New Moon

Hello!
...So I had a fun Mommy's Day Out on Monday! :D Mat took the day off work to watch the kids, while Sandy and I went to the New Moon Premiere in LA!! Woo hoo! We arrived at the theater around 11:30am and claimed our spot, close to where we were for the Last Samurai Premiere. As soon as we stood behind the girls in front of us, one of the security guards said "Only 2 deep, people!", meaning only two rows of people could stand behind the barricade. We were starting the 3rd row, knowing that with our previous experience, there was no way there was going to only be 2 rows of people there. There would be mobs. So we stayed and bonded with the wonderful ladies in front of us... most of them were Mommies like us, thrilled to be out on the town with the girls, in the middle of all this excitement! We were having a great time chit chatting and watching the crowd grow, despite our numbing legs and feet. Five hours into our waiting, the cops come by and start clearing out the area! The rows of people that had gathered behind us were being told to move and our new friends were desperately trying to squeeze us in with them, but to no avail!! The cops told Sandy and I that we had to leave. It didn't matter HOW LONG we were standing there. So we told our new friends goodbye and made our way across the street into the, now, HUGE MOB OF PEOPLE. Our new spot was lame, but I still held out hope that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. ...WRONG!!! It was LAME!! As Sandy says... L to the IZ AME!!! hahaha!! We were about 5 people deep from the barricade and too short to see anything. Basically, we held our cameras over our heads in hopes of catching a star in the LENS rather than our own eyes. Sad huh? AAAAND...aaaand we had to deal with a couple of possible pick pocketers!! These guys were so out of place. Grown men in their late 40s to 50s, with no kids, no women, no camera and no SMILES?? Come on dudes... it was so obvious. They each left when they realized we were on to them. But ya know what the worst part was?? Our new friends told us that as soon as we left, the crowd just filled back up again!! It was all for NOTHING!!!! How stupid is that?!?! What was the point?? Anyway... things turned around for us later when we scored tickets to see the movie at the theater across the street! WOO HOO!!
Despite the disappointment, we had a great time hanging out as usual!
Here are some pictures from the night. See if you can guess which ones were from MY camera, and which ones we COULD'VE had, from our friends' cameras!! LOL!!



Alright!!!! Thumbs up for scoring a good spot!!

Anticipation!

Stretching my legs!

Goofballs!

Happier Times...lol

After we lost our spot!!! SO SO Sad!!!

Our picture of Dakota...

Their picture of Dakota!

Our picture of Robert...

Their picture of Robert!!

Our picture of Kristen...

Their picture of Kristen!!!

Their picture of Taylor!!!!...

Our view...

Their view!!! (We would've been right next to that "NO Parking" sign!!)

But we're still smilin! :D



Still a great time!! Can't wait to do it again, sis!!! :D

Interview about Mommy by Jaedon

I finally interviewed Jaedon about me. :D I tried to do it a few days after the first interview (about daddy), but I was getting all of the same answers! LOL So, here's the second attempt which was a success. :D

1. What is something mom always says to you?
You say "you're a sweetheart, a lot."

2. What makes mom happy?
"Being happy and not being sad. Definitely not."

3. What makes mom sad?
(Camryn makes a pouty face with her head down, like I asked her to act out the 'sad' emotion)
Jaedon said, "Us being sad... me and Camryn"

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
"by tickling me."
(Cam starts to tickle me and says "tickle mama")

5. What was your mom like as a child?
"I don't know. Like a parent...what's a parent?"

6. How old is your mom?
Jaedon: "I don't know. 41. ...41?"
Me: "nope."
Jaedon: "20? Are you 20?"
Me: "Yep!"
Jaedon: (celebrating with a fist pump) "YES!!"

7. How tall is your mom?
"This tall. A billion tall." Gets up on bed, stands, puts his hands by his eyes. Then sits. and says "this tall." Then walks over to me, touches my head and says "this tall."

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
"work. I mean play."

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
"just sit. hahaha" (yes... HE laughed)

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
"famous with Sandy" (I know you'll like that one Sandy! lol!)

11. What is your mom really good at?
"working"

12. What is your mom not very good at?
"being a monster." (Camryn laughs hysterically)

13. What does your mom do for her job?
"work. You work"

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Camryn yells "A CAKE!"
Jaedons says "cake!" Then humors Camryn by saying, "A FOOT!! Hhahaha! No no no a sandwich!!"

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
"for working so hard and getting us to stay on this planet"

16. If your mom was a cartoon character, who would she be?
Jaedon: "A train"
Camryn: "A train"

17. What do you and your mom do together?
"play"

18. How are you and your mom the same?
"cause we both have ears, noses, and mouths. hahahaha"

19. How are you and your mom different?
"you have long hair and I have shor.... CURLY hair"

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
"That you care about me."

21. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
"McDonalds!" (greaaaaat. LOL!)

Nap Time

Hi!
BOTH kids are napping so I thought I'd sneak in a quick blog :D
Jaedon's commission sketch came in last night! It's awesome! Check it out!! We're gonna go with the first one.
So cute!!!
...Jaedon's awake... see ya!!

