A quick post

I have quite a bit to post about, but I'm not going to right now. I'm too tired with too big of a headache and with too many other things I'd rather be doing, so I'll do it later. I did want to get the pics of Madie in her Halloween costume for this year up. She is a little butterfly and she is too stinkin' cute in her costume.
You can see the wings better when she stands up but I was lucky she let me even put the costume on her this morning, so maybe this weekend I'll get better pics.

Here you can see the wings better. Also, she will have pink bows in her hair on Saturday, not red. The antenna are too heavy to stand up on their own when she moves, so I just grabbed the nearest clips to see if that would help them stand up, and it did (I would just have her wear the traditional antenna on a headband but she won't leave one in for very long, but she will usually leave her pigtails alone).

Finally starting to feel better

We were all sick last week...it sucked. Zach & Madie both got over it fairly quickly but for some reason I just couldn't seem to shake it. I finally started feeling a little better yesterday (I started feeling sick last Monday). So now I get to play catch up on all of the things that I neglected for a week.

We had a kitten adopt us. Yes, you read that right...he picked us (I don't actually know the gender of the cat). As Madie and I were walking into the kitchen to get breakfast one morning she saw a cat on the fence outside the front door. So we had to stop so she could wave. I opened the door thinking the cat would jump into the grass and run away like every other cat has done. I was wrong! He came right up to us and starting purring and rubbing against my leg. You would think I fed the cat because he hung around for several days. He even enjoyed sitting on the front lawn right outside Madie's window, which she absolutely loved. Then one day he just disappeared. She still says "bye meow" when we walk past the front door.
Here is the little guy, sorry the picture is sideways but I don't care enough to go back and fix it.

Madie is really learning to like the weekends. She becomes my parents' shadow. She loves to just follow them around and see what's going on. My dad poured concrete about a week ago on the side of the house for the addition. She thought it was great to run up and down it. She also wanted to help grandpa. She was so funny to watch.

My mom sat her in the middle of the jacaranda tree and she loved that!

She also helped me make cookies the other day. :)

I don't know where she comes up with these ideas, but this is where she decided she wanted to sit to eat her snack the other day.

Odd fruits

So I was cutting an apple for Madie yesterday and just had to take a picture. I thought it was so funny how different in size the two sides of the apple were. I think Lori thought I was a little nuts for how funny I thought it was, but when you stay home you learn to find the joy in the little things...like lop-sided apples.

To go right along with my odd apple is this:

What is that? A turban pumpkin. I had never heard of or seen one in my life before Wednesday. We were at Sprouts with my mom and they had them. We're not sure if you're actually supposed to eat it :) I thought it would look cool just sitting on the table all month long but the sucker was heavy and at 77 cents/lb I thought it would be out of my budget for something that I wasn't going to do anything with. Maybe another year...

I ordered business cards a few weeks ago. I think they are super cute. It made me feel so professional when they came :)

This picture kind of goes with the odd fruits. She sleeps in the weirdest positions sometimes.

Fruit snacks + teething = what was I thinking?!?!

So Madie loves the Curious George fruit snacks, simply because there is a monkey on the box. She found a box of them this morning in the pantry room and wanted one, but I told her she had to eat breakfast first. So we ended up taking them to church. I guess I forgot how much she drools when she is teething...oops! There are lovely redish pink spots all over her white onesie and my white shirt.

The monkeys are staying home next time.

Madie is getting to be quite the talker. She is picking up new words all the time. This is for my own purposes (for when I get all caught up on her baby book), she says: butter (for butterfly), elmo, want, salt shake shake, grandpa, grandma, burrito, apple, popcorn, window (apparently), pugsley, baby, bye bye, hi, thank you, bubble, book, diaper, big bird, out (for outside), ball, shoe, shoo (I know it sounds the same as shoe, but she says it when she sees flies), dog, ruff, kitty cat, meow, bird, tweet, quack, roar, vroom (for cars), bus, catch, mama, dad, no, ok and she knows the sounds for giraffes (clicking tongue), peacocks, and monkeys.
Katie is to the point of starting to make her own sentences and it's fun to think that that is just around the corner for Madie.

A couple of weekends ago, my dad was working on the sprinklers in the backyard and Madie wanted to help. It was really cute to watch.

Since Zach and I are both still alive I guess I'll give a little update on each of us. Zach is super busy with school. I can't imagine what it would be like if he were working 40 hours/week. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise that he got laid off and is now working for ASU (not to confuse anyone, he only got laid off the one time). He is serving as the deacon's advisor and seems to really enjoy it. He has already been camping with them even. He has always wanted to serve with the young men.
I've just been working away at my bow site to get it to look how I want it to. Thankfully I have a brother who is really good with computers and coding and all of that, otherwise there is no way I could have reorganized things how they are now. Which, if you haven't checked out the site since my original post about it, you should and let me know what you think (click here)! I've had a few orders and in about one week I'm going to be sponsoring the site Make It and Love It and I'm really excited for that. I'm hoping to bring in some more business through that. More details about that next week.
I really miss my friends from my last ward. I feel like I haven't made any new friends yet. There are a few people at church that I'll talk to when I see them, but not much goes on during the week, and that has been hard for me and for Madie. It is a little better now that Jenny is in school because we see Kristi and Katie at least once a week now. I don't know what I would do without my family around!

Project: Flip Flops

Madie needed some new shoes. She outgrew all of her sandals and it is still too hot for shoes that require socks, which was all she had that fit. So I went to Target and found these on sale for about $6. They weren't my favorite shoes, but they had potential and a price tag that I liked.

First things first I got rid of the ugly knot at the top of the shoe. Since I couldn't just cut it off completely I did this:

That was an improvement. But I knew I could make them better still. I had originally planned on cutting the sequins off and attaching ribbon but each sequin was individually sewn on and that was more effort than I was willing to put forth. As I contemplated for a couple of days what to do with these new shoes, the sequins grew on me. So I let them stay and added a cute little flower. They turned out way cuter than I had pictured in my head (I love it when that happens!).

I'm not sure how much Madie likes actually wearing them but she loves putting them on and taking them off!

Randomness

I thought the post Zach did about me on our anniversary was so sweet. I felt so bad because I didn't even notice it until I saw in my email that someone had commented on it. Oops!

Apparently I was totally out of it concerning our anniversary this year. That morning I was making pancakes for Zach and Madie for breakfast. So sweet of me, right? Well I was about to pour the batter for Zach's when they said the date on the news and that's when I realized that it was our anniversary. Oops again. So I made his pancakes into hearts.

This has nothing to do with anything, but I think it's a cute picture. Madie loves to help me bake, and especially loves to help with the clean up!
I had never seen this before in my life!!! Do you see it???

In the top left part of my bowl of cereal is a triple, yes that's right, TRIPLE mini wheat. I have seen two stuck together on several occasions, but never three. I had to take a picture.

If this kid ever gets a cavity I will be shocked beyond belief!

She loves to brush her teeth and the other day I caught her like this...

Apparently one toothbrush wasn't doing to job, she needed two!

Hopefully I'll get to posting more regularly now that I just about have everything all settled with the bow site (which is going pretty well in case you were wondering).

My next post...probably some cute videos of Madie and one of Katie (since we all know Kristi's not going to post it :) ).

Drum Roll Please!!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is...the announcement you've all been waiting for!

BOWutiful Bows is now open for business.

That's right, I'm selling hair bows!!!! I've always loved making bows for Madie and have always received good reactions from those I have made bows for, so I thought, what the heck I'll give it a shot!

Please check out my site: http://bowutifulbows.blogspot.com

And if you all would be so kind as to do me the favor of passing the word along that would be super fantastic!