Peck Life

Yes Please!

Martha Stewart just came out with a line of craft furniture. I can't believe it! I'm in love with the "gift wrap hutch shown in the photo below. Can you imagine having a space devoted EXCLUSIVELY to gift wrapping?! It's like a dream! So many inspiring spaces....sigh. Candy Spelling has an entire ROOM devoted to gift wrapping. Then again, she also lives in a house with 100 rooms.

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{New Martha Stewart Craft Furniture}

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Pottery Barn}

 
 {Not sure where this is from but I love the wrapping paper holder!}

 
{Candy Spelling wrapping room}

Books to Love

Lately we've been reading a lot of books to Sky. By far, some of the best are written and illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa. This woman devoted her life to Children's books. She died at the age of 90 almost 10 years ago. I had her books when I was little. In fact, one of the books we read at least once a day {"Baby Animals"} is MY copy. Thankfully, it's still in good enough shape to use today. I always thought she was a long lost author. Turns out, I was wrong. She's pretty popular! I found "10 little babies" at PCC of all places! They had an entire display of her books. One stroll through the kids section at Barnes and Noble and there are many more books for all ages with her gorgeous pictures…I can't wait to read them all to Sky when as he gets older. My next purchase will be the "A to Z Picture Book" because the illustrations are just too adorable.

If you aren't familiar with her books, I would highly suggest checking them out. They are just the BEST!

Dancing!

Sky LOVES music. Each year at Molbaks, there are holiday festivities - including live music. We took Sky one Sunday afternoon to snap a picture with Santa and listen to a brass quartet. He LOVED IT. He also really loved the ladies sitting behind us {as you'll see...}. The video pretty much speaks for itself. Enjoy!

  

Seriously?

Ok, so we had a Christmas party at work that included a gift exchange. The instructions were to bring roughly a $20 item, either "white elephant" or a regular "good" gift. It was totally voluntary so if you didn't want to bring a gift, you didn't have to. I have so little time these days that it was the morning of, and I still didn't have anything. Thank goodness for Target at the last minute! I swung in on my way work work and figured if i'm going to spend $20 on something, it may as well be useful. I loaded a target card with $10 and then proceeded to buy an assortment of chapstick {my favorite winter accessory}. I know it's kind of a dorky gift but I got the GOOD quality chapstick! I wrapped it up all pretty and when the party came later that afternoon, I plopped my gift down on the table with all the other gifts.

We all drew numbers and got to open a "mystery gift". Most of the gifts were alright...a GIANT dog bone {which actually worked out well because the person who got it has a big dog}, a lava lamp, starbucks coffee, you get the idea. When it came time for me to open, someone suggested I open a long tube looking thing because it "felt cold"....I shouldn't have taken the bait because guess what it was?

A CAN OF BUD LIGHT CHELADA.

 
 
If you've never heard of this beer, it's kind of a V-8/bloody mary type mixture with the beer taste and lime. Pretty gross.

You know what else is special about this beer? It retails for about $2.

I definitely wasn't expecting anything out of this gift exchange but was pretty offended that a group of Microsoft attorneys would contribute something like that when it wasn't even CLOSE to the dollar range. These people make loads more money than I do and here I am, trying to follow directions and be a "team player" by participating and rather than just deciding not to get a gift, someone gets a can of beer????

I'm pretty sure this will be the last time I ever participate in a gift exchange at work.

Thanksgiving 2010

How is it that Thanksgiving has come and gone? I feel like 2010 just started! We have much to be thankful for this year - our families, our jobs, a roof over our heads, great friends, eachother, and most of all, our little man. We had our first snow a few days before Thanksgiving along with another falling on Thanksgiving morning and It was so much more magical to watch Sky watch the snow. Somehow, little kids just make everything better - the zoo, a day in the park, the fair...you know, all the things you stop doing when you become a "grown up".

We had 2 Thanksgivings this year - one with my grandma, mom, dad, and brother on Thanksgiving day and then a larger Peck clan gathering the day after {since we were lucky enough to have some out of town visitors}. It was a great time eating and hanging out. Sky enjoyed all the different people and exploring other houses with new things to get into.

I think the highlight of the day was early Thanksgiving morning. Josh was at work and I was home alone with Sky. It was snowing and he was fussing so I put him in the chair in front of our bay window. He really gets calm looking outside, he likes to look around and see what's going on. He quieted down and was watching the snow fall. It was just the best little moment. Then, I snapped this picture:

 Could he be any cuter?! I just love this little guy to bits!! So, thats Thanksgiving in a nutshell - now onto the HOLIDAYS and......Sky's 1st birthday {it's 2 weeks from today and I'm still in denial}...