Shalae & Noah

New Family + (almost) New Year = New Blog

2009-12-27T20:14:00.004-07:00

It's not just "Shalae & Noah" in our family anymore. I created a new blog! Here's the URL:

http://russ-shalae.blogspot.com/

It's Christmas-time around here!

2009-11-09T18:12:00.006-07:00

I opened up this cute little box a few nights ago... it was like Christmas! This is what was inside:

I love it!! Of course I said yes to this handsome guy:

We're hanging up some new stockings this year and that makes me really happy.

We're getting married before Christmas and ending 2009 as "The Price Family"!

Birthday Kids

2009-10-29T20:44:00.006-07:00

These cute kids both have October birthdays... both just turned 5! We love Sophie, she's Russ's daughter and Noah's same age if you can believe it...

This past weekend we took the birthday kids to the Arizona State Fair. They LOVED it if you can't tell by the looks on their faces...

Sunday night we celebrated their birthdays with my family...

And a few nights ago we celebrated Sophie's birthday at the park. What a cute birthday girl, she was so excited about her presents that she was squealing!

I can't believe my Noah boy is 5 years old! Where has the time gone? He has been such a blessing to me and I LOVE him! We love Sophie too... it's crazy that her and Noah are just one week apart. It's been a fun week of celebrations and lots of cupcakes!

Cabin Trip

2009-10-29T19:00:00.001-07:00

A few weekends ago we took a trip to the Price's cabin. It was a perfect little getaway!

From left to right: Noah, Sophie, Kaitlyn, & Tayler.

The girls found these thingies when we stopped for a lunch picnic. We thought they looked like a mix of corn dogs / frozen bananas / toasted marshmellows!
Russ & the kids

We went to Sunrise and rode the chair lift... here we are at the top!

These 3 crazies wanted a second ride, so that's what they did. I thought it was WAY too cold for that!

Another view from the top

The fun at Sunrise made for some tired kids on the way back...

That night was the funnest... we all got our jammies on and just hung out in the cabin!

Kaitlyn and her creative mind cracks me up! She was pretending to be a train conductor and wanted to take Russ and I to a place called "lovebird land" on her train. Here, she is showing us a "map" of lovebird land and asking us "do you happen to have any kids? Cuz over here is a place called kid land". LOL! I loved it.

Sophie just bein cute!

Russ snuggling up! He thought I was kidding when I said I was blogging this picture. Oops!

Noah lovin life @ the cabin

Russ got the fire going and roasted some marshmellows for us. We had smores and the kids played the Wii.... my kind of a night!

The next day before we left, everyone took turns on the tire swing.

We were all sad to head back home. I can't wait to go back!

Good Times

2009-09-23T17:23:00.011-07:00

September has been a great month! All Summer I was complaining about the fact that I didn't have any vacations planned and I really needed one. Sounds bratty, I know. Well in the past few weeks I have been to California TWICE!!! It definately made up for the boring summertime!

First, Family Feud flew us to Hollywood and we enjoyed a fun weekend with the girls in my family (plus Cassady and my handy brother-in-law Scott that drove us around town like a professional chauffer). We're not allowed to reveal any results until the show airs in May so you'll have to be in suspense for 8 months! Don't even ask!

I didn't get any other good pictures of our fun trip but lots of good memories were made and luckily some of my sisters captured them on camera.

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The very next weekend, I flew back to Long Beach with my bf (I feel too much like a teenager when I say the actual word 'boyfriend'). Russ's sister Megan lives there (lucky girl!) so we made a visit and did a-whole-lotta fun things while we were there...

*On the Huntington Pier after enjoying 9 different flavors of gelato with Collin. (Yeah, we got 3 flavors each - so what? We like sweets.)

*We got pedicures. This was Russ's first and he loved it, even though he was on the lookout the whole time for any guy that would walk past the window and see him inside with all the ladies. I loved it too. Pedicures are worth every penny to me.

*We went to Knotts' Berry Farm with Megan (not pictured), her husband Matthew, and their kids. I love Matthew's face in this pic. He held it like that for quite awhile at it was hilarious!

*We got to play with these cute girls, Blake and Collin.

*Megan & Russ before we left town. These 2 are pretty funny together. You just gotta think about everything you say before you say it. If not you'll see them start to giggle.

*Megan was the BEST hostess. Friends for life! ;)

*Russ and I going back home. :( Back to life, back to reality.

So - I get embarrassed to ask people to take pics if I don't know them. But I did it anyway - and after handing my camera to the girl sitting across from us on the plane, Russ says "It's our honeymoon" and the people around us say "AWE!!" . Then it was quiet and Russ says "Just kidding it's not." I think him and I were the only ones laughing. Pretty funny if you ask me though. Maybe you had to be there.

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Some other highlights that I didn't get pictures of....

*People watching at the airport.

*In & Out Burger at 10pm... no better way to start off a vacation.

*Supreme Scream 7 times with Megan and Russ...... " :I that was so fun, I'm going again with or without you guys."

*Hearing Megan "freak out" on the water ride.

*No lines (for the most part) at KBF... perfect time of year to go.

*Laughing so hard that I had to cover my face cuz it was "the ugly laugh"

*Watching a replay video of us on a ride and noticing that Russ was by himself, yet supposedly carrying on a conversation with an imaginary friend. Hahahaha I can't wipe this smile off my face when I think of that. How I wish there was some way to get a copy of that video (without paying big bucks for it).

*Eating cupcakes late at night. Fatty town! And worth every bite.

*The yummy BBQ put on by Russ, Megan & Matthew (was this trip all about food for me or what?)

* "Get up and make your girlfriend breakfast in bed for once." (Hahaha thank you Megan! And thank you Russ. I could get used to that.)

*Holding a 6-week old baby on and off for 3 consecutive days. It's been too long!

(OK I know that was long and boring, I did it all for you, Megan.)

There's so much more that I didn't document. I can't wait to do it again!!

Flashback Friday

2009-08-27T21:58:00.002-07:00

I'm about to totally embarrass myself...

In honor of me going "back to school" (just online classes... but still!) this week, I'm posting these oldies but goodies - first day of school pictures!!

If I wore this outfit on the first day of school, I obviously thought it looked good. What was I thinking? Clown shorts sinched at the waist and rolled up at the bottom! That's nothing compared to this next picture though.... I could make a long list of things wrong with my outfit:

1) The tucked in shirt
2) The rolled up sleeves on the shirt
3) The fact that the tan-colored shirt doesn't go with white shorts AT ALL
4) The shorts are pulled up waaaaaaay too high
5) The "boots" with shorts
6) The gym socks with the boots

The list could go on and on and on.

Oh yeah, and where were flat irons back then?

Future Feuders

2009-08-19T17:30:00.001-07:00

We auditioned for Family Feud and made it!!! I'm probably gonna have a nervous stomach ache from now until the time the taping is over. Same with my mom and sisters, but we're excited to get a free trip to California out of it. Winning some $$$$$$$$ would just be an added little bonus!

End of Summer / Start of School

2009-08-16T10:40:00.005-07:00

My family's 'staycation' was at Wet & Wild... over-rated if you ask me, but we still had fun.

Noah started school! He was so excited and enjoyed it... I was so relieved! But... since when is my son a big kid? I'm glad he didn't get sad when I left him there but it just shows that he's not my baby anymore.

(Go Devils)

Cute new products

2009-07-29T21:13:00.004-07:00

Yes, She's Got It All is still in business. Suzanne and I have just been busy with other stuff and haven't advertised a lot lately. But look at the cutest new laminated smocks and bibs we've added to our site:

We've got more new items to add still but I just had to put pictures of these on my blogs. If I had a baby girl she for sure would have this last bib seen above. I LOVE it!

To see the collection of laminated smocks (and cute aprons for adults too).... click here.

For bibs, click here.

flashback friday

2009-07-15T20:55:00.011-07:00

riggs and jax through the ages

I love the mischievious face riggs is making

cutest cowboy and indian duo!

I love this pic of them

cute cute boys

My "future missionary"

2009-07-08T21:31:00.003-07:00

Noah's had this suit hanging in his closet for a few months now and I finally got him some black shoes so he could wear it to church. He looked so handsome - I think I told him that about 50 times on Sunday.

Saturday night he asked if he could ride his bike to church the next day, since "that's what missionaries do". LOL!

He's growing up way too fast. I can already picture him as a 19 year old boy leaving for his mission. I'm dreading it already although it will of course be a happy time too.

Dan Majerle...

2009-07-07T13:53:00.001-07:00

... might as well be part of our family now. He keeps showing up in our pics.

Last night some of the boys in my family went to a D-Backs game together. I guess they were sitting by my boyfriend so Bryan caught a picture of the kids with him.
I had to ask Scott if they told Dan "We're the husbands / kids of the girls who met you a couple of years ago and told you they named their dog after you".

I still remember how excited I was that he had his arm around me!!!

Time to clear my camera

2009-06-30T21:25:00.004-07:00

In no certain order, I'm just clearing pictures off my camera.

{Kind of a boring post!}

Laura made some window treatments for my bedroom... I love them!

I just thought Noah looked cute this day before church.

Auburn's family got a kitten... her name is "Hallie Cat". The kids LOVE her! I think Jaxen is Hallie's favorite - today I was at their house and Jax is always the one holding her. Roxy is the kitty's "mama" though.

Noah has to wear socks to the kids' zone at the gym... so on our way there he said "Mom look at my feet... it's like Brad when he mows the lawn". LOL, cuz it's true! I was surprised that Noah remembers that - Brad's been gone for almost 15 months.
Ellie was a cutie with her tall socks and shoes too. Oh yeah both kids' hair looked awesome that day! ;)

A few months ago Noah was introduced to the movie "The Sandlot". So this is his new way to dress after church on Sunday (only when he behaves at church though). He's "Benny". He likes to run with his shirt flying open and ask me if he looks like Benny when he runs.

Imagine the voice of Andy Anderson when I say we're mmmmmatching in our jammies at Grandma Riggs's house. Noah was so proud!

And this picture here makes me pretty proud... that's my boy falling asleep to a game of sudoku!

I don't know where he got it - but Noah loves to line things up. This was his idea of how to set up Monopoly. He's even lining the dice up perfectly in this pic.

That's it, nothing exciting but I feel a little more caught up on journaling what these pictures are all about.

Food journal

2009-06-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

I had to print out a 30-day history of my bank statements… sometimes I wonder what the people reviewing my statements must think of me when they see all these food places on my statement. Just about every other purchase was at some food establishment! (And I know that sometimes I used cash at these same places within the last 30 days so this doesn't even include it all)…

tropical smoothie
del taco
ned’s
yogurtland
tropical smoothie
yogurtland
wildflower
dq
ocean blue
sonic
nielsens
jersey mike’s
yogurtland

It’s kind of funny though. I could put a copy of my bank statements in my journal and it would tell my future grandkids a lot about me.

