4.17.2012

easter (and a million pictures)

i'm late on updated, as usual. easter this year was quite lovely. oliver is starting to get excited about events (disneyland, going to the park and beach, disneyland) with the aid of youtube videos (seriously--search 'easter egg hunts', disneyland, ocean, whatever if you want your kids to quickly learn about random things). our apartment complex is sort of awesome in that every holiday is a massive celebration, very little expense spared. we knew this would be tricky--we had spent the morning watching videos on how to hunt eggs, complete with our own preemptive easter egg hunt in our living room. he was ready.



too bad the volunteers were instructed to start at 10 on the dot, not a second sooner.

enter panic and dramatic meltdowns of about 25, 2-year olds.

we went outside and saw hundreds of eggs. and to add insult to injury, we had to trek through said eggs to get to the 3 and under section as oliver violently sobbed and sobbed screaming 'eeeggggggggggggggg' while simultaneously throwing himself onto the grass in the middle of the untouchables. poor kid.

{note the tear}



life moved on when he was able to get his eggs
(4 to be exact. naturally, we let him get 8. hey, ruby needed eggs, too).
uhh..and by 8 i meant 10. whoops.
*also, note the color discrimination? silly boy.



and no easter celebration is complete without a super-creepy easter bunny:


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easter morning started off with a poor attempt of us trying to 
have a serious discussion about the real point of the holiday
perhaps the path of peeps and eggs everywhere played a role in that...
(a pass-along card with Christ on it stashed in his basket counts makes up for our failings, right?)

anyway, all was right in the world again when he was able to have another hunt.
we told him to find more eggs, so off he went:
















 the easter bunny brought him more matchbox cars.
who says having 2,108,432 matchcars is wrong?
(he loves those cheap things).










4.12.2012

somebody that i used to know

i recently gave up eating ANY food after 7.
*devastated face*
sure, i've lost some barely any weight
but i miss it. sometimes.
or all the time.

gotye explains it much better than i.

*seriously--listen to the song while thinking about me
not eating any food after 7. it's like a horrible break-up.

4.11.2012

life as a student

we're all poor.
it's no secret.

let me be honest; 
it can be incredibly unbelievably supremely 
annoying when that is all some people talk about. 
look.
 i get that you're poor
i'm poor too!
 (hey, in case you forgot i'm in the same STUDENT HOUSING as you).
oh, and hey--i also know that it is super lame.
i get it.

but let's be honest (again); i still 'find money' in my 'budget' to buy things.
in-and-out...
target clearance...
fabric...

because why? 
i would go insane without SOME sort of freedom.
plus, i have friends/family who keep having babies...
which means?
gifts!

sure, i could probably be better with our money 
...aka, less 'eating out' 
(i don't feel like it counts when you don't leave your car)
...less scooter-buying (more on that later)
...and less turkey legs at disneyland
(oh, yeah...and maybe less disneyland. 
PSH WHO AM I KIDDING THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN)

but, there are funny ways to talk about being poor,
like the other day i ran into a friend at costco
on april 2nd.
she had a box of diapers and she informed me,
"I have been putting pull ups on {name} for the last week--ones left over
from {older son}
because we had no money to get diapers--had to wait for the 1st of the month.
which we laughed over. 
because it was hilarious. 
because we have all been there.
(don't you love when student loans/grants/scholarships come in late??????)

so, let's all just bask in our awesome, student-life poorness
and have a common understanding that we are all in (pretty much the same) boat.
because, it will get better soon.
right??
*also, please note that we have plenty to live on and plenty to eat with and such. 
we just can't be taking any trips to europe.
or thailand.
or hawaii.
*let's also note that this is not about anyone specifically.
 because let's be honest (for a third time); the majority of people who read this are, in fact, fellow students.

4.02.2012

photo booth with oliver

 oliver and i do lots of photo booth picture sessions
(nearly always his idea)
this time we managed to get one good one! 
the rest, not so lucky.
lick me, make a 'funeee face' (said with a darling lisp), and the 'say cheese!' face.




so much to catch up on, as always.
maybe next time!