happy halloweeny!!!

ahhh it's that time of the year again! the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year! and now it's even better with a little one around =) vaughn's first halloween festivities started friday night when we went to a halloween festival here in the valley. there was a pumpkin patch, rides, food, games...but we forgot to bring cash! so we took pics and left. saturday we went to la mirada since the flores clan decided to do halloween early (oct 31st is a school night, so we can't get together that day) -- we went to another pumpkin patch and this time we brought enough cash =) the kids had a lot of fun running around and picking out the perfect pumpkin. vaughn snoozed through the whole thing hahaha! we dressed him up as wonderbread (i know, crazy parents huh), but he has 5 other costumes (1 my co worker lent to me, the other one is a roo costume that's too big on him, and the other 3 my friend jen bought for him) so i'm planning to do a shoot on all of his costumes for posterity's sake. on halloween day we plan to go to the disney lot to join the annual halloween festivities, should be fun! meanwhile here are some pics from this weekend, hope everyone's having a blast too!

twenty twenty four hours ago, i wanna be sedated

Vaughn's Ramones photoshoot!
(the effect of being on maternity leave for waaayy too long, hahaha!)

jean dilemma

i want a sewing machine. i don't know why i didn't get one before but for someone who spends around $15-20 just to get jeans hemmed by a pro, i should've learned how to hem jeans on my own a long time ago. sigh! i think about random things these days, i.e. i wish i went to a sewing class instead of wasting my time stewing and being mad about certain things in the past, or i could've learned how to fix cars or went to photography school or learned how to knit a scarf...hahaha. but i'm not that great at home making. when i was in gradeschool and highschool, i always paid somebody to do my home econ projects for me. now all of a sudden i feel like it's such a critical skill to have, but really the desire to learn how to make anything with my hands or at least to sew is derived from my frustration of shelling out so much money to have some other person do it for me -- and it doesn't even come out the way i want it! anyway, i'm gonna save up for one and maybe try to hem the boyfriend jeans i got from ae. i might need to buy some thriftstore jeans to practice on...or i might just go to isang and have her do it for me heheheh. lazy bones.

that was then and this is now

it's 2:35 am and my mind is racing still. looked up a couple of friend's sites on the internet and found pics from last year. seems like it was such a long time ago. i stare at disbelief -- how many times in the 365 days of 2005 did i spend in drunken stupor? i don't even remember how being drunk feels -- haven't had a bottle of beer for 11 months now (because i'm breastfeeding). amazing how motherhood changes you. i stop and think, do i want to go back to that life? i click on the desktop icon and my wallpaper of vaughn's picture is smiling back at me with that ridiculous faux hawk that mark insists he sports. nah -- i don't want to go back to listlessly living my life looking for the next party, waking up with a horrible hangover, and doing the vicious cycle all over again. having a kid forces you to rethink your priorities and weigh the consequences of your actions very very carefully. it's not all about you now, another human being depends on your choices and the life path you choose to lead. shit that thought still freaks me out. *yawn* gotta get some shut eye, the boobman will be up soon and i wanna be awake for his satisfied coos and smiles =)

pics pics

no time to blog but here are some pics...i think i'm gonna be doing this for a while, just posting pics that is. mark goes back to work next week so it's just gonna be me and vaughn -- my hands will definitely be full. i'll post pics though...so just check from time to time. oh and i got the job! yeeehaaa! family was over last weekend to celebrate...will post pics on that as soon as i'm done uploading. toodles!

http://vaughnarthur.multiply.com/photos