Moving day!

Head on over to THE NEW BLOG and catch up!

Toddler Valone will always be here, but going forward we'll be updating Twelve13.

See you there!

2 minutes and 36 seconds of fame

Me, on our local NBC news station this morning!

Click HERE to watch the video. It's not that exciting. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Enjoy. :)

And... if you want to enter to win any of the stuff on the segment, check out my other blog HERE!

The girls of Edina

Labor Day weekend I got to take a mini-vacation to visit with friends in Edina, Minnesota. Two full days in a suburb of Minneapolis and one of those was spent at the Minnesota State Fair. Here we are taking the bus to the fair, because the fair is enormous and if you drive there and park you have to walk all day to get there. At least that's what I'm told.

The Minnesota State Fair is also so enormous that you can't walk the entire thing (especially not with pregnant ladies in your group). The sky-ride thing was awesome.

We all know the only reason you go to the fair is the food though. Check out Heidi's thorough recap of all things fried HERE. (And all the shopping!)

Best part of the trip, these moments...

The whole reason for the Edina getaway-- L. Shanna's baby shower. Kim and L.'s sister-in-law put together a gorgeous and elegant celebration of Chewy. You can read their recaps HERE and HERE and L.'s HERE.

Obviously, I am the last to post pictures and thoughts of the weekend, but it was such a good time with some of the most important women in my life. I am the luckiest woman in the entire world.

It's been a while

Let's just say my internet is "down" at home and my laptop, well, isn't functioning properly.

I do have some great pictures from camping last weekend and I'll get those posted as soon as I can. In the meantime, if you're not already, go follow this hilarious blog written by a super talented (and beautiful) friend of mine...

Weekend Fun

You'd think all I did this weekend was bake...

Prudent Baby's Apple Cream Cheese muffins

Whatever's Baked French Toast

The Larson Lingo's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcakes

And Tage's favorite Sweet Potato Blueberry Bread by Bonnie the Baker

Add to that 11 hours worked between two jobs, church, the farmers market and a bike ride-- and there you have our weekend fun!

Oh, and I almost forgot, we watched Lance Armstrong and the Amgen Tour of California ride by our street on Sunday. So cool!

A different take on resolutions

Lose the extra weight... eat healthier... call Mom more often... spend less time at work... blah, blah, blah. How about adding this one to your list of 2010 resolutions?

Bold, right?

But fun too. If you've never heard of the Mominatrix blog (or The Imperfect Parent) before, I'm sure you'll head over there now and check her out. I love it when people talk sex, politics and religion.

And seriously, who DOESN'T want a better sex life, especially after having kids?

You can thank me February 1st.

You may not know...

Thanks Heather, for sending me some blog love yesterday! Check out Heather's post yesterday (if you haven't already) and maybe you'll learn a thing or two about her that you didn't already know. Here's how the Kreativ Blogger Award goes...

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award. Check.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog. Check.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award. Check.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people may not know.
5. Nominate Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they’ve been nominated.

Thinking of 7 things most people may not know about me was more difficult than I thought it was going to be, but here you go...

1. I spent 2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer. More specifically, I was a member of AmeriCorps and taught junior high math and science during the summers and tutored during the school year.
2. One of my many hats has been the Children's Ministry director at a baptist church. I led a program of 700 children and 200 volunteers.
3. I've travelled overseas to Thailand and China.
4. I have email OCD. I have to read emails in the order I receive them. (Extremely annoying when they are backed up and there are recent ones I really want to read!)
5. I have a degree in kinesiology. And yet I am currently a banker...
6. I once played "Silent Night" on the piano for an elementary school Christmas show-- having never taken a piano lesson. My parents thought I was crazy.
7. Finally, if you've never met me in person you may not know that I have two different colored eyes. One brown and one hazel.

Now, check out these fabulous ladies and their fun blogs! (I'm breaking the rules and not telling them I've linked to them here, but their blogs are well worth the read.)

• L. Shanna writing about A Woman in Her Thirties (which you will appreciate even if you are not a woman or in your thirties)
• Rookie Moms, Heather and Whitney (giving new moms everywhere some hope, and a laugh)
• Veronica who is So Not That Mom (hopefully she will start posting again soon!)
• Mel of The Larson Lingo (who has a very powerful post today)