The Sweet Life.

Turns out, my "Things to do" list is longer than my life span....

So I haven't blogged in like 6 months.... I think it was mostly due to the fact that when I was able to log some computer time I was busy stalking all the other blogs and not my own. I see from my activity that I still have some loyal "followers" and for that I thank you and dedicate this update to you, you and all the others who accidentally found this place googling something freaky on google images.

A lot has happened in the last six months....

She turned 18.....

 

 

18 PEOPLE !!!!! when the heck did that happen ?!?!? I mean I barely remember giving birth to her,,,, the fact that I didn't,  really isn't the point here. The point is that she will graduate in just a few short weeks and in a few short months be off to collage. And that my friends really blows. One one hand I'm very excited for her and all the things that she is going to get to experience, but on the other, I soooooooo do not want her to leave. Not sure what I am going to do around her without her. She will be leaving me all alone with the 13-year-old-I-think-I-know-everything-just-ask-me-BOY. AND her dog who HAS to be all up in your grill every waking moment.

Big Daddy turned the big FIVE-OH.

And I made sure that ALL the neighbors knew it.

 

And I turned 39 .... again.....

 

I also got to spend my Birthday weekend scrapbooking witht hese lovely ladies....

 
We had a great time even if Shelia's blanket did smell like massage oil.

 

 

We Had Christmas at KiKi's.....

 
And this year we got a SPECIAL visit from  Santa and Mrs. Claus.

 

 

When I knew they were on the way I kept telling Ben (my 2 year old Nephew ) to look out the window and see if Santa was here yet.... he would look and then say in his cute little voice "no,, not here.." And when he looked that last time and saw Santa staring back at him thru the window, the look on his face was priceless !! And it was the best part of Christmas this year... It was Awesome.

 

 
Thanks Bill and Sharon. You guys rock.

While on Christmas "vacation" we got to spend some time with this guy.

 
He will be FIVE next month and is so much fun. His quote of the week was "Papa there is not enough room in this bed for you. You will be fine on the couch" (that was his way of saying that he wanted to sleep in our bed with me. And Papa could sleep on the couch.

He cracks us up... And in late September early October he will be joined by TWINS !! Yes, Lindsay, Karl's oldest is pregnant with twins!! We are so excited and we are hoping for girls. She is going to find out what they are (that sounds so dumb "what they are" we know what they ARE, they are babies) but she is going to find out the sex of the babies so when she does I'll share... I hope that I'm going to have to start stocking up on LOTS of PINK !

Coop and I also had some fun making these rootbeer raindeer for all the neighborhood boys this Christmas....

 

Lauren had 2 Dances......

 

 

The Boyfriend is already history but she had a great time at the dance.

I spent a lot of time this winter at the Skate park with Coop and his buddies.... mostly Jack and Ben went with us ....

 
I sit and watch movies on my I Pad....

 

And Jackie drinks lots of slushies....

 

They got to meet Tony Hawk and that was pretty cool....

This is Tony Hawk high - fiving Ben & Coop ...

 

This is Tony Hawk telling me to move out of his way with my stupid camera so he can skate.

 
Whatever Tony Hawk. Your like 52 whatta gonna do ? Kick my ass? I think not old man.

 Speaking old men,,, mine did a lot of this this winter.....

 

This was what it looked like when we opened up our front door the morning of the record setting snow storm that hit the Chicago area.  "Snowmageddin " as I like to call it. Based on the news coverage you would have thought it was the end of man kind.  There wasn't a loaf of bread or gallon of milk to be found in a tri county area. Everyone was snowed in for just under 2 days... they were all inside eating milk soaked bread.

 

We have had A LOT of winter around these here parts this year. Way more than normal, way more than average and in my opinion, way more than is necessary.  I am even looking forward to those seasonal allergies kicking in because at least that means I wont be freezing my ass off anymore.

Even the dogs are tired of this . They take about 2 steps outside the door and say "screw it, Im not walking out in the fricken snow anymore. I'm peeing right here I don't care if it is on the sidewalk ."....... and I cant say I blame them.

 

I have been completely obsessed with the "nesting blogs" you know the re decorating, painting, "fun things you should try to do in YOUR house" blogs.....  So I have been up to my ass in alligators of "projects"...

I turned this nice-bones-but-in-bad-shape hutch ...

 

Into this..... I would have never thought to paint the inside had I not seen it on one of those 100 or so blogs....

 

I took this $ 2.00 yard sale find that Coop and I picked up...

