The LaFavorites

2011-10-06T19:01:00.001-07:00

I just realized that I haven't posted a blog in six months. It has been a busy few months, mostly with naps. Now I'm trying to finish up my masters so I can start making Christmas gifts. I have very fun ideas for what time make all the kiddos I know this year. Anyway, here is a few recent favorite photos of Jamesie this summer.

2011-03-26T19:51:00.000-07:00

I downloaded Picasa and am in love with it. So far some of my favorites (original and then new)

2011-03-22T07:11:00.000-07:00

Showin off his cute homemade pants that go great with his starwars shirt.
I love these boys.

Happy Birthday Scarlett

2011-03-08T08:58:00.000-08:00

To start with, Jamesie has a new favorite way to watch tv, curled up and in chill mode.

On to the rest of the post! I finished Scarlett's birthday gift! Now, I have never seen yo gabba gabba but a few google images helped me make this cute bag. I love it so much that I kinda want to keep it, except the strap is too short for me so I guess i will have to pass it along. :)

The front of the bag has spaces to hold markers and a peek a boo from the unibrow guy because as I told Jason, no gift is complete without a unibrow. I hope she loves it and if not Jamesie has offered to take it off her hands. Happy Birthday Scarlett, I can't believe you are already two!

Pants

2011-03-03T22:16:00.000-08:00

I made pants for Jamesie!! All by myself because I'm awesome (and modest). Halfway through I decide to be uber impressive and make them reversible. Wow! They aren't finished yet because he isn't awake for me to measure his waist and his height. However, here are the pictures of what they look like right now. Tomorrow I will post a picture of him hopefully being cute in them.

Here is one side. Though I don't know if I will keep the cuffs.
Here is the other side. This side is soft. I want to turn it into sheets. Or just a pillow case.

I made a cute little tag to hide where I messed up the elastic and forgot to hide it in the first place. But apparently it is geeky. And Jason is a jerk.

2011-02-25T19:33:00.001-08:00

James is 20 months old today! Dang I can't believe it. Here are some of the amazing things he can do now:

-Yesterday he wanted help with something and said "help please" without prompting from us.

-This morning he wanted out of his chair and said "please get up"

-He pretty consistently will say "hi ___" or "bye ___" to whoever he is talking to.

(Can you tell I'm impressed with his talking skills?)

-He LOVES Bob and Larry of Veggietales, Bob mostly. He is learning to be patient and do the "loading" dance when waiting for netflix to load Bob. He will let us know it is time to watch Bob by saying "Bob," pointing at the tv, and bringing us the proper remote. He is also getting the point where he knows how to work some of the controls and can restart Bob on his own at times.

-He LOVES Ernie and other Sesame Street characters.

-His favorite foods include: blueberries, cake, cookies, cheetos, cheese, and bread. He has become a picky eater though and most nights chooses to skip dinner rather than eat what I make.

-He can identify 17 letters (wow!)

-He sleeps o.k. Not great. Not as terrible as before.

-He loves having a house and a backyard to run around in.

-I think maybe that is all for now.

food blogging for coworkers.

2011-02-14T19:23:00.000-08:00

So Darcy and Alex didn't believe that I could make pizza on a bbq. To prove them wrong I thought I would food blog it. :)

So you start with pizza crust dough. SOOO easy. 1/2 c water and that box of mix. Stir then rest for five minutes. (This is two boxes worth)
Next you knead it for a few minutes.
Roll it out all romantic like, it is Valentines day after all.
Prepare your toppings. Or if you are like James, you could just do this stage and eat cold pepperoni for dinner.
Toss it on the bbq. :) (see it does work!) Here it has already been flipped over, I didn't leave this batch on long enough to get the lines though. About 4-5 minutes per side. After you flip it you add the toppings and then close the lid for 5 minutes. Opening it to check on it will slow the melting of the cheese.

Tada! Pizza heart for the hubby and pizza face for the Jamesie.

(Mine was cooked up with sausage, grilled onions, and peppers, much tastier than the boys pizza.)

seriously hearts her kid.

2011-02-04T16:57:00.000-08:00

James is developing such an unique and cute little personality. I'm totally loving it and wish that I could capture it all on film so I will never forget.

My favorite things from today:

He found our mini baseball bat. He took the bat over to the sliding glass door and swapped out the big similarly shaped wooden stick for the mini bat as our new security system.

Then we were cleaning up his letter squares and one is missing. So we walked to each bedr

oom and looked for it. In each room I said "nope" and moved on. A few minutes later he walked to each room and in his VERY sweet voice said "no" and then moved on to the next room until all rooms were checked. So cute.

From the last comment it is clear he has learned to say "no" but he hasn't learned it in the obnoxious way. He mostly just says no when he doesn't want more food or what not. So it is cute and nice to have him communicate better.

Currently he is wandering around the house "talking" on my cell phone.

He loves our new house, as do I. It is so nice to give him space to play and run and be silly. He also has room to enjoy his little chair which he loves to lounge in while reading books.

This week we are having Sam stay with us. It will be a nice trial period to see how James does with a dog in the house. Hopefully he will like it since we are getting him a puppy for his birthday this spring.

Also, Jason's mom totally came over and put these super cute flowers in! So sweet!

And now some extra pictures:

2010-11-18T21:57:00.000-08:00

I bought this shirt for James about a month after I found out we were prego. I thought it would be YEARS before he would fit into it. And yet here he is wearing it. My baby is growing up. I can't believe how big he grown up he is getting.

He is also developing a silly little personality and knows how to use his cuteness in his favor.

Things he can do:

- He can say "hi" "cat" "woof" "mama" and "dada"

- He can work sign "more" "please" "milk" "food" and I feel like something else but I can't remember.

-He understands a TON of what we say to him which is awesome.

- He can find Goodnight Gorilla anywhere in the bedroom

-He can find the gorilla, elephant, and lion on each page of Goodnight Gorilla

-He knows where his head, shoulders, knees, toes, ears are and my nose mouth and eyes. He likes to poke me in the eyes.

-He loves his cat and dog.

-He loves to give his cat and dog a snuggle.

-He is awesome.

On non James news:

-I'm half way done with my Masters

-I'm doing conferences next week which is exhausting just thinking about it

-I'm having fun making a lot of handmade Christmas gifts this year. Pictures to come after they have been given.

-It is looking more like we wont have a house by Christmas. BOOO. BOOO times five thousand.

-Next week I'm going to make pumpkin pies from pumpkins not cans. sweet.

-This week I finally redeemed my birthday gift from Jason: one full week of not having to any dishes or have to hear Jason complain about doing dishes. It is sweet.

-Yesterday I had to change ZERO diapers.

-I think that is all for now.

James is awesome.

2010-11-03T21:52:00.000-07:00

How I want to spend my nights, but what I must do instead.

