That little red headed devil shea tagged me and if she knew how often I respond she would never have done it, but what he heck I love Shea so Shea....this is for you!
4 jobs I've had:• Graphic Designer for Heidi Swapp (Scrapbook Co.)
• Flagger (I was a true F-Chick)
• Hostess - China Lily
• Graphic Designer for 4 Life
4 movies I can watch over and over again:
• Elf
• Anything with Tom Hanks (Big etc.)
• You've Got Mail
• Count of Monte Cristo (?)
4 favorite TV shows:• The Office
• 24 (Thanks Tanya)
• Spongebob
• Those are the only shows I watch.
4 favorite hobbies:• Design (Anything creative really. )
• Photography (Brady keeps buying me equipment for my birthday. He plans on quitting and making me go back to work! Ha Ha.)
• Wedding Cakes (Thanks to Jamie's tips and tricks of course)
• Wake Boarding (Not that I'm any good but I sure do love to go once a year.)
4 places I've lived:• Orem, Utah (East)
• Orem, Utah (West)
• Orem, Utah (1 block away from West.)
• Barrington, Illinois
4 places I've been on holiday:• Europe 2 times with Shea (the perks of being single forever!)
• Cancun (Honeymoon & returned to climb the pyramid stairs at 7 months pregnant)
• New York (College Art Tour)
• Florida (With a bunch of friends right on the Beach)
4 favorite dishes/foods:• California Pizza Kitchen's California Club Pizza
• Wingers Wings
• BBQ Ribs
• Peanut M&M's
4 websites I visit daily:•Martha Stewart Weddings (Don't make fun. I love designing wedding stuff.)
•Pottery Barn Kids
•Blogs of everyone I know (I'm going to kill whoever got me sucked into blogging....MARISSA!)
• Everywhere else
4 places I'd rather be:• At any roller coaster park
• York (at Betty's during Christmas time drinking proper hot chocolate.)
• New York
• San Diego on the beach
People I'm tagging---Jamie, Marissa, Michelle, Jessica
Stevie Batman, Stevie, Steve, Steven Will You, my Steve, Alec's Toy. All of him are leaving. What will we do you ask when waiting those last few hours for Brady when Steve is usually entertaining the endless requests of Alec to "tie-it" (Cape fashioned from soft blue blankie by Steve) or do "jumpin' song" for the 32nd time in a row. Who I ask you will chop the onions and offer advice to "just add more butter"? And who I beg you will "hoagie" (hold and hug) Alec when he wakes up crying for an hour after his nap. What, what will we do without "my Stevie". I just don't know. So, Stevie....enjoy the peace and quiet but remember we miss you in more ways than you know! We love you!
This is my baby blessing dress from 1977 accessorized with Grandma Lois Jean Spencer's baby bonnet from 1955-ish. Can't get over it.
I just have to laugh. Last night Brady asks me. "Can you just take like that picture on the desktop and take off all my hair just to see how it looks?" "Um, I guess so. Why?" I reply. "Can't you just do it? It'll take you like 5 seconds right? Now that sounds like a challenge. Since he was up for the change, I thought I'd take liberty to morph in a little x-men while I was at it.
Brady calls her "little Miss". Something about it that I love. She is the little miss. She kicks it all day perched on my arm out to the side watching intently trying not to miss a thing Alec does. And every so often she turns and catches me off guard with the hugest grin you've ever seen. But all the while sucking on that sweet soggy hand of hers. MMmmmmm!
Oh.....isn't he so cute! Oh wait. Look a little closer and you'll see the fierce growl I get everytime i yell...."Hey Alec.....look at the camera." It's like he has this horrible vengence against the idea that the camera, if given into, will have control over him. And Alec is not controlled by anyone! Except for maybe a good sucker. So....maybe halloween is the miracle we have been looking for!
Dragging the kids out sometimes seems futile. But Megan, Matt and Courtney were so much fun. The botanic gardens have orchards, vegetable gardens, gigantic carp and a ton of greedy geese. The day ended at the fountain for the last day of summer weather.
So I guess cupcakes are all the rage these days and of course I had to try out Chicago's finest while we were downtown this weekend. We stopped by Cupcakes which was a little on the "I gotta get used to these freaky combinations" sort of bakery with really stylishly decorated cupcakes. I loved the pear and pistachio flavors.
Alec seems to have only one volume. So he knows exaclty what this means. Only this time.... it was to keep me on the stairs while he went to wake up Ella! This picture is probably the third day in a row he wore that Spiderman shirt. He'd wait by the dryer every morning for it so he could put it back on. Heaven help us.
The holiday weekend turned bad when Brady found Ella blue laying on our bed Friday night. We'd just gotten home from catching our own trout for dinner and after 500 tests at the hospital found out that little Ella had choked on her own reflux. Luckily the only thing that took a hit was her liver that quickly recovered and after almost a week in the Ped's Intesive Care we went home with an apnea monitor and no sleep! But, we did have a little fun taking pictures in-between a CT Scan, MRI, EKG, EEG, Spinal Tap, Blood Culture, Urine Culture, Mucus Culture, Urinalysis, 24 PH Study, Apnea Study, Chest X-RAY, Video Swallow, Upper GI and 3 failed IV's. Bless little Ella's heart!
