I want to make this!

I think this will be my next project, althought it'll have to wait until after the holidays.


http://sewingin-nomansland.blogspot.com/2011/03/instant-gratification-top.html

Too cute, and it looks super simple.

My New Baby

It's so shiny!

Maile's Photography

I was taking pictures of our xmas tree with my iPhone the other day, and Maile was watching me (she is very into the iPhone right now, she has several of her own apps that she gets to play)

. She immediately wanted to give it a try too.. she had the phone for about 10 minutes and took about 100 photos! Here are a few of my favorites. It's kind of cute to see the world thru the lens of a 4 yr old.

I think this one is my favorite!

or maybe this one!

Just another Manic.... Tuesday

Aren't Tuesday's suppose to be better than Monday's?? I think my Monday just continued on to Tuesday without blinking. Although it did end a little better.
I won't bore you with the details, just take what a told you yesterday and repeat :(.

Except for afterwork, I got to hang out with one of my good friends, I'm sure you all know her. My friend Nicole... which one you say...... Nicole, the one with the twins. :) There are way to many Nicole's in my life, but I love them all dearly!
So anyway, her sister in law, was involved in the book signing, book party thingy, and Nicole was invited, so she invited me. It was held at Baker St Pub in the Tech center, and it turned out to be really popular. It was much too small of a space for how many people showed up, and the appetizers where all gone by the time we got there. BOO! So we found a little corner to stand in, and forget trying to listen what they were trying to say, we just had our own conversation and got caught up on our lives. After about an hour or so, we were getting hungry, obviously since we missed the appetizers. So we headed over the the Great Northern Tavern and shared some food, and chatted some more. It was nice to have a full conversation where little kids aren't interrupting, and attentions aren't distracted by spilled milk, and dropped toys. We laughed, we bitched, we enjoyed!
Thanks for the invite Dah'ling!

Then I got home and Mikael surprised me with putting up the outside xmas lights.. I wish I would have taken a picture! I turned the corner on to Chenengo, and I immediately saw our house, it was SO bright!! I speed the rest of the way home and stopped in the drive way to admire his handy work. They did such a good job, I heard Maile helped :). I love when he does stuff like that, it's so little, but it's always appreciated, and so fun! I'll have to post a picture tomorrow.
I went inside and showered him with praise and kisses, sat down on the couch with a blanket, and proceeded to pass out. Poor Mikael, we barely had a decent converstion. Sorry baby! :).

Just another Manic Monday

OMG!! and I say that with the most umphf and passion and volume that I can muster! What a day, I tell you people get 4 whole day off work, and the day they get back all hell breaks loose. It doesn't help matters, that our company has decided to do some pretty major things all within the last two months of the year.. WAH!!

So today I spent most of the day running around with my head cut off, and trying to put out fire after fire after fire. I have to say I was pretty successful with the fire putting out, but I didn't manange to get anything on my to do list done! Plus I'm dead tired, I didn't get to pick Maile up until a little after 5:30, which means we didn't make it home until 6:20, then a quick dinner (mommy splurged and picked up Pizza hut on the way home) and then a super sonic bath, 10 min of cartoons and then bedtime. Mikael got home sometime in the middle of that as well. Then i had to run to Officemax and pick up some ink, my printer has been out of ink for months, and I had to print some contact sheets of my recent shoot with Michele and Isaiah, so I had to breakdown and get some. $60 bucks & 15 min later, I had ink in hand, and on my way home to print, and burn the shoot to cd, and get it ready to send in the morning. I'm finally sitting down around 9:30.. whew. Could you please pass me my bed?

Sunday Funday

Sunday funday, was the last of my 5 day vacation, BOO! I wish I had a few more days, but luckily, we have another holiday right around the corner. WHOO HOO!! We didn't have too much today, except for a little birthday party for maile's little friend from school. She had it at good ole Chucky E Cheese, here they are right before pizza time! Maile has such a hard time looking at the camera, so silly!

Here's is the creepy guy himself, Maile even gave him a high five. Surprising, since she wants nothing to any other dressed up creepy guy. LOL.

Here's a cute one of Mai, riding one of the rides, with Chucky as her passenger. Funny! Not sure what's up with his nose..


Other than the birthday part, we just did some errands around the house, and went to a couple stores for some secret xmas projects. MU HA HA HA HA!!
Now it's back to the grind :(

Making Christmas!

We put our christmas tree tonight, and all our other christmas decorations. Maile was SO excited, she was giddy all afternoon waiting for Daddy to get home. We put up the tree ourselves (before Mikael got home) she helped seperate all the branches by color, and then helped pull down all the little stems on each branch. Then you could barely contain her excitement, she was running around, asking when Daddy was going to come home, and if she could get the ornaments out and put them on. When Mikael finally did get home, we made her eat dinner first, and I've never eat so much so fast in her whole life. LOL, it was so fun to watch her with everything. It was a completely different experiance than last year, and it makes me so excited about christmas day. Here are a few pictures from tonight.

Daddy and Maile putting on the lights

Maile getting silly with the ornaments, this one she said looked like Woody's hat!Maile helping Mikael with an ornament, she looks so cute.
Putting on an ornament, she put them all on the bottom half, we had to balance them out after she went to bed. We told her to try and put them up higher! :)

She helped put up my Christmas Story town, and she loved it, she thought they were so cute. I wonder how many times i'll have to remind her that they aren't toys. LOL

After we were all done, we found her sitting by the tree, with her baby, and touching all the ornaments so gently. It was super cute! Then she made both of us sit by her and hold hands. :)

We had a good night, it makes me so happy to my little baby girl so enthralled, and over come with joy.