Heather's Blog

2010-04-03T18:21:00.000-07:00

2010-03-30T18:23:00.000-07:00

2010-03-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

nootril drop

2010-03-29T18:04:00.000-07:00

more photos

2010-03-28T19:40:00.000-07:00

photos

2010-03-28T19:34:00.000-07:00

It has been forever since I have blogged (since I got my blackberry and never get on an actual computer anymore - lol!) but I am looking to start doing some freelance photo work so I want to start putting some of the photos I take out here so people can see my style!

count on me

2009-11-30T13:01:00.000-08:00

It has been forever since I have blogged. so today I have a funny Blake story:

We took the week off last week and hung out and made home-made playdoh. he made me a pancake with it and said, 'Mom - I'm making this pancake for you and you can count on me!'
I said how sweet he was and then he said 'okay - start counting' lol!

wildlife

2009-09-14T16:56:00.000-07:00

Blake and Nathan

2009-08-27T16:53:00.000-07:00

like mother like son

2009-08-27T16:47:00.001-07:00

so not only does Blake love scrapbooking, like me, he also likes taking photos. He unfortunately doesn't understand he is supposed to focus on a subject, but I thought these ones that he took came out pretty interesting. and pretty true to our daily lives . .

Ted plays the guitar a lot

Brody sleeping

and me being a dork - lol!

vote

2009-08-13T17:49:00.000-07:00

picture A

picture B

I want opinions on which picture I should submit to a photo contest my work is doing. I think I like pic A cause of her expression and the angle - just want others opinions

last weekend

2009-08-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

On Sunday we celebrated my Grandma's 80th birthday party and got this adorable photo of Blake and all of his 2nd cousins, so all of my cousins kids (we make a lot of babies - lol! - or I guess I should say they, since only 1 is mine!)

scrapbooking

2009-08-06T18:11:00.000-07:00

since I love to scrapbook and Blake always wanted to do what I was doing, I bought him his own desk, next to mine, and give him some of my supplies and he LOVES it. we do lots of crafty stuff and so he calls anything crafty, scrapbooking. here is one of his creations!
so last week when Blake was at my parents and he was painting he asked my mom if she scrapbooked. and then he told her that him and his mommy scrapbooked all the time and he that he loves scrapbooking - lol!

more bike riding

2009-08-03T17:53:00.000-07:00

which path???

2009-07-30T16:45:00.000-07:00

treasure chest

2009-07-23T17:56:00.000-07:00

Field Trip

2009-07-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

For Blake's daycare's summer field trip we went to the zoo - so we were able to use our membership, getting our moneys worth already! It's really fun for the kids cause a lot of parents come and we ride the school bus with them there. Blake talked about being able to ride the school bus non-stop the night before.

Here is a pic of some of his friends. I would like to add, that I dressed him in his cute orange shorts with one of his gymbo shirts that has orange stripes and a tractor on it, only to remember when we got to school that they have all the kids where the little lambs shirts - so it's easy to see the kids, and of course his class got the red ones which totally clashed with the orange shorts!!! I seriosly considered going home and getting other shorts, but I obviously didn't.

This pic is kind of hard to see the lion with the reflection of the glass, but the lion was right at the window, it was pretty cool.

This is Blake's teacher, Miss Colleen - whom he LOVES and talks about all the time. Sometimes he calls her his best friend, and he has even called her his girlfriend and the other half of the time he calls me Miss Colleen, but I'm just glad that he has a great relationship with her and that he is learning to respect and learn from others besides me.

Airplanes

2009-07-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to to watch the airshow. We were able to see it from where all the planes took off - I guess that's called the runway - lol! One of Ted's friends has a plane that they keep in the area of the airport where we were able to hang out in during the show.

Then Blake got to hang out on a real airplane too. He had a lot of fun cause all the guys there had lots of boys, so I think there was a total of 9 little boys there. Did I mention I was the only female there! All the other wives stayed home!!! but it was a perfect day outside so I didn't mind hangin with all of the guys.

fireworks

2009-07-11T11:26:00.000-07:00

This is from a week ago, but it was a slow week with photo taking and a busy week around the house.

Surprisingly, Blake had never been to fireworks until this year. He would always go to bed so early and wake up so early we never wanted to mess with it. since he finally sleeps in and can stay up late we went this year, and also Ted's sister and Blake's cousin, Jamie came down. I think his favorite thing about them was the glow sticks. Those kept him entertained during our very long wait . . . When they did the tester one, he got scared and told me that a cloud bursted! Then he just stared at them in amazement and when it was done Ted asked him what he thought and he said' those fireworks freaked me out!' But I think he meant it in a good way cause he liked it.

because I do

2009-07-07T18:55:00.000-07:00

our little chatterbox, Blake, has started with the never ending series of questions about anything and everything. Here me and Ted are trying to come up with answers for all of his questions, but then whenever we ask him something similiar his answer is so simple: because I do!
It usually starts with, what are you doing, and then lots of why's, etc. For example, Blake says to me, 'mommy what are you doing'? me 'the dishes', B- 'why', m - 'because they are dirty', b- 'why are the dirty', m- because we ate on them, b- 'why did we eat on them', m- 'because we were hungry', b- 'why were we hungry' then I'm stumped . . . .
so it took me a while, but I know have learned with the first why, I just simply say ' because I do'!

my stay-cation

2009-07-05T10:45:00.000-07:00

so I took a few days off work and stayed home - kind of. My first day off I took Blake to Forrest Park Nature Center for a tiny tots trail led by one of the workers there. He really liked it and called it the park with no slides -lol! However, the rest of the day he was out of control and ended up falling asleep at 5pm and slept all night but woke up at 4:30 am!!!
the next day we just hung out and went to a crafty play-date.
Then on Friday, we all went to the zoo to see the new Africa exhibit. It was really cool so we decided to get a membership so we will be spending lots of time there.

we also ran into Dawn, Pat and Eva there. how cute are Blake and Eva wondering around!

fishin

2009-07-02T19:24:00.000-07:00

Ted has recently been taking Blake fishing. Blake is REALLY into it. They used to just go to the lakes by the condo, but lately have started going to Glen Oak. I went with them earlier in the week. Ted even bought Blake his own fishing hat which is only to be worn when he is fishing. how adorable is he in his get-up!

swimming

2009-06-28T19:12:00.000-07:00

I put Blake in swim class cause I thought it would be good for him to learn to swim since my parents have a pool, plus this would be something that him and Ted could do together on Tuesdays, and me and him on Thursdays. But I soon learned . . . Blake behaves much better for Ted than he does for me???? Also - he had a hard time with swimming, maybe he is a little young yet? so I think we'll take a break on that and maybe try again in the fall. But he did have fun playing in the pool at the riverplex before class.

the dentist

2009-06-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

Blake had his first dentist appintment, which he was very excited about (probably cause I talked it up and we bought a book about it and read it a ton) Then at home I had him practice opening his mouth - yes I'm a freak, but I saw on Jon and Kate where the kids freaked at the dentist and I didn't want to deal with that.
so this photo is so funny cause I think we overpracticed and all she was doing was showing Blake the instruments, but he kept his mouth open! She even told him, you don't have to keep your mouth open!

the evil popcorn

2009-06-23T18:31:00.000-07:00

yeah - it looks so tasty doesn't it! However this popcorn ended up costing me$505! $5 for the actual purchase at Steamboat Days and the $500 is for the crown I will have to get since while I was eating it I actually cracked a tooth that already had a filling! I will never eat popcorn again!!!!!

