the last few bits

It's been a few days. Lots of fun things have happened. Well, at least in my world they are fun. On Friday, Ashlee and I had a fun date day! We started our shenanigans off in the wee morn 9:00 am, yes, that is very wee for me, if it means I have to be bathed and dressed and out in public. it only happened this early cause Klint had an appt at 1so i needed to be back for the kiddos. I traveled to her adorable little home, where we had a delicious breakfast of red velvet rum cake and coffee! Then we went to one of the most magical stores of all the land!!!! Truly, it had everything that was fabulous. 

It wasn't open yet. So we window shopped while waiting.

Saturday

 Member how she dresses herself? I really love it. This day, she was being blueberry muffin. Strawberry shortcakes friend.

 This boy.

Sunday

 Ant Krystal came over to play for a bit. She came Sat. eve and stayed till Mon. morn.

Polly adores her.

Krystal had bacon duties nacho voice.

We made a filthy feast! Pancakes, bacon, eggs with potatoes, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes and pretty napkins. We made a messy mess but o boy was the deliciousness worth it...

 Halloween tattoos = joy

Ugly red staches = Yosemite Sam

 Some daddy and child reading time took place later that eve.

Squeezing the guts out of a huge teddy bear, she exclaimed "I GET TO SNUGGLE MY BROTHER!!!"

Pumpkin face masks and honey coconut hairapy.

Monday

Oh, this is what i made for dinner tonight. Spaghetti squash, grape seed oil, tomatoes, fresh basil, feta cheese and a few nice spice. YUUUMMMMM!  

Tickle times.

Are awful! i HATE being tickled. It's torture.

Teddy is just so adorable when its time to pray. We shout to the kids before bed time. He comes runnin' full force, throws literally himself down on his knees and whiplashes his head down while ever so softly saying "per"

I LOVE HIM!!!!!

i was runnin around like a chicken with my legs cut off

think about it

today was filled with lots of fun lazy nothing. sister krystal and i went out yesterday for adult lady time and upon returning, as soon as i walked in the door, i saw the look in pollys eyes. i flew across the room, put my hands in cupping form, in front of her mouth and said "LET IT OUT!! its ok, just let it out." and she did just that, out it came! pretty fuschia barf. im pretty sure that only a mother can see something like that coming, act quick enough to be able to catch it and be stoked that it ended up in her hands rather than all over the couch. anyway, it only happened twice. luckily. so she must have just eaten something that didnt agree w her belly or had like a 3 hour stomach bug? either way, i kept her in all day today just to be sure. we did a few different fun things to help pass the time.

we played with bubbles

  ripped apart the valentines window clingers to make funny pictures

filled jars with diff amounts of colored water and tapped on them with a spoon to make music 

trying to make music this way

decided it would be WAY more fun to learn what colors, other colors mixed would make

blue + yellow = green

teddy thought it was really cool

red + yellow = orange

blue + red = PURPLE!!!

 and "gross brown"

the beginning of great

GREAT! once there was a chapstick. that was emphasis on was the very best, one could find. that you could basically never get anywhere, except on the vitamin shelf in a select few random walmarts. we were lucky to ever come across it. and if we did, we stocked up. like, ten stick at once. also, this allowed to have one in every important area of your life. kitchen, night stand, bathroom, purse, car, etc. anyway, this stuff was so amazing, and lacked in having a name of its own seriously, there is no name on the tube, so kelly and i, referred to it as great. then one day i thought, "hey, i bet i could make a chapstick of my own." so i ventured, and started making such things. now i make a whole slew of fun stuff and let me tell you, it blows everything else i have ever tried out of the water! having used my chapstick which is now the new "great" cause its way greater than the original great and gone back to the original, due to a running out-ness of my homemade, i HATE the original great! and all those other ones you buy at the store. they are all waxy like and just sit in a fat layer on the top of your lips. such a nuisance! mine absorbs and makes them silky and smooth and delightful.
the lotion: having been in utah for the last 4 years, my skin hates me! it is SO dry and anytime i would put anything store bought on, it would quickly absorb and i'd be right back to feeling itchy and flaky. eew. i know. which is why i decided to try to make a lotion. SUCCESS ONCE AGAIN! well, not at first... it took a few tries to perfect. not only does it keep my out-ards nice and freshly moist, it isnt filled with all the nasty toxins and chemicals and all of that, that all the store bought stuf is. even the "natural" stuff from the health food store is crud filled. well, either that or its MEGA spendy. so, basically, pick your poison. i decide on neither! most might be thinking "who cares whats in lotion? it just goes on your skin..." ya, thats what i hear from a lot of people when i start talking about this. think about it. your skin is your largest organ. right? and what happens to every thing you put on it? is absorbs. right?  and it goes straight to your blood stream. so, no thanks, id rather not have all of those glycols, petroleums, parabens, sulfates, glycerin which actually draws moisture from the skin, to give a softer feel, aluminum, titanium dioxide... oh boy, the list can just go on and on, all up in my bod. yuck. so, i make my own. with good, real, whole ingredients that are actually GOOD for you and your skin. that do wonderful moisturizing, age defying stuff in a real way. OH and my kids have both had bouts with eczema in the winter months. my eczema cream is the only thing that has helped both of them.
so, like i mentioned in a previous post, and my whole point of this one is, that its finally starting to come along. this eve i ordered a whole lotta stuff for makin, containers and created a very cute, but very simple cause thats what my products are, simple label. im so excited for everything to arrive!!! im starting out with 2 diff flavors of hand and body lotion, a face lotion, baby lotion, eczema cream and chapstick. and its going to be GREAT! thats why its called GREAT!

i am a grandma!

she is pollys fish child. her name is couchy. she is a beta. not one of those pretty colored, big finned ones either. my kid is unique. she always picks the different or crazy or boring in couchys case or spastic choice there is. which is why i love letting her dress herself. have you seen the things she comes up with? back to the pet: according to polly, "AWWW, she is the cutie cutest one!" so, thats the one we got. polly couldnt be happier... or more proud of her little baby, or the fact that she picked out, assigned a gender and name her all by herself. "i am the mom, so you are the grandma" she stated. we bought her a fish once before but she was never this excited about it. i wondered if she even remembered good ol' dory. until in the car on the way home she tells me, "mom, i love couchy and i wanna keep her forever. i dont want her to go down the toilet like dory did." SHOOT! this girl does not miss a thing! anyway. we brought her to our house, cleaned the bowl and rocks, polly picked out a nice little "flower bed for her to sleep in," added some water and welcomed her to her loving new home. she is officially a part of the tanner family. and we love her.

 teddy decided to be a drama queen about something, as per usual.

 polly "made a sign for her."

on another note. these are usual things one finds in a kitchen drawer.

necklace, old cell phone, bike horn and an easy bake oven pusher. 

seems about right.

a great way to spend a sunday

it snowed a bunch by my standards last night, so naturally, we grabbed the winter gear and headed to a park with lotsa hills!