2010-10-27T21:55:00.001-07:00

Before Christmas I have to:

-Write five IEPs

-Write 35 sets of progress reports

-Give 15 sets of reading grades

-Write a ten page paper on visual arts including two lesson plans, one to be taught

-Sew a bunch of Christmas Gifts

-Hopefully close on a house, pack, move, unpack, decorate, and create a happy home for Christmas.

But instead all I would really rather do is spend my evenings sitting on the couch and read the book I just got sucked into. Ok, well read my book and the last thing about finally getting a house.

And now for a cute picture. James like his mama also likes a good book:

2010-09-23T21:14:00.000-07:00

James is 15 months old this weekend, which is ridiculous. He has gotten to become a fun and exciting little boy. He likes to climb, dance, giggle, and sign. He has learned to sign "food" "more" "please" "water" "up" and "bye." It is cute. Sometimes he even says "more" "food" "please." We are still working on words out loud, sometimes he will say "da" for dog and "ca" for cat when he sees a picture of them. When he sees a cow he says "mmmmmmm." Bedtime is my new favorite, for about two months now our routine is read Jesus Storybook Bible and then Good Night Gorilla. Jason reads the bible while I feed him a snack. Then I will say "go get Good Night Gorilla" and he knows what I'm asking and will go find it. Last night he found it under the mattress at the side of the room which is impressive since Jason and I didn't know where it was.

On a personal note, work is kinda stinky this year. However, I lost ten pounds this summer!

On a house note, still none yet.

2010-08-28T22:17:00.001-07:00

I redecorated our blog! Yippee!

Now if only I could figure out how to do different formates for the pictures.

2010-07-14T10:31:00.001-07:00

It has been forever since I posted and since James and Jason are both napping I thought I would take advantage. James has been doing lots this past month. He turned a year! Had his first ice cream (picture stolen from Megan's blog), started walking, learned to take the wii remote from me and shake it at the tv while giggling. He also forgot how to sleep well. I quit nursing him a week and a half ago. The first week went great and this week it seems to finally have clicked and he is now having major melt downs at bed time when we put him down, then cries for an hour. Awesome.

On a non James note we now have offers on two different houses and we are looking at a third possible house today. The house that we had the first offer on is by far my favorite house, it is beautiful inside and fits perfectly with everything I hoped for in a house. It has a beautiful kitchen and fireplace. A decent sized yard. We should hear on this one in about a month we hope. The second house we call the mushroom house. There used to be a tree in the front yard and they chopped it down, to make the stub less obnoxious looking they put a big rock shaped like a mushroom cap on top. The inside of the house has a lot of potential. It needs a lot of paint and a total remodel of the kitchen (including knocking walls down). Its pros are it has a GIANT yard. I could use half of the yard for a very very large garden and the kids would still have a big yard to play and room for a trampoline if we wanted one some day. Plus it is one block from the school I want him at. That one will take at least four months for the short sale to go through on.

I'm torn on which house I want more and wish I could fuse the two properties into one. Luckily we can just pray about it and God will decide for us by letting the banks approve one for us. What it will come down to is which one we get approval on first because we had our apartment.

***edited***

We now have an offer on a third house as well. This one has a pretty good sized yard, the inside is great all it really needs is a lot of paint. Also it has a pretty decent view of the sound from two of the bedrooms. It is forty thousand more than the other two houses BUT it is 85 thousand less that what it was originally on the market for and we could know as early as two months.

2010-06-16T20:57:00.000-07:00

James turns one year old next week! I'm stoked and sad at the same time. I can't believe he is already a year and sometimes I miss my itty bitty baby. But mostly I'm stoked because he is so much fun these days.

James is resourceful. Today I wasn't cooking dinner fast enough for him so he found the English Muffins, shook the bag until he got them out, and then sat on the kitchen floor eating it. He looked like a total big boy munchin away on his snack.

And also he totally took two steps today. Good work James.

2010-05-17T06:42:00.001-07:00

teething is.... not fun.

On a side note... this is the 100th post! and there is 39 days until my son is 1 year.

2010-05-09T17:26:00.001-07:00

Hi Great Grandma Wilma, Great Grandpa AJ, and Great Great Grandma Bohn!!

Just watched the cutest thing

2010-05-06T23:15:00.000-07:00

James is determined that he wants to be sitting up in his bed right now, with his blankets piled up in his lap. However he is also VERY sleepy and every few minutes starts to tip over and then catches himself and sits right back up. I have watched him tip over at least ten times now.

2010-05-06T09:29:00.000-07:00

I have determined James' personality. He is a laid back, energetic organizer. The past few days he has started to play with purpose, which Jason is totally in love with. It has been cute, we can sit for up to an hour watching as James will move his toys about. Mostly his blocks, he will move them all from one chair to a different chair across the room, once that is completed he will move them to a new location. He has also been known to help with the laundry in that he will pull his diapers all out of the basket and then put them all back in the basket. Currently he is stacking his pancake bites into the cup holder of his high chair and then eating them one at a time from there.

He has learned how to play hide and seek. Well, sorta. He has learned how to play seek and LOVES it. Jason and I will get down and craw with great speed to different spots in the house and James' will chase at great speeds to find us. Once he has found us he cracks up and then off we go to hide from him.

He is officially a climber. He can climb the six stairs outside our front door and he can climb up Jason's lap to get to Jason's glasses.

His last big thing is that he is starting to stand unsupported. He only does it for about 5-10 seconds at a time tops before he realizes what he is doing and grabs for anything near by. He will also only do it if he is distracted by two toys, one for each hand.

So far age ten months is my favorite age of all. I love that kid so much.

2010-04-25T22:02:00.000-07:00

Happy Ten Months James!

Some new favs

2010-04-15T22:42:00.000-07:00

2010-03-26T20:29:00.000-07:00

James is nine months! Wow, I can't believe how old he is now.

He has learned lots of things. Like crawling. Or standing. Or climbing up stairs.

Or pulling everything off the shelf:
He is so excited to move these days that I couldn't even get him to sit still long enough to finish putting his jammies on.
First bubble bath:

2010-03-20T13:19:00.000-07:00

Jason and I are trying to buy a house!

We have an offer out on the perfect house. Well mostly perfect really great house.

We just had a meeting with a property manager to rent out our condo. We can't sell because we owe more than it is worth in this economy. Which is fine, I want to keep the condo until I can sell it and get a check for some extra money off the place. (mama wants a boat. or lake house. or upgraded bathrooms. or a vacation. or all four?)

The property manager thinks she can get it rented out in 6 weeks or so. Which would be great. If we can get a lease on the place then our mortgage guy can get us approved for a higher amount of monies.

Ideally we will get approved, get the house, get closed by mid June so we can have James' bubble birthday bash in our own backyard. (on the totally not up to code deck...)

Keep us in your prayers that it all works out for the best. Be it this house or a different one.

Oh alright, I will post a picture of James too:

Poem.

