Happy Halloween!

We had Trick or Treating at my work yesterday- Jake was all treat! Would it be weird if he wore this costume every day of the year...it's too cute to take off! He is possibly the cutest monkey EVER!!

I better enjoy the cute costumes while I can. Pretty soon he'll be asking to be a ninja or a monster or some freaky thing from the latest horror flic. Maybe someday he'll want to be a monkey again...no?



EDIT: I forgot to show you what he looked like when I took the costume off! Note the hairy armpits and chest :o)

Light

Saturday afternoon, Jake was laying on the couch being lazy (he takes after me in so many ways!) and I looked over and he had some really cool light falling over him. The sun was coming in the window just right so I grabbed my camera to experiment a little bit.

I'm kind of obsessed with his big head so here are some pictures of it.

I can't get this any bigger for some reason. I am hating Blogger lately!

Lil' Tiger

Our little tiger turned 6 months old last week!! He's growing so fast, which is good...and kind of sad. I miss my little monkey :o( although I love my big monkey! Anyway, Todd put Jake's MU hat on the get him warmed up for the big game last weekend- and what do you know, it's almost too small for his huge noggin. We thought we should get some pictures of him wearing it while he still can! And if he ever comes home telling us he wants to be a Jayhawk instead, after I pick Todd up off the floor I will remind him the he has been a loyal Tiger since he was a little baby and that KU is out of the question!! Unless they want to give him a full ride...then we can talk about it.










We also started Jake on veggies last night!

Yes, I'm in a hurry to get to the next step: on his 4 month birthday we started cereal, now he's on "real" food..and on his 1st birthday we will say 'audios' to formula and HELLO milk (hey, formula is expensive!!!!)

I figured sweet potatoes would be a good starter food- sweet, good texture...and that's what everyone was telling me to start with. So I did. I have a video of this truly amazing event (insert sarcasm) but I really don't feel like trying to figure out how to get it on the blog, so you'll have to settle for a picture instead.

Happy 6 Month Birthday Jakey!!

I've been tagged!!

I'm just giddy with excitement!! Thanks Leslie! I really wish I had some witty things to say, but I don't.

5 Joys
1. My son
2. drinking beer and eating nachos at a (winning) Royals game with Todd
3. spending time with my family and friends
4. the early days of summer when the weather is just warm enough to drive with the sunroof open and the radio blasting
5. the first snow, where everything has a light dusting and the world goes from dark and mean to soft and clean

5 Fears
1. something bad happening to my son
2. my house burning down
3. family dying
4. my teeth falling out
5. terminal illness

5 Obsessions
1. reality TV
2. LOST
3. RB
4. money...even though I don't have any
5. my son (duh, we all saw that one coming!)

5 Surprising Facts
1. Some weekends, I'd rather go to bed early than go out.
2. I've been to 33 US States. I was lucky enough to have a photography job that took me around the country for three years and I got to see some really amazing places...and some not-so-amazing places.
3. I have VERY vivid dreams with super saturated colors and textures. Sometimes they are so weird it freaks me out, more often than not actually.
4. I love the smell of skunks, plastic, gasoline and Pickle scented scratch-n-sniff stickers.
5. I hate that more than one goose is called "Geese" but more than one moose is not called "Meese". What is up with that?!?!?!

Ok, now passing the torch on tooooooooo....

1. Julie at her Julie's Foodie
2. Jocelyn at The ZOG Blog
3. Michelle at The Hoopers
4. Courtney at Cjeanette’s Weblog

Very exciting news!!

So this weekend is going to be awesome, awesome, awesome! First, my friend Layna is going to be on Deal or No Deal this Friday! No, not as a briefcase girl (although she is hot enough to be one) but as a contestant!!! She's going for the million dollars and there are 6 million dollar cases this time! I'm praying for some big bucks for her, she deserves it so much. Tune in to watch, NBC 8pm Friday October 10th.

(I told you she was hot!)

Second...


My friends Sean and Ashley are getting married on Saturday!! I'm so excited for them. I love them both so much and I wish them all the love and happiness in the world. Congrats Sean and Ashley!! (sorry, I don't have a picture of them on my work computer).

Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead

Saturday was a fun day! Todd and his brother Scott went up to Nebraska to watch the Tigers slaughter the Huskers and left myself and my sister-in-law, Mary, to fend for ourselves. It was a beautiful day out so we took the kids to Deanna Rose Farmstead for a little while. This was my first time visiting and I was extremely surprised to see how cool this place is! I had no idea. It's much bigger than I thought and they have some really cool animal displays. Best part? It's FREE!!! You can fish, watch a cow get milked, feed baby goats with bottles (I'm totally doing this next time!!!), ride horses, sit in the butterfly garden...so much to do! And ina couple weeks they are having some Halloween events too. Check it out! And while you're there, leave a few dollars in one of the donation boxes so this place can continue to stay open. Did I mention it was free? Here's some shots from the outing.

Payton and Mary

baby Jake with a baby cow

baby Jake with a big cow

Bugs eye view.

Milk for the nerves? And all this time I thought it was wine for the nerves...hhmmm.

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He's got his daddy's eyelashes!

Jake, me and the goats. Look at his face!!! He can't figure out what is going on...

See that little girl in the background? We ran into her later in the day. As we were walking by her, we saw that she as feeing the goat something. At that very exact moment her dad (grandpa?) was talking to someone on his cell phone and says "Oh my God, she just gave a goat a cookie!". I about fell down laughing! I'm laughing now just thinking of it!! It was funny. I guess you had to be there.

Just do it!

Slim-Fast

I'm not a good breakfast eater. Usually if I do eat breakfast it's a fatty, greasy something I pick up at McDonald's on the way to work, which is niether good for my waistline nor my bank account. So yesterday I decided to pick up a 6 pack of Slim-Fast, the Milk Chocolate flavor. It's packed full of vitamins and protien, 99% fat free and only 220 calories! It even smells like Coco Puffs (and who doesn't love Coco Puffs?). I need to shed the last of my baby weight anyway so this will get me off to a good start.

What I assume will taste like a chocolate shake actually taste like plastic... chocolate plastic. It's pretty vile. BUT, if it will help me lose this squishy belly I will just gave to deal. I'm supposed to have one for breakfast then a healthy snack, one for lunch, then another healthy snack and a sensible dinner (I'm pretty sure their idea of "sensible" is much different than my idea of "sensible").

Hypothetically speaking, if I drink Slim-Fast shakes three times a day with two snacks in between and zero meals...how much weight can I lose in the shortest amount of time? Assuming I would have fruit as snacks, and drink lots of water...let's see...add the 2, carry the one...I would only be consuming about 900 calories a day!!! The pounds would FLY off! One can live on 900 calories a day, right?

I mean, hypothetically speaking of course...