Tuesday, March 31, 2009

the good with the bad and a little TMI


Ya know when you wait till the last day of the month to take care of emissions, inspections, and registration on your husband's vehicle? So, you get out the door in the wee hours of the morning, with your squirmy one year old to hopefully avoid a crowd at the closest Jiffy Lube? But, you don't avoid the crowds and have to wait in a miniature room with 10 other people and a squirmy one year old, who still insists crawling is faster and get his pants all dirty on the greasy, nasty floor? Just for them to tell you an hour later that a brake light is out, and they don't know how to change it?


So you take it to the local Big O' Tires, and they are kind and get it right in, but you find yourself in another waiting room with lots of people? And immediately after entering your squirmy one year old grips onto a chair, gets into a mini squat, eyes start to water, and grunts noisily for all to hear? And in your embarrassment, you run into the bathroom with him to find there is absolutely no place to change a stinky one year old? So, you hope with all your might that it will be fast and you take the rotten smelling one year old back into the stuffy waiting room for all the waiting strangers to sniff? Then just when you think someone is going to tell you to get your smelly kid out of there, they tell you your car is done and not to worry about paying for the little light, but to just come back and see them again?


Well, I sure do! Thanks Big O Tires, I will come back and see you, minus my poopy boy.

Friday, March 27, 2009

The social event of the year....


and yes, I was in attendance. My creative sister-in-law, Amanda, threw a very exclusive Twilight Party last Saturday. I'm bummed I didn't get pics, but it was complete with blood dripped glasses, Twilight decor, blood cake, Twilight trivia (of which, I took 2nd place), and of course the viewing of Twilight. We randomly got chosen to be each character, and I was Jasper, the somewhat creepy, Edward Scissorhands, love to Alice.
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I had a fangtastic time..ha ha! Thanks Amanda!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Soon to be Mine


This cute little number is at Payless right now for $22.99, and I will soon be bringing her home as a "well done Melissa" present, from me, for me.
Along my battle to drop the pounds, I have decided I need little rewards here and there, and shoes are just the right fit for this.
5 down, 3 more to go til I own you, you sweet, delicate, pale yellow, spring wedges of my eye.
New reward coming soon.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Circus Party Bash!

Oh boy, did we have fun with our little Tag's circus birthday party! I decided to use a circus theme way back in October and was able to find lots of fun stuff along the way. Our Bishop was nice enough to let us use the church house, so we were able to have all the family together. We had hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, nachos, and a cotton candy maker we never got around to using.

These pics are all compliments of Uncle Brock, the assigned photographer for the event. Thanks bud!

Tag's adorable clown outfit. Yes, homemade, but I can't take the credit. My good pal/sewing teacher , Jamie, helped me every step of the way, and she sketched the pattern....amazing!
(he didn't love the hat, I have no idea why!?)
Ya, I'm pretty proud of these cakes. I found pictures online and just copied.



A centerpiece.

My funny clown again.
Just washin the cake down with some milk.
(These pics are kinda out of order...why is it so hard to upload pics on blogger?)

Diggin in.

Bathtime in the church kitchen sink.

Happy Birthday to Tag.
(Notice face paint on Tag's cutie cousin Jayde. Aunt Karaline was assigned the circus face painter.)
Good ole game of pin the nose on the clown.

Sweet Amoree Kate partying with clown nose in hand and girly face paint.

I had a bag for each of the kids with a clown nose, circus book, animal crackers, etc. I also made clown hats and let them each decorate their own. Here is Isaac dancing the night away.

What is a circus without a clown and dancing gorilla?

Dancing gorilla attacking my brother.


I had Jon come out as my dancing gorilla to the song, "I like to move it, move it."
Despite the fact that the kids were all terrified of him at Halloween time, they LOVED it!!

What a lucky boy Tag is!
Cousin Savana dancing with the gorilla.

Tag's Daddy is multi-talented. He was also Jonny the Juggler;)

Grandpa Abel, the clown. Doesn't he look authentic? Thanks Dad!

Tag and his cousin, Maliya, were not fans of the clown. Tag could just not see Grandpa under that makeup and was not about to hang out with him too long.

And last, but certainly not least. The bearded lady! I didn't even have to get a costume for this one. Thanks for growing those whiskers out Aunt Nikki ;) Ha Ha!
Thanks to all the family for being such good sports and helping out.
I had so much fun with this!

Just the three of us...