Tuesday, November 16, 2010

trick or treaty happy Halloweeny

this year I got little miss on Halloween night. it was a Sunday and most of her good friends we would normally go play with are LDS and are not allowed to run about on Sunday night…however her mother is a heathen and sooooo

tricky treatsing we went. it was quiet in the neighborhood which is rare and I couldn't tell if it was because it was on Sunday or because the economy sucks or because people are doing more house parties, trunk or treatings and indoor “mall” type  “safe” places. we did not seem to mind a bit as we wandered house to house then back to our house to pass out candy. good ol pandora radio kept us rockin with some spooky Halloween symphony music and londy passed passed passed out candy while giggling at chopper and I trading hats back and forth. oh how I love the Halloween night:)

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the little hot mama was wicked witch of the east…minus the green face and striped tights. she insisted on the red sparkle shoes because “thats what the witch wears on the weekends, they are her going out shoes” i bout died laughing at that one!

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mary mary

 

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

little miss and i decided a few weeks back that we had had it with summer and we were ready for fall….so to home depot we did go and bought some of my favorite gerber daisys to plant here and there. along with some annuals. why does it just fill my soul with joy to see pretty flowers? i dont know but it sure does. the weather was amazing this day! so scootter riding and toes a polishing were done after planting:) a day just me and my girl is such a wonderful thing!

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goofin with the camera….cause hey! its what we do!

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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

giveaway

my darling friend amy is doing a giveaway on her fabulous holiday cards. enter to win custom christmas cards by going here
http://inkddesigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/out-with-halloween-in-with-christmas.html

trust me its worth the look:)

Monday, November 01, 2010

so long farewell

see ya later alligator

after awhile crocodile

bye bye butterfly

out the door dinosaur

so long king kong

give a hug ladybug

be sweet parakeet

blow a kiss goldfish

londy has been coming home everyday telling me a different goodbye…i think they are soo stinkin cute! that’s my girl!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

a first in a long time

could not tell you the last time I got decked out for a Halloween party! so when we got the invite to one I was all about it! sister sue was great enough to mail me her costume from last year so I didn't have to kill myself trying to find( and pay) for one! so a sassy cute Alice in wonderland I was going to be. chopper was going to be KKK and then dress up as me but once he saw me in Alice…. he was on a hunt for a mad hatter getup! first came the hat and then he pulled the rest together from good will and good friends! way to go babe…he got best costume at our party and we had a blast! thanks Steve and Lindsey, cant wait to do it again next year…MUAH!

 

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a perfect afternoon

a perfect afternoon consists of…..

a pony ride, chasing dogs, playing volleyball, a great barbequed hamburger, jumping on the trampoline, watching the cardinals kick some BOOTY, snacking some more, getting dirty running in the yard, a drive in the desert in the golfcart, cool weather, a sweatshirt, playing on the hay bails, roasting marshmallows and playing chubby bunny around the fire with my most favorite people!

 

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

i literally forgot

If you pray for love, be loving. If you pray for wealth, be generous. If you pray for health, practice health yourself. Your choices are what make you who you are in this world. Make something of it and figure out what you want to be remembered for!

 

I read this on my niece’s Facebook status and literally had one of those “ah ha light bulb going on” kind of moments! i have been pondering life quite a bit the last year, more-so the last few months. Understandably so…considering i went through a divorce. I have had several amazing conversations with my love Chopper, as well as some wonderful girlfriends who are so great at putting things in perspective…even if it is over happy hour:)

it was very fitting reading this quote and then reading megs blog today and seeing her write about this herself…sometimes i swear we should have been twins because we dress alike and have a lot of the same thoughts without ever discussing them. but anywho…..

i try to be a good person in life, i try to be honest and kind, not judgmental, loving and generous. I try to let people know when i am thinking about them, to be a good friend, a good daughter, mother and girlfriend/wife. But as i read and re-read this quote (not sure where it really came from other than my niece) i wonder how much of this i am really doing. I fall, i fall on a regular basis, short of who my father in heaven made. who he wants me to be. i make mistakes, i take steps back after much progress, but i always try to learn from those mistakes and not make them again.

i am very blessed in my life. i have a man who treasures me and i treasure him. for lack of better words…i have had a failed relationship and do not wish to fall down that awful cliff again so i love with my whole heart. i want to give everything i have to build and mend and create better relationships than what i have. to be that mother to play at the park late, play make-believe ten times longer than i had planned and actually enjoy every minute of it! i have a wonderful, tenderhearted, sweetheart of a baby girl London who i will love with my whole heart. i treasure family and frankly have fallen way short over the years with creating a relationship with them the way i want to in my heart. but i can feel that getting better and sooooo as i try to love more…i FEEL more LOVE as well! what a thought huh?

on the subject of wealth…i don't yearn to have gobs of money (although don't get me wrong it could be real nice right about now). but wealth can mean so many things. i wish to have what i need, to provide for my family…to live more of the good life…having friends and family over for barbeques. be able to fly my sister home for thanksgiving. to donate more to back to school programs and so much more. but as i watched my sweet friend kimi have an awful week and sooo wished i could help…i felt helpless until my dear friend  Celina informed kimis husband that she was having dinner delivered so they wouldn't have to think of that one small aspect of that day. that to me is being generous, thoughtful and kind. my friend Celina is always generous…oh how i will be more like that from now on.

my knees have been bloody from all the prayers on health. health for me, health for family, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers. but do i take care of my body? to i exercise to my full ability? do i eat right…i mean really eat right? on a daily basis? do i take the vitamins and advice from doctors on food or drinks to stay away from? how can i constantly pray for health if i do not do all i can do to be totally healthy? do i take care of my mind healthily? do i nourish my soul with prayer, good books, uplifting people, movies and spiritual things? do i laugh as much as possible? stay away from stress and stress inducing people?  so much of keeping healthy is full body, mind and soul…( which yes sounds totally cheesy but i believe it to be totally true!!)

i literally forgot all these things…i knew them at one point or another in my life. have practiced them time and time again. but every once in a while i need to be reminded…slapped upside the head, been told again…that hey

 

i choose who i am everyday, it is my gift from my savior, that when i fall short i can try again

its funny that as i have paid attention to this this week how different i have felt about people and what has been given to me and how i know i can give so much more….

