...bottles and cans...

...just clap your hands! DCB anyone? anyone? anyone? Hmmm. NM then! :D

So. I was cleaning Jude's bottles this morning... and it dawned on me. He won't be drinking formula anymore in a little over a month! I won't need to buy (or have my mom buy, rather) formula anymore! ::tears:: What?! My baby boy is growing up into a big boy!!! ::WAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!:: My heart is hurting just a wee bit.... why does time fly when you DON'T want it to?

...HISMFSB part4...

::sigh:: It's Monday. Which means my friends are back to work. How depressing for all of us! I had a great week w/ my gals! But the entire week was building towards Sat. night... our Twilight DVD Premiere party!!! (I know, I know...whatev!) Personally- I think we hyped the party up more than it actually ended up being... but it was still fun! I enjoyed spending time w/ my girlfriends and getting all sparkled up! It was also great to watch- and laugh- at the hilarity that is the movie! (I even enjoyed watching the DVD commentary w/ Linds the next day!) Here are some pictures of our night:

**Sidenote: I had written this blog a week ago... and realized that I never POSTED it! Duh, Kim!**

...HISMFSB part3...

Girls night. Gotta love them...especially if you've got great girlfriends! It's a tradition (I'm sure I've blogged about it before)... for Les, Jaime, Tiff, and I to go to Oregano's to celebrate our bdays.... Tiffany has moved to Oregon- but is in town...so we went to celebrate her coming back- and a belated bday for me! We always go to the same Oregano's and ALWAYS order the same thing: Oregano's Favorite Salad, Pizza (1/2 pepperoni, 1/2 veggie), Baked Ziti, and -of course- Pizza Cookies!!!! I LOVE going to Oregano's w/ these girls... it's a time for fun stories...great food...and awesome company!

Highlights:
Brody telling Les to "pull ober da car mom..." b/c Matti was being mean... Salty Senorita... Friendship bracelets- that may or maynot break... the overly bubbly Oregano's workers- seriously- I would be fired 2mins in b/c I could NEVER be that peppy... big tables- it's about darn time they gave us enough room!... "the razor" incident- or- what should have been an incident, but wasn't b/c the cap was still on... that one pretty much tops EVERYTHING!

...Happy Anniversary Shout Outs...

Happy Anniversary to:

Love and Eddie- 2 years today...

Jaime and Jonathan- 5 years today...

Mom and Dad- 30 years yesterday!!!

So- it was my parents anniversary yesterday...and what did I get them? Well...they got ME and Jude dinner! Is that sad or what?! I promise I'll do something wicked cool for their 50th! (Which would make my dad 89 years old- sad.) Anywho. Jude got his first meal off the Kids Menu too.... not on purpose... I just asked for a lil plate of grilled chicken for him... didn't know it was going to come w/ soup, spaghetti and broccoli! What in the world?! But. In true fatkid fashion... Jude at ALL the beans and noodles out of his Pasta e fagoli and ate 1/2 his chicken and broccoli! Go son!!! lol. My parents were tickled watching him! It was pretty comical! (Why is Jude biting my foot right now?!)

...HISMFSB part2...

So. I am starting to get depressed. Today is Friday....the last day my friends are on Spring Break... what will I do when they go back to work?! How will I occupy my time?! Well... I think Jude and I will continue going to Westgate... and perhaps we'll connect with some more SAHM's... but.... I shall miss calling my gf's and randomly dropping in on their family time!... which is what I did on Thursday! I bombarded the Schmadeke's Family Westgate Picnic... Jude and I had fun eating cantaloupe and watching everyone have fun... Jude was STILL afraid of the fountains- although, he at least attempted to touch the water on his own! Then we had some delicious Cold Stone before heading home!

Some highlights: $5 Westgate coupons-that apparently my son is not cute enough to score for mom... Spiderman towels... Dirty cantaloupes... SPF50... "What if I'm not the hero"... Superb Coldstone employees... Fragile cones... the Heath Bar/Kit Kat debacle... the strange lady who believed Jonathan when he said that Jude was for sale... the Fly... Goodtimes...

...How I Spent my Friends' Spring Break...

Ha. b/c for me... spring break is EVERY
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That was supposed to say EVERYday... but then Jude took over the computer. Nice. He apparently loves the number 3. (Could it be b/c he's the size of a 3 year old?! Hmmm.)