2009-06-21T17:08:00.000-07:00

Saturday evening we went to Pat's (Eva's Daddies) graduation party - he just received his Masters! Blake and Eva were inseperable all night and they were obsessed with watching the chickens. It was so funny to listen to them cause they kept talking about how sad the chickens were, I asked them why are they so sad, and they said 'cause they can't get out'. I love the way kids minds think!

Then Squeek, aka Eva's Grandpa, took us on a hayrack ride and check out Blake with his arm around Eva - so adorable! When I told him we were going to a party at Eva's he told me 'I love Eva'

better?

2009-06-21T17:04:00.001-07:00

After a little editing on picassa, I think I like this image better, I just had a little too much light in the unedited version.

Saturday

2009-06-21T15:53:00.000-07:00

So, on Saturday I took a more in-depth course on my digital slr camera and I think finally the info clicked (no pun intended - ha ha!). Unfortunately, I realized to take the photos I wanted, I needed to buy a different lens, the one I really wanted was going to be over $300 yikes! so I went with the cheapest alternative, still at $100 and got the lens that allows me to take these photos

Not sure if most people will notice a difference, but I do - it allows me to blur the background while my subject is clear. The only bad thing with that is it mainly for outdoors until I decide to fork out the money for the special flash I want. Could I have found a more expensive hobby!!! Even the new bag I want to hold all my gear is $160 . . . is Christmas coming soon?????

(the pics are of Blake, of coure, and Eva at the graduation party Sat night - more of those photos coming later)

Trucks, motorcycles etc....

2009-06-19T17:01:00.000-07:00

we took Blake to the Emergency Expo at Grand Priarie and he was in heaven cause he LOVES trucks and motorcycles and everything like that. He even got to try on the Firemans hat!

Blake and his friend talking to the car

some of my pics I took to practice my new 1photog skills.

my rockin men

2009-06-17T18:15:00.000-07:00

Saturday night Ted's band played at the Owens' annual pigroast. It was a kid friendly even and so the kids got up 'on stage' with the band and Blake really felt like he was something. He shook the maracas and was sooo excited and talked about it the whole way home and the next day!
He already looks like a rock-star in his snow boats, that he had to wear in June!!, his swim trunks and cowboy boots, he's got style - lol!

Garage sale finds

2009-06-14T16:07:00.000-07:00

Saturday morning went garage saling around my neighborhood and got this cool leather coat for Blake - ended up getting it for $3!, plus these snow boats for 50 cents (yes he wore them to the pigroast we went to that night, with his shorts - lol)

Then right before we went Ted mentioned that if we saw a bike carrier to let him know, and we found one brand new in the box, Ted talked them down to $25 and he already took Blake for a ride in it, can you tell Blake was so excited!!

2009-06-12T17:38:00.000-07:00

so I don't end on a negative tone for the day, we went to the playground at the school near our house this afternoon. We took Brody and all the kids there loved him so he got lots of attention, this little boy walked him for a long time.

and here was me trying out my photog skills from the photo class I took - I'm not sure if they are helping or not - but I think these are cute!

2009-06-12T17:13:00.000-07:00

so I'm going deep on you today . . . a comment was said to me implying that I was lazy cause I refused to work 100 hours a week at my job (I won't go into detail, but it was not by my boss) I informed this individual that I have a 3 year old that I refuse to give up my only time with him and do put in my 40 hours a week. But this whole thing has got me very revved up about the problem with society.
People's expectations are wacked! They wonder what is the problem with 'todays society' and wonder 'where are the parents?'. Well maybe they were being guilted into being in the office all the time.
so are women able to have careers and motherhood or is just one or the other???

You think this would send me over the edge as I had other issues with just wanting to stay home with Blake anyway, but I decided I really like getting a paycheck. maybe that makes me a bad person/mother whatever - hopefully I'll be over this by Monday and it won't come up again.

some funnies

2009-06-09T06:04:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest thing about motherhood to me is experiencing life thru the eyes of your child, some things we as adults just take for granted in life and then when you see your childs reaction to seeing things for the first time - it's just awesome!

So a couple weeks ago when we were at the civic center Blake noticed the escalator, he was so amazed and was like 'Look, they are growing stairs!' that got a good laugh from everyone that was around us. He has been to the civic center a ton, but I guess that was the first time he paid attention to them - lol!

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One of the other things he loves is to have the window down in the car and he lays his head back and lets the wind blow his air, so the other day he was doing that and all of a sudden full out tears hysteria etc., I asked what happened, and he said 'he lost his shoe' I asked where and he pointed out the window, yes my child threw his shoe out the window on 474. He wanted me to go back and get it and I told him I couldn't. He was so upset by this there was no need to punish him, he cried the whole way home begging me to go get it and he tells everyone how he lost his shoe behind the car???

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After playing with Nathans brother Adam there has been more talk about brothers, so Blake told my sister he was going to buy himself a brother - lol!, but then he spent a whole car ride arguing with me about how he does have a brother, he said Daddy was his brother and Brody was his sister!!!!

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Last story is from the past weekend when he stayed at my parents. one of my sayings is 'I'm freaking out' or 'someone is freaking me out' it's one of those things I say withought thinking about. Well Blake has his own room at my parents, but my mom keeps some of her clothes in his closet. She was in his room and took her clothes out and had them laid on his bed, Blake ran to my dad and said 'Grandpa - grandma is in my room and she is freaking me out!'

weekend pics

2009-06-07T16:40:00.000-07:00

this was our first week of summer hours - so on my Friday afternoon off I went to a Luau playdate, it was perfect outside and the backyard was awesome!

then we went to Relay for Life at Limestone that night to hang with Julie for awhile, and had the best gyro from Haddads! Here is Blake eatin chips.

