I tried.

Sunday is always a good day to take pictures, right? Everyone is all dressed up, and looks good. But then I get the camera out. And this is what happens!


I love Macie's skirt, by the way. When I saw it at Target I just had to get it. But, they didn't have her size. It was in the Girl's section, not toddler, so I needed the smallest size. And they never had it. Pretty popular, I guess. And then, I saw a few girls at church with it and got jealous. It was too cute. Gray AND polka dots, totally my thing. And then I happened to find one on the clearance rack, without a clearance sticker. I took it to the price checker, and it was only $3.24. Without a second thought, I bought it. I love it!

Have you laughed today?

How can you look at this picture and not laugh? We laugh a lot around here. A lot. Macie is a crack up. Hilarious, that girl. Noah insists he can go crosseyed as well. He cannot. He does put up a good effort. With time, I'm sure he'll master it! We were in the car coming home from Sacramento a while ago, and Macie just randomly looked at me cross eyed. It was the funniest thing ever.

It's never boring around our house. Ever.

ballet.

Macie started ballet. The community college here has a "College For Kids" dance class. It's perfect. Fairly inexpensive, close to our house, Macie has a friend in there, and the teacher is in our ward. It's perfect.

Macie has been telling people about her "dance class" for quite sometime now. Long before we even thought about a dance class for her. So, it was just a matter of time before we signed her up and got her in.

We went and got her black leotard, pink ballets, and pink tights. She was very excited. I'm in the process of making her a dance bag and skirt, because she is "the only ballerina without them." Or so I am told.


The first class was alright. She needs to listen better, for sure. And she is still sitting on the fence of tomboy and girly girl. She can't decide which one, which is fine with us. When all the other little girls were prancing around the ballet floor, her face was all scrunched {think baseball pitcher...}, her hands were in fists and she was full on sprinting back and forth. She does, however, really enjoy the hour time that she gets to spend with ALL girls. Once her feet don't want to hide under her bum anymore, and she figures out how to get her feet to go into first position, she'll be fine.

I am so proud of my little ballerina.

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{editor's note: I think this was Macie. We start the blogging young around here!}

Macie sings...

"Row, row, row your boat,
gently down the street.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily,
Life is a butter dream."

Conan.

We are big fans of Conan O'Brien. He's pretty funny. Every night, we record the Tonight Show on the DVR. And, we eventually watch all of them. Even weeks later, it's still pretty funny. And we find ourselves quoting many, many, many Conan quotes or jokes. Even the kids like the "Puppies dresses like cats" skit. He's just hilarious.

Jay Leno on the otherhand, is not. Yes, I like Monday night Headlines. But that's it. The whole Jaywalking thing has been totally way overdone. I get it, people are dumb. They don't get any smarter, and yes, they are funny. But Jay, you're not doing any of the work there. People aren't laughing with YOU, it's the ridiculous people. I am not a Leno fan. He's old. Move on. Johnny Carson did it, Jay Leno, you can too. Please.

oh, christmas trees...

We have two trees. One in the tv room, and the other in the book room. Neither tree is spectacular. Just 6 1/2 and 7 feet. And they are both pretty skinny. Adam wanted a real tree this year, but we just didn't have the time to go and get one, and so we put up the fake trees. However, both trees became naked on the bottom. between Jacob and the cat, the ornaments and lights on the lower half of the trees didn't stand a chance! Thank goodness for shatterproof ornaments.

I got a lot of good deals this year with the after Christmas sales, so stay tuned for next year. It'll be good!

weather.

It's 71 degrees right now. Yes, you read right 71. I like this weather in January, it really makes me happy. Especially when I hear about the snow and frigid cold temperatures at your houses. Hey, the invitation is always open. I know you want to trade 5 degrees for our lovely 71, huh?

missing teeth.

I have neglected to post about Noah's tooth. Yes, I know, I blogged about his first tooth already. But I haven't blogged about his SECOND tooth to fall out. My baby boy has lost not just one, but TWO teeth! Jeez.

We went to Seattle for Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with Adam's parents. {which will probably be blogged about later...} BUT...while we were there the other wiggly tooth came out. And the best part was, the tooth fairy found him there. Crazy, huh? ;-) Luckily, I packed the little tooth pillow I made, just in case. Good thing I did, my son is a sucker for routines like that.

