MIA

Sorry. We've fallen off the radar. Still here. Still kicking. Life is slowly coming back together. The full story in a couple of weeks, probably. At the moment, we're enjoying some relaxing family time in UT. Then, a mass pack/move. Then, hopefully, I'll have time to catch everyone up. Keep an eye out for that. Also, Julianne's 4 MONTH (holy cow) check up is next week ( a little early) and we'll see how she's grown! Can't wait for the measurements. Could live without the shots (poor baby). Until then....

storytime...

Get comfy...we may be here for a bit...
Lately, I take a picture b/c I want to blog about it and then never do it. So, here's the condensed version...a little late :)

FINALLY a dinner that worked out for me. After the fried chicken fiasco, I was ever so grateful my pizza turned out. If you've never tried to make pizza, you should. It's pretty fun and super yummy! We get this "pizza" cheese mix from smith's and it's divine...Try it. You'll see :)


Fancy dress day. These are the dresses from Katie's wedding. The girls looked SOOO cute! Unfortunately, after this wearing, I washed them and Julianne's started to fray!! Looking into that being replaced.. These dresses are NOT cheap!
Smiley baby :D. We moved up to 3-6 month clothes! She's growing so fast and just like the other two is incredibly long...

I just love these little layette thingies. She looks so cute in them when we stand her up! They go all the way to her toes. :) hee hee.

And, our newest favorite sleeping position. Yep, she's my kid. Not quite on her belly, but might as well be. Most of the time, you can lay her like this, give her her bink and off she goes... Usually.
RAIN!!! You may have seen on my facebook, we finally got RAIN! And Brooklyn even got wet! Ok, most of her wetness was standing under the water draining off the roof, but still. There was water there to drain!! It rained three days in a row and we loved every single one of them!
Pepsi on Ice, anyone??
We went to a free movie (That I'd forgotten about...we've been missing out ALL summer...gosh dang it!) We saw Surf's Up and all loved it. You just can't go wrong taking the kiddles to a movie...
Last night we had a little experience. Sushi. Ok, the kids didn't eat sushi, but the adults did and we all ate our diner with chopsticks (kids included). Rather successfully, I might add. Good times. Good times. Thanks again, Josh!


Pictured above: California-something, deep fried; "Finding Nemo" and Spicy Tuna roll (L to R). My Fav was the fried California-thing, but Nemo was tasty too. The others we got were a little too spicy for my liking. The 4th one (not pictured) had jalapenos and those aren't really my thing.

Last night's sleeping position...Good thing there's a wall there....
And, today's adventure:
Not quite sure how it happened....I THINK he fell down and clipped the bottom shelf of the bookcase. Oopsies. Just another day in the life.

still here....

Life is so crazy. How does it happen that everything has to happen at once... If anyone can poof tough times away, let me know :)
I just put a pic up so you dont' have to stare at my shins anymore !! Happy Pioneer day, to those of you who want to celebrate it :).

Oh My Shins....

I know. You all were dying to see a picture of my shins....At least I shaved today.

So, you totally can't tell in the pic, my shins do not feel very well today. This morning I was pulling a loaf of bread out of the freezer and unexpectedly got a little more than I'd bargained for. It all happened so quickly, I'm not sure if the offenders bounced and hit my shins or hit them on the way down. Anyway, out came the bread and along with it came two packages of frozen solid steaks. Frozen solid as it 5 lb ROCKS. TWO packages perfectly aimed for one to hit each leg. Simultaneously. Yeah. It took a good 5 minutes of deep breathing to stem the curses, tears of pain and general anguish (such things bring curious kids...). One leg has a decent bump and I could see a bruise forming almost instantly. The other, slightly smaller. Needless to say, these shins are getting some TLC for a few days, and that may include refraining from using the razor. Good thing my leg hair is white (same color as my legs!)

life goes on

Despite over 100 degree temps, we have been to the park several times this week. Julianne and I hang out in the shade and feel the breeze (which has been NOT hot, lately anyway) and Mason and Brooklyn run around wearing themselves out. It's great. Except that I'm constantly worried that they'll get overheated and dehydrated. They don't understand why I don't want to push them on the swings. #1, I have to leave Julianne alone (not that she's ever that far away...) and more importantly #2, the swings are NOT shaded at the park we go to, where the climbing stuff and slides are. I finally got Brooklyn to run through the water today, so that helped her cool down, Mason however, is NOT interested. One day. One day.

Nothing terribly exciting to report, I know. I just felt like babbling for a bit :). I thought my weekend would provide some blog-worthy news, but plans got cancelled :(. I know. I'm SOO picked on. Bring on the WEEKEND!!

To do....and random pics.

It seems my to-do list is growing. I hope I can get it all done in a timely manner. Rather than drag you all into the boring and whiny details, we'll leave it at that.

On to other things...Jon went with his cousin the other night so I had some time to myself. I wanted to sew...had nothing that needed sewing...

So, I gathered up some scraps and made a burp cloth. Yes it's a little crazy, and VERY busy, but I kinda like it. I wonder if the seams will make it not as absorbant? Anyone want to give it a try? It was a good time killer. I watched "10 Things I Hate About You" and sewed. A night well spent.

Lastly, we have another puzzler on our hands! Mason loves to do this "Cars" puzzle. Saturday he did Lightening and Sally all by himself. I think he would've done more but he was exhausted. Before the afternoon was out, he was asleep on Jon's chest. Poor kid needs more sleep and yet he's up at 6:45 asking for bekfast. Oiy.

