Tesla and mullets

So Steve won tickets to one of his favorite bands Tesla. They played at the Val Air Ballroom on Tuesday night. I had never even heard Tesla until I met Steve....and this is the 3rd time I've seen them in concert in 7 years! They are very good live and sound awesome!
Here is the lead singer...no idea what his name is. I'm sure he is on some sort of drugs, but what 80's rock band isn't?? ha!
My good friend Nicola was there! We've known each other since we were born and she was my personal attendant in our wedding! Even our mom's have been best friends forever! (BFF'S!)

Tesla does bring out some of Des Moines' finest. I have never seen so many men with long hair or mullets! More per capita than the Iowa State Fair!

So I decided to start a mullet collection. This guy was the best! Steve calls this one the Kentucky Waterfall.

and this was a dude. His long, flowing hair caught my eye immediately! Even the little guy in the background had a mullet!We were surrounded by the definition of white trash. We got home and looked up the definition of white trash and there was a picture of this guy! I think it's rather hot, I'm trying to get Steve to grow his hair like this...we all know he can do it!

**Disclaimer** If any of my friends or family know any of these people, I apologize for using their pictures without their consent. This blog was posted for entertainment purposes only, not to hurt anybody's feelings!

Update

Here are a couple pics of when Presley and I stayed home from work and daycare b/c she was sick....she doesn't look sick does she? She was happy as can be! Can you see her bottom teeth?
Her cheesy smile! that she does ALL THE TIME!! She thinks she is pretty cute!

We went for a long walk and this is the tree in our front yard. Pretty huh?

Here are our pumpkins! Steve's is the Hawkeyes one, and mine is the scary face which took forever!

We tried to get Presley with the pumpkins, she was crabby and it was raining so she wasn't happy. We didn't carve her perfect little pumpkin, instead we just wrote her name and the date on it. (Too bad Daddy didn't realize her pumpkin was turned sideways!)

Ear infection

Presley seemed to be feeling fine Monday morning, she slept good, ate good...no worries. We got home and did our pumpkin carving and she was grouchy! And she decided that she had slept so much over the weekend that she didn't want to sleep at all Monday night. Steve and I got about 3 hours of sleep! :( I called the doctor this morning and took her in to find out what was wrong. I figured it had to be an ear infection, but hell, you never know!
We were right, an ear infection! She also has a slight fever so I kept her home from daycare today, we didn't want to get Amelia sick too! They weighed her too, we haven't been to the doctor since the beginning of August at her 6 month check-up. She weighed 19 lbs 4 ounces, only up 3 lbs from almost 3 months ago! We don't have her official 9 month appointment until the middle of November so we'll get her official stats then!
Well since she is napping I'm going to try to catch some zzzzz's too. Later!

Carving pumpkins!

So even though Presley hadn't been feeling good when needed to get our pumpkins carved. So we basically started them to get some pictures of her and finished them after she went to bed.
Here is Presley with daddy's crooked grin and her little pumpkin! It's perfectly round...the perfect little pumpkin! Do you like her adorable overalls? Grandma Becky was very excited to buy Presley Osh Gosh B'Gosh overalls and she looks pretty cute in them!
Here is how we carve pumpkins in our house....with power tools!

She was very curious.......

and not afraid of reaching in and getting her hands dirty!

I'll have to post pictures of the finished product once I take them and upload them! Keep you in suspense for a couple days! ha

Actually crawling?

After almost 3 months of Presley pulling herself around with her arms...(scooting, army crawl whatever you want to call it...to me it looks like the breast stroke on land!) today she actually starting crawling, on all fours! She didn't go far, mainly b/c she was so whiny that she would just crawl over to us and climb on us until we picked her up. We honestly didn't think she'd ever really crawl, she always got to where she needed to go, could pull herself up on things, it just didn't seem like she was interested. We'll see what happens over the next couple days, maybe it was a fluke....like the sleeping and cuddling.
She also starting babbling tonight, just a little bit. She never really babbles....ever. I read online that babies often start 'talking' after they start to get teeth (I had never heard this before!). So maybe now that she has a couple teeth she'll start making those baby sounds that she should be making!

Sick baby!

Well Miss Presley has not been feeling good this weekend. We can tell because she has been sleeping a lot and she wants to cuddle....two things that are NOT normal for her! Saturday morning she woke up at 5 am, extremely too early. She cried off and on till about 6:45, then I brought her out to the couch with me and gave her a bottle. She fell asleep until about 8:30! Then that afternoon she took a 3 1/2 hour nap. Oh yeah! When she woke up she was cranky and just didn't act like herself. We had a party that night, we went early so we could come home early. And she fell asleep on the way there, but she was very cheerful for those couple hours. Scrunching up her face smiling at everyone, showing off her new teeth....maybe she was just sick of being in the house and sick of seeing our faces all day! :)
So Sunday, she was up at 6:30 again and only wanted to be held. Finally took a decent nap from 9-11 am, got up ate a litte lunch and just wanted to be held. I popped in Aladdin on the laptop and she actually sat on my lap and watched about 1/2 hour of it before she fell asleep again about 12:15. I watched the rest of the movie holding her until about 1:30. Then she took another 45 minute nap about 4 pm!
Don't get me wrong, I love having a baby that sleeps and likes to cuddle, but I would rather her feel good! and we'd never be able to do anything if she always slept this much! We find it hard to put her to bed at 7:30 because it seems like we hardly see her during the week and if we want to do anything or go anywhere there just isn't a whole lot of time!

Our kitchen drain isn't working. When you run the garbage disposal, black shit (not literally shit)comes up. Steve has been trying to unclog it, we've tried a whole big thing of Drano and it still isn't working right. We've been here 3 years and so far he's done a pretty good job of fixing any problems we've had, let's hope Steve can come to the rescue this time too!

I love popcorn.
I love donuts, preferably jelly filled.
I love peanut butter. I don't know what I'll do if Presley is allergic to peanuts.

Why?

Why is it when you are in a hurry, everyone drives sooooo slow?
Why when I have money to buy clothes I can't find any I like?
Why do I have to be addicted to stupid Farmville on Facebook?
Why am I not 'friends' with two of my best friends from highschool on Facebook, but I'm friends with all these other people that I rarely talked to in highschool? You would think we'd all just grow up and forget about what torn our friendships apart.
Why do I always say I'm going to go to bed right after Presley does?....and I never do.
Why are leaves in the fall so pretty?....until they fall to the ground.
Why is it so hard to appreciate your parents when you are young?.....then you grow up, move out, pay your own bills or have kids...and then the appreciation continues to grows out of control!