Procrastinating

Ugh... I need to finish our taxes. Bleh. I hate doing taxes. I'm not an accountant. I feel like I am guessing my way through it. I think I do okay, but when I get to the car stuff... the depreciation stuff... it gets confusing. So that's where I am. Or at least, where I should be. But instead I thought I'd blog for the second day in a row!! LOL! Can you say, procrastination? prooooo...craaaas...ti...nation! ;)

So, who watched the Bachelor?? I did. I couldn't wait to see Jason with his "happily ever after" ending. How disappointing!!!!! I was rooting for Melissa from day one. I liked Molly too, but I think her wide eyes freaked me out every once in a while. ;)
So who despises Jason and who has forgiven him? I think I'm on the forgiven side. I don't like how he broke up with Melissa on national TV. I thought it was totally classless... and what made it even worse was him and Molly making out no more than 30 minutes after he crushed Melissa. EW!! I think Molly should've shown a little more restraint too!! Couldn't she have held off on the kissing???? Didn't she feel like sloppy seconds?? ...sorry. But even after saying all that, I do think it was the right thing to do(although not on national TV). Melissa bashed him for "not wanting to work on their relationship"... but Jason knew deep down that those feelings he had for Molly were not going to go away. I am all too familiar with wanting your heart to feel one way and it feeling another. It seriously has a mind of it's own and there is nothing you can do about it. I have WANTED to feel in love with someone and have wanted NOT to feel in love with someone. You just have to follow your heart. Cause if you follow your head, your heart will always haunt you. That's what I believe. So, I forgive Jason for breaking it off with Melissa, but I don't think he should've proposed to her in the first place. How can you propose marriage to someone if you have an emotional breakdown over someone else, just minutes (or even hours) before?!? Do they have some kind of contract that says he HAS to propose??? If that's the case... doesn't that mean that Brad broke the deal when he chose no one?? Anyway, that stupid show has been in my head for days. I was totally addicted to it. I have decided to forgive Jason and move on. ;) I hope that he and Molly are very happy together and I hope Melissa is even happier. Ahhhhhhh... I feel much better now. :) Hey... have you heard that Melissa is going to be on Dancing with the Stars tomorrow? Now I have to watch!

Enough of that. Now on to family stuff. :)

We went to the snow FINALLY, on Wednesday. We've been talking about going for a month. Thank goodness there was snow!! Not only was their snow, but it was snowing! I haven't seen the snow coming down since I went skiing in Colorado with my family. I was in the 11th grade. If you do the math, that's like 20 years! It was really neat, but cold!! It was much nicer when the wind stopped blowing. The snow we were in wasn't exactly powder, but we couldn't go up the hill any further. The higher we got, the more windy it seemed to get. And we could barely see through the fog. So we just pulled off in an open area and played for 2 hours. The kids had a blast. So did we. But I was very disappointed when we striped the kids puffy clothes off and Camryn's hands were like ice!! What in the world?? Her gloves didn't even feel wet. I don't get it. Poor thing. No wonder she kept asking to take her gloves off towards the end. I'm glad we left when we did cause I thought we were all pretty cozy in our puffy clothes. Camryn looked like the little boy from Christmas Story... "I can't put my aaaaarms dooown!" LOL!!!! She HATED the wind in her face, but when the wind was calm, she was having fun.

Enjoy the pics! :) I wanted to take more, but really didn't want to lug the camera around while sledding.






And finally... something I'm really excited about. :) I ordered a commission drawing of Camryn from an artist I met at last year's ComicCon (She recently started working for Nickelodeon) I LOVED her stuff so I asked her if she could draw Camryn as a fairy. These are the sketches she did for me to choose from. Check 'em out! We loved them so much that we are having her do one of Jaedon too! I can't wait to get them! Here's her blogspot: The Art of Laurie B



Alright! Time to watch Desperate Housewives!...I mean do taxes. :)

Interview with the kids about Daddy

Sorry I've been MIA. I suppose I've been in facebook lately. (:D
Thought this was a cool note going around on there... It's an interview that you are supposed to have with your kids. :)
I jumped on it and asked Jaedon the questions with Camryn in the room. hehehe Gotta love it!

1. What is something daddy always says to you?
"Do you like coffee? Do you like coffee? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya??"

2. What makes daddy happy?
"love"

3. What makes daddy sad?
"no love and how he gets grumpy and after that he gets exercize"

4. How does your daddy make you laugh?
"tickling. He tickles me"

5. What was your daddy like as a child?
"I don't know"

6. How old is your daddy?
Camryn: "He's two!" ...
Jaedon: "NO!! Don't write that! He's 40!"

7. How tall is your daddy?
"Really tall. Like this tall...(jumps up on the bed, stands up and puts his hand up to his mouth). Like riiiiiight here"

8. What is his favorite thing to do?
"Exercize"

9. What does your daddy do when you're not around?
"He does shopping. A little bit"

10. If your daddy becomes famous, what will it be for?
Jaedon: "I don't know"
Camryn: "I dunno"
Jaedon: "Uh shopping? I'm guessing"

11. What is your daddy really good at?
Jaedon: "exercising"
Camryn: "He's two!!"
Jaedon: "NO! Don't write two!"

12. What is your daddy not very good at?
"Throwing. Cause he throws the balls over the fence."

13. What does your daddy do for his job?
Jaedon: "Works. He writes comic books and he even writes people. They're really cool too."
Camryn: "He better."

14. What is your daddy's favorite food?
Camryn: "He dinner."
Jaedon: "I don't know. That's a hard one. That's not a good one. ........Steak burrito kinda thing."

15. What makes you proud of your daddy?
Jaedon: "working some and playing with me."
Camryn: "He better"

16. If your daddy was a cartoon character, who would he be?
Jaedon: "Maybe a president."
Camryn: "A cartoon on the paper."

17. What do you and your daddy do together?
Jaedon: "Play together. Race cars. Playing trains. Wrestling. Even tackling. Wrestling, punching, and even play games too."
Camryn: "um, I dunno"

18. How are you and your daddy the same?
Jaedon: "We got made the same by God."
Camryn: "um, I dunno"

19. How are you and your daddy different?
Jaedon: "Got made different by God too"
Camryn: "um, I dunno"

20. How do you know your daddy loves you?
"Gives me love I think and after that... and sometimes he rides to some places with me."

21. Where is your daddy's favorite place to go?
"Starbucks, I think."