best husband

i love this guy.  this morning i woke up at the early hour of 9:40 (it was divine) and went to the living room to see my husband and my daughter curled up in her blanket on the couch watching yo gabba gabba.  what a man letting me get my sleep!

happy president's day

so we were ultra lazy today (weston) and lounged around the house until about 2:00 this afternoon.  we needed to get some lunch and a few groceries so that was our big "event" for the holiday.  we stopped for lunch at cafe rio and kate ate like a maniac.  her favorite thing to eat, period, is rice and black beans.  we can get a cup of it for a buck and it lasts for at least 2, if not 3, meals for her.  today she ate her entire quesadilla and 3/4 of her beans and rice!  what a champ.

here's the big news of the day - before we left to go grocery shopping, this 3 year old boy at the table next to us came over and said "bye bye" to kate and then he leaned in and gave kate her first kiss - food on his mouth and all!  someone should have told him valentine's was yesterday.

where's that camera when you need one?

Crazy Kate

These are just a bunch of photos of Kate that have been sitting on my G10.  I love this kid.  She is such a girly girl sometimes.  She loves pink, and her sparkly shoes.

She got to spend a Saturday with Daddy a couple weeks ago while Mommy went to the state drill team competition.  South Sevier took 1st, by the way.  We watched Kung Fu Panda.  Kate loved it.

I found her typing away the other night.  I hope she doesn't delete anything.

"Kisses, let's go bye bye."

Kate put all this gear on all by herself, except the shoes.

New kicks and a new ride.  (Jordan I retros, if anyone was wondering [Mark]).

kate's tiny two party

when looking for ideas for kate's birthday party, i kept coming across variations of the tiny theme - so we ran with it.

 

here are the party invites that were sent out - they were the size of a business card.  i made them in illustrator, had them printed, then made the envelopes.  we had to hand them out since they weren't "mailable" but that worked out ok. 

 

the beautiful birthday girl

the party guests - yes, we all crammed into our little place

 

the "mini" spread

 

opening presents - this was a concept not lost on kate.  she took no time to get into opening her presents and she wanted to open everything and play before moving onto the next gift.  thank you to everyone - you were all very very generous!  kate definitely got spoiled!

 

and to complete the "daddy tradition" - here she is opening a new pair of shoes.  kate, meet your first pair of jordans.  weston is so proud!

 

happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear kate, happy birthday to you!!!

 

after a few bites of cake she wanted some ice cream.  when she blew out the candles, i asked if she wanted to use her hands or if she wanted a fork - she chose the fork... go figure.  we'll never have a messy cake face with this one!

 

weston kitted her out in her new shoes and wanted to get a picture ... my favorite is the cry face :)

 

happy birthday, little one!!!!  we love you!

i'm pooped

pooped, i tell ya!!!  i'm such a sorry excuse for a human, let alone a stay at home mom some days.  oh well, such is life.

despite it being the very last thing i felt like doing in my life, i got up, made the bed, showered, dressed kate, and was out the door by 11:30 today.  that is a MAJOR accomplishment as of late.  we did the final bits of shopping for kate's tiny two birthday party this weekend.  i guess the next item on my to-do list, besides clean that blasted bathroom, is to do something with party decorations, groceries, veggies, cake mixes, etc.  there are still two more full days for that, however.  the rest of today may just consist of couch lying and toddler playing. 

toodles!

to move or not to move?

that apparently is the question...

weston's grandparents own the 4-plex we live in and they told us tonight they are selling it.  what?  but thankfully, they already thought of us :)  they gave us our options - one of which include moving into their posh "basement" apartment in their home on the hill in pg.  now we are both having mixed feelings, so it's really hard to know what to do.

some of the pro's:
it's HUGE and brand spanking new
it's not really a basement - it's on the ground floor and has floor to ceiling windows in every room
our finances would stay the same, if not improve a smidge
we could get out from under our upstairs neighbors who only get louder and more obnoxious everyday (a single, older woman and her adult mooch of a son)

some of the con's:
we would have to leave our ward! :(
we would have to physically pack up and move
it's "far away" from the freeway (a perk we LOVE where we are)
it's "far away" from our favorites - cafe rio, in-n-out, rubios, costco (mind you, "far away" means about 10 miles ... i know it's not that far, just not nearly as convenient)

thoughts?  what would you do in our situation?  we both really love living in american fork (who in the world would have thought we'd EVER say that?) and would be very sad to leave.  it has really become "home" ....

and kristi, i don't want to hear your crap about how you move all the time and i should just get over it, haha ;)

time for a new post

can you get sick from things??

i absolutely love my new kitchen, but the weirdest thing happened a few days after we got it all finished and cleaned up.  it started making me totally ill.  i am not kidding.  everytime.  weird.  and no, it's not just because i don't want to cook.  so, it's definitely time for a new post because i can hardly bring myself to check blogs every morning knowing i have to look at the kitchen photos (again, i still love the room!)

my good friend natalie had a baby shower over the weekend and it was a fabulous little gathering!  it's always fun to get together with girlfriends and chit chat, not to mention watch natalie and her husband nail every single one of those "how well do you know your baby" games.  it was uncanny.

here is the quilt i got to make for natalie's little one.

luckily, she says the blue matches the nursery!  love when that happens.

and, for good measure, i'll post a recent photo of kate.  how did she

turn into her?

oh the pressure

of this "amazing" new post.  sorry if it doesn't quite fill your quota of "amazing" :)

i give you the before:

i.e. dark and dungeony ... it's what you get when you live in a basement apartment, well at least a half-basement apartment.

and now for the big reveal, i give you the afters:

don't mind the messy magnets, you know how it is... 

 

top to bottom, left to right: 

table & chairs, weston's moving landscapes

pantry, message wall

kitchen stuff

more kitchen stuff ... but the idea for it all came from the arrangement of glassware in the windowsill

a final look at the beauty :)

this project was intensive but could have been worse, i'm sure.  all in all, it took about a week to go from priming the countertop (yes, that has been painted) to hanging wall decor.  now all i have to do is mop the floor ... anyone want to come do that for me?  all i want to do in here is sit back and look at everything :)  it feels so much brighter, airier, open, fresh, and just lovely.  i'm so glad we did this, even if it's just a rental...  should have done it 5 years ago!

check back tomorrow - there will be an amazing new post :)

billboards

how cool is my husband?  well, i think he's pretty cool ....

so he has 3 billboards up right now - uvu's athletics department actually has the billboards up, but they're weston's photos and concept.  i am super proud of him.  next time you're waiting in traffic by the university mall, look up and check them out.  he has a different image on each of the three sides.

 

 

proud of you, babe!