Majerle Flashback

2009-06-26T00:10:00.000-07:00

More pics I found in "the box" ... all of Majerle Dog for today's edition of Flashback Friday.

Believe it or not, Majerle isn't being nasty in this pic... he just couldn't resist to catch a ride anytime the kids went "ridin that pony". (This is Ellie as a baby.)
I don't know what's better, Suzanne and Majerle jammin to the radio on the bed - or the posters from Teen (or Bop) magazine on the walls. I'm guessing the posters are of Jonathon Taylor Thomas.

Poor Majerle - he put up with so much from us!

Riding the pony with Riggs - this was about 9-10 years ago.

Classic pic of Majerle... after he went garbage picking, found a chicken bone, took it under the bed to hide from us while eating it, and then growling (a seriously evil growl) when we'd lift up the bedskirt and catch him in the act.
Majerle died about 3.5 years ago and we miss him. RIP Mar Dog!

(And you too Michael Jackson.)

Flashback Friday

2009-06-13T13:23:00.003-07:00

(a day late - it's Saturday already!)

About 4.5 years ago... the grandkids of my family before Roxy came along:
The saddest thing about this picture is that it was the best one of all the different shots that were taken. Riggs and Jax look cute but I won't even start on Ellie and Noah!!!!!!!

G-ma's house

2009-06-09T21:02:00.005-07:00

Sometimes Noah & I "granny-sit" and sleep over at Grandma Riggs's house. This last weekend we had a little fun after Grandma went to bed.

I've always thought her hydraulic chair was funny because of the way it looks when it's in the highest position (to my mom/sisters - kind of reminds me of the Wal-Mart greeter's shoes). Noah loves the chair. It's his second favorite toy at her house, the fart machine takes first place though. All you do is push the remote and the chair lifts you up.

The series of pictures is like watching a video...

1. Chair in the down position

2. On it's way up

3. Getting higher...

4. Then it spits you out. I can't not laugh when I look at this pic. Imagine if it really spit grannies out!

5. The landing - just look at the back side of the chair up in the air. I don't know why that's so funny to me but I am LOL by myself right now.

Flashback Friday

2009-05-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

I don't have much to update my blog with... so I'm jumping on the Flashback Friday bandwagon.

This week the theme revolves around some trips to DisneyWorld since June 1st is just around the corner...

Back in 1996 my family took our first trip there during the "national gay and lesbian" holiday... which is June 1st and was being celebrated at the Disney theme parks. We saw so many people wearing red shirts that read "a day of magic, a night of pleasure". Nasty! But it was a memorable trip... we LOVED the Tower of Terror ride which is what we're on in this picture (we might have been posing). Back then it was just 7 members in our family.

Fast forward exactly 10 years later (2006) ... 16 members in the family and we went back to DisneyWorld. I crack up every time I see this picture. We were all crammed in this van in the hot and humid Florida weather. Good times! We were like sardines, but you gotta say it "sardine-yuz". This pic only shows half of the family but we ALL had matching red shirts on, in honor of the holiday - it was actually really nice to spot each other throughout the day and nobody got lost.

And just for the fun of it here's a REALLY old pic of us at Disneyland. We were so young!

It's that time of year where I'm itching to go somewhere - I need to get out of town and a theme park is sounding really fun!!

I love things like this:

2009-05-28T19:14:00.004-07:00

For Mother's Day Noah made me a book at preschool. I loved the answers he gave to the following questions:

My mom really loves to: KISS ME

My mom always says: CAN YOU PLEASE PULL THE WEEDS

My mom and I like to: GO TO GRANDMA'S

My mom is beautiful because: SHE WEARS DRESSES

My mom is 29 years old

Noah's answers were all right on! I really do love to kiss his cheeks; his job while I clean the house is to pull the weeds; we spend most of our time at "grandma's"; he always tells me "Mom you look cute" when I'm getting ready for church (I guess he likes me in dresses); and unfortunately he was right about my age too.

Graduation Week

2009-05-17T11:17:00.005-07:00

We attended 3 graduation ceremonies this week.

First up, Ellie and Noah graduated from "Grandma Cheryl's" preschool!

This was Noah's 6th grade "buddy" that helped him at preschool.

Grandma Cheryl is really Ellie's grandma but Noah claims her as one of his too!

Next up... Ellie and Noah graduated from Ms. Rebeccah's preschool.

They sang all their songs for us with the actions and all!

Each student got to talk in the microphone and tell what their favorite part about preschool was. All the kids were saying "water day" so I thought for sure that Noah would say the same thing. Nope! He got up there and said that his favorite part was when they went to Krispy Kreme. Him and I must be related!

Ms. Rebeccah was the best! Ellie and Noah loved her and she put so much time into making preschool so fun for them. Ms. Lauren was the assistant and Noah loved her too.

And finally... Alisse graduated!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She looked so cute and did a great job on her speech at the ceremony.

I've gotta mention that Scott graduated too (so cool for both of them to be DONE with school)!

We just didn't attend any graduation ceremonies for Scott - ASU = too hot and crowded! Here's Noah acting like a teenager at Alisse's graduation. He was a little booger, LITERALLY!!! Not only did he act like one, but he has a wart on his nose and Alisse's classmate came up to him and told him "you have a booger on your nose". I couldn't stop laughing. Then Auburn kept calling him "boogs" and I really couldn't stop laughing.

Noah was NOT a happy boy as you can tell by this picture. It makes me laugh though.

To celebrate Alisse's graduation - we had a fun day on Friday that included laying out, driving to Scottsdale just to get some yummy SPRINKLES cupcakes, working on some crafts, and BOOT CAMP as seen in the picture below. We really did work out hard to treat ourselves to those cupcakes! Even Ellie and Noah got in on the action.

CONGRATS to Ellie and Noah, but especially ALISSE AND SCOTT!!!!!!! What a great accomplishment to graduate from college! They've gotta be loving life right now.

Swing batter batter, SWING!

2009-05-02T12:14:00.003-07:00

Noah the gymnast

2009-05-02T12:04:00.009-07:00

Last weekend Noah got to participate in the "preschool show" at USA's mini-meet. It was fun to see what he's been learning with his favorite coaches, Aunt Auburn & Aunt Suzy.

That night we went to a benefit concert and got to watch Ellie perform with her dance team, as well as see the Phoenix Suns Gorilla show us some great tricks! It was a fun day!

Pretty proud of myself!

2009-05-02T12:02:00.001-07:00

A couple weeks ago I did Pat's Run with my good friend Vanessa. I set the goal to do this back in September, started training for it in January - and dreaded it more and more as it got closer... but it turned out really fun! I can't believe how many people were there - over 20,000 I heard. The actual race was a lot easier than training for it was - I kept thinking "if that person can do this, so can I"! And of course it was fun to be running with a big crowd of people.

Here's proof that I finished! I outlined myself - like I said I'm pretty proud that I actually did it!

And, the results... exactly in the middle of what my goal time was and what I guessed I would do!

I kept telling myself that once this race was done, so was I with running in events like this - and the 4.2 miles was the most I could ever do! But I think I might challenge myself and set a goal for the fall when the weather cools off. Thanks Vanessa for a fun time!

Springtime means...

2009-04-19T13:53:00.010-07:00

*EASTER

The Easter Bunny found our house and left Noah some goodies!

Us before church - we had a great program and I especially loved the music. I am so thankful for the Easter season and what it's really all about.

We had a family party after church and as you can see Noah participated in the egg hunt... but only has like 3 eggs in his basket.

It's because he was more interested in this thing (and pulling the basket in the trailer).

*The ZOO! The orangatans are really the only animals I care to see when I go there. Friday we went to the zoo and it was probably the last day of perfect weather to be there. We lucked out!

*T-Ball / Baseball / Softball Noah's doing great at t-ball. Go #24!

Noah's not the only homerun hitter in town...

And look how cute... yesterday all 3 boys had a game at the same time and I had to get a picture of them all in their uniforms! Riggs and Jax are also doing awesome in baseball!

Long time, no post!

2009-03-30T20:09:00.012-07:00

(My excuse is that we've been having too much fun...)

*Ellie spent the night with us on her birthday eve... ...so I got to tell her about the day she was born when she woke up the next morning - and then doll her up! She's the cutest 5-year old girl I know!

*Noah got to play with some goats...

...and take some quad rides when we met Conley's family.

Oh yeah did I mention who Conley was? Ha ha how could I forget to introduce him to my blogger friends? I'll admit that he's the reason I haven't "had time" to update my blog!

*We attended Ellie's birthday party where a bunch of girls (and Noah) got to rotate through 5 stations of hair, make up, nails, crafts, and decorating cupcakes. It was fun and I was in charge of the "craft" table. It was a fun day! The party was a red-carpet event with all these princesses... ...so Noah was needed as security! "STAY BEHIND THIS LINE LADIES!"

(At the hair station Noah got some blue gel put in his hair.)

Look how cute all these girls (and officer Noah) were!

*This past weekend we took a little trip to Pinetop. This is what was going on in the backseat...

...and this in the front. It was such a fun weekend to have nowhere to be and just hang out.

We just played baseball...

...met some of Conley's friends...

...and golfed (well actually all I did was watch and shiver... I was freezing)! Even Noah met a new (girl)friend! She's so cute!

My box full of items to destroy is finally out of my house, thanks to the professional fire-builder.

Taking a nap was AWESOME!! I would have felt like I wasted so much time doing that at home! Obviously Noah & Conley enjoyed a nap too!

So that's just some of the highlights from the month of March. It's been fun!

California Girls Trip!

2009-03-08T00:10:00.012-07:00

Last weekend we took a trip to Newport Beach with most of the girls in the Riggs family. From the second we leave home and start the road trip, we have so much fun. I swear, the car ride is one of the funnest parts of it all. We played some i-pod "name that tune"...

... and danced...

... "If You Wanna Be My Lover" was playing when I took this picture ... you know the part 'slam your body down and WIND IT ALL AROUND' - Suzanne is demonstrating the move that goes with that part of the song.

We headed out Thursday afternoon, got to Alma's house late that night, and lounged around for a little bit Friday morning. My sisters & I took a little jog (I wish AZ had the same weather as California - it was so nice) - then after jogging we countered the exercise when we ended up at the donut shop somehow. But "all we got was 1 donut hole and split it". That's what Auburn told my mom anyway. Ha ha. Next was pedicures, lunch at Mario's, and shopping at Huntington. (Such a typical day for us when we get to go to Newport.)

Friday night everyone ate out together at El Torito (mmm). Just like every time before, someone told the waiters it was my Grandma's birthday (her b-day is really in December). She was caught off-guard, like always!

