My future children?

So a found the link to this website on one of the blogs I follow and

OMG.

This is FREAKY.

Basically, you upload a picture of two people to see what their children would look like.

Very How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Anyway, these are Tyler and I's two children.

Weeeirrrd.

I don't think they look like us at all.

What do you think?

We're all dealing with a lot right now,

but sometimes it makes me feel better

to look back through my photos.

Especially this summer.

Best Birthday Wishes for the Best Daddy. :)

Mommy already beat me to the punch, but

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We celebrated here at home with the family and watched the big game.

GO CARDINALS!!!!

Baby pacifiers = Future dental issues... ?

I work at a daycare center and I always see pacifiers. Sometimes, I literally thank God for pacifiers. In terms of calming down babies, I would take a pacifier over a Baby Einstein video any day. Pappy, binky, whatever you want to call it, those things are useful. However, if a child is attempting to form full sentences while sucking away, it's time for the pappy to go. Not only can you not understand the child, but you're paving the way for "talking-with-your-mouth-full" habits. Maybe. That's just a theory. However, I think people commonly hold the belief that pacifier use can have long-term effects on the positioning of a child's baby and adult teeth. Take me for example.

Even as a baby, I was a pacifier addict.

Judging from this photo, apparently one pacifier just couldn't get the job done. I could even do tricks with my pacifier by flipping it around with my tongue when I felt the adult had not correctly placed the pacifier right-side-up.

As endearing as I was, these habits did not bode well for my future 5th grade school photos...

YEAH. From far away, it might look cute and awkward but I hated my smile. In order to correct my lovely cross-bite, I had seven teeth pulled, two oral surgeries, and three and a half years in braces. Whew. Thank you, Mom and Dad for not making me live with nasty teeth!

Maybe my bad teeth simply came down to genetics, but I don't know. I have a feeling my early addiction to pacifiers had something to do with it too.

Cain and who?

This is going to sound really strange but I had a dream last night that I became the proud mother of a pair of newborn twins. A boy and a girl. And I don't know if it's because I taught Theology of the Body last night at church or what, but it entered my head that I was Eve and that my twins were supposed to be named Cain and Abel. I was distressed because of course, I did not have two sons. So, I improvised and named them Cain and Mabel.

How does my head come up with this weird stuff while I'm sleeping?

Peter Pan and Wendy

I finished reading Peter Pan & Wendy the other day. I didn't care for the introductory notes. They were really negative and kind of hard on J.M. Barrie in my opinion. Even though the narrator voice can be pretentious at times, I still thought the whole book had a fun whimsical feeling, even though Peter's characterization is a little more disturbing than what one finds in the Disney version.

I really like learning more about Mrs. Darling and seeing how the drafts of the stories and the play have been adapted over time into Disney's Peter Pan and Hook. Now I'm finishing up the second part with Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and I love two quotes in particular.

"There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf."

&

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith,

for to have faith is to have wings."

Miss Dior commercial

So cute!!!

Avez-vous deja vu...

I love these videos.

SNOW

Tyler and I went to Sno Bowl last Tuesday where I took a skiing lesson while he snowboarded down all the really hard runs. Then he was kind enough to stay with me on the bunny slopes the rest of the day, take pictures with me, and listen to my obnoxious singing on the car ride home. :)

It was a great day and I'll never forget it.

Tyler left Sunday for school and even though I'm sad, hopefully this is the last time we'll ever have to say goodbye again. I'm crossing my fingers for a successful graduation and his admission to ASU for graduate school.

Website of Stairs

It has been FOR-EV-ER since I've had time to post. Finals finally finished up yesterday, so I've taken advantage of my time by reorganizing and cleaning, going to holiday parties, drinking hot chocolate, and trying to get things ready for the bridal shower. Tomorrow I'm finally getting around to my Christmas shopping.

Anyway, I got sidetracked and started looking at stairporn.org. Aren't these amazing? Click on them to enlarge - so so so cool!

So that's how people stay organized.

So romantic.

Two way hanging stairs.

Books!

Nightmare Before Christmas?

This one just looks like magic.

Hanging stairs!

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh spirals.

Jenga?

........... can you tell how much I love all of the bookcase stairs by now?