randomator.

i hate how i go to stalk people's blogs and they haven't updated in like more than 4 days so i have nothing new to read, and then i look at myself and think "i really have nothing to write about" so this is the random post so that i can say that i'm not as hypocritical as i feel.

• as i write this, i have made a trail around the room in treats which consist of puffs and cheerios to keep the monster entertained. this is the only other reason he will crawl, besides a cell phone, and in between his lip-smacking/chomping, he looks up at me, "ra-ra-da-bra-da-glefgh", smacks the carpet, lies down and sucks his thumb, jumps back up, screams, and then moves on to the next treat lined up for him. it's pretty much the same after he eats every treat. it's so funny and pathetic at the same time. 
• i have been feeling especially lazy lately, i'm not sure if it's because of the office {curse netflix}, or because my classes are MWF this semester instead of TTH {torture, 3 days of school sucks}or because it's my last semester and i don't give a hoot, or all three, but i would rather sit and do nothing than pick up any of my books. i feel the same way towards crafting/housework as well. it's taking me 5 times longer to do anything lately than usual. 
• i love zumba. as hard as it is, it is my kind of exercise with music and ridiculous butt shaking and fabulousness. i hate exercising, but this one is great! even though i get disgustingly sweaty, that's ok, because i don't even really notice it as much as i used to. 
• my blog header makes me very irritated. i don't know why it's blurry when i have the pixels the same as what they say they'll shrink it down to. 
• i can't wait to move so i can decorate my house again the way i want to. not that i didn't this time, but i'm ready to switch it up. 
• i wish the beast could figure out how to roll over again. i usually find him in his bed in the mornings screaming his head off, with his head stuck in the corner cept for now he's on his hands and knees in there, 180 degrees from the way we laid him down. it was funny the first four times, but now i wish he would figure out how to lay down and roll back over so he'll go back to sleep, because at 5:00 am this is not so funny. if anyone has any suggestions for this, that would be very helpful. 
• i would kill for some funfetti cupcakes right now. 
• i also hate making dinner. i hate cooking in general actually. it's not necessarily the act of it, but having to decide, write down the shopping list, haul the monster and myself to the store sometime between eating and napping, unload the bags, and then having to cook it. i feel like the food in restaurants is so much more delicious than mine anyways. if only i could eat out every day. ahhh, that would be the life. 

since a post without pictures is very boring, here are some of this past week. my camera has been dead and we haven't really done anything fun so i apologize for the lack of awesomeness. 

 the flash gets him every time, but he looks cute with his eyes closed too.=)

the extent of my crafting the past several weeks are these: i have so many things i want to make, yet i'm so lacking in motivation to do any of them. it's terrible. 

 ha, i actually did not do this one, levi's sister did, but while i was in his room i figured i might as well capture this. =) she did a pretty good job eh? 

65 degrees and sunny.

ummm, have i mentioned how much i love california?? because i do. the weather today-- phenomenal. i get excited just thinking about it. and it's january, it was like 65 degrees! which for all you canadian people who stalk my blog and never comment {ahem}, is roughly around 20 degrees. i remember thinking about how much i hated the idea of moving to san francisco. hated probably is an understatement. it was quite passionate. however, after spending the day shopping for places to live, i love it, despite the outrageous amount of rent that we will be paying. that's ok, we'll make money eventually right? right. 

this is probably going to be a long post, but i got several requests to show off places we were looking at so i will have to describe what we found as well as put pictures up. first off, the husband requested having 3 bedrooms so one of them he could study in {which the other half turns into my craft room, hehe} and when we have our second kid sometime during school, they can handle sharing a room. zak will only be 4 anyways by the time we leave. my request was it allowed cats {can't leave the precious animal} and a washer and dryer. 

i'm not going to put pics up of the first two we looked at, the first one, cheaper.... but no washer and dryer, it was communal aaaand the place itself was definitely a downgrade from what we have. it would have been a whole lot cheaper and closer, but there was a fantastic one an extra 5 minutes away and i'll suck up the extra money. well, levi will. we looked at 4 places, but narrowed it down to two, and they both said they should have places for us in june and will keep us posted when a 3 bedroom opens up. 

