What do Princes do in Their Spare Time?

Mikayla- "Where's daddy going?"
Mommy-"To play softball with his friends"
Mikayla-"Friends?"
Mommy- "Yes. His friend, Eric."
Mikayla- "Prince Eric?"
Mommy -{giggle} "Yes"
Mikayla-"Daddy's a prince."
Mommy- "Yes...yes he is. Prince Charming went to go play softball with Prince Eric."

For Liz

Here's the progress of our little one.

Spooky Chic

Break out the cider and the hot cocoa. Unpack your sweaters. {and crank up the AC}. It's Fall! Okay, here in AZ we've got quite a long way to go before it starts getting cool outside {but a girl can dream, right?}. I've decided that I'm done with summer and it's time to start putting up all of my Halloween Decor! I LOVE, love, LoVe, Halloween. Seriously. I get to dress up, people actually give me candy, and supposedly it starts cooling off! What's not to love?

{if you like this look: I got the frame at Ross for $8, painted it orange. I covered the candle with scrapbook paper, ribbon, feather boa, and a rhinestone brooch from Joanne's. The "BOO" I got from Hobby Lobby (they're in the decor section, part of the full alphabet)}

The Haps

First let me start out by saying: I love my purse! I'm probably going to change out the sparkly beads with fabric, but otherwise I'm happy with it...but then again, I might go all out crazy and add one or two more flowers (watch out), who knows.

Next: Mikayla is pretty much potty trained. It was a lot easier than I had expected. We just had to make it so she didn't have any other option. She "threw away" her diapers, so she knew there was no going back.

Third: I've been sick all week (uhg)..and now it sounds like Mikayla's getting it (double uhg).

Fourth: I was almost in a car accident...but I'm not sure that counts as anything. A guy ran a red light and if I hadn't been paying attention he would have rammed into me. Scared the living daylights out of me (and I was as mad as a hornet that if he had hit us he could've hurt my baby boy- Mikayla wasn't there). But even tho I was mad, I was also very thankful and I know how blessed I am that he didn't hit us.

Fifth: Joel is in Texas at a concert (Apoptygma Berzerk). I think it will be good for him when he's reading this years from now to look back on some of the fun things that he's done, so I can't leave them out of my blog. He left Friday after work and got back Saturday afternoon. He didn't want to go all the way to Texas, but they don't tour often and they don't come to AZ, so what's a guy to do? Him and his brother scored some free plane tickets and off they went. He said it was a really good concert, but they didn't go on until midnight. I went to see them 7 years ago in Hollywood. The whole time I was joking around about how I would see AFI (for the sole fact that they live in CA....but they live in Berkley, not LA). We'd pull up to a Mickey D's and I'd say "I bet I'll see AFI , just eating a Big Mac (even tho they were Vegan)" just being a dork. Well, while we were in line waiting at the Palace to be let in...who do you think I saw walking by?! JADE! Then we finally made our way in and Jade and Davey were sitting there with Nick 13! I went up and talked to them, mumbling something stupid, totally forgetting to introduce Joel. Good times. As far as going to more concerts, Joel and I are planning on going to Vegas where my mom said that she would watch the kiddos while we go out. I miss going to concerts. I'll get my turn one of these days, but for now my babies need me.

One down...

{#2 to go}

Oops!

Yesterday Mikayla was being so sweet just quietly playing in the corner with her dolls. Hunter was playing with his toys laughing and smiling. Right when I was about to congratulate myself on what a good mother I am- with my kids being so sweet, content and all- I heard Mikayla tell her doll "You're driving me nuts!"....hmmm...you learn so much when they're playing with dolls.

Who Knew?

That my son was related to the Joker? This is what happens when I step out of the room for 30 seconds (don't worry, the markers are non-toxic).

Heather Armstrong bugs the crap out of me

*Warning- I don't normally do this, but I had to vent. And it is not nice. Also, this post deals with religion.

"HGTV has signed Heather Armstrong of dooce.com, recognized as America’s most popular “mommyblogger,” to an exclusive programming development deal in which she will work with HGTV’s online and on-air production teams to create innovative convergence programming for the network.