2010-03-11T23:07:00.000-08:00

I wrote this in class:

I am from slip-n-slides, garter snakes, and GI Joes. Sneaking Bike rides to 7-11 and hills for racing and sledding. Watermelon seed spitting contests and apple tree weddings.

I am from building blanket forts and cheating on Nintendo Track and Field. "Don't pull her hair" "But mom!" "Don't hit him" "But dad I wish I had a sister!"

I am from trips to Pennsylvania. The smell of cake, cookies, Sunday dinner, and Christmas trees. Grandma Rea in her apron filling the air with laughter. Slowly drifting into silence and confusion of the years.

I am from packing up the house, picking up the pieces. Numb from divorce and my two new houses. Spiders, fights, silent nights.

I am from growth, patience, and repaired relationships. New satisfaction from a friendship 17 years in the making with a brother that I now cannot live without.

I am from new family built through marriage and peace. New traditions started to pass along. In love with the next generation just started.

That is where I am from.

2010-02-26T20:15:00.000-08:00

James is eight months old! I can't believe how quick it has gone! James has been a BUSY boy this month. He has learned how to say "mama" "mom" "mamamamamamamamam" and "babababa." He thinks "dadadada" is funny but has shown no interest in saying it himself. He has learned to for sure crawl backwards and is starting to crawl forwards. He is really motivated to crawl forwards when you put the laptop on the ground in front of him. He is eating lots of food these days. Purred veggies and fruits, chunky peas, turkey, yogurt, puffs, and as of tonight pasta bow ties.

He has such a funny little personality. He thinks it is fun to be messy, fun to be naked, fun to fart, more fun to fart while naked, and hilarious to pee while naked. He hardcore cracks up at the last one. He likes to bang on things, he is ticklish, loves the sound of the harmonica, and smiles SUPER big when I get home from work. Everyday he amazes me.

Alright, on to pictures:

Crawled himself under his chair when Jason wasn't looking.
Likes me.
Contemplating out to get into the box he is next to.

Just finished painting a birthday card. We were VERY messy today.
Just plain adorable.

2010-02-03T22:04:00.000-08:00

James is getting so big!

This week he has learned to get up into a crawling position and stay that way for about a minute before he flops on his belly. He can also roll all over the room and knows where to roll to get his toys out.

He has learned to make a chomping motion with his mouth. It is super funny. He does it all day long until it is time to eat then he is back to mashing with his tongue.

This week he got to eat blueberries, which I apparently thought was more exciting than he did. He seems indifferent. He really likes plain yogurt and he will be trying parsnips tomorrow and turkey on Sunday.

Most importantly last night he slept soooo good. He went to bed at 730, slept until 440 and then again until 715. It was wonderful. I can already tell tonight wont be as well.

On a non James side of things, I started my masters last weekend. So far it is SUPER easy. We have done two art/poem projects and decorated our notebooks. If all classes are this easy it will be awesome. Now all I need is time/motivation to read the book by next month.

Now the part people actually care about. A few photos.

Jason made me a marshmallow fluff filled cake...it oozed but was tasty!

James looks like a marshmallow.

7 month old big boy.

2010-01-25T19:10:00.000-08:00

6 Month Baby.

2009-12-28T17:42:00.001-08:00

My handsome boy is 6 months old now! He is growing wonderfully, super fun, very mellow, and such a blessing. I heart him.

His Stats:

18 lbs 2 oz (50-75%)

26 1/2 inches (50%)

His Skills:

Sitting up like a champ

Putting things in his mouth

Giggling real loud

Standing with support for 10 seconds

Hanging out with the ladies (Scarlett and Ellie)

His Foods:

Favs:

Sweet Potatoes

Squash

Peas

Pears

Doesn't like:

avocado

Family Update:

Jason has been sick for like two weeks. Luckily he was able to take a few days off work and is now starting to feel better. James has been sick for about a week and had one trip to the doctor on Christmas Eve to get his nose cleaned with a scary machine and get his chest checked due to sounding like Darth Vader. I fear I am starting to get sick.

I chopped my hair off. I cut off somewhere around 11 inches to donate. I haven't taken a picture yet.

pictures to go with the last post.

2009-12-16T18:03:00.000-08:00

2009-12-16T17:50:00.000-08:00

Some Updates:

Jason and I got wills today. Mostly so that we ensure Pat, then Amy, then Mike get James if anything happens to us. Good work us being grown ups.

I start my Masters next month.

James is eating a lot of foods these days. He likes butternut squash and sweet potato, hates avocado, LOVES peas. So far I am still enjoying making all of his foods and am pleased with how simple it is. I have a routine going, I make a big batch every Sunday and Wednesday and stick a bunch in the freezer so we have a few options at all times. Next week we are going to introduce green beans and on Christmas he gets his very first fruit, some pears.

He discovered he has a tongue. See pictures below.

He can sit up VERY well for very long periods of time (ten+ minutes.) But still can't roll from front to back. He can reach for things. He likes to demand for food in his high chair. He LOVES LOVES LOVES banging on the laptop.

We went to see Santa today and pick out his first ornament. He was uninterested in Santa and just mostly sat there. He got a little fussy when Santa took James' hand out of his mouth and held it down for the picture. The Santa was LAME for being the "fancy Nordstroms Santa." He just sat there unengaged with James. It was a little sad.

I think that is all for now.

Oh! Jason is sweet... We drove past a cupcake store today that I didn't know about and I a little too excitedly yelled "CUPCAKES!" so Jason did a quick u-turn and bought me one. Aww.

yay foood!

2009-12-01T05:14:00.000-08:00

Five Months

2009-11-25T19:52:00.000-08:00

Today James turned five months! Good work kid.

He is still super cute. (of course!)

Current things awesome about him:

-He smiles real big at me when I wake him up in the morning, thus melting my heart.
-He can sit up all by himself now for long periods of time

-He is eating rice cereal and enjoys helping me feed him

-Chew on Jason's arm like a cob of corn while making snort sounds.

-Snack on his lower lip.

Sunday we will be starting him on a non rice cereal solid food. Great Grandpa gave him some butternut squash so we will be cooking that up for him. Pictures to come of that!!

I think those are the main things. And now for some pictures (which is the only reason anyone actually looks at this page.)

"You mean I get to eat this?"

"Wait which one do I eat?"

*Also - As of Thanksgiving morning James showed us he can sleep for ten straight hours which means for the first time in two months I got seven straight hours of sleep! Now that is something to be thankful for.

James is cute

2009-11-07T19:05:00.000-08:00

We have been trying rice cereal in James' milk to see if that will decrease the throwing up. It hasn't. So now we are on medicine for reflux to see if it helps. As of day one, no. However, I'm sure it takes a while to get in his system. He is a funny kid. He HATES rice cereal but loves the concept of if. Every time the spoon gets near him he gets an excited face and then as soon a the spoon goes in his mouth he gets the saddest face. He does however, love medicine. The doctor said the reflux stuff kids don't normally like and was teaching us tricks to get him to eat it. We put it near him and he was already trying to suck it down. Funny kid.

