Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Halloweenie
Happy Haunting! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. In college, I used it as an excuse to dress up as a skanky (insert anything here) by stuffing tube socks in my bra to create awesome cleavage (sorry Mom) and get away with it. Now, I use it as an excuse to dress my kids up as (insert anything here) and take them house-to-house to get lots of free candy... and get away with it.
This year, we dressed TC up as a Minion off of "Despicable Me". I thought it was hi-larious.
Matt said the gloves really "tied the whole thing together". Good thing, because if they didn't he might just look like a weird kid with goggles. Isn't he adorable?
Here's a real treat from the family Halloween party. Guess who Brody dressed up as?? Twinners = Winners. Thanks for the laugh, Brody!
I wanted to take them trick-or-treating this year (reason why mentioned above) but neither one of my babies were cooperating. Lamest. Kids. Ever. You will also notice TC is no longer dressed as a Minion, but an elephant. Last minute, he changed his mind and wanted to be Dumbo (he has been obsessed lately). Luckily he doesn't eat very much and his costume from last year still fit perfectly.
Here is a little family photo - TC is a little pissed off because I made him wake up to trick-or-treat. Sorry buddy, but I'm not going to get both you and miss Hazel all dressed up looking cute enough to eat and drive accross town for nothing - I'm pretty sure you'll thank me later.
This year, we dressed TC up as a Minion off of "Despicable Me". I thought it was hi-larious.
Here's a real treat from the family Halloween party. Guess who Brody dressed up as?? Twinners = Winners. Thanks for the laugh, Brody!
I wanted to take them trick-or-treating this year (reason why mentioned above) but neither one of my babies were cooperating. Lamest. Kids. Ever. You will also notice TC is no longer dressed as a Minion, but an elephant. Last minute, he changed his mind and wanted to be Dumbo (he has been obsessed lately). Luckily he doesn't eat very much and his costume from last year still fit perfectly.
Here is a little family photo - TC is a little pissed off because I made him wake up to trick-or-treat. Sorry buddy, but I'm not going to get both you and miss Hazel all dressed up looking cute enough to eat and drive accross town for nothing - I'm pretty sure you'll thank me later.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Match.com for Couples
Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with "swingers" or anything like that, so if you are into that sort of thing (and I'm not here to judge) you might as well save yourself some time and stop reading now...
Last month, I was reading an article in Cosmo, *ahem*, I mean some really really classy magazine called "What Happy Couples Know" that gave a list of things that you needed to have in order to have a happier marriage. Want to know what topped the list? FRIENDS... Basically something to the effect of couples who have close friend couples have happier marriages and lower divorce rates and backed it up with a bunch of research I didn't care enough to look into. It did get me thinking though...
In the past three years, pretty much everything that could change in Matt and I's lives did. We got married, moved to California, popped out a couple of babies, and got "real" jobs with "health insurance" and "retirement plans". It was a draaaastic change from the fancy-free lifestyle we had both been living while we were in school (where my biggest stress was when I was going to squeeze in my next tanning appointment). So when we decided to move back home to Utah last year and I found out how much I had really changed. Most of my friends were still single and living the fancy-free from before and we didn't really have that much in common anymore... Actually the meare thought of having to stay up past 11:00pm makes me throw up in my mouth a little. So Matt and I recently decided to make a goal to find new friends... People who know a thing or two about the "hot-dog dance" and how to get crayon off of the walls.
Question: What is harder than finding someone to date? Answer: Trying to find another couple to date.
I feel like finding couple friends is like dating three people instead of one... EVERYONE has to like EVERYONE and have common interests or the group's relationship just won't last long-term. It's the perfect storm. Not to mention where do you meet these people? The produce section of the grocery store? It's not like I can approach a guy and tell him I think he would be great for my husband withouth looking like a total creeper.
I wish someone would invent a match.com for couples - they could match us on different levels and suggest good matches for us. We could review their profile and maybe text or email and get to know each other a little before we decided if we wanted to meet in real life and give it a go.
Tomorrow night we have a blind date with another couple from Matt's work. Here's to hoping they might "be the one". :)
Last month, I was reading an article in Cosmo, *ahem*, I mean some really really classy magazine called "What Happy Couples Know" that gave a list of things that you needed to have in order to have a happier marriage. Want to know what topped the list? FRIENDS... Basically something to the effect of couples who have close friend couples have happier marriages and lower divorce rates and backed it up with a bunch of research I didn't care enough to look into. It did get me thinking though...
In the past three years, pretty much everything that could change in Matt and I's lives did. We got married, moved to California, popped out a couple of babies, and got "real" jobs with "health insurance" and "retirement plans". It was a draaaastic change from the fancy-free lifestyle we had both been living while we were in school (where my biggest stress was when I was going to squeeze in my next tanning appointment). So when we decided to move back home to Utah last year and I found out how much I had really changed. Most of my friends were still single and living the fancy-free from before and we didn't really have that much in common anymore... Actually the meare thought of having to stay up past 11:00pm makes me throw up in my mouth a little. So Matt and I recently decided to make a goal to find new friends... People who know a thing or two about the "hot-dog dance" and how to get crayon off of the walls.
Question: What is harder than finding someone to date? Answer: Trying to find another couple to date.
I feel like finding couple friends is like dating three people instead of one... EVERYONE has to like EVERYONE and have common interests or the group's relationship just won't last long-term. It's the perfect storm. Not to mention where do you meet these people? The produce section of the grocery store? It's not like I can approach a guy and tell him I think he would be great for my husband withouth looking like a total creeper.
I wish someone would invent a match.com for couples - they could match us on different levels and suggest good matches for us. We could review their profile and maybe text or email and get to know each other a little before we decided if we wanted to meet in real life and give it a go.
Tomorrow night we have a blind date with another couple from Matt's work. Here's to hoping they might "be the one". :)
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