Anywho. I cannot express to you how much I have LOVED my friends being on Spring Break! Best thing about being a teacher- the schedule!!! (Okay, Okay- the kids aren't so bad, either... well... most of them...) I've been looking forward to them being off for what feels like FORever! And I'm already looking forward to their Summer vacation! Anywho- I digress. I missed out on "Park Day" on Monday b/c I was watching Miss Rileyface. I could have braved it and tried to take both kids, I suppose, but that is one adventure I think I'll pass on! And- it was at both kids naptime anyway.













So. Yesterday, I got to run around town w/ Jaime and Zoe. We met up at 10:45ish- battled w/ my carseat (getting it into her van) and headed out to Tempe to drop Hayden off at his dentist appointment. From there we took Zoe and Jude to Peter Piper Pizza downtown to have lunch w/ Jaime's parents. Now. I'm not gunna lie.... what has happened to PPP's?! Why are they always infested w/ the towns finest people? Hmmm... could have been the $5 all you can eat Pizza/Salad buffet? IDK, but the place was packed! Anywho. Next stop was to Hobby Lobby where we got a bunch of supplies to create some favors for our party on Saturday night. Then to Costco to pick up Jaime's glasses- as pictured to the left- (which...sidenote- do you just love how I'm all into giving playbyplays lately?! What in the world?!) and pick up some random stuff for me. We ended our adventurous day by coming back to my place to put the favors together. Su-perb. They turned out way cute (check back after the weekend for a "party blog")!!! My day was exhausting... and would have been perfect, had Jude not gotten NUTZ towards the end... I guess mommy doesn't take him out enough! I passed out at about 9:30pm- which is WAY early for me... I vaguely remember DLo getting McDonald's icecream- which I had asked for earlier in the evening... eating the icecream- then passing right back out! Sad. Times.

Today, Jaime/Zoe and Jude/I met up w/ Amy and her son Jadon at Westgate. We ate at the sandwich place Which wich? (something like that)... and it was pretty delish- kinda pricey for the quantity of food- but still yummy. Jude ate probably a quarter of my sandwich...there was even a point when I was talking and noticed part of my sandwich gone- it was in his chubby little hands... :D Then we went over to the fountain area- were Leslie and her boys Matti and Brody were waiting for us. Zoe and Jadon got in the fountain while Jude and I went to Fossil to get some new shades for mommy.... Brody and Matti played around while Jadon and Zoe continued in the water... I got Jude down to his diapers and was determined to let him have fun in the water...but the fraid-y cat just cried... I'm thinking he has a phobia w/ spraying water... he hated the ocean, hates showers...and now the fountains. So sad. So- instead, Jude played in the grass for a while until it was time to go. Before we left... Kimmy had to rescue Matti's toy from the tree... I wasn't tall enough... but I was clever enough- I threw my shoe until the thing fell down! HAH! After a few quick errands to Michael's and The Children's Place... we finally came home for some R&R... too bad Jude decided not to nap- but he's being surprisingly wonderful! :D

Wonder what tomorrow will bring??? (Although- Mommy may need a day of rest!)

...a walk in the park...

Awww... so. Friday's are probably my favorite days EVER. They always have been... but now that I'm at home w/ Jude... Fridays are the BEST days ever. Fridays are the day that DLo has off.... and... even though there are a million things that we probably should do- like.... fixing the leak we supposedly have in our backyard... or fixing the short in our kitchen light- we'd both rather just spend the day loving on our small little family.

Well. This week has been so beautiful... the weather has been perfect! So we decided to take our little family on a walk to the park. Jude was SO stinkin' cute playing on the playground toys... (which made me cringe a little when I thought of all the icky germs looming- which is funny that I even think about germs... b/c as a teacher, I'd just come to expect germs to be EVERYwhere...but as a mom- germs= bigfatno). Derrick and I had a lot of fun playing w/ him and sliding w/ him (well, dad slide w/ him... mom's derriere is slightly...large) and swinging w/ him.... Jude is growing so quickly...it's hard to believe that soon he'll be begging me to take him to the park... and running around from the monkey bars to the swing. ::sigh- my heart breaks slightly when I think about it::

Here are some pictures of our adventure: