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I <3 vacations!

Published on July 15, 2010 in Baby Daddy, Family and Travel. 0 Comments

I haven’t seen you around these here parts in a while! Perhaps that is because I’ve been busy, and also taking up with these other “social networking” sites everyone talks so much about. I even posted my very first update on Facebook so I guess I do that now. I even made a big leap and asked Mike about using TweetDeck and what not… lets just say he laughed out loud at me. Aaaaand back to the point.

This Summer has been nuts. A couple weeks ago we went to Illinois for a long weekend and had a wonderful, if not action-packed visit. I didn’t take many pictures because we were running around a lot but there was a lot of this:

And also adorable smiling grandchildren, this one wearing her new July 4th dress (made by her wonderful Grandma Liane) and eating my birthday cake:

I wished I had a picture of their new chicken “coop.” Really a more accurate word would be “barn” or “condo” or “luxury avian comfort gated community roost.” My dad built it and those are some VERY lucky chickens!

Three days after we got home Mike and I jetted off to New Orleans. In July. Mike had a conference there so I tagged along and did LOTS of sweating. Walking around there can be brutal, but if I didn’t I would never have seen the classiest Arby’s South of the Mason-Dixon line:

I stopped by the Aquarium to pet a stingray and see an IMAX, it was awesome.

Hmmm, how ironic.

We rode the ferry over to Algiers, and then promptly back again. Turns out “walking” and “sight seeing” are not things that interest us that much.

Beignets though, yes please. But they need more powdered sugar.

What was really fun was taking the St. Charles street car over to the garden district for some great Thai food and even better ice cream! I had seen this place featured on the Food Network the day before so we knew it would be on our to-do list. Good thing too… the White Chocolate and Pink Peppercorn ice cream was dy-no-mite!

A 2-scoop waffle cone and 10 (yes, TEN) mini scoops later we kind of wanted to die but it was so worth the pain. How can you choose with flavors like that?

We walked through a cemetery and I was a little creeped out by the fact that the walls are made of tombs. Walking outside I had no idea I was passing by rows and rows of dead people.

We flew back Wednesday, which also happened to be Bastille Day and my 32nd birthday. To celebrate Mike gave me this:

Wrapping skills, no. Fortunately good husband skills, yes.

And my mom got me a lovely chocolate cake from Whole Foods. People, they do not mess around. Please come help me eat it or we’ll have cake in the fridge for weeks!

Ok, the end for now. I forgot to tell you I updated Karrmedia before the trips, and now I put the rest of the pictures from NOLA there as well. Go have a look!

Hey there!

Published on May 21, 2010 in Baby Daddy, Housework, Thing #1 and Thing #2. 0 Comments

What have we been up to? So glad you asked! Let’s see… last month I got strep throat, my first time ever! Then I gave it to Mike so that was fun. Urgent Care, antibiotics, yadda yadda yadda. Then my little brother was visiting from Florida so we put him to work renovating our bedroom! I’ll put up proper before and after pictures later but for now here’s one of the guys working:

And while things are getting done we’ve taken up residence in our dining room. Not so bad actually.

We went to Mission Days and once again I got a terrible sunburn. Every year, honestly! Will I ever learn? I took this picture for the sake of posterity but I think I’ll be submitting it to Photobomb instead.

And then of course there was the Birthday Party. Whoo! If only I was more on the ball there would have been some pictures. I’ll put the few I have on Karrmedia at the end of the month, but for now let me share the awesome (I’m a little proud of these).

And the boy got a Hot Wheels bath ramp jump water toy thing from the Grandparents (Hi Dad and Liane!) that the kids LOVE. Nick completely put it together himself and I took a video of all the muttering for two reasons:

1. The muttering is hilarious

2. I thought it would be fun to have a video of the way he talks now to compare to later in the Summer after Speech therapy. Oh yeah, that’s happening. At his evaluation he tested at the 99.7th percentile for comprehension and the 4th percentile for intelligibility. Yep.

I have to say, just in case this post has made little to no sense at all it is because I’m laying here on my couch, sweating with fever and hopped up (down) on Tylenol with Codeine. It’s strep throat again! Because I didn’t get enough of that the first time.

Sophisticated Side Ponytail.

Published on October 18, 2009 in Baby Daddy and Snafu. 2 Comments

Yeah, I got one.

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I sported my Sophisticated Side Ponytail to go to the Gala! It was a little shindig for Mike’s work and I must say is was the most unusual, unexpected black-tie optional event I’ve ever been to. You know, of the TWO I’ve ever been to.

