Wednesday, April 18, 2012

gazpacho, ice cream and pancake house.

the other nigh for dinner i wanted to try one of those soup recipes w my newly beloved blendtec.
i flipped to the raw section in the recipe book it came with and there was a red pepper tomato one. then i looked up a gazpacho recipe. both looked good, but not good enough. so i kind of combined the two, put my own little twist on it and BAM!
it was good.
evoo, garlic i sauteed it first  green onions, tomatoes, red peps, and i think basil and thyme? or marjoram? not sure. cucumber. when done, drizzled some sherry vinegar into our bowls. 



served with a couple pieces of toast.
this GF brand is so good! well, for toast at least. thats all i ever use bread for. toast.


teddy preferred to drink it.

then we had pina coloda style ice cream.
also, courtesy of the blendtec.
chopped it up,

frizzed it for a bit,

had muscles come whack open the baby coconut,

dumped the water,

scraped out the meat,
put it all in, push ice cream button and walk away.
come back, enjoy.


place empty coconut shell on boys head cause he keeps calling it a hat.

i have a dearest cousin who makes her very own polish for the finger nails.
she sent me some.
i was excited.
they are cute.
you should order some.

see? told ya. my painting skills arent very up to par but you get it...

on a lazy lets eat junk day, we had breakfast here.



one thing i enjoy about this place, besides the delisshhhus-ly amazing food, is that rather than paper and colors, they give small prizes. this day, the choice was wikki stix. wax covered string = fun.









while getting our blasted taxes done i hate taxes, she happily sat on her chair, pearl necked, red lipped, tattoo armed, pink head phoned listening to the i pod.
I. LOVE. HER. 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

klint tanner

i have a few words to say about this guy:

this will be a bit mushy but i am feeling thankful right now.
this is my husband. best friend. eternal companion. dad of my babes.
i love him and he loves me.
A WHOOOOLE LOT!
seriously. i dont know how he is able to put up w me.
i am crazy. but it is he, only he, that really gets me. knows by just the look on my face when my anxiety has come out to play. when im letting it get the best of me and turd like thoughts start running rampant in my brain. he sees the wheels turning and helps me to shut them down.
i have been able to get a really good hold of my anxiety.
and while my "attacks" are few and far between and i am usually able to turn it away when i feel one coming on, there are times that my triggers come around, stare me right in the face and grab hold.
and this is usually i.


then i get angry about everything.

and when i am sitting on the couch one night, completely distraught, falling apart in tears, he is there.
to some how calm me, help me realize everything is good, and take me from being outrageously irritable and soggy eyeballed to happy as can be. having a real sense of peace and strength throughout me. and then to laughing at his silly antics. 

he helps me to remember, when i forget for a brief moment, that life is wonderful.
and i am in control.
or as dear ruth has put it,
christine is driving the christine bus.
not my anxiety.




he reminds me that i have the power to be the best me that i can be.
and when i need a little push, he is there to cheer me on.
could i ask for a better man? 
i surely dont believe so.
much thanks to him.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

spring photes of my darlings

well, i thought it was spring time. 
then this happens. 70's and 80's for a couple days and now its rainy and snowy and frizzin.
thats all right though, one always needs a good reason to sunggle up and drink hot choc while mooovie dooovie watchin.

a couple weeks back, while it was bright and sunny, i decided to take my littles to a couple cool walls in salt lake to try em out.
the pics are way cute even though i have decided that i dont love the yellow wall. its a bit much for my eye balls to handle.
anyway. here they are!





ted face.


this is one of my faves.
they "crack me the freak!"



to keep them interested from getting too mad at me for driving them all around and making them pose, i brought candy. 
they deserved it fo being such good sports.



my beauty queen



drip.



this is when i was just experimenting with diff finishes for editing.
the orig. then some editing. then some editing + vintage type finish =


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