randomness

i'm so sad. one of my kids' favorite places to play, rafiki, closed. and they aren't

opening a new one anytime soon.

holy moley! i am almost done with my blurb book for 2009-2010. i remember paying around $80 the first time i made one. i just checked prices after spending hours making this one, and it is going to be around $180. WOAH! i guess i have a ton more pages, and maybe their prices went up.

do you patch your kids' jeans? or buy them new when they got holes?

jake got me the cutest prints from etsy for christmas . now i just need an ikea so i can go get their ribba frames for them. i can't find any frames i like as much. i'm so excited cause i got a utah, brazil, idaho, and california print. love them!

we got our parents these family trees for christmas this year. i think they turned

out so pretty. i want one for myself someday. my favorite thing is that the green leaves show the country/state the person was born in. it's fun to see where our ancestors are from.

i wish that i would come home one day to find this in my master bath. it's so much better than a plain builder mirror. pretty sure jake would never do it for me though.

someday i want a house with a hidden room. preferably a book room full of books and comfy chairs with electric blankets to keep me warm. this one is pretty awesome.

toys

i love when we buy gifts for the kids that get played with over and over.

here's a few that are extra popular at our house.

automoblox

have you seen them? you can take them apart and switch parts with different cars.

kel loves them. he doesn't have a ton since they are a little pricey, but i think they are

something to buy a few every now and then for gifts cause they get used a lot. i just hate

when pieces go missing.

magformers

my mom got these for the boys for christmas and they have already been played with for so many hours. kel is still a little young to follow the directions, but he makes up his own ways of making things.

Fisher Price TRIO

kel is obsessed with these. he loves to make all sorts of things. the boys always

fight over the eyeballs so they got a couple new sets for christmas. the zoo set is pretty cool and includes a lot of pieces. kelan has played with these more hours than i would have ever thought.

any popular toys at your house?

bachelor talk

what did you think of michelle on the bachelor?

wow. i am convinced she is doing this just to get attention.

she totally wants to have the villain image.

and that's exactly what she is.

i'm thinking he ends up with chantal.

and emily will be the next bachelorette. she is too sweet for brad.

that's all my bachelor talk for the week.

i'm obsessed with the color yellow right now. i just can't seem to get enough.

i love my oilcloth tablecloth, because i can just wipe it so easily.

i bought one awhile back from modern june on etsy, and i have been so happy with it.

but this one has caught my eye at anthro. i keep waiting each week for it to go on sale, but i'm not sure i will really buy it when it does. i'm just afraid the kids will ruin it. because really, there is not a day that goes by that they aren't painting, coloring with all sorts of things, playing play-dough, stamps, and everything else messy. isn't it pretty though?

clutter

i cleaned the office today. sort of.

the most annoying thing about living where we do is that there aren't basements.

therefore, there's nowhere to put storage.

i really dislike clutter, but since we don't have much storage, there's a lot of it around.

and after having these 9 frames for close to two years now, i finally got some pictures printed and hung them up. i love them. now i need to get making some cute magnets for my huge black magnet boards. it would be nice to find something cute for storing all the papers that clutter up too. plus i have a stack of scrapbook stuff that doesn't have a home. i'm telling you the clutter never ends.....

i don't want this to be a deal blog, but this is a good one.

a $20 amazon gift certificate for $10.

check it out cause it ends soon.

i seriously did over half of my christmas shopping at amazon.

love them!

groopdealz

this is THE CUTEST necklace.

it's one of those necklaces you can wear everyday, and i don't have many of those.

the deal ends today, so if you want it......get it now.

or forward the link to your hubby, as a subtle hint.

Ebates

i did a ton of my holiday shopping online. it is so much easier to not have to haul three little boys out and about, cause really they don't like to shop.

one of my favorite online cash back sites is Ebates.

have you heard of it?

it's so great. you just shop through their links after signing in, and get cash back credited to your ebates account. then every three months they will send you a check.

right now they have a referral program where if you refer three people you get $30. refer 20 people you get a flip hd, refer 50 people and you can get an ipad. the referral needs to spend at least $25, so i'm not sure how many referrals you'll actually get. but i always use this site when i'm doing online shopping. you should too!

i love how you can create your own art with this wall frame.

it has nine metal clips to hold photos, notes, postcards, or anything else you can imagine.

if jake ever took hints, he would totally get this for my birthday.

i really love this table too. i keep looking for something like this. just wish it was a cute color.

i was just thinking this would be too easy to make. maybe i don't need jake to buy it.

but will i ever get around to making it?

movies

a couple weekends ago we rented Grown Ups.

have you seen it?

it doesn't have the greatest reviews, but we were rolling.

i don't even remember the last time i laughed that hard in a movie.

after it was over jake wanted to watch it again. it was just his kind of humor.

i have been wanting to see Babies forever. better get to redbox before it's gone for good.

waiting for superman gets released feb 15. can't wait.

i still haven't seen inception. not sure i want to any more after several people have told me they hated it. it sure looked interesting.

can't believe i haven't seen the social network.

maybe i should just lock myself in my room for the weekend and have a movie-a-thon.

any other movies i should add to my list?