This is Why I'm HOT!

"I'm hot cuz i'm fly. . .you ain't cuz you not!"
Sorry I just added that song to my IPOD and I thought it fit the occasion. We took our first trip to the swimming pool today in K Town. It was the first non rainy day that we've had but it was windy. The girls had fun playing and showing off their suits.

Baby Cuz checkin' out her palm tree flotation device.
The girls divying up the snacks.
Miss Pretty: "4 for me, 1 for you."
Baby Cuz: "I'm so getting ripped off here, gimme those!"

Just puttin' out the vibes mom!

I got the half smile from Baby Cuz. Not too impressed with Auntie and her camera.

Miss Pretty didn't like the pool at all. I think the big bucket o' water that fills up and dings when it's gonna tip over and dump water on all the crazy kids, scared her from the beginning. But when we got close to the pool, all the noise and splashing put her over the edge. I took her over and put her in her floaty and she screamed bloody murder and tried to get out. Everyone looked at me like I was some horrible mother for making her get in. I think she lasted 4.5 seconds and then we got out. Getting out was worse because it was windy and she got cold. She finally calmed down and decided playing on the grass was way funner! It was fun to get out though and get some Vitamin D.


Tonight Leatherby's or Bust!

Walk this Way. . . Talk this Way!

Here's the moment we've all been waiting for. . . .our Princess is walking!! Last week she decided it was time and she took her first steps! It's been so much fun and she is so proud of herself! I've snapped a few pics of her in action. Poor Gracie doesn't stand a chance now!

She's no longer interested in the walker, I can't imagine why, so she was on the loose while I made dinner the other day and she found my keys and was trying her hardest to get that door open.
She also did a very good job at unloading whatever she could in the kitchen!

She found the lint remover and figured out that it was a pretty good push car. She pushed that thing around the whole house. I should have given her a sponge to mop while she was at it!

Storytime has become quite the event for Miss Pretty. She loves to read stories and point to the pictures. She has her favorite books to read, but she also has one that scares her! For whatever reason, this cute "Dinosaur Kisses" book makes her hysterical. It's a pop up book, so that could be a factor, but I had to put it away today because she saw it on the bottom shelf and just started crying. It was hard not to laugh, because this doesn't look scary to me.
She's growing and changing everyday. I love being a mommy so much! I am finally off for a few weeks, so i'm excited to get some much needed cleaning done and spend some quality time with my babe and her daddy. The rain has been a little bit of a downer, but I also love to hear the thunder and the rain. Can't wait to take Miss Pretty swimming!

It's the pits man, the pits!!

This one goes out to the girlz at book club! Brynn, hopefully you remember this!

So last night while at book club, the topic of movie theaters came up and our movie theater experiences. Well I think mine topped them all!! You can all laugh because it was a long time ago, but just know that at the time, I was horrified!

One time, my BFF Brynn and I were at the movies watching some chick flick, I can't even remember what it was now. We were well into the movie when I had an urge to itch the back of my arm. I was wearing a sleeveless shirt and as I felt the back of my arm to itch it, I also felt something back there that didn't belong to me! For whatever reason, I do not know and I will probably never know, the creepy pedifile of a man behind us, had nuzzled his chubby fat toes into my armpit without me knowing it. When I felt them back there, I jerked away and he got up really fast and left. I was like "Brynn! That guy had his foot in my armpit!" Ewww!!!

To the creepy foot/armpit fettish man. . . keep your pigs in your own barn! And to those unsuspecting women out there, check to see who's sitting behind you at the movie theater!!

"Here it is, a groove, slighty transformed. . .just a bit of a break from the norm. . "

I love love love Summertime! Will Smith really knew what he was singin' about! Here's your monthly update of all the Johnson happenin's!
Miss Pretty is now a free stander! "Look mom, no hands!" She thinks she's so cool just standin' there. I'm sure that she's so close to walking. She's hilarious and just has the funniest personality! She's become quite the groover and shaker just like her momma! "My milkshake brings all the boyz to the yard. . ." She's getting some new teeth finally which has been hard for her, but I'm glad for them to finally come in.