She's so cute and such a good sport about it!

This picture doesn't include everyone that was on the trip but dang it, we never took a picture with everyone!

After dinner we headed over to Balboa to get some frozen yogurt. It was my first time to try Tutti Frutti and it was really good! I have to say I'm not obsessed with it like Suzanne is - but it was definately worth the trip. That night we went back to the house and played "Loaded Questions" with everyone... good times! Then after that some of us played the i-pod "name that tune" game again - it was a late night!

Saturday morning we went to the Orange County Swap Meet. As you can tell, trips like this are all about the food. At the swap meet we enjoyed churros, ice cream, cinnamon rolls, carnitas, and lemonade. FYI we spent most of the day there... that's how we fit in all the food items that we couldn't leave without.

Saturday night we went to California Pizza Kitchen.

We missed the girls that had to leave early and aren't in these pictures!

And Sunday we headed home after getting a picture with my Grandma! She was so happy to have us all together last weekend. The night we got there she was beaming, SO excited when we got to the house. I loved seeing her so happy!

I live for weekends like this, seriously! When Christmas was over this was my next big thing to look forward to. Now what? I had so much fun being with my family... I owe a BIG thanks to a few people:

*My MOM for the trip - it was a Christmas gift she gave to my sisters and I.

*Lance for watching Noah when I was gone. I knew he was having so much fun and "partying" all weekend, which allowed me to have fun and not worry about him being sad and wanting me.

*Aunt Alma for allowing us to stay at her house. It's perfect and so fun to be in the same house with everyone.

'Til next time!

Kids say the funniest things!

2009-02-24T13:21:00.002-07:00

*Last night we read “Just in case you ever wonder” by Max Lucado for FHE and had a little talk about Heaven. Afterward Noah said “Mom when we go to heaven I want to sit by you.” I just got tears in my eyes typing that. It was so sweet!

*On Saturday I found a scorpion on the wall in our house and my on-call exterminator wasn’t home (Scott, you’re busted!). I called Suzanne to see if she would come over and get it. She refused, but put me on speaker so her and my mom could give me some moral support. (My mom is the best and was serious about coming over to get it for me even though she’s probably just as scared as me.) Anyway as I’m on the phone with them I said “I wish I could think of another guy to call to come and get this”. (I was meaning someone in my neighborhood.) So anyway I did get the scorpion finally but my point is that about 45 minutes later, we were in the car and Noah said “Mom, you wish you could call that guy you went on a date with to come and get the scorpion, hah?”

*Speaking of going on dates - a few weeks ago we were shopping at Old Navy and I picked up this pair of shoes. For some reason Noah said “Mom, you want to get those shoes so you can go on a date with Jason?” (He’s talking about The Bachelor Jason.)

*Noah got new primary teachers a few weeks ago and I couldn’t remember what their names were. This past Sunday as we were getting ready for church I asked Noah if he remembered their names. He said, “Mom, it’s a woman and a man”. I was cracking up - since when does he use the word WOMAN?

*About a month ago I was getting ready for bed really late and was putting some pajamas on Noah. I tried to do it as he was sleeping but he woke up and stayed wide awake until I went to bed. I said “We’re saying really short prayers tonight” and Noah said back, “Mom, just pray for the missionaries”. When I was done with my prayer, Noah said his and the ONLY thing he prayed for was “Please bless that my mom will get married soon.” Desperado! (both of us)

*A few weeks ago I got mad at Noah and threatened him with who knows what… he started crying and saying “Mom, I care about you!”

I love my Noah boy. He makes every day happy for me!

Last weekend

2009-02-22T13:00:00.003-07:00

With President’s Day being this past Monday, I had the day off. I LOVE short work weeks (until pay day comes of course). It was a fun day… my mom, my sisters, and all the kids in our family met up at Auburn’s house with our bikes. (My license plate doesn't match the rest because my old matching one had to be replaced with one that said Noah... but I'm hoping to get a new matching plate for my bike soon.)

From there we rode over to Discovery Park, and had some fun…

Props to everyone who was brave enough to go down these hills, including all the kids except Roxy. Auburn told me that Noah even went down the “whoop-de-woos” on Jaxen’s bike a few weeks ago - it’s funny that my 4 year old is a lot braver than me! I went down a few times but was braking for most of the time - it might have something to do with a crash on my bike from my childhood (going down the cement hill in Harmony Park for all my old neighbors that know what I’m talking about)!

Anyway it was a perfect day outside for a bike ride. Too bad both me and Auburn’s cheap bikes had to be rescued by Bryan - good thing we were all ready to take turns going for a jog. It’s just a matter of time before Suzanne’s tires pop too - we all got our bikes for about $70 at Sam’s Club a few years ago - and we’ve been told a few times that “you get what you pay for”. Sad, but true.

The bike ride / jog was nice, the park was fun, lunch at Long John Silvers / Taco Bell was yummy, the weather was perfect, and the company was even better than all that! My family is the best!

I’m excited for ANOTHER short work week coming up real soon… cuz we’re going going back back to CALI and I can’t wait!

Brad turns 20 today!

2009-02-18T08:15:00.006-07:00

I kind of quit doing birthday shout outs on my blog but I had to for Brad's 20th birthday. Not because he ever sees my blog - but because I am so proud of what he's doing and wanted to share these cute pictures...

This is a couple that Brad has been teaching the gospel to in Brazil. Their names are Fabio and Samara, and Brad has said that they are like his best friends, and obviously they LOVE him too - they named their cat "Sherwood" after him.

Brad baptized Fabio and Samara either last night or he will be tonight I think... but first they had to get married. So this is them on their wedding day. Brad helped it all happen as you can see. He was there to sign the documents and I'm sure he helped pay for it like missionaries usually do in missions like where Brad is serving.

Brad seems to be really happy right now. He's been through some tough times on his mission and I'm sure there will be more, but the letter he sent a few days ago made me think that he is so happy and loving it. I am so proud of him and the decision he made to serve a mission. He has such a strong testimony and loves the Lord. I love that he is setting a great example for Noah but it scares me how quickly kids grow up. I still remember details about the day Brad was born and when he was a baby. Remembering things that happened 20 years ago makes me feel really old. Before I know it, Noah will be Brad's age and hopefully serving a mission who knows where!! Oh boy that thought scares me - but if Noah turns out like Brad I won't have much to worry about!

Calendar Boards

2009-02-13T11:08:00.013-07:00

More new items have been added to our website - I LOVE these products from A la Board - ALL IN ONE dry erase & magnetic calendar boards, not to mention a nice decoration for your home!

Here's an overview of the many options we're offering at She's Got It All:

Weekly Calendar Boards in 2 different styles and 2 different frame colors (black or brown)

Small Monthly Calendar Boards in 2 different styles and 3 different frame colors (black, brown, or cream)

Medium Monthly Calendar Boards in 3 different styles and 3 different frame colors (black, brown, or cream)

The Calendar and Memo Magntic Collection comes in 5 different styles

The Holiday Packages will have your home looking festive for each holiday... here are some examples of the Valentines Package and the Easter Package but there's currently 6 different holiday packages available.

The Color Packages dress up the calendar boards and are cute for year-round display (available in brown, red, and cream).

Also I L♥O♥V♥E these little Heart Magnets... a little late for Valentine's Day but I would keep them up all year long anyway!

Cute Jewelry

2009-02-04T14:03:00.003-07:00

We are now carrying Sweet Shoppe Jewelry on our website (www.shesgotitall.net).

Check it all out by clicking here.

*chunky bracelets
*dogtag necklaces
*charm bracelets
*corsage bracelets
*earings

Bunco Par-tay!

2009-02-02T20:55:00.003-07:00

Last week some friends & I had our first bunco night!

This table was the place to be - the winners' table. I've gotta brag and say that I spent a lot of time there and ended up with the most wins!!!!

(Kristin, Suzanne, & Amber)

(Amy, Vanessa, & Lexi)

(Amber, Kami, & Vanessa - at the "losers' table" if you will - aka my ottoman)
(Cara, Kristin, & Amber in the background - she is so funny)

So Suzanne & I were the hosts for this first time around, and guess who the winners of the night were? Yep - me & Suz! She won for most buncos & as I said I had the most wins. So we took home the prizes we supplied!

We also did a little $5 gift exchange which was fun - Lexi ended up with Bingo cards and in this picture she's scratching off her cards to find she was a $10 winner!

Vanessa ended up with a calendar that had pictures of Christ - now could these 2 gifts be any more opposite? (Lexi the gambler & Vanessa the spiritual one of the group). We had so much fun! I don't know why we've waited so long to start up this group. Staying up sooooo late with friends and getting only about 3.5 hours of sleep that night was well worth it! My cheeks literally hurt from laughing so much. I love hanging out with my friends and I can't wait til the next time!

Weekend Update

2009-01-26T20:18:00.006-07:00

I seriously have nothing exciting to update so instead I'll clear the pictures and the latest video from my camera!

This past weekend I cleaned my house SO good, you would think I was nesting or something. Not only did I deep clean my house but I organized closets, steam cleaned my carpets, swept out my garage, vacuumed my car... for anyone still reading - I know, you're yawning. But I really do love those kinds of weekends - a clean house with vacuum lines and clean sheets on the bed is something I LOVE!

Noah kept himself entertained... I found ALL of his little cars lined up in his room for "the big race" on the race track. I got my camera out and ended up video-ing the big race.. it's cute:

Noah also kept himself entertained with my camera - he said "Mom I took pictures of my kitchen". It's funny because he made sure to take pictures of both sides of the kitchen. I don't know what he thought the purpose was, I think he was just excited to have the camera. He also took pictures of me cleaning the house and as he did so, said "Mom, make a silly face", cuz that's what I said to him when the camera was on him.

On Sunday Noah gave a talk in Primary and since he did so good, today we took a little trip to Toys R Us to get the sword I promised him. I normally don't take him out in public in his b-ball clothes but this was right after his practice today.

I hate when the weekends are over but there is one thing to look forward to on Mondays - my show! I am loving The Bachelor and it's kind of pathetic. My picks for Jason since the first show have been Molly and Melissa and I think those two are still my favorites.

So basically, nothing exciting has happened at our house except some good reality t.v. - now that's pretty sad!

Noah lately...

2009-01-17T10:49:00.007-07:00

Noah loves coloring pictures or writing me notes like the one seen here. He is so proud when I tell him how much I love it. I thought he looked so cute this night in his jammies.
Noah is loving this race track his daddy got him for Christmas. It really is pretty cool and his cousins thought so too.

We had a sleepover at my parents' house one night with all the kids and the girls... it looks like the kids fell asleep riding a roller-coaster with their hands in the air!

