Let me start this story by saying we bank at our grocery store, and know most of the bank people on a first name basis. They know Jaxon by name, what he's interested in etc. So today, one of the newer tellers comes over to where I'm transacting and says,
"I just have to tell you, for a young mom, you are always so well put together!"
HAHAHAHA!!! Let me highlight TWO reasons why that made my entire year-
1. YOUNG MOM!?!?! I won't ask what the criteria are, I will just say thank you!
2. WELL PUT TOGETHER!?!?! Anyone who actually knows me, knows that is a JOKE! Here's the thing. Anyone who is busy/a mom/wants to save a little on gas/isn't crazy ---runs all their errands at once if possible. Well, usually the first time I leave the house in the morning is to go teach at the gym, thus, I'm in gym clothes with my hair pulled back as tight as possible (I'm a little OCD about hair touching my face or neck while exercising!) And once I'm out- I'm out. So most of my errands get run while I'm not only in my gym clothes, but AFTER I have taught a class so I look like a drowned rat and smell like one too. She must have seen me the two times in my life that I went to the grocery store in actual clothes...but bless her heart!
Next up, I bought myself a pair of cute jeans. I'm tired of jeans that don't fit right because they cost $16 at Walmart, and telling myself I will buy nicer ones when I'm at a size I actually want to admit to wearing...well NO MORE. I bought a cute pair of Silver's that I love, that has a tiny bit of artful snagging in it. (I'm was pretty sure it's not so much that it makes me look like a "young mom" with an identity crisis...but now I'm not so sure) So I wore them today and when Dave got home this was our conversation-
ME: "Do you like my jeans?"
Dave: "Yes, but what happened to them???"
Me: THE LOOK
Dave: "Please don't tell me you bought them like that!?"
Me- THE LOOK
Dave: "Seriously? Did you EXPECT me to like them?"
Me- THE LOOK
Dave- "I mean...I like this part over hear, and the legs and everything else, but the tears...really?"
Me- THE LOOK
Thankful Thanksgiving, and HELP PLEASE!
Well, I have been feeling pretty down in the dumps lately, and I have decided that has got to end! SO, I am going to do my best to everyday write on the blog, 3 things I am thankful for. Big things, little things, whatever is on my mind. I may expound, I may not...I just need to remind myself how blessed we really are. So here is Day one of Thankful Thanksgiving-
1. My sister in law Emily who has watched Jaxon more hours than I can count these past couple months. Photo shoots, Dr. Apts, you name it, she will watch him. Better yet, she LOVES HIM, a lot. He Adores her, and often refers to her daughters as his "sisters." She is quickly becoming one of his favorite people on the earth, and he cries sad, genuine tears when he has to leave there house. I love that he is treated like one of their own.
2. Dave's job. I hate that it is busy season for both of us, but I will never complain again (at least not for a long time) about long hours, or Saturday work. He loves his job, his boss, what he does, the location, and I have a new appreciation for just having a job!
3. Cooler weather. Enough said.
SECOND-HELP NEEDED!!!
I want to do the 24 days of Christmas with Jaxon this year. I know from your blogs that some of you do that, and was wondering if you could leave me the link of the service/Christmas oriented activities you do each day. I am planning on devoting December solely to Jaxon, family, and service, so would love some great activities. I also would love to see how you dislayed it. I won't have time before we start to make anything fancy, but am not against a craft project to fill my December nights when I won't be editing anymore!
1. My sister in law Emily who has watched Jaxon more hours than I can count these past couple months. Photo shoots, Dr. Apts, you name it, she will watch him. Better yet, she LOVES HIM, a lot. He Adores her, and often refers to her daughters as his "sisters." She is quickly becoming one of his favorite people on the earth, and he cries sad, genuine tears when he has to leave there house. I love that he is treated like one of their own.
2. Dave's job. I hate that it is busy season for both of us, but I will never complain again (at least not for a long time) about long hours, or Saturday work. He loves his job, his boss, what he does, the location, and I have a new appreciation for just having a job!
3. Cooler weather. Enough said.
SECOND-HELP NEEDED!!!
I want to do the 24 days of Christmas with Jaxon this year. I know from your blogs that some of you do that, and was wondering if you could leave me the link of the service/Christmas oriented activities you do each day. I am planning on devoting December solely to Jaxon, family, and service, so would love some great activities. I also would love to see how you dislayed it. I won't have time before we start to make anything fancy, but am not against a craft project to fill my December nights when I won't be editing anymore!
Carving pumpkins '09
With both Dave and I in the middle of our busy seasons, we haven't had a lot of family together time...so when we can get it, WE TAKE IT! Thursday night we let Jax stay up a little late to carve a pumpkin. He was thrilled.
#2- Of Course! If there is one thing Jaxon ISN'T afraid of...it's being messy!
#3- Show mom the guts! YUM!
#4- Diligently draw the perfect Witch's face!
#5 Carve away boys!
