he loves his daddy…

yes he does!

black ass coffee company…

i used to not really be a coffee drinker. i would always head for the hot tea instead. it has come to my realization, however, that tea does not contain as much caffeine as i evidently need nowadays, so i’ve made the switch. good thing i invested it my keurig that i’ve fallen madly in love with. so this brings me to my next plug, my new favorite coffee company: black ass coffee company. some of my friends started this company because they were tired of overpriced, stale, burnt coffee. so they searched the world and have come up with, honestly, the best blends i’ve tasted in… well… ever. david is a huge fan of raging mule, and i can’t wait to taste their new seasonal blend, the great pumpkin.

they also have coffee available in decaf, and of course “half ass” coffee for those who want just half the caffeine. classic.

order some today!

derek webb at the handlebar tonight

i really wish i could go… but he has still made my day with his tweets:

awesome.

tmz=jack bauer… well… kinda

i know this is an odd subject, but i was just thinking today, and it was one of these random thoughts that just kind of all fell together. let me explain.

right now, jack bauer is the hard core invincible beast in the walker household. david and i are now on season 6, and seriously, this guy has 9 lives…. or 900. but that’s beside the point. when you watch 24 you are automatically addicted, and therefore the entire series gets you thinking: “does stuff like this really happen in the real world?” while at first glance i thought it probably did, but everyone is so good at keeping things a secret that we are just oblivious to the entire “end of the world” situations. but i have now come to the conclusion that absolutely no one is able to keep a secret from tmz.com.

think about it. tmz always reports EVERYTHING before even the big news networks do. if ANYBODY dies, tmz knows about it as soon as the time of death is announced (and, in michael jackson’s case, before the time of death was announced). my husband makes fun of me for looking at tmz, but in all honesty, i want the most up-to-date information going on out there, and they are always the first to report.

it wasn’t until today, however, that i had my tmz=jack bauer epiphany. somehow tmz got a recording of the president commenting on the whole taylor swift/kanye west incident. i mean, how does that happen? this is the president, and anything he says “off the record” is super confidential, yet tmz has it. hmm. kinda like jack bauer. he can find anyone or anything he wants to. he’s jack bauer.

other similarities:

the time factor – tmz is the fastest, but not everyone always takes their word for it. same with jack. if everyone listened to him, the show would be called 8 instead of 24.

‘memba them? – tmz does this with stars we haven’t seen in awhile, but they always know where to find them. just like jack. he always comes in contact with someone he hasn’t seen in forever, but they seem to be always looking for jack… usually for revenge.

extreme situations – it goes without saying that jack bauer deals with huge disasters (or almost disasters) all the time, and at least tmz thinks everything is a huge deal. (one huge difference: jack bauer tries to stop these things from happening, tmz just about instigates it…)

ability to make people cry – tmz makes celebrities cry from making fun of them, jack bauer makes chuck norris cry.

i’m just sayin.

half birthday.

today levi is 6 months old. i can’t believe it’s gone so quickly, but at the same time i cannot remember a time when we did not have this adorable little boy. here are a couple new things that have been going on with the half-birthday boy:

• his bottom 2 front teeth have finally broken through. so don’t put your finger in his mouth cause they are sharp.

• he’s finally starting to grow some hair… and it looks just like his daddy’s. i love it.

• his favorite thing to do is roll over and “practice” crawling… he just does the back and forth motion over and over again and eventually falls down… and thinks it’s hilarious.

• he has finally gotten the art of sitting up all by himself… for the most part anyway.

• and last but not least, he has found a best friend: achilles.

happy half-birthday, little man.

entertainment

i’m really not slack, i’ve actually been super busy. went of vacation to the beach with my husband’s family, then got home and have been working trying to catch up with everything ever since. my dad told me tonight how much my blog was struggling, so i had to do something about it. of course, the only thing i have to entertain you with right now is my son, because…. well… he is my entertainment these days:

and then after he goes to bed, david and i sit down on our couch and watch “24″…. we’re going through all the seasons and right now we are on season 4. while david and i think that jack bauer is awesome, we are always glad to see tony almeida and count how many times he says……. “yeh.”

this is great!

this wedding entrance is so great. i wish i was in the wedding party….

teddy ruxpin.

this morning my mom brought me over my old friend, teddy ruxpin, who’s been hiding in a closet at my parents house for the last… um… 20 years or so. i was super excited to see my long lost pal, only to find out that he has… let’s just say… run out of stories to tell. sad. since levi loves to read (as you have already seen in the video in my last post), i just know he would love teddy ruxpin.

so… i looked on amazon and found that they make a new version of teddy ruxpin. complete with an mp3 player, so no more trying to rewind those cassettes by hand whenever they would get caught in all the gears. on amazon, they had this commercial. i thought it was perfect.

i’m super tempted to buy it for levi… maybe i’ll hold out and get it for him for christmas this year.

levi can read.

well… not really. but he sure does do pretty well for a 4 month old….

gracie.

some of our friends, brian and rachel woodard, have just come back from china where they adopted a little girl named gracie. i’ve been following their journey on their blog, and i seriously break down and cry every time i see this picture of rachel and gracie meeting for the first time:

thank you for sharing, woodard family. i can’t wait to meet your precious baby girl.