dear santa,

I want these for Christmas.
Flying monkeys that scream?! With a parachute?!?!

oh. my. goodness.


*Ingenious.*


3.99 plus shipping. Still...$6.84 for hours of screeching monkey competitions...oh, let the games begin...

the chaos is over...

This past weekend/beginning of this week has been ridiculous! I can finally breathe!

day 1. We started out with a ward Christmas party which went fabulously, but I didn't even think to bring my camera!

day 2. I signed up to do a craft fair, that was ultimately not worth it. I did make my deposit back and then some, but Etsy is so much more worth it. Isn't my banner fabulous? I made that too.
After the bazaar thing ended we rushed home to shower and get all glammed up for the WSCC Gala (aka the Chiro prom). Seriously, some couples were matching, and there was an all over occurrence of too much cleavage hanging out.

The food was wonderful, but not quite enough. We ended up going to Shari's afterward. They wouldn't give us a kid's menu, so we left! haha. We cooked breakfast at home with Bethany and Brandon at 11 o'clock at night! Sooo good....

At the gala...

Bethany and Brandon, our awesome neighbors.Teresa and Jeff.

Dave and Debbie.The group.

day 3. AH!! Just a day of no-photos-to-show events that were back to back.

day 4. Happy Birthday, Michael! Michael isn't a fan of cake, so I made him caramel banana crepes (after the steak dinner he requested). Here he is with his birthday sweater on about to blow out his candle! Every year since we've been dating at least one of his gifts has been a sweater...
day 5. Congrats to the Kunz's and the Perkes'! They are the lucky ones graduating from WSCC this quarter! I am so jealous! I can't wait for this...it seems like a million years away, but before we know the time will be gone! Emali (hostess of grad party) asked me to make the cake. It took most of the day to make, but turned out pretty cool! So, here it is!
I can now relax...maybe...there is still laundry, mopping, cleaning of the fridge, Christmas shopping, etc. The list never ends...

you should come!

For those of you in Portland,


And more...including me! Oh yeah, and some pretty cute handmade books...which are not available on etsy! Tell everyone! haha, I have to at least make back the deposit for my booth!

Click here to see the the facebook event.


p.s. Thanks to my blogstalkers that admitted that I am totally stalkable. Don't worry, I stalk you too. =) However, the real culprits I was trying to call out never said anything....I should name names to make things awkward...but that would be awkward....

the poll majority said girl....

the doctor said...
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GIRL!

Isn't she hot? Having a head the size of your torso is so in right now.


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dear blogstalkers,

I know you are out there...and surprise surprise, I know who most of you are. Just please leave a comment if you read my blog! Otherwise, you look like a big-o creep-o when someone tells me you've read my blog, and you know about whatever meaningless thing that is going on in my life, which I guess makes me pretty special since I am so interesting to stalk. =) Wow, that was an awesome run-on.

Just leave a comment at least once, so I know you're there! (and since I know already that you're there, you might as well fess up). This will keep me from going private--where you can no longer stalk me...

Sincerely a little creeped out & semi flattered,
Julie

one of five

With Michael's backpacking skills and my photoshop skills, we won a WSCC photo contest! 1 of 5 winners. (Congrats to you too Jeff!)


This isn't really photoshopped all that much--it was pretty dang awesome to begin with....

The theme was vacation/school break/weekend trips or something to that effect. You want to go vacation here? Well, it's in Wyoming (so pretty much in the middle of nowhere), on route to Gannett Peak. Oh, it's only like a 30 mile (?) hike, some of it above the tree line (which means no camp fire and oober windy...see any trees in that picture?), and you need an ice pick and cramp-ons (I hate that word) even if it is the end of summer.

I obviously opted out on this trip. I don't carry my body weight on my back up and down several mountains to then summit the tallest peak in Wyoming. I had to be crazy to even think about going on this trip, but good thing Michael was crazy enough to go and get a winning picture, plus this one that didn't make the final cut.


Here are the rest of the losers... =)


Periodic Springs, WY

Sundance, UT
Oswald West, OR

for the less observant

If you didn't realize what the full "effect" was in the last post--a little one has decided to grace us with it's presence (hence, Thing 3). We'll officially meet face to face April 20, 2010, or thereabouts. I'm 17 weeks, and we'll let you know in 2 weeks whether it's a boy or girl. Cast your guess on the right!

p.s. thanks for all the congrats!