I can't believe how old it makes him to have a huge whole in his mouth. They are growing in so fast though. They are nearly full grown teeth now. My five year old has ADULT teeth. That is just so strange to me! It all happens too fast. Way too fast...

christmas eve.

What were you doing on Christmas Eve at about 11PM until around 2? Let me show you what I was doing...


All Macie kept asking Santa for, was a Dora backpack. I could not find one anywhere. Dora is now a teenager or something. It's weird. So I sort of just hoped she'd forget about it. She didn't. She kept saying how Santa was bringing her a Dora backpack. And this girl knows what she wants and nothing will detract her from that. She remembers EVERYTHING. Seriuosly. After searching EVERY single store in our city, I decided totally last minute that I would have to make one. I found the perfect felt, and I printed a picture, and started sewing. I think it turned out pretty darn good, really. I didn't have a pattern, I just kept looking at the picture. I don't claim to be a seamstress by any means, I just do trial and error until things look right. I even added the pocket on the side. I was pretty impressed with myself! We didn't have any black felt, and so backpack got temporary blue eyes, that will change later. And the addition of the map will be added.

And yes, Macie loved it. She carries it with her many many places. And it always is "loaded up with things and nic nacs, too." Is she spoiled, or what??

haircut.

It was time for a haircut. The first haircut was a little more worrisome. It was hair that my little girl had had her entire life. It was sad. But this time was different. She rarely lets me do anything but a clip on the side. There as crap stuck in it. She got it in her cereal, and so that morning, I decided it was time.

There is this place in our mall that is especially for kids, and it was well worth it. They get to pick out a movie to watch, they get cute little smock things, and suckers, and then for girls they put glitter all over your hair, and then they gave her a little butterly clip. And it wasn't very bad priced, either. She loved it. She held stll, no tears were shed. It was great. And her haircut was very cute as well.

The last time we went to get it done, she was very whiny. And the hair cutter wasn't very cooperative with her. I had to pretty much force her to cut Macie's hair like I wanted it to be cut. But this time the girl just did it. And it looks very cute. Ad good haircut usually grows out better, so we'll see! I love short hair on Macie though. It's so cute. I hope she doesn't hate having short hair. Because I think we'll be keeping it like this for a while!

birthday party numero dos

Who doesn't want to celebrate their birthday more than once in a year? Jacob is no exception. We have a new little trend going on with full week celebrations, really. But, Adam was working and so was Erin, and our friends weren't able to make it on Saturday, and so Sunday it was. We had a few friends over, who have been Jacob's best friends throughout his first year! We had a Monster Party! It was fun. I had really high hopes of making all of these monsters for the party, I had been planning this for months, however...I did not make them. Target was my lifesaver, actually. They had monster puppets in the dollar section, totally cute. Totally cheap. Totally easy. I'm learning how to simplify things. He's one...he doesn't need this elaborate party with everything all decked out, right? I did make him a banner, which I really like, if I do say so myself...I think it'll eventually show up on his bedroom wall. We had monster party hats, and a monster cake, which by the way, didn't intend to look like Sully from Monsters Inc. It just kind of happened that way. We ate "Mini Monster Pizzas" for dinner, or english muffin pizzas, and the best peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes. Because we all know that the magical day when a baby turns one they can magically eat peanut butter, drink milk, eat honey, and turn around in their carseat. It happens just like that, ya know! But it was fun. I can't believe that OUR little monster is ONE!

clarification...

Alright, now the rest of the story. The guy at the meatball sandwich place wasn't the brightest thing around. He really did charge Adam $810.47 for 2 lunch specials. But, no, Adam did not pay that. Nor, do we have that kind of money to be throwing around. Who does? The guy voided out the transaction, but it was still hanging out on our bank account for days. Many days, actually. It was "pending" just kind of out there, still on hold, however, from the bank. But, I knew it would be resolved sooner or later, I sure as heck was not going to pay that price for a dang sandwich, no matter how good it was! Everything is fine now, and the total bill, when everything was all said and done, was $10.47. That was much MUCH better!

Good story, though, huh?