bibbidi bloggidi boo.

Well, we've had a nice week since returning from Idaho.

Nothing groundbreaking going on, but we're enjoying the journey.

A few highlights:

The Saturday after we got back we had a belated birthday celebration for our man.

I made his favorite pistachio cake.

It always smells so good, I'll have to try a GF version eventually.

The birthday clown made his first appearance since his comeback.

And Carly took a peek at daddy's presents during the photo op:

We've had some really great weather this week.

This means we've spent most of our time at one park or another, even going in the evenings when we should be winding down before bed. But really . . . few things are lovelier than a summer evening at the park.

[Carly pushing mommy on the merry-go-round until mommy wants to puke]

It was so warm that we busted out Carly's summer jammies. She is beyond yummy in them. I tried to take a picture, and got photographic evidence of her using a q-tip, even though she knows very well that she is not to stick a q-tip in her own ear. Every time I get one to get water out of her ears she points to it and says "mama's job!".



[multi-tasker]

On Friday we headed up to visit daddy on campus. I've said it before, but campus really is so beautiful. We went on a long walk and saw squirrels and ducks and ants ("baby bugs!") and heard the bell tower ("ding dong!") and walked through the beautiful herb garden. Then we even convinced daddy to come home with us instead of staying on campus to work. We're charming like that.



[walk in the sunshine]

Saturday morning on the way to the gym I stopped off at a garage sale some members of the ward were having. I'm dying to find Carly one of those Little Tykes slides that I could just put on our back area and let her play on so I could actually cook or something. Anyway, no luck with the slide, but I did find a shopping cart, which I knew Carly would love. I was right.



["cart! cart!"]

This weekend has been nice.

Rewind, today has been nice.

Carly had a grouchapotomus day yesterday. We went to the adult session of Stake Conference (what are you supposed to do with your kids?) and brought her and she was not having it. I wondered why we even went. Then we were going to head to Old Navy to use a 50% off coupon and find Carly a swimsuit, but we got lost and headed toward Flint, MI. Anyway, we salvaged the night by putting the grump down early, eating take-out Chinese and watching playoff hockey and a movie.

Today stake conference was nice, as it was a regional conference and we got to hear from Elder Ballard and President Eyring via satellite.

The warm weather, however, did not stay around. The rain moved in and it is freezing out . . . just as our heat is no longer working. We came home, bundled up, and watched Toy Story 3. Then we heated Carly's room with a blow dryer, put her down, and made a cake. Should be a nice evening.



[died laughing when i saw this picture; carly's first-ever unattractive picture]



Last but not least, guess who entered the blogosphere?

My wonderful hub, that's who.

Take a looky:

Cuties, Cubbies, and Kinesiology

That's all I have to say about that.

Happy Sunday.

xoxo.