4th of july!

we had a very relaxing and patriotic 4th. okay... it wasn't exactly that patriotic, i don't know what you would do to be patriotic. jon and natasha came over for breakie (no pictures of that... sorry) and then matt worked on making pulled pork to take to the bakers for dinner. b had an indoor dinner picnic at the bakers and i took a short nap with sweet victoria (who i thought was madison for awhile... it is hard to tell!) i didn't really sleep, i carefully ate some flag cake that i tried very hard not to spill on her face. after, we went to the kreitlows to watch fireworks from the abandoned house patio across the street. it was a pretty good location. beckett liked the fireworks for two seconds and then just wanted to break into the abandoned house. also! we had s'mores. with dark chocolate fudge stripe cookies. i could have eaten one million of them. maybe two million. at least a whole box. hope everybody had a happy independence day. i do love america. a lot. 

i have a flashback problem... sweet b last 4th of july with misty. who would have thought last independence day that by the same time the next year misty would have 4 of her own babies to celebrate with! whoa. i can't even wrap my brain around it... it's the most amazing.

more bruner wedding

so, good news! i got some more pictures from kate and zac's wedding from whitney. hurray! 

beckett was the best ring bearer ever. look at him... just sleeping through the whole ceremony... on will.

 will better watch out... camdyn might give him a run for his money.

in with her dads... and... 

out with her groom! 

walking down the aisle with matt... it felt right, i'm thinking about marrying him.

i know quinn is not my child, but this needed to be posted.

matt k is like a child magnet!

whitney looks so fancy here... she is a classy lady.

the tables... lovely, yes?

family photo!

the bruners!

saige and will

they are pretty studly fellows

"hmm... welcome to this crazy family zac!"

fifty stupid shades

so, i've been terrible about reading... my new years resolution is out the window, but saige got me a kindle for my bday (i could do a whole post on my feelings about e-readers, but that's for another day friends) and i'm trying to get back on reading track. my first kindle book was the much discussed "mommy porn" fifty shades of grey. well, i could give you fifty reasons why i hated this book. it is the worst book that i have read in a long, long time. why in the world has this book gotten so much attention? anyways... below is my review (really just some thoughts), there might be spoilers... i don't know, there is no real plot, so it doesn't really matter. 

let me start by telling you my biggest book pet peeve... when authors don't take the time to learn about their own characters. if you are going to write a book about a 40 year old married woman in the 1970's... then you better go talk with someone who fits that profile. this book takes place in 2011, and the main character is in her early twenties, about to graduate from college. but she doesn't talk like that... and she doesn't act like that... and she doesn't have an email address!!! you can not even be enrolled in college without an email address. this is the main character of the book! do ten seconds of research on current day college grads. go hang out with a college aged person... and realize how off your character is and fix it! 


so... the sex scenes. yes, so scandalous. i guess. except... if you have read one of them, you have read them all. they seriously felt copied and pasted. by the end of the book, i just felt annoyed that they were having sex AGAIN and doing nothing to move the plot forward. 


i feel so nervous for teen girls reading this book. what is going on lately with these weak girls obsessed with their male counterpart in totally unhealthy ways? if you thought twilight was bad... this is one million times worse. maybe one billion. the male lead is a total creeper and the girl (who goes into this wacko relationship a prudie mcpruderson virgin) just takes the crazy. she can't look him in the eyes during sex, or touch him, or use his name... oh, and he hits her. so, that's good. i haven't read the other two books in this series, but i am willing to wager that the creeper is going to be changed by the girl... because he loves her so much. um, that does not happen in real life. if your boyfriend hits you because it makes him feel good... that's bad. very bad. just writing this down is making me feel stressed about it. again... why do people like this book?!


i feel like everybody i know who has read this book, thought it was good. i disagree. i wouldn't recommend it. i know people are going to read this and go read the book because of what i wrote. that's okay... tell me what you think. i really am interested. also, somebody tell me how the series ends because i seriously can't deal with two more books. oh! also the author never uses appropriate terms for genitals. she calls it her "sex". really? in an erotica novel? just... it's too much. 

father's day

since we spent father's day in reno and i was not super prepared for it, we had a belated father's day this sunday. i got up and made matt breakfast. he requested an omelette which turned out to be a poor choice because i am not good at making omelettes. really, how do you keep the egg from overcooking on the outside without being undercooked on the inside? somebody please explain this to me. anyways, matt ate it all because he is a good husband. then we went to the farm/park that matt loves. sometimes i think matt should have been a veterinarian. beckett loves the animals too, and he got nipped on the finger by a teenage chicken, which he did not appreciate and had a weird stand off with a turkey. matt picked to have a banh mi for dinner and he had his first ever bubble tea. bubble tea grosses me out. i would not try it, but beckett did. beckett picked out a nice wallet for his dad as a gift and we ended the night with an ice cream date after beckett went to bed. happy father's day to matt. beckett and i feel very lucky to have matt in our lives. he is really a super great wonderful dad, but that is no surprise to me... i did pick him to be my baby daddy!

happy father's day matt!