Happy Love Day

And it was a happy day with my two favorite Valentines.

Hope yours was too! 

p.s. i got the job :)

hired?

i had an interview for a dental hygiene position today.

i've been battling whether or not i should work.. 

but this job seemed too good to be true

1 day a week, 8-3, a salary i could pay rent for the month only working 1 day a week, 6 miles away from home, jeremy could watch London for all but 2 hours of my shift.

perfect.

oh, how did it go, you ask? 

i NAILED it! 

felt great about it... 

conversation flowed, me and the dentist's views on patient care and treatment seemed to be completely compatible! 

booyah! 

firmly and confident, i shook the dentist hand and went to grab my purse that was placed on the floor between Dr. Woods and I.

we both looked down at my purse at the same time. 

this is what i/we saw as i went to grab my purse

 (this picture is NOT an exaggeration!)

i could have crawled under a bush full of ticks and died.

nothing was said. 

but i'm about 0.5% sure she didn't see it.

i felt like i was in slow motion as i tried to snag the dang thong and conceal it in someway. 

why would i have this at the top of my purse???.. 

correction: why, not only at the TOP of my purse, but ON TOP and OUTSIDE of my purse?? 

because the other side had all my interview information on it.

address, time, phone number, etc. 

some people use a sticky note.. 

nope, not me, i use my homemade pg-13 valentines. 

screams professionalism.

ALSO, i was looking over my resume after the interview and noticed that i forgot to delete the

"part-time exotic dancer" section that i recently added for another competitive job position i was applying for.

ok, that's not true.. but it might as well be.

cheeser..

in every sense of the word.

i think these pictures speak for themselves.

 happiest girl i know.

jeremy couldn't resist getting her a new backpack, and she was loving it. 

kept it on while she crawled everywhere.

gum'n it. 

this last picture is her CLASSIC.

off to the side cheese smile.

Happy Valentines Day!

Cake Pops

My friend, Courtney and I made CAKE POPS for a Valentine-making party we were going to.. 

they turned out pretty delish, and kinda cute if  I do say so myself.

Time consuming, but so fun to make.

HERE is a tutorial and recipe for them! 

just getting done making valentines/cards

.. and this is what i spent my evening making.

classy, eh?! surprised? shouldn't be.

i actually copied this idea from Howdoesshe.com, they made cookies like this instead of Valentines and called them PG-13 cookies.. 

too cute of an idea not to mimic. 

ok, so we took a few pictures of our Cake Pops. pretty proud of ourselves.

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She's got curls. A LOT of them.

I LOVE VALENTINES DAY!! 

... and i remind Jeremy multiple times a day around this time of year just how much i love this holiday. no pressure germ. :) 

Sea World

My mom and dad just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.. and as a gift to themselves, they took a 2 week road trip, and we got lucky enough to have them here for the last week of their road trip!! 

We went to Sea World while they were here, and that is the only time I took pictures the whole time they were here!

dolphin show

london COULD NOT get enough of riding on my dad's shoulders. 

she would squeal and laugh the whole time.

.. and she was pretty glued to my mom this trip..

she would go to her rather than me most of the time.

i don't blame her. she's pretty darn great.

Shamu show

this was the cutest thing i have ever seen in my life

i don't know if it was how bright red Elmo was.. 

or if it was how soft and cuddly he was, but London was 

LOVING him. 

i wish more than anything i would have gotten this on video. 

she was laughing out loud and throwing herself in to him. 

completely lost her head (in a good way)

she is completely full of it these days! 

9 moths old! 

blows my mind.

she is...

crawling all over like a mad woman for the last couple of weeks

pulling herself up on any and everything

walking along the couch and ottoman

she fake coughs and laughs

dances when i sing to her (which is most of the day, poor girl)

goes to sleep without being swaddled, FINALLY

sleeps all through the night

LOVES squash and sweet potatoes 

HATES green beans and garden vegetables

her first word was MAMAMA, then DADADA

but pretty much just says mama all day long

carries her bottle in her mouth everywhere she goes, even while crawling

she LOVES strangers.. light up around anybody new

smiling MOST of the day, such a happy baby.

this little friend will have no self confidence issues.. 

every small thing she does we celebrate and think is so very GREAT! 

hopefully we think the rest of our kids are this great. ha!

Tomato, Tomatoe, Potato, Potatoe

Crochet..Croquet

all the same, right?

so, i'm no stranger to occasionally updating the world on what i am currently doing on my Facebook status. 

and unfortunately,  i'm no stranger to occasionally sharing with the world that sometimes my spelling needs to be double/triple checked, darn it.

today, we were invited by some friends to a CROQUET tournament, 

and obviously, i felt like this was "status update worthy" .. i mean COME ON.. 

how many croquet tournaments have you been invited to? 

see. i thought so! 

so about an hour before heading to the big tourney, i get on facebook and write the following:

"so sad i just dropped my mom off at the airport, but i've got to pull it together for my CROCHET tourney in a few hours"

CROCHET tourney??? 

yup, i had the facebook world a-buzzin about that one i'm sure. what have you all been missing out on? how can i be cool enough to be invited to one of those bad boys?  how good of a crocheter must kate be to be invited to a tournament?"

 ... all questions i'm sure that were swimming around in your minds...

well, the truth is, probably only 1-3 people cared enough to even read my update.. don't worry, i am not conceded enough to think the "facebook world would be a-buzzin" about my update no matter what it said.

BUT 

no matter who read it.. even if it was only my sister

 (who i KNEW would pounce on my OOPS as soon as she realized it!) 

i felt like a moron.. and rightfully so. 

pretty sure jeremy won't let me live that one down for a while.

"that's what you get for updating that silly thing anyway"

... that's the comfort i got from that guy  i call my sweet friend. :)  ... but i have to admit.. 

he's right! 

as soon as i realized what i had done, and could pull myself together after laughing so hard i was crying.. and in-between texts from my sister.. i erased the status as quick as my speedy crocheting fingers would allow me.

anyway..the tournament was so fun!

 i did awesome.. i came in LAST place.

but jeremy, on the other hand, swooped the nation!

won the grand prize! 

d was a good sport during the intense tourney 

Alice & Corbin (and Daxton)

were the cute friends that put this fun night together.

and they made us a delicious panini dinner after the stressful event! 

and Rachel made creme brulee

words cannot describe.

Corbin awarding Jeremy with his grand prize!

their cheesehead grins are priceless. what goobs

even after my facebook mishap, and dropping my mom off at the airport..

it was such a great night! 

thanks Clawsons!