hair and steak, but not togther

okay, would you please do me a favor and ignore the fact that it looks like i'm wearing the same top today as i was wearing merely a few days ago in my "it's summertime" post? those pictures were really from the first day of summer, which was slightly longer than a couple days ago. and heck, i love this top. i bought it like three years ago for three dollars and never got around to wearing it until now. plus, it hides my love handles and my growing baby bump oh so well, so it deserve some love.

i'm one of those people who takes iphone mirror pics now. but not out of vanity, for good reason! i'm entering a summer iphone mirror picture contest. just kidding. i'm just vain. blogging makes me vain. but i do also want you guys to have something to remember how cute i used to be when i'm someday shaped like the Pillsbury dough boy with enormous ankles and three chins. it'll happen! you just wait. and when it does, you'll be glad to have these vain iphone pictures to remember the good old days, when you could read my blog without your eyes bleeding.

but really, i'm beyond excited for a ginormous baby bump =] it makes me ridiculously giddy. GIDDY.

so this one time last november, i cut off all my hair. and it was the worst mistake of my life on the worst day of my life. i went from this:

[where i looked like a lion and it was glorious, which was not the tune i was singing at the time, but if i had only known....]

to this:

and my soul died a little. the lady shaved off the bottom half of the back of my head. i had stubble. stubble, people.

i've been trimming it up myself off and on ever since, i won't trust anyone else near it. and i actually feel like it's been growing out really fast. i still can't pull it all up without a thousand bobby pins, but today i managed braid and PIGTAILS! oh pigtails. i missed you.

in other news, [STEAK news, if you will], john and sheri had us over for a barbecue on sunday and the monstrous appetite that is squirt + shilah was so happy about it. craig and i got to see craig's step brother trevor and his girlfriend and their three kids, who i've heard so much about [i've even helped john and sheri make tie-dye shirts for them] but now finally got to meet in person! it was a perfect summer day with family. and food. and baby talk.

sheri sent us home with some barbecue leftovers, which was great because craig and i had some hotdog and hamburger buns at home to use up. but even better than hotdogs or hamburgers was the divine gift of steak they let us have. steak. steak steak steak. all i can think about now is STEAK! i seriously just reach in the fridge, grab one, and eat it cold with my bare hands. it's so perfect. squirt must need the iron or the protein or SOMETHING, but whatever it is he makes me down that steak like there's no tomorrow. i even go a little feral and my vision turns a little red and i do a few crazy things while i'm nomming down on the steak. i won't share all of them with you, it's too frightening, but this is something i never thought i'd say that if i don't tell you about i might think it never happened:

"i got steak on the wall...."

it happened. and now you know to never come between me and my steak. i might get some of YOU on the wall. sorry, hunger makes me aggressive.

[steak] 

but seriously, does it look like i could ever hurt anyone? [yet...]

rollo cookies

last week charlotte pinned a recipe for rollo cookies on pinterest. and i asked her if i could steal it. she said i could. she's a doll.

yesterday, i made rollo cookies for FHE. the were a big hit.

today, i made the rest of the batch for craig to take to work to share. the were a scary big hit.

one adult man had five.

and my baking ego gets a huge boost.

they really are ridiculously easy to make. i didn't even follow the cookie recipe, i just used my easy peasy version and added rollos. the trick is all in the freezing. you freeze the rollos for 2 hours before rolling cookie dough around them, and then for 20 more minutes with the cookies dough before they go into the oven for ten minutes. they're a gooey dream. even if you don't like rollos [craig doesn't] you're love these cookies [he did].

if i was a good blogger i'd link you back to the original blog post for the rollo cookies. but i don't have the energy. someone boost my blogging ego so i'll feel more capable. kthanks =]

it's summertime

insagram love. bear with me. "earlybird," my favorite filter, is just so summer-esque.

i'm a little too excited for summer, it's making me feel rebellious. i just want to be wearing dresses and skirts and lace tights or shorts and tees for every waking moment of this fabulous season. so i of course wish i worked someplace that let me wear dresses or skirts or shorts or tights. seriously bumming on my summer style. they'll see though, once i'm as wide around as i am tall i'm wearing big, fatty maternity dresses and streeeatchy pants to work every day. and they can just try to stop me. i plan on having the mood swings of a dragon. they'll be sorry.

summer time plus: craig and i have been eating otter pop knock off for days, son. and we love them.

i need to come up with some summer goals. you know me, i love lists. they make everything better.

babybaby squirt is doing great, he's making me crave red meat like a crazy dinosaur, but i love him for it. craig and i got to visit and hold some sweet babies this last week, and it's making us so excited to be parents.

i look like a mom already, right? sure, more like a teen mom, but a mom nevertheless.

