Hissyfits Photography Blog

So today marks the final day of our week filled with company. By this time tomorrow Papa and Gramma and big cousin Trig will all be back in Kansas and recovering from their big journey west. Chris will be working and the kids and I will be puttering around the house trying to get used to the quiet again. A week we have looked forward to for what seems like an eternity will simply be in the past. We will clean. We will do laundry. We will eat cupcakes and feel sorry for ourselves. We too will recover from the chaos that has somehow become normal. And although we will start getting back into our own routines, life won’t quite be normal…it will be sad and boring.

Well, the months of preparation and anticipation for the big cupcake bash are now a fond memory! We had the party this afternoon and everything went great!! We are worn out from all the excitement, but we could not have asked for a better party for our sweet little Gentry girl!

You can’t say I didn’t warn ya that things were going to be crazy around here and my updates were probably not going to be as often as normal!! Lucky for you all I am somewhat addicted to blogging and just had to leave you with a lil’ something today!!

Why is it that the day I mop happens to be the day that Huntler does not lift the seat on the toilet and pees all over the just mopped (as in less than two hours ago) floor?! Can someone please share?! Or why did he run into a wall I  just touched up (last week) with his bike and leave a red scuff mark?!! (Yes, we allow bikes in our house. Not his big kid bike, just the trikes. It is SO hot here and we have TONS of tile for them to zoom around on!)

Okay…so once upon a time I was doing this Six on Saturday post every week telling each of you six little facts about me! Well, let’s just face it that I have not done such a great job with keeping up with that!! The main reason is that I am just not that interesting of a person! Really…I am a pretty low maintenance stay at home mom whom you probably wouldn’t even know if you ran into!

When life hands you umbrellas and you live in the desert, you make rain!! And that is just what we did on Friday!

And the winner of the super cute, fabulous little cupcake bow is Laura!! Just let me know if you want a headband or a clip Laura!! One of her guesses was 1:28 PM and Miss Gentry entered the world at 1:35 PM!! If you have been paying close attention, you will notice that I mentioned just this week that I was induced bright and early in the morning…that was a little nudge in the right direction!

Just in case you are checking in today to see who is the big winner of that fabulous cupcake bow, I’ll be announcing it later! I am headed out to run errands and although I have high hopes of not being gone for hours because I have WAAAAYYYY too much to do, I am not holding my breath!

First of all, here are some shots of just a few of the hair bows I have been working on for party favors!!! They are all absolutely beyond adorable! Seriously…I am my own worst critic and I seem to find the flaws in EVERYTHING I do, but I am LOVIN’ these guys!! Gals?! Of course, I got more and more creative with each one, so the first couple are a little more simple than the last few, but not EVERYONE is quite as over the top as I am when it comes to hair pretties anyway!

Once again I have to say THANKS to Katie at Jelly Beads Designs for creating the amazing little cupcakes that serve as the centers of these bows! They are so stinkin’ cute!! And glittery too!

Go figure that when I was ready to take pictures the wind was blowing 30 miles an hour! And it was still 104 so I was sweating like crazy and getting all itchy in the grass! So needless to say, I am by no means loving these pictures! And they SURELY don’t do these little gems justice at all!

This one is Miss Gentry’s…I wanted her to have a pink bow and added all the sparkle I could!! And yes, those ribbons are really shimmery!! How fun is that?!! I think I bought every color they had I loved it so much! And I may be heading back (to Michael’s) next time I am out to restock my stash!

And here are a couple of others…just keep in mind the lighting is horrible and these pictures are kinda “blah!”

Oops…the cupcake is out of focus on this one! 

Okay…are you ready for the FUN part of this post now?! Okay, well, I think it is all fun, but here is the part where one of you could be the lucky owner of this super cute cupcake bow!!

I have yet to put an alligator clip on it, so should you win and want a headband instead of a clip, I can totally make that happen (the headband is white just in case you are wondering)! Here is the deal…ANYONE can enter, but no more than five guesses per person please. Although I love you all, I do have somewhat of a life and don’t have hours upon hours to sit here pouring through what could become hundreds of comments! Okay…so now maybe I am just flattering myself, but five guesses is the max!! And even if you have never commented before, feel free! 

You are probably wondering what it is you are guessing? Since all of this cupcake happiness is coming about because of my sweet little Gentry girl’s upcoming birthday bash, the first one to guess the exact time of day she was born will be the winner! The contest ends at noon Arizona time on Saturday! If no one guesses the exact time, the closest time will win!! And remember to put AM or PM!! And HAVE FUN!!

Oh…and I happen to have several little cupcakes left, so if anyone is interested in a custom bow (clip or headband), feel free to contact me! There is a link to my e-mail on the top right of my blog!!

Here he is – {Diesel 10} – the newest addition to our Thomas the Train collection. Okay…not “our” Thomas collection, but Huntler’s!! To be honest, we really don’t have all that many “Thomas” characters…most of our trains are just trains…not “someone!” However, last week sometime Huntler became familiar with Diesel 10. And he suddenly became obsessed. As in talking about him ALL the time! So consumed with him that we have had to print out three different pictures from the computer and cut them out so he can zoom them along his train track. Yeah…he is LOVIN’ Diesel 10 these days!!

This is the first toy that this has happened with…something he heard about somewhere or another and wanted. Our kids rarely ask for things when we go places. I am not sure if they just don’t know they can do that yet or what, but we never have big tantrums at the check out because someone wants candy or a cheap piece of plastic and I say no. It just doesn’t happen. 

So last weekend Huntler was chatting on and on about Diesel 10 (not just Diesel…I made that mistake earlier and he informed me that this is Diesel 10) and I mentioned that we would look for him at Target. BIG MISTAKE. Target was plum out of Diesel 10′s and Huntler was heartbroken. Remember how I mentioned that both kids were not so well behaved in Target on Monday? This is what started it all!!

Anyway, we managed to get home and “forget” about Diesel 10 for awhile. And then it all came back and he remembered that we didn’t find him in Target. So I did what any good mama would do. I got on E-bay and ordered the darned train!! That was Monday night…we have been answering the question of “where” is Diesel 10 since then! But today, my friends, he arrived from his long journey west out of Illinois.

When I handed Huntler the package he asked, “A special delivery just for me?” Where in the world did he hear that?! We don’t talk about special deliveries around here! It made for lots of laughs and smiles for sure!!