 

And I painted her and distressed her and now she lives in my dining room.....

 

One of those fabulous blogs gave me the "inspiration" to change our hallway / landing form this:

 

To this:                 ahhhhhhhhh MUCH better no??

 

And these funny shaped 1/2 walls from this :

 

To this:

 

All that sanding, priming, painting, caulking, painting... was a B-I-T-#-* but it was sooo worth it.

 

Oh, and also? Big Daddy surprised us all (even me) with a trip to Disney For Christmas. We left mid January and it was WONDERFUL!  I can't believe he even surprised ME (its hard to do)....

 

And the ironic thing is that these pictures of our trip is what inspired me to go on the Atkins Diet the first of February. I was horrified at how many chins I could count and how I had suddenly become one of those moms who SHOULD NOT wear shorts..... whaaaaa??? when did that happen?? The diet is not bad and it has been very easy to stick to, I have lost 13 lbs so far and feel like the scale may even move a bit more in the coming weeks as I have broken down and started to exercise. For me that is the hardest part. I am a self admitted lazy ass. And I absolutely HATE to sweat. Exercising is the how I'm pretty sure I am going to spend eternity because it is hell.  But I am determined to loose another 15 to 20 lbs and I'm afraid diet alone is not gonna get me there..... I do have to say though this diet is not hard to follow... it is the ONLY thing I have EVER stuck to for more than a week... no carbs... no sugar... it's really not as bad as it sounds. Except for the time I almost OD'd on bacon........ Karl is now doing it and lost 10 lbs in like 3 weeks. Did I mention I hate him?

 

Well,,, I think that about covers it.

Consider yourselves updated.

Before I go, I must share the following video,,,, it makes me wet my pants almost every time I watch it. And "Honey Badger don't give a shit" is a common statement around this house now. (Thanks Cathi!)

Enjoy!

 

  


Peace and Love.

 

Reality called. I hung up.

I'm baaaaaacckk!

Did you miss me?

I know some of you did. You even sent me emails wondering if I had died, given up blogging, gotten lost on one of my drunken stupors, drove my bus to Hell off a cliff... or all of the above.

Actually I just took a break. Or got lazy, depends on how you look at it.

I like to think of it as some time to "catch up" with my life, be in the "now" but really all I did was stop blogging for a bit,,, I felt as if I had run out of things to say... I know? SHOCKING right?!

Well thanks to all of you who wondered what happened to me and cared enough to keep checking back, I really do appreciate It!! So now I am about to hijack a good portion of your life trying to catch you up will all that has been going on since I last posted...ok, here we go.........

This guy? Well he celebrated a Birthday and will continue to be my "baby" for one more year. Then he will metamorphosis into an evil teenager. Believe me when I say the transformation has already begun... Don't get me wrong, he is a good boy, gets good grades and all that but he can be stubborn, mouthy and very strong willed, oh and LOUD. I have NO IDEA where he gets all of those traits from... I blame his Father.

I spent a lot of the summer at flea markets and garage sales, I love the hunt... and looky what I found for $5.00 at a flea market...

I luurve her...

And a $20.00 box of old buttons,, it was soooo worth it, there was some good ones in there!

I also paid $ 20.00 for this box FULL of old stationary.. there are some really cool things in there, I sent some to Sharon because she likes to "alter" things... so goes to scrapbook retreats. She doesn't scrapbook. She does however make some kick ass cocktails. I'm looking forward to a tasty treat of cotton candy vodka (yeah you heard me) at our next retreat in a few weeks...

My SISTERS came to Chicago to see me and spend the night. (we have the same Father, different Mother) I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see them. They have grown (they are 20 years younger than me) into such wonderful young women. They are both in college, one will be a Dr. and one will be a vet. Both so grounded and level headed and SMART. I credit their Mother for raising them so fantastically, she had her challenges as a single Mother and she should be (I know that she is) so very proud of these girls. I am and believe me I had NOTHING to do with it. I should have but I didn't. I intend on making up for that. Somehow. I know that my Grandparents are looking down, smiling, wishing they had a chance to know them as well. I can't wait to see them again soon....... I'm hoping Christmas time in the city...  

This is Cathi. She is my partner in crime. Crimes of the non incarceration nature. Well, if we don't get caught anyway. So I took my partner in crime and...