Today James did some painting. He worked on painting turkeys to take to early thanksgiving tomorrow.

Today I also turned his pumpkin from the earlier post into six mini pumpkin pies. I felt all domestic-y making a homemade pie and not from the can. Go me.

caved.

2009-10-30T21:39:00.000-07:00

After trying to put James to bed for an hour and forty minutes and then listening to him cry/scream for 45 minutes even while holding or rocking him for a big part of the time I finally took him out of the room. The minute I walked into our room he smiled and started giggling. I put him on the bed for a few minutes and watched him smile and giggle. I picked up up and rocked him for a minute and then walked back into his room and he started screaming. I backed out of the room he giggles.

So now I caved. He is laying in my bed giggling at me while I type this.

I guess we will try new bed time and sleeping in our own room again tomorrow when Jason is home to help take turns with the crying.

p.s. Good thing babies are so cute when they smile so that they crying doesn't seem soooooo bad.

My four month old boy.

2009-10-28T19:57:00.000-07:00

We went to the doctor today, it went well and I still love our doctor.
Here is a recap:

-He is a beast. 15 pounds 10 ounces. He has now bigger than his bff. (I wonder if that means at our next play date if he will start fighting back with Scarlett tries to eat him.)
-He is 25 1/4 inches long, which explains why he is now in size 6 month and sometimes 9 month clothing.
-He loves medicine and sucked it down in no time today.
-We are starting a new nap and sleep schedule that the doctor thinks will help with his sleeping issues that have developed (he wont go to bed before 11pm and STILL gets up 2-3 times each night before 8 am)
-We are starting rice cereal mixed into his bottles or before breastfeeding to see if it will slow down or stop his throwing up. (Last night jason got projectile vomited on...awesome.)
-The nurse said "he really is one of the cutest babies ever."

We got home today and tried a small of amount of rice cereal. James made a grumpy face and then sat with the food in his mouth for five minutes refusing to swallow. However after about 10 minutes of breastfeeding he ate about five bites of cereal. He doesn't seem to love it though.

And now he is crying so I will post more pictures later.

2009-10-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

James turned four months yesterday! I can't believe how big he is getting and that he is already four months. He doesn't feel like a baby anymore. Just a kid. He got his first hair cut yesterday. The first picture is pre cut the last two are post cut. I will post another blog this week with an update from the doctors office.

James Giggling

2009-10-11T20:21:00.000-07:00

James is a Smilin'

2009-10-07T22:32:00.001-07:00

James is Two Months!

2009-08-26T21:45:00.000-07:00

First... how cute is this picture?

Second, how cute is this picture!!

Third, for some reason this picture wanted to be sideways for the first 10 uploads, after rotating multiple times Jason finally got it to work.

Fourth, my boy is two months old already! (doesn't he look handsome in his stripe sweater in his two month birthday picture?!?)

We took him to the doctor today and learned several things:

-he is a beast, 12 lbs 3 oz. The nurse claims he is only 21 7/8" but I kinda don't agree. When he was at his playdate on Tuesday he was just hardly shorter than Scarlett who I think Megan said is 24" and on our surfboard he measures at 24".

-He has extra impressive neck strength and at two months is not expected to be rolling over yet but still is. He even rolled over at the doctor office.

-The doctor was shocked at how much my pot belly piggy is eating (4-6oz!!!) the average for his age is 3-4.

-She thinks he is vomiting after nursing due to my milk supply being too much and as a result he can't keep up with it and gasps a lot of air.

-He got shots today. It broke my heart a tiny bit when he cried SO hard after getting them. He is also now grumpy (we had to give him cherry pain drops) and he has slept for four hours since leaving the doctor 5 hours ago.

-He is awesome. (the nurse totally said so)

-Last, we LOVE the doctor and nurse. They are both super super nice, know a lot, and excited to work with James. As a result I am excited to take James to them for the next long time.

Fifth, Dave and McKenna plus Ellie were in town last weekend. They came over for a visit as did Amy and Pat. It was great to have everyone together. James slept most of the time. Ellie played with his toys most of the time. Dave was nervous of the babies but got over it quickly, good work Dave. Dave and McKenna are great friends and I'm stoked James is lucky enough to already be building a friendship with Scarlett that is hopefully like mine and Daves. (Dave and I have been friends for almost 25 years..dang!)

Sixth, Jason finally shaved his gross beard. Even more gross he walked out with a moustache. He promptly went and shaved it back off when I yelled GROOOOSSSSSS and told him to get out.

Seventh, I am on strike. Prayers that the district and union can resolve this quickly please. I don't want to have to be separated from my baby for all day long to not even be doing my job.

2009-08-06T22:56:00.001-07:00

p.s. My son snores, tells stories, and "eats" (dreams of food and makes sucking motions) in his sleep. It is cute.

I love the way Jamie smells after a bath.

2009-08-05T12:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick update on my favorite baby:

- He smells GREAT after a bath

-I watched him wiggle his body to face a different direction yesterday. He went from feet pointed to the tv to feet pointed to the couch all by himself.

-speaking of tv, he loves it. He enjoys laying in front of it and watching during his tummy time.

-He is six weeks old tomorrow (wow!)

-We switched him to a bottle part time with expressed milk. This has improved his daily feeding by one thousand as far as how happy the two of us are. He currently alternates between the two during the day and just bottles at night. Since starting this he has: only had one screaming fit while eating in the last week (used to be 2-3 times a day) - he is only vomiting maybe once a day and hardly at all on me during eating anymore - he is sleeping for two stretches of 3-4 hours each night - when breastfeeding he is now much more focused and therefore no longer hurting me(yay!)

-He enjoys time with Scarlett. Last time they had a play date they spent the day acting like siblings. she would try to gouge his eyeballs out and he would then punch her in the face or kick her. Very cute and funny.

-He LOVES the painting above our bed (bold stripes and blocks of blue, black, and white) he will sit and stare at it for a good twenty minutes.

-He went to his first two baseball games last week and is going to another one this sunday. He did well at both of them, especially considering the heat on both days (104 the second game!). He has a cute hat and mostly likes to sleep during the game. However when he is awake he likes whoever is holding him to explain what is going on. He loves the Mariners and Raul Ibanez.

-He has discovered he has fingers he can suck on.

-He is cute

-I love him.

I heart Jamie.

2009-07-24T21:21:00.001-07:00

One Month Old
One Day Old

James is one month old today! I can't believe how fast he is growing. I think he has already grown two and a half inches longer in his short life.

So far being a parent is great. I am VERY relieved to say that since up until the first moment I held him I was terrified of parenthood. Not necessarily parenthood, just of infants. However, from the first moment I held him all my fears went away and every minute with him (even the crying for three hours straight minutes) have been a total joy.