Saturday I woke up feeling soooo tired and like I was getting a cold or was having bad allergies. we had a wedding which I wasn't really looking forward to cause of me being sick and I was having one of those mom moments where I felt bad leaving my kid??? but I had a lot of fun so I was very glad for a night out with no kids, and had a blast dancing - which I hadn't done in forever! so these pics below are funny - prob only to me, but at our wedding almost five years ago Ted's band members decided to take a pic of all of the guys from the band, but one of the guys had left so they had Shane do a stand in and added Rusty's head to Shanes body, and it was so funny we decided to do another one, so it's Nootril Drop with 2 stand ins and then the girls decided we wanted a cool photo by the brickstoo. so many of my pics anymore are just Blake so it's fun to do have some non-Blake photos once in awhile.

Here we are back to Blake photos! This is his birthday present from my parents which he LOVES. so he spent his weekend riding his car around their yard, which is way more fun to him than being at a wedding anyway.

1 month

2009-06-02T18:04:00.001-07:00

It took me exactly 1 month to read all of the twilight books! I just got done tonight and I remember that I started the first one the day we flew out to Florida which was May 2. What will I do with all of my time now - lol??? The books are awesome - I defnitly recommend them, but make sure to give yourself a month cause they are so addicting. and I got a new celebrity crush from it. Here is a pic of Edward with Bella. could he be more good looking!!!

circus

2009-05-31T15:44:00.000-07:00

our crazy busy weekend ended with a trip to the circus. I was a little nervous about Blakes attention span, but Julie went on Friday night and said it was awesome and he would be into it. However something is wrong with my child!!! He kept asking to go home??? he never wants to be home except the time we are watching the most awesome show with tigers and elephants and clowns etc . . .

We went a little early and went down the center where he was able to put on one of the customes and get his photo taken with one of the circus people, he did like that, but he was scared of the guy on stilts.

me and Ted loved the show, I think Teds favorite part was the motorcycles in the cage - that part literally freaked me out, I had to close my eyes.

I was already warned about all the expensive toys and told myself I would not be suckered in, but I bribed Blake to go potty. He really wanted a toy and I said if he went potty on the toilet he could have any toy he wanted and amazing how at first he didn't have to go at all, but then peed a river as soon as I said that - the little stinker should totally be out of diapers!!! so he picked out this sword. Look at the display behind him; they had one of those set up between every single section!!! and then walked around selling the stuff too. If any parent with a young child got out of there without spending a dime it would be a miracle.

Backyardigans party!

2009-05-30T20:08:00.000-07:00

Here are pics from the backyardigans party today at my parents house. I had loads of fun cause I think the kids did. We played put the bowtie on pablo, the kids got backyardigans tatoos, and the weather was awesome where they could play in the pool and with the sprinkler.
Except now just going thru my pics I just realized I don't have that many of my own child. I have at ton of Kate and Abby. I'll chuck it up to the fact that they are girls and liked to be photographed either that or I'm a bad mom, but I refuse to believe that later - lol!

Baby Adam

2009-05-26T17:48:00.000-07:00

On Monday me and Blake went to Decatur to meet baby Adam. Blake was so excited, or exciting as he always says - lol! I told him that Nathan got a baby brother and he said, 'wow - where did he come from?, not expecting that at age 3, I told him from Nathans mommy, and he was like, oh - I knew that. He LOVED holding him and kept going on about how small his hands and feet were, then said he was like a tootsie roll??? and sang him twinkle twinkle, he also kept giving him kisses on his forehead - it was soo cute, makes me want a baby around, I just don't want to have it or raise it.

The other cool thing was how well all 3 of them played together. They were so hyper we could not get a pic of all 3 of them together, which seems to be the goal everytime we get together and we have only been successfull twice and one of them was when they were all eating. The only we could get them all to stay still long enough to get them in the same shot was when they were behind the couch trapped! Except good little Addison, we would say okay all get together and she would sit and smile while Nathan and Blake just ran wild! It really is so cool to see our kids grow together.

Oh say can you see . . .

2009-05-24T13:52:00.000-07:00

Saturday night Ted sang the National Anthem at the Pirates game. I tried to take a picture of him actually singing it, but the picture wouldn't take???? It was pretty cool and he did an awesome job! Blake was sooooo excited to hear him and the minute he walked in he was yelling 'Hi Daddy' - it was so cute. Then while Ted was singing his picture was on the big tv thing in the middle of the stadium and Blake was saying, 'thats my daddy' - he was so proud of him!
since I had my camera I took some random shots.

Blake had a ton of fun playing with Ted's friends kids, and eating all of their popcorn, I'm surprised he didn't get sick!

my new obsession

2009-05-21T18:26:00.000-07:00

is the Twilight saga . . . I know I'm a little behind the times with this one. But I decided I wanted to watch the movie and everyone was like, you have to read the books first, so I did and I am completely hooked!!! I read the first in a week, which I guess is a long time compared to most people, but the book is 500 pages and I have a FT job and 3 year old. Then watched the movie twice and then read the 2nd book and I'm currently on book #3. Also, I'm not one to go ga-ga over actors, but I think I'm in love with the Robert P character that plays Edward - lol!! I"m soooo excited for the New Moon movie to come out and anything else with this Robert in it. (the worst part is he is 10 years younger than me - so I feel old!)
They have about a gizillioin fan sites soI may have to add some of their sites to my blog list, there are just too many to search thru.
so I'm not sure how long this obsession will last but until then I'm very busy reading . . . . . . .

more pics

2009-05-21T18:17:00.001-07:00

These pics were also taken Sunday at botanical gardens. Ya know that Blake hates to have his picture taken so he never smiles. I told him if he let me take his photo I would let him fish - is that bad I have to bribe him like that??? - so he did this smiley photo and the one below he was making a funny face!

fishing

2009-05-17T17:31:00.000-07:00

Ted bought this fishing pole a few weeks ago for Blake and Blake has either talking about it or carrying it with him since! Today we started the day heading to the farm park, only to find out they were closed so we decided to go to the zoo and at the last minute decided to walk around Botanical gardens instead (I just wanted to be outside enjoying the sun!)

I had no idea that Blake had his fishing pole in the car with us, but he wanted to bring it with him and then we found this little pond. It didn't have any fish, but he did not care and we hung out there for an hour while he would cast his pole out and reel it back in. He had the time of his life, and I took some awesome pics, so we were both happy campers!

our new pet

2009-05-15T07:07:00.000-07:00

Meet Bob our new Beta fish that Aunt Terra bought Blake for his birthday. For the first few days his name was Blue Fish, but the other day he decided he liked the name Bob. Were not sure how long he will be around as Blake wants to feed him non-stop, touch him, and move his tank. He also wanted to take him to school/day care to show his friends and teacher.