“We are thrilled to have Heather join the HGTV family,” said HGTV president, Jim Samples. “Not only is she one of the world’s best known bloggers and parenting writers, with a unique and hilarious voice, she’s also a talented designer and photographer. She’s clearly a great fit for us and our audience.”"

The title pretty much sums it up. I was perusing one of my favorite decorating blogs when she was mentioned. So, thinking that this would be a fun blog infused with fresh decor ideas and hopefully a bit of good humor, I headed on over.

Now, first, let me list some of my favorite bands:
AFI
Good Riddance
Pennywise

Heather,
Good thing I'm not you, otherwise I would've felt that liking these things gave me an excuse to take the easy way out and give up.

I don't consider myself to be judgmental, I don't consider myself to be a hypocrite, and I don't think that everybody who isn't mormon is going to hell. I think that while I believe my church is true, you have the free agency to believe whatever you want to believe.

Newsflash, Heather: People are human (seems rather redundant, but apparently she's not aware of this simple fact). Everything you are writing on your blog is a load of crap. Everything on your blog deals with your limited view of the gospel. You spout off how much you know about the church and how awful it is when all you do is talk about the people. And while I believe the church is true I don't believe the people are.

I went to BYU and yes, it was an awful experience for a poor punk rock girl such as myself, but guess what...I didn't whine about it- I SWITCHED SCHOOLS. You were put on academic probation because you didn't go to enough church meetings? Well...it's an LDS school (how did you even get accepted? You can't even put those simple facts together? No wonder you were struggling). I guess you might feel the need to mask some sort of warped guilt by writing what you do, but seriously, you need to take responsibility for putting up a false image of what the Gospel is about.
It's repulsive.

Good decorating ideas, amusing posts, sprinkled with deceit...job well done.
(I guess I'm also blasphemous for not listening to Rush Limbaugh? Not "thinking that he talks with God". You seriously have no wit if you have to stoop to lying in order to make people laugh. Idiot.)

Bake Sale!

Cupcakes, come and get your cupcakes! We decided to go ahead and get Hunter's helmet...we thought we'd fork out the big bucks now rather than have any regrets later. Well, as I mentioned in a previous post, they're not cheap. So, I thought I'd have a bake sale (who doesn't love a good bake sale, right?)!!

I'll have one at the beginning of each month featuring different goodies. This month is CUPCAKES! Leave a comment with your "order" or e-mail me. Then on the fourth Saturday of every month ( so this one will be on August 22nd) I'll deliver them to everybody!

Here are my flavors:

Chocolate filled with chocolate ganache topped with cocoa whipped cream frosting (pictured)
Coconut
Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting
Traditional Birthday Cake (yellow cake with buttercream frosting and lots of sprinkles)

All are made from scratch with the best ingredients
$2 each or 6 for $10
Get 2 free if you mention the bake sale on your blog with a link to my blog!

Thanks!!

San Diego!

We had an awesome time in San Diego last week. For now I'm going to briefly say what we did and show a bunch of pics, but I'll fill in the details later.
First we went to a place where my mom and step-dad were staying called Santee Lakes. It was so pretty! Mikayla played in the splashpad, fed the ducks and ran around like crazy with her cousins Nathan and Matthew. The next day we went to Old Town and then to the beach (we found out that Mikaya is not a fan of the beach). Then Friday we went to the San Diego Zoo where we went on a ski lift that was very, very high. That night we had to continue our tradition of going to Wahoo's Fish Tacos (mmm..yummy!). Then Saturday morning we wanted to go take pictures at the Temple, but there wasn't any parking and I didn't want to park a mile away and walk with the kids, so we bagged that idea and just went back to Santee Lakes and played around. Mikayla, Joel, Hunter and my mom all went on a paddle boat ride! Then we went back to Old Town for lunch, bought some t-shirts and headed home. We had a lot of fun...the last three hours of the car ride, however, was not so much fun (we forgot Hunter doesn't like to drive at night so he wailed the whole time).

Santee Lakes

(out of order) Sleeping at the Zoo

Mikayla and I in Old Town

Me and Hunter chillin' at the beach

Grandma getting attacked by grandkids at the zoo (man, they love her!)

Did I mention this was HIGH?

Wahoo's (sorry, we didn't get a good pic)