Our partner in crime "in training" on a cross country crime spree. well, 3 states anyway.  (This by the way is a picture of Lauren opening up her free grab bag she got because some guy felt sorry for her, in the bag was MIss Spider party decorations and this CD of Diana Ross's Christmas greatest hits, which we totally rocked out to for HOURS)

Our Crime spree Started here in IL and took us to our destination of....

We went to Ohio to travel the worlds longest Garage sale, down the 127 Highway.... it starts in Michigan and ends somewhere in Alabama ... we started in Ohio just outside of Fort Wayne Indiana and took it almost to well Kentucky.. I think.... well all I know for sure is that we were on that damn road for long enough! I would show you the pictures of the AWESOME things that we saw, but frankly nothing was all that awesome,,, there were some pretty good stops...

Alot of times there were BIG stops, sometimes there was a long drive before we would hit another sale... all and all we saw some things that we couldn't live with out but we saw a lot of things that we definitely didn't want to live WITH either. I think Cathi summed it up best when she said "It kind of reminds me of a sale where someone just grabs their dresser drawer, turns it upside down on a table and says "here ya go have at it" kind of sale."....

I found something for Karl.....

And Lauren humored us when we stumbled on some good junk. Yes there is such a thing as "good junk".

 

3 days and 2 nights later it kind of looked like we were a lesbian couple living in our van...

We decided to cut thru from ALMOST Kentucky and shoot up the center of Indiana so we could stop and pick up Coop at his Dad's on our way home. and all I can tell you is that as much fun as we had, and we DID have fun. I was DANG glad we did go that way because we ended up stopping at an antique store North of Indy and that was BY FAR the best find ever!  We bought the biggest stuff there, so much so Lauren and Coop had to be WEDGED into the car for the remainder of the trip...

We didn't eat here.

 
 And when we got to Coop he had to show us some of his newly minted dirt biking skills.....

He is on a bigger bike now and it goes much higher.

And faster.

Kind of like my heart rate when I'm watching.

On the way home he found a nice comfy suitcase to plaster himself to.

He was tired you know.

 
Lauren was more than happy to get out of that van.

She needed a shower.

And a comb.

Next year we are going to Minnesota for Junk Bonanza. And I'm hoping that trip won't result in a lawsuit over custody of a black baby doll like this one did.

Its the worst two dollars I never spent.

Trust me.

It's fall and you know what that means !?!

Yep.

   

A few weeks after buying this Coop and I were in the Coach store looking for a matching wallet and the sales lady says to me "Why are you not carrying your new one yet?" and without missing a beat Coop says "She has "seasons" for her purses ya know.."

That kid I tell ya. He knows me too well.

And in closing I would like to extend the following invitation to Karen and Chris:

And that concludes this episode of catching up with Dawn... Please tune in again next time for an episode of "If idiots grew on trees, this place would be an orchard."

Not sure when that will be as I'm still feeling kind of blog-lazy.

So I won't make any promises I can't keep.

Peace and love,

 
 
  

Next Victim please.......

One of the other things that I have become completely obsessed about (well actually it is two things) and one of the reasons I have not had the time to blog much...

Flea Markets and refinishing my finds.

Exhibit one:

BEFORE:

Ugly brown 80's ish coffee table.....

After:

Painted black, sanded and stained the edges, new home in the basement "teen" hang out room...

 

 

Before:

Nasty white (it was worn!) girls room dresser

 

AFTER:

Painted black, new knobs, took out the bottom drawer and added a bottom and some baskets.

New home, in the basement "teen" hang out room as a TV stand / Wii game / junk holder.

BEFORE:
$1.00 Tray that was ...umm... strangely decorated with old cars....

 

AFTER:

Painted black, added feet ont he bottom and its new home is also in the basement on the table so that the kids can use it to carry food and drinks from upstairs to downstairs.

 

BEFORE:

My mom gave me these and they used to belong to my grandmother,.,,, this is one of those things that I JUST KNOW someone is going to show up on "Antiques road show" and the guy is gonna go "these are worth ONE MILLION DOLLARS A PIECE !!"

 
AFTER:
but I thought they were ugly so I painted them black and they are downstairs too....

 

BEFORE:

$ 1.00 Goodwill find. It was black and it was alright.....

 

AFTER:

But after I sprayed it hammered copper...it was much better.....

BEFORE:
Chicken painted to look like a chicken.

 

AFTER:

Chicken painted white and is now roosting on top of my cabinet.

 

BEFORE:

Ugly , dirty brown magazine rack...

 

AFTER:

Now a "distressed" green color....ahhhhh....much better....

I have scored some good finds so far.....