Right now he lives in the kitchen and the first morning after we had him as soon as he woke up he asked me who was sleeping downstairs. I said, no one, and he said - the blue fish is!

Birthday Parties!

2009-05-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

I love kids birthday parties! It's so fun to have all of the kiddos running around together, and I love buying all the decorations and goodies etc. Sometimes I wish I had more kids just to plan more parties - lol! This year I decided to have 2 different parties for Blake. His first year it was mainly family and last year it was mainly kids. I also try not to emphasize the gifts, and at the kiddo parties we don't do gifts (also too chaotic) - I know eventually that will change.

This year I decided to have 2 parties so the family party was Diego themed (my sister was nice enough to let me host it at her house - thanks Terra) I also decided I would make my own cake since we have so much Diego stuff (plus I saw it online, and know I could do it)

We got him a bike, which I was soooo excited about since he loves bikes. I bought it off craigslist months ago for like $15! and good thing cause after riding it for a little while he decided he liked his old tricycle better!

We also had my cousin Jesse & Jenny over with their kids, Abby and JD. Blake had such a good time with them, they are so cute and fun and we don't see them nearly enough :-(, but when we do the kids always have a great time.

2009-05-06T16:47:00.000-07:00

The funnest thing in Florida was the pirate ship ride. It was so interactive for the kids. They give all the kids pirate hats, then they have them go in the back, gave them all water guns and there ran out and had a water gun figh with the adults. They told the kids pirate stories, had them go on a treasure hunt and then gave them the necklaces from the treasure box. They finished with doing the limbo and other dances. It was a lot of fun. and the guys liked it too cause it was free beer:-) `

2009-05-06T16:31:00.000-07:00

Ted and Blake at Bubba Gumps

me, my sister, and mom - yikes my skirt is short!

Blake chillin at the beach

Blake and Auntie at The Pier

2009-05-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

these are some photos from the small aquariam they had the pier. Blake loved it and stood at the one tank forever touching all of the different fish creatures.

Nemo!

2009-05-05T15:35:00.000-07:00

some photos from our Florida trip

Blake, gpa, and gma by sittin at the beach

Gpa and Blake playin in the sand

Blake getting mad at me for taking his photo

Gma and Blake feeding the pelicans at The Pier

I'm a copy cat!

2009-05-01T17:30:00.001-07:00

so this week I copied off Stephanie by adding a counter to my blog and I'm getting some hits!
I love blogging, it's like journaling and scrapbooking! so it's cool people are reading but I think I'd continue even if people stop. I scrapbook all the time and hardly anyone sees my books/pages! which leads me to my next copying thing this week, Jessica posted some of her scrapbook pages on her blog, so I'm copying of her too! so here are a couple of recent things I have done.

Enjoy and if you want to post comments - feel free, unless their mean then just keep your opinion to yourself - lol! (however I do know my sister said she has tried to post comments and it won't let her? so maybe there is a trick, not sure)

2009-05-01T16:57:00.000-07:00

This week has gone by so fast. I have been nonstop busy organizing my house - which sadly still doesn't look that organized??? (I should have scrapbooked) I have talked to my mom a gizillion times and Blake is having the time of his life; I'm so excited to get there.

so I decided to post some pics taken a week or so ago. I love kid bath photos, they are almost timeless so I decided to b&w these, but they still didn't look right, so I gave them a little blue tint. I may frame these and hang them in our bathroom - if I ever get around to it (ironically even though I take a ton of photos I don't frame many for around the house??)

Freaking OUT!

2009-04-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

so I'm freaking out cause Blake is in Florda with my parents, me and Ted are going on Saturday along with my sister and her boyfriend, but he(blake) is far far away from me for 4 whole days.

What shall I do with my free nights??? date nights with hubby, scrapbooking, watching movies, etc . . . well tonight we are cleaning the house - shampooing carpets and all - good times!!! Tomorrow I'm going to bingo, and then probably date night one night, actually now that I plan this out it really only gives me 1 free night and that will probably be packing for my trip!!

But I'm so excited for Blake too. I just got off the phone with him and he sounded so excited to be on this adventure with Grandma and Grandpa. What great grandparents my parents are :-)

The Circus

2009-04-25T18:38:00.000-07:00

Today we went with Julie, Alexa, and Alexis to Bloomingtons Gamma Phi Circus. I was a little nervous if Blake would be into it since there were no animals and my answer to that question after being there is . . . lets just say his favorite part was

getting his face painted like a pirate! and then

getting this new sword, and then probably

eating popcorn, after we just had dippin dots!

He did like watching the trapese people and was really excited when they went back to their 'post' and he would always say 'yeah they made it' Hopefully he likes the Ringling Bros with animals, cause I already bought tickets to that one.

But I very much enjoyed the gamma phi circus and I'm amazed at what those people can do!

Fashion show Friday!

2009-04-24T07:59:00.000-07:00

I found this blog a few weeks back and love it! - esp. Fridays cause she does fashion fridays (today it's about gardening - which I'm not into at all)
http://inpassionatepursuit.blogspot.com/search/label/Frugal%20Fashionista

I LOVE shopping, but don't love spending money. so I always hit clearance racks, consignment stores and have recently started shopping at Goodwill, my co-worker Ann got me hooked and we get some great stuff there.

so the fashionista blogger does whole outfits for $15. I'm not always that good usually I'll piece some of my finds with regular stuff, but this week I wore 2 work outfits that were under that so here ya go:

I got these pants at Kohls for $7! - gotta love their clearance racks, and this sweater for $3 at walmart. It's over a year old and still looks pretty good!
total outfit (minus jewlry and shoes) $10!

these pants - consignment store $8 and shirt - garage sale $1, total outfit $9!
(don't ya love my modeling poses - Ann took my photos at work!)

Baby Got Back

2009-04-21T18:16:00.001-07:00

with Spring Finally here - kind of - I decided to put away some of the thick sweaters and pull out the shorts and capris. and let me say people are not lying when they saw your body goes downhill in your 30's

This is the pile of shorts/crops that fit me last year that do not fit me this year, all cause of weight gained in my rear!!! I have done nothing different in my eating habits - just getting old and what happens, your metabilism slows.... not that I care about my weight. I just hate it when I have to give up cute clothes just cause they don't fit.

I'm trying to be a little more conscience about my eating habits and trying to drink more water, I know my downfall is soda, but it just tastes so much better than water. so hopefully by writing this it will make me more accountable for my actions and drink lots of water, less soda, and start walking more!

