More B-days

Happy Birthday to one of my BFFs, Tiffany. She is 28 years OLD today (eek for me, I follow in 3 months!) Sweet, sassy and beautiful, she is a wonderful mommy to Olivia, and preg with baby #2, a boy due in early March. I call him Paco Manuel. We started as friends our sophomore year of DHS, when she came to my house in her old old old blue chevy truck, "papa smurf", to give me a little Christmas present. From there we almost always together, sluffing many, oh so many days at good ol' Sills cafe, barely graduated, worked at Denny's together with Lori. We were engaged within months of each other, married only one full week apart, and had our first children within a few months of one another. Sorry, though, she can go on to baby #2 without me.
Happy Birthday Beautiful, I hope you have a wonderful Day!!!

Tuesday Again...

The house is clean, my laundry is done. Perfect for me to get out and enjoy the day, take Haddie for a walk to the park, maybe go find some treasures at the DI, start her Halloween costume...Or I could park it on the couch for the rest of the day and finish my book...Hmm. Decisions.

Yesterday was my Sweet Mother in Laws Bday. She is so good to us, and Hadley LoVEs to be with her. Th bug carries around our family picture, constantly pointing out "Momma" (Grandma) and "BaPa." I give her all the credit for my honey turning out sweet and somewhat clued in to how women are(big thanks, there!). He'll even watch chick flicks, thanks to many nights of folding laundry with his mom, watching Pretty Woman. Happy Birthday Cheryl, we love you!!

Duh Do Duh Duh...Alex is 9 today!!! Can't believe it. And He has made it this far healthy and unhurt! Oh wait. Has it even been a week yet since his last incident?



Happy birthday to you, you smell like a dirty little (well big, now) boy!
I love to see your twinkley blue eyes, but your long beautiful eyelashes make me weep with jealousy.
Happy birthday to you, you are a sweet older, proud brother, a lot like your daddy was (is still, but only to me, his fave.)
Happy Birthday To You, AJ, Alex, SmayJay, Instacare Patient #34, Little JD!! Bob the Builder, Ninja, the first 2 year old to know all the names and makes of every model of construction vehicle known to man. "Look Alex, a back-hoe!" "No, thats a front loader!" Stupid Kacy. Love you AJ.

My giggles for the week:
*I painted my knife block. Black is just so bland...
*I am on book 4 of the Twilight series. Yes, y'all were right. But I am just into it a little, so I seem to be more confused...
*Finally got a chance to play Wii. I boxed Brent and KO'd him. But my back muscles are so sore I can barely move. This might be next on our list of needs...
*Check out Heidis Design Blog and see the cute pict she did of Hadley Jo.

So Close to Done...

This was the first weekend in a long time where I was glad for Monday to come around. I am POOPED. I worked Wed thru Fri, long, never ending days. Saturday we had a fun filled day at LAGOON with Brents work, and Hadley shocked me by LOVING IT! As soon as we got out of the car she was squealing at the roller coasters, saying "wow" and "up" and "wees." After each ride ended she would sign "more" while saying it over, over and over. Funny, she has the beginnings of a cold today. From germs, maybe? Hand in mouth after dirty rides, sick.

This is the point where my camera battery died. Lucky for you, that shortens this post somewhat!

Sunday, was zoo day. Stinky, sticky, fun zoo. The reason behind this, (besides many Sundays of the boys out riding horses, and the girls feeling the need to get OUT) was to FINALLY finish Hadleys ABC book. Accomplished.
For this one, my sil is going to email me this picture. This is why I am oh, so so close to being done.