Lots of vintage ribbon... for like 10 cents a roll.....

 

TONS of Pyrex and Fire King dishes....

 

And lots of Cloches (?) I think thats what these little glass dome things are called that I can't seem to find enough of.....

Sharon remember that green/ jade plate we found that I said i needed for my stand I was making....well her she is....

 

 
That fake cup cake cost me $ 1,300.00 ..... because the furniture store I went in to buy it from ended up selling me a new chair for my husband that Donna MADE ME buy.

Still need something to put under these......

Next I'll post pictures on what I am finishing up this week,.... oh and a retro $5.00 typewriter that Cathi helped me haul around. The case weighed about 400 pounds...

have a great week.... I'm off to do some sanding...

Peace and love.

   
 

 
 

3 good reasons that I have sucked at blogging....

ONE:

A few weeks ago Big Daddy had total knee replacement surgery.

He did have this new state-of-the-art surgery that is a far less recovery time but in a 3 word summary ??? IT STILL SUCKS.

WARNING::::: WARNING::::WARNING::::
The images below of his knee and the bruising that follows the surgery are quite graphic, so... if you can handle such images... CATHI.... please scroll down quickly....

This is the incision... it got MUCH worse looking...... This is on day 3 after the surgery.

 
This is when the bruising started... and you'll just have to believe me when I say this ain't nothin' compared to the bruising that followed... at one point his leg looked like he had a pair of black pants on..only he wasn't wearing any pants.

He is on the mend, still in a lot of pain and still walking with a limp, so far he can't tell me yet for sure if he is glad he did it.

I CAN however tell you for sure that he sucks as a patient.

Everyone says this is why men don't have babies.

Well that and the whole, no uterus thing...

TWO:

I got me an IPAD for Mothers day.

I am obsessed.

I LOVE it... I can't think of one negative thing about it or think of one thing I don't like... I even thought That I would not use it to read books on... I thought wrong.

I have ordered the picture reader and a few other accessories for it so I wont have to fire up this old dinosaur to blog. I'll be doing it right from my IPAD.

 
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.....

 
ahhhhhhhhhhh.....

 

And I got her (it's a her) this Vera Bradley case, so not only do I love her, but she loves me right back.

THREE:

I can't show you any pictures of reason number three yet... but lets just say with all the garage saleing, flea marketing and hand me downs... I have been doing some MAJOR refinishing, re painting and re decorating...

I will give the before and afters in the next post....

Peace and love.

 
 

Be Back soonish....

Be Back soonish....

Not a boy,,, not yet a teen...

Coop is somewhere between the age of 10 and 19.... and sometimes 4 ... It just depends on what day it is..... he will soon be turning the big 12. And I STILL have that last oh, I dunno 25 baby weight pounds to lose. It's the last 25 that are the hardest ya know. Geez.

His room was in desperate need of a make over.

So we made it over.

We made it from a "Boy" room.

To a "tween" room.

BEFORE:

 
 
AFTER:

 

We painted the walls a grey color and got him this really cool loft bed... problem being ???...it is for you know a room that could handle a "LOFT" and one that didn't have a ceiling fan.

It took Big Daddy about 17 hours to put it together only to find out that cooper would not be able to actually get "in" the bed. And it was about 3 inches PAST the ceiling fan. So we did what any reasonable person would do.

We cut down the legs.

While it was assembled.

That was awesome.

Not.

Here is the other side of his room.....

BEFORE:

 

AFTER:

 

Prior to this big make over we did a lot of "getting rid of"... and we gave the furniture to my nephew to use when he gets a little older... it is from IKEA and it held up for about 6 years and a big move.. it was great for storage because it had drawers from here to Kentucky. I was expecting to find lots of "missing" things in them when I cleaned them out. I did.

here is a shot of his little area we call the "fort"..

BEFORE: 

AFTER:

 

Yes, he has 2 TV's in his room. You feel really sorry for him don't you.

For the record, his desk still looks like that.... we still have a little to work through....oh and that pile in the lower right hand corner? That is all his skateboard ramps he needs to put back together.... they are still there too..

And here is a shot of the back of his room:

BEFORE:

 

AFTER:

I had to keep this armoire from his set... it doesn't match real well but the thing is BIG, it holds all his clothes and I could still fit a smart car in there.

His FAVORITE part about the room is his couch / lounge area under his bed, where he can hang out and watch TV and play video games... the couch folds out into a bed for when he has buddies, or Kiki over.

