Month: July 2014

Our daughter was born

Seton

Our beautiful daughter was born on Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 3:21am.

And just like that, our lives have changed.

Seton Grace Hiatt was named after St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. Our precious girl has already been blessed with so many graces. There were candles lit for her in Rome during our pregnancy, my sister was saying the rosary for her during her birth, and Davey and I were able to attend mass just before going to the hospital. I was surprisingly able to pay attention to the homily through nine contractions. 🙂 I loved that I could share the last Eucharist with her before her birth.

I’ll spare the gory details of laboring, but I can’t type this post without advising you to go hug your mothers. Seriously.

Here is our precious baby’s first day in the world:

Jucy Lucy and Bike Races

hopkins, mn, raspberry festival

So life has been a blast lately.

We have gone out to eat, been to church breakfasts, seen more live music, and watched a bike race. We even tried our first Jucy Lucy at Matt’s Bar. (Sorry we were late, Barack!)

Remember how I said 2 weeks ago that our good cameras were packed in the hospital bag, and I wasn’t going to unpack them until they get used for baby’s first life moments? Well, they are still in the hospital bag, charged and ready with no place to go (yet).

Here is a little recap via the iPhone of our Sunday walk around Hopkins when we stumbled upon the Raspberry Festival’s bike race:

A shaky video, but at least I know my mom will like it. 🙂 Hi, Mom!

Cheesy Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Davey and I look for recipes that are suuuuuper easy to make. When I say easy, I am talking 5 ingredients and less than 20 minutes of prep time.

This Cheesy Bacon Wrapped Chicken recipe is easy and quick. When we ate it for dinner last night, we both commented that this is a good recipe to make when we have guests for dinner because it can easily pass for being classier than it actually is.

Here is how we did it (and by “we,” I clearly mean Davey):

Ingredients:
3 boneless chicken breasts
cream cheese
blue cheese
salt/pepper for taste
6 strips of bacon

Directions:
Cut uncooked chicken breasts in half. Spread cream cheese on each of the halves. Sprinkle blue cheese over the cream cheese. Add salt/pepper as desired. Roll each chicken breast so the cheesy filling is on the inside. Keep the chicken rolled tight by wrapping with a slice of bacon. Secure with a toothpick.

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Cook at 425 degrees uncovered in a baking or casserole dish for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

Enjoy!

cheesy bacon wrapped chicken

3 Things I shouldn’t have said to my husband when I was pregnant

We all have those pregnancy moments when the hormones get the best of us. Our sweet husbands are usually the ones to take the heat for it.

Here are:

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First Trimester:

Running to the bathroom with nausea…

“You did this to me!”

1st trimester, 12 weeks

Second Trimester:

Me: Do I look pregnant, or do I look fat?

Davey: {the ever so slightest pause} You look pregnant.

Me: Great. You think I look fat.

second trimester

Third Trimester:

Staring at my belly button in the mirror…

“Now my belly button looks like yours!”

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Don’t worry, Davey, it’ll all be over soon. Until next time.

And then there is always menopause…

Life Lately

lake minnetonka, wayzata

Many times in my life I have said to myself “Two more weeks.” Two more weeks until graduation. Two more weeks until moving to a new state, starting college, starting a new job, going on an exciting trip. Two more weeks until getting married, leaving on a honeymoon. Two more weeks until moving in with my husband. Two more weeks…

But thinking “two more weeks until I get to see my baby face to face…”

There’s nothing quite like that feeling.

I am sitting on that feeling now.

I hope our baby knows how much Davey and I love each other.

I keep thinking that — I guess it’s because I feel like this life — this human — was created because of that love. I want the baby to know that s/he is living because of love.

Enough mushy-gushy I suppose.

Here come a A GAZILLION pictures of our life lately. I haven’t updated in a while so pictures have just been piling up! The pictures are all iPhone photos because I dare not unpack the nice cameras from the hospital bag and use the charges on various things happening in our life, thus missing the precious first moments of baby’s life. So here is a iPhone dump for you if you ever saw one.

Davey has been doing important things in life like hooking in the car seat and vacuuming. I have been doing even more important things like getting pedicures and taking naps.

carseat

husband vacuuming

I have also been LOVING on our little town (Hopkins, MN). There is so much to do here! Any my evening walks are absolutely gorgeous! It’s such a different town than it is in wintertime!

hopkins, MN

hopkins, mn

We even have free concerts every Thursday in a small park:

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And coming up in a couple weeks is a two weeks Raspberry Festival. When we moved here, we had no idea we chose to live in the cutest little American town that ever existed.

We have also ventured to nearby towns for art walks and festivals. Here are some pictures from the Wayzata Art Experience:

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wayzata art experience

We took a break and enjoyed the view of Lake Minnetonka that day:

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Over the fourth of July, we went to Lake Calhoun and sat on the beach reading books all day. No pictures of that time though because we were so busy with our noses in our books and people watching.

Yesterday, we went to Lake Harriet for a free concert. On our way, we spotted $2 trolley rides. If you know my husband, then you know anything that appeals to a 10 year old child will appeal to him, so we signed up for the trolley. Since no one was in line with us, I kept thinking, “well, this will be kinda romantic. A trolley ride around the lakes with my husband…” but then I quickly realized Davey would spend most of the time with his arm out the window waving to passersby. This is a perfect example of our life in public: Davey does something that I think people may think is very strange for a 28 year old man….and then they don’t think it’s strange at all. Adults were waving back to Davey with almost more joy and excitement than if they were waving back to amuse a small child.

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Once the trolley ride was over, we continued on our way to the Lake Harriet Band Shell to listen to some live music.

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So that’s our life lately. Keeping busy exploring our new city while waiting anxiously to meet our baby face to face. Life is pretty good.