I came home from work one day and Noah was riding Ellie's old bike without training wheels. Aunt Suzy taught him how. I need to get a picture of him on his yellow "big boy bike" that has since had the training wheels removed. I can't believe how quick he caught on and can ride his bike so good. On New Year's Day him & I talked about goals and he told me his goals were to 1) Learn to ride his bike, and 2) Play basketball. Well January 2nd is the day he learned to ride a bike without training wheels - so he didn't waste any time! I wish I was as good at accomplishing my goals.

Noah's goal of playing basketball didn't come as easy... at the first game he cried like a baby for the first half and wouldn't go play with his team.

He finally decided to go in at the second half, but was still a little hesitant.

He looks happy as can be here, but that's mostly because he's definatley a poser when the camera comes out.

Noah is so good at keeping his hands up in the game... even when one of his teamates have the ball! It took him some courage to get out on the court, but once he was out there he was lovin it! In the video below you can see how much fun it is to watch a bunch of 4 and 5 year olds play basketball!

Here's my latest pic of Noah. I think he had an infection in the tissues around his eye, but it's getting better now. When it looked like this I thought of him as "One-eyed Willy".

My Boyfriend's Back!

2009-01-05T10:15:00.002-07:00

I am so excited for The Bachelor to be starting again tonight. I ♥ Jason!

After-Christmas SALE!!

2008-12-31T18:20:00.001-07:00

We're discounting our Christmas items and hoping to get rid of it! All items are available for pick up and some are even available to be shipped - see our featured items for more info!

The prices I'm listing on my blog are the prices for if you pick up the item(s) from Suzanne or I. If you see a different price on the website, that's the price for shipping it to you.

Santa's magic key $5
Santa's compass & key $4 Present Platters $12.75
large 24" candy canes $5 each {as is}

Decorative Cones $33.75 for the whole set

Decorative Cardboard gift boxes $33.75 for the whole set

Ball ornaments in pink, green, and red $3 each

Matching present ornaments in pink, green, and red $4.75 each

Red & white ball ornaments $6.75 for the set of 6

Tree ornaments or present toppers $3.75 eachSanta & Me Frame $14.25

Santa Baby Frame $21

Polka Dot Frame $15

Believe Frame $21

Red & Green Metal Present Decorations $18 for the set of 3 Stocking Holders $13.50 eachMatching present ornaments $4.75 each

Contact Suzanne or I if you're interested or have any questions about our sale items: customerservice@shesgotitall.net

Christmas 2008 Recap

2008-12-26T21:43:00.013-07:00

Noah's preschool class put on "The Gingerbread Man" play. It was so cute! Noah was part of the "chorus" as he called it...

Noah & I took a drive through a decked-out neighborhood in Gilbert to see the Christmas lights - and Santa was sitting outside this cutest house with candy canes to give the kids. It was so cute.

I took Noah shopping at the dollar store and he got to pick out presents for his cousins and his dad. It was pretty funny. I think the funniest thing was when he picked out a flute recorder for his dad. I let him wrap the presents all by himself and he set up a little workshop to get all his gifts wrapped!

We had a "formal" progressive dinner with my family a few nights before Christmas. We started out at the Gibbons' house for appetizers. What an attractive family! I couldn't get over Roxy's outfit - so cute!

Here's the "kids' table" at the next stop - my parents' house. (Riggs & Jax have graduated to the adult table.) Suzanne & my mom put together the main course and it was delicious!! Salad and breadsticks from Olive Garden + homemade soup. mmm!

We then went to my house for dessert then over to Alisse & Scott's for hot chocolate and a program. Alisse taught the kids "Silent Night" in sign language and they put on a little program for us.

BFF's

Cutest Brothers

Jaxen & Ellie at "the prom"

More BFF's

Christmas Eve was fun - first Noah sprinkled "reindeer food" outside so they would be sure to stop at our house.

Next, Noah got to open up one present. My plan was for him to have some cute pajamas to wear to bed so that our pictures the next morning would be cute... as you'll see in later pictures - not so much. (He took his pajamas off as soon as we woke up the next morning and put his basketball clothes on instead.)

Noah wrote Santa a letter, just to remind him one more time that he wanted a BIG BOY BIKE for Christmas.

He set out the letter with some of Santa's favorite kind of cookies.

The next morning... Noah found exactly what he wanted from Santa!

Uncle Scott is definately a keeper - he adjusted the seat and the training wheels for Noah, helped him get the hang of it, and let's just say he took on the role of one of Santa's elves this year. THANKS SCOTTY!

Noah was loving his bike. When we went back inside and started getting dressed in warmer clothes... he said "Mom, I'll be right back. I have to go downstairs and make sure my bike didn't tip over." He just had to get another look at it! We headed over to my parents' house and found out that Ellie & Roxy also got bikes from Santa. It was fun for the 3 of them to ride together.

Also at my parents house, we all got to talk to our missionary Brad! Each person got their own turn and it was so good to hear his voice.

The best part of our conversations with Brad was when he was telling us how him and his companion wanted some "food american". He is starting to forget how to speak proper English!

Everyone was spoiled over at my parent's house. They are so generous and make Christmas so much fun for everyone. I just love being together on Christmas day and seeing the kids give a hug to someone after each present they open.

The stockings are a fun tradition... that's what we're doing in this picture.

This year we gave each other home-made gifts and I loved it. Each one was so meaningful and took time for each person to put together. I don't have a picture of that but I know my blogger sisters took some!

I also don't have a picture to document the rest of my Christmas day, but it was perfect! Dinner + a movie + a card game with {a really cool person} = a great ending to a fun Christmas day!

Thanks to everyone who made this Christmas so special for Noah & I. I am so thankful for this time of year and for our Savior Jesus Christ. Remembering His birth and His life is what makes this time of year so special. One of my favorite traditions of Christmas is singing the hymns at church because it helps me remember the true meaning of what Christmas is all about.

I'm not doing Christmas cards this year - PART 2

2008-12-18T09:07:00.006-07:00

Consider this post a Christmas card from me & Noah! I love so many pictures that I couldn't pick just one - so this would be a giant Christmas card.

My sister Alisse is an awesome photographer ... and I think I have the cutest kid in the world so with those 2 factors I have been loving these pictures of Noah at 4 years old.

This first one is my very favortie because I LOVE kissing Noah. I swear, I cannot pick him up without kissing his cheeks. Every night before turning off the light he lets me kiss his cheeks without pushing me away. Sometimes he says "Mom, you can kiss me twenty thousand million hundred times."

(That was much quicker & easier than gathering addresses but I still LOVE getting Christmas cards in the mail so thanks to all of you that have sent one to us!)

Cowgirl Christmas Dance

2008-12-13T09:35:00.002-07:00

We had a girls' night out at the barn a few nights ago!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I can't get enough of the elf dances... this one is by far my favorite!

I'm not doing Christmas cards this year

2008-12-12T10:58:00.003-07:00

... so here's a little treat for you instead.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Merry Christmas!
Love, Shalae & Noah (and my new elf husband)

enjoy the music

2008-12-04T11:08:00.004-07:00

The Christmas season officially started on Thanksgiving morning when I blasted the Kenny & Dolly Christmas cassette tape throughout my parents house. I love it! It's so old but I'm sure you'll love it too.... turn your volume up! I also love the Mariah Carey Christmas album. Noah is already sick of it because it's constantly playing in my car - particularly #3 (Oh Holy Night).

I ♥ Christmas music!

November Highlights

2008-11-29T21:32:00.003-07:00

November has been a GREAT month!

Not so much for the fact that I turned {29} but we've been up to a lot of fun.
And by fun, I mean going out to eat 6 times within 4 days and getting "free dessert" 4 of those times... not to mention my family making my choice of dinner within those same 4 days.

This picture shows how much I love dessert - I forgot to blow out the candle before digging in! A few weeks before my birthday, I told Noah it was coming up. He said he was going to give me his old remote control quad because it was broken. Sure enough, on my birthday he asked me if I could help him wrap something. He went to his toys and pulled out the broken quad and it's remote control. He picked out the black & white wrapping paper because it was "like speed racer flags". So I helped him wrap up his gift to me and then he said "mom don't look inside, k?"

That night we celebrated at my parents' house and Noah brought his present with us. When I opened it up he was so proud, as if my "surprised" reaction really meant that I didn't know what was going to be inside. There he is holding up the broken quad.

I don't have pictures to document my mom's birthday but her's was just 5 days after mine and guess what? We got to go out to dinner AGAIN! I love my mom - she is the best. For her birthday she wanted us all to go to the temple together. Our family is what means the most to her and it shows in everything she does. She serves me every single day and many of my goals in life revolve around being more like her in so many ways.

Next of course was Thanksgiving. It was a fun but exhausting day! Suzanne & I got up early to jog in the neighborhood turkey trot and I am still so sore! Suzanne has been training for a 1/2 marathon & is up to 9 miles. Me on the other hand, I hadn't made time to work out for 2 weeks and it was so HARD keeping up!

We had a small Thanksgiving this year but it was still nice! We definately missed Auburn's family who went out of town - the 'little kid table' looked kind of empty with just Ellie & Noah.

I didn't waste any time getting my house decorated for Christmas. I started Thanksgiving night and finished the next morning. Noah was so excited to help decorate the tree. He's so good about putting all the greens together, all the reds together, and all the icicles together. That's just how things should be in his mind.

So there's a recap of our past few weeks at least. It's been a good couple of weeks and there's even more higlights that I didn't document. ;)

I can't believe it's almost December!

Holiday Boutique!

2008-11-25T11:25:00.000-07:00

Santa's workshop

2008-11-13T14:11:00.003-07:00

A few weeks ago after Sunday dinner, each person in my family cut out a paper "decoration" to send Brad in Brazil. Even my brothers-in-law and all the kids got involved.

The reason I'm posting about it is just to tell a funny story...

As Jaxen was writing on his decoration, he asked Auburn how to spell SANTA so he could write "Santa's Workshop" on it. She told him but then when we wrote it, he mixed up a few letters - so it said "Satan's workshop". How inappropriate to send a missionary! We were all laughing and later Auburn said "I can't get that song out of my head - {and then she started to sing to the tune of "Santa Baby"} - "Satan Baby".

It might be one of those "you had to be there" stories but I thought it was SO funny!

Halloween 2008

2008-11-07T19:18:00.004-07:00

Noah was a police officer for the "City of Toyland" (that's what the badges said)

We took the kids to see my Grandma before the actual trick-or-treating began.

My nieces and nephews were all so cute - here they are in character from left to right:

Officer Noah Hunt; Elder Riggs Gibbons; Jax Gibbons of the JACKSonville Jaguars; Ellie Cummard as Shirley Temple; and Roxy Gibbons as Aerial (sp?).