And because this post is not quite long enough, I am going to share with you a list of loves this week:
*Comcast Cable for having a 90's music station. Nothing reminds me of Jr High and High School like Spice Girls, Marky Mark, and Mr. Wendell. I have been listening to it regularly now. Right now it is Cranberries.
*Surprise party for Brents boss tonight. Sushi. Barf. I tell you, I am looking forward to spending good CLOTHES MONEY on a meal that will keep me gagging for the next 3 days. "Can you just bring me some lettuce and some water? Oh and maybe some plain rice" I wonder if they will be offended if I bring in a McDonalds Bag of food? Would I still have to tip?
*Fall. I love it. The smell, the cool air, the pumpkins. MMMMMM. Halloween. I can't wait.
*Edward. Ok, I'll admit. I am a little hooked. I am bribing myself with book #3 only if I get my fall deco out, and my house cleaned. Then I can go buy it. There are certain things that bug me about the books so far, and I have to remind myself its a fairy tale. Bella is just a little too co-dependent for me, and the men in her life are fairly controlling. That, and I must be a major perv, because all I keep thinking, is can Vampires have sex? and if he runs that fast, what is he going to do to the poor girl on their honeymoon? And I keep wondering about the size....Ok. I'll stop there. Perv, Kacy. Get your mind out of the sheets!
*OMG THE OFFICE! Did anyone else see the premier? I totally think Angela is pregnant! Another fun show to watch: Tabathas Salon Takeover. On Bravo. If you like hair salons, I guess.
*Edward. Oh wait, I said that already. I just can't get him out of my head. Tiff warned me, said I would feel like I was being a little unfaithful to my husband. Well, hm. Kinda!

Tuesdays Depress Me...

For some reason Tuesday comes along in my week and I go through a mini-pity session. I know I have to work the next 3 or 4 days, will not be able to accomplish ANYTHING, get home late, my house will resemble a tornado aftermath, and it will take me till next Monday evening to get things back in order, starting over in my tantrum... Whoa is me... Not to mention how much I miss my child during this, and the more I work the whinier and clingier she also becomes. So, now that I have got that out of my system, I will go out and enjoy this BEAUTIFUL fall day. This IS my favorite time of year...

Just sharing some more pictures with you. Some that I have worked on from our trip, and some of what I have worked on around the house. And one of my wonderfully artistic toddler...
See my new bed? Yes, it is high quality, 100% pure oak. Or is it cherry. Oh wait, its drywall and vinyl. But isn't it cute? and I finally got around to sewing new pillows for my bed. I think they are stinkin cute...
My very favorite scrap craft I did the other night, hanging in my bathroom that will probably always be just too messy for anyone to see how cute it is now..

Thank you, Lori, for teaching my child to draw on skin. I couldn't stop her though, just this once. It was too cute.


I love how the texture on this one turned out.

Park in Moab, Utah, where we stopped for Hadley to get some wiggles out.

They had these old school teeter totters, and I absolutely love them! Nothing brings back memories of being a kid like having your thighs melt to a scorching hot frog, duck or strange horse.
If you can't tell, Brent wouldn't pull over for me to take pictures, so this is taken in motion, but I still think it was beautiful. Actually, I was in the middle of reading (yes, I finally broke down and started TWILIGHT) and Brent kept saying "Aren't you even going to look around!? This is so cool! Quick! Take a picture!" Anyway, this is just inside the Utah border,I think. I do remember what Edward was doing at this point in my drive, though...

Addition to....

In lieu of Emails

We finally arrived home at about 8:30 tonight and I have to post some quick pictures. Mostly for mom and Kari, who are probably somewhat antsy to see pictures... Our trip was wonderful. Colorado is amazing, and it was so fun to see Lori, my good friend from high school. Besides a daily 60 minute tantrum, and myself giving in and allowing just one week of binky, Hadley was so fun. She is the cutest little stink I know... These are all un-edited, but you know me, give it a couple of days and I will fill up the screen with some fun photoshop....

Day one, Telluride. This is on the gondola on the way to town. The hippy is Lori. I already miss her...







Train Museum. Hadley absolutely freaked out at the "CHOO CHOO!!!"

The view leaving Ouray. This little town was absolutely gorgeous.
This is "Million Dollar Highway" beautiful but scary. No gaurdrails.
Durango. The highlight of our trip. 3 and a half hours each way in the train. Thank you modern technology though, our DVD player saved us...


Silverton, where we ate lunch. I saw this fun wall and couldn't resist.


Oh, peace at last. She slept most of the way back.

Wilsons arch, Moab.

For mom, more sunflowers than I have ever seen...
>And just for giggles...