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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Find

I've been very much on the fence when it comes to flower hair accessories. You know the ones with the flowers on headbands or alone as clips. My girls look very cute in them, and though we don't have many, (okay, TWO), I am planning on getting more. But for me? I just didn't think it would work. But then I borrowed a friends flower piece for Doug's christmas work party, and decided that yes, I CAN WEAR FLOWERS. Just not obnoxiously large ones I think. I am going to have to be particular about what what types of flowers I will wear. Don't want to look like I'm trying to be 17 again! :)

I love it when I stumble upon new things by accident, without much effort at all on my part. I really don't spend a lot of time on the internet. Is that shocking? Do most people spend inordinate amounts of time on the internet? Anyhooo..... I came across a site called Whippy Cakes. Have you already heard of this site?

What does this drum up in your head? Food? Fluffy frosting? (Gotta love fluffy frosting. I don't like that heavy stuff.) Well guess what? It's not.

It's flower headbands and clips! But they're not your usual flower headbands and clips. They're very retro, like a throwback to the 30's, which is soooo in right now.

As I perused the inventory and read a little about how she got started with her business, I realized that one of my favorite photography sites, Sky Johanssen photography (I'm not looking up the spelling. You can see it at the bottom of my blog under favorite photography sites. Yes, I am that lazy) uses her headbands in her photography of children.

I fell in love with these flower designs, and am now adding the "Crumpet" to my birthday wish list. Sorry Doug, birthday list is getting long! :)

Anyway, check it out if you're looking for something different. Just wanted to share my new find! :)

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Funny Things The Kids Say

One day Andon and I were talking about our hearts. He asked me how they worked, I gave him an explanation a 4 y r old could understand, (the only one I understand.) The very next day, I said something to Zak. Something that went along the lines of, "quit that!" or some such demand. Andon then says to me: "Mommy, listen to your heart. That's not very nice." Needless to say I felt like a complete and total toad. Just goes to show that you can always learn more from your children than you could ever teach them yourself.

While we were camping, Andon and our friend's son were sitting next to one another. Brayden who is 15 says to Andon, "I've known you since you were a baby." Andon replies, "I've known me since I was a baby too!"


Brittnee is our funny bone. The things she says sometimes are so dang funny! One day, as she was walking by Doug she says, "Hello, my good man." We both looked at her and we both began cracking up. This is how she's referred to him lately.


I was sitting on the couch taking a breather after dinner and Andon walks past me into the kitchen. He had a car in his hand and as he walked by the fridge he must have dropped it because I heard him say, "tartar sauce!" I suppose I should limit his sponge bob watching.


I was in the car with the kids coming home from Britt's tap class and she was telling me about the school BBQ that day. She mentioned that her friend got sick. I asked her what happened and she said, "Layla has lots of diseases so she had to go home." I didn't think I heard her clearly, so I repeated back, "diseases?" Britt said, "Yes, Diseases." By this time I was truly perplexed because I knew she didn't really mean disease, but I couldn't figure out what she DID mean. Then Teaghan pipes up and says, "You mean ALLERGIES?" Brittnee says, "Oh yeah, that's what it is. ALLERGIES!" I laughed heartily, the kind where your shoulders shake and your stomach hurts.


We were at the school today, and on one of the playgrounds is these cubes that turn. On them are the states and their capitols. There's quite a few of them, and they're all blue. Zakry starts playing with them and turning them all, and then I hear, "mommy, look, a car wash." I suppose the large blue cubes reminded him of the car wash we went on last week. So funny!!