This week.

Posted on | March 1, 2012 | 33 Comments

this week was pretty low key around here. Scot and i changed our diet habits up a bit because i’ve been getting terrible headaches pretty much daily for the past two weeks. i don’t really get headaches so of course i’m convinced i have a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit taking over my noggin. i think it has more to do with the foods i’ve been eating, so we are on a healthier kick. hence the photos of smoothies, fruit, veggie burgers and cous cous. less processed junk and more good stuff. per usual, this will last for a good while before i remember that nutella tastes amazing and that pasta makes me happy.

i discovered Draw Something. hello, addicted. straight up, check me into some sort of pictionary rehabilitation center because i cannot stop. i have nearly peed myself at some of the terrible drawings i have done, and amazing ones people have drawn for me. you have it, don’t you? if not, do it now.

i started reading The Help. ooh and i joined goodreads! are you on there? i haven’t had a chance to really delve into it yet, but i’ve started. so let’s be friends or whatever. i’m loving the book so far. thanks to those of you on facebook who helped me pick it (and thanks to my mama for lending it to me!).

we had a good day on wednesday. for the past month (ok, more), we’ve had to leave our favorite play place due to the nug throwing an epic, omgWTF are you even doing i can’t even, three year old TANTRUM. like, i have to remove her from the premises with her under my arm, her shoes in my other hand while she’s kicking me and trying to hit me in the face. it’s…not pretty. and it was really freaking depressing me. so i didn’t take her for a week and told her why. we had a long talk at the dinner table tuesday night about how tomorrow we are going to play and here are the rules. and she did pretty great. really great! we played for 3 hours and only had one minor situation which was easily dealt with and when we left, she was calm. damn, that was a nice change of pace. make no mistakes about it people – toddlers can suck. i’m sure instagram doesn’t have a filter for that. nothing can make that ish look pretty.

p.s. i want instagram! c’mon get it together for android people!

also, google, in furthering it’s quest to make me punch it square in the face, has cancelled google friend connect for people who have non-Blogger blogs. i have an idea, NO I WILL NOT JOIN GOOGLE+. stop cancelling all your good stuff to try and make us use it. first picnik, now this. ::shakes fist:: jerks. anywho, to continue following the blog (IF GFC was how you followed me), you need to either subscribe via rss, add it manually to reader or your blogger dashboard, or follow with bloglovin‘. cause my blog won’t show up in your feed anymore otherwise. for some of you this is good news, but i’m speaking to the other ones.

i’m looking forward to the weekend. what do you have planned? my mom is coming home from vacation (tonight i got a video text of her and my aunt ziplining through Freemont street in old town Vegas!) so i’ll be picking her up, going to a bday party and as always, lots of coffee will be involved in various forms. happy friday!

Easy like Monday morning.

Posted on | February 22, 2012 | 40 Comments

i have never been a big breakfast eater. i love breakfast foods like eggs and bacon and all that (duh, yum) but never really eat them, save for the occasional breakfast outing. back in the day when my friends and i would need a big breakfast on sunday morning (ya feel me) we’d hit up a place called the brown bag cafe that served up insane portions of breakfast. but these days, i make H her breakfast and settle for coffee. every once in while Scot and i will get a craving for such things and this monday, a day he had off, was one of those days.

monday morning was the kind of morning i used to daydream about when i thought of being a grown up. the smell of bacon and eggs coming from the kitchen, the sound of cartoons, hot cups of coffee and a tiny human streaking through the house in just underwear.

most times, being an adult isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. but sometimes, it really really is.

Levi’s® Curve ID and me.

Posted on | February 21, 2012 | 119 Comments

This series is brought to you by Levi’s® Curve ID. Find your custom fit at Levi’s®  stores or Levi.com

well, i’m pretty much full on Jesse Spano about today’s post. i’ve been excited to share this with you guys since i found out about it back in december and i’m so pumped to finally show you guys the documentary style ad i did with Levi’s® last month in San Francisco! the video is about the Haps, my style, the Levi’s® Curve ID system and how jeans fit into my lifestyle.

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Steppin’ Out Saturday – Mall rats

Posted on | February 19, 2012 | 30 Comments

pants: target // boots: old navy // sweater: j. crew, thrifted //watch: target // striped top: f21

from left: amanda, jill, chelsey, fiona, chelsea, melissa, me, amy, ashley, mandy, emily, stephanie, kiara.

last night i headed out with some friends for some dinner, frozen yogurt, and mall wandering. at this point in my life, that is a perfectly acceptable, if not desired, saturday night. we all had so much fun sans kiddos, talking and telling stories about our kiddos, life with kiddos. it was a much needed night out, and we even took it up a notch on the middleschool feeling by trying on large hats and getting scolded for taking photos in forever 21.

it was also the mall i grew up going to and haven’t been back to in forever so it was really strange thinking about all the time i spent there back in the day walking around with my friends scoping out cute boys. literally just walking around and around with an orange julius to look at boys. Harper is never allowed to go to the mall.

by the end of the night, my sweater had shed about a trabillion little fuzzies onto my pink pants and i had furry weird pants. sometimes i’m so fancy it hurts.

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