sold.

i sold my baby today.

haha. just kidding. not that one. 

my pride and joy. 

i miss it already. the husband has been trying to convince me for several weeks now that he "needs a motorcycle" because he could 1. park at school 2. get home faster 3. pay less insurance 4. pay less gas and the list goes on and on. but i wasn't going to just whip out $6,000 for a toy that he can die on, so he suggested we sell the truck since it's not worth a whole ton now anyways. i said no. 

it took him making a pro's and con's list several times. {and the only two cons were: 1. melissa has to drive the subaru & 2. levi will die} and me saying i want some money back from selling my baby to spend on myself. oh and he said i could buy whatever car i wanted in 3 years as long as it was less than $100,000. soo i figured it would take a month or two or three to sell it, since it's older and has some wear and tear.... but nope. it took 3 days. apparently it was meant to be for levi to have a motorcycle. 

i miss it. it was my first car. it took my from hauling friends around in high school, through college, going on dates, having friends make out in the backa {you know who you are}, skiing trips, going from utah to reno many times, getting married, moving to our apartment, driving to canada several times, having a baby. moving to sf and much more. it was so huge and comfy, driving the subaru sucks.  but it's only three years right? i just feel like a part of me is missing now, without my big mom-mobile. so long fair friend, i hope you provide many years of off roading to the nice guy who bought it. 

freaky.

meet sampson. 

we are now creepy cat people with not one but two cats. i'd been thinking about getting a friend for snickers for a while now since she gets ridiculously lonely when we leave. today i finally did it. i went into petsmart looking for a kitten, one who is playful and little and cute, and came out with a 5 yr old boy who has slept the whole time he's been here. they were going to put him down next week. boo. but he's so cute eh?

he is such a boy. he's sat here, slept and totally ignored snickers. she hissed at him and he looked at her with one eye open like "you're soo immature" but he is very loving to us and i'm sure him and snickers will get along very well sometime in the future. as for right now, she's his babysitter, sitting high above him, making sure he doesn't move anywhere suspicious. i can't wait for them to be bff's.

boo.

this is the first week i've ever been without the beast for more than 2 days. i miss him. i don't know what to do with my life without him being around all the time. i used to waste a whole lot of time before him, that i have realized.

mi madre came down on wednesday and took him for an indefinite amount of time until i can recover from my lovely shinanigans. after being in the hospital on tuesday with stabbing death pains in my abdomen/pelvis{with the beast i might add, i couldn't get a hold of levi at school... i was having a severe breakdown when he finally did show up 2 hours later}i was diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy and was ordered not to move for several days and that the chemo-like medicine they gave me would make me extremely nauseous {which it did. i haven't eaten a normal meal since monday}. thank goodness for fabulous people like mary-anne, sarah, lyndzie and my family who have brought me meals and taken my cute thing away so i could lie in bed and sleep.

also thank goodness that my child is a perfect angel for other people. at least that's what they all say. no breakdowns, no missing mom, he is happy as a clam without us for a couple of days. it makes for easy hand offs, but i do wish he cared a little more lol i guess i can't complain about it too much though.

here's to hoping my medicine is working, so i can go back to being a normal human being who gets dressed and eats.

t-minus 3 months.

 i'm counting down until the beast can go into nursery at church. 18 months seems ages away, but on that day we will celebrate and rejoice for the peace it will bring us. the man is now 15 months old. {i used to hate how people put their kids ages in months, funny how things change.... a year and 3 month, for those who hate it like i did}and he is large and in charge.

this past month has been a whirlwind for the man. after finally learning to walk, he took off. it took a week of the frankenstein arms, but then he was good. he rarely falls down and refuses to hold our hands now when walking unless it's on unsteady ground.

things that he loves/does now: 

- he still LOVES his blankie. he now refuses to be taken out of his bed in the morning without his blankie and 4 ft shark.
- he LOVES animals. no matter what size. {giant dog, cats, pigeons, sheep} he will shout with joy, attack them and want to cuddle. he has been licked in the face by several giant dogs and he thinks it's hilarious.  

outside our apartment is quite the animal area. the pigeons are a big hit for him, someday when he can run, it will be hilarious. we also have a cat, who drives both him and snickers crazy, as he can never  pet her, and she seems to sit outside our window taunting the cat who is not allowed outside.

- he can say quite a few words now, including "momma" "dad" "sippy" "bankie" "titty" "booooo"- book "pppppppp"- up "reat"- treats "key" "teef"- teeth "hiya" "buh-bye". he is very talkative and give you a whole conversation if you talk to him.
- he is beginning to play by himself and i love it. no longer do i need to entertain him all the time, he can do it himself for a little while. he loves to play with him farmhouse and all the animals in it, put things in drawers/trash/toilets, ride his dinosaur, mix stuff in pots and pans etc etc.
- he is OBSESSED with buttons. on anything. elevators, air conditioning units, remotes, microwaves, phones, keyboards... he just wants to push them all. 

since we live past the elevator, this is what our walk to and from the car looks like everyday. 

- he is very independent. we have been to giant play places and he could care less if he leaves us. he does not look back or even try to find us for at least 30 minutes. it is awesome, but does make me a wee bit sad. 
- he loves to put things on his head/around his neck. besides hats. which is very obnoxious, but it's so cute. 

- he still wears size 3 shoes. which are for 6-9 month olds. he might have the littlest fattest feet i've ever seen on a 15 month old
- he LOVES mexican food. he will eat almost half a can of refried beans, just scooping them into his mouth off his tray or off the tortilla chip, he also loves tacos, quesadillas, chili beans and salsa.
- he is a very good helper. he usually unloads his bottom drawers and puts them all in his dirty clothes bucket about every other day or so. he will also unload the silverware out of the dishwasher whether it's clean or dirty. but he does know how to put his toys away in the bath and in his bucket, throw his diapers in the trash,and wipe down his high chair when he's finished eating so we are training him well.
- he still loves sesame street. mom can get a ton of cleaning done during that hour. it's fantastic.

as busy as he is now that he can move and reach and get into things, i love this stage of independence he has. being able to understand him {somewhat} and him understanding me is beginning to make life much easier. hurrah for babies big kids!

sucka punch.