2009-04-19T16:20:00.000-07:00

I spent my weekend resting to get over my illness - which was either the start of a cold or allergies - who knows. So as I am getting ready for the week I'm going thru these photos I took of Blake at daycare last week.
Spring/summer time is the best there cause of their awesome outdoor playground. They have the giant slides, playhouse, huge sandbox, sidewalk for sidewalk chalk, bikes, etc... But Blake told me his favorite thing to do there is 'to mow the grass'!

the thrill

2009-04-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

After a year of cvsing - the thrill never goes away of getting good deals!

At first glance of the paper this week I didn't see anything that I had to have, except for the free body wash. But then I got a q e-mailed for $4 of $20 beauty purchase; then a b1g1 free q off purex, which was already b1g1 free so i did a quick run at lunch.
2 pantene hairspray
1 venus embrace razor
2 purex laundry detergent
1 softsoap bodywash
1 applejuice
2 gatorades
2 tootsie rolls bunches
1 cadberry egg - clearance easter item
1 bag choc covered peanut butter pretzel

my total was $45 something (ouch) - handed over my 3 q's (beuty q, purex, and a embrace razor) and my 10 ecbs,
my total was $10.89 not bad seeing I really didn't have that many q's and it was a quick trip with lots of last minute throw-ins, plus I got $11 ecbs for next trip.

Blake and Brandon

2009-04-15T16:45:00.000-07:00

Blake had so much fun with his cousin Brandon over Easter. Brandon taught Blake how to throw sticks over the deck and into the lake and Blake was all about being with Brandon. I felt sorry for Brandon at times cause if he wasn't with Blake for even a second, Blake was yelling, 'Brandon where are you?'

My Cake

2009-04-13T17:23:00.000-07:00

I saw this cake online, on someone's blog (some random when I goggled for another cake) I thought it was so cool I made it for Easter. Most of my guests thought it was just a bowl with m&m's - lol! just showing off my domestic abilities!

Mission Organization

2009-04-10T14:41:00.000-07:00

so this was our basement. It actaully started out pretty nice, with a bar and the big tv, was supposed to be a good place to hang out. Well then we had so many toys that I was always sticking toys down there and the next thing ya know - this is what it looked like! I also have an area down there that I scrapbook in and so me and Blake would go down there once in awhile for that, but it got to the point that Ted did not want to go down there at all.

so I went to Big Lots and bought this cube/shelf thing for all of Blake's toys and TA DA!

Darn you

2009-04-09T11:14:00.001-07:00

Big Lots scrapbooking aisle!!!! I ran into Big Lots today during lunch to buy a cube organizer thing for our basement. I tried to just go to my item, check out, and leave, but there was a line and I thought I'll just browse their scrapbook stuf - note I have already gone to Hobby Lobby this week, so of course I don't need any scrapbook stuff, but scrapbook stuff is one my big weaknesses. everything his like $2 or so, so you grab one of these and then one of those, etc... and the next thing you know you have spent $20 (or more) on stickers and stuff!!! so yes I caved and got some letter stickers and a bunch of chipboard stuff and now I'm feeling guilty that I wasn't strong; what can I say: I'm weak???

2009-04-07T06:49:00.000-07:00

Blake LOVES going to his Auntie's house, playing in her big yard and with her dog, Spartacus, and cats, which he was renamed dinno (aka - Dimino) and Zenna (aka Zenith). Last week she had him over for a sleep over and then watched him during the day while I was working and she e-mailed this photo. She said he asked for milk in his bowl with no cereal and then he put it on the floor and said he was a doggy liked Spartacus!

Easter Egg Hunt

2009-04-04T13:58:00.000-07:00

We went to the Easter Egg Hunt this morning at the FRC. Blake got so excited when he saw the Easter Bunny and said 'will you take a picture of me with that rabbit' (yeah so excited cause ya know I love takin pictures)

of course he loved getting the eggs with candy!

MIA

2009-04-01T14:48:00.001-07:00

Saturday morning me, my mom, and Blake went garage saleing and I got Blake a Care Bear DVD, I bought quite a few things come home take everything out of the bag and start sorting through them, etc. - thought I remember seeing the dvd, but when I went to play it for Blake - can't find it???? I have looked high and low for that dvd - it's MIA. I'm so annoyed by this . . . it's as if I blog about it, it will magically appear.
the other reason this is bugging me is cause I bought this shirt about a year ago that I loved and I never wore it and it became MIA. I searched for it in my closet, practically clearing the whole closet out, and the laundry room - never found it. I even went to the store to buy a new one - none in my size! so this mia dvd reminds me of that and makes me wonder - where are these things going????

Dear PAAS -

2009-03-30T10:27:00.000-07:00

I'm stoked that you were free after ecb this week at cvs, cause even though you come with 96 stickers, a memory game 6 colors, etc . . you come with 1 dipper, ONE. If we want to do this as a family we are going to either a, have to take turns with the dipper, or b (what I did) get 2, have my mom get 2 and ask my sister to go get 2. which I feel is kind of wastefull cause we are not going to need all those color tables, we just need some more dippers!!

fun days

2009-03-29T13:27:00.000-07:00

nothing too much too blog about this weekend, so I thought I would post some photos of my last weekend, which prompted my pity party blog.
I took last Friday and Monday off work to spend with Blake. On Friday I took him to Rainbow Play place and he had a ton of fun, and I took about a gizillion photos (playing with my camera after my photo workshop on Thursday - which I should add I think confused me and now my photos look worse than they did when I didn't know what I was doing!) and he kept saying 'no more photos mom' I love to take photos what I am going to do if he is not going to cooperate with this!

Then on Monday I took him to Jumpstart playdate. I was so excited they started this since we used to take Gymnastics but I got sick of getting up every Saturday morning to go - I just wanted one day a week to lounge! so it was fun to have him just play with all of the stuff.

so after going to these events - which are only offered during the day - I got all sad that I am not able to do these things with Blake every day! But then I guess on the bright side of that, at least I am able to do them sometime and it makes them really special when we do them.

Regrets, I've had a few . .

