25% off Denim Skirts

I occasionally post a discount code for Style J. They are the only place I've been able to find long denim skirts. Here is the most recent code for 25% off, but it's only good until Monday (the 24th). The code is MB25F. Happy shopping. :)

New Hair cut

Here I am sporting my new hair style. New cut and new color. I love it. The top one is the best representation of the true color. The other two pictures look a lot darker than it really is. I love my hair stylist. She's seriously AWESOME!

Just as a random side note. I was wondering today...Do grapenuts ever go bad. I have a box of them in my cupboard that I have been using to put in my yogurt. Today when I got it out I thought to myself, "gosh, I've had this box a while. I wonder if it's expired." Um...ya, like 2 years ago. But I tasted some and they still taste the same. Granted, grapenuts never taste good on their own even when they are fresh, but they had the same taste, texture everything. So it got me thinking...do these things ever go stale??? Or does it just deplete in nutritional value? Weird.

Fight The Frump

You know those women at church that ALWAYS come looking fabulous?! There are a few of them in my ward (congregation). They always look so stylish and perfect. Ya, and then there is me. I have no fashion sense and being poor doesn't help. I have 2 skirts that I alternate each week and about 3 shirts (2 of which now have stains on them...grrr). It's sad. But now that we have a little bit of expendable income I am slowly starting to build my wardrobe. That takes us back to the part where I said I have no fashion sense. So I have been doing some research. Looking through magazines etc. looking for helpful tips. I don't even have the basics and have no idea what the 'basics' are or where to even start. Well, I was getting my hair done the other day and Alisha, the girl who does my hair, let me look through this book she has called The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece. It was awesome. So, when I got home I immediately got on the computer and ordered this book from Amazon. Here's hoping I am not beyond saving and this will help me look a bit more stylish and a lot less frumpy. Getting my hair done helped (thanks Alisha) now to work on my clothes. It will be a slooow process since we don't have a LOT of extra money, because, well, we are trying to pay off our credit card. But at least I will have an idea where to start.

C is for Cookie

Jacob loves Sesame Street. This is him talking like Cookie Monster or "botser" has he says it. :)

Table For Ten and a Jungle Gym Please

It was my friend Tricia's birthday yesterday and we had a surprise party for her at a fancy shmancy restaurant. We went back and forth on whether we should get a babysitter or not,then we found out another couple was bringing their child, so we decided to just bring ours as well. When Jon(Tricia's husband) made the reservations he told them there would be children. I was a little anxious about this get together for a couple reasons, the first being that I had nothing nice to wear, the second being that we were bringing our kids to this super nice restaurant. We were the first ones there and this is how the conversation with the hostess went.

Mike: We are here for...
Hostess: (cutting him off) Your party's table is ready.
Mike: Uuh...you know who we are?
Hostess: (Smiling and eyeing the children) Yes.
Me: Ya cause we are the only ones that would bring our kids.
Hostess: (no comment as she leads us to a large table in the VERY BACK.)

Haaahahaha. They were very nice though and as we were leaving they commented on how well behaved our children were. lol. They were very well behaved. Jacob was fascinated with the candles and just stared at them. He was very entertained by them. He only tried to touch the flame a few times. :) I was also very relieved to see that I wasn't the only person there wearing jeans. All in all it was a pretty good evening and I'm glad we went. Next time I'm getting a sitter though.

Who is ready for some lateral thinking???

The person to figure this out wins a Jacuzzi in their mansion in heaven. Good luck.

Birthday Blues
The day before yesterday Freda was 17. Next year she will be 20. How can this be so?

The Boy and Little Miss

We picked the name Jacob because...well, we really liked it, but I really wanted to call him Jake. So far we've used The Boy, Jacob, Jakers and occasionally Jacobus, but I've only used the nickname Jake maybe twice. Mostly we just call him The Boy and we mostly call Lizzie, Lizzie or Little Miss.

Yesterday as I was hanging our new family pictures on the wall I started pointing to people in the pictures and asking Jacob who they were. Here's how the conversations went.

Me: (pointing to Lizzie) Who is this?
Jacob: a Sissy.
Me: (pointing to Mike) Who is this?
Jacob: a Daddy.
Me: (pointing to Jacob) Who is this?
Jacob: Da Boy.

Okay, maybe I didn't hear him right. So I continue.

Me: (pointing to me) Who is this?
Jacob: a Mommy.
Me: (pointing to Jacob) Is this Jacob.
Jacob: a Da Boy.

hahahaha! Maybe I should start using his real name more. He's gonna go to school thinking his name is The Boy. LOL.