this is the first one: called larkspur courts, they didn't have a 3 bedroom to show us of either place so these are the two bedrooms ones.  

 yes, that would be our deck. it is awesome. 

 sorry the lighting sucks, but the living room. 

 coat closet. i've waited 3 years for one of these bad boys. ahhhh i'm so excited to move. 

 this is the only part that i am not pleased with in this place. it is tinyyy!! and totally closed off so i wouldn't be able to see much going on in the living room. but it's not too bad, so i could make do if necessary. 

 love that the washer and dryer have cupboards above them. fabulous. 

 guest/zak's bathroom

 guest/zak's room. not sure which one since there were only two bedrooms in this place. 

 part of guest closet. 

 this master bedroom closer is set up very weird. where zak is is the bathroom and outside of it there are two closets, the one with clothes hanging up and the one at the end. so semi-walk in closet-ish? 

 master bedroom. 

this place is fantastic, it's about 20 minutes away from the city, there is shopping center right across the street with a couple restaurants and a frozen yogurt place, sushi, etc etc. it has a heated pool year round, several hot tubs throughout the complex and is basically fabulous. i didn't take many pictures of the outside because my camera died, but i do love it. 

the second place is actually on the opposite side of san francisco, which means levi would not have to take golden gate bridge in. {did you know that the toll is $6.00??!! that's $30.00 a week just going to school. gah!}it definitely has a different vibe than the other one, it's more city like and less peaceful harbor like but we both still really like it, i think we're actually leaning toward it anyways. it's called la terrazza.

 kitchen and dining room. can you say love??! because i do. it's so open!!

 the kitchen from the living room. 

 view outside the living room. 

 washer and dryer. obviously. 

 guest/zak shower. 

 and sink. 

 guest/zak room. 

 part of living room. i couldn't fit it all in the ipod camera. 

 part of master bedroom. same problem as above. 

 you can't see it. but this is a walk in closet. score. absolutely. 

 part of connected master bathroom. 

patio with storage on the end. 

it's a tough choice between the two, i think we'd take either, though the second definitely would work better with school and such. i hope you have thoroughly enjoyed looking at the pictures as much as we did. haha, because i know you all care so much. 

huzzah for getting older, moving out of the bubble and on with our lives! =)) 

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oh boy oh boy.

tomorrow. yes tomorrow, the baby will 9 months old! it's blowing my mind how he's as old as how long he was in my belly. i seriously cannot believe it. in just 3 months he will be a year old! holy moly. 

some of the things we love: 

the kitty. now that we are somewhat mobile, her tail and paws are our favorite things to go and get. luckily we have an amazingly nice kitty who will continue to love him even when he pulls out her hair. 

eating. i know i say this everytime, but he does love his food. however, he now loves to feed himself, bananas, cheerios, cucumbers, pears and graduate puffs are a few of our favorites. typically, he double fists it, as seen in this picture. =)

jumping. as mentioned in previous posts, he does love it. this picture is the ONE and ONLY time he's ever fallen asleep anywhere besides a bed or his carseat. 

 being crazy in bed. this is how i find him every morning and nap. i laugh everytime i see him. 

our train. even though it's for big kids, we do love it. 

chilaxing. crawling is exhausting.... so this is what we frequently look like now. notice the pillow he has created. he's a smart one, this kid. 

the wheels on the bus. our favorite verse is "the mommy's on the bus go shh shh shh". i think he likes the way my mouth moves when we sing it. it's pretty funny. 

swimming in the bathtub. 

clapping when 30 rock comes on or is over. it's hilarious.

i'm sure there are lots of other things he loves, but i can't think of any at the moment. 

he is now 19.5 lbs {32th percentile}and 28.5 inches {65 percentile}. its interesting to watch his percentages go down over the appointments, he used to be such a chunkster. but he's skinnying down. must be all that jumping.  

what the what?

after 3 months of "he's going to next week for sure", this is the final result today:

he would somewhat crawl for a phone. 

