10.28.09

Ahh the blessings of having your parents embrace technology :). I love that my parents can text, know what e-mail is, and can use skype so we can "see" other once in while. And most of the time my mother is a completely hilarious, cool Facebook friend. There have only been a few instances when I have had to tell her a picture comment might not be appropriate or detag myself from a picture. However tonight my mom, aka Yo Mama, hit a Facebook home run :)! I posted this pic on FB of Monkey last month trying on his Halloween costume with the following caption:
"Halloween costumes have come a long way since I was Yoda, which consisted of a plastic body tarp and a drool collecting mask with eye slits in it :)."

So I log on to see that my mom has tagged me in a photo:

I would love to know how that conversation went:
"No Mommy, I don't want to be a princess, I want to be YODA!"

10.26.09

Yet another example of why this is my favorite time of year :)!

10.25.09

After a perfect Saturday of college football watching, being somewhat productive around the house, making banana bread, and having my favorite dinner of Chicken Spaghetti, Sunday was more of the wonderful, lazy same. Since the onset of the terrible twos, we decided it be best to not let Matthew carve his pumpkin this year, no one needs an emotional guy with a knife :). He had fun painting his "punkim" and even stuck his had in the squishy, juicey seed nastiness I was cleaning out of our pumkins.

Punkim Family picture :)

The Hubs' creation: Maybe 5 minutes
My creation: Quite a bit longer :)Have a great week!

10.24.09

The terrible twos have officially arrived. Monkey has been on a mission to find more cake since a birthday party he went to a few weeks ago. Today's lunchtime conversation went pretty much like this:

"Cake Mommy? Please? Please cake?
"Oh Monkey, we don't have any cake..."
"NO CAKE???"
Ahh, but we still love Monkey and his very healthy lungs :).

10.16.09

Ladies and gentleman, I have to come clean.

I was not totally faithful....to my celebrity free card.

What is a celebrity free card? Well, for the Hubs and I, it is that one special celebrity who if they show up at your doorstep and profess their undying love for you, you have your spouse's full permission to run off with them. For several years, mine was Ryan Reynolds:

But then Ryan went and married Scarlett Johansson and I thought to me myself, "Do I really want a guy like him if he married a girl like her?" After watching "The Proposal" last night, my answer is, emphatically, YES :)! Not because he looks like this:

though that is no eye sore, let me tell ya...but I love when he looks like this:

and no one delivers a deadpan, one liner like that man :). Oh Ryan, I am so sorry!

10.15.09

Okay, I will admit, I have a problem with consistency but after reading the hilarious musings of my friend, coworker, and awesomely proud dog parent Becky, I have decided to get back on the bandwagon for the one or two of you reading this :).

Life has been pretty exciting around here, yesterday Monkey and I were quite the social butterflies :). We met our friends Nikki and Johnathon at Wonderscope, which is an old elementary school that they have renovated into a Children's Museum. Each classroom has different themes and in almost 3 hours we still didn't see all of it.

Afterwords Nikki and I watch with great amusement as our boys devoured corn on the cob with more than a little enthusiasm! We headed home for nap time where Monkey has decided he is done with diapers, but not so much ready for using the potty either. It leaves us in a precarious situation...and low on clean sheets for his bed. Then we were off to our good buddy Davis's 3rd birthday party:
Davis is such an amazing guy and this has been a busy year for him, but there is one thing I know, he has such a big heart. He shares everything with Monkey and lives to impress and amuse his sister. Oh, and while we sang him Happy Birthday, this showman blew one candle out at a time during the song to keep the suspense going!

Monkey was first in line for a hat...not because the boy loves hats but because he knew "wear hat = get cake" and that boy would give you the diaper off his butt for cake :)!