Happy Father's Day!

Yay for dads!!

Ok, so I know it's been a while and I'm getting some complaints ;) It's been pretty busy lately and since I don't get a lot of time on my laptop anymore ( thanks to Ms. Kaylee), phone is my only option for blogging. It's been super busy around here too!

We had a nice Father's day weekend. We hit the mall this weekend to get Mark's daddy's day gift, a new iPhone 3gs iPhone! Which means, I get his old one! Yay!!

While we were there, we also swung by Macy's sale to check out an ice cream maker for my bday present. As luck would have it, it was on sale, so I picked up one and a few other cool kitchen things.

Today we made breakfast for daddy, which was more like lunch. Buttermilk Biscuits, Rosemary potatoes and bacon.



After that, spent most of the day cleaning, playing with the kiddos and then baking cupcakes & making homemade ice cream for daddy.

I grilled up some burgers on the planchar and oven fries. Nothing too complicated, since we wanted to save room for dessert/daddy's gift.





They are chocolate cupcakes with milk chocolate ganache. The iPhone icons are fondant and edible. We had also had banana carmel chocolate ice cream, homespun in the new ice cream maker.






Kaylee certainly enjoyed it!



After the celebration, the kiddos "camped out" in the den.



Great weekend!!

Post From My iPhone

Baby Loves Disco

Bubbles
Originally uploaded by alphastatedotnet

We had a lot of fun at Baby Loves Disco today. We plan to do this event with the little ones as much as possible. We won't get to do it again until September :( I guess the club they host it at must be booked for the summer months or it's too expensive during their busy season to host the event there during that time. It is getting to be pretty popular! We always have a good time. What a concept! Having an event both Parents and Children can enjoy equally.

We saw a great kids band today called Hullabaloo. They were playing in the "chill out room". The kids really had fun. Apparently, they play at the play place we have a membership to called Kidsville Playland. We are looking forward to seeing them again.

We had so much fun and we can't wait for September's BLD event.

Husband Appreciation Day!!

I am a newbie when it comes to PHP, so my wonderful husband, who is also just learning PHP, but is a coding extraordinare, offered to code a sign up web app for me. He stayed up until 2AM working on it and got it working! We are going to embed it into the website tonight (after I finish it today). It works similar to a commenting script, but will just have different form variations, as well as a turing test to deter spam bots. It won't be the typical type this nonsensical word garbage that drives everyone nuts.

My husband is a genius and makes all this stuff look easy. He has probably forgotten more stuff about computers (which isn't much), than more people will ever learn over the course of their lifetime! Love you baby, and thanks for all you efforts. Looking forward to learning how you did it tonight. I do love our codefu sessions. Break out the coffee, it's gonna be a late one.

The project I have been working so furiously on is for teacher appreciation week. I am the room parent for my son Javi's classroom. He is in a wonderful program for high-functioning ASD kids at Deer Canyon Elementary (social, verbal and few sensory issues, not to say those with out these skills are low functioning, that is just the term typically used to describe). I have been creating a flyer to go home with the kids in their back packs on Monday (part of it pictured below) that has information about Teacher Appreciation Week and how the parents can get involved. I have also been designing a one page website that will have more info about teacher appreciation, a sign up sheet to volunteer to bring lunch to the teacher, pay pal to donate money for a gift, and some other pretty cool features and info. The link is in the flyer so it needs to be done before Monday, so the pressure is on!! I'll post pics of the site when it's all finished.



The teacher's favorite color is green and her favorite flower is a daisy, so I thought I would incorporate that in to everything.