2009-03-26T17:00:00.000-07:00

but then again too few to mention . . .I thought it was appropriate to list lyrics from a song about my cd regret purchase - lol!
this was one of my finds a few weeks ago at Goodwill and since I love to buy Blake his own cds to listen to in the car and he LOVES the little people, I thought I scored. EXCEPT that it's all he ever wants to listen to. He doesn't want his music together cds, no Laurie Berkner or the 10 - 15 other cds he has. I got so sick of Little People I lied and told him it wasn't in the car. I feel really bad about lying but there is only so much of 1 cd I can take!!! (it is a cute cd though every song is a song about a letter of the alphabet)

Party Over

2009-03-25T12:08:00.000-07:00

so I'm done with my pity party - not sure if it's the partial sunlight, but I'm in a much better mood today and have decided to stop complaining (for now anyway)!

and I have 2 stories I am sitting here thinking about. (1 scary, 1 funny)

yesterday I was driving home from work it was horribly scary cause it was raining so hard I could barely see then all of a sudden my windows get all foggy, we are on the interstate and there are cars all going superfast and then . . . BLAKE OPENED HIS DOOR! I thought I was going to lose it - in my head I was like OMG, OMG ..... Got off on the next exit and told him to never ever ever open the door while we are driving. (I know I shold have had the child lock on, but I forgot, lesson #1 learned)

then we get home and I was starving so I'm cooking (a pizza if that counts for cooking!) and I saw Blake had one of those little funsize chocolates, I told him no not till after dinner, but then who knows what happened to it. Blake wants to go to his room. and he was very insistant about the door being shut. I was downstairs thinking 'I never thought at 2 my kid would be hanging in his room alone'. so pizza is done I asked Ted to go get him, and here comes Blake with chocolate EVERYWHERE! (I should have taken a photo) It was all in his hair, on his neck, behind his ears??? I was wondering did he eat any of the chocolate or just spread it all over his body! s
I think my lesson learned there was - if' it's too quiet, there is a reason!

my pity party

2009-03-24T16:51:00.000-07:00

Being a working mom is much more difficult than I anticipated. More emotionally than anything. My mom strongly encouraged me to go back to work because she gave up her career for her kids and said when we left than she had nothing. She told me the first year would be hard, but it would get easier. I totally disagree with that. It gets harder every day as Blake gets more fun I want to be with him all the time, so I am currently doing some major soul searching to see what I want to do. I have currently been at my job for 10 years and I'm here to tell you - a career is really overrated!!! I like to have money to do whatever we want - but I save most of it anyway, and I know Blake loves his daycare and the structure that it gives him, I think we actually would miss his daycare the most.

so currently here is my typical day:

wake up at 5:30 a.m. get ready for work so we can be out the door by 7am and usually it's a struggle with Blake because he wants to do EVERYTHING himself, which I want to encourage, but it takes him forever, hence me being late a lot, hence me getting in trouble at work . . .
work all day - miss Blake . . .
get home 5:15, by the time I get done with dinner it's 6, time for some play, bath time and then bed time (I'm so freakin exhausted by this time I CRASH)
What kind of life is this?

I know lots of people do this with more than one child - HOW????

so that is my pity party - thanks for listening my next post will be more exciting.

out with old and in with the new . . .

2009-03-23T15:58:00.000-07:00

THis weekend I sold the last of Blake's old stuff - so officially no more kids for us, which I just know is right for our family. All I really had left was a swing, walker, clothes and toys. I had sold some of it already. I made $300 - which is going in Blakes college account, but then of course now we have new toys - that I bought there! This orange construction hat only cost 25 cents and has given Blake hours of fun. He even wore it out to eat on Sat night! Then we also got this big truck, which I'm stoked about cause he loves big trucks

Lite Rock rocks!!

2009-03-19T10:16:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I participated in a radio survey where I sat and listened to samples of various songs for 2 hours and ranked them. For 2 hours of my time I got paid $60 cash! then they asked if anyone wanted to stick around and discuss the local radio stations and you could get a gift certificates to some local restaurants, so I wanted my voice heard, plus who doesn't like gift certificates! so at the end Randy Rundle comes out and says the whole thing was put on by Lite Rock 107! well then they passed out the gift cards, but wouldn't ya know it they run out when it comes to me!!! so I wrote my name and adress down and they said they would mail me something. and they actaully followed thru and mailed me a LePeep GC! I'm so excited to eat there cause they have yummie breakfast!

St, Patty's Day

2009-03-17T16:26:00.000-07:00

We had a beautiful St. Patricks day, we all went down to the parade. Since Blake stayed at Gma and Gpa Mills' last night she dressed him, and had him lookin so cute in his green bow-tie.

He didn't care so much for the parade, but was diggin the tootsie rolls he got and thought he had to eat each one the very minute we got it. Afterwards went to the longest lunch ever at the German restaurant in Grand Prairie (I know German restaurant on St. Pats Day?? - but they had corn beef and cabbage and it's close to our house)

Hello Picassa!!!!

2009-03-16T19:58:00.000-07:00

so some of these are the same photos I posted yesterday, but today I have discoverd picassa editing and it is AMAZING!!! I feel like all my other photos look like crap now! Ted may not like cause I may never leave this seat again - except to take more photos - lol!

the zoo

2009-03-15T15:41:00.000-07:00

I was so excited for this weekend. It was a long week at work, I had no major plans and it was going to be nice outside!!! so I signed Blake up for zoo tots, it was okay (we got there 20 minutes late so we missed most of it) but we had fun just hanging out at the zoo.

We spent most of our time feeding the 'donkeys' - as Blake called them. It was so cute cause he was really into it and kept saying 'here donkey, here is some food for you' and he kept making me get them more food cause he said they were really hungry.

I also had a lot of fun taking pictures with my camera. This was the first time I took outdoor photos with it. (Thursday I am taking a class to learn how to use all the functions on it - so excited!!)

How adorable is that face!!!

2009-03-13T09:15:00.000-07:00

On Thursday went to Schnucks to stock up on my favorite cereal - cookie crip which was on sale, plus I had q's. Plus they had bugels for $1 and I was sure their ad ran from Thursday - Wednesday (like Korgers), but NO - Their new ad starts on Wednesday. so annoyed. I totally could have gone on Wed, why did I wait till the last minute!!!!!

so I need to write this down to keep it straight.

Cubs ads start on Sunday
Schnucks on Wednesday
Krogers on Thursday

What a way to complicate gettin the deals!!!

Monsters

2009-03-11T10:34:00.000-07:00

Blake has become obsessed with monsters lately. He will always ask me if I like them, if I have any in my room, etc . . . so last night he started roaring and saying he was a monster. So I asked him if he was a nice monster or a mean one. He said, a mean one! I told him I don't like mean monster, so than he said, "I'm a ketchup monster, you know like ketchup and monster' - LOL it took me awhile. but then I was cracking up - I dont' know if it's just me, but the kid cracks me up!

music or soccer

2009-03-10T06:26:00.000-07:00

Last night was our last night of music class. We have been going for over a year and just decided to take a little break from it and try something else for awhile. But last night was so much fun I started to have second thoughts, so in the car I asked Blake if he would rather do music or soccer and he said soccer. so I asked him if he has ever played soccer before (because they do so much at daycare that maybe they played it there) he said, 'no - but I eat them' ( I think he got soccer confused with sucker - lol!)

my weekend

2009-03-08T14:32:00.000-07:00

so Blake is going thru a phase (at least I hope it's a phase) where he looks like this ALOT! He expects me to be a mind reader and if I don't do it exactly the way he wants it - he cries; and also he wants to do everything himself, and this morning I let him pour his cereal himself - hence there being so much of it, but I poured the milk and that set him off the deep end . . .

