Vacation, sewing projects, new house & the ZOO

Yes I know it's a lot to blog about, but I'm lazy lately so I feel like I have to fit it all in while I have the motivation to do it :)

Travis and I just got back from our weekend away in St. George. It was awesome. We went to movies, ate delicious thai food, saw a play at Tuacahn, cleaned up my parents' flooded basement (picture below), relaxed by the pool and, of course, spent way too much money on home decor (I have a problem). ha.


We woke up our first morning there and found this. I was freaking out a little. We caught it before it could cause too much damage but we still had to have GINORMOUS loud fans all weekend long airing out the carpet where the water had seeped into the house. SWEET.

TARZAN. woot woot.

What's a day at the pool without hot tamales?

Yes those are my fat legs. This is the pool that high school musical 2 was filmed at. I made Travis go see Charlie St. Cloud after(who doesn't like to look at Zac Efron for 2 hrs? Although the movie was pretty dumb. sniffle).

Dorks.

In other news, I am sewing new pillows for my couches. The one below is my pride and joy. I love it so much that I have a hard time with Bryant even touching it (yes I'm one of THOSE moms ha).

Thanks mom for all of your help!!!! You are a sewing genius.


AND GUESS WHAT????!!!! OUR HOUSE IS FINALLY BEING BUILT. CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH?


THE ZOO
Did you know that 4:30 is the perfect time to go to the zoo? There was NO ONE there when I took Bry the other day. We seriously sat and stared at the gorillas and Giraffes (that were like 3 ft away) for 15 minutes. It was awesome.

Ps. My Son is SO ADORABLE
(Proof in the picture below)

Ok that's what's going on with us :)
I'm going to go eat some sherbet. mmmmm....................

Hanging out with Papa

Bryant likes to hang out with my dad in the garden. It's cute. I love his squinty eyes. the end.

Happy Friday!!!!

Less than a week from today and I get to go on a "mini vacation" with Travis. I CANNOT WAIT. It's been 2 yrs since we had a whole weekend away together. The thought of laying by a pool doing absolutely nothing sounds like heaven.

Ps. I'm making pillows. Pictures to come soon. Be excited.

Things I would buy if I had money...

This one is from West Elm, I LOVE their bedding.

Don't you just love the accessories at Urban Outfitters? I know I do. These are things I want for my house. I have to refrain myself daily from buying them.

Jane Eyre

Hi there,

Yep just in case you're wondering, glee music is playing and I'm sitting on my bed. :)

So I found out today that a new version of Jane Eyre is coming out this March. I'm SO EXCITED. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books of all time. I can't wait.

This sexy man is playing Mr. Rochester. Hella yes.

(He's off of 300 and Inglorious Bastards. Man movies. Although I didn't mind looking at

the men in 300 :) sexy sexy.

In other news my son is obsessed with the "fish face"

He's awesome.

Ps. Am I the only girl in the whole wide world who hasn't seen Eclipse?

Summertime and the livin' is easy........

Hi Peoples
I LOVE summer.
I LOVE how happy Bryant is outside.
I LOVE cute little swimming shorts for my cute little boy.
I Love how pasty white I still am............oh wait. no.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer so far.

Hey twin sista....

Bryant on the run.....

ummmmm trying to eat the sunscreen....

giggles.....

Sisters.........ahhhhh

(we didn't realize the pool would be pink until we opened it, Travis was not happy about it ha)

Excited about his new baseball........

Forcing bry to take a picture with me......

Wiped out. So cute.

Big Sigh of Relief...

If this...

and this...

had ruined this moment...

I may have justified ending it all...

GO USA!

Joyous day comemorating thy delivery. Or Happy Birthday!

So, today is Becca's Birthday. She seems to be pretty upset about the fact that she's 25. I don't really get that. It's not that old. She claims that for a woman it's all downhill from 25,whereas men just become silver foxes like Anderson Cooper or George Clooney.

Unfortunately for Becca, I don't think she has come to grips with the fact that my future probably looks something a bit more like this:

That's my goal anyways.

I thought maybe I would list some things about Becca that make her worth the trouble... err... I mean that make me love her!

~Bec's a great Mom! Seriously, she puts you other mothers to shame. You guys should all feel slightly to majorly jealous of her mothering skills. Ok, don't feel bad, really. I'm sure you're all wonderful mothers, but I'm just trying to make a point. Bec's a really good Mom. She thinks she constantly being compared to my Mother, but that's just not the case. (I made the mistake of commenting how much I liked my Mom's sugar cookies once... right after Bec had made me sugar cookies... I'll never live it down. And she's never made me sugar cookies since then...) So while I think my Mom's awesome, I also envy Bubba and think he's pretty much the luckiest little boy in the world. Though I also think it would suck to have a hot mom, so I don't envy him in that respect. (But Mom, I still think you're adorable...just not like that...)

~Which brings me to reason #2... She's Bangin' Hot! ...The total package... Now I realize that our readers are 99.99999% women, so just ignore me for a minute. You know how they say that pictures are worth a thousand words? Sometimes that's just a flat out lie.  Because you know how when a guy sees a hot girl he goes stupid and has no words? That's what these pictures do for me... there are no words. *Drool*

~Bec's a hard worker. When something is important to her (school, a clean house, mothering, special events, convinving me to do what she wants, etc.) she pours her whole heart into it. Seriously, to the point of obsession. On second thought, maybe I should put this in my next list of her faults?? Ha...jk. Honestly, I respect the way she's able to really dedicate all her thoughts and engery into whatever it is that she's working on. I on the other hand, need breaks every ten minutes and eventually just call it quits when I'm tired of working on whatever it is I should be doing. Which explains why she got good grades and I...

~Lately Becca's been all domesticated and stuff. She's housebroken. I think I did it to her somehow. Seriously, when I met this girl, she was all "girl power" and "Ms. You'll-never-domesticate-me". I don't know what or how I did it, but she cooks me dinner...regularly...and it's good. I love it.

~Becca's a good person.  For some reason she seems to worry about this quite a bit.  I think that alone is evidence enough that she's good.  Bad people don't care that they're bad.  So let the record show that Becca is a wonderful person.

~T&A

~She helped me clean my car the other day after a long day. That was pretty great too. Made me love her.

~She's a twin. This is more creepy than anything though. Just messing, Nat. We love you. And Happy Birthday to you as well!

~She's feisty.  It's a blessing and a curse.

~Bec's totally a girly-girl. While I don't appreciate the impact this occasionally has on our bank account, there's just something I like about a girl who takes the time, if you know what I mean. At the same time, she's a natural beauty. Good luck convincing her of it though. Perhaps it's better that way. But, she's as irresistible in the morning as she is after hours (yes, hours) of primping.

So Beccers, have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We love you lots and feel lucky to have you in our lives!

Love,

Travis and Bubba