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Mexico.


Its everywhere and nowhere you want to be.


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first and last

May 2012

Aug 2011

Now that school is over we are all a little older and wiser. Some of us are taller. We've added scars and medications. Made new friends and said goodbye to others. Changed hairstyles and shoe sizes... 

But most importantly....Elyott can babysit (kinda)!! Only for short little spurts so Adam and I can do lame things like go to wal-mart together. But still, it is so awesome I could kiss every Walmart employee on the mouth. I won't. 
I could. But I really shouldn't.

Jazz hands.


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fool for boos

For mother's day while Sheamus and Adam went camping, Elyott Sonny and I  had a "night to ourselves." With no boys around (to tell us we were annoying) Elyott requested we speak in proper British accents...for a full 24 hours :) In the morning Elyott's church activity group had a momy daughter "tea party" and muffin breakfast where Elyott did my fancy makeup and hair (and got creative with my awkward long bangs). After, we hit up IKEA very rouged and glamorous. I was the attention seeking idiot who, in addition to my tammy faye makeup, also shoved a large rug, shelving unit, two kids and a already assembled desk hanging out the trunk of my very small vehicle. 

Adam wasn't there to naysay, so I could :) Booyah.

In his Kindergarden class, Sheamus gave me a "5 minutes of 'Me-time" bath salts, which he immediately confiscated and used for his own bath that night. What a little jerk. 

At least he smells good.

Speaking of mothers, while staying at my house a few weekends ago, my mom was standing at the foot of my bed with this mask and wig when i woke up. I basically lost 3 years of my life in one desperate moment of terror.

Here's to keeping motherhood light.

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we are the misfits...our songs are better.

If you are confused, I am "air guitar-ing" my leg (which was a contractual requirement of the 3 dollar pants I bought for this grand occasion).

When my friend Lauren (the jerk on the bottom left) decided that living in Hawaii was better than staying in Arizona, first we agreed, and then we did something one step classier than a bachelorette party in a stretch hummer wearing penis hats...some of our friends cornered the turbo-dork mom market by dressing up in cheap leopard print and sequence and playing low-stakes trampoline dodgeball (inadvertently with a bunch of sweaty teenage boys). It was wholesome and memorable and wasn't pathetically centered around cheesecake, like most of our outings are. Notice how most of us unknowingly flashed "I love you" signs whilst attempting to look hard core? We are so "hip".

The good thing about being a group of 30ish year olds in a place like that is that even when you get blasted in the face with a dodgeball and smear your pink lightning-bolt face paint, you can hold your head high knowing you looked like just as big of an idiot before it happened anyway...and that was by choice. Even in that unyielding flourencent light, we hid behind our mob mentality and jumped our out-of-shape faces off. Like a bunch of middle aged ladies at a Neil Diamond concert who forgot they couldn't still rock the high waisted pants of their glory days; all 9 of us piled into one car, shamelessly used coupons at the door and tried our best to not pee our pants all the way.

 

 Elyott was so confused and jealous (and rightfully so) that "only the moms were allowed to go to the trampoline kid place" so as a consolation, we made her an honorary team member (that she kept on for church the next day?) 


Most of us still haven't forgiven Lauren for leaving, and a few of us still haven't physically recovered from that much uncoordinated exertion in one night (eghem...kami). 


The scars may run deep, but we'll always have dodgeball. 
Mahalo!


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too legit to quit.

Ok now where were we? 
Ah yes...January. 
Hopes were high. 
Hair freshly cut.
Legs doing a old-time-y step kick step kick to the music my head....


Then my face melted.


I'm seriously busier than i have ever been in my life.
I'm old and tired...
used and abused...
...cold and afraid?
(but mostly just old and tired).

I am thankful to be working and in school, but darn it all if life is just whizzing by me. I have not internetted in going on 3 months! No pins. No posts. No new music. No pictures uploaded. No reading the yahoo headlines (I didn't even know about Whitney Houston for like 5 days) I haven't even synched my iphone since January. JANUARY! 

It has been glorious!

So, let me break it down:

Sun-Bun: 
-At 25 months finally walks...like a drunk Fwankenstein. (actually he started about 22 months but now it's full time) 
-Still no intelligible talking but has said each of the following words at least (and probably only) once..."please, thank you, cracker, don't, bye bye, out, all done, hi, wow, ready set go, whatcha doing" (this one is a stretch) and about 3 animal sounds. Which, call it denial, but add "poo poo" and I think he's pretty much got his bases covered. 


And before you go thinking my kid is a huge idiot, let me just say that what he lacks in smarts he makes up for in sleeping awesomeness and laughing at everything. He makes everyone feel funny and important. Always has a toy in each hand which is cute, but not good for holding sippies or doing just about anything else that would require the use of your thumbs (Ok so maybe he's a little bit of an idiot). 

(if you ignore your crying baby at the bottom of the stairs long enough, things will sort themselves out)

Elyott: 
-Turned 9! and bought a used wheelchair with her birthday money (?) 
-Was diagnosed with ADD and started the medication hokey pokey. 
-Is into tricks and pranks and kicked it off by putting garlic powder in my hair dryer (She felt too bad so she told me before i turned it on, but it took a few blow-dries before I didn't smell like italian food). 
-Played on a volleyball team
-Asked casually on the way to Chipotle  "how the dad's seeds get to the egg inside the mommy" and we discussed it like any other lunch time chit chat...about genitals. At the end she said the classic "so you and Daddy have done that three times?" 
-She found out there was no Santa :( (way to go Grandma D) 
-She also made 3 new friends, and made one giant scary mannequin twin friend of herself.

(this little babushka is not the mannequin twin. I will get you a picture of that soon but i'm forewarning that it may haunt your dreams)

Sheamus: 
-Learned how to read. 
-Got staples in his head after he got a teacher's booty to the head and ricocheted into the sharp edge of the classroom door. 
-Played T-ball
-Discovered his admiration for Sportacus from Lazy Town, which as far as kids shows go is about as visually irritating as it gets, but it got him to eat more apples, so whatevs.

Handsome Bob: 
-Had allergies, back problems, vertigo and insomnia (and still does). 
-Applied to pharmacy school*. 
-Started a business. 
-Went to school full time. 
(Doesn't he sound like a bucket o' fun? He is. He just sounds super lame on paper)

(aren't they cute? Do you love sonny's new top fro?)

Odd Jobs*:
-Started the process of smoothing the textured walls in our house (don't ask, i'm a freak) -Altered two dresses and made two shirts and a skirt from scratch. 
-Threw a Jem and the Holograms Dodgeball going away party for a dear friend who abandoned me for Hawaii. 
-Went to school full time. 
-Started working part time. 
-*Applied to pharmacy school for Adam ;) 
-Had (and recovered) from surgery. 
(Maybe that doesn't sound busy but i don't have to prove myself to you jerkface. just kidding, the longer version would be lame. let's still be friends)

*You don't get a picture of me cause there are none and also cause you had to stare at that same 2011 recap of me for two and a half months :)

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