However as soon as his fit was over, he decided to do dishes, so I put some plastic bowls, his sippy cups etc. and let him go to town. I just hope we can find a happy medium with his independence and helpfullness, cause these fits are getting to be a bit much for me!

(also he is back to wanting to be naked all the time, I gave up on that fight unless we go somewhere - so call me whitetrash, but yes I am the mom that has the kid that just wears the diaper and that's it!)

My cowboys

2009-03-05T18:21:00.000-08:00

Ted has a thing about collecting hats, all kinds and they are in the storage room. The other night Blake found 3 cowboy hats so he made us all put them on and be cowboys. Then he had to ride his horsey, that his Aunt Terra bought him (before he was even born) and kept saying, 'giddy up - I'm a cowboy'

small things

2009-03-05T07:43:00.000-08:00

I haven't been posting much lately and as I have been reading other blogs from people who post random things, I find I really enjoy reading about random things, so I am going to attempt that - we will see how long this last???

so yesterday we were driving home from work/daycare and Blake tells me that his nose is small, but mine is big, 'you have a big nose mom', thanks Blake?, and he also informed me I have big ears, big hands, etc. . . . so I said 'is anything on me small?' he said ' your belly is small' what a sweet boy:-)

Potty Head

2009-02-21T15:59:00.000-08:00

Yes that is the 'mini toilet seat' on Blake's head that we bought him for potty training. Since he would rather wear it on his head as a hat than sit on it on the toilet, that tells me we have a long more time in diapers!

Nosey

2009-02-14T16:21:00.000-08:00

I had heard stories about how little boys love to put things up their nose, well the other day Blake was carrying around one of his bears (from previous posts) and then starts crying that his nose hurts, so I'm kissing it to make it feel better and then he starts crying about his eye? I told him he was falling apart . . .
He then wanted me to blow his nose - which was odd and out came one of the eyes from the bears! He stuck it up his nose! Funny - yet scary too! I laughed a little, and then told him not to stick stuff up his nose, hopefully he won't do it again!

Blake's creations

2009-02-08T17:23:00.001-08:00

Blake LOVES to do crafty things; use scissors, markers, glue sticks etc. . . We went to a Valentine playdate where Jessica, the host, had the most adorable valentines. Most of the kids did one and then went back and played, but Blake had to do his, his own way and we got these lovely creations! He was so into it, he kept going until all of the supplies were gone! He really loved the eyes - if ya can't tell - lol!

In my next life . .

2009-01-29T18:11:00.000-08:00

I want to be a professional photographer. Here is my attempt to take some random photos of Blake, but he kept saying 'cheese' and running the random effect.

Here is him with his 'tuba' - as he calls it (thanks to Elmo and Backyardigans), and his cool new hat, both of which we purchased at Family Fest.

Misson Mart

2009-01-25T15:25:00.000-08:00

I just had to show off my cool things I got all for $16!!! I LOVE to shop, but I don't like to spend money (not a good combo) so I have got hooked on thrift store/resale shopping. (plus it gives me such a high to get good deals!) so last week I had my first visit to Mission Mart. Blake was with me and he piced up the travel lightbright and played with it the whole time we were shopping. He kept asking me where we were, I told him Mission Mart, and then he would say, 'well I like it here'. So for $16 I got these jeep umbrella stroller $6 - my big purchase. a gap shirt, some carter, osh ksoh, and some random shirts for Blake, a pair of Children place pants, shoes and a shirt for me and a video for Blake. He has played with that light bright every day!

Bowling

2009-01-20T17:35:00.000-08:00

It's so cool now that Blake is old enough to do fun activities, and I was so excited to take him bowling! We went with the moms group and as soon as we walked in he was all about it. We bowled on a lane with Kassie, her husband, Danny, and Colin. It was pretty exhausting so I'm glad they were there to help me. He did pretty good and kept waving 'bye' to the ball as it rolled down the lane. One game took us about an hour and a half and after that I was so ready for a nap. There was about 5 lanes of moms group people, but the rest of the bowling alley was full and Blake kept trying to hang out with random people - not even the other 5 of our lanes??? That night I told Blake to tell Daddy about bowling and all he says is, 'my ball was pink!' gotta love the simple life of a 2 year old!

Hackey rides and knock knock jokes

2009-01-15T17:45:00.000-08:00

Lately Blake has been cracking me up with his funny things he comes up with. First of all he has renamed the piggy back ride and calls it a 'hackey ride' and always asks for hackey rides. This pic is of Ted giving him hackey rides around the house.

Also at daycare his teachers were telling me how he funny he is and they are pretty sure he will be the class clown. Well the other day he put his truck in the closet and says, 'knock knock' I thought it was going to be about getting his truck out of the closet, so I said, 'whos there' he said, 'banana' - I asked 'banana who' - he started giggling and did it again, after the 3rd time he was laughing so hard I couldn't tell what he was saying and ran off falling on the floor laughing. I just never thought Blake would be 2 1/2 when he told me his first joke! ( I asked his daycare teacher if they did jokes at school - they don't where he got it from?)

Other funny things he has been saying,

'oh come on' - when he wants his way with something

'Hey - I have an idea' - but when I ask him his idea he never has one, so I don't think he knows what he is talking about.

and lastly

'what's going on here'

Maybe it's the tone he uses, but they are pretty funny!

cousins

2009-01-11T15:20:00.000-08:00

In addition to Blake being an only child, he has no cousins his age:-(. I had cousins on both of my parents sides of the family who were my age so growing up that is how I thought it was for everyone. But luckily I am still close to my cousins and so Blake will grow up with his second cousins - kind of. This pic was at my Aunt's house when my cousin Kimm was in town from Arizona the other day. Her twin boys, at the top (Ben and Lorenzo), along with my cousin Jesse's kids, Abby and JD, and Alexa, Julie's step-daughter, whom we see all the time :-) and I don't know who the other girl is - a friend of Kimm's kid I think.