He's a pretty funny kid, though. He loves to draw with Brooklyn and he's started drawing people. PEOPLE!!! My baby boy is old enough to draw a face: head, eyes, nose mouth. It just blows me away! Too big too fast. That's all I have to say.

3 months

Yep. It's been three months. Crazy!!

It wouldn't be a 3 month pic of my kid if he/she wasn't screaming :). I'll have to get a "wall-worthy" one to add to the collection.
Yep, three months. Holy Cow. I can't believe that much time as already passed! She loves to sit up and watch Brooklyn and Mason. She loves to smile and coo (we love it too). She doesn't so much love laying on the floor to play anymore. She wants to be up in the bouncer where she can see. Everyonce in a while she tolerates the swing, but that is decreasing. She's awake a ton in the day now and still gets up once a night. However, I think that is diminishing too, as she falls asleep again as soon as she starts to nurse. Still won't fall for the binky, though. Oh well. All in good time...
She goes to bed right around the time the older kids do, which I love. It gives Jon and I some time sans kids at night. It's actually a little bizarre. Brooklyn NEVER went to bed so early (of course, our schedules were a tad different then...) and Mason would stay up after Brooklyn went to bed to eat. I'm not arguing, though. We'll take it.

We love her and can't imagine life without her. Isn't it crazy how fast that happens??

Tweeting

Just for fun, I did the Twitter-thing.... Don't expect much, but if you want to follow me, it's amhibsh... :)

Ramblings

Hello all. As we've had an adventurous week, I'm going to sum up. There's a lot of pics and some story. Enjoy if you choose to :).

To start off: What do you do when life is a little overwhelming? Don't do anything productive. Turn on Disney and snuggle up. Works for me.

And, what's the best way to spend your honeymoon? Letting a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old paint your nails of course!

Who's next? Oh yeah, David can't be left out!!

It's the Fourth of July so Sparklers are an absolute necessity for me. They've always been my favorite. Brooklyn is hot and cold about it all. One year she loves them. The next she's terrified and won't take it. This year, she played along. Mason tried it out, but wasn't sure really what he was supposed to do. It was pretty funny to watch his face, though.


It would've been more fun had it been darker, but it was nearing on bedtime and I generally stick close to bedtime for my sanity.

Brooklyn still LOVES to hold Julianne. Fortunately, Julianne is getting better and better at holding herself up, which is good for Brooklyn. See in Julianne's face how much SHE loves it?

The Fourth, I tried to make a "special" dinner. It was a holiday after all. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as planned....as usual.

I tried to make fried chicken (which I have done once before, successfully). This time was not one of those times. The corn was ok, except that it was super cold by the time we got to eat it. The Cornbread was over cooked. The top didn't look like it was cooking so it got left in too long. Ugh. And then there was the chicken...oh the chicken. I battered it, and fried it. Then, when I went to put it on the table, it was bleeding! Yes, bleeding!! It TOTALLY grossed me out and torked me off that I'd ruined it. I tried to fry it more, but since I'd cut it open to see if it was done (of course it wasn't) it didn't really work. So, we threw it in the oven. ...20 min later the smaller pieces were done enough to eat. Let's just say it was another pothole on my way to "domestic Goddess"...and we did NOT keep the leftovers.

This was Sunday:

He fell asleep sometime around 6 or 6:30 (which is not terribly uncommon). The beauty was that he STAYED asleep until almost 7 the next morning.... Oh YEAH!

We got to have a great day at the Shark Reef with Ticey! It was SO fun! Brooklyn had a blasts carrying around the wand to hear the informational recordings about the animals. I think the wand was the highlight of the whole aquarium for her :).





Good times, good times. Besides the fact that it was awesome to get out of the house, I couldn't have asked for better company. Thanks again, Ticey!!
Unfortunately, it couldn't last. While driving home from the strip, the bumper fell off. It was dragging behind me and I was in the inside lane. All I could do was pull through the carpool lane into the inside emergency lane and assess the damage. It was all broken off except for one side. I couldn't get it on and I couldn't get it off. Oiy...Luckily, some NDOT guys pulled over on the other side of the freeway and helped me take it the rest of the way off. THEN, of course it didn't fit in the back so we had to put it in the passenger seat, hanging over the baby. Oh, the joys. It was just swell. So now my car looks SUPER dumb. Hopefully I'll get the check from the insurance soon so I can get it fixed!

kicks and giggles

Just for fun, I thought a little comparison was in order....

April 12, 2009 (the day we came home)

July 2, 2009

Newborn No More

It's official. And I know most of you won't find this a blog-worthy event, but oh well. At 2 1/2 months, Julianne moved on to size 1 diapers. I know you were expecting something spectacular, right? Nope. Just diapers. My little one is a newborn no more. I know most of you are saying, "so what? It's just a diaper". I will explain. It's fairly common for my babies to wear newborn diapers for a lengthy period of time. Our babies tend to be long and skinny. I don't exactly remember, but I don't think Mason wore then as long as Brooklyn did, but then, he's our "chunky" kid. Julianne's cousin, who is exactly one week younger than her, has moved passed even size 1, I think. Oh well. I'll keep my long-skinny babies and love on the chubby cheeks of others' babies. I know when most people see Julianne they say, "She is so little!", but to me....She is big.