those jewelry commercials.......i'm sure thats exactly how it will play out.......hahahaha.....i am COMPLETELY joking......

and for some pics to make a long post longer....

here is a family pic of today visiting dan on his lunch break. (sorry nova, you have a sun chin)














and for those of you who feel that dan and i taint the picture....here is one with just nova.

just some pics

i am not even remotely in the mood to blog, nor to be sister clever pants, but i thought i would post some pics.

nova and her new BFF Ning-Boo bear....thats what it says on the tag folks....we didn't make it up. she got it at her last visit to primary children's and she loves this thing. and its so cute when she sleeps with it.....as shown.....














nova and her sweet winter hat that we wear when we go on walks to get the mail.














and as always, a picture of nova after church.....but seriously, who doesn't love their kid in a dress.....unless your kid is a boy, then perhaps it isn't quite as cute......(and this super color-rific dress.....4 dollars.....oh sweet, sweet nectar.....someone give me a high five pUH-Leese!)



















also we a WAY excited that nova has a new cousin, jaycie faith. she is SUPER cute and nova is so excited to re-unite with her after their brief separation from heaven mere months ago. AND nova was excited that her other cousin owen (and carter and maddie) as well as my brother ty and sis in law amanda came to visit this weekend. we had much fun with them while also enjoying the delicious-ness of red robin....YUM! thanks for coming to see us guys!

disparaging news from a hog...

this little creature + his shadow =
















this:














times 6 weeks........BLAH!!!

yesterday i was all miffed because the groundhog saw his shadow and i am SO over winter at this point in the season.....even though the sun seems to be in rebellion of winter right now too because it is GORGEOUS outside right now.....and i. am. loving. it....but according to Phil....it ain't gonna last....

but despite the drab news from the hog who lives in the ground, i could not let it get me down and of course in true suzanne fashion....i celebrated.

the little pic above (is supposed to be a ground hog) was inserted into a grilled cheese sandwich that was painted green with food coloring to give the appearance of a groundhog coming out of the green grass......it looked ridiculous and so i didn't take a picture but dan got a good laugh out of it and so did i. i also hung 6 snowflakes above the table to symbolize the 6 more weeks of winter we must suffer through.......but at least it gives me something to look forward too!

desparate times call for help from the blogging community.....

6:00am-8:00pm = a fairly happy, busy little nova...who takes a good morning nap, yet terrible afternoon nap......but still fairly pleasant....
8:00pm-2:00am = peace and quiet in our home.
2:00 am-6:00 am = NO ONE sleeping in the household.

things we have tried:
*night light/no night light
*crying it out (both nova and mom and dad)....2 hours later....we gave up.....
*feeding her
*music
*rocking and singing
*tylenol/teething tablets

..........and NOTHING has been a success.......

suggestions?!?! (besides selling her to the circus.....i have a posting on craigslist but there have been no responses thus far....)