lauren dresses cute, lo is mean, audrina needs to speak up, heidi and spencer are aliens, and justin bobby is cute but sooo thinks he is johnny depp.

i think i just admitted that i love this show.

asian noodle salad

This is a really delicious salad. We ate it 'til our bellies hurt. Lots o' produce makes the checkout boy at the grocery store kind of grumpy, though. All of those numbers to key in manually. Sorry, checkout boy.

i love: a mother's list

i love that i am a mom of two babies at the ripe old age of 24. i love that i've never regretted having them so young.

i love my fabulous little family. i love that my camera has a self-timer. i love my hair in this picture. (that last one is a lie. but i love that i have the freedom to hate my hair?? i'm trying here.)

i love my new yellow frye heels that i have been admiring for well over a year, but surely they were much too expensive, but surely my husband decided he didn't care and bought them for me anyway! (love you babe.) (p.s. this picture does absolutely no justice to the fabulosity of these shoes.)

i love my mom. i love all of the various representations of moms in my life. i love my grandma abbie, who passed away almost 5 years ago but whose gold "a" pendant i finally found a chain for and got to wear for the first time, appropriately, today. (i love that she received the pendant in 1927 for participating in debating.)

and i love my pearly girl and the fact that i know all of her digestive organs are functioning at 100% because she pooped all over my white skirt during sacrament meeting and now i am home cleaning her up and blogging instead of learning what a special thing it is to be a mother. but i love that i already knew that anyway.

but then there is the issue of the public pool

What's the deal with all of the cute one-pieces lately? I love it. The problem is, how do I get a tan before I even think of wearing one of these?

When I was younger and I'd say, "I wish I was tanner, " my brother would say, "D.J. Tanner?"

rocky mountain high

We went to Colorado this weekend with Jamie's parents to visit his grandparents. Jamie and his stepdad dug ditches, mowed the lawn, fixed broken things. Jamie's mom kept an eye on Milo as he filled his pockets with rocks, touched every breakable thing in the house, threw rocks, and generally ran around like crazy. Pearl alternately cried and was happy. I... I read a book. It was lovely. Colorado is a beautiful place.

quad love.

more quad love.

hard at work or hardly workin?

cute little house. except on the inside are a couple of stuffed sheep that scared the junk out of milo.

Years ago, when Jamie's grandparents were assigning heirlooms to their grandchildren, Jamie was just a wee little one. So, while others got fine china, furniture, etc., Jamie got his little heart's desire: a wooden "chicken coop" where he loved to play with his stuffed animals and climb in to take naps. A chicken coop. When Jamie told me this after we were married, I said, "A chicken coop?!" and he hung his head in shame. Well, this weekend I was admiring Grandma S's lovely milk glass and she up and sent me home with them! These pieces are even more special because they originally belonged to his mom's mother as well. I feel so honored to have them.

overheard often

"Pearl, you're the best boy in the world!" -Milo

i ran a mile tonight. without stopping. and i wasn't really that tired. i would've kept going except it was getting dark and i didn't want to have to use the pocketknife jamie made me take. so, yeah, running a mile without wanting to puke my guts out is kind of a big deal for me at this point. woo.

(running tonight was also imperative because we just got back from eating the Costco Feast. unfamiliar? the Costco Feast is: 1 slice pepperoni pizza, 1 polish dog with sauerkraut, 1 churro, 1 berry smoothie, and 4 refills of root beer. 7 bucks well spent. 1500-ish calories we could do without.)