It's the Little Things :)

As we head into the weekend, I'd like to leave you with an image of pure bliss

I hope you all take one from Averton and let loose this weekend.  Indulge in the simple things in life {like cowboy boots ;)} and enjoy the sun, the outdoors, your fam...whatever makes you happy!   We sure plan on it :)

My 11 month old climbed out of her crib!!

Yes.

You read that correctly.

Little C climbed out of her crib!!

Yesterday, during her morning nap, I heard her playing around and knew she was awake.  But, I left her in there as long as she was content so that I could get my lunch on before the munchkins demanded every bit of my attention again...  in the middle of my delicious-salad-making-sesh Cameron busted out with a super loud cry.  After about 4 seconds, she just whimpered a couple times and returned to her normal low-key, "mommy come get me" cry.  I thought about finishing my salad prep (which ended being the BOMB.com, btw), but decided I should check on my leetle one.  I could finish my work with a baby on my hip.  So I scampered off to Cameron's room, opened the door, and what did I find?  A teeny little 11-month-old munchkin sitting on the floor right by the door with paci in mouth, blanky in hand, and tears in her eyes!!  Oh my goodness.  It was the scariest/most adorable thing of my life.  

I'm still kind of in shock about it.  Avery has still, to this day, never climbed out of her crib!

Ohhhhh C-Lil.  What am I gonna do with you??

Sex Cake, Bieber, Homemade Caramel Sauce, annnd a WrestleFest

Yesterday was one of those days.  I ran around like a crazy woman in order to get everything done, but pretty much forgot everything!  I bought gifts for a couple of little girls at our church so that we could wrap them all at our Lifegroup party that night (left them at home).  I bought all of the ingredients to make the eggnog cupcakes I've been dying to make (forgot Baking Powder & had ZERO possible substitutions).  I ran to CVS to get Baking Powder with my 6 spare minutes (they didn't have any).  I put formula into a teeny little container that was easy to pour into the bottle for the babysitter (left the formula at home).  I went to plan B and made Sex Cake instead but forgot to buy Caramel topping (had to make my own, which actually ended up being way better!)  I'm a genius.

On my Target trip I had to get 2 gifts for our white elephant exchange.  The limit was $10 ...so I picked up a Best of Bill Cosby DVD (pretty legit gift if you ask me) and a Robert Pattinson wall poster.  I came home with a superrrr cute sock monkey wine bottle cover.  LOVE IT!! I would share the rest of the gifts but they were mostly related to inside jokes, so it would make ZERO sense.  I also came across these beauties

...but they were over the $$limit.  Too bad they didn't have adult sizes or they would have been in Jacci's mailbox tomorrow!

Here is the super easy and DELECTABLE recipe for the homemade caramel topping I was forced to make.  Seriously.Delish.  Kind of glad I forgot that little ingredient! I will never use store-bought again.

• 1 cup sugar
• 6 T unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

1. Heat sugar over medium heat until it's completely melted.  Whisk the entire time so sugar doesn't burn.  Should NOT boil.
2. Once completely melted, add butter and stir until smooth. (It will foam up a bit at first)
3. Remove from heat and slowly pour in heavy whipping cream.  (Again, will get frothy)
4. Stir quickly until mixed well.
5. WAH-LAH!!

This was probably the 873rd sex cake I've made in my lifetime, and this caramel sauce made it the BEST one yet. As Aves would say, "Num nummy!!"

(This will be gone by tomorrow afternoon...not lying.  Ask Jacci.)

Immediately following Avery's nap today, we had a wrestle fest on the guest bed.  The phase of life that little Aves is currently in is awwwesome/hilarious/high entertaining.  Brian and I are obsessed. She is such a goofball and she keeps me, B-Riz, and Cam super entertained!

After working up an appetite we went to have a snack and watch Wonderpets.  Yipppeeeee! 

 

TONY! TONY! TONY!...

Okay, so I am totally a Tony Romo Fan. I love the guy. HOWEVER, he is THE most tone deaf person I have ever heard... well...with maybe a few exceptions from my childhood :) Some of you may know who I'm referring to...but, I digress.

Please just take a look at the following vid. It's only a minute long. However, you may only be able to stand a few seconds of it. He prob should have invited his girlfriend to help him out on this one...

