flashback friday-m.d.a. walk/run

i was in DECA in high school and we worked closely with the muscular dystrophy association. this picture is at a walk/run at sugar house park. i don't really remember what our responsibilities were, but i'm guessing we were in charge of blowing up the balloons!

what's up with my friend's jackets?! they're all huge! i guess that once again, they've all fallen victim to a late-90's trend.

ghetto pops

when i was 15, i worked at an ice cream shop at the v.f. factory outlet mall after school and i LOVED it. my friend lindsey and i would sit and eat ice cream in those little white sample spoons throughout our whole shift. this ultimately resulted in an evening craving for ice cream that i still can't shake. with summer coming soon, i decided i should probably attempt to eat a little bit better (ha!) which led me to devise my "ghetto pops". they're super yummy and they're a healthier alternative to my beloved ice cream. i call them "ghetto pops" cause they're made in ice cube trays with popsicle sticks...like the ghetto kool aid popsicles we probably all had as kids. anywho, here's how to make them.

32 oz. tub vanilla yogurt
1/2 bag frozen mixed berries (or any other frozen fruit)

mix in a blender and pour into ice cube trays. set in freezer for 20 minutes. take trays out and place a popsicle stick in each cube. let freeze for another 2 hours.



i really like the mixed berries, they taste like a frozen jamba juice to me, but tom doesn't like the seeds in it. i think i'm going to try frozen peaches next time!

laura simpson

this is me as a simpson character...according to http://simpsonizeme.com/

thoughts?

ikea on a saturday...

i was jonesing for some new bedside lamps, because the ones we had had a metal chain with a ball attached at the end of them and every time we touched them, or even walked past them for that matter, the ball would make a "pinging" sound (technical term) against the lamp and after five years it had just about driven me to insanity! so tom and i decided to brave ikea on a saturday. it was total and utter chaos but i'd had my eye on these beauties for a while now, so i finally broke down and bought them. you like?

flashback friday-kindergarten photo

my friend holly heward has a post on her blog that reads "you know you're a product of the '80's when..." and proceeds to list all the horrible fads that went along with growing up in the '80's. unfortunately it failed to list "when you have a school picture where you're pointlessly standing next to an oval oak mirror." i seriously can't figure out the reasoning behind it (thoughts, darby?). but other than the weird mirror situation, i think this picture is pretty okay...except for maybe the pseudo-sailor outfit that my mother chose for me to wear (sorry, mom!). it's cute and all, but doesn't it almost look like a costume?

family gathering

tom's side of the family got together on saturday and his cousin addie took a couple pictures of grandma shirley (tom's grandma) with the great-grandkids. as you can imagine, it was sheer chaos! i stole these off of addie's blog to share. shirley's face in the second picture is classic!

i'm officially a creepy stalker...and donny osmond smells good!

now, i know what you're thinking...i've somehow gotten so stalkerish-ly close to donny osmond that i had the privilage of smelling him. actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. however, i DID get to be in the same room with him on sunday! his nephew is in our ward and donny made an appearance for their baby's blessing. he didn't stay long enough for me to get close to him, but word from the kid that held the microphone during the blessing is that he smelled really good. so there you have it!



on to the creepy stalker part...this story will probably go down as one of my most embarassing moments in a REALLY long time! as some of you know, my super fun neighbors who live directly behind us just moved out this weekend. goodbye, airharts! we're going to miss you guys. we'll always treasure the summer evenings sitting on the hill, missy's yummy treats, and jake's compulsive lies (WHAT?! the cottonwood mall DIDN'T get blown up?) i digress...they stopped by after church yesterday to say goodbye, and were telling me that they had peeked into their house and the new owners had painted their living room almost the exact same color as ours. i knew that they weren't moving in until monday, and being the oh, so nosy person that i am, i threw on tom's work boots, along with my multi-colored heart pajama bottoms and grungy t-shirt, and wandered over to take a peek. as i was peering through their back window, i realized that the image looking back at me was not my reflection, but was the new owner inside staring back at me! CRAP!! she opened the back door, and i KNEW i had to have been bright red, and i stammered something stupid about how i was their new neighbor and didn't realize they had moved in yet, blah, blah, blah...knowing the whole time that this girl must think i'm some psycho stalker lady. she was very nice and introduced herself and her husband, and didn't act too creeped out by the fact that i was looking in their windows, but needless to say, that first impression SUCKED! any ideas on how to redeem myself?

