May 31, 2010

memorial day weekend!!!

LOVE LAKE PAL!!!!!
LOVE LONG WEEKENDS!!!
When they both combine together at the same time it's seriously heaven!
Soooo nice to have a holiday for all the memorialable times here at Pal thru the years, various modest bikini's, different houseboats, different hairdo's!!
Tridger & Alivyiah have the cutest little tanlines from being bear foot you would seriously die they are so stinkin' adorable!!!!!!!!!
happy memorial day everyone!!!

May 26, 2010

yum

Hope the cute new mom I signed up to bring dinner for doesn't mind to bad but I noticed on facebook that she still looked...well, no way to say it except tubalardy, even tho she's already been home from the hospital for FOUR DAYS. Yuck!

So, scrapped my gourmay casserole plans and just got back from dropping off a tub of that Costco prewashed lettuce. She'll thank me. LOVE service!

May 24, 2010

monumomental

Sorry I haven't blogged in forever! Things are CRAZY! Am seriously so blessed but seriously soooo busy, spent all morning sobbing! Seriously just balling, can't believe how fast Alivyiah & Tridger are growing up, its nuts!! If you'd of told me they'd of changed this much I'd of never of believed you! In the fall they start the 15-month-and-up joy school! So today is they're graduation from the youngest level of pre-preschool!! Every time anything ends no matter how teensy slash trivial, it involves cappin-gowns and it's called graduation!! So exited for them to graduate from non-nursery, to graduate from baby einstiens to little einsteins, to graduate from younger nursery to older nursery, to graduate from book baby to story time, to graduate from high chairs to boosters, I could go on all day!! SO CRAZY!!!!!!

There grad announcements I made are super cute and I'd totally post them execpt JJWT's all worried about creepers and stockers. COnGrAduLaTIoNS, tWiNs!!

May 20, 2010

frumpity frump bump

You guys, not to depress you but Ruth's friend baby shower last weekend?

{{hushed devastated whisper}}

Ew.

Bad enough she's not finding out gender---boaring--and that everyone there had nasty hair and spent the whole time talking about parenting instead of nurseries but there was seriously no theme. It's like, why even HAVE a party if there's not an unrelated subject for everything to matchy matchy such as owls or ladybug's or trucks?

The dishes and treats and invites? Nothing "tied" them "together." ALL CLASHING COLORS.

No centerpiece's.

No darling specialty treats.

No favors.

No diaper cake, no cupcakes, no dipped strawberries.

No water bottles at all, let alone ones w/ the labels replaced w/ paper that matched the non-existant theme.

Guys, not to freak you out but there was no banner.

Anywhere! I searched!

Ugh. The baby's not even borne yet and already has so much to overcome...it'll prolly never get asked to guestpost anywhere.

May 14, 2010

holy narsi-cyst

You know how my frumpy yawn of a SIL red-flag Ruth was all selfish in getting preggo when she KNEW we were trying??? Well, honestly I can't believe the gawl she has. She's having a baby shower this weekend! Even though JJWT is graduating AND we are thinking about moving AND I have a hair appt!! If I weren't so nice I seriously wouldn't even go, talk about stilling our thunder.

May 12, 2010

updates!!!!

Sorry mother's day past w/o me even posting a pic of I and my Mom at my wedding!! LOVE her! I don't even have TIME to reminise all the times she taught me by example life lessons w/ eternal significance like nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, or even INNER beauty stuff like if you stay mad to long you get wrinkles, bc I am too busy being exited about JJWT'S GRADUATION!!!

Can't believe it's time for us to get our juris doctrine/MBA school diploma/dentist certificate/dr's license or whatever!!! Us wive's club members wanted to get a couple dozen pro photo sessions to capture us in various themed outfits doing different sassy posses, luckily 15 of us own our own {pro} photog bizzes aka cameras, so we have a billion shoots scheduled, which almost makes up for the fact that I don't like Tridger's and Alivyiah's 13.5 month photos nearly as much as there 13 month ones and I will seriously ball if there is a huge gap in there baby book's.

p.s. My SweetiePockets is thinking about taking a different job!!! We were planning on working for my dad forever but there's a new opportunity and w/ my crappy calling I totally want a new ward or at least a new kitchen! BAA!

May 7, 2010

akward

Sooooo now that Yvette is all serious and boring on her mission in Russia, I'm trying to reach out to all the spinsties I see so they have at least one friend and more of a reason to get out of bed in the morning you know? So today shopping at Banana I ran into this single girl, she seriously has a job and everything, and for service I was like "Hi! Sorry in advance about Sunday! We'll miss you!" She was all, "What?" and I was like, "When your not there at church on Sunday, we'll miss you." She was all, "What? I'll be there," and I touched her hairy arm all concerned and was like "Really? That is so brave of you, showing up even on MOTHERS day!"

She is so strong! Isn't that so amazing???

I thought she would think how selfless I was for being all nice but she got super groutchy and was like "You know, as a matter of fact I like Mother's Day, and I have a great mom," and it almost made me cry how cute she was, trying to pretend it's about HAVING one instead of BEING one. Isn't that so brave??