I'm stoked that he already has friends! He appears to be a ladies man. Scarlett (his bff) and him were holding hands the other day! The next day Juliana came over and gave him kisses.

I love my boys.

2009-06-29T14:08:00.001-07:00

James is the best baby ever. He is super cute...cutest boy not named Jason that I know.

Today we went and got him circumcised and had his first well baby check up. I was nervous about the circumcision. However, it went great! The doctor took him into a different room and gave him a little local something and some sugar water and then did the snip. When he left the room he was crying and when he came back from he was happy and hungry. Since leaving the doctor he has slept for three hours in his car seat and is currently for the FIRST TIME EVER sleeping in his crib. This is such a relief because it may mean he will start sleeping in it at night a little bit and both of us could actual get a little sleep at the same time.

Everyday he amazes me because just when I think he can't get any more cute or I can't love him any more he does and I do. I love his little faces that he makes and sometimes I can't sleep because I would rather just look at him.

Alright, enough babbling...here are some recent pictures: Best Friends alreadyNap time

Yay foam finger!

James Michael LaFavor

2009-06-26T15:55:00.001-07:00

First here is the adorable little guy:

I wanted to make a list of things I am excited to do with my son in the future.

1. Buy him a fake razor bathtub toy so he can use bubbles from his bubble bath to pretend to shave like his dad.
2. Wrestle.
3. Play with toy trucks.
4. Watch baseball and football. Have Father-Son sports day.
5. Watch little league games. (Molly will totally be the Mom who gets really really mad at the umpires, but won't yell at them, just complain to the other Moms.)

I think have failed as a teacher

2009-06-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

My sixth grade students were asked to do a research paper on economic and geographic factors that led to a group of peoples need to immigrate. Here is my favorite sentence from one of the papers:

"Most cans have immigrants to get away form fiddle casters communist regime in eBay as my as 78,000 arrived in me united states in 1962."

Sometimes spell check on the computer is a bad bad thing.

2009-06-07T08:45:00.001-07:00

Jason and I will totally be parents in two weeks...hopefully. Three weeks at most!

Yipeeeee!

Mariners Opening Day Pictures♦

2009-04-14T21:15:00.000-07:00

We went to Opening Day today and I took a ton of pictures using Molly's new camera, here are the highlights. These were all taken from the 300 level also. Click the pics for higher quality:

Griffey coming out on the red carpet, he got quite the intro standing ovation.

Rare time Mariners flag is in first place.

Griffey Swinging.

Guerrero fouling a pitch back

Guerrero diving back to the bag, Branyan had to jump up to catch the ball on the pickoff attempt.

Ichiro watched from the dugout.

Gutierrez dropping down a sacrifice bunt.

Silva pitched a great game giving up only 2 runs in 7 innings.

Here is Phil Carlo and I.

Lopez catching a key late game popup.

Aardsma pitched a good inning in relief of Silva.

Morrow came in and had some control issues (when does he not, really?) but shut down the Angels anyway.

Gutierrez led off the bottom of the 10th with a double, scored on a sacrifice bunt by Yuni that Shields threw away. Yay the M's are 6-2!

2009-04-03T06:48:00.001-07:00

I need a nap.

2009-03-24T18:05:00.001-07:00

I have a LOUD dehumidifier in my house... it is the size of two big suitcases and has to run all night. I have a mold spot growing at my window. I have a strip of wet ceiling. I have two VERY wet towels in my sink.

I am lucky though because we control the water for the two units above us and not just ours.

Last night a pipe in the unit above us broke (my guess is around four) around five I noticed a large amount of water flowing around my window and at six I noticed water dripping out of the ceiling.

Now construction workers are coming and going as the decide the best way to fix the problem. Luckily we don't have to pay for any of it and they are replacing our already broken faucet right away instead of when they get around to it because they feel bad.

Now if I could just get them to pay the electric bill next month which will go up from the 24 hours of dehumidifier.

2009-03-08T18:21:00.002-07:00

We registered!

Well sort of...
We started registries at Babies R Us and Target so that when I get bored at night and look at stuff online I can add it to a registry.

Good story.

Big Baby Day

2009-03-04T21:01:00.000-08:00

Today:

-Grover got hiccups and I felt it

-Grover kicked and I saw my belly move

-Jason felt Grover kick.

North Shore Pictures.

2009-03-04T20:45:00.000-08:00

We decided to head to the North Shore on the second day of our Hawaii Vacation. It was good times. First thing we saw was these cool colorful trees.

We did the Pineapple maze at the Dole Plantation. It was fun, even with Jason's bum ankle. We pretty much...don't rock at mazes but we finished!

After lunch and the BEST shave ice EVER we headed to the beach. Jason took some cool pictures.

On the way back to Waikiki we saw some really cool clouds/fog.

But most importantly I bought a Guava Chiffon cake. Jason did not understand how amazing this cake is so I got to eat the whole thing by myself...of course over four days.

2009-03-01T20:07:00.001-08:00

This morning my dad showed up for chuch and handed us the GPS "Steve" system we bought him as a gift for helping with our wedding. He said he no longer needed it because Cathy was better. Cathy is his new GPS inside of his NEW car. He is now the proud owner of a Lincoln Navigator. He was super cute and said he got it for driving around grandkids.

Then he bought us a "travel system" - car seat and stroller combo. We got the Eddie Bauer stroller. I also bought the CUTEST Mariners zip up hoodie! It is sooooo cute.

Creative solution to not finding hardware that fits in the dresser.

Latest belly picture.

Also, today Grover kicked me today hard enough that I would have seen his/her little foot. He was mad that the women wouldn't shut up behind us at the movies and tried to kick them.

Update.

2009-02-25T19:53:00.000-08:00

1.) This week if Grover were to come early he would have a chance at survival... hopefully Grover will stay put a little longer though.

2.) We finished the dresser for our baby room. Now we have a dresser, six outfits, and one bottle. I would say we are prepared. :)

3.) We just bought a six pack of tickets to Mariner games this summer! We have four tickets and only three games scheduled with other people, which means.... if you want to go to a game with us let us know!

4.) I love Cadbury eggs.

5.) Grover also likes them and is kicking me right now for not eating one.

The end.

Part two:

Reasons I think Grover is a boy:

1.) Jason's Grandma only had heartburn at night when she was prego with a boy, I only have heartburn at night.

2.) Jason's mom had a dream it was a boy.

3.) Grover would look sooo cute in the Mariners hoodie I want.

4.) Bethany says I'm carrying high and not low like she did it must be a boy.

5.) We have no problem picking out boy names but girl name is tricky.

Reasons I think Grover is a girl:

1.) Then I would be twins with Megan.

The end again.

