Phone Photo Fun

I’m linking up with Savanah and Ashlee for Phone Photo Fun Monday!

Let's start with the photos I posted on Instagram. (My username is christinareads if you want to follow).

This is a view of my backyard at night.

I watched one of my favorite movies of all time, Empire Records, and shared this picture of Rex Manning.

We got some unexpected snow.  

Tired kiddo.

Playing at the park. 

I started the March Photo A Day challenge.

Day 1 - Up: A wall of wigs in Sacramento.

Day 2 - Fruit: Papayas at a fruit stand in Chinatown, San Francisco.

 Day 3 - Your Neighborhood: This is the view from Nolan's bedroom window.

I love that I snapped it just as the sun was going down.

Day 4 - Bedside: Stuff on my nightstand

 Day 5 - A smile: Good morning, Nolan!

Playing in the snow at night.

I took a quick trip to visit my BFF in Sacramento. This is Old Sacramento.

We also drove down to San Francisco and wandered around Fisherman’s Wharf.

This was the coolest/creepiest street performer I’ve ever seen. We were mesmerized by him for a long time.



We also spent a lot of time in Chinatown.

Flying over Mt Shasta on the way home.

Pajamas

I wear pajama pants all day, every day. I don’t actually get dressed unless we leave the house or if someone comes over. Maybe. It depends on who that person is. I'll probably just put on yoga pants. The second we get home from somewhere, I switch back into my pajama pants. This started when I worked at a daycare in college because I was always so filthy when I got off work. Wait. Who am I kidding? I LIVED in pjs in college. But really, who didn’t? I went to a pretty liberal university and students used to grocery shop, see movies and even attend classes in their pajama pants and a hoodie. I never went that far. I would only wear them in public during middle of the night food runs. After college I couldn't wait to get out of my work attire so before I even started cooking dinner, I'd be in my pjs.  Now that I’m a stay at home mom, there’s no point in getting dressed up. I’d just get crap all over my clothes and have to change before we left anyway. Every morning I wake up, take a shower and put on a fresh new tee or tank and pair of pajama pants. It’s my mom uniform.

And I’ve created a monster.

Now Nolan wants to be in pajama pants too. I don’t assist or encourage him in any way. After breakfast, when he’s done with his nightly pajamas, he picks out what he wants to wear. He pulls out a real shirt and a pair of pajama pants. And the second we get home from somewhere he changes himself back into those pj pants. I can’t say no because then I’d have to get dressed and I’m not down with that. So take a look at a week in our outfits.

(See? On Wednesday I wore yoga pants because the refrigerator repair guys came over.)

We are a classy bunch!

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers to SNL’s Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Baby sketch! I never watch SNL live. My kids get up at 6:00am so I can never stay up that late. I read all the facebook updates and tweets about how awesome it was and when I finally watched it Monday, I agreed. It was hilarious. Actually, the entire episode was really good. My other two favorite sketches were Bronx Beat and Super Showcase, but take a look at Blue Ivy right now. Every character was spot on!

Cheers to Lindsay Lohan hosting SNL! I know some people think this is a jeers, but I still have a teeny tiny glimmer of hope for her. Plus, her previous episodes have always been pretty funny. This will be her hundredth chance to prove that she’s well and serious about acting again. She’ll host on March 3 with musical guest Jack White. Don’t screw it up, LiLo! She will also play Liz Taylor in the upcoming tv movie Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story. Hmmm...

Cheers to Struck By Lightning! Chris Colfer annoys the crap out of me on Glee, but he looks great in this movie and the rest of the cast is awesome. Watch the trailer.

Cheers to Call Me Maybe! Total guilty pleasure song! Canadian Carly Rey Jepsen sings this super catchy song that has been popular up north for a while now. After mention of it on Twitter by Justin Bieber and a fun little video including Bieber, Selena Gomez and Ashley Tisdale, the song is creeping up the iTunes chart. And I love it.

Cheers to Downwardly Mobile! Roseanne and Dan back together? Roseanne Barr and John Goodman are teaming up for a new sitcom about a trailer park. She is the owner and he is the handy man. I’m not sold on the premise, but I love both of them and was such a fan of the show Roseanne, that I’m totally giving it a shot.

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Jeers to Chris Brown/Rihanna remixes. She should really stay away. If you're curious, you can find the remixes of her song Birthday Cake and his song Turn Up The Music on YouTube. I'm not gonna post them though. It's so twisted how they're using their tragic past for promotion. Not cool and I'm done talking about it.

Jeers to the Spice Girls NOT reuniting. I’m bummed. I loved them back in the day! There were rumors going around that they would perform at the Olympics or Jubilee, but Victoria Beckham confirmed that it wasn’t going to happen because they are all too busy. One item on their plate is the musical “Viva Forever” which I am looking forward to! What’s your favorite Spice Girls song? It’s so hard to choose, but I think mine are Stop and Say You’ll Be There. Oh, and Holler! It brings me right back to college when we had The Box on TV. (Did you have that channel? We never called it, but we watched it all day!)

Jeers to crappy TV. A few shows that I used to love are so boring lately. I can’t delete Grey’s Anatomy or How I Met Your Mother because I’ve been with them since the beginning, but they need to step up their game because I’m losing interest fast. I finally gave up on 2 Broke Girls and Are You There, Chelsea. I'll miss Beth Behrs.

Jeers to cashing in on Whitney Houston’s death. Bobby Brown is trying to sell a tell-all book. Whitney’s family sold the coverage of her funeral to benefit Bobbi Kristina. (Don’t you think she has enough money?) And Julien’s Auctions will be selling Whitney’s clothes and jewelry next month, after receiving them from people close to Whitney. This is all so tacky and disrespectful. Her funeral was just a few days ago! Boo!

Jeers to a serial killer in my hometown. No joke. This guy has killed two people and attempted another (all by stabbing) in the past nine months. He doesn’t fit the description of a typical serial killer because he’s young (they think 20 years old), his victims are totally random (19 year old woman, 50 year old man, 61 year old woman) and the attacks happened in the middle of the day, on pretty busy streets. My parents and sister still live there and when I went to visit this weekend, the town felt very eerie. The FBI is involved, there are posters of all over the city, everyone is on edge and they’re all being told not to walk anywhere alone. I was totally creeped out walking from my car to Starbucks just a block away. Scary stuff!

Hearts

I hope your day is filled with love from friends, family, kids, pets and/or someone special. Or at least yummy treats!

I plan on making my boys heart shaped muffins, toast, sandwiches and brownies today!

Jacob wrote me the sweetest card I think he's every written and got me this charity:water jerry can pendant.

But of course he just ordered it yesterday so I won't actually have it for a few weeks.

Oh well, it's the thought that counts!

Happy Valentine's Day!