Honest Scrap....

Stacia over at Mission: Happily Ever After (the similarity in our names is purely coincidental) awarded me with the Honest Scrap Award. She has been a big part of my e-mommy support group and we were both blessed with beautiful baby girls. Go check her out :) Part of accepting the award is telling 10 things about yourself. I've been thinking about this ever since she awarded me and I think I finally have 10 :)

1. Sometimes when I'm driving, I turn the air conditioning up really high just so I can use my heated seat. I love the feeling of a heated seat...hot cross buns :)

2. I am messy...and I can now openly admit it. I really don't care to do any cleaning that doesn't prevent my family from not getting sick. That's the only cleaning that's important! I wish I was organized...I truly do. But if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

3.I embrace sarcasm. I love it...and my hubby claims I'm good at it. I think I suppress it in certain situations. Some people just bring it out in me :)

4. I love football. I never thought I would say those words. Doug has turned me into a leatherhead. The Panthers are my true love but I am slowly developing a love for the Packers. If only they had cuter colors...

5. At one point in my life, I owned an insane amount of underwear...like upwards of 200 pairs. Buying underwear was like a drug for me. I'm getting better, but am most definitely not cured yet!

6. I find plucking hairs to be soothing. I love plucking my eyebrows and have even conned Doug into allowing me to pluck his.

7. I have an unhealthy addiction to all things chocolate. This addiction is contributing to my inability to drop the baby weight. Oy...

8. I own every season of Dawson's Creek and can practically recite every episode. I can say this about Sex and the City as well.

9. I was in concert band in high school...and jazz band...and marching band...and pep band...and choir. Does that make me a geek? Did you know that Independence has a great jazz band? ;)

10. I loathe shaving my legs. It's the one thing about summer that I could do without. I love the way shaved legs feel but I seriously HATE doing it!

Okay....now Blogs I recommend. ( I know these people blog regularly so we'll see if they accept their awards! )

1. Kali @ Team DeBoer
2. Bailey @ A Journey to Forever

3. Ashley @ Our Life Better Together

This Little Piggy...

I have wanted Jani to have a pigtail since the day she was born. I have always loved pigtails on babies. Today, I decided to try and put one in. Success!!! She looked absolutely adorable. I am going to have so much fun with her hair...hopefully she'll let me. Now I can't wait until I can put two in! Oh, the things a mother looks forward to....

Seriously Mom...

...the camera again????

Mother's Day...

My baby made me a card at daycare...I cried like a baby. Isn't that the cutest little chubby baby hand you've ever seen?!

Gerber's Got Nothin' On Me!

Continuing with our Go Green theme (can you tell we are slightly obsessed?!), Doug and I have been tackling making our own baby food. It's actually been fun. I am by no means a cook....I rarely cook a meal that takes more than a couple ingredients. It's just not a passion of mine...but I seriously wish it was. Maybe it will be someday...but back to baby food. Have you ever gone to a baby shower and been forced to taste nasty baby food? The stuff makes me want to throw up...I literally gag upon putting it in my mouth. I just couldn't imagine making J eat it. Enter homemade baby food. This is stuff I would actually eat...it tastes good! So what did I spend my Saturday night doing? Why, making yummy baby food of course :) Me and my Magic Bullet make a great team!

Go Green, Young Man

This is my public service announcement for cloth diapering. Cloth diapering, you ask? I can just see you all cringing just thinking about it! I was a skeptic at first too. I mean, disposable diapers are SO easy. Why mess with a good thing right? 27.4 billion diapers are used in the US each year....that adds an additional 3.4 million tons of used diapers to the landfills every year. That is staggering to me....what are we doing to the world that our children are going to live in? Doug and I really try to go green in as many aspects of our lives as we can...and I know we could do better! So the cloth diapering debate wasn't a difficult one. We bought our stash from a good friend and have built onto it from there. They really are easy. Washing them is not hard and I haven't been grossed out (not any more than I am with sposies!) We do, however, use disposable at daycare...haven't converted that yet. We also use disposable when we are on the road....we could use our cloth, and probably will, we just haven't gotten there yet. Jani loves them...and let me tell you...they are adorable!! I just love her little fluffy butt :)