Halloween was lots fun and Noah had a blast trick-or-treating with Ellie in my parents' neighborhood.

Cute stuff!

2008-10-30T17:32:00.002-07:00

My friend Jessica has a new blog with CUTE STUFF! Check it out by clicking here.

I think my very favorite thing is this maternity journal: (Where was this 5 years ago?)

She also offers customized notebooks for whatever - a simple notebook, a journal... they make cute gifts and they're cheap too!

(You'll have to check out her blog for her wedding reception guest books too.)

Jessica also does custom frames...

... AND photography.

Her blog is called Little Moments - Lasting Memories. Check it out!

http://www.littlemoments-lastingmemories.blogspot.com/

Future Missionary

2008-10-27T09:13:00.002-07:00

Like I've said before on my blog - Noah LOVES the missionaries that live at my parents' house. On Saturday Noah was eating his lunch in the backyard and next thing we know, the missionaries were sitting on the ground with him - they had taken their lunch out back to eat with him. It was the cutest thing. I opened the door and told Elders Poole & Welling "you guys are so nice". They said "That's because we like Noah." These elders also made an appearance at Noah's birthday party last week and Noah was so proud. Just look at Noah's face in this picture (below) - he idolizes the missionaries, and cries when they have somewhere to go and have to stop playing with him.

Someday Noah is going to be a missionary, just like these elders and Uncle Brad. This is a picture of him yesterday before our ward's Primary Program. Although I was cracking up at Noah's SHOUTING instead of singing during "I love to see the Temple" and "Called to Serve" (he could be heard above everyone else) - I was so nervous as I watched him be a little irreverant up on the stage. This was his first Primary Program - so my first time to know what the parents in the audience feel like, nervously watching their kid's behavior and not being able to do anything about it! But I still loved seeing Noah share his little testimony through the songs he loves to sing! He will be a great missionary someday.

Noah's birthday week report

2008-10-24T13:30:00.014-07:00

Besides his 1st birthday, this is the first time we did a party for Noah. He really wanted a race car cake like one we saw at Bashas... but the one on Crystal's blog was much cuter (and way cheaper to make too). So my mom made this cake (among many other things she did to help me with the party) and Noah LOVED it! It turned out perfect. We invited all of Noah's aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents and had a little get together at the park on the night before Noah's birthday. Noah knew this was HIS party and was in heaven all night.

Riggs, Cole, Jake, and Max

Grandma & Grandpa Hunt, Becky, Bettina, Laura, and the babies

Lance, Jax, SteveNoah opened his presents in about 4 minutes flat. I was stressing out because he opened them so fast that I didn't see who all the presents came from. Thank you to everyone! Noah loves everything and our house looks like Santa has been there!Cake & Ice cream - thanks again to my mom & Steve's mom who each made some really good homemade ice cream!

Noah could not get that last candle blown out. I think his cousin Cole helped him out! Steve, Bryan (Gibbons), Suzanne & Lance (the love birds)

Brian (Standage), my dad, Grandma Riggs, my mom

Kenny & Burkley
John & Pete

Noah & most of his cousins

Macy

Andy

John & Natalie's kids - they biked about 5 miles each way to & from the party... AND brought all the drinks for us. Thanks again guys!

Auburn & Jaxen

Noah with Grandma & Grandpa Hunt

Noah with Poppy & Grandma Vicki
Noah & EllieNoah and me (OK fine, I admit that we matched on purpose) We love making ugly faces!

(So does Suzanne & Ellie) The next day on Noah's actual birthday, he got to spend the day with his daddy. Steve made it a special day for him which I was so glad about since I had to be at work. Noah's hair didn't get combed though.After work I picked Noah up and took him out to dinner at Nielsen's Frozen Custard. Yummy! Then we went home and he opened up the presents I got him.

After opening his presents from me, we took most of his new toys out of the boxes and put batteries in everything that needed them. My house was a bomb to say the least! Noah is a line-er-up-er.

The morning after Noah's birthday, he had his 4-year old well-check up with the doctor. He is 90% in height & 50% in weight. His vision was perfect, he saw better with one eye than I did with 2 eyes, and I've had lasik surgery. I had the doctor check out a wart on his nose (that everyone thought was a booger) - and the doctor cut it off with medical scissors. That wasn't too fun, it took 3 people to hold him down. Then - he had to get 4 shots, two in each arm. He was balling, and telling me how bad it hurt. But later that night Noah told my dad that his wart got cut off and my dad asked "did it hurt?" Noah said "no". My dad asked "did you cry?" Again Noah said "nope!" LOL!

After the doctor I dropped Noah off at preschool with some birthday treats to give his classmates. I loved being able to drop him off at preschool and wish I could do it all the time. I have the best mom & sister in the world though and I have to tell Suzanne thanks for taking care of Noah for me all the time - more than she really has time for! Suz also helped get things ready for his party when I was at work that day. I seriously have the best family in the world. This week was kind of sad for me to not be home on the day of Noah's party and then again on his birthday - but I knew that no matter who he was with, they would make him feel special. Auburn normally would have had Noah on his birthday and I know she was planning on making it special for him so thanks to you too Auburn for helping me with Noah every week and making sure that he feels loved!

He IS so special, even though he is naughty a lot of the time! (Good thing he's cute.)
I can't say thank you enough to everyone that helped me out this week - and to everyone who came to Noah's party. He loved having everyone there and it was fun to finally give him a party that he will remember!

the zoo with Noah

2008-10-24T10:45:00.006-07:00

Last weekend I took Noah to the zoo. We met up with Vanessa for the ZOO WALK (Autism Awareness) and then walked around the zoo again after that, spending time looking at the animals. Noah requested to see: monkeys, zebras, rhinos, giraffes, elephants, and tigers.
We spent about 45 minutes at the orangutans. Noah missed his family since the last time we were there.We could both seriously watch them all day long. At one point I asked Noah if he was ready to move on (even though I wasn't - I just didn't want him to be bored) - and he said "not yet". The orangutans do the funniest things and I was afraid to miss something when we left.

Right here, the mom "Bess" was playing peek-a-boo with the baby "Kasih" (she's holding a blue towell).

Noah was begging me to ride the carousel before we left - so I “forgot” for a few minutes that I am pretty much too poor to even let him to do that, let alone buy a $3.75 ice cream bar. We splurged for about 5 minutes though! The funny thing is that we bought the ice cream bar to eat while waiting for the next carousel ride to open up, but it ended sooner than we thought it would. So I “held” Noah’s ice cream bar for him and (OOPSIE) - tried to sneak a few bites while he was on the carousel. He saw me taking a bite when it came around to the side I was waiting on, and he shouted “Mom, I said only one bite!”
After leaving the zoo, we got on a bus for a ride back to our car (we had to park ½ mile away for the zoo walk). Noah ran to the very back seat of the bus and him and I were “the cool kids”.

I’m so glad that we had a good reason to go to the zoo last weekend! It was a lot of fun for me to spend some quality time with Noah and to see him be so excited to see all the animals.

The LOVE of my life

2008-10-19T22:47:00.007-07:00

It's Noah's birthday week!

10/21/04 ... Noah was born! He was such a handsome baby with lots of dark hair.

He got his first haircut from Aunt Auburn at about 3 months old (he obviously didn't like it - he learned how to work 'the lip' pretty early).
... and his hair grew back blonde:This picture really makes me want to go back in time and snuggle up with him as a baby:This is the stage when Noah learned how to hold his own bottle... and started to get pretty chunky!This is a clip from my video camera of when he was learning how to crawl.When he was learning how to walk:Noah's first birthday: (look at his cankles!)
Noah found his old car seat about a year after being grown out of it... and loved for me to swing him in it - or take naps in it. Noah LOVES noodles! First day of playschool 2006 - perfect t-shirt for the occasion.2 years oldHe gets it from his mama: 3 years old
This was just about 4 months ago. Is he so handsome or what? I am so lucky to be Noah's mom. He makes me so happy! Sometimes he needs a major attitude adjustment - but I still wouldn't trade him in for anything or anyone else! I love my Noah boy and can't believe it's already been 4 years since he was born. Time has gone by way too fast, but at the same time - I can't remember what life was like without him in it.

Sunday Clothes - Fall Edition

2008-10-16T14:52:00.003-07:00

Noah completely dressed himself when he changed out of his church clothes this past Sunday. He's still wearing "basketball clothes" but adjusting for the cooler weather (which I am LOVING).

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Another funny thing he did... Last night Noah told me "your stomach looks fat mommy". I really didn't care (since I knew it did) - but I pretended to have my feelings hurt and told Noah that he shouldn't say that to girls. He replied "I don't mean you're fat, I just mean you're gonna have a baby."

What does a missionary look like?

2008-10-08T07:54:00.004-07:00

I thought this was too funny not to share…

We just figured out in the past couple of weeks that Noah can get our mail from the mailbox all by himself. (I love that I can just be lazy and sit in my car now!)

Last night on the way home from my parents’ house, I pulled up to the mailbox and gave Noah the key. He knows exactly which box is ours. I rolled down the window and he handed me the mail as he pulled it out. Here’s the funny part…

Yesterday this came in the mail:

As Noah handed it to me, he said “Oh mom, this one’s all about missionaries”. I was cracking up! I think he just had missionaries on the brain since he had just been playing in the backyard with some before we left my parents’ house. He LOVES them!

This Friday Night!

2008-09-29T20:55:00.006-07:00

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
6:00 - 8:30pm

(at my parents' house)

(if you don't know where that is...

e-mail me at customerservice@shesgotitall.net)

Gear up for fall with Halloween & Fall decor, a new purse, clothing for the season, and more boutique-exclusive items including:

*She's Got It All products
*J Purses & Tees
*Denim Lovers jeans
*Jewelry by the Bead Diva
*Funky Bums - vintage tees for children
*Bling Bling hair clips

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

We will also have a benefit raffle ticket sale - several GREAT prizes means SEVERAL WINNERS!!

*All proceeds from the benefit raffle will be donated to the Christian and Stephanie Rehab fund.

We hope to see you there, even if you come just for the sake of donating money to the Nielson family.

*We will only be accepting cash & checks.

*No children please - babies are OK!

Happy Birthday ...

2008-09-25T13:29:00.003-07:00

... to my other half!

We can finish each other's sentences, read each other's minds, start singing a song and then stop at the exact same time, ... and she's my business partner! Happy Birthday Suzanne!

(I know that when referring to your "other half" it usually means your spouse... but thanks for keeping me company Susan.)

I heart my family

2008-09-22T22:15:00.004-07:00

The perfect Sunday night is when EVERYONE has dinner together at my parents' house. Last night we were all there. I don't know why but I thought it would be fun to snap pictures of each person when they didn't expect it. Some people caught on and posed for pictures... including me. In case you havn't met my entire familia yet, let me introduce you to everyone expect Brad who's on his mission in Brazil.

