::Organic Produce Share::

So, I recently joined this organic produce share: Annies Buying Club! So much fun! Im a coordinator, which basically means the truck drops all the goods off at my house and I sort the produce for each member. They can pick it up later that day in a two-hour window, and the rad part is I get a full order of organic produce FREE each week. We love Free.
If youre local, and youre interested, let me know.

Mom sorting green beans...

Reese and Mommy with the Pumpkin Pies

Produce for days...

Reese trying her very first Kiwi Berry!

The goods :)

"Home Sweet Hollywood"

Well, we are finally settled in our new home! Life has never been better! Im loving the day-to-day routine of taking care of a home and raising Reese! Im so blessed to be able to stay home with her! Yesterday kicked off a new semester of home fellowships at our church and we are the official host home in the south! I absolutely loved it! Love having a house full of people, love the worship in our house, love our church, love the Lord, love breaking bread together afterwards...life is good! Thanks to all the people in and out Reese has totally become a little social butterfly. She is doing this thing where whoever walks up to her (no matter who is holding her) she reaches out for the other person...and so on. Its become a game really, but its too cute! People seem to just love when a baby reaches out for them. A new neighbor stopped by yesterday to introduce herself and I opened the door holding Reese and sure enough, Reese reached out for the neighbor! Complete stranger! I graciously handed her over...only because I kind-of knew the neighbor, I went to High School with her son...love being back in the hood! :)

Today is day one, of week six, of phase 2 of P90X. Confused? Put it this way...Im half way there! It has pretty much become an obsession at this point. Im losing more weight then gaining muscle, which was not the goal, but I guess just natural? Its still amazing...

My sister-in-law sent me this baking website that I have quickly fallen deeply in love with. The day she sent it I baked these immediately. holy goodness. When she says 'theyre perfect', she aint kidding. Make them NOW, while blueberries are still in season and 2/$5 @ Publix! They will change your life. Below is a picture of Reese (recently turning 7 months old...) baking muffins with her mama, I hope I never forget these moments....

Also, note the thing in her mouth!? Thanks Kailee! If it was up to Reese she would sleep with this thing. Its a mesh baggie type thing that you can put different food items in whole and she basically just sucks the juice and flavor out. Loves her some cantelope! Just like her dad! :)

And I leave you with a movie review (this post just keeps getting more random) 'August Rush'...watch it! Best movie Ive seen since Slumdog Millionaire, also, the only movie Ive seen since Slumdog Millionaire. I dont watch movies to often, if you know me, you know why... :) Anyway, its really really good. Its also on demand under HBO movies (if you have comcast cable) free movies are always the coolest.

Happy Monday! Time to 'bring it'!

Do's and Don'ts Part II...sort of

So a great friend of mine posted a Do's and Don'ts blog not long ago, it was fantastic, as are many of her posts... So I thought I would piggy-back, if you will, on to her do's and don'ts with a few "nuggets" Ive picked up along the way, here you go:

DO floss your teeth every night, DONT spend more then you make (hello, welcome to our economy folks), DO nurse your babies, DONT invite someone to your bridal shower that you are not inviting to your wedding (can you say, tacky!?); DO renovate a house at least once in your life, DONT sell-out, DO rsvp when requested, DONT gossip, DO get together with old friends whenever you get the chance, it will ALWAYS be worth it, DONT sleep in, DO exercise, DONT talk on your cell phone when youre checking out @ publix, DO actually pray for someone when you tell them you will, DONT wear overalls, i dont care what people tell you, theyre not flattering, DO send thank you cards, DONT eat too much pineapple in one sitting, it does weird things to your tounge, DO always have a quick dessert ready to throw together for last minute guests!, DONT bite your nails, DO watch a sunrise every once in a while (same goes for sunset!); DONT leave dirty dishes in the sink (besides, you never know when those last minute guests will pop in!), DO wear your seatbelt!

anyone want to add to this...?

Third times a charm...

Guess its true. I thought I'd try one more time to load the video on youtube and it worked! You can view it in its entirety here!

Soooo...

I obviously had an issue uploading the video tour of our house...it wouldnt work on blogger OR youtube... I finally got it to work on flickr, however, they have a 90 second cap. uhh. so, needless to say, here is the first minute and a half of our 5 min. tour...

Ive also uploaded a few pictures, this was day one of renovations, tearing off wall paper and having the knock down done. Since then, we have painted pretty much the entire house! I will take some pics next time we're over there!

Can't wait for the house warming party... :)

Re-cap

Im trying to squeeze in a blog this month...I just noticed I haven't blogged since April 17th!! You can blame facebook for that one... This is just a little re-cap of what we've been up to!


Earlier this month we traveled over to Ft. Myers for the Fire Fighter Olympics. Teddy played flag football and 3 on 3 basketball. They took the bronze in football, however, had to forfeit in basketball when half the team decided to head home (to Miami Beach) after an early day and couldn't make it back across the alley the next day for the finals because of all the fires! Stinks! It was still a great weekend get away for us. We stayed in a beach house owned by some friends, it was wonderful! Here's a look at the team...

