BOFL #3

Hot stove + plastic = giant mess

I wasn't paying enough attention last night to where I put the plastic microwave cover and set it down on the hot burner (that I thought I had turned off but apparently not, in my defense the light stays on even after you turn it off). This is what happened...

(You're not supposed to be able to see through it)

Needless to say, we threw it away.

On a completly different note, this is what Madie's hair looks like this morning. She had a little ponytail in yesterday and that always makes for interesting morning hair.

I'm hoping this morning gets better because so far it has not been fun. Madie hasn't been sleeping well the last few days (bedtime and naptime) and so she is super grumpy. She was convinced that she needed ketchup about 15 minutes ago so she had a chicken nugget with her cereal for breakfast, because I wasn't going to let her eat the ketchup by itself and was tired of hearing her cry about it. Maybe I can get her to nap early and hopefully that will put her in a better mood.

BOFL post #2

BOFL - Blog Often For Lindsay

Sounds like some kind of interesting breakfast food :)

This will be short but I wanted to at least get something posted today. We had invaders in the garden here. I noticed only one at first and then as I searched for him each day I started to notice more and more...

This is for size comparison, keep in mind the big one is about the size of my pinkie nail

Snails! The most I ever saw at once was 6, including the little baby snail, but I'm pretty certain that there were more than that at one point, since I have seen the shells of them beneath spider webs. Mmmm snails.

You'll notice at the beginning that I said had and not have. It has become too hot to handle here for the snails and they have disappeared; that or the giant spider I saw in the garden just above their local hangout had a feast. That spider was so disgusting and the worst part is that I almost touched it, on accident of course.

Another edition of BOFL coming soon to a computer near you!

Slacking

So I have been slacking lately (at a lot of things...but we won't go there). My mom issued a challenge to post something everyday between now and November 5th so that Lindsay has lots of fun things to read while Nick is away...that was on Monday. Sorry Lindsay!!! While I can not promise to blog every day I will try to post more often (say, once a week or so).

So what's new??? Not much. Well, that's not entirely true, but given my audience, there's not much new that I can discuss (so I'm a little crazy and have already started working on Christmas gifts). Zach is still on the hunt for a new job. I'm not sure if I posted anything about this but he got laid off last week. We weren't really that surprised, things had been slow at work for at least the last year. And we were hoping that he would at least be able to keep his job until we moved in with my parents (which we are really greatful now for that opportunity) so that we have fewer bills to pay. Although, I have to wonder if his boss knowing that we had moved and had fewer financial responsibilities played a role in his getting laid off. But such is life, now all we have to do is find that open door.

So last week was a total bust. On top of Zach losing his job, we had two parties planned that didn't turn out how we had hoped. I had planned a Stampin' Up party and invited some of the girls from my ward that are around my age and in my same general stage of life, since I don't really know anyone in that category and thought it would be a fun way to get to know them, and only one girl showed up. The two of us did have a good time though. She has a little boy who is almost three and a little girl just a couple of weeks younger than Madie. We have also gone to the park with her and her kids a couple of times. We seem to get along pretty well and have a lot in common. So that wasn't a total bust but not what I had hoped for. And then we thought it would be fun to invite some of our friends from our last ward over to go swimming and grill pizza on Saturday night but none of them could make it. Such is life.

Saturday morning was fun though. We drove out to the QC for my friend Heather's little boy's first birthday party. That was so much fun (thanks Heather for inviting us). I had never met her little boy before, which meant that it had been way too long since we had seen eachother. Although, we didn't get to see their new house, so I guess we'll just have to get together again, hopefully before our kids turn 2!

Well it is getting late (I know, 8:40 really isn't that late, but when you've been up since 5:30, it feels late) and I don't feel like uploading the hundred pics and videos I want to post (plus then it gives me something to write, I mean type, about for the new few days). So I bid you adieu with these super cute pics of Madie and her little pigtails. Stay tuned for scenes from tomorrow's (or next week's) episode...

And by scenes I mean words...

coming up are posts on our trip to Queen Creek for the birthday party, our trip to the arizona museum for youth with Kristi and her girls, the invaders in our garden, bathtime fun videos, more of Madie at the splash park, and probably a couple of pictures from Kristi and Benjamin's birthday celebration.

Tricycle rides and water fun

Hayden decided that he wanted to ride the trike on Sunday and when Madie saw him getting on it she decided that she needed to play too. So she bummed a ride on the back of the trike while Hayden did all of the hard work.

Actually with Madie on the trike with him, it was too hard for Hayden to pedal it by himself, so Zach pushed them. Pugsley decided to follow them all around the yard and barked and ran. I think that was the most exercise that dog has had in years!!! They all seemed to really enjoy it. Madie liked it so much that she goes over the to trike almost every time we go in the backyard now.
Madie has really started to take a liking to water. She often wants to get into the pool, or at least splash her feet in it.
We have been to Espee park a couple of times now. It has a nice little splash pad area, the only problem is that there are usually a bunch of bigger kids around, so you really have to keep an eye on the little ones. This was this morning, we went and played with some of our friends from our new ward (not the people in the background, I don't know who they are). She loves to splash in the puddles, but isn't too fond of touching the water as it is spraying.

