29 degrees (spring is coming)

So Friday was a record breaking 29 degrees. We celebrated by playing outside in the semi freezing spring weather................

life or something like it

What is going on here? I think she is telling me stories about marathons and organic baby food.. Or maybe she is telling me all about her hot # she will be wearing for her 30th disco inspired bash. I still remember what she wore to my 25th bday party. It reminds me just how long we've been friends and how much she loves me....
Anyone want to come hang out with us for spring break? This will be the view from your bedroom window. Just think of it as an adventure. You will be risking your life everytime you leave the house. You won't even have to worry about how you look in your bathing suit either. Come on over! I heard MTV is putting the beach house here next year! Or an igloo... It's where all the cool kids are coming these days. Victor, Id is the new spring breaker's paradise............................May be a bit nipply, but we will be sure to show you a good time............


I have no idea if this is even allowed on the internet. I just thought she looked so cute I had to throw it on here............

Are there peacocks in Nepal?

Oh Kelli,how can I I even begin to explain our frienship? It's impossible so I wont even try. She knows my soul. I love her and hate her guts all at the same time. I worry about her all the time. I wake up with dreams of her still in my head.

We have really grown up together in so many ways.... UNEXPLAINABLE but beautiful.....

This is a picture that she sent me at 3 am yesterday. It is her and I riding peacocks in Nepal. No, I am not kidding! Some of the best things in life need no explanation at all.

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How do you know a man loves you? I just figured this one out for sure... My husband cleaned out our closet and made it mycloset. Now I know for sure he really loves me. I tried to get a picture of him beside his handiwork and he denied me. So enjoy these tasy pics instead!




I just had to document this massive act of love! I've never been more turned on!

My Crew

THIS IS MY CREW....AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO


We enjoy delicious meals of "fried everything" and lots of dips to choose from

We sometimes even take baths in the kitchen sink

Ivy sneaks on the kitchen table while her BFF bathes in the kitchen sink. She then proceeds to put diaper cream in her freshly washed hair and then screams when she has to get down.

we dress up in random things we find in the coat closet.

We have beach blanket parties where we pretend like it's summer. We listen to surf music, wear our bathing suits, and have picnics on our beach blanket.

Ivy dresses up up Blayke as a Playboy Bunny

Jaxon pretends he's a an archaeologist with a grimm reaper tattoo. He looks long and hard for fossils in the cake pan that I filled with moon sand.

Ivy plays fire chief and blows at the fire place and whispers the word, H-o-t a million times in a row. We clap and she continues.....PROUDLY

Roadtrippin and M.C. Hammer

So Ivy thinks she's me.. She carries a purse now! She's such a little woman.I kinda love it and I hate it at the same time. I am getting small glimpses of the way my dad felt about watching his three daughters grow up into women right before his eyes. I have a hunch that this little one is my pay back in every way.

In third grade we had a little project where we cut out a paper shoe and wrote down "Who we wanted to share a shoe with". I think it had something to do with the mother Hubbard nursery rhyme. Well, open house/parent night came around. My parents went of course. My teacher had all the shoe's hung up on the wall in the classroom. Most of the kids shoes had the names of their parents, siblings, friends, etc. Well I guess mine was a different story. My parents scaled the bulletin board for my shoe. They were horrified to see my shoe with an elaborate story written on it about how I will one day share a shoe with M.C. Hammer. I will look more beautiful than Christie Brinkley and to top it all off, I said we would even have M.C babies together. That night I was given a small and sweet lecture and explained to in detail the definition of the word "Worldly"! I am so in for it. I just know it.... {Can't touch this]!!!!!!!!!!


This is how we roll these days............................


All four of us ladies shop and lunch together. We are reckless,hungry,dirty,tired, and we always have such a great time.

Concrete Nazi

So anyone wanna hire us to polish your concrete floors? We are real professionals.
What is concrete polishing all about? Well I'm not an expert by any means but know more than any girl should about this topic. This is my "Concrete Nazi's" new obsession. It is actually so gorgeous and there are so many ways you can get creative with concrete. I just love the way it looks and now that, "The Machine"is here the options are endless. If I was the Woman in charge of this new business I would simply call it, "concrete blond"... Well I'm not and we are having a hard time coming up with the perfect name for this brand new company. Any ideas????

Winter Blues

To say that the winter is long here is such an understatement. I will keep the complaining quick, but it is bad here this time of year. It is so bad that those of us that live here forget every single year... Just how bad it really is. I think it is sorta the same way we forget the pain of child birth.
With that said. How many bendaroos can one girl build in a week? Way too many! Does anyone realize how long it takes to get snow clothes properly put on children? I dream about spring being here so I can go to the park, drink lime squeezes, pull out the barbecue, and go to the pool! I have taken matters into my own hands and put the Bouncy castle upstairs for now and been making my own lime squeezes in my blender at home. I honestly pray for global warming in a huge way. I am hoping Al is right and any day now its going to be unseasonably warm and sunny! I will coninue using my aquanet for good measure.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures"

Meanwhile, the kids think I'm the coolest mom ever

Next up is a stripper pole and a bowflex

Jaxon is coping with his winter blues playing with this baby that he named,"Carly Jo". I'm pretty sure she is named after this cute little blond thing in his judo class. Semi creepy but sooo cute at the same time.