 

He also loves his "grown up" bedding"... with no pictures or designs on it. It was a steal at Target. I got the bedspread, pillow covers and large throw pillow for all under $55.00 on clearance.

 

Well now that that's done... I'm off to my next project.

You know, cuz I'm NOT busy at all and I have SO MUCH time on my hands. I'll just have to pull myself away from my soap opera's and bon bon's.

Peace and Love

  
 
   

Voila !

As in... Ta - Da ! There you have it,....

OR if your Sandy ,,, you must pronounce it  " VEE-O-LA"

So I just got back from ONE of THE BEST weekends EVER. Seriously. EVER.

I was on a scrapbook retreat with some of the best girls on the planet... and I know,, I know,, for those of you who don't "get" the whole scrapbooking craze you just... well.... you just don't get it.

The retreat is less about scrapbooking and more about spending time with the girls, shopping, eating and laughing about things that boys girls would laugh about. Oh, and scrapbooking...

It was Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday... ( I always leave early on Sunday morning so I can get home and do the 17 loads of laundry I have from the week. And we wouldn't want Bid Daddy not to have clean underwear would we?) But it was a solid weekend of fun!! At one point Saturday night, well Sunday morning... I was laying in bed and my sides were literally aching from laughing so hard. I .can. not. remember. the last time that has happened!

I am already counting wake ups until the Fall retreat. Thank you Sandy for putting together another awesome event !!! You rock.

And Sharon?.... You complete me.

And if anyone needs a fart machine? Please see Jamie. Or that one grouchy lady. You can find her in the hallway. Looking left. But not right.

..... We now have officially enough "inside jokes" to last us a lifetime.

I started off the weekend by finding this in the parking lot of Chick - fil-a ...

Thankyouverymuch.

And when we got to the retreat Sharon gave us these slippers..

They are made out of pads. Yeah, you heard me. Pads.

Then she made us all wear them.

Gives new meaning to "padded soles"....

They were a big hit and now everyone is going to make them for their next "woman event".

And the bonus is, if Aunt Flo decides to make an unannounced visit? you are set.

I blame Sharon for my sides hurting.

That , and Sandy and her "bright ideas".

And for the record, I would have gave her $20.00 for Gone with the wind.

.....see, I told you..... inside jokes for a lifetime....

Anyway between all the laughs I did manage to do some scrapbooking...

Not much, but some....

Here is one of Lauren.....and My new favorite Martha punch... 

 

lauren and Cooper........

 

One of Turkey Legs Ben.

 

I loved making the tree on this one... and the grass... both ideas I stole from some poor sap in a magazine... but I'll take full credit. I don't mind.

 

And one of me... I never scrapbook me...weird...

 

I was all into folding paper and ribbon this time...

One of Coop and his skater friends...

 

More of Ben..

 
I love this monster line.... too cute, so cute I almost don't want to "use" them....

I also made one of those 7 Gypsies printer trays... I love it , because I am going to hang it one my wall and not stick it in a book...

 

Some of the girls copied this technique I lifted from another blog.... those little pieces are folded 1/2 circles with bling and ink on them....

 

And this is the cut and folded flower that we all had fun trying to figure out how to make....

 

And the following is a book that I  1/2 copied from Sharon because she did her kit first.

I don't have it done yet, but the guts are put together....

 

 

 
 
 
 

Sorry I have been gone so long, but now you know what I was doing ! And why does it take 2 weeks to make up for being gone for 3 days ???  Who came up with THAT rule?  I have been soooooo busy, we ALL have 24 hours in a day but why does mine feel more like 14 ???

Kid quotes of the Day:

Lauren was having a bad day and after a very long conversation with her loving parents she came in to hug me goodnight:

Lauren: "I'm sorry I am so irrational but, I'm a teenager. It's what we do"

At dinner tonight we allowed Cooper to leave his new movie Avatar on because its like 3 hours long and he wanted to finish watching it tonight....

Lauren: " How far are you into this movie? I want to watch it!"

Cooper: "Like over an hour."

Me: "Lauren it's like 3 hours long, you wont have time to watch it tonight"

Lauren: " Dang, that's LONG, why is it so long???"

Coop: "Because its a long story."

Peace and love.

   

 

I don't live IN Chicago.......

Contrary to popular belief ... and by "popular belief" I mean those of you I left behind in INDIANA ... I don't actually live IN Chicago... It is so funny to hear the following from my friends and family "Dawn moved to Chicago about 4 years ago..." or to hear Coopers Dad say "I have to go to Chicago next weekend to pick Cooper up".... it conquers up a vision of the downtown landscape and there, right NEXT to the Sears tower is my house.

