My Kid is so Awesome

This is Berkeley's new seat that she sits on when she is watching her new favorite thing Barney. She sat here for like 20 minutes today.

Berkeley's other favorite thing is to get into my bathroom cupboards. This is how I found her today.

This is her so stoked to have her new clothes on from Nana. Thanks Nana!!!

Mohawk Child

I Have, like, a Totally Cool Dad

My dad is on the very far right.Note: my dad is a convert, hence the budweiser ad.
My Dad on the very left.


How many people can say that their dad "used" to be in a band? Not too many, and I am one of those lucky people that can say that they do. This is why, my dad is so awesome. He is awesome in many other ways too...but this is just the best. My dad did his group thing for a while, like 5 or 6 years, and he did while he had 3 kids. But he loved it. He was, and still is, an amazing banjo player, and a guitar player, not to mention plays a little piano, and is an amazing singer and performer. I love my dad...he is a very talented and sweet man.

The Night I Wished I was in the 80's

Berkeley and her cousins.

My niece Rilee, she was the game twister. And yes of course I did right hand yellow on yellow!

Let me explain my outfit....of course, 80's inspiration, with a twist of inspiration from Madonna and Cindi Lauper, and poof you have my Halloween costume. The best part is though, that at my brothers party that I went to, I was the only adult that had on a costume out of about 30 other adults. Oh well, I'm confident! Berkeley enjoyed the night of fun and chaos. She did a little trick or treating, but couldn't handle too much.And of course, she was cute as always. By the way....notice the "hair" I tried to do. I attempted the feathered look, but couldn't accomplish the largeness of it. It was a fun attempt, and I don't know how ANYONE could have done their hair like that and feel pretty!

I Love Halloween!

Seriously, I love Halloween. It is such a good holiday for ALL ages. It starts out as a kid when you are so excited for your costume, showing it off at school, and then best of all, you finally get free reign to eat as much candy as you want! Then you get in the teenager/single mode when you get to go to awesome Halloween parties with your friends....and its awesome. Then there is the awkward stage where your married/in a relationship, but with no kids, and your not really sure what exactly to do. Then the best stage of all, when you have kids and dress them up, go trick or treating with them, dress up with them, and then eat ALL of their candy. So bottom line, I love Halloween!

Those are my pumpkins I made by myself last night. Sorry about the blurry picture, my camera is sometimes a little too high tech for me. After making them and loving how they turned out, I have been really tempted to go buy a couple more, just to carve some really cool things!

By the way.... how about the serious awkwardness that goes on Halloween day when you see lots of adults going to lunch and going about their business in Halloween costumes....ALL DAY LONG! And you cant really take them seriously..... awkward!

My Walking Pink Poodle

Once Again I Need Some Opinions!

Just Call Me Money Bags

Yesterday I decided to finally gather up all my spare change and cash it in. We had a huge mug full, and 2 separate drawers full, which all had been accumulating for quite some time. It filled up the 2 bags as you can see.....it weighed in at 14 pounds.....and the grand total........

$112

And that is after the coin machine took out 8%! Spare change is the best thing in the world! So we treated ourselves with our new found fortune and we went to the AZ State Fair, which was SOOO fun. We went with Todd's little brother Ashton and 2 of his friends. Todd and Ashton didn't go on any "big kid" rides, but I still went on a lot, and I'm not going to lie, I had a HUGE headache when I got home! But it was still worth it!

Trip to the Thrift Store

I cannot remember the last time I was at a thrift store, but today I went and it was pretty awesome. I was in search of a cool unique end table,( which I found, but that will be shown later so I can have the before and after) and I found this. A Christmas Tree. I was so excited to see it because growing up I would help my grandma set up her Christmas decorations up each year and she had one of these and it was my FAVORITE because I loved to put up all the individual lights. So now I have my very own and I will think of her every time I see it. It is about 12 inches tall, and I had to steal those little lights from some of the other trees to get a full tree for me, but it was worth it! Oh, and $4 was a little help too! But....(wink wink) I am still hoping to someday get the real authentic one that I have so many memories with! (wink wink)

Pumpkin Patch

No....I'm not the cheesy mom that puts her kid in Halloween clothes when she goes to the pumpkin patch! Who do you think I am?!?