This was supposed to be a secret! {shhh}

Okay this is a big secret of mine! Have any of you that see me on a semi regular basis ever wondered if I am wearing false lashes? I get asked all the time about my eyelashes. "wow, they are so long", whispers of "hmmm, "I wonder why she bothers wearing fake eyelashes to the supermarket". Okay so I have to tell you how these crazy lashes came about. They are real for sure! Okay, so a few months ago I was in the beauty supply buying shampoo,etc and I was trying to get money out of my purse. I glanced up at the sales girl and could not believe how long her lashes were. I'm not talking about Latisse commercial long. This was sort of a sick/crazy long and so I had to ask....("What is the deal with your eyelashes? I have never seen anything like it"). She said she was using this stuff that they sold there called "Li Lash". I was so skeptical I even asked to touch this strangers massive lashes. I was sold. I bought the snake oil and had to stop using the stuff because I have actually had to trim my lashes. Sorry about the ranting and raving, but I just had to finally tell everyone about this miracle potion. I really should be a paid spokesperson for Li Lash!

These pictures don't do these things justice at all

So no, I am not wearing falsies (at least not on my eyes). I have no clue how or why this stuff works.... But it really does.... I have no side effects at all. I am just praying I don't grow hair all over my eyes and face anytime soon. Until then I am am enjoying my showgirl lashes like crazy!

BIG LOVE

I'm usually not the biggest fan of Valentines Day! I hate chocolate and feel like it's super cheesy and a "high pressure" day in general. This Valentines weekend the best one yet. The kids got special little Valentine treats from all their 100 grandparents which they loved. My great friend Deseree came and visited from "small town,WY" the to thriving metropolis I call home. We laughed, planned her wedding, read horoscopes, drank wine, and talked all kinds of smack about everything. She played nanny on Sunday night while Ross and I had an amazing dinner. She got both kids bathed,jammied,and asleep before we got home.She has 3 girls at home so she is no rookie at the kid biz. I am honestly now considering taking on a sister wife. I am just waited for my husband to have a "vision" {wink}


We try and try to get a good picture of our "Date Nights" in the car but failed again. We had great food and even better conversation! Minus the garlic breath, this was the best night out in a really long time!

We stayed out way too late on Saturday night at a local watering hole and solved all the worlds problems... Well, we gave it our best shot!

I love this little valentine

One juicy bum taught the other cute bum how to safely come down the stairs by crawling down backwards instead of her signature forward tumble.........

Blaykers made her famous sugar cookies just how I like them. Soft, fat and little tiny wrinkles in them all. Thanks Blayke!

Weekend Tidbits

This weekend started out a little rough! Jaxon kicked Ross's ass once again. This time with a gnarly scratch to the nose with his fingernails. This is exactly why I am not the "play fighter" in the house!Oh, how I wish I had his nose. It's perfect just like his mommas!

My mom hosted her whole clan for the superbowl. I am over pretending like I care about football now. When I was younger I think I may have pretended to have a favorite team. I have come out of the closest with my pure hate for the game. I feel so much lighter now! This is my cute Grandpa with his oldest great grandson.

We played in the snow...

Until it got way too cold.

Jax spilled a smoothie all over himself and was less than pleased.

Ivy added to her box of tricks..... She can play and say Peek a Boo!!!

She sees you.... the best part is she thinks you can't really see her>

Being a mom is like Groundhogs day

I heard a lady at a baby shower once say that..."Being a mom is like GROUNDHOGS DAY everyday"! I thought how horrible that comparison was but the more years of mommy hood I get under my belt I am starting to get what she meant...

This morning I woke up to four year old morning breath in my face chanting, "Breakfast, Breakfast, Breakfast". Just like clock work I could hear the morning babbles of baby Ivy in her crib along with some banging on the Wall next to her crib.

(This is the exact same thing that happened yesterday and everyday I can remember that came before)Hmmmm

I then attempt to get all of us clean and looking like the cute little family we are(Or at least the one we are in public)! My shampoo bottles are dumped out, make brushes are thrown in the toilet, Lucy (our dog) is eating leftovers on the highchair, The "Treat, Treat, Treat" chant begins before my clothes are even on.

(This also seems wildly familiar to me.. Oh yeah...Same as the day before)

I wander through the day wondering what to make for dinner that we could all somewhat enjoy! While I cook more things are tossed in the toilet and someone gets a bonk on the head from jumping off the couch etc...Daddy comes home... Yeah... "How was your day"? Great... Jammies...movie...The treat chant begins again and we sometimes open a bottle of wine.

(Wait a minute! Am I having Deja Vu?) Another thing that never changes is that I wouldn't trade it all for the world.

This Week

Yesterday I felt like a really bad mom. Jaxon told me that his tooth hurts really bad! I call my MIL over to watch the other girls and take him to the dentist. When we walked in the office the receptionist was small talking with him about nothing really and he said to her,"I guess I'm here to get all my teeth pulled out, where's the dentist?, I hope he's not a girl". We go through the whole routine. Xrays, yadda, yadda, yadda. The dentist gave poor little Jax a root Canal and then told me he had 7 cavaties... 7 cavities at the age of 4. I sat in the chair across from the dentist as he proceeded to explain to me the importance of "Teeth Brushing". Oh! so you're telling me my kids SHOULD brush their teeth? Why hadn't I thought of that? Jax did awesome and took it like a real champ...It's amazing what a brand new shiny toothbrush can make you forget about...

I went out on the town last night with one of my favorite and oldest friends. Colby has been around so long I feel like he dated all my old boyfriends with me. Him and I were out dancing the night I met my husband too... Thanks for being such a true friend!!!!

I can't give one a bottle without a major meltdown from the other one. This is how they now enjoy their morning baba's together now. Soo precious.

There's no room in my bed for this guy!

So Ross is in Vegas this week and I'm thinking about buying one of these nifty things! There's nothing like snuggling up to a prosthetic hand in the middle of the night. Yes, this is real! The only thing I think it may possibly be good for is little ones that sleep better in your arms. I just don't want to be the mom trying to get this thing through airport security in case they got so attached that we couldn't leave home without it!

This lady will never wake up and find herself lonely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!