My Very First Diaper Cake!!

Skoot's Cousins Diana and Paul are expecting their first baby girl in January so for her shower that is on sunday, I thought I would make a really cute Diaper Cake, which are super handy for the expecting parents since it's used ONLY out of the essentials. For instance, the one I made includes: 3 bottles, 2 Binkies, Baby wash and Baby lotion, Washcloths, 2 cute baby Headbands and Baby Booties.. . .Like I said, Really Handy! I must say though that I have never made one before so I figured I would give it a shot. WOW, Pretty sure I amazed myself at how AWESOME it turned out! Not to mention WAY CUTE!!! Here's a few Pics





Super Cute Right! I think I would Love to make more of these. . . SO Basically everyone needs to start having some babies!

How Sweet the Holidays!

I Just LOVE the holidays! I must say though, that I am so glad Christmas is over! It's such a great, romantic, loving, giving time of year but it is WAY too Hectic to enjoy for very long. . Lol, so Skoot, Bentley, Daryl And I all Got Snuggies for Christmas. I'm Not gonna lie, they are pretty Great! HA Who knew!

Anyway, Skoot and I had a Great time on Christmas Morning with just our little family opening presents first. We then went to my mom's to open there and then to his parents' to do their family celebrations and eat lunch. Then we came home to let Bentley out and sneak in a little cat nap and then Back to my mom's for Christmas dinner, Which was absolutely DELIGHTFUL!!! I must say that I do love to eat and what better time than the holidays!! Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope it was great for all!

TAG: You're it!

Post these rules on your blog.
List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!



3 JOYS

1. My happy and healthy family: I love my brother daryl and my mom and marcus more than I can even Imagine. We have been through a lot as a family and I am blessed that we are all healthy! I am also happy that despite anything else going on, I am still able to keep in contact with my brothers and sisters as well as my nieces and nephews.

2. My marriage: I am proud to be able to wake up next to my husband every morning and to know that he is mine forever!He is my everything and I am so blessed to have found my prince charming at such a young age. I am so excited that we get to grow old together!

3. Our amazing home: How many people can say that they owned a STUNNING NEW HOUSE At the age of 21! I am so happy that we have such a great, happy place to come home to everyday. Such an amazing place to make memories and to start a family in.



3 FEARS

1. Losing my spouse: I could never even imagine losing skoot. He is my second half and I would not be able to live without him, I would feel like a part of me is missing for the rest of my life.

2. I am such a nervous wreck when it comes to driving: I am sure that I drive skoot nuts because I am ALWAYS on edge when I am in the car with him. This just goes back to line one of this section that I am so scared of losing skoot that I am overly cautious when he is driving.I am deathly afraid of losing him in a wreck.

3. Not having healthy babies: I know I will love them the same as if they are healthy But it is a HUGE fear of mine that our babies will have some serious birth defect and we will lose our baby. . . I know quite a few people that have had this very thing happen to them and I just have so much respect for how they were able to cope as a family and to get through such a grave tragedy together.


3 OBSESSIONS

1.Baby Names: You would not believe how obsessed I am with baby names. Even though skoot and I are trying to wait another 4 years to start trying to build our family, I am constantly bringing up names to him to see what he thinks. We can never agree on any so I want us to be on page now rather than giving birth and not being able to decide on any names because we can't agree on anything, lol crazy, I know.

2.SHOES!! Currently I am more obsessed with high tops than anything else but it really goes back and forth between those and pumps. I basically feel that I need a pair of shoes for every color imaginable.

3. Great smelling cologne: I cannot even begin to describe how much I love the cologne skoot wears. We even found one recently that smells even better than mambo
(which is my favorite on him) and I am pretty sure I wanted to jump his bones there in the store, lol!



3 FACTS ABOUT ME

1.I can watch any movie and be inspired to do whatever the movie was about. Not even kidding, I have even considered playing hockey after watching the mighty ducks!

2. I wish I was an artist. I would LOVE to be able to paint or draw beautiful pictures and hang them in our home.

3. I am a self proclaimed amazing party planner. For quite some time I even wanted to be a wedding planner to take advantage of this amazing gift.



THOSE I TAG

*Sara D.
*Cat M.
*Jodie W.
*Juliet C.
*Nicole B.

