No "JAWS" about it

Dear Mr. Jaws Movie Producer,

I never watched your movies because they scared the heck out of me. Even the main song just the main song when I heard it scared me to almost having to tinkle in my pants. I will probably never watch your movies but man did you entertain many, many people with your scary movies and also caused a group of people (me being included) to be scared to swim in the ocean!! Although I didn't watch your movies, I know you had a following of people who did. You were very talented and you will be missed.

RIP. David Brown
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=456001>1=28101

Monkey Joes

We had a great weekend. Thanks for the craft ideas ladies. We ended up painting with our fingers on small canvas that I had around the house, we colored, we traced our hands. I thought about a project that involved glue but decided against it for now. We had a great time at Monkey Joes. Bryan's sister Andrea was in town visiting a friend of hers and she spent the day with us on Saturday. We love you Aunt Dre and had a blast with you. See you in June, she lives in Tampa FL. We went two weekends in a row to Monkey Joes, that is why you see Zoe in different outfits. Her cute little pig tails were falling out by the time we left. Her hair was everywhere, so cute though.

Craft project

This weekend seems like it will be a weekend stuck inside due to the weather and due to a sick husband.

Any suggestions what kind of crafty thing I can do with Zoe this weekend while we are stuck inside. She is almost 18 months so still limited a little on what we can do but any ideas you can give me would help.

Friends

I never posted from our girls night out!! We had a great time. I love these girls and miss them terribly. We had a fabulous dinner, ate way too much!!







Then we had another girls night where we went to a fabulous place called Sips and Strokes. Our creative side got to shine this night!! Our subject was a funky peacock. It was so interesting to see at least 50 different paintings of the teachers version of a funky peacock. We sipped on a mimosa or two and let our artistic abilities come out!! We had a great time. My sister, my best friend Amy and a friend of my sisters made up our group. I can't wait to go back. I love, love, love this first picture of My sister, Amy and I. Can you guess which one is my sister? Amy and I became best friends in high school. Everywhere we went people asked us were we twins. In high school hers and my hair were a lot lighter, we were the same size, same build. We look a good bit different now....we are all grown up!

4 out of 4 nights

Not sure what is going on with miss Zoe. 4 out of 4 nights this week she has decided to have play time at odd hours of the night, 12:45, 3:15 and 5:25, what gives? She is doing pretty good though with putting herself back to sleep but it still wakes us up when she is playing with her baby dolls. It cracks me up to hear her playing with her dolls just talking up a storm but you can't understand a word she is saying. It is so cute and funny maybe after the first couple of nights but it is wearing on weary Daddy and Mommy who already have to get up at the crack of dawn for work. Tell me, has anyone else gone through this stage? Is this a stage? Is it her teeth? Is it she is getting too much sleep? I just don't understand what is causing her to wake up and want to "play"!! I am glad the weekend is here. Maybe us weary parents can get some solid sleep. Hope everyone bundles up this weekend and stay inside if possible. Try not to get on the roads unless absolutely necessary. Be safe and stay warm!! Man, I now is when I wish we could use our fireplace. Thought I would leave you with a picture of my sweet happy baby!!

Lack of post

Hi my dear blog friends. It's been a while, I apologize. I have just been enjoying life and getting over a cold. I am loving every minute with baby girl. She is so much fun these days. She is talking up a storm, NO, being her favorite word right now. We were beginning to think the word YES would never be in her vocabulary but she has slowly been using the word yes the past few nights. She has been learning her colors and shapes some. I am trying to not push to much. Her daycare is wonderful, they have been working on animals and counting to 10 with her.

Zoe and I went to Monkey Joes last weekend on a Mommy/daughter date and had a blast. For those of you who don't have a Monkey Joes, let me paint a picture for you....think tons of kids, lots of inflatable bouncy houses/slides, balloons, rides and lots of yummy kiddie food. Zoe is still so little (she is tiny for her age) so I got to go down the slides with her and bounce in the bouncy houses with her, oh so much fun. What an experience with my daughter. By the time we left, I was one soaking wet from sweat Mama. She and I got out of the house while Daddy painted in the house. That's right folks, we moved the gate that we had up to keep Zoe in our living room. We figured it is time she got to explore the house. We now have the gate at the top of our stairs (stairs going down to front entrance). We have outlet covers on every outlet, latches on all cabinets, we are lacking the safety knobs to go on the stove (Zoe loves to try and turn these GAS oven knobs) and we still need to get the safety knobs to go on the doors so that she can't get the door opened to outside. We are hoping to get these done this weekend....IF IT DOESN'T SNOW OR ICE!!! . I hope it doesn't but the weather is calling for a chance of this, oh joy!! Anyway, Zoe is having so much fun exploring and we are having fun watching/following her all over the house. If the weather isn't bad we are going back to Monkey Joes this weekend with Daddy. He missed out on the fun so we must go back...for his sake!!!

I will post some new pictures soon. Zoe will be 18 months on February 3rd. She is getting to be such a big girl. I am loving watching her everyday, something new with her everyday.

As far as Weight Watchers and me, yea, not doing so good. I have good days and bad but here lately the bad outweighs the good...shame on me. I do ok during the week but the weekends are killing me. I am aiming to do better this weekend. My problem is that I am scheduled to have my wisdom teeth out next Thursday so in my mind I am thinking I should splurge this weekend and eat/drink what I want. Hey, I'm sure I will lose some weight just because I won't be able to eat a whole lot for several days....I know, bad way to lose weight but hey, I'll take it any way I can!!

What about you guys, are you dieting, if so, what is working for you?

Party Time

Party Time = Zoe...up all night, partying in her crib, makes for a very tired Daddy and Mommy.