Selphish ~ Purses By Emily

A Tutu for Keira!

This is my first attempt to make a tutu for my

Princess Keira!

I did okay!

Is that a pita in your pocket?

Another great find from MP!

Check the link out here: Pita Pocket Link

I'd like to take a bowl of cilantro jalapeno hummus to this, but that would be bad. And dumb. Maybe I'll just get one and stuff it with greens.

{dollar dollar bills ya'll}

Maybe Emily [my littlest baby sister] could make some of these to go with her purse line. Something reflecting part of our heritage. Or all of it? Something along the lines of a "Hardtack Indian Fry Satchel?" What would that look like?!

{new} Pink Picture Taker Fun

My camera was broken for too long. Now I have a new, pretty pink one! Best of all I'm snapping memories once again! This puts me in the best mood! Here's the picture blog of my first day out and about with my new pink picture taker!

1st: I try to perfect my pucker pout, aka : myspace lips.

Yeah, I'll keep working on it.

2nd: I accidentally take a picture of my coworker eating his lunch and it's pretty cool:

3rd: I take a picture of my totally fab purse made by my very own littlest baby sister, Emily. She's calling her line Selphish! Adorable!! 4th: {Finally!} I come home to find 3 little monkeys, I mean babies, playing on my bed. I lay down with them and get this great shot... on the 1st try! Lucky day for a lucky Momma!
This is by far my favorite moment of the day!

Last: I bake, which is what I do. These are pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!

Thank you for sharing my day with me!

Just because MY kids can do it...

After church this afternoon, me and the kids stopped at our neighborhood Safeway to pick up some items for tonight's dinner. We started out in the dairy/cookie isle. While I was picking out a block of motzerlla cheese and having an internal debate about weither shredding it myself would really save enough money to be worth the extra effort, Travis had run down to the end of the isle, Spiderman style. I picked up my cheese and proceeded to walk down the isle towards my little superhero when I walked passed a lady and a young boy about 4 or 5 who were in the isle with us. As I'm walking by she takes her kid by the shoulder and says, "Just because he [pointing at Travis] can.." And that's all I heard.

Instantly this lady is my sworn enemy! I loath her. How dare she point at MY angle boy and use him as an example of how not to be?! How can she look at that face, with those big, blue eyes and think anything but that he should be able to do whatever he wants!? Does she not know he is perfectly perfect?!?! I do my best to keep my mouth shut and finish my shopping. I go pick out a soft, fresh garlic bread loaf, a lite Cesar salad kit and some Hansen's soda to enjoy with our dinner. And by the time I'm loading my groceries into my SUV I realize the only logical conclusion I can come to: She just must have been saying to her child, "Just because he can be the cutest kid on the planet, doesn't mean you can be to."

What kind of a mother would say that to her child?!

If you're crazy and you know it, drive like this:

This technique was demonstrated to me today by a gentleman (not a senior citizen) driving an old Benz with stuffed animals clogging up the back window:

1. When approaching an intersection with a green light, STOP and look both ways. Then proceed through.

2. When approaching the next intersection with a 4 way stop, do not stop until you are half way through that intersection. At which point, stop just long enough to look insane and then be on your way.

I may try this some time.

First I have to raid my kids' stuffed animal toy box.

Travis says...

that one of his teachers (not his regular one) "talks funny." He said she talks like an alien.

On the other hand, he remembered his teacher's name tonight! Progress!!

Well...

The first two days of school went well!

This year Tyler gets to use an agenda where he has to log all assignments, including homework, and I have to sign over it each night. At first he was a bit frustrated with that, but tonight he told me he really likes it. I'm glad he's finding pleasure in organization! [Maybe he can teach me how to apply it better to my life!]

Here's an example of Tyler's humor that I love so much: Yesterday I had to fill out a paper for his teacher saying what subjects I think he enjoys or does well in and tid bits about his personality. I put that Tyler loves learning science, about animals and about space. And, that he is pretty good at math and getting better at spelling/writing. Well today Tyler tells me that I should have written that he's dyslexic and does really bad at social studies, math and science. [WHY, you ask?!] So that his teacher would've been really surprised with his improvement this year! Ha-ha-ha! That's my Tyler.

Travis is having a good time, from all accounts. He just doesn't want to go back?! Silly boy. Nathan told me that he's coming home wiped out... all day Kinder does that to a boy. I heard his BFF, Toby, is having the same issue! So far all I know is that they sing the "Days of the Week" song and that he gets to play on the playground. Hopefully I'll be able to get more out of him by the end of the week.

Here's a picture my bestie got of our two big boys on their first day of school!

They're bringing cuteness back!

Brudders' Big Day

Tomorrow this baby goes to his first day of Kindergarten

& this little boy goes to his first day of 4th grade!

The day we brought Travis home from the hospital, Tyler told him, "I won't let anything happen to you." I hope Tyler looks out for his little brother tomorrow. It will make my day a little easier.

Here are most recent pictures:

Tyler Matthew [9] & Travis Andrew [5]