Sunday

The Baby has to pick out his sunglasses before his precious feet touch the front porch. Seriously, he's been putting on a different pair everyday and he'll keep them on in the car while he watches Shrek in the back seat. If you would have told me when I was little that my child would be watching movies in headrests in the car- I'd have really thought that was some Back To the Future shit right there. Hoverboards, please. He likes these Von Zippers and gold Ray-Ban aviators the most. His baby Batman sunglasses are also a favorite.

Baby doesn't much care for his highchair these days. He prefers to sit at the kid table but likes us to sit and eat with him. He's big on family time.
I carried Baby into Wal-Mart while he was sleeping and he just would not wake up enough to sit up in the baby chair part of the basket so I pushed the cart with one hand and held a 30 pound baby in the other all the way to the lovely home decor section where I found a make-shift pillow. (see the towel?) He woke up 10 mins later and absolutely would not leave the basket so I let him ride around. (He lives on the wild side, i know.) He threw a tantrum during our checkout and so I held him, once again, in one arm while unloading groceries with the other. The checker lady looked at me like I was the biggest asshole. Hey lady- maybe I do have a screaming child but I'm doing the best I can do, ok? She didn't even help me put the bags into the cart- I did it, by myself, holding a mad baby. Who's the asshole here? Man, I would pay to see Husband in that situation because I'm pretty sure he'd give up, leave the groceries in the cart in a random aisle and head for the door.

Last Friday Husband and I ate at Pachinko Parlor in Okc for the first time. It was- eh, alright. Looks cool inside though so isn't that what really matters? (no.) We ended up going over to Tornado Timmy's apartment for a little bit.

Husband's new BFF, Stephen, showed up- omg, wearing the same outfit that Husband was wearing- and after that I was pretty much left for dead in boy talk land. You know, guns, sports, drunk college stories, youtube. I had a grand time. (actually, no. i was like- i wore crazy stiletto heels for this?)
I did happen to find TT's glasses. He rides his motorcycle with them- there's no prescription. So I took pictures while the boys giggled and impressed each other.
Pictured below are the Stetson Twins: Husband and Stephen.
Last week we (The Oh Johnny! Girls) played a show in OKC. It was fun but I don't like playing shows in the middle of the week like I used to. I think I'm too old for that crap. Below is a pic of me with my Oh Johnny! boys.
Tornado Timmy and Benny Bennett.
There's been a lot of football to watch lately so that's good.
This is a pic of my niece the last time I got to hang out with her. She's getting so big! I like it when she looks at me and smiles SOOOOO BIG. Very cute.

Ok. Not sure if I already posted a pic of these shoes but I've been obsessed with them lately. I like to wear them with everything. And yes, they hurt after a while. Bad hurt. (Referring to boy talk land story- see what i mean?)
My new-ish purple plaid shirt that I love and wear all the time.
More mirror pics of me because, still, no one else takes pictures of me so I have to. When I'm old, I want pictures of the young me. Young-ish me. Is that so wrong?
Pic above- on my way to a movie i think

Pic below- headed to the Midway Jam earlier today. See the shelves of shoes behind me? There are many more in that closet- it's getting ridiculous.
Pic of Baby at the Midway Jam below. There were free snowcones and Baby figured that meant he could eat one of every kind.

Like his cool Nikes?
He gets very angry when you make him leave when he doesn't want to.

That's it for now. I'm sleepy. Maybe I can actually get to bed at a decent time tonight- I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately.

sweet dreams.

♥ jp

I Go Out Walkin...

Today my baby chicken and I played fly-the-baby-around-the-house. He was amused by it and it made my arms hurt but it made him so happy that I just couldn't stop. Baby was such a good boy= giving me hugs and behaving all day long! He ate peach yogurt and grapes for breakfast, black beans, rice, and tomatoes for lunch and chili and cheese for dinner. He also drank some vanilla soy milk and snacked on white cheddar cheez-its. He's been eating everything in sight for the past few days.

Baby is trying so hard to add to his vocabulary. This week, he's been working on "hulpahtah" which means "alligator" and is also my brother's name and "mvto," which means "thank you." He is my little sweetie pie.

Guess what you guys. Today my husband brought home pretty flowers and a magazine for me for absolutely no reason. He's my little sweetie pie too.

Today my new little gold Marc ring arrived! It's just a little thing but I love it. A Betsey Johnson necklace I wore all the time was one of the pieces stolen during the Great Break-In 2010 so this is what I replaced it with.

Tonight I had the pleasure of catching a few episodes of On the Road with Austin and Santino. I LOVE IT! They go on road trips to small towns (like Antlers and Durant, Oklahoma!!!) and custom make a dress for a special occasion in someone's life. I think they should come to my house and make me something. I also need to get on Heidi Klum and Seal's show so they'll throw me the "wedding of my dreams." Sign me up!

It's way too late for me to be up. I'm so exhausted. I tackled the office/guest room closet during Baby's nap time and it made my allergies go crazy. I took some medicine and apparently I'm allergic to it because it's supposed to make you sleepy but it makes me feel itchy all over. Not good. Fell asleep for about an hour and now I'm awake.

