New Addition

Recently, we’ve had a new addition to the family. Not mine and Husband’s, specifically, I mean my extended whole family. Recently, my brother (the one who lives by me, that I’ve spoken of before) adopted a baby – a small boy that they named Axel. Yes, you’ve read that right, they named him Axel. A few days after he was born, I went to their house, to see him, and this is who I saw:

Cute! I of course, picked him up and held him:

And he was fun. Very very small, and I enjoyed hanging out with my two nephews for a bit:

So fun. I do enjoy getting a new family member, because then that’s a new chance I have to convince a child to like me best.

Foto Friday

This morning, I found a new addition to the McSnailington clan. Ok, let’s be honest, he could be of another one altogether, but I’ll call it at this one. I was on my way into work this morning, and I happened to glance down, and I saw him. He is tiny! You can’t really tell in the picture, I maybe should have put something next to him, so that you could see how small he is comparatively, but he is so tiny, I was surprised I saw him at all. But here he is:

Cute! I didn’t touch him or try to kill him or anything, and I’ll assume he got to his destination safely. It was a nice treat to start my day off with that tiny guy.

A Slight Delay

I forgot, the other day, to blog about the RSL game that we went to on Saturday night. It was, as usual, a good time, but an interesting game to go to. It was a chilly time, which is weird for August, but to be honest, it was a nice break from the scorching temperatures we usually have, and I just sit in the stands, sweating, drinking copious amounts of water, but not getting any cooler. So it was nice, for a bit. As we were walking into the game, it was sprinkling ever so slightly. The game started, and it was still sprinkling. We got 3 minutes and 15 seconds into the game, and all of a sudden, the referee blew the whistle, and stopped the game. Due to the proximity of the lightning, they stopped the game for the safety of the players. They made an announcement, saying that the players would be leaving the field, and for our safety, we should leave our seats, and go stand up in the concession areas. I’m a rebel, so we hung out in our seats, waiting for the players to return. I took a picture of the sky after they left, the sky looked so dark and foreboding.

80 MINUTES LATER the players returned to the field. We sat there, playing games, chatting, and I live-tweeted the event, so that those at home knew what was going on, the inside scoop. Then, through the storm clouds, and the lightning, and all that, a rainbow emerged, and we thought the game might start soon.

Finally, about 15 minutes after the rainbow was seen, they returned, and warmed up for about 10 minutes or so. Then they started, and we were chilly. PJ & I had to go to the team store during the first half, to get a jacket, she had left hers in the car, because on the way in, it didn’t actually seem like it was going to be cold. Husband left his too, so I bought him a long-sleeved shirt out of the kindness of my heart. Then we stayed and watched the game for the remainder, and we won! It was awesome. At the end of the day, we had stayed at the stadium for about 4 hours. That’s not a super long amount of time, but oh man did it seem like it a little. Thankfully, we all lived, we had fun, and the best news of all, we made it to Baskin Robbins 7 minutes before they closed, which was the miracle of the night.

Jugglin‘

I found out about an app today that has changed my life. Ok, I can’t guarantee the life-changing event, but I sure have had a LOT of fun with it this afternoon. It’s called Face Juggler, and it does exactly what it says it will. You import a picture of people, and it’ll move everyone’s faces around until no one has their original face. I did it with many pictures, but these ones were my favorite:

Honestly, we look like monsters here. My face on her body (pink shirt) isn’t too bad, but her face on mine looks pretty horrible.

He on her face looks just like an ugly guy, but her face on his body makes him look like the best drag queen ever.

This one doesn’t work on about a hundred different levels. Our heads are just too different, size-wise.

So there it is. I’ve been laughing at these all day, and sending them to people to laugh at too, so I hope you enjoyed these as well.

How I Spent My Labor Day

Happy Labor Day, everyone! I hope everyone had a great holiday. Mine was pretty good, I won’t lie. I’ll do a small recap here, because of the awesome events. I started the day with a pretty good run up and then back down Provo canyon. After the run (in which PJ joined me) we made some good food, waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, and some delicious bacon, that I made in the oven. I’d never done that before and while it was good, if I do it again, I’ll keep it in the oven for a shorter amount of time. When I pulled the bacon out, it seemed all sorts of burned, but after I let it sit on some paper towels for a while, it calmed down enough to see it wasn’t burned, and actually pretty delicious. I’d make it that way again and again! (Because I hate making bacon, I hate the popping burns I get)

Then later in the afternoon, PJ and I went and got some haircuts. I’ve been putting off getting a trim for a really long time, because I just want to have my hair long. But I’ve finally decided, it was time to go. I took off a good 4 inches – 3 ½ to cut my hair up to my layers, and then an extra inch so that the layer I was meeting up to had the dead hair cut off as well. It’s not a huge difference, you can’t really tell the hair being cut, but I can tell, the hair is just different. It’s very healthy now, and that’s freaking awesome. So I took a pic of it yesterday, to compare with a pic that I had taken of the back of my head a few weeks ago, so that you can see what the difference is.

