LET IT SNOW!!!!!!

isn't it PRETTY? i'm in LOVE :)














































these last three are from the back door of my work

LET IT SNOW!

this one is my favorite. you can see the toad sliding on the sidewalk. he was so far ahead because he'd run and slide the whole way to church!

**reminder:check older posts**

check september 9. i started a post then, so now it is a few behind, but i still want you to read it :)

one man's trash is another man's treasure... sometimes...

every year the toad's mom's family has a christmas party. we all bring a "guessing game" (a jar full of candy, you tell us how many are in there) and a prize ($1 or less/person) for bingo. then we play bingo and everyone gets several prizes depending on if you win. so this year i picked up some cute wire trees and the toad's idea for the guessing game was to put a jar of something inside another jar that is surrounded by something else, so we tricked everyone on that, it was fun. then we were rushing to get out of the house and the toad said "we have to wrap the prizes" all i had was some tissue paper and bags. i had been saving both parts of the wrapping for a moment like this, so i grabbed them, shoved them in bags w/tissue paper and away we went. traffic was pretty bad as it usually is about six southbound interstate besides that it had snowed earlier so some people were driving ridiculously slowly being "careful" making others who couldn't care less that there was snow who were driving ridiculously fast, brake a lot. i was a wreck as the toad drove. when we got there we had to remember to bring in our two dozen cookies, our two bags and our guessing jar. the toad grabbed everything and i started talking to his sister who drove up and parked right before we did. we went inside and he put everything down, we grabbed a plate of food and started eating and playing bingo. we got a few prizes and his mom wanted to see what we brought so she went and got our bags. she brought one over and unwrapped it and thought it was so cute she sent one of his sisters over for the other one. they grabbed the other bag and she started ruffling through it and said, "is this your bag you brought?" i looked over and saw that it was not one of the gifts we had brought but just a brown paper bag, and said, "oh no, that's not it, it would be in a green sparkly bag" she said, "it looks like a bag of garbage" indeed it did. she told the girls they brought her a bag of garbage and she sent them back over to the prize table, but alas, it wasn't there. we all wondered who had got the green bag with the red tree. when the party was over we hurried back to her house and looked at the pretty green wire tree and talked about how its too bad they didn't get both. it got late and the toad and i drove home finally arriving around midnight. as the toad cleaned out our backseat he found the green sparkly bag! oh no! i suddenly realized that the brown paper bag she had found as a "prize" was indeed my "garbage can" for my car. just a nice large sturdy brown paper bag that i threw recyclable bottles and paper in, that i would dump out and reuse. i double checked in the backseat where i kept it and sure enough. gone. i guess what is our garbage is someone else's prize. in this case, my mother-in-law's!
well at least it made the toad and i laugh for quite a while :)

old news, but really interesting just the same

this actually happened they day BEFORE we moved. i was SO glad it didn't happen the day of. it took me 2 hours to go 7 miles. it took the toad 2 1/2 to go 10. it was a rough day. and a big waste of gas and we were just glad we werent driving the uhaul that day. that would have been more of a waste of gas :P

in other news...

i'm the new manager at my salon. just thought i'd post it before i forgot and then people got mad at me for not telling them... heh heh heh

V is the roman numeral 5

we just got called to teach the 5-year-old kids in my ward. they are SO cute! a handful, FOR SURE. but the greatest. we bribe them with candy to listen and it works for the most part :) when we first got the class it was just chloe, grace, mary, sariah, bella and sam. daniella, katelyn, talon, tiffany, and billy had a different teacher who ended up moving, so they gave them to us, so now we have ELEVEN! its rough, but AWESOME. i love them all!



this is billy. his real name is really long. and i can't spell it or say it (he is polynesian) so we call him billy. he has only come a few times. and is the strong silent type. doesn't he look tough? i think so...


















raising her hand is bella. she is linus. her blankie comes with her every week:) her family speaks spanish, so i think they go back and forth between the two wards. next to her is daniella. her family speaks spanish as well so we hardly ever saw her the first little while, but her mom got called to the primary presidency so now we see her all the time! :)


















this is talon. he is a very sweet and tender little guy. he is super obedient, but love to be silly just like any other little boy. you get him and sam together and it is chaos! he struggles to listen, but when you go to a different church every other weekend i guess its easy to understand :)















this is tiffany she is a little fire cracker :) she loves candy and coloring. she comes maybe twice a month if that, so we don't see her much but we sure love it when she's there :)














this is katelyn. she is SUPER sweet and SUPER quiet. she is a really good kid. never gives us any trouble, she is shy, so she doesn't always want to answer questions, or participate, but she is never a problem. when katelyn's other teacher moved, katelyn didn't remember or didn't know, she came to church, sat in the usual spot and never found her class. she sat there crying. i noticed her crying, but was trying to take care of all my kids, so i told the primary president "that little girl" was crying. i didn't know who she was, so heather took her out and talked to her and then brought her to me. she told me she was mine. i felt so bad for her! she is just sweet.


