The host told us to “Kiss my sweet ass.” Huh. He was pretty funny actually. Also their entertainment was Quixotic. I cannot explain all that they do, just click on the link to see. What I can say is that they were awesome (aside from all the modern dance which the dude CAN NOT abide) and I particularly loved the ring acrobatics and belly dancer. Some of the other guests of the event did not agree of course and I heard several snickerings about tucking dollar bills into her pants. I had a wonderful time though! Definitely not what I was expecting and I was more than a little happy about that.

Make mine a double!

Published on September 20, 2009 in Baby Daddy and Thing #1. 1 Comment

I’m gonna need it. Nick’s staying home AGAIN tomorrow because of his double… double ear infection that is. Hoo boy what a weekend we have had!

Thursday night was rough, Nick was up half the night complaining about his ears hurting. So off to Urgent Care we went! Even with antibiotics he is STILL in rough shape. We’ve spent our whole weekend sitting around watching movies, reading books, playing video games, and I spent the ENTIRE day in the kitchen today. I made Brioche burger buns, Rosemary Potato Bread, Snickerdoodles, Cauliflower Gratin, Chilled Asparagus Salad, and salmon burgers on the griddle. What else was I going to do?

While I was busy kneading and mixing Mike was minding the kiddos. They decided to make a recipe for Caramel Apple Dip out of Nick’s Rachel Ray cookbook. Uh, he burned it. My talented husband destroyed a recipe from a child’s cookbook. This is what I have to deal with people. Let’s just say it’s a very good thing I do the cooking. A VERY good thing.

Wish me luck tomorrow! Goodnight everybody!

Week (or two) recap.

Published on July 22, 2009 in Baby Daddy, Family, Friends, Snafu, Thing #1 and Thing #2. 1 Comment

I really have to stop doing this. I just can’t bring myself to spend much time blogging lately because there is so much to do outside of the computer. Swimming! Parties! A two-year-old who won’t stop yelling at me! My days are full.

Anyway here’s some pictures of stuff. That I did. Uh, recently.

I turned 31. My mom threw me a party and my little bro Karsen cooked up some VERY tasty grub. It was great! My mom decorated and blew up balloons and made me wear a “Birthday Princess” hat that Zoey was soooooooo jealous of. I find it amazing that I have lived 31 years and only now have discovered that I have the ability to do this:

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I knew I should have gone to Clown College. If only they didn’t scare the holy hell out of me.

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Zoey looks… smug. This look makes me very worried.

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Dude is CRAZY.

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Okay, this is my cousin’s boyfriend. I took this picture and when I looked at it I offered to take another one because… uh, it wasn’t like we fed him some acid and set something on fire or anything. She assured me that “This is the face he makes in every picture. That is just his face.” I love it!


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Aaaaaaand this is my husband’s face. But this one is special, just for the hat.

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Some sort of Australian cake-thing my mom made. Very creative, that one!

Later in the week we saw Chris Isaak at Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge. WOW that was a great show! I had no idea he would be so funny! He did a lot of joking with the audience and even went out in the crowd. I think that is what this is a picture of but honestly we couldn’t get a good picture of him, it was like trying to photograph the sun with a phone.

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I think the devilishly handsome man in the Red Suit with Golden Flames up the arms and legs may have been a figment of my imagination. Or possibly a figure skater.

Then Sunday we saw Neko Case at the Uptown. She was wonderful and charming, the music was interesting, beautiful and polished. Unfortunately we couldn’t stay for the whole show because it was putting us to sleep. After Chris Isaak this show was SO MELLOW that it was kind of ruined for us. Damn you Chris Isaak and your glorious hips!

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It really didn’t help that we had to sit through the whole opening act, Jason Lytle. Ugh. Their music was boring and after EVERY song they had a “self-indulgent segue” of some classical piano music the dude recorded of himself playing at his mom’s house. The piano music was fine. The constant flipping back and forth of musical genres completely ruined the pacing of the show and annoyed me. We would have enjoyed Neko’s show a LOT more if we would’ve gotten there really late and missed the whole first act!

That is all for now. Nothing else terribly noteworthy has been going on, just the regular day-to-day nonsense of a high energy preschooler and a two-year-old who is THE DEVIL. And teething, did I mention? Send me good wishes, and luck, and winning lottery tickets if you happen to have some extras.