Friday, September 24, 2010

Barbie holiday weekends

when meg and I were little we loved Barbie's! I mean L_O_V_E_D! them!! we were always so excited to have a three day weekend when my dad would allow us to make a Barbie mansion in the hallway and leave it up for the weekend. we had a pretty good sized area outside our bedrooms and it was wood floors so it was the perfect spot to build houses out of building blocks. we were so creative, using our big crayon piggybanks as street lights, using my moms doll furniture from when she was a kid. no one stood a chance over us when it came to the best doll houses (or so we thought)…the neighbor girls had the real Barbie dream mansions but we never wanted them…we liked our make believe much better!

so several months back I pulled out my Barbie's (the few that I kept) along with my sisters Barbie carrying case and brought them home for London. oh I'm not sure who was more excited…me or her? she has played and played with them…well today my dear client ami brought me a bunch of her daughters old Barbie's and their paraphernalia! London was to say the least, beside herself with excitement. I have never seen so many ken dolls! and these ken dolls are all so different from the ones I had I couldn't stop giggling at the hair and the muscles! just so brought me back to those days, when life was simple! I loved the “heart family”dolls. I had the mom the dad, the kids. we would play with our strawberry shortcake dolls and star-something dolls with them too! funny how you get rid of things thinking your kids wont want them or there will be something better by the time you have kids but really the reason to keep toys for your kids is so that YOU receive joy when watching them play with something you treasured so much! just digging through that box right now the memories came back. I had forgotten how much I loved the little cabbage patch dolls and the miniature strawberry shortcake figurines…who remembers all this stuff?

 

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the mess

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the new ken dolls…guess which one I like? londy says he looks like chopper cause of the muscles..lol

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baseball player and the cheerleader (londy loves her)

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the oldies! the one on the left I think was supposed to be from Switzerland? and the one on the right was my neighbor

Katie Stipe (I was in love with this dress) I had it when she moved, so yep…I pretty much stole it! only time I can remember stealing anything in my life!

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strawberry shortcakes…I cant find any clothes for them…why are dolls always NAKED?

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don't remember what these were called by they were some of my all time favorite toys

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cabbage patches…they are soooo cute!

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my moms favorite toys we ever owned..she has some at her house she wont give me back..lol

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the ken who started it all today…I couldn't stop giggling at the hair while at work…I LOVE it!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

smut, make believe or just a distraction

life's guilty pleasures for me include but are not limited to

1. gossip girl, 90210, Grey's Anatomy and private practice. oh how i get sooo excited when the fall season of my shows start. during the summer i get hooked on reality drama of bachelor pad, so you think you can dance and what not but the really good stuff starts in September. for 50min or so i get to escape to the world of Blair Waldorf, Christian Louboutin, upper east side new York and men like chuck bass. i dream of dressing the way Serena can dress. i love to watch Meredith stick her hands inside of a body and save a life with her delicate hands. or how about how Addison Montgomery Sheppard lives on the beach and is a powerful world renowned surgeon. why do i love the smut so much?

2. spinach dip,nachos, anything dip-able-deliciousness! fresh baked brownies, cookies, basically anything you would find in a bakery, crumble top muffins-lick-my lip-yummo. there's also nothing like happy hour with good friends or your sweetheart. cheese, crackers, cocktail onions, a yummy beverage….add the above smut to this…even better

3. DIET COKE DIET COKE DIET COKE

4. movies with happy endings, beautiful girl meets handsome sexy man, add a little drama, some guns, a little mystery, a little love and there better be a damn good happy ending:) cant stand a movie where there is not a happy ending. put me in a movie theater with popcorn and chocolate, a sexy man of my own and turn the lights out and voila…..another very happy girl from yet another…very guilty pleasure!

 

so i ask…what are your guilty pleasures? what is ridiculous but makes you soo happy?

Sunday, September 12, 2010

i need more time

i need more time…with these beautiful people and several more not shown…i love you, you are part of me! no more holidays, weekends or adventures missed because I’m spending time with another family. YOU are my family, you are my heart!

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mom I’m gonna score some goals for you!

little miss started soccer this week! something i always wanted to do as a kid but never asked, along with many other things i felt guilty having my parents spend money on me!

and londy has been asking the past year or two when she could play….

its so cute to watch her out there running with all her buddies from school and church. the green team did a great job and i had such fun watching her play! it was a perfect day, starting a little early, getting to the game by 7:45. But she played great, doing her goalie dance, trying to decide which way to run and laughing as she did crunches on the bench so she could “keep warm and get some muscles mom” lol. they didn’t win but they did great.

it was the perfect kind of day, up early to the game, then to breakfast at nicks…mmmmmm. a little yard work, which i must say i quite enjoy on a day like yesterday, warm but not scorching, add some ipod tunes and a very helpful man who really does most the work :)…onto shopping with the kiddos, some pizza, wings and finish up the night next to my sweetheart on the front porch swing.

can’t wait for more happy days like those and to watch london master soccer…she is like her mama and plays to win, she will work hard and hopefully dance more in her heart than in that goalie box…teehee!

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