flashback friday-little tom

oh, how i love this picture! i'm not quite sure how old tom is in this...(lisa, do you know?) but i'm guessing he's around four. i love the fact that he's shirtless (check out the muscles on that kid!), has a mullet AND a messy face! we had a ward activity last summer where you had to bring a picture of yourself as a child and you had to guess who was who. my friend carrie could not figure tom's out and it was cracking me up because i totally think his big blue eyes should have given it away!

my fedex man delivers!

after being awakend at 5:00 a.m. by a 3 year old who had wet the bed, a morning doctor visit for a possible ear infection for elliot and 10 years of being with the same man, i had all but written off this valentine's day as just any other day. but to my delight, this afternoon i received a knock at the door by a fedex man (not MY fedex man) delivering a pretty bouquet of tulips to me! now, over the years i've received many bouquets of flowers on valentine's day from tom, but they were usually meant for someone else but would wind up being a damaged package, so tom would just bring them home to me. but today this box actually had my name on it! we don't usually buy into the whole commercialism of valentine's day but it sure is nice to get a little token of love from your sweetie once in a while. thanks, babe! LOVE YA

i managed to snap a picture of the fedex truck before the guy left!

i need wire hangers!

if you go back to to my "100 things" post you'll remember that #95 stated that i hate mismatched hangers and that the only hangers i use are wooden ones. well, it pains me to do this, but i'm actually asking anyone out there if they would be willing to donate some wire hangers to me! now before you start panicking and thinking i must be going crazy, let me explain. i'm participating in a consignment sale at the end of the month and they require that clothes be hung on wire hangers only. if anyone has any that they'd be willing to send my way i would greatly appreciate it!

if you're interested...

okay, i try really hard not to have a blog that's ALL about my children, but elliot has started saying "dada" and i finally got it on video! i'm fully aware that most of you won't be totally interested, so i apologize if this is a boring post!

(i realize it's sideways! sorry!)

flashback friday-valentine's dance

in honor of valentine's day next week, i decided to whip out another high school dance picture! this was taken in february of 1999 (note the chunky, strappy shoes and choker necklace). i'm sure the photographer told us how to pose because i've always thought that we look so awkward in this picture. tom's making a smirky face while he's kissing me, and it almost looks like i'm pulling away from him. i'm not a fan of couples kissing in pictures and my face reflects that!

the dentist!

miss had her first dentist appointment today and she did so great! i was expecting her to be timid and uncooperative, but she was so excited and had so much fun! she let them do everything they needed to do and she loved getting a prize afterward!

our weekend...

last night i had four twenty-something men in my living room, all with the same glazed over look in their eyes. why, you ask? two words "halo" and "50 inch plasma". okay, technically that was four words, but whatever, you get the point! we'd been planning on getting a new t.v. for awhile and decided that we couldn't pass up the great super bowl deals that were going on! a BIG thanks to the sweet's for letting us use their van to transport our purchase!



on a side note...i was making a potato dish today and was adding some salt & pepper to the top, when the lid of my pepper popped off and left me with this!



::sigh::

my sweet husband rinsed them all off and it ended up tasting fine.

flashback friday-middle school

i'm thinking that this picture was probably the last day of 8th grade which would make this around 1997. i'm not sure if you can tell exactly what i'm wearing, but the "look" i was going for back then consisted of lots of my dad's t-shirts paired with gym shorts or boxers. in this particular picture i'm wearing some kind of olympic t-shirt. also important-you HAD to have a matching scrunchie on your arm. mine is red, my friend alanna, in the middle, has one on her elbow, and i know that you can't see my other two friend's hands, but i have no doubt that they have a scrunchie on them somewhere!