Vacation

2009-02-21T13:42:00.000-08:00

We went to Hawaii on vacation this week! It was good times except for the rain that came for a little while each day. The first day we got there at like three and went straight to the beach... it was Sunny! and I took my first prego belly shot since being prego. (Yay Grover's first picture). It was a holiday so it was crazy busy at the beach and we didn't stay too long.

A shot of Diamond Head from Waikiki... Later in the week we hiked this like champs. After wandering around for a while we were totally classy and at Chili's for dinner...we had sliders. yummmmy.

Day Two: we headed up to the Dole Plantation to do the pineapple maze and then over to the North Shore where we got the most amazing shaved ice EVER. I have pictures but it wont let me up load them so stay tuned.

Day Three: We headed to Pearl Harbor to see the Arizona, Bowfin, Missouri, and Aviation museum. It was one of our favorite places of the whole trip and we ended up spending almost five hours there.

That is the Bowfin in the background...it was super neat to go on a sub.

This is the Arizona underwater.

Day four: We went to Diamond Head but it was closed so we used the first sunny morning as our only chance to swim in the ocean. We spent about three hours playing in the water. At one point Jason got punched in the face by a wave...it was the funniest thing of the whole trip. I also got a goofy looking sunburn even though I was wearing sunblock...think just the tops of my hands, right next to my arm pits, and my nose. After playing at the beach we went to see some fishies.

We started the day with these delicious doughnut type things...they were like being at the fair.

Jason found a tree with ropes to swing on...only the ropes were growing from the tree.

For dinner that night we went to a buffet with roast beef and other yummy foods...then I ate five desserts and Grover kicked me for that.

Day Five: We got up early and went to Diamond Head before leaving the airport. It was fun and luckily not too busy until we were finishing. Just after finishing I went into the bathroom and Jason heard some girl walk out and say to her husband "I just saw some women that was pregnant about to do this, that is crazy" and he was proud of me. :)

After doing the hike we went to this hamburger place called Hamburgers on the Edge. It was the best hamburger of my life.

And that was our trip. :)

p.s. Yay Junior is a Mariner again!

kids are funny.

2009-01-29T07:04:00.000-08:00

First... I think Grover must be sideways in my belly because my left side of my belly is bigger than my right side of my belly. At this rate soon I wont see my left food but will see my right food just fine.

I told the kids on Friday and Monday that I was prego... here are some funny things:

-I put a picture of the ultrasound on the smartboard and a boy said "ugh thats NASTY" and walked away.

-a girl asked if I would come back to work next year and a boy responded "yes when she has a baby she can work still but she can't pick ANYTHING up" he offred to pick up pencils for me.

-one girl told me she can already see my little girls face (uhh creepy)

-one boy told me good thing I was having a baby because he would have thought I was getting fat.

-He then told me I was "getting round" but told his teacher "I get around" either way I do not like him this week.

-They all want to know what I'm going to name it so I told them they can make suggestions... I'm interested to see what they come up with.

-I told a first grader yesterday she giggled, looked at me upside down, giggled, tickled my belly, then drew a prego fish on her paper.

2009-01-15T20:09:00.001-08:00

Right now my belly feels huge. My shirt keeps popping up.

Babyroom/weather part two.

2009-01-12T18:37:00.000-08:00

So all the snow melted and a few weeks ago there was so much melted snow that it caused the creek to turn into a river and a waterfall to develop. (Normally the creek is about as wide as my arm.)All these pictures were taken with my very fancy new camera!!!! I'm stoked to actually learn how to use it so I can take awesome pictures in Hawaii!

And now here are the latest baby room pictures:

This is a picture of the tree. Once the frames go on a good sale I'm going to buy about 8-10 frames to put family photos hanging on the tree branches. Eventually the crib will go in this corner also and I'm going to make a birdy mobile to hang above it.

I also painted extra leaves blowing around the room. Here will will eventually put the dresser that I'm stealing from my dad's house in a few weeks. Above it we will hang a photo box that is holding There is a Monster at the end of this book written by Grover. On the other wall I'm going to hang three small paintings of an owl, deer, and a bunny.

And now for my funny kid quote of the day.
Today we were playing the speed game...the kids race to read a stack of cards in under one minute. One of the cards was stream. My student sounded it out like this:
str...stram...strip...STRIPPER!
I corrected him to say no it says stream, say that, Stream.
Stripper!
The rest of the game no matter how much correcting he couldn't get it changed in his brain and just kept saying stripper. It was hilarious.

Bottom 10 Movies of 2008

2008-12-31T07:57:00.000-08:00

I am doing a mish mash for my bottom 10, 10-6 are terrible movies I didn't see, and 5-1 are movies that were not necessarily the worst of the year but my biggest disappointments.

#10- Beverly Hills Chihuahua - This movie looked sooo terrible, then it made 92 million dollars. There are a lot of dumb movie goers.

#9- Mad Money - As soon as I looked at the poster, I vomited.
Exhibit A:

#8- Bangkok Dangerous - I think Nicholas Cage should be arrested for his hair in this movie.

#7- Meet Dave - Oh Eddie Murphy, do you know how to say no to a movie offer anymore?

#6- Meet the Spartans/Superhero Movie/Disaster Movie - Who decided that spoof movies aren't supposed to be funny anymore? If Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ever make a movie again I will be very surprised.

#5- Smart People - This looked like it would be much funnier and more clever than it actually was.

#4- Leatherheads - The premise seemed interesting and clever, but the movie was just boring. I am a fan of George Clooney and John Krasinski, it just didn't live up to my expectations.

#3- Semi-Pro - I love Will Ferrell comedies, but this movie was just not very funny and disappointing. The Old Spice commercials were funnier than the movie.

#2- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Seriously, Shia Labeouf is not tarzan, he does not swing on vines with monkeys. Totally ruined the movie for me, which was sad since I had this movie pegged as the top grosser of the summer (I didn't think TDK would break 350 mil.)

#1- Cloverfield - This really has nothing to do with the quality of the movie, I love Godzilla-type movies. But I could not watch the movie and just laid there with my head in Molly's lap for most of the movie. If I can't watch the awesome monster smashing, it makes the bottom of the list.

Other Bottom Lists:
Cameron
Joel
Brian

Top Ten Movies Of 2008

2008-12-30T12:37:00.000-08:00

EDIT: I saw Curious Case of Benjamin Button today, and if I were to redo the list, it would likely be 2b. It is very hard to place, but it is totally top 3.

#10 Role Models - I love Paul Rudd. I wasn't sure I wanted to see the movie until I heard that Paul Rudd came onboard and did a ton of rewrites and deserved a writing credit on the movie. It was hilarious.

#9 Step Brothers - This movie made me giggle with glee. I love the Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly combo, plus it brought back awesome memories of my childhood with my brother. Like when they reconfigure their room to bunk beds, it was something I could see Mike and I doing.

#8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall - This movie makes the list if for nothing besides the Dracula Rock Opera. But the rest of the movie is hilarious also. I am a big Jason Segel fan. All the supporting actors were great in this movie too, except for Jonah Hill, his character was obnoxious.