Here's mommy and Miss pretty strikin' a pose. She had some marinara for dinner and decided to paint her face with it.


Miss pretty and Cuz Munch chillin' on Gma and Gpa's rockin' chair.

Her baby mullet is becoming a bit more managable finally! Today I was able to pull the top into an ever so tiny pony and put a bow on top.

Mommy and Miss Pretty again. We went to the mountains for our Cuz's graduation BBQ and this was the only snap we got.
She's become the chatty patty these days. Here she is chillin' in daddy's lap talkin' to her girlz on her cell phone! She puts it to her ear and says something that sounds like "hello". If you ask her what a monkey says, she's says "ah ah ah ah". She's also saying "cracker", "up", "night night", and "kitty cat".
She's such a silly sleeper. The other morning when I went in to wake her up, her onsie that is obviously too small, had come unbuttoned and her booty was hangin' out. This is her usual sleeping pose. I've been very lucky to have a good sleeper baby! If I could give one piece of advice to any new mother, it would be to get your baby into a good routine and don't waver from it. Also, if possible, take away that binkie as soon as you can after 12 months. Since we took away the bink, she sleeps for 12 hours every night!

Here's Miss Pretty's new dresser. We found a different one than we had originally found. My mom found this one at a yard sale a few weeks ago for $15. It was blue with blue knobs, but I painted it white and put hot pink knobs on it. It looks dang cute in her room and only costed $25 by the time I bought the paint and new hardware!! Plus, I sold the other one that I had originally bought on KSL and made $22 bucks off of it! BTW, I have 6 blue knobs if anyone needs any.

Book Club this month was fun! It's nice to get out with the girls. We read "Angels and Demons". Dang good! Can't wait for next months' read! I will be double timin' it because I will also be reading Harry Potter to get ready for the movie! Can't wait!

I'm almost out for the summer! Next week is my last week until August. I'm so excited to spend some time with Miss Pretty and get some much needed walking in!

These are a few of my favorite things. . .

I thought it would be fun to do a list of a couple of my favorite things this week!

1. America First Credit Union. I've been a member of America First since before we were married and have loved every minute of it! But just today I was reminded why I stay with them! We applied for a new loan with them and when the nice loan officer called to verify everything, we were also able to refinance my car for 1 1/2% lower than it was right now and extend our line of credit! 3 deals all over the phone!

2. Reusable shopping bags. Every Earth day, I watch Oprah and she gives awsome tips about how to do our part to save our Mother Earth. She always stresses the importance of using reusable shopping bags instead of the plastic ones. So i've built me up quite the stock pile of them when I go to the store (they're only .99 at most stores). Well I had a horrible experience at Walmart 2 weeks ago. If you're ever at the one on 6200 S and 5600 W, and your checker's name is Patti (or "Unfriendly Patti" as I like to refer to her as), make sure and whip out those reusable bags, because she just loves filling those bad boys with groceries! (sarcasm, very thick!) But they seriously hold so many groceries. Today I went to the Library, Costco, Harmon's and Home Depot and didn't have to use a plastic bag at any of them! TIP: Harmons, Smiths, Sunflower Market, Albertson's and I think IKEA all credit you 5 cents for every reusable bag that you use!

3. Sunflower Market. My sweet sis introduced me to this market. It's on State St and about 6600 S right across from Fashion Place Mall. They have killer deals on produce there and they have all sorts of bulk items like grains, candies, granola, honey, etc. Last week we went and got strawberries for 88 cents! Check out their website and look at their weekly ads. If you sign up to get them by email, you get it a day early and can shop on Wednesdays when the ads overlap and there's even more things on sale! http://www.sfmarkets.com/

4. KSL.com. I'm a sucker for deals, so I usually browse the classifieds just to see what people are selling and what people are looking for and even what people are giving away for FREE! Sometimes I laugh so hard at the free section and just read it for the fun of it, because some people are so funny. But I'm also quite the seller on there. This weekend we sold a dresser, swamp cooler and a set of golf clubs! Speaking of KSL, does anyone have some red paint that they're getting rid of or done using? I have my cute little bench that I want to paint red, but i'm not sure that I'd use a whole can. I'm hoping to use like a colonial red. Let me know yo!

