Oakley's Growing Up

So, on Thursday, Oakley got tubes in his ears. Yeah! Thursday night, he decided that he didn't feel like sleeping. Boo! Friday morning, I decided to let him roam while I snoozed for a few minutes. After a little bit, he came and tried to climb up on the couch where I was. I smelled candy and found his hands to be all sticky. So much for my snooze, I went to see what he had found.

My 15 month old could survive on Kid Nation.
He found food, got it down, and transferred it to a candle holder.

Oh, and he tasted each piece. (These were strawberry flavored Whoppers, btw, now they're spit flavored, except that one at the bottom.)

I'm so glad that now he is self sufficient enough to dispense of babysitters. Litterally, now we can lock the doors and off we'll go. He can manage himself.

We also figured he's old enough to get a job and start pulling his own weight. He started at Target yesterday.

I'm the best parent.

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I'm kind of tired of the blog.

We tried to take a new family picture...

I didn't think it would be that hard.


There's only three of us, surely we can get ONE that will look decent.


I'm starting to think that we will never have a good picture again.


And this is my favorite.


We're really awesome sometimes.

Costco.... 381

This is what I feel like I must look like when I go to Costco.Seriously, I love the place, but I have a suggestion. How about motorized carts. No, not to drive around in, but just have the shopping carts motorized because sometimes I feel like I'm going to bust a hernia or something from pushing my cart.

I went on Tuesday for diapers. I left with diapers, papertowels, 2 pairs of pj's for Oakley, dishwasher detergent, 3 rolls of the cutest ribbon ever, a pineapple, grapes, frie cut sweet potatoes (mmm, btw) hamburger buns, and milks for us. For the office I got printer cartridges, diet pepsi, paper, envelopes, cheese-its, redvines and a lemoncake. Any guesses as to how much I spent? The person closest will win 10 hamburger buns (I only needed two, but they were so cheap!)

Even though the place takes advantage of me every time, I still continue to go and have a serious crush on it.

P.S. If anyone goes and they have any of the red ribbon with the tiny white pom-poms on the sides, get me a roll! They were out. (Insert Charlie Brown music.)

P.P.S Don't be jealous of my mad paint skills, I was so excited when I remembered the spray-paint can, and even more excited when I remembered the dump paint can. Sorry only a few things are painted, it was all I could do because of unclosed lines and it wanting to paint the entire picture that color.

Wiggity - Wiggity - Wiggity - Wack!

Melissa got a new hair-cut! We love her new quaff so much, we decided to do it too.

Before:

After:

(doesn't she look like the secretary lady on Bob Newhart?)

Although Oakley did love the idea of hair to run your fingers through and feel flowing in a breeze, he was a bit concerned about the extension and perm process. Nothing a few (like 18) cookies couldn't take care of.

Before:

After:

Before: (jealously eying Melissa's 'do)

After (a few too many drinks) :

Before:

After:(she got a smile makeover too)

Alrighty, this computer is about to get thrown out the window for it's orneriness this morning so I'm ending the post now!

RGB - Woohoo!

So, my friend that I affectionately call Cleaners' Katie has awarded me the fantastic and prestigious "Rockin' Girl Blogger" award. Who knew that such an award even existed? Apparently she did, because she was recently a recipient of it. Now, she truly deserves it because she has one of those cute headers and shows how to do cute crafty things step-by-step regularly on her blog. Me, I dunno, you know how random I am, how few and far between the posts are and who can forget the non-funny spell that is still trying to rebound from the summer. However, she says I'm deserving, so THANKS!
P.S. She's Cleaners' Katie because we both worked together at the cleaners in high school, trying on ugly clothes and doing cart races with the laundry carts. Anyone that worked there deserves some sort of award. (Interestingly enough, several of my recipients did.)

Moving on, It is now my heavy responsibility to award 5 others with this award. So, here they go. Oh, and this is in no particular order, so #5, don't cry that your #5, it's just who's pictures I come to first...Drum roll please...........

#1: Ah, Miss.

In case you were thinking that I was totally in love with myself and chose myself, don't you worry, this isn't me. This is my incredibly entertaining sister Melissa. If you check her blog, this week's posts have been amazing. So, maybe I'm a little biased, because the recent posts have been focusing on each member of our family. She so accurately describes each person and has spent much time scanning in the most amazing pictures, specifically chosen to portray each person's highlights in life. Please look at another amazing picture of her in the last of the fore-mentioned posts, her in the front row of the family picture with the afro. Wasn't she a doll? So, other than the family tributes, my favorite post of hers was Best songs Ever because we think the same.

#2: Heather!

