Bwahahahah!

My friend just introduced me to this amazing blog.

Seriouslysoblessed

So, um, I probably can't ever read your blog in seriousness now. Sorry.

Snork!

Twitter.

Full Out LAUGH!

He He He...

After School Snack

Dea and I made Peanut Butter Popcorn today.
I only had my phone to take pictures with, but we had fun editing them.

PS It was delicious!

Nap Time

I need more.

Dylan is having a hard time with going to sleep for naps... so I've come up with a creative solution. We run laps around the house until she is tired. I run with her, but she still thinks it's a punishment... hopefully that will change soon. I am not punishing, just ensuring that she will go to sleep. Jaedyn tried it today. We also switched it up and ran the other direction. It' was more fun I think. At least there were less tears.

Ranting and Raving

I have much on my mind... but I know of the people who read this many of them already have a low opinion of me...

so

I guess whatever I write won't change their opinion...

huh.

This is to those particular people.

You Fetching Jerks.

I kinda like that when I started writing a blog no one cared and I could write what I wanted and figure out how I felt and what I meant while I wrote. Censoring it all is really a drag. Part of me is glad that those particular people figured out that they didn't like me from the blog, but the farce that they DO like me is tedious at best. Just man up and admit that you don't like me based on what you read. OR. Man up and admit that you don't want to get to know me. Please don't fake it. Please don't pretend. And for GOODNESS SAKE please don't tell other people how crappy a person you think I am IN FRONT OF ME!!!

Fetching Jerks.

Did you think I wasn't listening?!?

Happy Easter

Brian and Mary invited us to an Easter party at their house. We had a great time! Thanks!

We had a great egg hunt and a delicious meal and fun hanging out.

Ana, I wanna build like you...

I want to make this headboard for our bed. Ana from Knock Off Wood has the plans and supplies list and everything! It looks so easy. I can do it. I just don't have the space. It was different when there was no baby who might get crushed or poisoned or something, but now I don't feel comfortable doing building in the living room.

Anyone have a garage I can borrow and a truck I can use for transport?

Then I'd like to build this and this. I need them, I think.

My desktop broke...

My desktop broke... I wonder if that's why my pictures won't show up.

I am helping a gal at church organize her home... and I want to help her get her kids artwork displayed and showcased... in a different way than it is now showcased.

I'm wondering which way would be better...

Alison has this amazing showcase wall that would work down the hall at Loralee's. Her's are the framed ones...

Ana has this cool clothespin display thing...

Maybe one could be used in the hall and another in the basement or the kids bedroom....

I hope these pictures work...

I made Jaedyn a dress from on old shirt...

Uuum.

I forgot what I was going to post about. Man, I hate that.

Probably was going to vent about not being able to make goals and resolutions with Scott. We just don't work the same. But my favorite aunt and uncle are the same.. they don't 'work' well together either. So I don't feel totally depressed about it. Just annoyed.

a post without pictures

since the pictures don't seem to work anyways.

I have made a bag.

It is big and I did a drun good job.

Thanks to Christy who made a bear for Jaedyn and got me started thinking about making something... sewing something.

I had no idea that the people I associated with in elementary school up through high school would be such an infulence in my life. I still can't spell very well, but when I think about it I remember doing spelling words with Amanda's mom (and cheating terribly). And random friends have been visiting my dreams lately. Chase, wherever you are, I dreamed about you the other night. It stinks that I've fallen out of touch with so many of the really super and highly infulencial people. I guess it's my own fault. I also wonder if I would have more ammo in my friends to think about arsenol if I had more collage or something. I think maybe... So many things I could have done differently. I live in so many regrets that I can't enjoy the moment and spiral into regretting the moment that I'm not enjoying. Help! (but that's a rant for another day)

Thanks to my friends. I think about you all the time, even if I don't call or write or text or e-mail or skype or whatever.

pictures!

Dyland and Jaedyn in the tub. They are so sweet together.

Me and my baby, who is tired.

Jaedyn is COOL. We had to get her these sunglasses and she loves them!

Jaedyn with the camera I won from the blog giveaway.

I won, I won, I'm a Weiner

I have won my first blog give-away. Thanks Becca for the camera!

More blog friends with COOL things

Becca over a the Great Medicore is hosting a giveaway of a camera. I'm trying to win... We will see if I remember to post something every day until the drawing. Tiana will probably win if I don't.

FItness Online?!?

Bertie over at Fit N'Fun and Then Some is having this awesome special. One month FREE online personal training! How cool is that? And this girl knows what she is doing... she looks amazing and wins fitness competitions after having three kids. I'm signing up to try it out. Wish me luck!

Weekend in Pictures

I made some stinking yummy smoothies, they were a big hit.

Then I cleaned out the fridge, dropping a can of enchilada sauce in the process, and stained my the only pair of jeans that fit. Ann Taylor Loft will be receiving my business soon. I need new jeans and they are having a great sale.

Then I made these ADORABLE matching aprons. There is one for me and one for each of the girls (Dea, Dylan and Jaedyn). Thanks to Alicia for the fabric. All four apron's only took 1/2 a yard of fabric. I am awesome!

They all have a little pocket in the front. Dylan and Jaedyn's are SO tiny!

I think mine turned out great.

I hate budgeting. Hate. It.

I'm turning into one of those blog-once-a-month-if-you're-lucky people. I don't really think that the knowledge of what I've become will actually spur me to any type of action*. Here comes the reason I don't really blog more... my baby. She will start to climb my lap and pound the keyboard with the golf ball she just dug up from the toy box.
But I can leave you with some pictures of our life recently... or I would if I could. Blogger would like me to PAY to upload more pictures. Which I will not do. But you can view them yourself by following the link:
TO MY OTHER PICASA



*Unless I get a laptop with the ability to blog and upload pictures that I take with me everyday to work. Which will mean LOADS more to carry each way... and I am already known for the number of bags and the amount of stuff that I bring with me on a regular basis. I don't think I have the strength , emotionally or physically for more bags.

Holiday Cookies

Becca put out this great recipe for sugar cookies and I tried it. I had some initial difficulties resulting from the fact that I don't, rather haven't, baked. Like, ever.
So I muddled through 20 minutes of beating together sugar and butter and dough that was way sticky. Today I pulled out the chilled dough and we came up with these:



Dea helped me frost most of them.

I Love Lucy - pre making it funny and adding pictures

I've been invited to the I Love Lucy Club.

Here's the story^:

I had great ambitions of making many delicious confections for the Holidays this year. I've been feeling very festive like that. I remember making English Toffee and Pulled Taffy as a kid. Now that I have a kid, plus some, I thought I'd give it* a try myself.

I had to have a candy thermometer, so on my way home from work one night I stopped by Fred Meyer** and picked one up. Then I needed to get the ingredients. It took a day of shopping and stuff, but I came to work yesterday all sorts of prepared. First on the list on yummy, fattening foods to make was Fudge. I used this recipe which sounded really good. I didn't look very hard and evidently there are much easier ways of making the stuff. For the sake of being gung-ho, I wanted to do it authentic.

So.

I had these two pages of instructions that are not really in order. Starting on page two I added the ingredients mixing them and melting them slowly. I don't know what the crystallization they referred to looks like, but they were very adamant that you don't want it in you fudge. Things were cooking great until the mixture started to boil. I had it in a big pot because I knew that it would grow as it boiled. I didn't realize how much the stuff would grow. The mixture bubbled and rose and rose and bubbled. I had to keep it cooking or I might get crystals! So I did the logical thing as the mass reached the top of the pot. I blew on it.
Nuthing happened.
Rather it kept growing. So I turned down the heat. But just as the flame turned off, the mixture boiled over the top and onto the stove. I had to keep it cooking or it would crystallize and ruin the batch. So I grabbed a bigger pot and put it on another burner. I turned on the flames and realized a second later that it was the wrong burner. The bag of oranges was sitting next to the burner I had turned on. The red mesh bag was casually draped over the side of the fruit basket and on top of the burner. AH! I hastily turned it off and lit the correct burner. Then I poured the remaining mixture of overflowing, bubbly, sticky, chocolate stuff into it. I turned up the heat and got it back to boiling. I couldn't stir it, per the instructions Else I might make it crystallize. When it got to the correct temperature I removed it from the stove. The next step was to beat until creamy. I can't beat it in a Teflon coated pot, so I had to pour it into another container, again. Then I got the mixer out and started beating the sucker. It was HOT and kept flinging bits of 30-seconds-ago-boiling-chocolate-mixture out at me. After the 15th burn I had Dea help me make a shield with paper towels. After the 20th burn I thought to look at the directions again. I was supposed to let it cool.
Oh.
So I let it cool. For Ever. Finally when it was the right temperature I went back at it with the beaters. Twenty minutes later it was still not creamy, Derek and Lori were home and it was time for me to leave. I poured it into a Tupperware and stuck it in the fridge. Today it is still not creamy. I was able to get this picture*** of the stuff. I spelt 'love' with the drizzle from my thickness testing spoon. So now I have some really good fudge ice cream topping.


^It's pretty straight forward, so there are not so many explanations down here. Sniff.
* Making candy, that is.
** I really wanted the $20 fancy schmancy one from William Sonoma. But the $5.99 one at Fred Meyer was closer... and cheaper.
*** It won't upload... sorry.

A new post

I'm not sure what I want to post about^. I know I want to post something. My computer kinda died and I thought I lost my pictures. Yikes! Lucky Scott showed me how to find them again^^.

^ That's a lie. I know many many things I'd like to post about. I just can't pick.
Jaedyn had 6 teeth. She had her first candy cane. Everyone called her a boy at our ward Christmas Party. The mohawk* didn't help. Nor did her missing earrings.
Things are moved to storage. It is bliss.
I had a birthday. It was not so exciting. But I did get one birthday present. From my mom. It's a sewing machine. I made a hedgehog as my first project. I'm still making it. I made a wallet for the second project (later Alicia gave me some fabric, thanks!).
We made a gingerbread house. Super soft, nasty light butter is the way to go for the recipe I had. I tried again with real butter and it turned out rather nasty.
My hands are getting scaly. The weather up here does weird things to my flesh.
We have been watching Bones. It's interesting.
We are going to Houston for New Years and my mom's wedding! WOOHOO!!!

*She really has a mowhawk. When we take her hair down from it's pony spike...it's this fantastic mowhawk that lasts for days.

^^ Now I need to send those pictures. Thank goodness for my husband who saves me from computers.