Happy Friday!

Ms. A.J. and I both have July babies who are celebrating their bdays this weekend! First up is her little dude's totally tubular train party, then my daughter's rainbow unicorn pegasus party. I'm up to my neck in rainbows, glitter and magic crystals and starting to feel the pressure so I'm going to mellow out a bit with some rainbow connection...

Have a magical, glittery, dancey, choo-choo-riffic weekend yourself! :)

Happy Friday!

Today is the start of a crazy busy weekend for me and the family. My youngest, my baby, will be graduating from preschool today. I can't believe my wild and crazy girl is going to be in kindergarten! Then we have birthday parties, ice skating and her first dance recital. The end of the school year madness begins! Thought I'd share a few things I've done this week.

Since my daughter's birthday is in the end of July, she celebrated her birthday in class this week. We saw these Despicable Me cupcakes on Pinterest. The originals were the twinkies on top of cupcakes, but I thought a cupcake plus a twinkie might be a bit much for a classroom full of preschoolers, so we just put them on top of some 'nilla wafers. The kids loved them and thought they were hilarious.

And the flowers are for my daughter's teachers. I found the tumbler glasses at Target (so loving the Calypso line! the clothes, the home stuff, its all sooo cute!) Then it was over to Trader Joe's for some flowers and voila, a pretty, summery bouquet. Wish I could have taken a picture of these in natural light, because the colors are gorgeous!

Hope you have a great weekend and we'll see ya next week!

Happy Friday!

I am back from the abyss that is a 24 hour tummy bug. So this week's video is for The Husband for taking care of me and our babies till I got better. Thanks babe!

Hope you all have a happy and *healthy* weekend!!

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*Find this print here

Happy Friday! After spending the morning helping out in my son's class all I have the energy for is to giggle at this print. Check out his other prints, they are all hilarious.

Hope you have a great weekend, we'll see ya next week (barring the rapture or zombie apocolypse, etc.)

Happy Friday!

Heard these guys on KCRW this morning and liked the heavy eighties feel of it. Deep down inside A.J. and I are just eighties goth girls so this band is right up our alley. Grab your eyeliner and rock out.

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday and congrats Will and Kate (how gorgeous did she look??)!

Happy Friday and Easter!

Hope you have a great Easter weekend, full of jelly beans, Peeps!, and one of my favorite movies ever, Easter Parade. I dare you not to love this movie. SO many great scenes/songs/ and the DANCING, oh the dancing! (and all those awesome costumes aint bad either)

Happy Easter!!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday! I've been itching to get some Easter decorations up, but really wanted to try to use stuff I already had. And of course Her Most High Priestess Martha Stewart was a great inspiration. I saw this egg garland and decided to try my own. I quickly decided that I didn't want to use as many eggs as she did. Instead I staggered the eggs and used some left over crepe paper to make pompoms. Strung them all up on some twine, and voila. Easter garland. The hardest part was getting the eggs out of the eggshells, but I only broke one (and I used a good old fashioned sharp stick and my mouth, not a fancy "egg blower" like Martha says, I'm scandalous like that). After that I walked around my house and pulled things that seemed spring-ey to me and re-merched the mantle. I think it turned out cute, my husband thinks its weird (something about it being weird to decorate with real eggs). What do you think?

Happy Friday!

Woke up with this song in my head. Its one of my all time favorite songs, I can't play it just once, I have to listen to it at least seven times in a row. And its perfect for this sunny, bright morning.

Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend, I'll be celebrating my sister's birthday with some epic Just Dance 2 tournaments. Oh! And mine! ;) (I got a little sister for my third birthday) So Happy Birthday to me and Happy Birthday to Jessie!!! Love you much!

Happy Friday!

I had girl's night last weekend and it was fabulous. We drank margaritas, gossiped a bit, and then played Just Dance 2 (which is ridiculously fun to play). It was then that I was introduced to this brilliant little piece of disco history. Best song about a crazy russian ever. We've been listening to it non-stop at my house since then (always fun to hear your six year old sing "ra-ra-rasputin!") So this one is for my girls! Love you guys!

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Friday!

In the car with my four year old:

P: "What's this song from Mama?"

Me: "I don't know babe, its just on the radio."

P: "I know what its from. Its from that book where the school bus goes into space."

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Friday!

I have a bad habit of not eating breakfast. Then I hit ten o'clock and I'm starving, and all I want is something fast and filling. Something like a giant muffin. I know I'm not doing myself any favors by skipping breakfast, so I've been trying to think of something I will eat. Since I crave muffins anyways, I thought I'd start with a healthier version of the muffin. That along with the fact that I've been trying to work quinoa into my kiddo's diet (I'm always trying to get my picky son to eat more protein and quinoa is a great protein) led me to quinoa muffins. So I had my son help me make these yesterday and we loved them! Its a great basic recipe, I can see making these with all kinds of "fillings". We used wheat flour and added cinnamon and chocolate chips (I also "cheated" a little and used pre-cooked quinoa from Fresh & Easy). Quick and easy and filling. Find the recipe here and have a great weekend!!

Happy Friday!

Enjoy some funny kittehs. I love that Big Cat is so obviously trying to get away from Kitten, who is saying "CAT! CAT! YOU'RE STUCK IN THE BOX CAT! I'LL GET YOU OUT CAT! CAT CAT! CAT!"

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Chinese New Year!!

Happy Friday!

Have a great Friday! Here's a song from one of my favorite albums to listen to during the summer...