Homemade giveaway!

Ok, I can't guarantee that what I make will be something good, but I'll try my best! haha

The first 3 people to respond to this post will get something made entirely by me! Whatever I want! HOWEVER! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations~

1. I make no guarantees that you will like/ enjoy/ want what I make!
2. What I create will be especially for you.
3. It'll be done this year. (That's 2009 folks)
4. You will have no clue what it's going to be.
5. I reserve the right to make something extremely strange, should my heart desire it.

The catch is that you must re post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog. So win an AMAZING homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure you post a picture of your amazing home made awesomeness when you get it from yours truly! Who's in?

Yay Baseball!!

Anyone who knows our family knows that we get in as much baseball as our checking account will allow during baseball season, and this season we started early! We headed down to Tucson to watch the D-backs play some spring training at Tucson Electric Park. They played the Padres, and we had so much fun that we almost didn't notice how badly we lost!! Spring training games are so much fun! Everything is just so laid back. We sat right behind the Padres dugout, and while we would have much rather sat behind our dugout, it was still so fun to see the players up close. They were a lot of fun joking around with the fans and stuff. Anyway, here are some of he pics.

The D-backs cutest fan.
We're #1!!

It wouldn't be baseball without the cotton candy and Hot dogs.

And last but not least...The copstache. Brian was very jealous. haha

She's too big!

Ok, this is going to be the first of many posts for the next week or so at LEAST! I feel like I never have anything to blog, but i've gotten the camera out a lot lately so I have a ton of pictures. And I figure if I start posting again, certain people will stop bugging me about it. So I think I'll start with.....


Hailee lost her first tooth! I was so surprised. I totally didn't think it was time to start losing teeth yet, but when she came up to me and showed me, I immediately started crying! It just seems like such a big girl thing to do and I'm not ready!! But the poor girl just stood there and said "Mom, why are you freaking out?" She's so funny! Anyway, it came out about 2 days later while she was eating cereal, and we never found it. I'm thinking she may have swallowed it. So she wrote a letter to the tooth fairy telling her that she lost her tooth, but she can't find it and put it uner her pillow. The tooth fairy left her about $3.85 or something. It was all the money she had on her at the time. haha. The second one was QUITE a bit trickier though! It was loose for at least 2 weeks! We were constantly telling her to "work that tooth" and Brian had to finally pull it out with dental floss. By the time we got it out she didn't even have the big gap because both big teeth are growing in. Oh well. Isn't she cute??




K, keep coming by! I have lots more to update. I just want to save some good stuff for later!! And now that I said it, I HAVE to do it!

Happy Halloween!

K, so apparently it takes a holiday or milestone to get me to blog...But it's better than nothing right?? So these are our pictures from Trunk-or-treat yesterday. Hailee was bumblebee and I happen to think she was the cutest kid there!







While we were sitting in the car we got out the vampire teeth. Hailee is pretty good at looking scary!




She had the hardest time this year deciding between Darth Vader and Bumblebee. Daddy has never been prouder of his little girl!

Off to school she goes!

So yesterday the day that I have been dreading FOREVER finally came. My little girl started school. I can't believe she's a kindergartener. When did she stop being a toddler?? She was so ready to go though. Brian and I took her and there was a point where all the kids were at their desks and the parents were still sitting around the room taking pictures and waiting to be kicked out, and Hailee called me over to her and she asked me "when is kindergarten going to start?" She just could not wait! Then when I dropped her off today, on day 2, she went and sat at her desk inside and didn't even want to play on the playground until it started! So here are a couple of pictures. The first one is of her with her Barbie backpack and her Spiderman lunchbox. That right there pretty much sums up my little girl's personality! The second is of the whole classroom, and the third is her looking at her name on her nametag.

Obsessed? Maybe a little.

Okay, I officially AM obsessed. On Friday night I went out with a group of friends to wait in line for my copy of Breaking Dawn. We met at IHOP first to hang out a little and have very in depth philosophical conversations about what should happen in this book as well as a Jacob vs. Edward poll. (Edward wins HANDS DOWN!) After that our group was off to Walmart where we were first in line! The manager and workers were obviously just loving the diversion, and we had a BLAST! I feel like the hugest dork sometimes, but it was just way too much fun! Here are just a few of the pics!

Amy, Amanda, Kim and Jocey waiting in line.

This guy got a hold of the book and opened it to the first and last pages like he was going to ruin it for us. We probably would have sued him for pain and suffering!

Say Vampire!I got it!

This picture is a little blurry, but I couldn't resist! She's so excited!

Big Oven!!

So i've been thinking lately that I want to find some way to organize all of my recipes because I collect cookbooks, and have like a billion of them. I wanted to find a way to organize all of my favorite recipes out of all of them without having to look through EVERY one every time I want to cook something. Anyway, I googled recipe software, and I found this software called Big Oven. It's the COOLEST thing EVER! It came preloaded with a bunch of recipes, including a whole Weight Watchers recipe box and I can input all of mine. Not only that, but it helps me make a grocery list AND plan all of my meals. Anyway, a bit of a plug, but I'm SO excited about it!