The fact is, we live in a South West suburb of Chicago... about 41.7 miles from the "city" ... for my friends in South Bend, that is like standing smack dab at the Golden Dome of Notre Dame and getting in your car and driving to Benton Harbor, MI (38 miles away).... I'll admit however that getting to the "city" is super easy for us what with all these million toll ways at our disposal and access to the rail system. And since I have lived here I have been to the city more than I can count.... I LOVE the city !! I used to be all scared to go by myself, now I rather enjoy it... there as you can imagine, are a million and one things to do ...... And so since it is spring break around here and Coop went with his Dad a little early this week I told Lauren that I would take her and her 2 best girlfriends to the city,  Friday for the day for some all girl fun !!! We jumped on the train (the station is only about a mile from our house) and once there we jumped in a cab.... Ashley, Laurens friend, had never ever even been in a cab so she was peeing herself with excitement, I however was hoping htat she wouldn't since the cab ALREADY smelled like pee.

(The girls in the cab... I'm in the picture too, only you can't see me because I ducked behind Brittany's head)

Our first stop was Michigan Ave. at the Water Tower shopping mall.... the girls had fun shopping and I went from store to store with them to check where they were and then I would go off to another store to let them do their own thing.... then we headed down Michigan Ave to take in the sights....

We had a super fantastic lunch at the Cheesecake factory. Everything there is so yummy. Including the waiters. Except for ours.

(Thumbs up from Ashley)

Then we headed to the "Bean"... For those of you who are not familiar, the Bean is actually called the "Cloud gate" or something like that.... we (we being ALL people of the Chicago area) call it the "BEAN" WHY ? Because it looks like a GIANT silver bean. It's really cool,  you can see the reflection of the whole city sky scape in it... it's located in Millennium park and that is pretty cool too...

 
(on our way to the Bean, Brittany acted like she was my 12 year old Daughter) She is about the size of a 12 year old.--- When we were leaving I told her to get in my purse so that I wouldn't have to pay for her. She calls herself "fun sized friend" which I think is hilarious.

 
Here is the bean.... NORMALLY you can walk right up to it and gaze in it, and take your picture and really have a look around it.... BUT today when we walked up, security guards were holding back a crowd and we saw lots of tents set up, lots of fancy looking equipment, and an all around hub-bub was in the air....

With my 3 girls in tow , we walked right up to the from of the line and said:

"What's going on? Why cant we get close to the bean?"

"There is a movie being shot here right now." the VERY nice security officer told us.

"Really? What movie?" He said the name, but not that we would recognize it DUH! because it has not come out yet...

"who is in it?" I asked.

The security guard said the name of the leading lady and I didn't recognize it, so I said "Who is the guy in it?" he said "Jake Gyllenhall."  I said, "REALLY is he HERE now?"

He said "Yeah, he is right over there"... My eyes followed where his finger was pointing and what I can only explain as a girly squeal came from my lungs. I told him that I thought I ws going to pee in my pants right THAT VERY MINUTE. He said he hoped that I didn't.

We all started to panic a little... I mean he was RIGHT THERE... Jake-mother-effin-Gyllenhall.

:::::: The following pictures were taken with Brittany and Lauren's camera's ::::

 
Here he is doing the scene with the leading lady who turns out to be Michelle Monaghan.

Click on this link and look at the pictures from the Paparazzi and read the story about the shoot... funny but their pictures are just as good as ours!!! Click here to read the short story

 
Here he is again shooting the scene....

 
It was sooooo cool to actually see how a movie scene is made.... we got a kick out of watching them do and re do and re do and re do the same scene over and over and over again.....

 
((((SIGH))))))

OMG look how close he was to us..... thats his overcoat right there!

 
Here they are setting up for a "walking away" shot.

And the BEST picture of all is below..... Brittany took this.... THAT how close he was to us.... He is smiling because Brittany was SCREAMING at him to turn and look at us, and when he wouldn't she said a bad word that made the crowd laugh and then he turned and smiled at us.....

 
  Oh..... sooooooo dreamy...

We are SO GOING to see that movie!

Gotta run... cant't WAIT to see all the scrapbooking girls next weekend for the big 3 day retreat, I have to pack and make some brownies !!!!!

Peace and love

 
 
 

Perpetuating gender stereotypes.

I'M ready for spring....

How bout' you?  ;-)