A better look at the team... (kidding!)

The following weekend was Mothers Day! Very exciting because it was my first... :) The cook girls (minus one) attended the Mothers Day Brunch @ St. Andrews! It was great to just be together!

For Memorial Day weekend we headed up to Pt. St. Lucie to hang with some family. (Wait for this one...) Teddy's sister, Kailee is married to David, David's little brother Taylor was in the State Championships for High School Baseball. (We'll go anywhere for anybody apparently...) Since the Tallahassee family was going to be a short hour and a half away we thought we'd go pay a visit! (and poor Taylor thought we were there for him...joke). Its always good to see them, and let the cousins be together! And in 16 more days we'll all be back together for Jamies wedding!! Here is the only picture I took all weekend...Teddy with his girls, Reese and Kinley! Can you believe the girl @ Panera asked if they were twins? wow...

And finally, I leave you with this: a 5 minute walking tour of our NEW HOME! We closed on May 20th, our 4 year wedding anniversary. It was the best gift ever! That day we started some minor renovations! We are hoping to be moved in in about 3 more weeks! We've done the whole 'live there while youre tearing out a kitchen and laying new floors' thing, totally not suggested! This video was taken literally 30 minutes after the closing. I am doing my best to take pictures of the renovation process, I will post 'um as them happen!

Easter in Park City!

Reese went on her first plane ride to Park City, Utah... (she did great!)

To have her picture taken with the Easter Bunny @ the Ski Slopes! (Her first Easter!)
We did a lot of cooking...
A lot of snow watching...

Even more just hanging out....

And now that we're home...shes helping mommy catch up on all the laundry! :)

Keepin' it in the Family...

We're buyin' another house! :) This one, however, is a little different and extremely special. Its not just another house... I have memories in this house from 20 years ago. Ive probably 'slept over' in every room in this house, and I slept in the guest room the night before my wedding...I used to be able to walk here from my house for years, until they built the wall... some of you may recognize it...

...yep, we're buyin Laura's house! We signed the contract last Friday, and we're set to close on May 20th, our 4 year wedding anniversary!

Still can't believe it...

another blog...

What am I thinking, right? Between facebook and a blog already, how am I going to have time to manage yet another blog?? Over the past 3 months Ive accumulated several short videos of little Reese, so I thought Id follow the lead of my sister-in-law and start a 'video only' blog! Enjoy these home videos of our girl, and we'll continue to add 'um as they happen!

"Is it Summer yet...?"

...Reese was just wondering!?

(Thanks Aunt Bonnie for my new raft!)

more pictures...

I finally got my hands on some more pictures of our cousins week..

The family at Elliot Key

Possibly the best pictures all week

Sailing, Monkey's and Cake...

This past week Kailee, Avery, Kinley and Jamie came in town from Tallahassee...it was non-stop. We went sailing, to the Miami Metro Zoo, lots of wedding planning and ofcourse, shopping! We ended the week by showering Jamie, once again! It was so much fun, but exhausting by the end of the week...now that life is back to normal, Ive posted all the pictures!

Jamies Shower

our family at the zoo!

cake testing with jamie...not a bad job!

reeses firsrt sailing trip!

Its the little things...

I went upstairs earlier this week to wake sweet little Reese from her nap so I could feed her and look what I discovered...someone found their thumb :) Too sweet!

I love when our friends and family get to meet Reese for the first time. This week one of our great friends Matt was in town with his girlfriend Jennifer from Birmingham.

Love that they got to meet our little one!

Finally, my mother-in-law and I went to Tallahassee last weekend to celebrate Jamie's bridal shower with her! It was the first time all of the cousins were together! So much fun! I still can't believe there are three of them...
Reese ( 7wks); Avery (2 1/2) and Kinley (9wks)

Baby Reese...

"Hey, you wanna piece of me?"

Checkin herself out in the mirror

Play time
So sweet

KATHRYN REESE COOK

1.6.09

8lbs 20 3/4"

due date...

So todays my due date. Unless this is miracle baby, and miracle delivery, chances are she's not coming today. It seemed like a any other day, I returned some Christmas presents, had lunch with my sister, cleaned the bathroom...nothing unusal.
I did, however, box up all my maternity clothes for the next baby! Then I thought, I could still be pregnant for the next two weeks...oh well!
The reality is, if I had to be pregnant for two more weeks, Id be just fine! I don't feel quite miserable enough just yet...I guess thats how we know shes not planning on introducing herself any time soon!? Or who knows, maybe she'll just surprise us all when we least expect it!
So now it's officially the waiting game. Im finished with work and we're pretty much ready for Reese! (except for those few details in the nursery that keep haunting me...)

Until next time...In waiting,

Teresa