news flash 2...

this is the video we showed our parents this weekend...

featuring santa maria, santa barbara, and san luis obispo

[you will want to watch the whole thing. i know it's long...]

ipad... Really?

I just blogged this from an iPad.

Now I must have one.....

[insert swearword]

(added later: and yes, cc was not at home when i got here this evening. why? he was chillin at best buy looking at our new "baby" that will be arriving some time in may most likely. so spoiled is that little man of mine.)

un-birth control

family reunions are great and all.
love seeing family,
love not eating all of the good food cause we decided to go on a diet the week before...

cami was going to stay home with the baby for this activity,
but i needed some ella bug time...

yep, all 18.
and now i want one.

wrap thinger, baby, and all.
dear future, get on that.

[who votes that we skip to that part of life?!]

things that make me shimmy...

yes! bout freakin time...

[not pictured: all the long sleeves and sweaters i just retrieved from my mom's.
good thing this is 2/3 of my wardrobe and i live in phoenix...]

the only corner of this house that i can call my own...

"Snickers" Mix:

1 candy corn
(try the carmel ones...even betta)
+
2 plain [halloween colored] m&ms
+
2 peanuts
=
snickers!

the view on the way home from work...


and the best yet,


jonathan parker moffat

10.28.2009
8lbs 11oz 21in

my first nephew:

thanks, for the reasons to smile today.

i needed them.

highlights

dear blog,
i wanted to repent for being neglectful....

here are some weekly highlights:


· had a meltdown because of my suspicious recent weight gain
and my inability to make it stop last week,
then listened to a talk on saturday morning that reminded me not to care.
and i cried:

"He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God’s love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked."
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

· spent the night playing house and watchin the niece so another one could come.
i like playing mom.

· baby Chantelle Lorraine Moffat was born at 5:11 on 10.5.2009.
7 pounds, 9 ounces of adorable joy.


· yesterday i was listening to my talk radio podcasts on my phone,
cause i have culture,
and heard that obamanation won himself a nobel "piece"
for "capturing the world's attention" and "inspiring hope"
where is michael jackson's piece then?
ironically, i just lost hope in the nobel peace prize...
11 days? you gave the man 11 days to be in office
before nominating the man for changing the world?!
...don't get me started...

· my coworker who never does anything for anyone else,
helped a student at 5:05.... (after his shift!).
he declared, "today will go down in history!"
a breakthrough that makes me smile.

· after not feeling so awesome for the past few days,
and coming home a groggy hot mess everyday,
i got into the car after work yesterday,
rolled the windows down,
blasted some tunes,
and sang along.
smiling the whole way.
a surge of happiness for no reason except that God loves me.

· then we played with some cute friends
long overdue!
ate good food,
laughed a lot,
and went home with smiles on our faces.

today?

today i have 2 years of homework to do...
and i have about 100 blogs left to read...
and groceries to purchase....
and a gym i should visit...
a baby i need to play with...
and a husband to spend ample time with slash go make breakfast for like now...


so far, i'm O for 6.

july showers...

almost every saturday for the past many weeks
my husband goes,
"what are we going to do today!"

"...shower."

"oh... didn't you just do that..."

~~~~~~~

i love them though:

always good/cute foods that match,

cute decor stuff
(and yes, i have two friends having twins!)
crazytown.

good people that i don't get to see often enough...

always good for other people's cute kids to shoot/play with...

lindsee (twins-boy/girl) kim (girl)
this picture makes me smile

best friends both havin babies...
its like father of the bride part 5

on to more of them...

shalene (boy. max. born now...)

with more cute people i don't see enough...

and even MORE good/cute food...

and other people's kids!

i guess there is no sense in messing up a good formula...

i love these things...
but i think they are wearin husband out!

I'm so happy to be stuck with you...

yes... every one of you...

and yes, even you "baby mac" (Makenna 1 month, 22 days). thanks for letting me come and play with you and your cute family... which happens to be my family!

foto by meg

again, i am reminded of the blessing it is to be here and to have the family that i do. the RPMJRs have upped the ante one...and it will not be the last!

i would also like to say
happy month of green
—stay tuned for the great things that i plan on doing to celebrate march (the best color-represented month) of the year. st. patty's is NBD, but the green is... and oh you just wait for it... the partay will ensue...

Week in review

New Year's Goals:

I went to the Gym 4 times this week!- three of those were to a yoga class that makes my body happy.


I am one week closer to graduating and starting my senior project that just might kill me over. (which involves directing a show, so I will meet that requirement shortly)


I became an aunt, again! Cute Makenna Camille Moffat was born on Thursday Jan 10th. (I guess I helped to expand the family.... I am related to them.... and without me I don't know that he would have ever asked her to marry him.) Ok that is bullhucky-(another phrase my mom uses occasionally I still don't understand.)

(Unrelated to the goals) I went and saw a movie that I absolutely loved and adored. My review is on the other blog. I will be owning this hilariously witty and brilliant movie the very second I can.

...And I told some kid that he was ugly with his long Jesus hair and that he should cut it. And I may or may not have mentioned that his hair isn't even the reason I wouldn't date him.
(And then I blogged it.)
I guess I have 353 days left to retrieve my long lost tact.