RIGGS

DAD

BRYAN

AUBURN

ALISSE

SUZANNE
SCOTT
SHOULD I ADMIT THAT THIS IS ME?
MOM
LANCE
ROXY
ELLIE
JAXEN
NOAH - (it's Sunday again...basketball clothes are in effect)

I really do love my family more than anything. I'm not sure they'd say the same thing about me now though! "Oopsie"

good times...

2008-09-22T21:40:00.007-07:00

About 10 days ago I had a slumber party at my house! Well just Auburn's kids spent the night but before bedtime we definately partied!

Basketball in my family room = high stress level! I thought for sure something would end up broken. Luckily nothing did and the kids (Lance included) were loving it.

Pizza for dinner! It was just $5 Little Ceasar's but I think I still pulled off the "cool aunt" status!

Next was karaoke - and since I was videotaping - I didn't get any still shots (see Suzanne & Alisse's blogs if you really want to see any though). Suzanne did get me singing "my boyfriend's back". The funny thing about this is that before the party actually started - Riggs, Jax & I were all warming up. I was singing lots of "Grease" songs (ugly of course) and after each one I'd ask the boys if they thought I was good. They both said yes, just cuz they were trying to be nice. I guess they didn't get that I was kidding about it!Next we had milkshakes. I think Suzanne loved them more than anyone.
She's gonna kill me but I can't help myself...
Roxy opted for ice cream instead of the milkshake. Alisse also came to party with us!
Jax finished up Roxy's leftovers. He's just like me - he loves sweets!

Here's Riggs enjoying the dessert too.

On to a different topic. I have to share this story cuz I thought it was so cute. I was upstairs showering and getting ready one day and Noah was playing downstairs. When I came down, he was sleeping with his Book of Mormon laying next to him. He had gone upstairs and got it off his nightstand to read it I guess. I had to get a picture. I'm sending it to Uncle Brad cuz he will be so proud!
Noah likes to go to 'Piper Pizza' with his Hunt Family... and picks out the funniest toys with his tickets! He loves these 'Dracula' teeth. A couple of months back, he picked out a whoopie cushion and he calls it his "farter". LOL!
Typical Sunday afternoon... Noah wearing his "basketball clothes" that are way too small.

This is the funniest thing... at my mom's house, Ellie has this doll stroller that she uses as a way to transport all her toys from one end of the house to another. The other day her and Noah piled up so many things on the stroller - and I couldn't stop laughing.

I made Noah take it all back to where it came from and stuff kept falling out. If this picture is blurry it's because I was laughing too hard to keep the camera still while taking the picture.
Ha ha...

This past weekend I went with Suzanne to the Harmony Park ward retreat. Not that I'm in that ward anymore.. but I will always feel like I'm a part of it. We had the best time, from the drive up to the drive back. My mom was there too along with the funnest ladies. It was a short 24 hour trip but it was much needed. Suzanne & shared the bed in the "birdhouse" room.. and put the self-timer on our cameras to good use. During one picture Shellene walked by and we got caught taking pictures of ourselves!!

Several rooms in this 'gianormas' cabin had the theme of sunflowers.

Other rooms had animals on the wall along with axes and other 'spooky' things. Here is Mary sitting under the ax - she was hilarious and had some good ideas about filming a scary story in the cabin. Next time we go, we're taking video cameras!
This is me, Suzanne, Mary, and Shellene enjoying lunch at El Rey in Globe. We took the long way home and it was worth it. Mmmmmm! (Self timer was put to use once again.)
So that's what I've been up to over the past few weeks!

LOL !

2008-09-17T19:58:00.003-07:00

If you need a laugh... read on! (at least I thought it was funny)

This is a picture of a doggie sling that we sell on www.shesgotitall.net. It's for people who seriously spoil their little (I repeat, LITTLE) pets and treat them like a real baby.

Well on Friday I was checking our business e-mail on my lunch break... and this message was in the inbox:

"I am looking for a doggie sling like the one in your store. I have a Great Dane. What patterns do you have available? Thanks!"

I started to respond to the e-mail, not even noticing the "Great Dane" part. Then I stopped and said to my co-worker (Sherry) "do you think this is a joke..." (and then I read her the message). She was laughing so hard. In case any of you didn't know... Great Danes are HUGE!! I responded to the e-mail asking the customer how big their dog was. This was the response that I got within like 2 minutes of sending the reply:

"He's about 170 lbs. He's getting really old and it's hard to get around with him. Thanks!"

At that point I was crying tears cuz I was laughing so hard. Just imagine carrying one of these around in that sling:

I called my sisters and found out it wasn't any of them that sent the messages. I thought I knew for sure who it was by that time... someone that sits behind a computer and would totally do something like this as a joke and then respond to my message right away. So I decided to play along. Sherry came up with this reply:

"We have custom saddles available... maybe the dog could carry YOU around?"

I waited and waited for a reply... and it never came. A little bit later I asked who I thought the culprit was if he had anything to fess up to. He denied doing anything and I really don't think he did. So who sent us this e-mail? I hope it was meant as a joke (if not, oopsie for my reply!) but I am still wondering who the jokester is.

That was a good one. I still LOL about it when I think of someone trying to carry their 170-lb. Great Dane around in a sling.

in case you haven't heard...

2008-09-09T20:02:00.003-07:00

She's Got It All is having a FALL BOUTIQUE!! Mark your calendars for Friday night, October 3rd (6 - 8:30 pm). We're gonna have a lot of fun stuff there (that can't be ordered online) ... here's a sneak peak at some of the cute Halloween decor!

Details will be posted to the event calendar soon!

Looking for love...

2008-09-06T18:25:00.005-07:00

in all the wrong places I guess, because I've never met a guy like these ones. But if anyone comes across one, please let me know!

(P.S. I stole these pictures from another blog of someone I don't even know - found it by blog hopping. I would feel guilty if I didn't admit that.)

the past month in pictures:

2008-09-05T18:47:00.008-07:00

Over the past month, we've just been...

*reading scriptures

*celebrating birthdays - (Dad's & Bryan's at Fuddruckers)

(the girls love the "all you can eat" dipping sauces (and the shakes of course);

the kids love the games;Roxy is the cutest;
... and Lance loves having 2 wives. (We joke around about this cuz I am always with them on the weekends, and well... pretty much every other day of the week too. Thanks for letting Noah & I be part of your family Lance!)
*Suzanne & I took Ellie & Noah shopping for new school shoes

*Playing Twister (This is a typical thing for Lance to do with the kids. They LOVE him!)
*Starting preschool!
(Ellie & Noah both love it!)
*Dressing up in random clothes & accessories. (Noah has a police hat on with "pirate" accessories in his hands - fitting since he goes back and forth between being a policeman or a pirate for Halloween.)
*Playing dress up at Grandma's house where the only option is princess dresses

*I got to sub in Noah's primary class and he was so proud! This is him with the other boys in his class - they're all so cute - from left to right: Nathan, David, Spencer, Jaxon, Gavin, Noah.
*Swimming (in defense of myself, I got home from work and found Noah at the pool with Ellie's swimsuit on because he didn't think I had packed one for him that day. Supposedly swimming in his underwear wasn't good enough - he needed an actual SWIMSUIT!)
*We had lunch with the missionaries on Labor Day and to say Noah was in heaven is definately an understatement. He loves them, especially Elder Poole & Elder Masima who live at my parents' house.

*We watched Ellie perform at the Mercury game (doesn't she look like an olympic gymnast in this picture?)
(her mama got her all made up on the way)(cute)(Ellie was just getting warmed up on the way to the game) That's right, pregame entertainment - it's OK if at least half the audience in the arena were parents, grandparents, and AUNTS there to see the cute girls dance!
I outlined Ellie in this pic. She was so cute trying to get the crowd pump up!

She's was still dancing afterward!
Her mommy & daddy were so proud of her.
*We've also been dressing up as superheros (Uncle Brad would be so proud). Thanks Grandma Hunt for these jammies - Noah LOVES them - and so do I since when we wears them he says "Superman minds his mom, right?")
*Last night we went to Sweet Tomatoes with the Baldwins & Cummards. Scott & Noah were twinners!
In this picture Scott is saying, "dont take a picture, and DON'T put it on your blog." Oopsie, too late!
And finally - this picture had me laughing tears. Suzanne purposely smiled with food coming out of her mouth, but it ended up looking like she didn't know it was there.

Our family's theme for last night was: WE HEART BOO-FAYS. As we we were getting in bed last night, I was feeling the effects of the buffet & telling myself (as I always do) that I needed to start eating better. I asked Noah "do I look fat?". He took a good look at me and said "just your tummy". Believe me, he was being nice!

NieNie Day

2008-08-28T18:02:00.003-07:00

As most of you blog readers already know, today is Nie Nie Day.

My talented cousin Summer has a great deal going on until Sunday - to benefit the Nielson family.

Summer will design you a background and header for your blog - (or just one or the other) for ONLY $5 (and it all goes to charity).

Click HERE for more info!

Here's a sample of some of Summer's work - she is so good!

I'm definately getting a header made for my blog, I just need to decide what it should say. "Shalae & Noah" is so boring!

CUTE t-shirts!

2008-08-21T17:23:00.003-07:00

Now available from She's Got It All...

I LOVE these t-shirts! Click here to order!

P.S. - they're cute on girls too!

seriously SO funny...

2008-08-20T09:50:00.002-07:00

I know I'm a little behind on discovering this blog, but it SERIOUSLY makes me LOL.

What's funny is that when I read about the life of "TAMN" I think to myself that my blog is so typical of her pretend life. For instance, I've posted all about my "cutest son in the world" AND not only that, but uploaded pictures of my latest scrapbook pages / crafts I've done.

Oh well, I guess I'm a typical "Mormon Mom"! If you haven't seen TAMN's blog, you have to check it out, it's hilarious.

On any given Sunday afternoon...

2008-08-17T16:28:00.002-07:00

Noah can be seen wearing his basketball clothes (that are by the way, 2 sizes too small). On the ride home from church, every single time, he asks me if he can wear basketball clothes, and what can he eat for lunch? It's always a hard decision whether he wants a pot pie, spaghettios, or a corn dog.
Today was extra special because we found some shoes from Auburn's boys that fit Noah right now, so he got to wear new shoes AND basketball clothes. He loves Sunday afternoons since I let him dress himself and pick out what he eats for lunch. He is so funny!

August so far...

