October

For my birthday this year, I decided to have a little party at my house with a few friends. My friend, Lexi, made me the best Jack cake!




Then for Halloween Mikayla went as none other than Goldilocks herself with Hunter being Baby bear. We went to Disneyland's Spooktacular Event where we met up with Joel's brother and his family. It was way too crowded, so I doubt we'll do it again.



On Halloween night we went trick-or-treating with out friend's the Buhl's and their little boy Josh. I had to run to the store and then pick us up something to eat {silly Joel-he doesn't consider candy to be a good dinner}. When I got back, Mikayla was covered in chocolate while daddy was snoring on the couch. Priceless.

Mikayla's Crib

And I don't mean her hizouse, I'm talking about her baby crib. I had waited for my sweet little girl for years, so when she finally came I wanted to have the BEST nursery. I spent so much time online when I was preggers looking at bedding and planning. There was just one teensy little problem: all of the crib bedding I saw was a minimum of $500 {cough, cough}. Yeah...I'm sure Joel would go for that. Well, not one to let a little thing like price get in the way, I decided to make my own. I LOVE it. I still keep her crib in her room because I don't want to get rid of it. However, I've decided to make her a duvet cover and turn her room into a big girl room, which means...I will have to say goodbye to her baby bedding.

Story Time with Cinderella

The other month I was able to finally let my true identity be shown and read stories to all of the little princesses in my ward. It was really fun watching a couple of the girl's eyes go wide when they came in and actually thought that Cinderella was there. What was even better was when they wanted to take pictures with me, how cool is that?! Mikayla cracked me up when she came in with her group shouting "Mommy, you're Cinderella?" and promptly came to take her place on my lap. I'm still waiting for one last picture (I didn't have my camera with me) of my little princess and her- or rather my- Prince Charming.

Bake Sale!!

For my next bake sale I will be making chocolate, caramel, and candy covered Pretzel rods!

You'll get 2 of each:
Sprinkles
Toffee
mini chocolate chips and or mini m&m's

Cost: $10

Leave a comment with your order or e-mail it to me! I will deliver them on Oct. 24th in the morning. Thank you so much for your support!

Bedtime Woes

Mikayla has always had a difficult time at bedtime. Now for some reason or another, she is scared and she has to have the light on (maybe she's scared of the witch lady, too). I didn't mind it at first- she would just play for a little bit and then make her way to her bed and fall asleep. However, last night after she had been asleep for awhile, I went in to turn off the light when she screamed at me to leave it on and to come in and play dolls with her- even though she was still trying to rub the sleep from her eyes. I finally convinced her that 11 o'clock at night was in fact not an appropriate time to play with her paper dolls (especially since she was laying on the bed and just wanted me to play with them). She would not, however, be persuaded to turn off the light and Heaven forbid that I leave the room. So I laid with her for a little while until she realized that mommy was right (surprise, surprise) and having the light shine in your eyes is rather annoying and so she finally told me to turn it off. Then after awhile I tried to make my escape and failed. I tried a couple more times, finally succeeding somewhere around midnight. I guess we'll have to try something new. I sure hope Hunter doesn't have this problem (especially the part with the paper dolls).

Just in Time for Halloween

Joel and I went driving around on Monday to look for some good places for taking family portraits. We went down this little dirt road and I found a really pretty spot! Oh..well, I mean except for the fact that it's HAUNTED! {what the?!}

I showed my friend, Lexi, the picture and I told her how I thought it could be really nice if we just cleared some of the dead bushes and brush away. She said "Yeah, just watch out for the Queen Creek wash witch." {again..what the?!} Rumor has it that years ago a lady's only daughter drowned in the QC wash. She was so devastated about losing her beloved child that she became homeless and crazy, spending her time wandering the creek wash mourning her little girl. It wouldn't have been such a creepy story if I hadn't had such an eerie feeling while I was down in the wash (before my friend told me about the story). I took Mikayla down there with me and after a I took a couple of pictures, I swooped her up and ran back up the hill. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be taking pictures there!

This was obviously the first time I had heard the story, so if anybody has anything to add feel free! Also, I think it would be fun to post our own ghost stories on our blogs...Nevermind!! I'm too much of a wimp and didn't get much sleep last night because of this stupid story, I don't want to think how I would be if it was a story that was actually scary. This should be good for Halloween!

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.