We took our pics for our Christmas cards today! It was tons of fun though pretty cold. We went to memory grove and it was really pretty up there! Here's a few of my favorite ones. . . More to come

TIS THE SEASON

We put up our Christmas tree on black friday! We had so much fun listening to Christmas tunes and wrapping the first round of presents. . . we have yet to finish shopping but the month is still young :) Lol, Bentley got himself wrapped up in the garland before we could even do much and by the time we were done he was exhausted!! I love our tree! It's so perfect (especially how pretty our tree skirt is) and I'm so excited for christmas! I think winter time is so romantic. . even though I hate the cold weather, lol you can't win em all

hey hey it's my birthday!

My birthday celebrations went really great this year!! We had a lot of great sports that showed up in full 70's regalia!! It was so much fun to dress up and boogy down!! I have come to the conclusion that I should've lived, no I could've THRIVED in the disco era!

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Halloween Festivities

So we had a Hoppin halloween party this year!Great turnout with tonz of great food (as usual) and this time we even purchased a keg,though there was a lot of it left over. Funny story of the night is that there was a group of about 6 to 10 people that neither skoot or I knew. One of them was told he couldn't smoke in the garage. .. His genious response " what do you own the place or something?" I'm sure you can guess skoot's response and maybe even see the expression he had as he said: . .. "Yes, actually, this IS my damn house" lol, the look on that guy's face was priceless.. . Jada wowed us all with her awesome booty shakin moves and my lil bro and his friends were also entertaining as they did the stanky leg and the jerk for us all . .. We had a lot of fun with the costume contest which included some pretty great struts down the catwalk . . . all in all, another great party success!

OCTOBER!!!

I love Halloween!! It is so much fun to decorate and come up with awesome costumes!!! Not to mention the bangin parties!!! I think I really just love this time of year. . . Halloween, then birthday celebrations and of course Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!! It's kinda funny that I absolutely hate the cold weather but I think it is somehow much more romantic than the summer. . .

one year

Been married a year as of today! Skoot and I had a really great day, it was just so relaxing! For my present to him, we took a little trip to the spa! A couples soak and an hour long couples massage was just what we needed to unwind from our crazy schedules! Skoot took me to cirque du soleil's SALTIMBANCO! He also bought me the cutest diamond earrings! Whoever said the first year of marriage was the hardest is crazy! Maybe we are just two peas in a pod, lol!

Officially moved in!!

We have now been living in our house for like a week and a half!! LOVE IT!! We still need to paint one of the bathrooms and our two spare bedrooms but they are just being painted by our preference, it's not like we NEED to paint them! Still putting up all the pics and everything to make it feel like home. Bentley is still a little sketch and follows us from room to room but I think he is adjusting pretty well to his new place. . . We will be having a housewarming party sometime in the next month and I will be putting updated pics up soon!!

2 Days and Counting!!

Skoot and I are so excited to be moving into our dream home!! We are just waiting to close on Tuesday!! Hopefully we'll have the keys by wednesday so we can start moving everything before the weekend!Funny that I had no idea we'd have to close during normal bank hours, lol oops. . . I had to ask to leave work early on tuesday at the last minute, good thing my boss loves me so much ;) Our Apartment is almost completely packed and Bentley doesn't know what to do with himself because there are boxes all over the place!!! Yay, We are so excited!!!! 2 days and counting!!!

Sunday Swim Commencement!

YAY! we are finally getting some Authentic June Weather! As a result: Sunday Swim is back in comission!! Basically what happens is every sunday we go swimming at our apartment complex, and we usually invite a few friends to come hang out. Afterwards we continue with our game night tradition!! I don't have any pics from yesterday but these are a few from a couple sundays back!Scott,Andy, Alex,Margery and her fam, and Marissa and Joe were there to help us kick of the official SS of the season!!! What will we do to keep the tradition alive when we move???? Hopefully someone can help us build on it!!

Birthday Bash of the century

So, my Birthday is coming around the corner again and I am not quite sure what theme I should go with this year. Last year was probably the most kick ass party ever(right in first place with skoot's Luau a few years back). . .I need some ideas! Anyone have some? This pic is of me and my cousin Tony from my party last year. It was such a blast! It was a mardi Gras theme and we had so much fun making the masks, they actually turned out way awesome too!!

Family is supposed to be forever? right?