=]

good day

1. we took bruce in to get his nails clipped today, which is always my least favorite, he won't let me do it and he throws the biggest fit when we take him to petsmart [you know, making vets bleed, needing sleeping gas, pooping EVERYWHERE, that sort of thing]. but today he was so good, he didn't need to be sedated! first time ever! we were so proud. haha i can't believe we have to drug such a cute tiny creature to clip his darn nails. i told harvey if he ever grows nails i'm disowning him. he just made fish faces at me. but he knows.

2. so far i have not had any morning sickness at all. once i threw up after taking prenatals on an empty stomach but that'll happen to anyone i hear. sometimes when i smell fast foods or greasy foods or just things that i know aren't good for me anyway i'll fell all blech, like my body knows i don't need that shizz one bit.

2.5 craig doesn't have any morning sickness either! yayay! we're three healthy wills.

3. i'm not eating ice cream or drinking soda for the duration of this pregnancy. it's hard, but only because craig is going to get another 4.0 this quarter and that's supposed to mean Coldstone... but healthy eating goals help me feel better about what little squirt is eating and getting to grow up big and strong. i'm trying to cut out candy too, but those peanut mnms call to me like sirens of the sea. but darn it, i'm a will, i need to use some will power.

4. i AM craving meat. lots of meat. lots of red, fatty meat. last pregnancy all i craved was pizza and tuna. this meat thing works out much better for me, especially since craig hates tuna so we're much happier with this arrangement. plus it's super convenient right now. summer = barbecues. heck yeah. keep it coming. someone get this german girl more bratwurst. i'm talking to you, costco. cough em up. squirt needs his protein.

5. although i get super sleepy sometimes and feel like i'm moving through molasses and some days all i want to do is nap [last monday i woke up and did chores for an hour, then went back to bed. so bad.] i still have so much motivation to make cool baby things! And buy cool pregnant things and organize the baby room and getting everything ready. you know, cause 8 months is barely enough time to get anything done, i have to do it right freaking now. nesting is so bomb. i think i'd sleep all day if it weren't for those bird like urges. my brittney and i are planning baby crafting get togethers. eek!

6. i had these strange urges to spend money today and craig indulged me, because he's a doll. it started with a pair of blowfish shoes.

blowfish java 

60 dollars shoes for 23 dollars? Yeah, i'll bite.

7. craig also let me get this lovely product that i am so excited to use. i just discovered this company and they are just so sweet and kind and precious and all natural and i just can't get enough of them! and i haven't even gotten my package yet, haha. they have things for pregnancy and post baby, and even a sweet, heart melting packages of healing things for ladies who lost babies. i'm really happy to support them and i hope in turn they help minimize the massive stretch marks i'm doomed to receive [pretty please?]

earth mama angel baby stretch oil

 8. craig and i are enjoying lots of fun movie nights. we usually go for tv shows on netflix in 20 minute increments, which is great since we work so late and it's easier to commit to that than a 2 hour something. but i actually have so loved watching more movies lately. true grit? supper bomb. last night we watched val kilmer be batman for a while [swoon] and soon netflix is going to send us "conviction." i'm so enjoying summer movie nights with my handsome. 

9. have you guys heard of pinterest? it's my new favorite thing. it took me a couple days to figure it out but once i did i have enjoyed it immensely.  i use it like a wish list, all my boards are categories and then i "pin" clothes or products or projects i want to do someday. i keep them there so i don't forget them [when you pin things it links them back to where you found them.] when i'm ready to buy or make or bake something i've pinned they're just right there, waiting for me. it's how i kept tabs on that stretch oil until i was ready for it. i'm not followed nor do i follow very much on pinterest, but seeing my friend charlotte's pins every day is a treat. they are the prettiest inspirations. 

10. thursday is jamba juice day. this always makes me so excited. i usually go for chocolate or peanut butter mood and sometimes pomegranate pick me up [always with a shot of energy or daily vitamins], but today my jamba was all strawberry lemonade goodness. here squirt, have a healthy summer treat! 

ten little things, one big, good day.