A new camera, a new beginning!

I will do a better longer post later this weekend, but just a quick party dance... I got a new camera... Micah spoils me (he really was just tired of my whining)! Its a super cute Cannon powershot SD790 WAAAHOOO! I got it on sale at BestBuy for 169.00 and then bought the 4G card so the whole bill was like 182.00... Good Deal!!!

Here are some funny pictures of Mase... he has been making the silliest faces lately... these are just a small sample! He is not constipated or even angry... just randomnly he does this and then he will growl... I know he didn't get this from my side! hahaha

Stupid broken camera!

So it may be a while before I post any new pics, my cute camera is not taking pics... I think the flash is broken! So sorry until i decide whether to buy a new camera or have mine fixed our blog will run picture free!

Our lives are good, Micah took his test, but he just feel very confident that he passed... he said that he rocked the test in the beginning all through the muliple choice the better he did the harder it got (dumb smart tests) and he thinks he rocked the first simulation and got slammed on the second with some very obscure foreign entities, trading blah blah blah (while he was explaining this question my eyes glazed over and I fell alseep) Long story short the very last question was incredible difficult and even though he studied for 3 months we will cross our fingers and hope for the best.

Mason is moving and progressing way too fast for me... he is standing very confidently now and can crawl across the room with out stopping...

I am doing better now that I have my husband in the late evening, I try more and more recipes and our waists are quickly widening(dang) I dream of having great legs again (my ankles are still pretty hot FYI) I am searching for an easy quilt pattern and learning to knit... I know boring!

Just to make you smile!

This is Mason this morning... he hates cereal.

Mini Godzilla trying to bat away the spoon

I love the face he is making, spitting out what I just put in!

Hope this pictures brighten your day and make you smile!

One week till the big test...

Micah is craming like a mad man. Next Saturday is the first of four big tests and we are feeling the pressure now more than ever... poor Mic does nothing but work and study. We realized yesterday that it had been almost 2 weeks since we had seen each other in the light of day... so micah took and hour on yesterday and we drove to the top of skinners butte. We are so excited to have this test (the hardest of all 4) out of the way.

On a much better note thanks everyone for all the imput on my quilt... I think it turned out great.
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I couldn't find a solid back that matched right, so I went with the darker print.

My next quilt is going to be larger and hopefully the squares will match up better.

I have been doing my best to cook and bake more and this week I made Carmels mmm This jar was full at the beginning of the week!



Mason is growing and advancing everyday... I dream of the days when he would lay quietly on a blanket.


You can see he is always on the move!

He didn't like the toy selection I got out for him, don't worry he can get his own!

I promise we have been doing our best to discourage him from walking, he is an unstoppable force of nature!

Its a good thing he is so cute!

I'm stuck... help!

Ok this is Mason's quilt and I originally wanted to do one of those I spy quilts, but then I found this really cute material at JoAnne's and I loved the farm animals!

This is the material I picked for the back... it goes ok but I want all the letters to show so I need to pick border colors and I need to add on to the front so it will be large enough... or I need to find a cute barn themed back...

This is the materials again together

I thought about cutting out the letters for Mason's name and doing something cute but of course I have overwhelmed myself with too many choices soo give me some feed back what would you do?

Big week for lil man!

Mason man has had a really big week this week... His 4th tooth is making an appearance, he is a wonderful gimp crawler (its a half crawl, half army drag), he can now pull himself up to a stand (very shaky stand) and he ate his first orange and red vine... phew like I said its been a big week for Mase! mmm orange... he loved it! Mase found a pen under the coach and decided on this tasteful facial art! We ran into our friends the Widmers at the movies last night... poor Mase looks like he is headed for a candy comma! mmm red vines I love the look on his face!


This is mostly for the G-ma's... its short and cute just incase you wanna peek!

A life's work down the drain...

A lifes work down the drain... A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday.

Redmond's nails, which hadn't been cut since 1979, were broken in the crash. According to the Guinness Web site, her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches.

Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson says Redmond was ejected from an SUV in the crash and taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Redmond has been featured on TV in episodes of "Guinness Book of World Records" and "Ripley's Believe It or Not."

Kate listed this on her blog and I think that is about the funniest thing in the world... I also support her sister Joey in her need to share this story with the world, but mostly I just want to know if anyone knows how did she wiped and kept her nails out of the toilet? I saw a stunt on Jackass where steve-o drank a beer that had dripped down some nasty guys nails in India, fyi Steve-o threw up afterwards! (it was on one night really late... dont judge me!)

Back pain... Heart Attack?

I laid down earlier for a lil nap before Mic got home at almost 11pm and when he got home I tried to get out of bed to get his dinner warmed up and I couldn't get out of bed! My upper back between my shoulderblades was on fire! It hurt to breathe and nothing I did seemed to ease the pain. 10 minutes later my back hurts but not as bad so I get up and go sit on the couch with Mic just in time to hear Mase wake up in the other room. ugh so I get up and go get my lil munchkin and we spend some time in the living rm then Mic helps me up and takes Mase in to our room to lay down and relax as a family. I picked mason up off our bed and bent over to put him on the floor and I couldn't get back up... the whole upper left side of my back was on fire and I felt the most extreme pressure on my chest. So here i am ass in the air and feeling like I am dying stuck bent over... when i get this amazing idea to shuffle back to the bed and throw myself backwards so I can lay down (BAD IDEA!!!) I started screaming it hurt so bad... the pain was unreal... I had my knees up to my chest and I was doing those deep gutteral, moan/screams...

