Gap commercial with Jon Heder

I love Jon's new commercial, totally made me laugh out loud.  Merry Christmas!

Help! Shoes!

Whenever I see something great onsale online, I freak out and can't make decisions (which I don't do well anyway... but that's another posting)  because I think they're going to run out of stock, or I'm going to miss the deadline or something... so I need some help!  First let me say, I've been cleaning up lots of puke for the last week -'nuff said- which is why I"ve been delinquent on my blog- yes, Rachel, I'll post our Halloween pics soon...probably in December.... so, on to more important matters: which shoes do you like for Madeline?  I love the Owls and they're on sale for $20!!  Excellent!  But, they aren't completely closed at the top which is what I wanted for winter... see what I'm saying?  So I love these boots from See Kai Run as well, but they're double the price!  And for someone who just bought her daughter's Christmas present--Spin and Bounce Zebra for less than 1/2 this morning, I'm not inclined to pay double for anything... but with shoes I will pay a little more because I think it's important for little developing feet to have good shoes..  What do you think?

A Good Turn...

I periodically try and ask myself, "What am I doing to better humanity?"  Regular answers excluded like: raising kids, serving in church, etc.  This semester it's been hard to find volunteer efforts that fit my lifestyle: i.e. I can't dedicate a 3 hour block every week to teaching English, for example (not that I have done that before).  But  I did come across one that really fits the bill right now.  Deseret Industries has a humanitarian element to it.  They make humanitarian kits and send them all over the world.  For their newborn kits, they need flannel blankets.  45 inches by 45 inches, with a 10 inch square sewn in the middle.  

  My friend actually went to Humanitarian Square in Salt Lake and watched the video (that I refuse to see until I've at least donated some blankets, because I know I will just bawl my head off seeing all those poor babies) she said that they show video of babies being brought home wrapped in newspaper in some places of the world that are too poor to have blankets to wrap their babies in.  That is inconceivable to me.  So, if you have a spare afternoon and have some extra flannel, and want to do something for the world, dust off that sewing machine, and let's make some blankets!

Madeline

You can't see the top of this hat, but it's a PUMPKIN!  How appropriate!  Madeline always knows how to dress in season!
She LOVES this bike seat!  And she gives me reassuring pats on the 'rear' as I'm biking up the steep hill that's in between our house and the park.  You can't see her helmet in this pic either, but it's got Bees on it--cute!!
Mommy and MJ (in her pig pj's) and baby doing some yoga; unfortunately the baby doll doesn't really get it.

Madeline is into imitating everything we do.  Here you can see the intrigue on her face while flossing with daddy.  This must be a hard concept for little ones to grasp.  'Why do you pull string in between 4 teeth?' she must be wondering.

 She also likes doing yoga with me.  It makes me laugh.  She just puts her head down on the floor and stays there!  That is the same position she has adopted when she is sad and cries.  I don't get the connection, but it's pretty darn cute.  

Hiking

These are two separate events; the one was Timpanogos caves with my brother, Andrew.  The other was Stewart Falls.  I don't think there's a better way to spend these early fall days.

Seriously funny

ok, so I stole this link from Rachel, who stole it from Staci (just had to give credit where it's due) 

www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com

Hilarious.  I am totally laughing at my old posts now, man, I sound like a TOTAL dork- this is why I HATE keeping journals because I'm worried other people will read them and think "who's the DORK?"  Yeah... that's what I"m thinking right now...dang it!

  In other news, we're back from our vaca- and I'm busy coming up with what my sis-in-law called "boring" costumes- who doesn't LOVE a baby witch??? - I just finished reading The Tale of Despareaux which was awesome. yes it is a 6th grade level book.  but it's good lit, ok?  I will post some cute pics of MJ on this post to make it worth-while.  Enjoy!

You can't really tell the full cuteness of this outfit from this picture, because I guess I had the camera on a weird setting (of course! if I get a perfect picture, the setting is wrong), but I made Madeline the cutest skirt and leggings for October.  This outfit is sooooo cute!  I can't wait to take her to story time in this baby!  All the other moms will be super jealous !!  (And come on,  that's the whole of dressing your kids up cute is to show them off !)  

  On top of that, one of my goals for this semester was to make bread, and I turned out the best two loaves of white bread the same week!  Man, I am feeling so on 'top of things' right now!  (I mean- it's only a YEAR after I had Madeline, that's progress right?)  Anyway, I finally feel like I'm getting the hang of the stay-at-home mom thing.  My house is basically clean every day, I'm cooking good meals, and I can turn out skirts and bread!  Oh, and I made some fresh peach jam!  Yum.  Ok- I guess this is turning into a bragging post... I don't want to say it, but ... am I ready for kid #2?