woo hoo!! i think i may be starting to understand this HTML stuff!!! okay, not really, but i figured out how to add the Daniel Powter video thingy at the side, and shrink it a bit. this is my song of the week, freaking LOOOVE it. gotta see if i can talk cj into getting it when it comes out on {april 11th} . perfect timing for easter!!! woo!
Credits: pp-Mari K from TDC's Cherry Blossoms kit in dezine, stitches(border and edges)-Shabby Princess (Bluebell Road and Splendid kits), staple-Fee Jardine's Chocolate Cupcake kit, prongs-Christine Smith's Basic Blues kit

i wanted a way to remember the little things that i love at this age, and this was the perfect way. it's a combo scraplift of Mary MacAskill's Anatomy Of A Pug and Donna Downey's Did You Know... pages in Simple Scrapbooks march/april issue.

mercy's on a run today; she's been climbing in and out of her new favorite *spot*, the cabinet that the scanner used to be in at my desk. she's storing her Little People zoo animals in there, and hiding in there herself. just now she got stuck getting out, so i helped her get her leg unstuck, and she proceeded to walk away backwards, then turned around, ran to her little chair, climbed onto it and started laughing at something outside the window. i love this kid. she's also discovered how fun it is to cover her head with a blanket and run around. yes, she's gone face first into a wall or two, but she thinks it's the funniest thing, and, honestly, i kinda agree. lol.

porter's finally starting to take a binkie, whew. i'm not trying to force it on him, but he seems to have a strong suck urge, like mercy did, and i think a binkie would help him. especially when he wants to sleep while nursing, he's obviously not hungry, he just wants the comfort of it. does that make sense? anyways, he's refused binkies until yesterday, when we did some spring cleaning in our bedroom, sorting through clothes, etc. i came across one of his many rejected binkies, and popped it in his mouth just to see if he'd take it, and he did! yay!

watched Survivor last night. so disappointed in it. i cannot stand shane (is that his name?), he soooo needs to go. cocky jerk. ugh, not getting into it. LOL. DOND is on tonight, it's my favorite show lately. :D

this weekend is General Conference (LDS semi-yearly big meeting, basically) and just in time. i really need a spiritual lift right now, there's so many things i feel like i could be doing more or better, and it gets really overwhelming sometimes. i love GC because it just lifts me up and helps me to remember who i am and what i stand for, if that makes sense. hopefully it'll be sunny, because i'd love to walk to Temple Square and listen to the talks either tomorrow or on sunday. we'll see i guess!

spring... hah! it looks like a barren brown wasteland out there. {tee hee} seriously though, it's brown out there right now. there's a few patches of green here and there, but from our 9th floor apartment, the patches are hidden by the brown brown trees. sigh. doesn't help that we had a snowstorm come through a few days ago. the snow's melted except for on the mountains, which makes for beautiful scenery when out and about. but i'm ready for SPRING HERE!!!!!

and to make matters worse, my scanner just bit the dust. boo. it was 2.5 years old, but i didn't use it very often at all, which makes me think that it's the hardware that sucks. so i'm not sure i'll be looking at any HP scanners to replace it. BOOOOOO. so if anyone is reading this and has suggestions for a good quality, not too pricey scanner, pleeeeeeeeeeease let me know. please.

well, church was interesting. mercy's first time in nursery, and it did not go well. :( she went in fine, and started playing right away, not even noticing me, so i left. about 10-15 minutes later a lady came and asked if i had dropped off a little girl in a hot pink dress in nursery. i said yes, and she told me that she was upset and i was needed. upset was not even the WORD. hysterical, yes. so i calmed her down and left again, but i could hear bouts of crying every so often. porter started fussing in his carseat, so i took him out and was walking the halls. then i made a bad choice. it was in between classes so i asked my visiting teacher to hold porter so i could check on mercy. ooooh, bad bad choice. she was somewhat calm before i went in, and then all heck broke loose. bad, bad, bad choice. when i finally got out of there porter was fussing, so i took him to nurse and he fell asleep, but i could hear mercy crying the rest of the time. poor nugget. i got her at the end of sunday school, and she was still so upset, but calmed down when we left the nursery, and during sacrament she was happy as a clam. singing, talking, yelling, laughing... my normal little angel face. porter started fussing towards the end of sacrament, so i stood at the back while my visiting teacher stayed with mercy in the pew. i watched her sitting there, this little white blonde head barely showing over the top of the pew, surrounded by all these adults, my little girl. and then she turned around, looking for me. she saw me, smiled, and turned back around to keep eating her cookie. and i knew she was growing up much too fast for me.