this one's just funny in the middle. cracks me up. dad did a good job videotaping this evening. 

the best thing in the whole world.

does this picture look blurry to you?? well, thats the best i could do with the bouncing machine who never quits. we got a jumperoo after much success with markus' up in canada. this one's a little bit cooler to him because it rotates around and a lot of the time he just jumps around in circles. 

to say that this is his favorite thing in the whole wide world might even be an understatement. who knew a toy could provide so much intrigue and exercise and happiness all at the same time?

this is the only place besides lying down someplace he might consider taking a nap.he seriously will put his head again the headrest, thumb in mouth and close his eyes while jumping. it's hilarious. 

he's probably spends a good couple hours a day in this bad boy, not because i just stick him in there i will mention, he usually cries when i take him out before he's ready. i think all of the toys on it blow his mind, as you can see in the next two pictures. 

{check out those eyebrows! this is very intense. he's going to crack us up when he's older.}

{don't you love the little hook on his nose? that finger gets in the way for maximum thumb sucking, so he moved it. haha}

i also think he looks way older with his hair cut. he's so mature. =}} 

sorry for the blurry pictures, someday i'll have an awesome camera that can capture insane jumping and not look crazy. 

haircut shmair cut.

if you've seen the beast in the last couple weeks/months, you must have noticed how shaggy the little man is looking. well aunt kassie gave him his first hair cut to tone down poof that he's got going on. and i must proudly say that kassie said his hair was the craziest hair she's ever cut. yes, i am proud. we gave that to him. =) 

he did very very good! no crying, we just had to bribe him with treats, even though we did just feed him dinner, i swear i don't know where he sticks all his food. 

here is the before:

 notice the long piece touching his eyebrows. it goes down to the middle of his nose if it's not swished to the side so funny. 

{mom please stop taking pictures of me}

{i'm not sure how i feel about this guys} 

after: 

 this was the only picture i could get of him looking at me, he is very easily distracted, it looks cuter now that we gave him a bath, but he's such a big boy now! 

awesome possum.

i feel very behind in blogging this break since we've been doing so much lately, so for the next couple they will be going backwards, but i was so excited about this i have to share it! you know how me and kassie went to vegas?? {more on that later} well, if not, we did... because the in-laws were coming down to install hardwood in our place. now let me tell you i was not the biggest fan of it before we left because not only did i think it was a different color than it turned out to be {camera phone pics are never the best, someday someone should make an awesome camera on a phone} but it sat in our house for 3 weeks in a giant pile and almost caused me to have some serious breakdowns because we had our christmas tree up so our couches were moved, kassie was staying with us, and this massive amount of hardwood was stacked under our table. needless to say, i was glad to get outta there. apparently i'm a little anile retentive when it comes to my house.

buuut, we came back from vegas and it was 95% finished!! after two days of slave labor from mike, kelly and tiffy {my hubbie doesn't quit til 2:00 am or later because he likes to do it as quick as possible} the hardwood looks fantastic! i love it so so so much. and we got a rug today, which i also love. have i mentioned how my taste in things is fabulous as well? well it is, cuz that rug looks dang good with our house.

unfortunately, i do not have before pictures because i was not here to take them but just imagine off-white speckled carpet with nasty stains from shoes, food, babies, dye etc etc. on it. and cheesy linoleum in the kitchen.

 i think it makes our place look sooooo much bigger than it used to! but that might be because we had loads of crap in there the last 3 weeks =)

if you've been in our house, you have probably noticed the ghetto bathroom we have, with the floor sinking in and discolored on one side. {the people before us totally did that}well turns out, water leaks in from the outside. lovely eh? this is what it looked like underneath the ghetto cheesy linoleum. {the dark stuff is all wet}. it took the men a little bit longer to do the tile since they had to totally take out the floor, add new insallation, beams, plywood, a second layer of plywood so it would line up with the hard wood and then do the tile. levi's still working on the tile as i write this but he's on the last awkward angles of it. 

 starting to look good eh?? i am looooving it so much. if you're reading this, thanks guys!! it is fantastic and looks soooo much better!