some things i've said lately.

all addressed to my 2 year old, as if that needed to be said.

"please take your foot out of the popcorn bowl."

"please don't put your corn in daddy's water cup."

"quit licking the mirror please."

"please don't poke your brother's eyes."

"get your fingers out of the toaster please."

"where did you hide mommy's money?"

"you need to wear pants."

so, i broke down and bought her one of those glorified child leashes, you know the ones that are disguised as monkey backpacks to make us feel less guilty about putting a leash on our kid...

yep, i'm that mom. ugh.

my cousin heather invited us to the jimmy eat world concert tuesday night. her husband denny does the sound for them and they had a couple of open spots on the guest list. (also on his resume: prince, bryan {correction} ryan adams, afi...impressive right.)

spencer and i hadn't been on a real date since my birthday last july, (can you say hermits.)

so it was incredible to be out together, at a concert of a band i love, AND be vip style, a welcome break from potty training and diapers for sure.

thank you heather and denny, for an unforgettable night, and for bringing the coolness factor in our family WAY up.
plus, your 7 year old is the cutest boy i have ever seen.

ahh, those freckles.

olive and papa

round and round.

who said flowers were a lame gift

spencer is two for two since we moved to boise. he found the cutest little boutique flower shop and i'm blown away every time. handmade pots even.

happy mothers day to me!

"no more boppers"

olive did/is doing great!

it was a beach themed potty party with lots of treats and incentives.

i dreaded it, but it was actually really fun, as fun as potty training can be at least.

after dinner she threw away her "boppers" and got a new swimming pool.

way to go olive!

bringing the party home

even though rain threatened our boise celebration hours before the big event. we rented a tent, modified the decor a little and pulled it off.

it was lovely.

coming up for olive

a potty party is happening at our house on monday may 9th.

don't call, i think we'll be busy.

innocence and ice cream

it's been warm here lately, and the other night at dinner we heard the all too familiar summer sound of the ice cream man.

i grabbed olive, my spare change and bolted out the front door. i have so many great childhood memories of buying ice cream from the cheery man in his little white truck, and i was excited to share that sweet memory with my baby girl.

we ran from street to street stopping occasionally to listen and locate the adorable little freezer truck that I had pictured in my mind.

as we turned the corner of a neighboring street we found him, but he was NOT AT ALL what i remembered.

sketchy minivan with an ice cream poster and crummy speaker taped to the hood. i was horrified. i almost turned around and walked the other way, but i had built it up so much with the chase that i didn't have the heart to disappoint olive now. i hesitantly walked up to the scary van and was greeted by a man that was equally scary. half a mouthful of teeth, and let's just say he could have benefited from a bigger shirt=gross picture in my head.

i handed over my dollar and walked olive home dreamsicle in hand completely deflated. it wasn't quite the experience i was going for.

were ice cream men always creepy, i just didn't know it as a kid, or is this a new industry for ex-cons?

artistic evolution

olive loves to color.

when she first started coloring and talking, she would ask us to draw eyes. "eyes mama, eyes, eyes." we thought it may have something to do with mike wazowski from monsters inc.; one of her favorite movies.

so, there are eyeballs drawn in the margins of most of her coloring books...creepy?

the other day i noticed that she's now started drawing faces herself.

can you see it?

...smarty pants.

love, love, love and shopping.

my little brother kyle married the cutest girl jeneca last friday. (see here for pictures of her, i can't believe i didn't get one of them together.)

we went down early to see aubry and spend a day in salt lake.

we started the day out at tulie bakery (i may or may not have consumed 3 pastries for breakfast) i've said it before but it's amazing.

then we headed to hip and humble, where we bought matching skirts (and then we did each other's hair and giggled about boys, okay not really, but we did buy matching skirts), the rest of the day included, nordstrom, lunch at the bistro, a quick stop at aubry's office, ikea= new furniture for aubry, dinner with ty and kumari at salt city burger, nordstrom rack and late night craft hour in preparation for the luncheon.

it's always a party with aubry, thanks for letting us stay!

friday morning kyle and jeneca got married in the bountiful, ut temple. i cried as soon as they walked through the door. it was perfect, and lovely.

olive and her cousin clara were instant besties, and despite the freezing weather, the luncheon and reception were beautiful.

it was so fun to get everyone together to celebrate kyle and jeneca and it was over much too fast.

we got home late saturday and now we're gearing up for the open house here while the lovebirds soak up the sun on a cruise ship somewhere off the coast of california...