And now I hand it over to Mr. Romo:

Funnyyyy Kerbey Video :)

Today the weather was BEAUTIFUL here...for the first time in a LONG time! So...I took full advantage of the fact that I am taking the week off from work and sat on the front porch in the SUN and read a REALLY GOOD book. I tied Kerbey to a tree right by me and let her play...she LOVES being in the sun, but rarely gets a chance to do it! Well, in the middle of being lost in Novel-land, Kerbey's whimpers jarred my attention. I looked up and noticed that she had managed to completely tangle her legs up in the leash that was keeping her tied to the tree and she was having a ROUGH time trying to free herself. This video chronicles only 1 of approximately 7 incidences of Kerbey getting all twisted up! I thought it was hilar. (which you can tell from my obnoxious laughter in the background of the video. In fact...so obnoxious that you might want to turn off the sound before you watch!)

P.S. I promise I'm not mean! It was just...reaaalllllly funny at the time!

it's "FLUE" season...

So... Brian, Kerbey, and I woke up to some awesome 35 degree weather this morning. We were SUPER thrilled because that meant we got to use all of the fire-making supplies that we bought last week! yayyyy! I love cozy little fires when it's cold outside! So Brian gets the fire all prepared to be lit and makes sure the flue is open, because our smoke detectors go off when I boil water (SO annoying!) Well... the little flue switch isn't labelled so we can't tell when it's open or closed. We figure if smoke starts billowing into our living room then we should PROBABLY flip the switch the other way. Pretty self-explanatory, right? Let's just try it. So...we did just that!

A few minutes later our whole place is FILLED with smoke, and the shrill, EAR-PIERCING screech of BOTH smoke detectors is threatening to deafen our whole building. Brian is flipping the switch back and forth trying to figure why the heck it won't work, I'm standing on a chair frantically waving a towel and pillow by the smoke detector to get it to SHUT UP before my eardrums explode, Kerbey has freaked out and is cowering under the chair, Brian and I take turns sprinting to the sink to fill a bucket and douse the fireplace until it has completely flooded over, and Brian and I are suffering from burning eyes/nose and are near the point of suffocating. Not to mention I was worried that the neighbors were going to freak out and that the fire department would be storming through our door at any moment. Well...Brian finally just ripped the smoke alarms out of the ceiling and after a few minutes with all the doors open, the smoke started to dissipate.

We proceeded to rant about how retarded it was that the flue was disfunctional. We made plans to go ranting and raving to the office about how they needed to come fix the flue and make them feel guilty for ruining our morning. Brian went over to dry up some of the water from the fireplace and he goes, "uh... whoops..." So um.... he found the REAL flue switch. We were totally flipping the wrong little metal thingy. So... yeah... "whoops" :) It's not OUR fault the flue switch is tucked away so that you can't even see it!! How much sense does THAT make!? LABELS, people!!! A simple label could have saved us a LOT of trouble this cold, December morning! Oh well... good story to tell right? And definitely made for some good laughs and a humbling moment :) We enjoyed a fire anyway... and Kerbey FINALLY stopped trembling with fear about an hour later.

Moral of the story:
ALWAYS disarm your smoke alarm before building your first fire of the winter. OR...you could always just label your flue switch!

HAPPY WINTER!!!

"Good Morning, Mom" Love, Kerbey

Yes, that's right. This morning I got Kerbey out of bed (she slept straight through the whole entire night...AMAZING!!) to take her to go potty outside. Usually when I pick her up in the mornings she is a S.P.A.Z. This morning, however, she laid against me, barely moved, and stared at me with this sad, worried expression on her little face. I thought it was positively adorable... until suddenly... I felt a warm, wet sensation on my leg and couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. Then, I caught a wiff of the nasty little odor and that's when I knew. My super cute little pup had urinated on my PJs!!! Instead of her morning ritual of licking my face off, she peed on me! SICK. I didn't get mad though...because I could tell she was trying SO hard to hold it hahaha. The poor little thing just couldn't control herself. What a way to start the day, eh?

In other news, Brian and I are trying to tell my 2001 black Honda Civic (in GREAT condition, I might add!) If anyone happens to randomly know of anyone in the world who might be interested, shoot me a line, k? K. Grac. :)