oh the PECIA

last friday one of my favorite friends came into town and we were able to spend a few fun hours with her. pecia works for a fabulous band called the Jonas Brothers, for whom i am very grateful. not only because they treat pecia with the respect and love that she deserves, but also because they have been touring for the past several months and have brought pecia to utah TWICE!!!! whoopi. which means that i owe them a little room here on my blog... if you haven't already heard of them, here they are (and when i can figure out how to get music on my blog, ill be playing them!!)

pecia, as the butin family deemed her, has been a dear friend and soul sister for a long time. she has seen me through some of my most challenging times, as well as those moments that defined who i am. she was also a bridesmaid (hence the photo!) i am thrilled that she was finally able to meet my sweet baby z.

thanks pecia for the wonderful afternoon, the yummy lunch, the fabulous bag and much needed happies, for the tix and meet & greets (they LOVED it),and for loving my little cartoon character!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!

ode to uncle chris

with the posting of z's bday, i just had to include an "ode" to her uncle chris, not only because the two of them have the most adorable love affair with each other, but also because A- he moved (mean ol' uncle chris), and B- he wins the best birthday gift, maybe EVER!!!!
let's give a lil' background info shall we...
chris and sky met in high school, volleyball buddies. they stayed close and even went to new zealand together for 3 months, which became the sleeping in the same tent, falling from the sky, sloshing through pitch black tunnels together, kind-of-close. chris came for sky's homecoming, which is when he met me, because sky and i didn't spend one second apart from each other the minute we saw each other again. and i immediately thought chris was awesome!!! so then, after much convincing and condo craziness, chris decided to move to utah. he was here about 7 months, in which time zoia fell head over heels for him!!! the 3 of us were like a replica of the scrubs "family"(okay 4 of us, including z, but since there is no baby in scrubs, she is not included in the replica) w/ sky and i playing turk & carla, and chris as JD (and the best part is that chris actually kinda looks like zach braff!)
so in those 7 months there was a lot of camping, attempted hikes, driving, swimming, eating, shopping, etc. during one of the shopping adventures, at IKEA (the happiest place on earth), zoia decided to climb into the bin of sheep skin rugs!! and there she stayed for about 15 minutes until i pried her purple-lipped, screaming body from the bin. (she loves things that are soft. rugs, stuffed animals, garments, ya know....) so sweet uncle chris decides that for her bday he is going to drive the 45 minutes to IKEA to get her one of the coveted rugs.
and his drive paid off because when she opened his gift everything disappeared and she cuddled with the thing and hasn't stopped yet. in fact she not only sleeps with it every night, but she drags the thing around like a blanket!!!!!
so that is the ode to uncle chris!!!! we love you. and miss you.


p.s. if anyone knows how i can rotate pics on blogger can you let me know!!! i can't figure it out. they are flipped when i view them but when they post, they are turned again.... (computer retarded, yup that's me!!!)

just a little reminder

Two of my closest friends just returned from Romania.  They spent a month trying to finish the documentary that Ty and I started over 3 years ago.  They had quit the adventure....  I will tell more when I get a few pics from them, but I just wanted to post some video from You Tube just to remind you all what goes on out there in the world that we forget to notice sometimes...  

a few more photos from the bday

here are the cousins....  Cousin Kole, who teaches "baby z" how to be "tough as nails" is holding his new baby sister Sophie, or better known as "Ophie".  and then Miss Alie Jo who is only 9 months older than z is "holding" zoia....  maybe it should have been the other way around since z literally weighs almost 10 pounds more than Alie....

and this is my fam....  who all, by the way, LOVE zoia

grandma is OBSESSED.  uncle jesse and dayna love her, but she is not so sure about them.  aunt katie always gets hugs.  and hannah, well hannah really is the favorite.  Zoia will go to hannah even when she is crying, even over grandma!!!!  

i have a ONE YEAR OLD!!!!

yes, yes it is true. i do in fact have a child that is one year old!!! and she is so delicious. she is becoming the funniest kid ever!!! i am so lucky that i get to be her mom. don't get me wrong, she definitely has her moments when i wish that someone else would be her mom for a minute, but those don't last long!!! (usually) anyhow, we had a little party for her, and it was a lot of fun. she loves her little cousins, not always so fond of the adults, but she gets over it.  i even got to bake, which i love to do (ya i know, who knew that i would ever be able to do a thing in the kitchen, but it turns out i can bake).  I love cupcakes, so i made the barefoot contessa coconut cupcakes, which were FABULOUS!!!  and then some chocolate ones too!!   they were yummy,  and i am certain that i ate more than anyone else!!!!  i also made zoia her own cake, thinking that she would love to get messy and have her very own cake to eat, but she barely even poked at it....  bummer, maybe next year!!  anyhow, it was a fun night.  lots of food and presents and family.... she loved it!!!!

a few photos from the past few months

well, it seems that i may not be as technologically advanced as i thought and the whole blogging things was simply not working for me. but i will try again...
life has been busy and absolutely slow all at once. but here are a few photos.....

i want to be connected to you too!!

hey all, so in order for this to really be all it's cracked up to be, i need to be connected to the rest of you..... so, leave me a little message with your blog addresses so that i can be linked to you!!! THANKS!!