Fired up!

I cannot believe people are sticking up for the parents of the 3 month old child in the Colorado theater.

First, if you aren't a parent, sorry you can't comment. I don't care how many neices and nephews or God children you have. It is not the same as being a parent. Read this blog. I have COMPLETELY changed since having my child. There are hundreds of things you say you will do before you have a child that you change your mind about. Sorry.

I try SO hard not to judge other parents. I see a kid screaming in Target and I try to say to myself there are a million things that could be going on. Today, at the library when there were parents with their eyes closed. I judged. That's not ok. You don't bring your kids some where and take a nap. I don't care how tired you are. Because you know what? I'm TIRED. I don't nap when I'm in my own home. I sure as heck don't nap when my child is playing with other children.

You bring your 3 month old to a midnight showing of a PG-13 rated movie it is wrong.

I've seen the argument that the parents needed a break. Do you know how expensive movies are? I honestly don't, because guess what, we don't go to movies because they are too expensive! If you needed a break THAT badly use the money to pay for a sitter and go some where free.

I have seen the argument that the baby would just sleep through it. My child has never been a good sleeper. I don't know many 3 month olds that sleep through the night in a loud movie theater. We have left restaurants because the mariachi band was too loud.

Is hearing violence car crashes, guns, and explosions good for a child's development? I don't think so.

I'm not in any way blaming the parents for their child getting injured. What happened is horrific and my heart really is broken for all the families of those lives lost. I just keep picturing Hubby and I being in that theater or Chase when he is 13 or older (because it is pg-13 just sayin) being in that theater. So so scary.

This is the first time I have heard of an infant being brought to a late night violent movie. That is what I am commenting on.

On the outside

Some of you may have noticed I've been around the blogging world a little bit more lately. You know what I've discovered? There are a lot of bloggers! A lot of bloggers that have way more followers than me!

There are also a lot of blog bffs. For some reason I can't help but feel like an outsider when I see these bloggers all commenting on each others' blogs and they don't comment on mine.

A friend of mine, Desiree, recently tweeted that she felt like she has been snubbed by some people. I have to say, I've been there!


So today, let's not snub each other! Let's reply to comments. Let's leave comments on other bloggers' posts! Visit Desiree's blog and show her some love!

P.S. This weekend I'm going to do a vlog for next week's Stop and Smell the Roses. I figured I would get Hubby to make an appearance but we have to give him something to talk about so ask him a question! He will randomly select a question to read. So excited! Leave a comment with your question!

Munchkin Meals

I am linking up with my pal over at A Healthy Slice of Life for Munchkin Meals this week! This week we are talking about lunch! I'm excited to participate this week because we have something pretty much every day at lunch that I've been wanting to share with my mom friends, go gurt!

Did you pass out? I know! I said go gurt. Go gurt is totally one of the things that was on my never going to give my kids lists. But, my 14 month old refuses to eat from a spoon. He loves the pouch things which he hasn't had in a long time. So I thought to myself, maybe we will try go gurt! It has less sugar, calories, and fat than chobani champions. The only thing it doesn't have as much of is protein. Makes my momma heart happy that I FINALLY found a way for him to get those great active cultures and calcium that yogurt has!

Yesterday was the last day of swim lessons! Grandpa came to watch Chase at swim lessons Tuesday and Wednesday. I guess my chicken nuggets that I served him Tuesday didn't impress him, so he wanted to get something "fun" on Wednesday. So we ordered our favorite papa murphy's pizza! We gave Chase some hamburger meat and sausage off of the all meat pizza Grandpa had and some of the tomatoes off my chicken pieces. We also had some grapes!

Writing it down so I don't forget!

My son is happiest when he is with his father and I.

Tonight, we were making dinner and C was going back and forth hugging out legs.

After dinner we all shared a smoothie. We sat on the steps and C put one hand on each of our legs.

I have a friend that is going through a divorce and I now feel like I can't post positive things about my husband or family on facebook. She's commented before things like, "That's nice, my husband turned out to be a jerk".

I do want to write these moments down though.

I had a blast writing a guest blog post for my pal Sarah with some advice for her and all other engaged ladies out there. Go check it out!



Tips and Tricks Tuesdays for moms!

 It is Tuesday again! Time for another tips and tricks tuesdays for moms link up! Don't forget to grab my button and put it on your post! Tweeting that you linked up is always fun too! I try to retweet or tweet about posts :)

Don't forget to visit the other posts too. They always have such great tips!

Before I start talking about my tips and tricks for this week I have to mention that I also have a guest post on my friend Kristin's blog today. I shared one of our favorite recipes for her Tasty Tuesdays post. So hop on over there!

Today, I'm giving you an invaluable trick/tip! An indoor boredom buster! I don't know about you moms, but whenever I look on pinterest at my stuff to do with littles board, all there is for 1 year olds is paint projects! We have done cute art projects that I will share with you guys soon but we've also attempted other art projects and they have been disastrous.

There was a big fire near us last week and I wanted to stay in with C. So I turned to pinterest. I decided we were going to do marble painting. Then as I was driving to Target I started imagining him putting the marbles with paint on them in his mouth and I decided it was probably not a good idea.

Below is a picture of C in his favorite new toy. A box from Costco.

I save a lot of diaper boxes.  I put the clothes C has outgrown into them. I used them to transport birthday party supplies. As I was driving I was thinking I could make a tunnel for C to crawl through and play in by just taping some boxes together. So after seeing the tunnels you can buy are like $13, I decided to try it. 

Here is C crawling through the tunnel.

This was much more our style. No paint mess. Nothing to choke on.

So if it is hot or raining where you are. Grab some boxes and make a tunnel! Or just let your little one play in them.

Don't forget to grab my buttong and link up! Visit these other links for awesome tips and tweet when you link up!

Our Mantle!

I'm linking up with Kelly today too for Show Us Your Life. Today's Show Us Your Life is Mantles! I love our fireplace so I had to link up today. Sorry for two posts in one day! Here is our mantle...

The big picture is from Kohls. I wasn't excited about buying a picture from there thinking we would see it at everyone's house but it matches the colors in our living room perfectly and haven't seen it at anyone else's house yet! The wood sign is from Target and says, "And they lived happily ever after..." I know a lot of people have the one that says because two people fell in love. Then there are two black and white pictures of us in frames. You may recognize them from my blog header! And last but not least on the right is a clock we got as a wedding present.

Friday's letters

I'm jumping on the Friday's letters bandwagon! I love that she encourages people that link up to visit other bloggers that link up!

Dear Chase, I know you are getting more teeth and it really hurts. Thanks for spending the whole night in your crib. I love to cuddle with you but don't love when you lay horizontal and kick me

Dear Infant Advil, Thank you for allowing me to get a few hours of sleep.

Dear Dad, Thank you for coming back from your 2.5 week motorcycle adventure! We were glad you got to take this trip but we really missed you around here! Especially me because you help me out so much.

Dear A, Don't know if you will read this but you know I love you so much and my heart is broken for you. Get in touch with me soon so I can give you a big hug.

Dear SoCal friends, Thanks for having a bunch of babies in the last year! I can't wait to squish them all soon!

Dear former emplyer, Sorry we lied to you about me being pregnant! I can't wait for you all to meet our little secret that we kept from you. For some reason seeing him run through those halls will be a full circle moment for me.

Last, but certainly not least, Dear husband, Thanks for being such a great hubby and daddy! Makes me teary eyed to picture Chase's face when he's giving you a hug or playing with you. Thanks for working so hard so Chase and I can play in the pool all summer!