May 6, 2010

Mommyhood tips!

A version of this post appears in the May issue of the Provo Orem Word, a darling new online literary magazine.

Basicly I am a
official expert on moms and being a mom and impressing other mom’s and everything. Ever since the magical moment JJWT and me conceived our twins I’ve seriously oozed parenting advice and hate to brag but most people say I’m naturally so good it’s freaky. Over the year, I’ve defiantly learned a TON of tricks about being a hip mom! Ready to learn some wisdom from a cute mom w/ chunky jewelry, tons of sass and a streak-free spray tan?

One of my goal’s this year is to SiMpLiFy so I broke it down into key words!

First off, EASY! The best easiest way to show the world you rock as a mom is if you’re babies are EASY. Any time any one asks about your baby, no matter what, say it’s easy. Get creative, e.g., “He is soooo easy!” or “She goes EASY on us” or whatever, as long as you say EASY loud and clear! This is a total code word for everyone you know to tell if your hot and righteous or frumpy and miserable, bc lame moms who hate fun and forget to shave their legs are the only ones who have fussy babies. Women who CTR are the ones who end up w/ clean, mellow, smiley, darling, chill, EASY babies who sleep through the nite starting in uterow. Plus babies sleeping habits reflect your worth as a person so ALWAYS round up, e.g., if they slept five hours, go ahead and just call it ten. Personally, my babies are so EASY and have always slept 12 – 14 hours a night since WAY before they were even BORN and are so chill I feel bad for everyone else who has kids that aren’t them, lol! So embarassed for my friend who’s kid is STILL waking up at three months, sad.

Second off, CHAMP! This is THE word you should ALWAYS use when talking about how your baby does normal baby things. Who cares if it doesn’t make sense? It sounds stinkin’ adorable!! Never, EVER say something as frumpy and normal as “They slept ‘well’” or “She’s a ‘pretty good’ eater.” Your babies should only EVER be compared to CHAMPS. “She sleeps like a champ!” “He poops like a champ!” “She drools like a champ!” “She cruises like a champ!” “He has the neck muscles of a champ!” “She eats like a champ!” Honestly trust me on this. Champ you can say for both boys and girls, but if your going to say anything else, use stud for boy and princess for girl, and make sure you always talk there gender roles way before they can even see in color. My Tridger is seriously ALL BOY, when he was a week old I swear his pupils dilated when he saw guns and tractors. Alivyiah seriously looses it if we try to leave the house without a ginorm bow, she is ALL GIRL. They are such champs!

Third off, POOP! Talk about poop tons. People LOVE that. Even if they don’t have kids, they love love LOVE hearing about the color, texture, projectile, and how often it gets on you. Take pictures of huge blow-outs , which is the cute term for liquid poop shooting out of a diaper, and blog all the pics of stains and just how zany things get with all the pooping! HYSTERICAL! Alivyiah and Tridger are so funny with their poops. They just turned 1 and have been potty-trained for EVER {but in our family we try to use briter words like toilet learning and elimination communication}. Either way, the more details you give fam, friends, heck even acquaintances about your kids’s poops the better.

Fourth off, compliments! A simple way to squeeze in bragging w/o seeming like your bragging is just to disguise whatever you want to say about your kids as something someone else said about your kids. It sounds complicated at first but ends up being super easy! For examples, just the other day Alivyiah, Tridger and me were shopping at the outlets {LOVE them!} and like five random people all said “Your daughter looks just like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s little girl!!!” Isn’t that so crazy?? {Note: So no one actually quote-on-quote SAID that, but so what? It is a serious fact that I think she TOTALLY looks like they’re daughter, and everyone was probably THINKING it, so SAYING people say that all the time allows me to bring up Alivyiah’s darling star qualities all non-shalantly and then I can just do my smirk-shrug full of pity like hey, not my fault no one says that to YOU, you know?}. Great, right? And guys, honestly this works w/ everything, not just baby stuff, like you can say “People keep saying I look like I'm loosing weight, isn’t that weird?” or “I HATE hate HATE this haircut but EVERYONE loves it, isn’t that CRAZY??” You’ll thank me for this one.

Better go, sounds like Alivyiah just woke up from her most recent four-hour nap, she is so easy!! Can’t wait to hear about your little champs’ poops at our next GNO…this month we’re doing fondue! Hate to brag but everyone tells me, even strangers tell me, my GNOs are the best. Good luck w/ everything, mom’s! Your welcome!

May 3, 2010

i use to not even know that!

So us graduating is making me all reminiscy!!!! soooo, FLASH BACK!!

I member back when we very first started law/biz/med/dental school and you know what, we were sooooooooooooooooooooo young and adorable. Like I swear back then I was saying stuff like "gave me a gift" or "went thrift-store shopping" instead of GIFTING and THRIFTING!!!!! For example now I wouldn't be caught red saying anything besides "she gifted me those darling shoes" or "I thrifted this darling shirt". So hillarious how much I learned w/o even realizing it!