this is sariah. she is brilliant. she knows all the words to all the songs. she is allergic to everything so we make sure our candies comply to her issues. :) one time we sang a song in sharing time and she wanted to sing the second verse, but they were moving on. so when they started singing another song, she sang the second verse to me very quietly. she gets pretty upset if something is out of order according to her. but if you give her some one-on-one time she is fine. pretty cute.

this is mary (on the left) and grace (on the right). mary is very quiet and likes to be good. she tries really hard to answer the questions (because who doesn't want candy?) but mostly she goes off on tangents. she is the first to remind all the girls that we can take bathroom breaks and if she raises her hand, i'm sure to go on a field trip to the bathroom with seven girls:)

grace is SUPER animated. she talks nonstop. i love that she has so much to say, i just wish she understood whispering. i feel bad because when they asked us to teach, they told us that she has gone home from church only to say she doesn't want to go back because "they always just tell me to be quiet" so i try to say things like "use your church voice" or even "whisper" just so the other teachers can sort of talk over her. :)


this is chloe. she is the oldest and the most serious of my kids. she and sam know the answers to ALL of the questions. (even if i think sam isn't listening) chloe likes to be reverent and set the example for the rest of the kids. she still laughs at sam though!















this is sam. he is our class clown. he says "eyeball" to everything. i ask, "who is this a picture of?" "eyeball Jesus" "that's right sam, Jesus. what is Jesus doing here?" "teaching the eyeballs" "close. how about teaching the children?" the other kids think its HILARIOUS. well. they ARE five. :)

TAGGED! .....6 quirks

So Katie tagged me


Rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.

2. Mention the rules on your blog.

3. Tell about 6 quirks of yours.

4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.


1. sometimes i think i'm funny. i always laugh at other people's blogs and so when i go to do a blog i have to think of the funniest way to write it. that's probably partly why i haven't blogged for a while. i can't think of any GREAT stories to tell in the funniest way possible. too bad

2. i have to finish everything i start. even if i finish it a million years too late. when i was on my mission they had this certificate you could get by memorizing all the discussions and scriptures that went along with them. it took me a year. my mission was only a year and a half. so i had actually i had 5 months left when i finally completed it. i was practically done w/my mission. everyone else who got the certificate got it in the first 2-3 months they were there. this finishing it thing is also why i don't blog often. i still have "v" and "z" left. WHAT ON EARTH starts w/those letters? oh brother. don't worry. i'll finish. i'll think of SOMETHING. :)

3. i "edit" EVERYTHING, but then i don't do it myself. i will spell check/grammar check/and all the other stuff ( i'm obviously really good at it, i can't even think of the real terms). i never capitalize my words when i type or blog. i used to be great at typing, but then i got lazy and ignored the shift key. i've also got lazy with spelling, i use spell check. i think its made us all lazy, don't you think? which takes me to #4....

4. in relation to #3, and stealing from katie's quirks: i've always LOVED spelling. she mentions that i did her spelling homework. i DID and i LOVED it!! it was SO EASY AND FUN. i still love spelling. i wish i knew more words. i recently watched "akeelah and the bee". there's someone to idolize! i wished so badly it was me in that movie! i want to learn to spell all those words and win a national spelling bee. c'mon people, i'm 29, HOW IS THAT NORMAL?

5. i get "phantom vibrates" i dont know what else to call them. so my phone is ALWAYS on vibrate. ALWAYS. and i usually have it in my left pocket. even when i'm in the shower, i think i feel my left hip vibrating. i will un/subconsciously touch my left hip w/my left hand just to make sure it is/isn't. I'M IN THE SHOWER and i still check. maybe i should get help for being addicted to my phone. its not even a cool phone.