{every post needs a zakary picture right? and i don't know why he never has clothes on here. it's not like it's hot.}

this past week, i have gotten several emails from the Better Business Bureau about our moving company asking if we've gotten our stuff, what we're missing and if we've contacted them within the last week or so. 

turns out they're a scam! they're apparently connected to three other previous scam moving companies that rip you off and are jerks and have "F" ratings on the BBB website. when i googled "globe moving and storage" this time around they had about 10 different complaints on various websites with the same story as us! except some people were 78 yr old widows, or didn't get their stuff for a month and a half etc. etc. and they all talked to the same lovely sales man named josh. 

this may have made me a little excited. i may have copied and pasted my complaint form into every single rip off/complaint website i could find. i hope they get screwed. and i'm also glad i wasn't crazy for being psycho on them. turns out that's what they do for a living. classy eh? i feel like this should be an episode of white collar or burn notice and they should infiltrate the scammers and shut them down and give us all our money back. aahhh that would be the best day of my life.

genius.

so the first week of dental school is almost over. i survived. i may have had a slight breakdown yesterday after coming to the realization that i have absolutely no friends here and nothing to do with my life besides clean, cook and play with my child but we're working on improving that. we have a dental school social thing on sunday, and i joined a mothers group today that has playgroups, and book clubs, and scrapbooking cluvbs, and walking clubs, and mom night's out so hopefully i won't be such a loser in the upcoming weeks. 

however, i have used my immense amount of spare time to make my genius makeup holder i saw on a blog somewhere {sorry, i don't remember which one} , and on my pinterest.

 

 

it's pretty much the easiest thing in the whole world to make. ok, maybe not. but i used a shadow box i bought from roberts arts and crafts when they had a "everything in the whole store is 50% off" sale, so i got it for $10.00, but you can buy a picture frame and it will do the same thing. my brushes box came from an old tea bag container my mom gave me. i bought a piece of metal from home depot for $7.00 and a whole package of scrapbook paper from joann's for $10.00, {and got like 100 sheets in it, so it cost me like a penny}

i modpdged the scrapbook paper on and let it dry, not long enough because my magnets stuck to it, but we won't show you those pictures. anyways, then i hot glued magnets on the back of my makeup {MAKE SURE YOU GLUE THEM VERY GOOD}, which cost $2.00 for 8 of them, and stuck them on. super easy, and awesome. and gets all of my makeup out of my medicine cabinet piled up. i only put the stuff i use frequently on there, which looks like quite a bit apparently. don't judge me.

a little side story for you, one of my makeups may have fallen off it's magnet into the toilet today, and i did not notice until i peed on it. tmi? probably, but it was awesome. luckily it floated, but still. it was classy. hence, the "use lots of hot glue" comment. or maybe don't hang them over the toilet. one or the other.

but after all is said and done, it cost me less than $20.00 and is a cute and easy way to decorate/organize. just don't pee on it.

ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

my spouse started dental school this morning. the moment has finally come. no longer will we be watching netflix all day, or going grocery shopping together.... or me going shopping without him and the beast, dang... i'm going to miss that. i regret saying i wanted him to go to school already... but it's only 3 years right? if everyone else can do it, we can too. 

we can all tell he's thinking "why do you make me take pictures like this?" i got up and made his lunch this morning for the first time since we've been married. be impressed. and breakfast actually, although it was only a smoothie. i cannot guarantee how many times that will happen because he has to get up at 5:45 everyday. death. do you like his outfit? i picked it out. hehe. 

anyways, we have spent our last days of freedom frolicking with our families. we spent the 4th up in reno with mi familia, but alas, i forgot the camera so not one picture from it. fail. but we spent the days at the water park soaking up the 105 degree weather, watching fireworks, and taking pictures for mi madre. it was a good ol' time, though i was very excited to get back to my cool weather. 

after that, the lowry's came in to spend the weekend with us for levi's family orientation. we went on a sf dinner cruise on friday night, which was very fun.  it was a little chilly, but we survived and got some cute pics out of it.

saturday we spent time at UoP getting a tour {where our child spent most of his time screaming for us to allow him to push the elevator buttons.... he's a little obsessed. and with a group of 20 squished into the elevator, it makes for a lovely time}, having lunch with the dean, and getting the low down on how miserable the next three years will be, and that we should be supportive. no seriously, that's what they said. nice eh? 

trivia: did you know that pacific was founded in 1851? who knew they had dentists back in those days? did you know they have 200 chairs in their clinic to treat people everyday? it's a little insane to look at.  and also, did you know they accept 140 people out of 3500 applicants? i don't mean to brag, but my husband is a genius.

after the uplifting messages about how dental school sucks, we decided to hit the wharf for some ghiradelli's sundaes. ummm.... they're incredible. yes, i have had them before, but the peanut butter, milk chocolate sundae is to die for! i could eat like four of them. afterwards, we headed up the golden gate bridge to sausalito, to have dinner on the wharf without all the nutso tourists. {because we are no longer tourists. hehehe}it was a grand ol' time, we will be going up there more often i think.... 

yesterday we spent the day up at the beach house with my grandma and mom, because the weather doesn't suck there, and her house is cooler than mine. 

and today.... who knows what we will do today. seriously though, i need to find some friends now. 

and to make your day just a little bit brighter: 

happy monday!