There ya, go. Hopefully if you've never used any of these, you'll try one and see why I love them so much!

In a castle far, far away. . .

Miss Pretty got herself her very own castle with a slide/climbing wall and swing! Grandma Johnson sent it from ID (well not really, but she sent the $ with the ad cut out to go and pick it on up!) I guess for some odd reason, I was thinking we would set the sucker up in the back yard. . . .silly me! D decided that it would get stolen by our ghetto neighbors so he put that thing up in my basement. Let's just say it looks like the invasion of the Munchkins down there! I'm not sure where we're supposed to hang out because there's toys everywhere. But she does love it and she even has learned (with the help of Grandma Lloyd, naughty) to climb up the slide and then slide down on her stomach. Too funny!

Sunday we though we'd be brave and do a photo shoot of her in her cute Sunday dresses. Plus Grandma Johnson wanted pics of her in the dress that she made for her birthday. She wasn't so hip on the whole "dress up/photo shoot" and we couldn't get a smile out of her for nothin'! But she still looked dang cute trying to grab the camera whenever she could!

Here's what she thought of picture time! There used to be a cute white daisy on her head band, but she ripped that sucka off!

And last but not least, she's playing by her castle and attempting to scale the faux rock wall. So pretty!

I'm so 3008, you're so 2000 and late!

April was quite the busy month for us! Hence the lack of posts! Here's my run down of the past month with a couple of funny stories thrown in!
The first pics have a story behind them. This is our head custodian at East. . . let me first say that he started it! On that first lovely day of April, all of us Secretaries got to work and could not figure out why our key boards weren't working. That's right, he went through and unplugged them all! The battle was on and I was quite the plotter. Someone should have reminded me about the cameras all over the school though cuz we were totally busted! After trashing his office twice and getting our cars shrink wrapped. . our last hoorah was to decorate his scooter while it was being worked on at school. He was proud to ride it around for us and then my friend at work made a voodoo doll that looks so much like him! He even wore the right outfit the day she brought him! We had fun and we're hoping the fued has fizzled out!

Miss Pretty is now 14 months already! She is so much fun and always has me laughing! She's trying all sorts of new foods because she's like totally bored with her baby food! I went in to wake her up two days ago to leave in the morning and she was sleeping in the funniest position. She was sitting, but leaned forward all the way so that her stomach was flat against the bed, folded right in half. I don't know how that seemed comfortable. She's not walking yet, taking her time with that one for sure, but I don't mind at all. Here are some pics of her in her sun hat. I love those eyes of hers.

Mother's day was fun. We took our Ma out to brunch along with all the other yeahoos that decided to do the same thing. But then after, Hailey took a two hour nap and I also took one! ahhh, so nice.

Last but not least, my mom and I went yard selling last weekend. It was a blast, except for when Miss Pretty yacked her milk all over herself, me and the car seat. She went through some weird phase last weekend, not sick, but she would throw up her milk every morning for 3 days. And boy, oh boy, let me tell ya, that stinks BAD! So after cleaning it up and changing her, we were back at it, stinky and all, but I needed to to find a dresser for her room! Here are some of our bargains. . . I found this cute bench that I'm going to refinish and paint red. (only $1!) And the dresser was $18, i'm going to refinish that and paint it white. It's time to store away the changing table and get the dresser put in. I'll have to get the bench pic put on later, my blog is being dummo! Is anyone else's acting up? or is it just mine? For some reason, some of my pics don't load and my page isn't fully loading either. Wierd!

Yard selling is so much fun when you actually find usable junk! We found a bunch of way cute clothes for the babe for only 50 cents each and my mom found an Eddie Bauer bassinette/cradle for the mini Levi that will be joining us in November.

Got the bench loaded, it's cute huh!