A real post

We are just about all settled into my parents house. We moved in about two weeks ago so that we can save some money to buy our own house. And since Lori got married the end of May, they had three extra bedrooms, that they so kindly let us move into. Zach and I took over the room that Lori was in and my mom moved her sewing stuff into her pantry room so that Madie could have her own room. My dad is in the process of adding on to the house so that there is more room. He is making the pantry/sewing room bigger and their closet bigger (which my mom has always wanted). Since he is doing that he knocked out the wall between the closet in the pantry/sewing room and our room so that our closet is now twice as big as it was before. We are super thankful for the extra storage space that gives us.

Now that we are all settled and I finished the scrapbook I made for my dad for Father's day (which I'm going to try and get pictures of on my other blog in the next few days) I can finally start on the projects for the craft exchange people signed up for several months ago. Sorry for those who signed up on mine, I didn't forget about you. Something is coming shortly.

Madie gets funnier and smarter each day. She is little miss independent! She loves to drink out of a regular cup. If she sees one she points to it and does her little "I want that" dance (which means that she bobbs up and down). Once I hand it to her and takes it over to the fridge and holds it up like she wants water in it (my parents fridge has the in the door water and ice dispenser). Yesterday she was ok with me filling it up for her but today she decided that I needed to lift her up so that she can do it herself. She loves the "Once there was a Snowman" song. She saw a snowman in one of her Elmo books yesterday and pointed to it and said "man" and started moving her hands up above her head and dancing. She wanted me to sing it to her and do the motions with her. So we did that a couple of times and when I started singing it and doing the motions myself, she grabbed onto my hands so that I could help her do them. I thought it was so cute.

She gets so worried if her sippy cup falls over. She thinks that means that it spilled, which is sometimes true, but not always. And if there is a towel near by she will go get it and pat it on the ground like she is cleaning up the mess. It is so funny!

This was before we moved from our apt. She was carrying around the pool toy and the next thing I knew she was sitting on the bathroom floor wearing it and clapping.

There is so much for Madie to explore here. She loves the backyard!!!!! To the point that we eat breakfast out there and sometimes dinner because apparently its not enough to just go play outside three or four times a day. Zach was trying to work the sprinkler and Madie decided she needed it. At one point, she was grabbing on to it and trying to take it away from Zach.

She has discovered shoes. She tries to put them on by herself, but can't and so she gets mad and then gets even more mad when I try to help her put them on. Sometimes, though, she will just bring a shoe or two to me and sit down so that I will put them on her. These were the two that she picked earlier tonight.

I put her hair into a little pony tail for the first time on Saturday. I don't think she has quite enough hair yet. It's plenty long enough, it's just really thin on top still. But I thought she looked cute.

Here is a picture of her first big head injury. She has become quite the little monkey and feels the need to climb onto everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything!!! She was standing on the seat of the little picnic table and fell head first onto the concrete. I didn't freak out, I just called Kristi to see what I needed to do or look for. This picture is actually from a couple of days after it happened, so the bruise was almost gone. It healed really quickly though, I was surprised it only took about a week for it to go away.

Madie made Grandpa's day a couple of Sundays ago. She sat on his lap to read the comics. Yes, that is a slotted spoon she is holding. She thinks she is a little chef and likes to get the spoons and spatulas out of the drawer in the kitchen.

We watched Madie's friend Ethan about a week ago. They really enjoyed playing in the backyard and taking turns on the slide, which Madie has figured out how to climb up and go down all by herself (the going down part she has had mastered for quite some time but the climbing up, not so much).

I thought this was a really cute picture of Ethan.

Here is Madie's new room. I think I would like to go through and paint purple butterflies on the white part of the walls.

Here is a close up of her curtains.

I will post pics of our bedroom once I have our curtains done so you can get a better feel for what it looks like. But in case anyone is super curious, three of the walls are cream and we have a chocolate brown accent wall and the curtains are a dark sage, along with the dustruffle (once I make it) and the body pillow.

Stampin' Up's Last Chance List

Stampin' Up is putting out a new catalog in July and so that means they are discontinuing some items in the current catalog. Check out the list here: http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryID=310. Items on this list can only be ordered until June 30th and if you order through me you can get the preferred pricing. Let me know if you are interesting in anything or if you would like to host a party anytime. If you host in June you can earn extra hostess benefits (and who doesn't like to get extra FREE stuff?!?!?)!!

New Entry Coming Soon!

I promise that I haven't fallen completly off the face of the earth. We have been super busy the past couple of weeks with helping for Lori's wedding and moving. I will probably still be super busy for the rest of this week, so the beginning of next week a real post is coming. I promise!