Groupon epic fail

Just thought I'd share this funny story that happened recently while AB and Jess were in town last. Dad (forgetting I'm not a lover of cake/cupcakes) bought me a groupon for my birthday for a dozen cupcakes from the Coronado Cupcakery. He planned for all of us to spend the afternoon in Coronado to hang out and pick out the cupcakes. We got to the Coronado Cupcakery only to find that dad didn't read the fine print on his groupon that said you have to call and place an order for your dozen cupcakes the day before you come pick them up. The girl working there would not make an exception for us despite them having a full display of dozens of cupcakes. Dad was furious and promised never to give the shop his business again. We had cold stone that day instead.

About a week later, not being one to waste money, dad put in an order at the shop with his coupon, and picked the cupcakes up the next day. Good times.

Because we're that cool

We swam with sharks this one time.  No big deal.

I just can't hide it!

I am one VERY excited aunt these days.

As many of you may already know,

our Ashley sister is having her baby this week!

I'm sure I can speak for all of us squisties when I say that

we couldn't be happier for her.

I think it is crazy how fast the time has gone by.

I feel like Beckett was just born.

I can't imagine how awesome it will be to

have two adorable nephews!

It will be so fun to have a new little baby around.

I just needed to let some of this out.

:)

too long...

...between posts on here, so I will share a lovely little video from summer 2006.  This was the first summer our parents had their Mexico house, and we had some good times in the evenings cooped up in our room dancing to everything from Hillary Duff to Mario.  I made this video a while back of that summer, but youtube took the music off.  They have since put it back on, and it just makes the video!  Enjoy!  Miss you sis!

Phrases by Squisties

This is a special Christmas edition of Phrases by Squisties.

One thing I will never forget is something Alex said when she was really young. One of Alex's better friends at the time was named Chelsea. We were singing Angels We Have Heard on High in church, and after the first two verses, someone noticed that Alex was not singing "..in excelsis Deo" but rather, she was singing "..in a Chelsea's stable." I mean, it kind of makes sense..she must have connected the stable with the one Christ was born in, and Chelsea was just what fit in in her head.

Whenever we sing this song I think of those lyrics..and might slip them into a verse or two ;)

Love you Al!


-Abby

the word

Alex wanted me to clarify where "squistie" came from because she didn't invent it.  I actually say a lot of words where I add "...ie" to the end.  Many of these are even used by my two year old and other family members today.  For example: diap-ies, eye boog-ies, shoog-ie (instead of sugar), etc.  But alas, this is not where it comes from either.

Our husbands have a group dislike of ANY instance in which we feel the need to bring up old boyfriends, but I'm afraid the credit for this term goes to one of mine.  He had two sisters which he lovingly referred to, and addressed (on the phone at least), as squisties.  Like in any relationship, I began to adopt certain phrase-ology and other characteristics from this significant other.  I called my sisters that a few times after that, they liked it, and it stuck.  And there you have it...the birth of Squisties.

Brothers

I love that us older three are married and we have brothers of our very own..since we grew up sans brothers. Alex..I can't wait to see what character you bring into our family :)

Anyway..Jeremy is just a trickster. He loves to kid, and he really likes to get our goats. He likes to do things like...stick his foot in front of you when you're trying to take a picture with Sheeb.

But..Jeremy is one of the coolest brothers I could ask for. I love that he loves soccer and that he is the father of Beckett. We get along really well and he's...........pretty cool.

Andrew is the biggest goofball there ever was on this entire planet. My favorite thing is that he says one funny thing, everyone laughs at the joke, and then he continues to say that thing forever. For example, Andrew saw the following video.. imitated it, got a laugh, and then proceeded to repeat the following action the ENTIRE day. (Mind you, it was Christmas day, so every time someone opened a gift he would say..."Ohhhh myyy goooooshhh")

[Uh..I don't know how to put the video on here so here's the link :)]

Surprise Party

Proof:

Oh brothers.

-Abby

Gotcha.

This is quite possibly the ONLY

"paparazzi"-type photo I have of anyone.

If you can't read the post-its they say:

"Maybe Daddy (AKA Leremy),"

"Maybe Mommy (AKA Schmeee),"

and "Maybe baby."

This is from before Beckett was born.

Ashley didn't know if she was pregnant,

but I guessed she was.

We figured out about a week later that I was right.

:)