#7 Wall-E - One of my favorite Pixar movies, and easily the best animated movie of the year.

#6 Incredible Hulk - I love Ed Norton and comic book movies. Easy peasy. Hulk had disappointing box office numbers but it was the bad taste from the previous Hulk movie rather than on the merits of this one.

#5 Iron Man - Robert Downey Jr. was a fantastic choice for Tony Stark. It had great action, it was funny, and very well written. A fantastic summer blockbuster.

#4 In Bruges - I really liked this movie, it started out quite lighthearted as an assassin was stuck in Bruges waiting for his boss to give them the go ahead to leave. About 3/4 the way in it takes a much darker turn and gave the movie much more depth. The best Colin Farrell movie in a loooong time.

#3 RocknRolla - Guy Ritchie made two great movies (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, and Snatch) then married Madonna. Forgot how to make good movies (Swept Away) now seperated/divorced makes another fantastic London underground crime movie. This only got moved down from #2 because of how awesome Slumdog was.

#2 Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle is amazing. The story was really well written, the directing was awesome, and the actors were also quite impressive.

#1 Dark Knight - How could it not be #1?

Movies I didn't see but could have been on the list:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Gran Torino, Rachel Getting Married, probably all those other movies on other peoples lists.

Other peoples top 10 lists:
Cameron
Joel
Carlos
Brian
Charlie

Phase one of Grover's room and snow pictures.

2008-12-22T13:53:00.000-08:00

I love the view of snow from our bed

And we can see the creek from our backyard right now

I started putting together Grover's room this week. So far I really like it. I'm ready for the snow to go away so that my dad will leave his house and can take all the junk we are getting rid of to the thrift store so that we can totally clear the room out.

I painted the walls this color:

(In real life it is a little brighter and has more yellow in it.)

I started painting the tree. I have to add the leaves and the picture frames to the "family tree" still.

Your favorite type of blog...

2008-12-11T18:59:00.000-08:00

A picture blog!
But first two conversations that explain why I am so exhausted at the end of the day...
Me: His hair was smooth and sleek. What do you think sleek means?
Student: Oh! Oh! I know! It means wall!
Me thinking: Really, thats what your going with? Wall?

Me: how many times does 4 go into 20?

Student: 10

Me: No, 4 times 10 is 40 so it has to be smaller than 10

Student: Oh... 11?

Me: *slams head against wall*
Ok...on to pictures:

Christmas tree!

And foam on the tree!

I Finally Finished the Blanket!

(Jason loves it because it covers all of him.)

Tyra and Angela are totally sweet and bought grover a present today! An awesome card with a dude holding a foam finger.

A mariners shirt for him

and a bunch of cute books.

They also bought a baby name book and highlighted a few choice selections. Based on their suggestions grover's new name will be:

Tristan Jacob Skylar LaFavor.

And last week Mark and Megan gave us Grover's first ever present!!

Christmas List

2008-11-27T20:05:00.000-08:00

1.) Mariners season tickets (four)

2.) a trip to New York

3.) Our baby to be a boy

4.) jelly beans

5.) A new camera

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

2008-11-23T08:46:00.000-08:00

this is like 45 minutes long but it is glorious:

Sparky

2008-11-01T20:14:00.001-07:00

Today my dad sent his very first text message all by himself.

It was a proud moment.

I got promoted yo!

2008-10-29T14:03:00.000-07:00

So i am now the General Manager of AMC Factoria 8 in Bellevue. The drive is a bit longer than my awesome 15 minute commute to Southcenter, and I will miss my wonderful digital projection and IMAX, but a promotion is a promotion. So yeah, its awesome.

New Car!!!

2008-08-28T16:18:00.000-07:00

molly and i got a 2009 vw rabbit!!

ricky's cake!

2008-08-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

I made this cool cake for Ricky's birthday...

Vacation

2008-08-07T22:15:00.000-07:00

We went to Oregon and did lots of cool things, like..

Saw lions
and tigers
and bears (oh my!) also this awesome camel
saw some elephants!! I got to feed one!
This is Alice the elephant, she painted us a picture

we went to the sand dunes!

I still have sand in my teeth.

Next we went to the sea lion caves

it was smelly.

In Lincoln City we got to stay right on the beach

Jason likes to dig tunnels

and be a merman.

Rolling Stone Reviews Dark Knight

2008-06-26T10:18:00.000-07:00

Rolling Stone Link

"Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight"

i didnt think i could be more excited for a movie... until now.

latest cake pictures

2008-06-02T20:38:00.000-07:00

Indiana Jones hat
Indiana Jones whip

Snakes...why did it have to be snakes. Bri's hippo birthday cake

hippo again.

mario song

2008-05-20T17:33:00.000-07:00

this enthralled me for entirely too long:

Condo Pictures!

2008-05-13T18:31:00.000-07:00

here are the much awaited pictures:

kitchen

kitchen 2

living room

back yard

bathroom organizer molly cant reach the top of

fancy washer dryer all in one

view from back yard of the "Whispering Brook"

once we have some living room furniture and the other rooms are cleaner and better organized ill post those pictures.

2008-05-02T21:13:00.001-07:00

story
I wrote this story in college. I just found it while packing up my house and remembered i was real proud of it... (durnig class one day we had to do five minute response after listening to a poem about apple trees and peace...the poem led to a story about my parents divorce)

Apple trees and votes for peace. What a great word this would be with both. As a child we had an apple tree. It never grew apples because it was all by itself. One day daddy brought home an apple tree. We married the trees and rubbed their leaves together. It was so simple, we were so happy. The next summer we had so many apples! That was a time of peace. Peace. Quiet before the storm. I miss the days of peace and apple trees. Love. Complete Love. Some days I feel that peace again but there are no more apples. No more apples in the backyard and at those times life seems so sad. So incomplete. What good is peace without the apples from before the storm. The storm. The storm came so quick. So unexpected. One day there were my married trees, and stolen apples from their branches when no one was looking. Peace. Then was the storm. I was ripped away from my trees and my peace. Thrown into not one backyard but two. Two backyards. No apple trees. No apples. No peace. The storm raged on for years. Years of anger, resentment, struggle, fear, loss, sadness. The storm was strong and on it raged. Then as suddnely as it started it stopped and there was peace. There were quiet days. There was love, happiness, joy, peace. There were still two yards and days of stormy weather, but there was peace. Yet still no married apple trees. And on the days of peace there was a bittersweet sadness. The storm was gone, the peace was back but without the trees it could never again be complete. Trees and votes for peace, what a great word this would be with both.

Condo Update

2008-04-30T01:17:00.000-07:00

so we are getting the keys to our condo tomorrow and moving in on sunday. we are planning on taking a bunch of pictures tomorrow night so i will try to get them posted so all you (cameron) can see it. hurrah for new condo!

