In Honor of Harry Potter..

I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at midnight. Actually 12:45. What am I, 18 again? Let me tell you though, for the first time with the movies, I loved it.  

Neville is my favorite.

Beth got killed by Voldy

In honor of Harry Potter being awesome, i changed my name to the sorting hat! 

And I shall sort some peeps.  

First is Hufflepuff 

 Now if you thought Hufflepuff was for the people who weren't good at anything, you thought wrong. 

Students belonging to this house are known to be hard-working, friendly, loyal, and non-judgemental. They value patience and fair play rather than social status. And might I remind you that other than Griffindor, they had the most students that stayed and fought Voldemort at the ending battle.

In Hufflepuff I place my dear husband Michael for his work ethic, loyalty and the way he always withholds judgment.

And also Hillarie, for her loyalty and nonjudgment

And Olivia, for her loyalty and friendliness

Next is Ravenclaw 

 Ravenclaw House prizes intelligence, creativity, resourcefulness, cleverness, knowledge, and wit in its members. Often, they are known for being academically motivated. 

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
—Rowena Ravenclaw

In Ravenclaw I place...

Jennifer for her resourcefulness and smarts,

Jordan for her wit and creativity

 And also, Bethany for her cleverness and wit

Gryffindor

 

Gryffindor house is known for their bravery and chivalry. They contributed many members to the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledores Army. Their bravery, however, is viewed by Snape and others to be arrogant and reckless.  In Gryffindor I place...

 James for his bravery and arrogant recklessness.

I also place my brother Curtis, for his chivalry and recklessness

Clark, for his bravery and comic relief.

Last but not least, Slytherin.

 

Slytherins tend to be ambitious, strong leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed senses of self-preservation. 

In Slytherin I place.... myself.

For my selfishness and ambition. Also my love for Draco Malfoy. 

I will leave you with these cute little Gryffindors.

Where would you be sorted?

Latley ...

We celebrated Cow Appreciation Day by dressing up as cows and getting a free meal (any chicken sandwich, a drink AND waffle fries). Awesome.

Eat more chicken!   

 

This was just sitting on the register? Creepy. 

We went up to Grandma Jeans beautiful cabin for the Porter family reunion. 70 degree weather? Yes please. I realized I only take pictures of the tots. Mike and I aren't as fun to look at. Have you ever seen a more hansom little boy? I think not.

Walking with Uncle Ben.

Redneck pinata- Get a bunch of saw dust, throw candy in it, then send the kids after it. This is always a fun part of the reunion that my Aunt Linda does. This is Clark and his game face.

Then we played minute to win it. See that speedster in the far right kicking everyones trash? Yeah, that's my mom.

Mike went home when the reunion ended, but I stayed up with my mom and younger brothers and sister, and my sister in law and her kiddos. And Grandma Jean of course. First time that Mike and I have been apart for more than like 12 hours. We missed each other. And my mom rolled her eyes at me.

There is something great about being in the mountains with no TV, computer or video games. When I wake up in the morning and the only thing on my agenda is read a book, or take a walk, or make a bracelet, or play with Lincoln and Stella.

There is also something great about being home, being back with the hubbs, and sleeping in my own squishy bed.

This is Stella working so hard on beading her own bracelet. She did such a good job, I held the string for her and she would turn the bead around and concentrate so hard on getting it in. It probably took her a full minute to put each individual one on the string, and she was so proud of the finished product.

Cherry face.

We did some quilting. Lincoln is the master.

Lately I've been watching this. Wednesday and Thursday nights I am always entertained.

   

We also re-did part of our wall. One of our picture frames in the middle fell off months ago, and we finally got around to putting something else up. This is the only picture I could find of before. Excuse the prego.


Before


After!

What do you think?

It's to hot for pants

Buy me some of these??

My husband is a star

 Check out this commercial that Mike is in for his work. It's pretty funny, although I'm not sure how I feel about him going to lunch with another woman. I guess that's the sacrifice I have to make to have a celebrity husband. 

Hillaries baby shower

Saturday Beth and I threw Hillarie a BABY shower and it turned out so good! I always forget how much work showers are! But it was worth it, she got so many gifts to prepare her for mommyhood. Hill is all crafty and she and I did the decorations. I didn't get very good pictures of everything, and I forgot to take pictures of a lot of things. Shame on me. Our theme was orange, green, blue, and brown bow ties because, lets face it, there is NOTHING cuter than a baby in a bow tie.

A huge thanks to Hillaries sister for letting us use her beautiful home!

 We kept the food nice and simple which was awesome for me. I hate going to a shower and not knowing if I should eat lunch before or if there will be lunch food there... so we put on the invitation that it was a luncheon so nobody would be confused like I always am. We did chicken salad sandwiches (of course) and bow tie pasta salad loaded veggies and fruit. We asked Hills mom to bring the fruit and she brought an edible arrangement. Who does that? Haha. For dessert I made brownies and blueberry muffin tops with lemon glaze. yum yum yum. 

When my mom and I went to costco we found these glass bottle orange sodas. They went perfectly with the colors and I'm pretty sure I heard them whispering my name. We had to get them.

 

For favors I dipped pretzel rods in white and milk chocolate and drizzled some and rolled some in reeses pieces (orange) and left some plain. I wish this picture was better so you could see how cute they turned out. Plus chocolate dipped pretzels might be one of the tastiest treats there is.   

 I also made 9 little bow ties, three to put around the diaper cake and 6 more just because. They took so much longer than I thought. Flipping them rightside out was a pain in my behind. There is no way I would have been able to do all this stuff during the school year. I'm glad they turned out so stinkin cute and hopefully she will  put them on her little tot.

 

Gotta love awkward pictures. We like to put our hands all over her belly. I put this up, not so you could laugh at how creepy Beth and I look, but so you could see the cute bow tie garlands that Hillarie made. AW. 

 

And the Last thing that I must show off is this awesome diaper cake made by muah! Doesn't it look so good? Who knew I could figure out how to make one and it could turn out so stinkin cute?? There were more toys on it  but I'm pretty sure Hillaries niece thought they were toys for her and started playing with them.

It's so bizarre how excited I am for her to have him. I just can't wait to have a precious baby right next door that I can steal on a daily basis. Congrats to Beth and I for becoming aunts soon!!

and

Congrats to Hillarie and James becoming parents for the very first time. What an unknown, exciting and precious adventure your about to partake on. The very very best of wishes to you two.