all rolled into one

I can see all of this on my face in this pic:

"Hallelujah my talk is over with!" (I got to give a "grown talk" in church today. 

20 whole minutes of just me up there ... and I survived!)

"I sewed sleeves onto a shirt last minute yesterday and it actually worked!"

"MY LITTLE BROTHER COMES HOME TOMORROW!!!" (FROM A 2 YEAR MISSION TO RUSSIA!)

Yep.
Look close, it's all there.

easy to please

Last night I was venting to Toph about: 

the house being a mess even though I feel like I'm constantly cleaning, dinner being too spicy, having too much stuff to get done this week, B being a holy terror all day long; same old, same old.

Well, the kid's learning because instead of trying to solve everything by declaring it'll all work out, he simply said, 

"Lets go for a walk. Put on some fresh lipstick and bring the camera."

Be still my whiny little heart.

I repaid him with a smooch on the forehead. 

Luuucky!

 

My attempt to get the whole fam in a pic!

Turned out more Us vs. Him though. 

Fitting, really.

Some shots of the boys!

And B got lipsticked too because, holy terror or not, I love to kiss on him.

Walks and family time are always a good idea for me. 

Thanks for remembering that, Toph!

this kid is our heart melter

Bronzie, 

You're hilarious.
This summer you've been all about running around in just your diaper and wearing my headbands as eye patches.

We stinking love it. 

You're our fave little nugget!

Mom+Dad

Talking to two.

"What do you want for lunch, little dude?"

"Ice cream-a."

"What do you want to drink?"

"Ice cream-a."

"Maybe we'll have water and a sandwich though?"

"Ok. I like Ice cream-a and baseball cupcakes. And basketball."

he's better!!

 B's pretty much completely better today!

I'm so glad, it was seriously so crazy to see him so sick. 
Like sick 32 times in three days sick.

Never again kid, please?
But for reals. Never.

Phone tales.

Life according to the droid:

-We hit up IKEA. that little chair needs to come live at our house.

-I tried my hand at gardening. It didn't go too well. Butt I looked the part!! Denim rolled up=farmer.

-B's so cute in my glasses that I didn't even get mad that he could've scratched them!! He didn't or else I prolly would've gotten mad.

-Coconut water mango sorbet is GOOD. Thank goodness for Grocery Outlet. Yep, I bought three. I went shopping hungry and it was smart. This time.
-My hot night time look:muumuu+bun+glasses.

his birthday list

My fave comment from yesterday: 

I think it's super important to have style! Especially as a young Mom. 
We want to look like we had these kids on purpose! - Amy

So true. And today when I woke up to an official TWO YEAR OLD I got to thinking about  how we most definitely had our B on purpose. 
 And how I could make today, his very special birth day, fun for him.

Since we already had his little party with friends on Monday, today I just asked him what he wanted to do with mama (within walking distance, of course). 

And here you have it:
A walk to the park and pics with mom made the list.

 (he thought running away right as the timer was going off was hilarious)

 Followed by food and lots of it. 

(I got a cupcake too cuz you know, the whole 20 hours of labor thing.)

 And when we finally made it home he yelled:

How could I resist? 

T.V. in the fort-clubhouse it was.

 I love this kid! 
He swooped in, turned our marriage into a family and stole our sleep, attention, snacks and hearts. 
The past 2 years have flown by. I know the next two probably will also. 
And I kinda can't wait!

no one come over today

Shocker: My life is uber tame. 

And on days where I'm pretty sure I won't be going much farther than the park in our front field,

(and there have been more and more days like that as summer progresses)
I love to wear this CalTrans orange muumuu. 

So don't come over or you're gonna get an eyeful of florescent, see through, freepiled, muumuu time.  
In real life. Which is much worse than edited computer life.

Hey, it's a step up from pj's ... but not really because I've been sleeping in it lately too.

So yeah.

we ate TONS of cupcakes.

I'm surrounded by red velvet cupcake wrappers, empty boxes of Cracker Jack, and piles of watermelon rinds. 

B's second birthday party was tonight and now we're living in the aftermath.

I love celebrating that little boy. 

He's officially obsessed with The Sandlot (shocker) so we went with it.

Happy TWO YEARS B!!

I'm off to go eat another leftover cupcake. 

One less to put in a Tupperware, right?

Where it all began

When we went to Utah a few weeks ago, I took these pics in front of the house I lived in during college.

Everyone called it "The White House" cuz it was a white house ...

There was a cat when I lived there too. It wouldn't  leave me alone then either. 

Helloooo cat bum!

Toph and I met and dated when I lived here and he lived a few doors down in The Elms apartments.

We ..... talked a lot on the front and back porch back then.

(When we were engaged and I was still dying my hair all.the.time.)

Yeah, lots of "talking."

I miss those days. Minus the stalker cat.

Pancake breakfast, fun run, BBQ, eating flag cake, fireworks; we did it all.

B was all over fireworks this year! He totally got it. Insomuch that they were loud and explode-y he got it anyway. Happy Fourth of July! This year was a good one. For sure.

Phone tales.

Life according to the droid:

-I really dig carrot juice lately. I WANT A JUICER.
-Carol came to visit.
-We went to visit and William took a pic with me. Nice.
-B got Toph's old ninja turtle suit from Gma Jo. Cutest.thing.ever.