Micah is going "what do i do? how do i help?" and I was just crying and screaming, thinking 'what the hell do you think is wrong and if you want to help kill me!' now its kinda fun (3 vicoden later) It was like that for a good 5 minutes and then it turned in to a strong ache and now (3 vicoden later) its a pulsing throb!

I thought I was having a heart attack! So we are laying on the bed after and I start to tell Mic where to find everything and how much to feed Mason just incase I don't wake up! Micah was a little panicked to say the least, I am ok now (thanks to the drugs...glad I saved them from my c-section) I am calling the doc first thing and then hopefully I can get in to some good Physical Therapy.

Its super late and I should be in bed, but now I am really wired! Loves to all my peeps!

Nothing New Here...

Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a rut? I have been feeling that way for the past couple of weeks! I have a serious case of melancholy... if it where not for my girl Anna I would be a lump on our couch! So I decided that I need to make a better effort at... life?

So I started 4 projects and the one that is coming along the best is Mason's quilt! Yah, I have it pieced together, I've decided that I don't like the back I picked so now I just need to figure out a new back!

Mic is still working ungodly hours 8-10 or 12 at night and he works saturdays and sundays too! I think that is the source of my depression, I miss my MAN!!! His test is on the 28th (everyone pray that he passes, and he gets enough studying in) and then he swears March will be just Taxes and no studying! My parents have generously offered to fly me home to visit for the week before Mic's test, utah here I come!


Other than that here are a few pics to pass the time!




Mase's fav toy is a hanger... could there be a clothing obsession in our future, we could use another Charles in the family!

Look at all that hair everyday it gets thicker and thicker!




Eugene is Hippie capitol of the world, I just love a good war protest, 30 years from now I hope people are posting pics of me standing up for my beliefs and rocking out on a street corner... (no not as a prostitute)

Lots of silliness...

Happy birthday to our awesome; AUNT, SISTER IN-LAW, FRIEND... INSPIRATION! Kellie you are awesome and I am so grateful for you in this crazy mixed up world (being a Clinger) You still intimidate the Hell out of me!!!

You'll always be 29 to me!

I decided to put a diaper on Mason's head, why you wonder... for fun!

Mase showing off for the camera!

Mother you know nothing...

Micah was ready leave and this is what we were doing instead Friday Night

Silly faces

Bowling with the Widmer's

Micah's silly face with Mase

JoAnne w/ Maeli

RL w/ Maeli

Modest Momma Alert!!!! I sound like a power ranger!

For All my Modest Momma friends who love love love Shades... They are doing free shipping until the 31st of Jan on everything! So click here for your deals.... I of course hit there clearance! I have never tried to hide the fact that I am cheap! (don't judge me)

We got a crib!!!!!

I have been on the hunt for a crib for the last month. I have mostly been watching for a great deal on craigslist. My girlfriend Anna decided to help me find a crib and for the last week it has been her mission in life... but everything she found would always be sold really quick (go figure, other people want nice for cheap, too) So I decided to email all the crib listings that didn't have a picture and request one... and this is the beauty we got!

I cleaned it really good (it needed it) and set it up so he could sleep in it last night!
I bought a bumper last week at goodwill (they have the cheapest books) and obviously I can't really use a bumper with this crib because of the solid back sooo I imprivised. I measured out enough bumper to cover the bars and took apart the rest to make ties that connect in the back! I am debating on whether to make a crib set or buy a new one. What do you think?

Then I moved rooms around today... Mase is in his crib, in his room!

I couldn't bare to sell the bed, one day people WILL visit us and I will have a bed for them to sleep on! So in the meantime the guest bed will hold up the wall.

I'm thinking on painting the crib black, and modge podging cute scrapbook paper on the headboard, any ideas?

The late sleeper

Mason has been keeping us up late every night this week... like 3 AM late! Last night we had a major blow out at like 3, it was so bad that I had to give Mase a bath he covered himself and me... I shudder just thinking about it now! These are pictures of him waking up this morning at noon! We were exhausted and I am not going to lie it was really great to sleep in.

Houston we have lift off!!!

We have a mover and a shaker in the house! The sad thing is who knows how long he's been moving like this... oh yeah who's the worst parent ever... I AM. (Mic's been studying so it really is all me) The funny thing is I would leave the room for a minute and come back to him across the room, I really just thought he rolled like a mad man!

My projects!

I made a crayon roll and a nursing cover for my sister in-law Kate, and I forgot to take them with me over christmas... I got home and was getting ready to mail them, but I just could't. They didn't match! So I went and got some cute matching material and this is what I came up with!

Sorry Kate I know it so sucks when people ruin a suprise... but these where way too cute not to show!

Never fear the ones that did not make it to Kate will be given as after thought seperate gifts to other friends! hahah j/k or am I serious!