6. i'm over paranoid like katie mentioned. but i don't have a picture from the PICU to remember, i just have scenes from TV shows or movies or stories others have told me. i get up daily w/my husband to say goodbye to him at 4 a.m. i am worried that if i don't get up and say goodbye, he will leave and wreck on the side of the road and be dead for 6+ hours while i'll have got a great extra 6+ hours of sleep. and i'll have no idea. the idea of it makes my stomach churn. so i get up every morning @4 and then i make him text me and tell me he made it safely to work, THEN i go back to sleep ;)



i don't have any friends in the blogging world actually, but i'll tag some people whose blogs i read. we'll see if they read mine!

mom ( i know she reads mine)
katie (oh wait she tagged me, well she can do it again! haha just kidding. you can do it for the bug on his blog)
mindy
julie
marybeth
mj
tiffany
sonnet
missyjo
naomi

w is for wolf spider y is for YUCK

this is what i saw outstide my garage last night. in between the garage door (that was open) and the front of my car the toad actually found it cuz he went out a different door


then he sprayed it to death (literally) after i took a picture of it not nearly as good as this one

did you notice she has her YOUNG on her back!

we didnt know what it was legs and all to give you a size reference: touch your middle fingertip to your thumb tip just barely...its butt (we didnt know it was all her kids on her back) was about the size of a grape plus legs plus a head bleh!
the toad went out the front door and i went out the garage door we were going to get the mail and i beat him then i looked and he was just standing there i asked why and he said "i'm making sure the spider doesn't go in our house" and i said "what spider?"
then i went around the car and started freaking out he said go inside and close the garage door (apparently it was headed for the garage) so i did and then grabbed my camera and came out the front where he was then he ran inside and grabbed the spider spray after we took a few pictures and he really sprayed it for like a good 45 seconds straight she ran a little but stayed still while the toad sprayed her till she turned white and i said" um ok. i'm pretty sure its dead” well at least i know that she and her kids are NOT in my house. and so he stopped and she started RUNNING it gives me heebie jeebies just retelling I then in the morning she was all shriveled up and on her back probably told the kids to run but w/that much spray there's no way they survived whew anyway

memories

Okay, so I decided to join in. Here is what you do...

1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember! If we're only blogging friends, write about a post that is the most memorable for you.

2. Next, if you feel so inclined, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll be sure to write one about you...!

u is also for update

i realized i'm a kind of when-it-rains-it-pours-blogger.... so a lot has happened in my past little while. now im to the place i don't know where to start.

i guess i can go chronologically:

early june:
we bought a house. well, closed on the house. have you ever bought a house? they give you a stack of papers the size of a dictionary and have you sign your FULL name on each paper. sometimes you have to ALSO initial on each paper.
here's my biggest problem with that: i NEVER sign my middle name, or initial. and when i try to stop and put something in between my first and last name, i can't make the first letter of my last name. i CAN'T. i can't start it, therefore, I'm stuck. it's WEIRD and ANNOYING. so i signed my first name left a gap, then last name, then went BACK and signed my middle name. i felt pretty dumb having to do it, but i couldn't make it work any other way. how weird is that? my initials were a slight problem as well. luckily my first and middle initials are the same letter, so i was able to sign my initials, then add another letter to the front. OH BROTHER.

middle june:
my sister moved. SAD DAY. i used to visit her EVERY WEDNESDAY for the past two years. her kid is what i like to call "my vicarious child". i know him so well. better than any other niece or nephew. i wish i knew them all that well, but since i was there so often i got to know him so well. and now i feel like i've lost a child. ok, maybe not that bad, but its still sad. so before they moved they stayed at my apartment for 3 days. it was a lot of fun, but stressful too. it felt like we were ripping the band-aid off more slowly this way. it was upsetting to take her to the airport, not to mention her kids weren't in the best of moods, which made it harder. and sadder. but then....

early july:
we went to denver to visit my sister! hooray! it was a lot of fun and i got to see my mom's mom, and my dad's mom and sister, and my brother. we have tons of family in denver which i think made the move a little easier for my sister, then she wasn't TOTALLY alone.
we watched fireworks near my brother's house, and lit some off in his front yard because his kids are 7 and 5 and are just getting into liking to do it themselves. the only thing is, they are girls (he actually has 4 girls) and being girls, they tend to be a little more scared of things. the older one cries over everything, just like i did when i was little. and the younger one is pretty tough mostly, but she was chickening out holding the sparklers. so i had to take one from her in the middle of it burning. they are ADORABLE girls. i'm pretty jealous i don't live closer. how much fun would that be? a lot. i'm telling you. :) but we swam in the pool at my sister's apartment complex, and played in the sprinklers in my brother's back yard and over all, had a lot of fun.

