Juno you love our costumes.

For HSM's Pumpkinfest, Jared and I dressed up as Juno and Bleeker from Juno. And I must say, we looked pretty good.

On the way to pumpkinfest we stopped at 7-11 to get a slurpee (obviously) and the girl behind Jared said to him, "Your shorts look extra gold today." He was so caught off-guard that he forgot to say, "My mom uses color safe bleach." But still so funny.

There was also a kid at 7-11 who was FREAKING out over our costumes...it must have been his first halloween or something.

Anyway, check out our sweet get-ups. Not bad for a totally home-made costume right?





I also think that 2nd to ours, Katie and Brandon had the best costumes!
ROB & BIG - except brandon is so dark you can't see his face.

Trabuco Homecoming Pics

I was very pleased with the pictures I took of the kids going to Homecoming on Saturday. They looked very cute and were fun to photograph. Here are a few of my favorites. I'm going to TRY to narrow it down. You can find them all on
MY FLICKR SITE

My Cupcakes

I know what you are going to say...so save it. And just enjoy this post.

My latest obsession/ venture/ life goal... is making cupcakes. I've always enjoyed making cupcakes...and I make a mean funfetti cupcake...but Taffy and Sue gave me a cupcake decorating book for my birthday and it's so much fun. It was a little frustrating at first. Ask Jared, I was almost in tears over those sunflower cupcakes...but I'm practicing and getting better. What do you think? Here are some of the ones I've made recently.

Sunflower Cupcakes



Twilight Cupcakes (Vampires and Warewolves)



Owl Cupcakes (mama and baby)

Mamma Mia!

I saw Mamma Mia! (the movie) with my mamma last week... 1st of all, I loved it. It was so much fun and ABBA music is just great. I mean the movie doesn't compare to seeing the play live, as I got to do in London with the Hibbard family.

Anyway, watching Mamma Mia! made me think...they should make more musicals based on one bands music. I know they've done a Queen musical (We Will Rock You...saw that one in London too), a Beatles musical (Across the Universe), and a Billy Joel musical (Movin' Out...haven't seen it).

Here are some of my suggestions for bands that should have their own musical.

#1. The Cars ...how much fun would that be? I love The Cars
#2. 'N SYNC (I don't REALLY think that this would be that good, but I felt like if I didn't put it, I would be letting go of a piece of me)
#3. Spice Girls (oh wait...there was Spiceworld...my bad)
#4. Michael Jackson (I'm actually surprised there hasn't been one of these...maybe there is and I don't know about it)
#5. Bob Marley (for my husband)

Can you think of some other ones that would be fun?

My favorite thing...

I just realized that I never blogged about this little gem. (or much of anything...i know). Anyway...I've watched this video at least 20 times...and you need to watch it. She's my favorite. I mean I'm a little embarrassed for her... All I've got to say is that I'm so glad I didn't have access to a digital video recorder that was easy to operate. When I was a kid...this is what our family camcorder looked like.

I'm just glad that youtube didn't exist when I was a kid...cuz I would be JUST like this little girl. I mean...me and my friends had a choreographed ROLLER SKATE dance to Diamonds and Pearls by Prince. Now that would be embarrassing because I totally would have broadcast it on youtube. In fact I know my mom has videos of me dancing to Paula Abdul... So...doglover199709....I feel you. Please watch her...over and over. She'll warm your heart. Be sure to note her use of flickering lights, props, awesome beanbag jumps, kicks, and her belly.

Dragons totally belong in your living room

I painted this today. Maybe it's a good thing we don't have TV. I actually do something on my day off.

fortnight

On Sunday Jared and I went to Ikea and bought a dining table. (and a coffee table).

On Monday, we had Alyssa over for dinner...and I wanted to have it set up before dinner...but that didn't really happen...but I'm pretty sure Alyssa had a great time regardless. She decided to use the boxes from the table to make a fort. Here's how it turned out:

Our family picture in front of the fort.


And complete with a green roof. We have to do our part to protect the environment.

After dinner I finally got the table assembled. Here it is:

I should mention that we didn't have enough money to actually purchase chairs...they're expensive...so we have some dumb plastic chairs stolen from the boys house...which I'm sure are stolen from somewhere else... We've decided that we're going to make a bench...and then buy one chair a month until we have a full set. But this works for now. So we can finally have people over for dinner. Kaleigh, Ali, and Chase came over on Wednesday for dinner and were the first people to eat at our table. Very fun!

So let me know if you want to come over for dinner!

yup.

3 times.

Kitchen Decor

Today, I spent my time making this: a lovely robot painting that will hang in our kitchen.


I also watched the majority of season 3 of Grey's Anatomy...and cried twice. But I just started the last episode...so it very well might become three times.