I just love the pics with a bunch of little ones in it - reminds me of all the ones from when I was little that we all look at now and make fun of our parents for putting us in funny outfits!

this pic would have turned out perfect if I wouldn't have had it on a weird setting by mistake :-(

The Favorite Gift

2008-12-27T15:43:00.001-08:00

Blake got a harmonica for Christmas, a last minute thing I bought at Walmart since his generic/fake one broke a couple of weeks ago. It was his favorite thing. He took it to Gma and Gpa's with us and entertained us all!

x-mas party

2008-12-19T12:34:00.001-08:00

I decided to go to Blake's school Christmas party and I'm so glad I did. First the kids had a book exchange present and Blake got a Thomas book - yeah!

after the present exchange the each decorated their own 'christmas tree' a sugar cone decorated upside down with green frosting and candy for ornaments.

Then they got another book from Little Lambs, Miss Colleen tried to read the books to the kids but I think they were all hyped up on sugar so they ended up just having the kids run all around the room. The kids would line up against the wall and all count to 10, then run around like crazy and then all go back to the wall. It was so cute to see Blake interact with all of his friends at school and to see how happy he is there :-)

I don't like snow!

2008-12-16T18:47:00.000-08:00

On Monday I bought a canon rebel slr camera - which I have always wanted. Yesterday I sat at work and watched it snow all day thinking about taking photos of Blake outside in the snow and how cool they would turn out with my new camera, except that when I tried it he told me, "Mom - I don't like snow, lets go inside" :-(

cheap detergent!

2008-12-12T13:53:00.001-08:00

Walgreens has a special ad out with coupons for Arm & Hammer Detergent $1.99, go here

http://www.armandhammer.com/ and go to the 'get coupons' tab for $1 off, and get detergent for 99 cents!

school photo

2008-12-11T06:49:00.000-08:00

I just thought Blake's school photo turned out so cute!

Santa visit

2008-12-09T11:44:00.000-08:00

I was so excited to see if Blake liked Santa this year. Last year he did not like him and getting a photo was quite an ordeal.

We talked about meeting Santa for a week and what we were to tell him we wanted, it started out Blake wanted a small present, then he wanted a yellow present, and when I was like what do you want in your small yellow present, he said, M&M's and that is what he has now been saying he wants for Christmas!

So on Saturday morning we went to my work for the kids visit with Santa and he was so excited to see Santa, but then when he saw him, decided he didn't want to sit on his lap for a photo. So we hung out for a bit and a gave him a camera and we took some photos of Santa. Then I realized Santa was giving out chocolate in the bags, so when I told Blake that he said we could at least go get some chocolate. We went up together to get the chocolate and talked to Santa for a bit, told him what he wanted - 'a tree with m&m's under it!'. Then I asked if we could do a photo and he said , okay! and I think it turned out pretty good! It helped with it being at my work and having some time to get to know Santa.

I'm so excited for Christmas morning!

my week

2008-11-29T07:58:00.000-08:00

so I decided to take the whole week of Thanksgiving off, with no real plans - but just to hang out with Blake. Sadly - since I work full time we don't get to just bum around a lot like a lot of moms and thier kids.

Monday we went to a playdate and then put up the Christmas tree. The week before Tania and I went shopping at lunch to buy shatterproof ornaments, good thing since Blake watched a little too much Handy Manny and spent a lot of time 'fixing' the ornaments! He loved the tree and would watch the lights and say "wow". I also put a couple of presents of Auntie's under there to see if he would open them - which he didn't! But he asks me about a hundred times a day if the presents are his, or if they are daddy's, etc.

Tuesday, we chilled at home

Wednesday we went to the Childrens Museum in Bloomington with Aunt Terra, Julie and Alexa. Blake had sooo much fun there and also hanging with Alexa - he just loves Alexa and she is so good with him!

Thursday - went to Gma and Gpas for Thanksgiving. Ted's sisters came too along with Blake's cousins Jamie and Brandon. I hardly saw Blake all day cause he was running around with them!

Friday froze our behinds off at the parade with Julie and Alexa again along with Alexis, Kylie, Dawn and Eva! (and dads, minus Ted) cause he was in the parade. When Blake saw Ted driving the big red truck he nearly exploded with excitement! and he kept telling Julie, 'that was my dad'. He was so proud of his dad for driving the Big Truck!

I have had a ton of fun, but sadly - I think I'm ready to go back to work (which I am totally shocked by) and I think Blake is ready to hang with his daycare friends again.

Story books and color crayons

2008-11-24T12:14:00.000-08:00

Lately Blake has been calling crayons - color crayons - which I just find really funny! Who calls them that? I just call them crayons, but he always will say, "Where are my color crayons?"' so the other day we were going somewhere, he grabbed his Thomas book and says, I want to bring my story book. I just wonder, where does he come up with this, and what's next?

Cowboy

2008-11-17T17:32:00.000-08:00

Ted bought this cowbow hat a long time ago when we were in vacation in Arizona. Blake found it and asked if he could wear it and then kept saying, 'I'm a cowboy - giddy up', I'm a cowboy - I'm gonna ride my horse' then he said 'I'm a cowboy - just like Pablo' - from the backyardigans! too funny.

Trick or Treat

2008-11-09T18:25:00.000-08:00

Blake and mommy at her work parade; Taytem, Paige and Blake at mommy's work

Nathan and Blake; Blake and Kate at the Retirement Home

at the Halloween Extravangza

This was the first Halloween that Blake kind of understood what was going on. He really liked his fireman outfit and everytime he put it on said, 'he was going to the firestation' He got that from the 'Elmo visits the firestation' dvd that we have seen about 1000 times! The first event we did was at a church, a moms group event. When we first started I had to hold him cause he was shy, but when he realized they were putting candy in his pumpkin - he was all about it! Then we did trick-or-treating at the Retirement home with the moms group, my work parade, and both sets of grandparents houses along with a few houses in each grandparents neighborhood! A week later, we are still eating the candy!

Extreme

2008-11-04T17:39:00.000-08:00

When the Extreme Home Makeover show came to Pekin - it was all that was talked about for the whole week. I was able to get down to see it one day at lunch and then decided to take Blake there to see it. He really liked it. I told him we were going to watch a home getting built like Bob the Builder does, and then when we were there he told me he said, 'I see him Mom - I see Bob the Builder'. I don't know if normally he would have enjoyed watching a house get built - but since there was so much going on at once, it was very exciting!

My best week ever

2008-10-24T17:31:00.001-07:00

cvs'ing . . . I got all of this (plus a couple of bags of candy corn which seem to be MIA) for under 50 cents! It helped that I had a coupon for $25 gift card w/ new prescription, so I got a $24 prescription, did it in about 4 different transactions using ecb's and got it all for almost nothing! yeah for me :-)