I'm so ready for the weekend to be here. I'm also ready for lots of OU football, Eastbound and Down, The League, It's Always Sunny, flannel, pumpkin beer, and orange leaves. Hurry!

xo,

♥ jp

All You Need is Love- and a Wedding Dress

My boys left yesterday afternoon, Husband went for an overnight camping/dove hunting trip to Texas with his man friends and Baby went to visit his grandparents. I had a meeting scheduled (about a music video for one of my bands) for yesterday evening but it was cancelled at the last minute. So it turned out I had no plans whatsoever. This is not something mommies are used to. I ended up exercising way too much, running errands, and doing things around the house- like the mountain of boy laundry the Brady men left behind for me. It wasn't fun and I didn't really eat anything while they were gone. If I don't have anyone to cook for, I just don't do it.

I think the next time I have a day to myself, I will work on new songs. It's not really something that I can sit down and do anytime I want- it has to be the right moment. I do have a song in mind that I'm dying to write- I made it up in the shower yesterday which is not uncommon. It's like my music writing office and every song just sounds better when sung in the shower. You know it's true, don't pretend you don't do it.

Also while the boys were gone, my mind had time to wander quite a bit and I think I've got a touch of wedding envy again. It went away for a while, because I forced it to= "No, you don't need to buy that Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. No, you don't need to watch Say Yes to the Dress. And no more In Style Wedding website. Shame on you." I didn't buy any magazines or watch wedding shows. It was damn Vegas. Everyday, you see so many girls in wedding dresses and girls in the elevator with bridesmaid hair. Every 10 minutes there's another dad in a suit walking around the lobby with a girl in a big white dress. I want a big white dress. Maybe not big, but I want one. *my mom took me dress shopping but it was a few days before the wedding so i had to buy something off the rack and didn't want to try and squeeze my prego butt into anything white. hello, huge cow.

What if you're already married but you pictured the wedding to be much more you than it was? Not to say I'm disappointed with my marriage- I'm not at all. Husband is great but I just feel like the way it all happened wasn't really fair. I sound like a brat, I know. But you know what? I don't care because when he proposed, he knew I didn't want to get married while I was pregnant. It's completely embarrassing. People still make jokes about it- and i never pictured my wedding or marriage to be something to laugh at or gossip about. At that time, I felt like no one was listening to me. In everyone else's defense, I was pumped full of crazy woman hormones- sick every day, getting fatter and fatter, and didn't have the energy to do anything about all of this. I said yes, of course, and was promised the wedding would be the following year, after the baby. Less than a week later, we were married.

I've probably said all of this in my blog before, but I'm having a Moment, ok? More important than the invitations and parties and picking out dishes- I just wanted to feel special enough to someone to do all of those things with. Like- "you're important to me and I love you more than anything, I want to spend my life with you and I want to celebrate this relationship with our family and friends."

Husband's parents would have done anything to make it the wedding I wanted but I still didn't know them well at the time and felt uncomfortable saying yes or no to anything. And it got worse when 2 days before the wedding, Husband fell asleep while driving and flipped his truck. Looking at that truck, it was a miracle he survived it- unharmed for the most part too. Um, so how am I supposed to say, "No, wait, I know you almost died, but I want to wait to get married." Tell me.

This is really my fault. If you know me well, you know that I'm very forward and opinionated. I'm not an asshole, I'm a very nice person- I just don't do things I don't want to do and I don't apologize for my decisions.

yes, i would like to try this on. thanks.
and this one too.
and this one.

Little Brother and his insanely smart and beautiful girlfriend are looking at grad schools this week. They went to LA earlier and are in Austin now. Good luck to both of them- please move close. I miss you guys. Think they're applying to several other schools and I know they will find the right place. Little Brother has been studying nonstop for the LSAT and I know he will do fantastic.

The touch screen on my phone quit working yesterday so I bought the new Samsung Epic. It's pretty awesome so far. The camera on it is far superior to the old one I had. When you're looking for a phone, the camera features are the most important. You never know when you're going to see something outrageous or you just feel the urge to take stupid, pretentious photos of yourself.

example A

example B

Below is a pic of my BFF, Anna. She is a little thai/white girl who speaks with a fast, high pitched, okie accent. She turns 35 (!!!) on Sept. 13th. Her present came in today and it's awesome. I am such a good friend.
Husband took the picture below.

My friend, Evelyn, decided it was time to pack up and move to Peru for a year. I told her this isn't Eat, Pray, Love but the girl can do what she wants i suppose. I miss her already! We've been facebooking but you can't split a bottle of wine in cyberspace. I hope she finds a hot peruvian man and is prego and married by the time she comes back. If she reads this, this is where she laughs and says something sarcastic.

I think I will browse more dresses online. Maybe look at some bridesmaid dresses.

*anna and sandy really missed out. i would love nothing more than to pick out something for them to wear!

I promise, I will try to be more thankful for the awesome life I have instead of being resentful and sad about the things I didn't get. It's silly.

xo,

jp