Deer Cake

2008-04-04T19:26:00.000-07:00

I made the super cute cake for going to Jason's grandparent's house tomorrow. (Grandpa likes deer.) The deer half way through

the finished deer
the impresive side of the cake.

New Livin' Neath the Law

2008-04-04T13:59:00.000-07:00

BASEBALL!!!

2008-03-31T10:22:00.000-07:00

BASEBALL STARTS TODAY!!!! IN FIVE HOURS!!!

birthday cake

2008-03-18T20:17:00.000-07:00

husband in a bag.

Birthday cake/fun cupcakes.

2008-03-08T14:41:00.000-08:00

We just made an offer on a condo!

Update on Us

2008-03-01T22:56:00.000-08:00

We got a new phone today. Apparently it is cheaper to have three lines than two lines at Sprint. So now we have an emergency phone. (or a phone that will sit on a shelf and never be used.)

We are going to make a offer on a condo next week. yay us!

I decided I am going to collect coins, one million of them. Then I will be rich. I need 997,449 coins still if you want to share any with me.

That is all I have to say for now.

nba all star weekend

2008-02-17T09:45:00.000-08:00

although the nba is my least favorite of the three us sports leagues (that people care about) one thing they do better than anyone is their all star weekend. yesterdays slam dunk contest was one of the best i have ever seen. dwight howard actually put some thought into what he was going to do and came out with 4 unique and awesome and entertaining dunks. if you didnt watch you should check out the video here. i love the mlb all star game and home run derby is fun to watch, but with the skills competition, 3 point shootout, and the dunk contest back to where it should be the nba wins the all star game. the nfl pro bowl is a joke that i never watch. i managed to watch for a little bit and only saw jeff garcia at qb.

travis barker and ?uestlove drum-off

2008-02-15T11:06:00.000-08:00

give washington teachers a raise

2008-02-14T23:02:00.000-08:00

Email from Molly:

I got this e-mail from my union, if we send the legislator enough e-mails we could get a 6% pay raise next year. (Andrea I'm not sure if it is state wide, but if it is than that would be a raise for you too!!!)

its fast because you just put your name in and then pick which paragraph you want it to insert into your e-mail... you don't even have to type it.

*Please send email to your legislator. It is super easy and fast! I promise. All you have to do is go to www.washingtonea.org click on the button that says act now (on the right side of the screen). A form email will pop up and you add from the selections what you would like to say. At this time we are sending emails to receive a 3% raise along with the COLA.

song by Travis. shirts by Demetri.

2008-02-14T14:45:00.000-08:00

check out more demetri martin videos here

want people to visit your blog?

2008-02-14T14:07:00.000-08:00

so apparently posting the "intergalactic proton powered electrical tentacled advertising droids" video is a sure fire way to get google lead ins. looking at my sitemeter about 30% of my visits are from google searches for that video.

death cab for track listing

2008-02-14T13:50:00.000-08:00

Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs hits stores May 13th.

Track Listing
01) Bixby Canyon Bridge
02) I Will Possess Your Heart
03) No Sunlight
04) Cath
05) Talking Bird
06) You Can Do Better Than Me (But I Can't Do Better Than You)
07) Grapevine Fires
08) Your New Twin Size Bed
09) The Remainder
10) Pity and Fear
11) The Ice Is Getting Thinner

From Absolutepunk.net

Review: Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2008-02-14T13:18:00.000-08:00

besides being a ridiculously long movie title, i enjoyed the movie. The acting was top notch, pitt and rockwell were excellent, casey affleck stole the show. between this movie and gone baby gone the younger affleck is cementing himself into hollywood. it is kind of long, and not filled with too much action but its definitely worth checking out.

Family Feud Round 2

2008-02-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

Top 5 answers on the board

1. Worries 55
2.
3.
4. Loud Noises 5
5. Hot Weather 4

XX

CAKES

2008-02-05T06:40:00.000-08:00

Anna's birthday cake.

birthday cake!!!

amy's cake!!

christmas icecream cake!

Thanksgiving cake!

my first fancy cake.

Livin' 'Neath The Law with Jack McBrayer

2008-02-01T01:03:00.000-08:00

can you tell what my favorite website is?

intergalactic proton powered electrical tentacled advertising droids!

2008-02-01T00:54:00.000-08:00

funny wga/amptp negotiating video

2008-02-01T00:52:00.000-08:00

SO EXCITED

2008-01-28T19:14:00.000-08:00

oh my gosh. i am the most excited i have been since july.

spring break jason and i are going to go to oregon to a wildlife safari where....

i can ride an elephant!
have an elephant paint me a picture!
feed a lion!
drive through 600 acres of land where we will see lions, tigers, and bears!
but most importantly ride an elephant!!!!

(for those who do not know that is my most biggest dream ever!)'

i will be framing my elephant work of art (pretty or not.)

Family Feud

2008-01-26T00:58:00.000-08:00

top seven answers on the board...

Cameron gets 91 points!

mariners close to making blockbuster deal?

2008-01-25T14:26:00.000-08:00

this is pulled from a Seattle Times article written by Geoff Baker. the quotes are from GM Bill Bavasi. I hope they make the deal in question for orioles starter Erik Bedard. that would be sweet.

"We're at the point now where we have to do our best to make those moves for a top-of-the-rotation guy, so we can slot the rest of the rotation where it should be," he said. "For us right now, the most important thing is the top-of-the-rotation starting pitcher. Not just a No. 2, 3 or 4 guy. A No. 1 guy."

Bavasi admitted he's shocked the market has taken this long to play out without a deal. Any deal will almost certainly involve Seattle trading young outfielder Adam Jones, but Bavasi — while again not naming anyone directly — knows a top starter will cost talented prospects that other teams have been reluctant to part with this winter.

"We're not one of those clubs," he said, adding that his best offer has been made and likely trumps any competing ones. "We're prepared to move ... as I'm sitting here today, I think we will [get a deal done]. I think there's a good chance of that."

more thrice

2008-01-25T00:21:00.001-08:00

you probably dont care, but i was clicking around at aol music and found one of my favorite thrice songs. so im posting the video. i love the guitaring by teppei teranishi in this song. in the album version it is more prominant and haunting, but the song is still sweet.

new thrice song

2008-01-25T00:12:00.001-08:00

this song is going to be on the earth portion of the alchemy index. III and IV, earth and air are coming out april 15th.

Cloverfield

2008-01-24T12:39:00.000-08:00

I survived the Cloverfield monster..... jason did not.

oscar nominations

2008-01-22T12:10:00.000-08:00

wow. its rare to open up the oscar nominations page and see that the top two movies in nominations are two of my favorite movies of the year. there will be blood and no country for old men racked up nominations with 8 each. that makes me happy. i dont really have any complaints about the nominations either. go here for a complete list, or cameron will probably have the list along with his thoughts within a couple days.