Busy week/weekend

My weekend has been filled with phone calls, errands, hanging out with friends, party planning, and breaking in my new iPad. Jones and I have gotten rid of our cell phones and replaced them with an iPad and iPod touch. Less monthly bills+fun new toys= :)jones is busy up in SLC finishing up a refresher course for his EMT certification. We have missed him the last couple of days and can't wait to get back to our normal routine. I have laundry to fold and a baby shower to get ready for, so more blogging later...

Prayers for Pat

My dear SIL Peepsta's  mom  and her family are in my prayers. She is an amazing mom and example of taking care of others, and  She is going through some scary health stuff right now. 

I know that Heavenly Father loves her and hears our prayers for her. 

I know that if I ask him, he will look after her and take care of Pip and all her family. 

So tonight i'll pray for Pat and hope she feels the love of all those who are praying for her.

Hanging out. Part 3 of Trip

After the Oscar Part we spent the next 2 days doing whatever we wanted.

This meant a lot of tasty food, such as chicken curry, Thai spring rolls, left over crepes and candied bacon, donuts and more.

In the mornings Jones and Melancholy went on long runs and I happily hung out with the kiddos.

I loved spending time with my niece and nephews!

The beautiful March Arizona weather made playing outside perfect and my kids spent most of the trip playing with the chickens.

I had a World Market coupon I was excited to use (we don't have one by us) so the girls took me out. I was able to get some fun dishes, and other goodies. Little Miss C picked up some tea while we were out and made us tea and biscuits when we got home, super tasty! with raspberry jam. 

The first night we were there we played a round of Settlers of Catan, a game J+melancholy introduced to us and now it had been so long since they had played we had to remind them how it works.

The next morning while the other adults were getting their run on, Little miss C and I made donuts. Hanging out with her was on of my favorite parts of the trip. We talked about how we both loved making sweets, and opening our own shop called CC's. we would sell donut shaped rice crispie treats with frosting and spinkles, and a dozen other treats. 

E was so much older than I imagine in my head and I loved talking with him about his stuff, reading his book, his frustration wit L and so on. L is the sweetest thing, very willing to let you hug him :), and he and C were pretty inseparable while we were there.

Then there was this little guy who gave me tons of smiles behind the safety of his binky, so long as I never stood between him and his mommy.

Our last night we gout ourselves a sitter and went out, like real adults!!

We ate at Grimaldi's, a tasty New York pizza place, and after we were sufficiently stuffed we walked over to Frost, a gelato place, I am bummed I didn't get a pic cause the place was pretty cool looking. I had the Tiramisu Gelato and it was awesome!!

We headed home reluctant to go to bed knowing that it was our last night and in the morning we would start our long trip home...

Oscar party, Part 2 of trip

After a nice short trip Sunday morning we arrived at j+melancholysmile's at about 3 just in time for them to get home from church, and us to start prepping for the Oscar party! 

I already knew Melancholy was one of the most fabulous women I know and still I was amazed by how quickly She put together this party. With 2 days notice that we were coming, and 3 hours before guests arrived, we still had crepes, bacon wrapped steaks, caviar on toast, oysters rocker fella (sp?) candied bacon and mocktails galore!

Bow tie napkins on the table and still time to get dressed in 20's attire.

It was so much fun, I got so distracted by the food {candied bacon and Ginger ale lime mint mocktails} that I had to fill in most of my ballot last minute. The H's print out ballots of the nominees and compete for who can guess the most right.

I can tell you right now I didn't win. :)

Little Miss C and her Shirley temples.

The host couple and the dominator of The Oscars 2012, Melancholy got 20/24 right.

Me ignoring my low score of 7 out of 24, drowning my sorrow in more candied bacon and hanging out on the couch with this cutie. She was such fun to be around.

Laughing at E watching the oscars from the table with C's binoculars 

I wish I had more pics of the night, but alas you will have to wait for Melancholy to do her post, I really should get a new lens for my camera already! too bad they are so spendy. Oh well, 

anyways up next 2 days relaxing in the warm sunny {and windy} Arizona with the most Adorable people...

Busy day, part 2 coming!

Part 2 of our trip is still on it's way, but my Friday is filled with appointments and errands, and potty training October. 

Taking in the little moments to enjoy being home, and celebrating Daniel Craig's birthday of course. :)

Happy March.

I guess 30 rock was right real life is for March.

A Drive part 1

On Thursday morning Jones and I had the thought that it would be fun to go and visit his sister, MelancholySmile in AZ, and so we did. :) 

It helped that we had just gotten our tax return, making our crazy idea a possibility.

It took a little working out but Saturday after Jones got off work we hit the road.

We were prepared for a slow easy going trip, playing everything by ear, and rolling with the punches.

We listened to books on tape and stopped at plenty of Mcdonald's to hijack internet and let the kids run around. By 10:30 pm we had made it to route 66 and decided to stay the night somewhere and start fresh in the morning. We got a comfy hotel cause there was no point in stopping if we couldn't sleep comfortably.

The kids were so tired they didn't even wake up when we brought them to the room. 

The next morning we woke up, showered and headed down for breakfast refreshed, excited and happy, except for Alfred who was just hungry.

Good thing there was a lot of food!

I made us a cinnamon waffle with strawberries and whipped cream, grabbed some sausage, eggs and cranapple juice.

Alfred was pretty happy with that. Eggs are his favorite.

The only seats available were at the bar tables and Alfred and I couldn't sit there so Tober and C got to be big kids at the adult table.

Jones, who is normally a crabby traveler {love ya babe but it's true :)}was pretty awesome. We joked and laughed and kept on the same page the whole way making the trip so pleasant.

First leg of the journey full success!!

Next, the Oscar Party...

Chocolate cookies for breakfast

We are right smack dab in the middle of our move.

As of yesterday we moved completely out and new tenants moved in.

The kids are adjusting to breakfast made up of chocolate chip cookies, lunches of pretzel and San Pellagrino, sleeping in their clothes and stuff constantly moving around them.

Of course because I am who I am I put temporary wallpaper up in our bedroom

and got us new phone, as a housewarming gift.

It was a crazy weekend, Chels got all moved into their new home, my Dad came for a visit and brought my Sister and her 3 boys with him. So we moved and visited, moved and visited...

Wish you guys can come back soon. 

Love ya Pixieshtick

Today I need to unpack a few boxes and rest my legs a bit.

I think I will start with resting my legs...and maybe a few cookies. :)

I had planned on doing an Oscar Party(Jones family is notorious for this and it has become a pretty big tradition for us) but everything seems to be falling through, so it looks like it will just be Jones and I, unless I make some magic happen. 

Fairy  Godmother feel free to interrupt me any time now...