i was going back through last years pictures, and decided i needed to do a comparison LO of my nuggets, so here it is! it was pretty fun to do, because it made me try to remember what mercy was like at this age. : ) {it also made me sniffly and mumbling about how big my angel face was getting, but shhh.}

pp-Holly McCaig, alpha-Sara Carling

last night, as i was nursing porter at 2 am, i was reading a book (why not kill two birds with one stone) and i looked down at him, and just melted. he was asleep, his long lashes laying against his lightly rosy cheeks, and his hair just looked golden in the soft light from the lamp. he has such an angel's face... i wish i'd taken a picture (but i'm not one for flashing my chest across the internet, so i probably wouldn't post it lol!) just to remember that moment forever. may have to put the camera next to the lamp to see if i can recapture that moment tonight. if i don't fall asleep too. it's probably a good thing that cj wants to wait to buy the glider that i'm coveting until we move to new mexico, otherwise i might never sleep in my bed. here it is:

oooh, i just want to curl up in it and sleeeep! lol!
okay, bedtime for me... sort of. i have a good book waiting for me, so *technically* i'll be in bed, but not sleeping, yet.

yes, mercy was NOT thrilled to have her picture taken. porter, on the other hand, let him have his two fingers in his mouth and you can take as many pics of him as you please. LOL! as soon as i let her play where she wanted, she was happy as a clam. little nutter.
not a very exciting st. patty's day here, but that's fine with me. we didn't even have corned beef and cabbage for dinner *gasp!*, but i tried a new recipe for chicken, peppers and pasta, yummm. turned out way better than i thought it would. i'm such a noob at cooking, i avoid it for the most part. not because i don't { like } to, but i'm almost scared of it. lol... i'm trying to get more into it though, especially with the 28 day challenge that i'm doing at TDC. i haven't eaten anything but salads at fast food places, with the exception of a few stolen french fries from mercy or cj. :) it's not as hard as i thought it would be, but we've also been eating better at home, so... i think next i'm going to try to go 28 days without *shudder* any soda. it won't be easy, giving up my coke, but i have way too much of it a week. time to cut it off. boooo. :D

one month later and i finally update. lol.

i've been trying to get cj's mission album done. almost done with his MTC pics, UGH. lol!! who knew he could be such a shutterbug. :D

this one is of them finally getting ready to go to spain (where he served):



















everything from Andrea Burns' Lucky Boy kit omg i freaking LOOOOVE this kit! lol) , except brown paper and alpha, which are both from Atomic Cupcake. can't remember the font right now. lol.

P Day at the MTC:

everything from Fee Jardine's Chocolate Cupcake kit (such a sweet kit, i've already used it like 3 times), minus the alphas, which are Atomic Cupcake (blue) and Shabby Princess' Two Soon. basketball pic in background taken by moi!

the Provo Temple: (i just love how this turned out!)

everything from Sara Carling's Aero kit (adore this kit, it's feminine and masculine, so perfect), font is Porcelain

there's others, but honestly i'm not that keen on them. need some tweaking or something...

yesterday cj met up with his friend nate and went to see "The Hills Have Eyes" (shudder), so i wandered around the center and did some retail therapy with the kidlets. too much money later... LOL. after their naps we went grocery shopping, me armed with a list of healthy things for meals. UGH, shopping for healthy foods is harder than chucking premades in the cart and trundling on. :D cj forgot his wallet too, but luckily i had my debit card. whew, that could have been fun. okay, not really... i really want to stick to the menu and eat healthily, and drop this weight. cj feels the same, but he has less to lose than i do, lucky boy.
between yesterday and wednesday mercy got a whole new wardrobe, but she really needed it; she's growing out of all her other clothes. she's now into 2T shirts (18 mo. shirts turn into belly shirts on her) and both 18 mo. and 2T pants. sigh... where'd my little baby go? of course, porter's staying a little peanut; he's 4.5 months and still mostly fits 0-3 months, but is starting to wear some 3-6 mo. clothes.
okay, that's it from me right now... i'm feeling a bit overwhelmed between trying to do cj's mission album and still do "regular" digiscraps, like challenges and so on. too many pages, too little time. :D