Earlier I had taken him to Fry's and let him pick out any pumpkin he wanted. It made me smile that he picked this warty thing. We have a book called The Bumpy Little Pumpkin where the moral is about being an individual and not looking only on the outside. When he saw this pumpkin he knew he had to have it...though we did get lots of strange looks in frys!
We let him use a marker to draw whatever face he wanted. Seeing as though he is 3, there was actually no face drawn, just a lot of intense scribbling. He was convinced though that he had drawn the scariest witch, and was ready to carve. He got to help scoop the guts, and also help hold Dave's hand as Dave held the knife. My addition to the whole thing? Taking pictures and festive Fall fashion!
PS- Jax woke up at 5:30 this morning so we again decided to take advantage of our family together time before Dave went to work (yes, work on Saturday, on Halloween ....remember ...Busy season???) And we went to IHOP. We spent a great hour together where Jaxon ate nothing but Bacon and Sausage, and I had some seriously delicious chocolate chip pumpkin Pancakes!
Step 1- Check out the goop...will he go for it?
#2- Of Course! If there is one thing Jaxon ISN'T afraid of...it's being messy!
#3- Show mom the guts! YUM!
#4- Diligently draw the perfect Witch's face!
#5 Carve away boys!
My addition- Awesome Fall fashion!
Ties are Ready to buy!!! ...just not online!
Okay, for anyone who knows what I've been up to this year (2 trips to China...) a few of my family members, me included, are starting a matching tie business...The Matching Tie Guy... Matching ties in EVERY size! So, think, cool fabrics in ties ranging from Newborn size all the way to adult. All the ties are here, and catagorized (22 styles) but the website is not up yet. A few of you have said that you wanted to get the ties for your family for Christmas, so here's the deal. You can email me and we can plan a time for you to come see them, and buy them from the house...($14.99 each +tax) but the website is taking longer than expected (something always does right?) so we aren't going online until Just after the first of the year! But hey...no shipping costs right???
Email me or leave me a message here if you want to come look! We have at least one in every color you can think of, and several in "Christmas colors" (ie red/white/black, and silver/white and silver/black)
We have 40 more fabrics being made as we speak, but they will not get here until around the first week of December!
Rawhide!
All week I've been stressed out of my mind, due largely in part to the guilt I feel about how little time I have been spending with Jaxon lately. I have booked too many shoots and made too many other obligations, and can't get out of them. I feel like I'm always dropping Jaxon off somewhere. So I decided that no matter how many other things needed to get done, we were having a FUN FAMILY NIGHT (gosh darn it!) on Friday. We picked up Dave from work and drove out to Rawhide. I have to say, it was probably one of the 2 most fun days/nights we have spent together (the 3 of us) all year....I know...it doesn't speak very highly of our year to date (it's been a rough year) but none-the-less, we had a spectacular time!
The burro ride begins...
Oh Dave! You're so dreamy!!!
It was touch and go at first...Jaxon was crying and hysterically begging to go home after he saw all the scary guys roaming the streets when we first got there! And...the scary music being piped in even freaked me out! But we got past the escape convict and the headless horseman and headed for a little less scary side of town. There Jaxon got to ride a burro, we all went on a haunted train ride (that Jax swears he loved but hid his face for most of) saw a gunshow, watched Dave climb the rock wall, painted a pumpkin, roasted marshmallows, ate a hotdog, and what did Jaxon ask the facepainter to give him?? A MUSTACHE!! It was a hilarious handlebar mustache, and it was awesome!
I brought my camera with no on-camera flash, and I don't have an external flash, thus...no flash. It was very dark so I didn't really take too many pictures, and the ones I did take are super grainy. BUT I DON'T CARE! It was a fantastic stress free night together, and come Thanksgiving day, I think Im going to plan at least one family outing a week for the rest of the year. It just reminded me how great it is to be with my boys!
This is Jaxon with the super-scary scarecrow. The guy talked to Jaxon normally and told him he was just playing dress up...but notice how Jaxon is still pointing his "cowboy gun" at him!
The burro ride begins...
Oh Dave! You're so dreamy!!!
We really are THAT LAME...
I have been finding this "situation" both hilarious and pitiful for a while now, so I thought I would share-
Behold...Jaxon's TUB TOYS!
1. An old sand toys bucket
2. A toy alligator with the tail broken off
3. An empty shampoo bottle
4. An empty sunflower seed tube
5. 2 toys from McDonalds Happy Meals
6. The end cap to his electric toothbrush that stopped working
7. A cup
8. A measuring cup
9. And the CROWN JEWELS of his collection- his sponge dinosaurs.
I felt so bad about his crappy toys that I bought one of those $2.49 packages at Frys of the "Dinosaur pills" the kind that disolves in water and has a sponge dino inside. He gets to use ONE everytime he takes a bath, which has exponentially increased his bathing!
So, for Christmas he is getting a cool pirate ship that is made for the bathtub...
Tacos
Tonight I made tacos for dinner.
Dave ate 6.
Maybe I should make dinner more often.
...there's a novel idea.
Dave ate 6.
Maybe I should make dinner more often.
...there's a novel idea.
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