Happy Easter from Anabelle!

Oh, and Happy St. Patty's Day!

Its started... I'm a soccer mom!

It has already started... yesterday was Brayden's first soccer practice and Jaxtin's parent-teacher conference... and of course, they overlapped. Jon took all 3 kids to the practice because kids were not allowed at the back to school night, after I mingled and got caught up on Jack's progress, I rushed to the practice where I high-fived Jon and off he went to scouts. It's starting already and my kids are so young... AHHHHHHH!

This crazy weekend!

On Friday night I got a call from Amy Hogue, the head softball coach at the . She told me that her team was in town for the weekend and was wondering if I wanted to come to dinner with them... I was SO EXCITED! I met them at Pei Wei on Thursday night and it was so great to get caught up with her. She, is one of the GREATEST coaches EVER... best female coach by far! She knows the game so well and learned from my other wonderful coach, Vaughn Alvey, (Amy is a former Alta Hawk and Vaughn coached her but he now coaches for BYU... boooo!!!)... oh crap, there are a lot of former BYU softball players reading this (including my sister) huh?!?! Sorry, but not sorry enough to erase my comment! Anyway, I had a great time at dinner then had to leave to meet up with Katie Thomas to go pick up Ali McMillian and Kelly Clark (also formal teammates of the Utah Stars) from the airport... YIPEE, friends in town! We had such a great time hanging out. We picked the girls up at the airport then ate at the Waffle House where we talked with the waitress who, I'm positive, was a lesbian coming onto us... hmmmm, a lesbian coming on to softball players... how do they always know!!!???

Then on Friday I gathered up the kiddos (mind you, I'm exhausted because of the night before) and went to ASU to watch the Utes get their butts handed to them by number one Arizona State University... it was fun to watch and of course, we all wore our RED! Softball is so beautiful to me, just like golf is beautiful to Jon... just look at this field, it's a little bit of Heaven on Earth!

On Friday night we went to a Suns vs. Jazz game. I tried to go for the Suns, embracing my new roots, but I just couldn't. I wanted the Jazz to win... Jon was so mad that I wore orange!

By the way Kell, thanks for the great seats!!!

On Saturday I woke up to go to my kids' soccer meetings. I met their coaches and got their practice and game schedules and bought them a soccer ball so we can play in our yard! It was so crazy and overwhelming... I left thinking "my life will never be the same"!!! After the meeting my family and I went to "The Carnival at the Park". It was a carnival that Highland Park Elementary (Brayden's school) was putting on to raise money. The boys, and I mean all 3 of my boys, had a riot! Anabelle and I just chilled!

After the carnival I met up with my friends and went shopping, to dinner, and then to a karaoke bar. The bar is a little out of my element but my friends loved it! I just hung out and listened to the worst singing EVER!

The girls left on Sunday at 4:30am so I said my good-byes, which I'm sure none of them remembered but Katie, and went home to my dead asleep husband!

Whoosh! What a weekend! Now we are preparing for next week when my parents and Sadie come for the entire week of spring break... YIPEE!!!

Pottery Barn??!!

So Jon came home and told me it looked like I went shopping at Pottery Barn... (yeah right, he just wanted some action!) Mom, this is for you, my before and after pictures of the table, oh and mom, ignore that sentence about the action... I'm sure that in your old age you don't even know what that is anyway!!! For the rest of you, this really is a work of art for me. I'm not very savvy in the painting category and this turned out pretty nice... it matches our house now, and it only took me a year!!!

Before

During

After

Ta-Dah!

If You Spew, Spew in This!

Okay so here's your warning... this is so disgusting... seriously, if you are not 18 please exit the blog, viewer discretion is advised. I do not want to be held accountable for anyone passing out and hurting themselves!!! So I had a hurt toe last week and overnight it turned into this...

No big deal right?... wrong, it hurt so bad I about passed out, and this is coming from a girl who has given natural child birth. Anyway, I decided it was time to go to the doctor and have it taken care of so I could have my normal life back... what's normal by the way?!?! So after a little coaxing from my husband we went to the doctor together. I was terrified because they were going to numb it by putting a needle right in the infection... YUCK. So when I got there I started talking really loud and really fast (imagine that). I insisted that they give me something to get me through the "operation"... may I again remind you that I have had a baby... NATURAL! So after I scared them enough, they gave me a shot of Valium in my buttocks and it hurt SO BAD.

Then the nightmare started... the shot, or should I say, the 3 shots. And thanks to my lovely husband who smuggled the camera in, we can all take a look...

And here is what I was doing...

Then, and here comes the gross part, he pulled this out from under my skin...

And here is me again...

Pretty much this entire experience sucked... and was disgusting! Jon thought it was pretty cool and so did the doctor... oh and I thought it was cool when I got home and the Valium kicked in... NICE!... and no Mandy, I still have my toe nail!!!