See, looks pretty good! I was glad I got rid of that dead weight at the bottom, and hopefully it’ll grow back fast.

After a movie (Bourne Legacy, in case you’re wondering) I had to make a treat for scouts. It’s our pack meeting tomorrow and we’re doing the Blue and Gold banquet, and the Webelos are in charge of the dessert. I’m not entirely sure how many people will be coming, but we seemed to have a lot of people at the last one of these, so I knew to make a bunch of something. I chose to make the Chocolate Treasures that I made last year, since they make a bunch, they’re small for kids, and it’s easy. So, PJ helped me make a double recipe, which ended up making 96 mini brownies.

See how many that is? Sheesh. Once I got them all baked and out of the oven, we needed to kill a little time while they cooled so that we could frost them. So, PJ and I spent some time trying to get our phones to play the same song at the same time. We tried many many songs, and I think we only got them to play at the same for one song. There were many times where one of the phones was just like, a second off of each other, and we couldn’t get them to sync up. But finally, after all the phone shenanigans, frosting was made and applied to all the brownies.

Ta-daaaaa! And then I shoved them all into 2 containers, and they’re ready for many hungry scouts and their families. I think everything worked out pretty well, and I got everything done on my list that I needed to get done!

Card Time, Once Again

It’s that time again – card makin’ time. I have card club this Saturday, and did I actually do this in time, or did I procrastinate, and leave it until the last week? The answer is, of course, I procrastinated! For the last 2 card clubs, I’ve had a mouth surgery the week before the meeting, and ample time off of work to do them. So it’s been nice, I’ve enjoyed that luxury. So this time, I’ve just had my regular time, and I’ve planned the cards, for weeks now, without actually doing the cards. This last week, I realized that I have zero time left, so I need to hurry up and do them. So after making a card each of the ones I’ll be making, I sat down today to finally get them done.
After I got home from church, I immediately sat down and got to work. I worked pretty straight through the day, with a 2 hour break for a family dinner. Then I came home, and worked through the rest of the evening, and finished them all! Huzzah! So now, for your viewing pleasure, my cards:

And I did a little fan of them both, so that you could see all of them at once, you’re welcome.

So now, I’m set. I have card club in less than a week, and my cards are ready, so I’m good to exchange. Hopefully next time, I’ll learn my lesson and make the cards at least a week in advance.

Sunday Stroll

Tonight, in the midst of crafty times (expect a blog on this later!) I felt like I needed to get up and take a walk. I've been working on this since I got home from church at noon, with the exception of a 2 hour break for a family dinner. So I needed to stretch my legs, pretty much. So I put on my walking shoes (flip flops) and left the house at like, 9:00. As I was walking out the door, Husband's like, don't go by yourself, you'll get kidnapped! And I said my standard reply to this, which is "Yeah, because some guy is just waiting around our neighborhood waiting for a white woman to walk around alone". Because, come on, that's not happening.
So, I get going, and walking around, and then I remember that every time, without fail, even though I'm totally tough in my house before I leave, once I'm out walking in the dark, then I really am like, "There's probably some guy walking around our neighborhood waiting for a white woman to walk around alone!" and I'm distrustful of everyone and shadows make me nervous. At one point, I was walking by the house where an emu lives (yes, there's a house that has an emu as a pet. Is that the weirdest?) and its pitch black, of course, and then, the emu, who was previously in a ball on the grass, decides to get up and look at me as I pass. And of course, my heart JUMPS out of itself, thinking that the bird is firstly a serial killer getting me, and then I think, what if it jumps out of the fence and kills me?! Because you know, that's totally going to happen.
On the plus side, I did make it home just fine, nobody attacked me, and I lived. This will probably not be my last solo night walk, and that's ok. I like these walks, especially because will all the frights I imagine, it gives my heart a nice workout too!