2008-08-13T20:46:00.009-07:00

it started out with my favorite - GIRLS' NIGHT OUT. We ate out at Johnny Rocket's, then we shopped, then saw "Mama Mia". It was so much fun, and even Ellie Girl got to hang out with us. I loved the movie and even more I loved hanging out with my best friends in the world! Dinner was hilarious, we were doing anything we could to get more milk-shakes (for free) when our child-size shakes were gone. Mmm, they were so good. The best was when Auburn asked the waiter if something was burning (it really did smell like it) and we thought that would get the manager to ask what they could do to make it up to us (we would have had a quick answer - more shakes!) The workers knew what we were up to and our plan failed (dang it). I think it's one of those "you had to be there" stories.

Imitating the girls who thought they were hot stuff at the beach...
Oopsie, I cut Alisse out of that first one.

Ellie & Noah are a crack-up. They wrote these letters to Brad and said they were going to mail them to him... so they walked out to the mailbox and put them in, hoping the mailman/lady would know where to deliver them to even though they weren't in envelopes.

The kids miss Brad but love the sticker chart with his picture on it.

Taking all the kids to Stapley Pool was fun too.
This picture is typical of Noah - he's all talk about doing scary things but when it comes down to it, he just can't. He must have walked to the edge of the diving board 3 or 4 times, and turned around every single time. But don't worry, I went off and it was a blast. But next time I need to wear a speedo brand swimsuit that stays up when you hit the water.
I wish I had Noah's brown skin - he's so lucky.

We were all so tired by the end of the day.

Last weekend was great too - Suzanne, Jennifer, & I got some scrapbooking / projects done. And who took this picture of us? Oh, Jennifer showed me that I had a self-timer setting on my camera. That alone made my night. It was so fun to set the camera, run to our seat, pose like we were getting important stuff done.... notice we're all laughing in this picture. But if you're a blogger - you KNOW that you have to get a picture to document anything important that you do so you can blog about it. Nobody else in the house was awake still to take a picture of us. Since I'm the only adult in my house most of the time, this self-timer setting is going to come in handy!! (just kidding)

Well I don't have much to show for 6 hours of scrapbooking, but keep in mind that some of the time was spent eating Costa Vida (yummy), talking about who knows what (actually Jennifer & Suzanne, you KNOW exactly what we talked about most of the time), staring at all my pictures and figuring out what to do...

Yes, the next 2 pages are all I got done that whole night - pretty pathetic but I actually like how they turned out. (Thanks to Angie for the inspiration on the first page!)

Finally, here's some random pictures of Noah from the past few days...

Some day he is going to kill me for putting pictures like this on my blog, but every time he dresses up I have to take a picture.

In this picture he's running away because he's too embarrased to pose for another picture.
With long hair he might pass for a girl in this one.
And... he's running away again. He loves dressing up but at the same time, knows to be embarrased that he's dressed like a girl. Especially when there's other guys around the house.
I love when he sleeps holding on to something, it's so cute.
Is he a fireman or a policeman? I just took this one as I was doing this post - he's keeping himself entertained!

We're excited for more fun this weekend - we get to celebrate 2 birthdays in my family - Happy Birthday Dad & Bryan!

Free Pets

2008-08-01T09:05:00.006-07:00

Only because I need to post something new...

When you work in an office all day, sometimes you need some excitement. Last week my co-worker forwarded me this e-mail about “free cats”. Since I couldn’t stop laughing at the pictures (but I hate forwarding e-mails), I just attached pictures randomly to e-mails I sent out during the day. I guess it’s because I was bored, but sending people the pictures was lots of fun. Oh yeah, sending one of the pictures by fax to Alisse was also fun.

Anyone want a free kitty?

One victim that received my cat attachemt sent this one back to me. It's seriously scary!

The funniest thing about this is that Auburn got my e-mail with the cat pictures and she replied with this sad but HILARIOUS story:

I am crying -laughing bcuz I told my boys that someone is giving free kittens away and asked if we should get one. They all said "yeah," so I told them to come pick out which one they would like. I could not keep a straight face as they were walking into the computer (all excited). When I started scrolling down, after the 1st one, Jax goes, "no." In a serious voice like he would pass on the first one, but let's see the next. I can't even write this e-mail cuz tears are streaming down my face laughing!!! After the next one they just looked at me all confused, like "Are you serious?" You had to be here bcuz now my stomach hurts and I can't stop laughing!!!

So then when I got Auburn's reply, I couldn't stop laughing at work. You know when you think of something that you can't keep a straight face about, and you're afraid everyone around you thinks you're crazy? That was me. Nobody knew what I was laughing about behind my desk, but I couldn't stop - I even had tears.

*Ellie likes to make the same face as the cat in the 2nd picture.
*Noah wants the cat in the 4th picture as his pet.
*All I have to do is look at the cat in the hoodie, and I can't help but laugh out loud. It's so ugly!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Mini 10-year reunion!

2008-07-15T21:02:00.004-07:00

I can't believe it was 10 years ago that I graduated from Mesa High School. I still feel like I'm the same age I was back then. Last weekend I had my friends over and I'm counting it as attending my 10-year reunion! I posted these pictures & sign on my door (as a total joke) and after I did it, I was embarrased in case any of my neighbors saw it and thought I was being serious.
We did some of our favorite things we used to do...

*we had Neds for dinner (our favorite place to go for lunch in high school, others included Coffee Plantation (yummy bagels), Zuka Juice (now it's Jamba Juice), and someone's house was always fun too.

*I got Mattas chips & salsa since that was our favorite restaurant on the weekends or when we ditched! (Back then the waiters & waitresses started charging us for chips when we asked for like our 8th bowl.)

*We brought lots of junk food to snack on - this is one of my favorite memories of 9th grade actually. Hanging out at Amy South's house was so fun, and there was always Recees peanut butter cups AND pringles.

Although we planned on putting a movie on & playing some games, this is all we did for 4 hours - sat at my kitchen table, looked at old pictures, laughed, and talked about lots of fun memories.
I warned my friends that I was posting on my blog... so hopefully none of them kill me for really doing it. I pulled out some old pictures and we recreated them!

This one in denim was in 9th grade, it's so hilarious! Back row: Amy, Kristin, Me, Cara Front: Lexi, Kami

And 13 years later... all of us together again. I told Lexi & Kami that they had to sit the same way, so they did. I was told to photo-shop some boots on Lexi too but since I already uploaded my pictures, I won't do that to you Lexi!

This next picture is from our Senior year, my sister Suzanne was one of the group. I loved going to MHS at the same time as her. It's been 10 years since this picture, but why did we think it was cool - even back then - to pose like this? I don't know, but I think we were just being dumb!

(Kristin, Me, Suzanne, Lexi, Vanessa, Cara) 10 years later...
And finally - the overalls phase!
Kristin & I had fun sitting backwards in our chairs...
Kristin is due ANY DAY with her 3rd baby! Good luck with everything Kristin!

Vanessa has 3 kids and her birthday is TOMORROW!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANESSA!!

Cara lives right by me, I wish I was home more to hang out since we live so close. She has one little boy - he's so cute!

Lexi has 2 cute kids, and is the only one married to the same guy who's in all of the dance pictures we were looking at!

Kami has 3 kids and I still can't get over how hard she made me laugh that night, we need to hang out more!

Amy also has 3 kids and is still just the same as she's always been - so funny! I was so glad she was able to make it at the last minute - it wouldn't have been the same without her.

And finally, Suzanne. She was part of so many good memories, her & I have always been good friends and I'm glad she helped me come up with the "98 was great" saying - so cheesy!

I had the funnest friends in Jr. High & High School. Every single one of them makes getting together fun in a different way.

Our trip to Newport Beach

2008-07-09T20:19:00.019-07:00

Last week I had the funnest time in Newport with my family, well at least all the girls & our kids. There's so many more memories than what I got captured on my camera, and that says a lot because I just downloaded so many pictures - I have too many favorites!

To start off the trip, we sat the kids down and had a talk with them about stranger danger and all the other rules for the week.
Auburn was already missing Bryan just hours after we got there!

Ellie & Roxy were dancing in the "condo" as Auburn called it - this was mine & Suzanne's "room" of the first house we stayed in (long, dramatic story) and where we turned our ipods up LOUD!
This is the only picture I took at the Orange Country swap meet - one rule of going there is that we get a churro (among lots of other food) - Noah loved it!
My sisters did the grocery shopping for the week on bikes. The first few days we were there, we weren't going anywhere in the cars! It took us hours to find parks and we decided we'd be taking the bus everywhere for the rest of the week. (How do people live there with that parking situation?) On Monday we moved to a new house and never ever had a parking issue for the rest of the trip. It was "awesome to the max".
The kids loving the ocean...

All 3 little kids in the bath together - that made for the sandiest bathtub ever!
PRECIOUS CARGO... (can you guess what's in the box?)
DONUTS & MILK... mmmmmmmmm!

Classic of Ellie - sitting in her "splits"

Brad (my brother on his mission) is going to love this picture:

Noah was so exhausted every night at dinner time...
Yes, he IS sleeping and stayed in this position forever!
...but he woke up in time to enjoy a tasty dinner at Knott's Berry Farm and take a picture on the chicken outside!

Noah could not be any happier than he was at the beach!

The last day on the beach, we took so many pictures - just in case we hadn't taken enough all week long.
Riggs - my 9 year old nephew
Jaxen - my 7 year old nephew
Aunt Leasy took Noah "surfing" -

...and she pulled the kids around for some fun rides on the boogie boards:

My niece Roxy (2 years old)

Another classic picture in the sand for Noah's Daddy-
I LOVE this picture:

Ellie & Noah are so cute in this one - Roxy wasn't very happy when we started taking pictures of all the kids...

... so Aunt Suzy pulled out the bribery candy / tic tacs!

Auburn was going crazy trying to get Roxy to smile. It was funny to watch but she didn't think it was very funny.
Finally, the bribes worked and Roxy put on a smile!
BFFs forever.

I made Noah & Ellie do the prom pose that my sisters & I love to do for pictures.

I love my buddy boy!

Alisse, the photographer of the family, took some really cute, clear pictures of the kids.

We watched fireworks from the sand - the beach and the streets of Newport were CRAZY on the 4th of July. The beach seriously wiped the kids out, every day!
Alisse brought her laptop with us - good thing, so my mom could stare at Brad's picture. So many times she would walk by the computer and say "Hi Brad" in the same tone she would say it when he got home from work before his mission. Every time she said it, it caught me off guard for a split second. Having the laptop was nice for the day I stayed in my pajamas til like 2:00 in the afternoon and blogged! I was too burnt to go out in the sun.
Here we all are right before getting in the cars to head back home. I was depressed. I looked forward to this vacation for so long and I already can't wait for the next one.
Thanks for making this trip possible for all of us mom! I love hanging out with my mom, sisters, Noah, and my nieces & nephews. It was heaven for one whole week!

Music

2008-06-20T09:24:00.002-07:00

Yes, I updated my music playlist.

