Football season!

I LOVE football season.. For several reasons: FOOD, family and foul language. A great time had by all. Our family is made up of die-hard Chargers fans. We ♥ the Chargers! Even when they lose (like last night).

This picture is when we were newly-daters. I have a hilarious video of Matt watching a Chargers game that wasn't going so well but I think he'd kill me if I posted it. :) But look how cute we were! Young and in love!!

Not too long after this pic was taken, we found out there was a itty-bitty Chargers fan in my belly! Come to think of it, that's probably why Emma is prone to swearing these days. She sat in on a lot of football games and not one of them went by without someone yelling bad words....

Here's a picture of Cabria, a future Charger's Girl! She is the cutest thing since, well... EVER! I love her so much!

Cabria, Trace and Baby Emma!!!

Here we are at the Charger's Stadium! Look how happy we all look. Hahaha!

I can't wait for the next game! Hopefully we'll play better than we did last night. Say some prayers, football fans!

My favorite face..

Hello Autumn!!

Fall is my FAVORITE season of ever! I think it just makes me feel so cozy... The weather cools down so you can start wearing snuggly sweaters, the leaves change color, pumpkins start showing up on porches... I just love it!! You see school buses on every corner and the school zone signs are flashing.. Leaves are bustling around the sidewalks and yards. It just makes me want to live in a small town where everybody knows everbody elses business and they all go to a Fall Festival and talk about each other and the legend of so-and-so and have dances out in the park.

Almost forgot the best part of Fall.... Football!! Go Chargers!

Life is a bitch..

I'm working on coming back to the Land of Blog but with work and LIFE and moving and LIFE, I have not had a spare moment..

I have a few projects in the works and I'll post some pics of those next week.

For now, here's Lulu looking gorgeous as always! And, as per usual, Sissy Mandy took this beautiful photo. :)

Little Girl, Big World...

Yesterday, I took Emma on a walk. She was pointing at everything and I would tell her what it was and she would try to repeat it. We got to a tree and I said, "Tree," she waved and said "Hi tree!"

The latest project..

I've become a blog stocker these days. I find random blogs and link to other blogs from their pages.. My sis-in-law got me started on it.. I just can't get enough!! I wish I had an ounce of the creativity that these people seem to have in their littlest fingertip..

These are a few of my faves right now.

www.thepioneerwoman.com (Of course, because duh... Who doesn't follow this lady?)
www.kevinandamanda.com Love her tips and tricks for EVERYTHING! Plus, the fonts are to die for.

http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/my_weblog/ I pretty much just wish I were this girl.. She's freakin' awesome times a million.

http://createloves.blogspot.com/

http://samstermommy.blogspot.com/

I just love the DIY bloggers.. It's so fun to see all the different ideas people come up with.

And that brings us to my latest project... It's super secret but it will be amazing!! I can't wait to finish (or start hahaha).

This is the starting point. I'll post more as I go...

Well...

I'm kind of a shitty blogger these days.. I never have time to update and when I do have time, I forget to bring my SD card. SOON THOUGH!! I'm sure my poor Grandma looks at my blog every now and then hoping for a picture of Emma and all she gets are my rants and raves about coffee and ghosts.

This is the best I can come up with today. It's almost a year old but it's super cute...

Hi Grandma!!! Miss you and love you!!

Hmmmm....

What can I break today????

All the things that can happen in an evening.

Yesterday, one of my friends posed a question on Facebook; something along the lines of, "Do the things we think create our future?" You know, like The Secret.. It got me thinking and you know how that goes... One thought lead to another and now here I am writing a blog that has nothing to do with any of that stuff.

My first thought was, could it be true, do positive thoughts create positive outcomes or are positive people just more likely to see the positive outcome because they're looking for it?? And is it just the opposite effect with negative people? I don't know but as I was about to get into the shower I looked in the mirror and thought, "GEEZ! I'm a whale!!!" Then I wondered if by thinking that I was actually making myself larger or was it just my perception of myself that would change. I decided to take action! I looked at myself and said, "Light as a feather..." The very next thing that popped into my head was, "Stiff as a board." I spent the next twenty minutes being terrified that I might levitate or that some ghost would come pull the shower curtain open. So, that was enough positive thinking for me...

When I went up to bed, The Buried Life was on. If you don't know what that is, it's a show on MTV about four guys who made a list of all the things they want to do before they die and set out to do them immediately. It's pretty inspirational! Anyhoodilydoodily, Matt and I have been watching it for a while now and about a month ago he asked me what I wanted to do before I die. At that time, I was on a SERIOUS diet. Not a just kidding, sometimes I eat a bag of chips in the closet when I'm home alone diet, but a serious serious no cheating or it won't work diet.. You know, like how you're really supposed to do diets but you never really do. Anyways, I was REALLY doing this diet and I didn't cheat AT ALL. Not even once. So when Matt came to me with this complex question, my mouth took over before my brain had time to react and I blurted out, "I'd really like to eat a cupcake." He looked at me like I was crazy because really, who says that?! There are so many things that you can't do everyday and all I want before I DIE, dead, gone forever, never coming back, is to eat a cupcake?! WTF!?!?!?!

So then I started thinking about if I was told I had one day to live, what would I do? I pictured dragging each and everyone of my family members and friends to every restaurant I love and eating as much as possible. It then entered my mind that it couldn't hurt to ask each person to bring a baked good. I'd probably be crying the whole time because I'd miss them all so much so I'd have to make a video diary for them to play at the funeral. It would just be me, reminding them of how funny I am and telling stories of the funny things that had happened throughout my life. I'd try to address each person but I knew I'd leave someone out on accident, so I'd say something like, "You know who you are," at some point and hopefully, they'd all think I was referring to them. I'd close the video with me bawling while listening to sad songs and eating cupcakes.

Of course, that's not what I'd really do if I only had one day to live but it made for a good blog! I think that it's so important to love everyone as much as you can everyday.. That is what I want to do before I die.

Isn't it RO-MAN-TIC?!