4 Things Tag!

4 things I like to watch:

1: Lost - Best show ever. We have friends over every week just to watch it.
2: NCIS
3: Grey's Anatomy
4: Cake Boss

4 things I am passionate about:

1: My amazing hubby
2: My gorgeous little ones
3: Spiritual growth
4: Traveling and learning more about the world.

4 Words or phrases I say alot:

1: Seriously?!
2: Crazy!
3: Time Out!
4: I love you!

4 Things I learned from the past:

1: Be careful who you trust.
2: If it seems like it's too good to be true, it almost always is.
3: Kindness is always the way.
4: Love what you have.

4 Places I like to go:

1: Hawaii
2: St. Lucia
3: Great America with the fam
4: London

4 things I did yesterday:

1: Decorated an awesome golf bag cake for my hubby's birthday
2: Went to the in laws for a bday dinner for Doug and they ended up going to the hospital again. I'm going to start thinking that we are the reasons for their ER trips.
3: Snuggled with my hubby after an exhausting day
4: Had a dance party with my kids while Doug made beat box noises. He's so talented.

4 things I am looking forward to:

1: Trip to Disneyland
2: Trip to Tennessee
3: Moving
4: Definitely Summer!

4 Things I love about winter:

1: I'm with Tina, NOTHING!
2: NOTHING
3: NOTHING
4: NOTHING

4 Things on my wish list:

1: For Doug to get a new job
2: Move out of Illinois
3: Travel more, especially to Europe.
4: That Blake will grow, grow, grow.

4 people I tag

1: Bina
2: Nikki
3: Eve
4: Brittany

Weekend movie and superbowl ad review

Doug and I don't go to the theater often but this weekend we each saw a movie. Doug was probably the last person, besides me, that has seen Avatar and I saw Dear John.

Avatar: Doug didn't even want to see Avatar but went because he wanted to hang out with my dad. He's not really a sci fi kind of guy but he freakin loved it!!!!!!!!!! He said it was one of the best movies he's ever seen. He tried describing it to me but I guess it's one of those things that you have to see for yourself.

Dear John: For those of you who haven't heard of this one, it is a chick flick. It stars Channing Tatum, who's totally hot and whom I've loved since Step UP. I know I'm a dance dork. Anyway I thought it was going to be a romantic, sweet movie and it ended up being really sad and disappointing. I'd recommend waiting til it comes out on DVD. It had some good parts but for a movie that came out a weekend before Valentine's Day, it didn't make me feel very romantic.

As for the Super Bowl ads, I thought that most of them were disappointing but my fav one was the one where the dog put the shock collar on the guy with the Dorrito's bag. That one had me laughing out loud.

Hope you all had a fun weekend. Go Saints!!!!!!!

Legoland Fun!

Ok so some of you know that we have a bazillion legos and that Doug and Ethan make all kinds of really cool stuff with them. If you saw the post of the family as lego people then you know that Doug is working with legos for his tradeshow design. Well because of that he got a free ticket. So Doug took Ethan to Legoland for the first time. Yay!!! Ofcourse Ethan absolutely LOVED IT!!!!!! Kids that aren't into legos might not love it but Ethan was in heaven. I think he's going to be an engineer one day. He loves to build. Anyway, he got to see amazing lego builds, rode a lego rollercoaster, made his own lego, and took a lego class. Pretty cool to a 4 year old and a 33 year old daddy.

Can you see the pure euphoria?

Holy Crap it's Darth Vader! AHHHHH!

I wonder if this hippo had bad breath.

Real or not, this would freak me out too!

Ethan's lego that he made.

My crazy cuz and fam

In November my cousin Rachel got married and my cousin Nikki came up for it from Arkansas with her amazing hubby Steve and her gorgeous son Caelen. Nikki is like the sister I never had and never wanted. Just kidding Nik. I love her to death and we are pretty much joined at the hip whenever we are together. A few years ago she married her soul mate, Steve. Who I adore!!! He is no doubt a blessing from God to her and Caelen. Him and Doug hit it off right away. They kind of had to because when Nik and I get together you can't seperate us. We had a great time with them and were really, really sad to see them go back to Arkansas. We have big dreams of living close to each other someday. Although the guys might hate that cuz they'll never see their wives again. Seriously!

Barbie cake

Here is a barbie cake I did for a little girl that wanted the pink dress. Italian meringue buttercream isn't as easy as american buttercream is to work with but it tastes so much better that I'll sacrifice perfection for taste. I was waiting to post this so that I could put other cake pics with it but I'm still waiting for those pics to be sent to me. I've also made a superman symbol cake for a 40th birthday and a buche de noel. The superman cake turned out pretty cool. The buche de noel was gorgeous but unfortunately I did not have time to take a pic of it and I trusted the client to take good pics. Next time I'll just deliver it late so I can get a pic of it. They were all fuzzy and totally not usable. Oh well. Live and learn.

My husband is a blockhead

My husband is a blockhead. Wait! We all are. Ha, ha, ha. Doug and his creative funnies. Gotta love em. Here's what we would look like as lego people. Note Ethan's Flash shirt. For anyone who doesn't get it, The Flash is a superhero. And check out Blake's one tooth. I personally love the McSteamy stubble that Doug added for himself and if you could have seen the before pic of me, you would have thought that my lego alterego was a hooker. She had way to big of boobs for me and way too skimpy of a dress. Hope you all get a laugh. We did.

So much catchin up to do!

It's been forever since I've blogged so I'm probably going to overload you guys with a bunch of stuff you guys won't care about, but I gotta do it. We've had a lot going on in the last month. Just recently my mother in law had a small heart attack and is in the hospital. We love her so much and it was very scary for us. She has been having some complications on the medicine that she's been on in the hospital that made her heart stop once and made it slow down to 30 beats per minute another time. It was very scary to watch. She is doing better today but we are still really nervous. How could we not be? No matter how faithful you are, it's still scary.

On a lighter note, Blake woke up singing a song about his fav cousin Abbie and Ethan came running out of his bedroom yelling Good Morning. He always says good morning but today was just so enthusiastic and sincere. I love when Blake sings. He's always making up his own songs.

So now for an update on what we've been doing. We took Ethan ice skating for the first time and he LOVED IT!!!! He took to it really quickly and ofcourse wanted to do it by himself right away. We had a hard time getting him off the rink. He totally wore out Doug. Blake went around with Daddy a couple of times too and he loved it as well. It's too bad that they don't make ice skates in his size. I bet he would have rocked it!