Melissa's Fake Blog

Well I can hardly believe I let so much time pass without posting! I mean so much has been going on, it might take awhile to catch up! Let's see-First off, Don and I took a whirlwind Good Will Tour, mostly through Northern Africa. We ran into Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Chloe did a photo shoot with her newborns. The pictures turned out really great-look for them on next months installment of "People."

After that I have been pretty busy sewing all of Chloe's clothes for the upcoming winter months. The near frigid temperatures here during wintertime call for extra care. I made sure to sew wool lining in all her pants, that is, after I hand stitched her initials on all her clothes.

Somehow I managed to also sew all my own clothes for the upcoming fall season-and it was then I realized my life long desire of becoming a famous designer-I auditioned for Project Runway-and guess what-I made it! Look for me Season 7!

With all this going on, I haven't had much time to make my usual, from scratch, spinach pasta. Unfortunately squeezing and chopping my spinach takes a lot more time than grinding my wheat, so we have had to get by with my homemade wheat pasta instead. Don is of course a little disappointed, as he loves my spinach pasta. But he realized how busy I have been and so he surprised me with a Platinum Locket Necklace, and you will never guess what I found inside! A note that read:
"You work so hard making Fettuccine-
That is why we are going on a Cruise to Tahiti!"

Gosh-can you believe him?? So tricky! It's gifts like these that make me forget about the other not so great ones, like 30 dollar pedicures.

Well I better get going-I have to go teach my Hip Hop class over at the gym- Did I mention I picked up Hip Hop after watching "So you think you can dance?" I left my curtain open one night while I was practicing and the owner of Tempe's Gold Gym walked by while out with his dog, knocked on my door, and offered me a job teaching a class! Gosh-can you believe my luck! Sooooooo embarrassing! The annoying thing though is that I have lost 10 pounds and my pants are falling off me! And all the compliments about how great my body looks, is getting really old! I'm sorry, I don't mean to be focusing on my trials-I know there are people out there who have it way worse. Well have a great day everyone!


Okay, okay, I sort of got carried away. The real story is... I can hardly remember what we have been up to lately! My policy is I don't leave the house unless there is an emergency when the temperature is over 105 degrees. So I have been doing a lot of "chillin" in my "chillin" house, instead of the freakishly hot outdoors. We watched a little Olympics (mostly gymnastics) and I wanted to take a picture of my gymnast hair and post that, but I didn't. Oh by the way, guess who's camera broke again? Mine. Sigh.

The only pictures that saved on my camera was of us visiting the mall to ride the carousal.
This one of Chelsey makes me laugh. Oh a funny Chelsey story. We were watching "Independence Day" and Chelsey goes "Man. There is a lot of cussing in this movie. I have heard Son of a B- like five times." She said the real word. Maybe you had to be there, and maybe I shouldn't have thought it was as funny as I did....
Chloe really loves my dad, and I think the feeling is mutual.

This past week I went to Flagstaff and visited my Aunt and picked of my sister Liz for a little visit. Flagstaff is soooooo nice right now! We also had a great time playing with my friend Robyn and her kids. The ride home was very long! We got off to a late start. We spent awhile at my aunts trying to find my sister's glasses. Only to discover their remains lying in the grass, they fell victim to a dog kidnapping. We laughed awhile about that. And later Chloe spilled a huge cup of lemonade all over the car, herself, and my sisters (not me, thankfully). We stopped to clean it up, and the moment I took off Chloe's diaper, she started playing with her belly button and peeing all over the seat.

A couple days after getting back from Flagstaff we left to Pine, AZ for a little stay at a friend's cabin. Don joined us after his scout campout. My whole family came up too. We visited Tonto National Bridge and did some hiking, and I had a near death experience. Not really, but I did get really freaked out when I was supposed to slide down some rock with a dropoff and a pool of water a couple feet away. Despite my brief brush with death, we had a very good time.

I wish I had some pictures. This blog is probably really boring. Well I guess that is all I have to say now.