So, I just recently went to a family gathering(we've actually been invited to one!) and It made me realize how torn my family is ever since my abuelita passed away. . I have so many cousins that I never get to see because our family is feuding over something that happened so long ago! I feel that we are caught in a battle that we aren't even fighting.I have no idea what they are even fighting for or who chose my side for me! If my abuelita's kids want to fight over something then let them but they shouldn't drag all of us cousins into it too. It is ridiculous that I cannot invite my whole family to our WEDDING even without some people saying that they will not go if certain people are there. Can't they grow up and realize that you are there to show your support to your family, can't they be adults and put away their differences for one day? Of Course not! I have a cousin that didn't show up to my weddding because she said I didn't go to hers. . . Pretty sure I was MAYBE 10 when she got married!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? And her mom can look right through me and walk right past me when she sees me. . . The only one in that little fam that I can say still realizes what a family is would be my uncle. Regardless of what is going on, he will still come and say hi and give us hugs to show that he still cares. . . Some families need to realize that fighting over something trivial is not worth a whole lifetime of loneliness

New House Here We Come!

We have Found a House!!!! Skoot and I are in the process of buying our first house! We are so excited! It is in West Jordan, and I absolutely love it! It's actually kinda funny because we found this house on the first day we started looking. It was seriously like the 5th house we had looked at. Our Realtor was saying that he had seen very few people get excited about any house like I did with this one . . Of course to make everyone happy(and Satisfied) we went and looked at about fifteen more. We eventually had to decide between this one or one in Herriman. It was a really hard decision because each house had some things we liked that the other house didn't. . . but our feelings were mutual that this was our dream home!!! It is such an amazing thing to be able to say that I am accomplished enough to buy a house at the age of 21! We close on July 14th!!!

Skoot's Birthday BBQ

So, for Skoot's birthday this year we decided to have a chill BBQ(He thinks that 23 is not worth celebrating)and we had a really great turnout, Skoot didn't even think he knew that many people!! We made so much food!! Lol, shis-kabobs, burgers and hot dogs, not to mention a ton of salads and fruit and cake and just a whole lot of food delightfulness! It rained most of the day but luckily we were at his parents' house and they have a big covered deck so it wasn't a huge party spoiler. . . lol I did get a little mad that I was stuck grilling the whole time, hence the pic of me looking pissed! I must say though, for it being my first time on the grill, I sure did a damn good job! Special thanks to marissa for being my grill mate!

Miss gay Iowa US of A

Andy and I went to Iowa with NOVA STARR to compete in the miss Iowa US of A Pageant to qualify for nationals. . . Lol, I had a BLAST! Funny how I never Imagined myself dancing in drag pageants and now I love it! Here are some pics from that weekend

WOW! You said it george!

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk to much, love too seldom and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just move on...Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved one, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give to to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

Ode to Amy

ATTENTION: Public Service Announcement

Pretty sure Amy Springer is the funniest person I have ever met!! I need to find her someone to marry, everyone else has husbands, lol but birds of a feather DO flock together. Anyway I am going to end this now but I would first like to thank Count Chocula for his chocolaty goodness!!

PS Look out Socrates, don't get sucked under

Amy and Missy's Birthday celebration!

So we went to Applebee's last night for Amy and Missy's birthday. . .First of all, It's a damn good thing that Skoot and I got a gift card for Christmas, otherwise I would have been pissed!!! Our waiter didn't know anything about the menu, Our food was all way cold when it came out and he wasn't even busy! We saw him chillin right next to the server station chattin it up with his buddy!We were never checked on once our food was out, it took FOREVER to get our checks . . I was just SO not impressed. Maybe I'm really hard on servers because I've been one but that was SERIOUSLY really bad.. Anyway, on to the rest of the night: We went to the hotel afterward and I had so much fun!!We were on the VIP list so we got in for free! Pretty sure Chanelle was lame for not showing up. She bailed and didn't even say anything till I tried to verify that she was coming, HOW RETARDED!! Ha I had such a Blast though!*I LOVE TO DANCE* I also need to go out more often, it is such a stress reliever!! Anyhoo, I have some of the hottest friends ever, lol, probably cuz they're my Blaze ladies!!

Winter Wonderland huh?

Yesterday as Skoot and I were watching the news, we learned from our trusty weatherman that this coming week is supposed to be our coldest week yet this winter! How do I feel about that? HORRIBLE! I need to just go live in Hawaii like Jodie did or maybe just go on our Honeymoon again to Riviera Maya. Don't those pics from our Honeymoon just look too perfect? Like postcards, I think. Well, Maybe we will go on a vacation to the beach sometime soon, until then, I'll just have to daydream about perfect weather somewhere. I need to get out of this snow capped land