I am a bit sentimental about Heather's blog because it was the first blog that I remember seeing. My sister (Miss) was looking at someones, and I saw Heather's name as a link, and I said, "Oh, click on that one, they are the most attractive family ever!" Luckily for me, it happened to be the week after Easter, and she had just done the Easter post, with fantastic pictures. That's when I realized that blogging could be the funnest hobby ever. I love Heather's blog because she doesn't try to impress people with her life, she's just so herself.

Next, #3: Emjuan (EMily, JUlia, ANnie) aka the Motherless Jones Girls.

These girls (who happen to be my cousins) are so fun! They are one of the blogs that I check daily to see if there has been any new posts. One of my favorite things about them is their struggle or goal in life is to be "classy not trashy." I have to admit, I would be devastated it they got all high class on me, because we enjoy so many of the same things (crummy TV) and I get comfort in not being the only one with the need to see just about every show on E! and know what' s going on in the life of Spencer and Heidi. There are so many posts of theirs that have had me completely lol-ing so I'll just name a few: Our new Motto, Things we love/hate Tuesdays, Sad, and anything about Kittens or Scorpions. So, basically their entire blog.

#4: It's Angelicious!

So, those of you who aren't one of the 128,345,982,332 people who stalk Angie daily, maybe you should. I've told her that she is the visiting teacher of the blogging world. She totally brings people together. Everyone loves her and that is evidenced by the 20+ comments she gets on each adorable post. It sometimes doesn't seem fair that someone should be so good at everything, but if someone is, she deserves it. Her posts are so fun, totally her, and make you want a dog named Mr. Myagi, a daughter named Chloe, and your scrapbooks done by her (so when do you want me to drop off all my pictures? still not funny even when it's from me?) She writes totally like she thinks, so don't get thrown off by the words "slash, o'___," and others either acronymed or incredibly shortened and sometimes gangsta-fied slash made-up. My fave Angie post? Definitely this one.

Ugh, I'm getting wordier as I go. I was trying to keep this short!

Lastly, #5: Erica

Um, so I'm a little nervous about this one, because I've never commented to this person before but I check her every single day (Melissa says I'm not allowed to comment to people that I don't know because it's creepy - she'd know, she has had so many random stalkers, it's great!) However, she does know I exist, because she once commented that she found my comment I had left to Melissa humorous. Melissa is apparently the boss. Anyhow, back to Erica. Some have her listed as "Hillariousnes" and "PG-13" which would both be accurate. I was relieved when I found out she had majored in journalism, because her eloquently phrased whit is a bit to compete with. So, yes, Erica definitely is a Rockin' Girl Blogger. She was the originator of Things I hate ___day, and recently has started Tuesdays with Jihone. These occurrences are gems, and we pray that she gets a laptop soon or gets around the blog-blocker at work! Okay, I guess I'd better let her know.

Okay girls, retrieve your award (um, copy and paste) and award five more to deserving blogs. Ah man! Seriously, I just barely realized that this is a tag-type-thing, so sorry.

Enjoy these blogs, I sure do! Also, so many of you deserve honorable mentions, Mom & Dad: who's parents have a blog and have an amazing picture in their profile and have people in their ward say, "I looked at your parents blog, they are so funny!" I do. Alyson who once received the comment, "If you were as funny in real life as you wrote, you'd be hilarious," she is alright? Freaking Hilarious at that! Stacie, who else posts several times a day and takes their camera everywhere including the hospital at 2 in the morning? Only Stacie, a serious blogger. I have to thank Brookie (the cookie) for setting my blog up for me in the first place. And, on and on and on. I love all of your blogs! That's why I have each of you on the right sidebar - I love to check them all. Sara-out.

So long, Farewell, I leave in saying Adieu!

I have a fetish for baby shoes. They make me laugh, mostly because they are so completely unnecessary. These are Oakley's Sunday penny-loafers, which happen to be my faves because they are so nerdy! He's grown out of them so we took a few pictures in memorial.I finally dressed him up like an old man to show how amazing they are.

I really wanted to make him a creepy old man with an open shirt, gold chains dancing in his chest hair, and no socks, but his chubby soft feet wouldn't go in without socks. So we settled for the nursing home old man.

I'm going to miss these hideous things.

Awesomeness

So, sometimes I think I'm kinda white trash. Then, I see some amazing things and realized that I'm not that white trash.

Reasons why:

#1: I don't buy cut-off short over-alls at Walmart.

P.S. Did you know that this is the Walmart mission statement, "To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people." Well, they're half right, these are only $14.97, but I haven't seen the "rich" people buying these lately.

#2: Jason doesn't make me ride B---- (that's what it's called for reals, ask my dad) and carry the giant bag of cups when we go to keggers. I just have to ride B, and Oakley carries the cups in the side car.



Happy Hang-Over Weekend!