my new boyfriend(s)

ps i dont think he ever takes that outfit off
thats what he wore on saturday and same on sunday at the AMAs

colby is mean

this may come as no surprise, but this little gem of an icon has somehow found its way onto our computer.

hmmm......

suspicious, much?

some of my favorite people

this is jake - and the pic is fuzzy because he doesnt sit still for long.
he was sweet enough to call me twice on my birthday yesterday and was quite concerned that i wasnt having a party.

max, the neighbor to the back with the immaculate garden. one of my favorites because we will be out in the backyard and discover little secret piles of veggies and melons he has tossed over the fence. and he loves rosie - we catch him playing with her through the fence all the time.

dilly, jake's partner in crime and possibly the cutest baby ever. love him because he likes to tell grand stories of seeing fireworks on the fourth of july and he climbs practically inside the dishwasher when the door is down, which i think is hilarious.

okay... so i promised myself i wouldnt turn into one of those weird ladies that freak out over how cute their puppies are, but come on! are you saying you could look at sweet rosie's face and not get tugged on the heartstrings? she is my best furry friend and is currently sitting on my lap as i write this.

to my left is LL - and this is the funniest pic i could find of her from our summer camp trip to Lost Lake. basically we like to be hoes and biotches together, and have secret girl excursions of pedicures - and many other secret things! haha!

this next favorite person is Taliban Colby.

oh my gosh im laughing so much.

this is from the day we did lawn/leaf maintenance and he needed something to block the leaf dust from going up his nose and in his mouth while sucking them up - i recommended my tiny pirate stripe t shirt mostly because i wanted a funny picture of him and knew he wouldnt be fast enough to chase after me after capturing this incriminating photo. here, this next one does him slightly more justice.

colby is my fav fav person because he is The Man about The Lawn and works so so hard for our little fam of three to have our cute house and yard full of leaves. this and he got me coldplay tickets for my birthday - so between the two, he's alright by me.

getting myself into trouble

what am i doing up so late, you ask?
well the noble albeit incorrect answer would be homework/housework/work of some sort, but the truth is that im crazy wired from the U football game where we magically beat TCU. i pooped my pants from excitement... well, not really, but symbolically i really did lose it over how wild the last two minutes of the game were. and now i am up, not a wink of tired in my body. C is snoring in the next room which poses another challenge of when i actually decide to go to sleep -sigh! its worth the self sacrifice to indulge in these last few weeks of university life, right?

but what im really doing now is spying.
yes, spying.
mostly on this lady:
http://www.sansomfamily.com/?cat=6&paged=1

i have come to the realization that im jealous. i want to be like her in every blog way - to cook like her, write like her, and post like her with great descriptions and awesome action photos.

am i bordering on stalker-ish yet?

hopefully no, because i also like to spy on this lady:
http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/

have i missed something? some kind of blogging workshop where they teach you how to make your life appear grand and beautiful and photogenic? where are all these people on a day to day basis? and what just tears me up -
THESE PEOPLE HAVE KIDS!
and i just have a job, an academic career, a husband, and a puppy, most of which these ladies share with me. well, at least the husband and puppy part. hello? am i the only one who feels like some arenas of the blogging world are a little stepford-y?

and yet i want to be like them. go figure.