And yes, I added the new NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK song (Summertime). I like it!

For my cousin, Raine - I also added "Tonight" by NKOTB. I have it on my ipod and think of you every time I listen to it (which is often). I also think of the time Auburn & I called the radio station one million times in one day to request it. That was probably like 15 years ago (or more), and I still love that song.

Secret Santa, whoever you are... THANK YOU!!

2008-06-12T08:27:00.003-07:00

For Christmas, **SOMEBODY** did the 12 days of Christmas to Noah & I. It was so much fun. The grand finale gift at the end was an IPOD NANO. I can't even say how much I LOVE IT!

Working out is much easier and funner to do now. While I'm at it - I have to also say thanks to my brother-in-law LANCE! Before Mother's Day, he told me what he was getting for Suzanne. When he told me he was getting her an armband for her ipod, I was so jealous! So - being such a thoughtful guy, he gave me one on Mother's Day too. And I love it of course.

So THANKS to Lance & **WHOEVER YOU ARE**!

Noah Girl & Tweety Bird

2008-06-08T21:12:00.002-07:00

2 random thoughts...

1) If I had a girl, this is what she'd look like: 2) You know you're obsessed with tweety bird when...
you buy a new car to match your collection.

My vote

2008-06-03T11:40:00.002-07:00

I'm into this season of the Bachelorette. I didn't think I would be - because as I watched the first episode, I didn't think any of the guys were cute. But they've grown on me. Deanna already kicked off my favorite - not that I got to see much of his personality, but I thought he was the cutest.

{CHRIS}- much cuter on the show than he is in this picture.

(My mom suggested that we take a trip to Dallas Texas to find him.)

From who's left - these are my votes from what I've seen so far:

{JASON} - He has a 3-year old son, but hey - that's not a bad thing!! (I would know)

{GRAHAM} - this isn't a great picture of him either, but he's cute on the show.

So, not that my vote matters, but I love reality shows like this and I can't wait to see who Deanna ends up with!

100 stickers!

2008-05-24T15:46:00.003-07:00

Like I said on my previous post, I did a reward chart for Noah. It took him 6 weeks to fill it up but 100 stickers aren't easy to earn when you're a 3-year-old boy! I'm so proud of him. It was so fun to let him put the last few stickers on. As soon as he did, we headed over to KB toy store (in the mall).
I had store credit that covered part of the cost, so I gave that and some cash to Noah for him to keep in his pocket.
He was like a "big boy" paying for his own scooter.
Noah was so happy - skipping through the mall on our way over to the toy store. As we walked in, he told the worker "I'm getting my own scooter". On the way out of the mall - he was telling everyone that he had his own scooter now so he didn't have to ride Ellie's "pink girl princess" scooter. I couldn't wait to put his new scooter to use - as soon as we got home, I changed my clothes to go jogging outside (doing it on my treadmill gets pretty boring & stuffy) - I was excited for Noah to have a way to keep up. Too bad he started crying to go home after only 4 minutes.

He really does love his new scooter though - it's gone everywhere with us for the past few days but I'm actually not sure who's house it's at right now - uh oh!

Time for a new post?

2008-05-18T15:43:00.005-07:00

We've been busy lately but don't have much to show for it! Here's a recap of our past couple of weeks - nothing too exciting.

We took Noah to a D-Backs game and he loved it!

Noah's been working on filling up this chart so he can get his very own "blue scooter". We started this about 6 weeks ago and it's worked pretty well for bribing him when he's naughty. It's also helped me to remember to reward him (with stickers) when he's good. I purposely kept a blank row on the bottom all week long, because Noah had a talk in church today and I wanted him to know that if he did his talk like we practiced all week, I'd put 10 stickers on the bottom and go to the store tomorrow to buy him a scooter. (FYI, he didn't say one word of the talk that he memorized - instead I gave the whole talk AND held him like a baby the whole time - so we're still working on earning stickers for the scooter.)
Last weekend I had a slumber party at my house! Auburn's 3 kids and Ellie came - the kids probably think I'm the meanest aunt now. I took all of them except Ellie to the mall, Toys R Us, and Cold Stone. I wish I could just relax more and let kids be kids but I was constantly telling somebody "NO!" I love my nieces and nephews and hope they'll forgive me for being the wicked witch that night!

This is me & Noah on Mother's Day. I love being a mom and I love my mom too! (and I love being spoiled at church with yummy, yummy cheesecake on Mother's Day)
I'm the biggest wimp when it comes to spiders or bugs - especially SCORPIONS! I've found a few in my house and usually call Scott (my brother - in - law that lives a few houses away) to come get them. If he's at work or school, I usually just trap the bug and ask him to come by when he gets home. Well the other morning I was getting ready for work and spotted something on my carpet (since I stare at the ground when I walk). I turned on the lights and trapped it with a cup - then got a bigger cup for extra protection and set a book on top to keep the cups from tipping over. I had Scott come over after work and what he found under the cup was a toy from Noah's pirate ship. He just laughed and set it on my bed. That night I was folding clothes and as I went to set the clothes on my bed, I freaked out for a second because I saw the toy - and AGAIN I thought it was a scorpion. I know I'm paranoid, but it looked a lot like one!
Friday night was heavenly! We went to Krispy Kreme and I got to have a warm donut like I've been craving ever since Krispy Kreme shut down a year or two ago! (Ellie & Noah looked so cute in their hats.)
We got to Krispy Kreme around 9:00 or 10:00 on Friday night and it was so crowded - a long line inside AND a long line of cars at the drive-thru! We went in to get a free sample like they used to do, but I don't think they are doing that anymore - at least I didn't see any samples being handed out. Dang it!

Party Pictures!

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The big party was a lot of fun, but we're glad it's over. Here's some of my favorite pictures:

Jill's cupcake set up - so so cute!

And the way she packaged the cupcakes - I kept my empty box for a few days (after the cupcakes were gone) just because I didn't want to throw it away. Finally I had to throw it away because it made me crave (THE BEST) cupcakes every time I saw it on my counter.

This is what caused SLEEP DEPRIVATION for the 4 days before the party. Suzanne & I stayed up late every night for 3 nights before the party - cause we had something in mind and just HAD to follow through with it. I don't think either of us will be making cupcake pops again any time soon since we made over 200 for the party - and it took FOREVER!! (recipe & instructions can be found on our project ideas page here)

I have to admit - they turned out really cute and tasted really good!

Suzanne made the cutest HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner and it was perfect for the party!
Another PERFECT decoration for our party - a REAL giant-sized cupcake!

Partners for life!! (business partners that is)

(Thanks Alisse for being our photographer - your camera came just in time for your first job.)

There are so many people that I can't thank enough for all the help they were with the party and taking care of Noah while I was so busy - I know I'm leaving people out, but here's a start - Mom & Dad, Auburn, Lance, Alisse & Scott, Diana, Crystal, Alma.... and of course thanks to all of you - the blogger nation, for coming to the party. We had a lot of fun!

We still have some of our BOUTIQUE-EXCLUSIVE items left for sale that you can't find on our website. Here's a few - and don't forget about your MOMS & TEACHERS as this Sunday is Mother's Day and it's the end of the school year!

Cali Girl $32
Spring Fling (fuscia) $32
Spring Fling (pink) $32
Smarties $32
Cheers $45

Event $32
Pin-Up Girl (white with black) $43

Pin-Up Girl (black with white) $43

Pin-Up Girl (white with red) $43

(We also have some apothecary jars (4 different styles) for sale at really good prices... I'll have to do another post to get that picture up!)

OF COURSE, this apron came in just a few days too late... but it's the cutest thing! A cupcake apron with sleeves and a matching one for your daughter or grand-daughter! It will be added to our website soon. I love it!

Everyone is invited!

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spring purses * trendy tees and caps * jewelry

hair accessories * home decor * baby items

{the best} cupcakes * gifts for teachers and mother's day

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ALL THIS AND MORE AT OUR PARTY MAY 2nd

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It's been one year since She's Got It All made it's online debut -

so we're having our first birthday party.

Click here for more details and we hope to see you there!

Happy {late} birthday Roxy!

2008-04-13T16:40:00.005-07:00

The day Roxy was born was so fun. We were all prepared to visit her with our Roxy shirts on. She turned 2 yesterday!

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Here are some of my favorite pictures of "Rock-a-Doodle"...

(terrified of Santa)

I love you Roxy girl!

random post

2008-04-08T10:36:00.003-07:00

Last night I was headed downstairs and this is what I found: He couldn't make it one more step! I get so sad on nights like this because we didn't get to do our nightly routine. Going to bed is my favorite time of day because I get to read and pray with Noah then cuddle with him - not to mention kiss his cheeks until they're chapped.

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I guess the girls in my family aren't the only ones who think alike... Lance & Bryan showed up to Jax & Riggs's baseball games Friday night with the exact same outfit on - brown shorts & white collared shirts. (Told you this was a random post - but I had to get a picture!)

Speaking of the baseball games - Riggs was put in as pitcher. It was hard to get a good picture - but he has the form down perfect (he has since he was a toddler though).

In other random news - Sunday night was our "last supper" and FHE with Brad. He leaves tomorrow morning and we will all miss him - especially the kids - well, actually my mom will the most. I don't think the kids really understand how long 2 years is - but Noah does know that he will be 5 when Brad gets home.

It's Ba-ack!

2008-04-04T10:41:00.009-07:00

Last night was a rerun marathon of The Office, and I could watch every episode over & over again. I forgot about what I've been missing for the last several months. I laughed OUT LOUD so many times, and Noah kept saying, "What mom?"

Every single character is hilarious - here are some of my favorite parts from last night:

As my family knows, Stanley is my favorite for some reason. He is always so bugged by everyone. I loved when Michael was talking about all the things he would miss about Stanley - and when he said "His Smile", this is the face Stanley was making. Michael also talked about his "big butt, even bigger heart".

Phyllis said she couldn't pop her popcorn in the kitchen microwave because it "smelled like popcorn".

"Hey, hey, you, you - I don't like your boyfriend.... 'cause he sucks at ping pong".

Creed is another one my favorites because he's always doing something odd in the background. The way he was singing and dancing to the song they were rehearsing for the commercial made me laugh so hard.

"I kind of know what it's like to star in commercials. When I was in high school, I did a great impression of the kool-aid man."

Poor Toby - in every episode, Micheal makes it clear that he doesn't like him. They way he talks is really annoying though. It was so sad but so funny when Michael pushed his tray over, after Toby was sympathizing with him and trying to make him feel better.

Everything that comes out of Michael's mouth is funny but the best was when he was being "survivor man" and started yelling random things that he thought nobody would hear. "Jan has....."

Next week - new episodes start. I can't wait!!! Is this not the best t.v. show of all time?