fall fun

bryan finally had a little down time (not meaning he had a day off, just a few awake hours to be available!!!!!), so we took advantage of the weather and went to the park. we saw ducks, dogs, and fountains! and the boys loved not having to be restricted in where they went. so why is it that it's exactly how everyone says (much to my annoyance) - they automatically go in opposite directions?!?! which is why i don't these sort of things by myself...

these boys and their cars...

how is it that boys are automatically hard-wired to love machines? cars, trucks, busses, fire trucks, dump trucks, back hoes, and the list goes on and on...  and why is it one of the cutest things to watch them 'beep beep' all over every single possible surface in the house?  finally playing together -- until, of course, the other's car is suddenly more interesting.. which always happens too fast for me.

future gymnast?

i will not be the mother who lives vicariously through her children by forcing them into dance and gymnastics at an early age... i will not be that mother i will not be that mother i will not be that mother.

little workers

you're gonna clean this dump  --  'til it shines like the top-of-the chrys.ler. buil.ding!

i should clarify

there are people who are really good at scrapbooking, photo albums, "memory keeping", etc.. i cannot count myself among those people.  as i said yesterday, i just finished what i'm calling the boys' baby books.  i actually didn't finish, as i'd like to add some info about the time they were born.  but i printed the pictures out (which is huge), put them into albums, and captioned most of the pics.  i also should add that these are just the pictures from their birth and hospital stay.  for all the other ones- the pregnancy, the move, when they came home and their lives up until now, i still have a ginormous stack waiting to be catalogued.  once i get a few more of these kolo albums (which, in my opinion, are so much better than your average photo album), i'll work on the rest.  maybe by the time they go to school, i'll have it all finished.  for milestones and other important things that happen in their lives, i'm keeping a journal.  instead of annoying photo corners, i used happy tape, which i'm starting to get a tad obsessed with.  i just hope it sticks.

today i...

1. turned 29 at approximately 12:30 this morning
2. was lucky enough to get to stay in bed while my husband got up with the babies
3. have a cleaning lady deep cleaning my house bottom to top! talk about the best present ever.
4. am trying to save all my calories (am dieting since the whole 'acupuncturist telling me i was a fatty' thing happened) for the denver chocolate sheet cake i will be eating tonight
5. was not, however, able to pass up french macarons from andre's
6. i mean, really- who would be?
7. am grateful not to be getting scared or depressed or anything about almost being thirty
8. because, as jessica simpson said, 24 is almost 25 which is almost 30 - which means i'd be sunk if i cared
9. hope that i end up like my mom in many ways, except the fact that she'd rather wear baggy everything just to be comfortable
10. have a feeling that that will come anyway, hopefully later rather than sooner
11. am wondering if anyone besides ricki lake and uncle joey from full house has my same birthday
12. am wishing my bf and i could once, maybe once, celebrate our birthdays together
13. am really, really grateful that i have no friends or family who use LOL or OMG seriously in a conversation
14. probably sounded snobby saying that
15. am excited to pick the boys up from "school"
16. enjoyed staying in bed watched the pilots of the united states of tara and the big C
17. think toni collette is a genius actress
18. and john corbett will forever be aidan to me, therefore, perfect.
19. was told by bryan that i shouldn't be excited about my birthday present, but more so for my anniversary present (october 17), which he already has bought.
20. he is good.
21. finished liam and finn's 'baby books'
22. put that in quotes because it's just pictures with my own captions
23. don't go very well with the normal baby books that make me describe all of my inner feelings and such
24. am excited that they're almost 2, and i finally finished!
25. can't wait for another birthday dinner tomorrow night with good friends
26. wish the weather was more september-like: i.e. cool. fall-like. requiring long sleeves, maybe? ugh.
27. global warming is not a myth, people!
28. don't really like the number 29 (i'm a weirdo)
29. will not let it affect my 29th year.  happy birthday to me!

new shoes!

i want to wear these all day, every day.  this isn't a good picture with the under thing on the sole, but these super cute ballet flats go with every single outfit i need to jazz up - which means, every single outfit that i wear.  i almost didn't get them, because i have a hard time spending more than $20 on such a small shoe, but i had a gift certificate so i justified the purchase.  never have i owned metallic shoes, and i'm in love. LOVE.  i want a pair in every color.

dip dip dip!

we have officially discovered ketchup.  and somewhere in the beginning, every time bryan would dip whatever we were eating in it, he would say, dip dip dip!  and the boys would have to see the food being dipped, or they wouldn't eat it.  finn especially, he would push our hands back towards the ketchup if he didn't visualize the dipping...  oh, my.  so now, every time they dip, they say dip, dip, dip - although it comes out pee, pee, pee... yeah, we're workin' on it.   tonight, as we were enjoying our tiny tots from winsteads (deep fried potatoes were the veggie of the night - mmm), i had no energy left to keep them from doing the dipping themselves...

so happy to be putting our faces in our plates!

serious goosebumps.

and who knew mikhail baryshnikov could tap dance?

via making it lovely's honor roll

random bits for friday

- saying or hearing bits always make me think of bridget jones' wobbly bits, the ones colin firth loves..
- i'm about to itch my face off and i'm wondering if this means i've been in denial about having allergies
- strongly considering eating the rest of the chocolate pudding cake we had for dessert last night for lunch. by itself. with a glass of milk.  nothing else.
- wondering how coldplay ended up on the pandora station of walt disney tunes
- also wondering why i just shared with everyone that i listen to that particular station
- remembering that my chinese acupuncturist (who obviously hasn't learned a few things about american women)  told me i was 15 pounds overweight, re-thinking the whole cake for lunch thing
- am working on some very chic wedding invitations, along with a birth announcement for a good friend
- missing my bf
- loving this, but don't know if i'm cool enough to pull it off - plus, we have a window above our bed
- needing new ideas for the boys school lunches, i'm feeling guilty about sending peanut butter every day
- i think discovering that our water dispenser on our fridge has a lock on it was the highlight of my day!
- just sent out the last of my sister-in-law's wedding invitations, getting excited for florida in november!!
- wondering i'm really going to be able to make the boys (ring bearers) pants or if i should just buy them
- currently LOVING arrested development on netflix streaming..  something bryan and i can watch together is hard to come by
- thinking a date night is in order..
- coming to terms with the fact that, in a week and a half, i'll be one year away from 30
- actually, there's no coming to terms with anything - unless something hits me on my birthday, i'm not freaking out about getting older
- hoping everyone has a happy weekend!

photo shoot

don't mind the 1970s part on finn...