popular

Sometimes I feel like I'm back in middle school and Piper is the super popular girl that I am desperately trying to get the attention of. When she looks my way and gives me a smile I feel like I've made it.

song from that old navy commercial

Freaky video with the clowns, but I like this song.

Sweet song

slow cooker chicken and dumplings

i made this the other night and it was SO good and SO easy.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
Dump 4 pieces of chicken (I used drumsticks) in the crock pot with about a cup and a half of water, 1 chicken bouillon cube and salt and pepper. Leave it on low for about 5+ hours. Take the chicken out and shred the meat off the bone. Dump the meat back in with a handful of chopped carrots, celery and onions along with a can of cream of chicken soup and turn the crock up to high. Thirty minutes before you are ready to eat, mix up some Bisquick and water (I don't measure it out, I just mix them together until the consistency is wet dough. also, i add a dash of cayenne, salt, pepper and garlic salt b/c i don't know where you get your Bisquick, but where i get mine it doesn't come seasoned. that is an emeril-ism) and place spoonfuls of the dough in the crock. Put the lid on and in less than 30 minutes it is ready.

Boo boo

Piper got her first real goose egg today at school. She was pulling up on a wooden toy chest and lost her balance and hit the edge of the chest on the side of her eye. It looks pretty bad, and I'm sure will turn black and blue. But her teachers said she cried for a bit and then went back to playing. I know I have years of these bumps to come, but seeing my little girl with a big red egg on her face was so sad.

No respect

Poor Sammie. Piper makes a beeline for him whenever she is on the floor. She climbs all over him, pokes him in the eyes, grabs his fur, pulls up on him and rolls over him. He just lies there and takes it until she crawls away and then he hightails it out of the room.

Coldplay mix

what is grosser than gross?

Your precious baby taking a poopie on the carpet in her bedroom (during nakey time), then you returning into the bedroom after you've just bathed her to see the dog eating the poop off the carpet.
GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say, I've learned my lesson about giving Piper nakey time while in a carpeted area. Also, I'm afraid I won't be able to pet, touch, look at or interact with Samford for awhile longer or until my gag reflex stops reacting every time I see him.

tickle

Bumper carrot crop

Not.

These mofo's spent 2+ months in the ground and impressed me with their big, green, healthy leaves and then I pull them up and uh...yea. And yes, those little tiny orangish colored things are technically carrots.

Auburn University Class of 2030

These two are gonna get in so much trouble together.

Ras Trent

Grandma Darling

I was walking out of class this morning when an older woman zipped in front of me and started hoofing it down the hallway. She was nicely dressed in a blue power suit and heels and her hair was done up in a super nice, old lady style hairdo. I was admiring how well put together she was when it hit me. She had taken about 5 steps ahead of me, which was just enough time for me to walk through a little cloud of her perfume that was drifting off of her as she booked it down the hall. She was wearing Grandma Darling's perfume!
I can't remember the name of the scent, but it hit me like a ton of bricks and I was instantly taken back to sitting next to my wonderful little, tiny Grammy. It was such a sweet, warm feeling to smell that familiar scent and I followed the lady for about 3-4 minutes enjoying the memory.