~funny side note: when we got picked up from the airport my nephew came w/his dad. same when we were dropped off. if you have ever driven to or from the denver airport you would know there is a "broncos" statue right outside of it. only this is no ordinary statue. it is all blue w/orange eyes (those are broncos colors). when my nephew saw it, he knew it was a horse and he made the noise of a horse, then growled. on the way back to the airport, we said "look at the horsey" he made no horse noise this time, just growled and pointed out the window. it was HILARIOUS! i IS a pretty creepy statue~

now here it is, mid july:
just packing. dreaming of IKEA and other such things to go into our new house.

more to come i guess. what starts with "v"?

u is for uhaul

which we rented for the 30th of july at noon.

so if you can PLEASE come help us to move, that would be WONDERFUL! :)

if you'd rather clean, you can come on the 31st :)

or unload on the 1st, (we might also unload some on the 31st. so the 1st might just be helping to unpack, and arrange stuff) :)

t is for the toad

i have the BEST husband in the world! he is SO nice to me! i want to try to tell you as many great things about him as i possibly can!



so funny because right now as i am typing myplaylist.com is singing michael buble's "everything" is singing to me. so now...
~i want you to click on my song player thing, find that song and listen to it! i dedicate it to my sweet husband :)
~a while ago i was congested and he woke up in the night, got up, found vapor-rub, and smeared some on me because he said it sounded like i was having a hard time breathing
~we have been married for four years, he proposed but only after i kissed him and told him i loved him ;) sometimes they need that little push :)
~he looks GREAT in light blue, because his eyes are so blue
~he cleans the bathroom for me because he knows i hate it
~he's an experimental, but pretty good, cook :) (sometimes we don't know what it is, but it almost always is edible) :)
~he's SO smart! he knows stuff about computers (that is maybe common knowledge, but i don't know it)
~he's so funny! just random inside stuff, if i gave examples you wouldn't get it, but he cracks me up! ok, here's one but you probably still had to be there: the other day we got this mouthwash for kids that you swish before you brush, then it shows you where to brush, so its BLUE intentionally. well i brought him some and he "drank" it, and then made a swallowing sound! i said "what?! did you swallow?!" and he shook his head no. oh brother! it made me roll my eyes and sort of laugh to myself, but then i "drank" some too and we were just busying ourselves, but when we both came to the sink to spit(from different doors of the bathroom) we took one look at him and laughed/spewed/spit my blue mouthwash all over the sink, and he did the same, but i was bent over the sink so it got all over me, and we were both hysterical! we giggled for about 15 min straight!
~he's such a good cleaner/organizer
~he's such a hard worker. he deserves the BEST in life
~he LOVES kids and he's so good w/my sister's kids and the kids in nursery where we are leaders
~he smiles A LOT
~he has a strong testimony
~he speaks spanish (and is very endearingly proud of it)
~he WANTS to learn how to sing and dance (most girls couldn't beg most guys to want to learn either of those things!)
~he understands how to fix ANYTHING no one knows how he knows
~he loves me
~aw he is just the sweetest husband that a girl could ever ask for
~he is so nice to me and thinks of all the ways to make my life as cushy and happy as possible
~he indulges me with so many things.

anyway, those are just some things i love about him, and all he does. what a FANTASTIC, FABULOUS, HANDSOME, CRAZY, FUNNY, SILLY, KIND, GENEROUS, HONEST, GOOD man.
love you babe

8 random things

I've been tagged!

now lemme see....

1. i have an abnormal body temperature. let me explain. i did this experiment where i took my resting temp every morning and it was always in the 96.8 degree range. i was telling someone that, and they said, "you mean 98.6?" and i thought, "oh, right, whatever", but then i looked again, and i was right! i'm naturally 2 degrees cooler than everyone else. that being said, when its 100 degrees, everyone is only 2 degrees warmer than usual when i am 4!

2. linking to #1: i started turning my A/C on in feb. i turned it off a few times when it snowed, but then RIGHT back on when it got "warm" ;) i've also been wearing flipflops since feb :)




3. i LOVE candy, and sweets. yeah they make me sick. what can i say? i don't know what's wrong w/me




4. i'm not a fan of exercise unless its disguised. (dancing, aerobics classes [they're like dancing], etc.) i don't know why, i just have a hard time "going to exercise" i'd just rather be w/a ton of people messing around and get a good workout w/out realizing it. i think part of this is that i don't like the clothes either. i'll be honest. its no excuse. i know



5. i'm terrified of "robbers" mostly, after having both cars broken into, i don't trust people. and i'm terrified that someone will come in my house too. we lived in an apt complex that didn't listen when i told them to fix something on a certain day when we'd be available and we slept through (we slept during the day cuz we worked overnight) someone fixing our kitchen cupboard! "the toad" woke up when the fixer guy walked THROUGH our bedroom into the bathroom to fix the towel rack! it was a tad terrifying knowing that someone had been chillin in our house for who knows how long, and he could have robbed us BLIND and we'd have slept right through! oh yeah and the time when my salon was robbed. (thanks2kt and her baby2;) i wasn't there) i stole this pict. from my brother's blog



6. i'm a hairdresser. does my job count as random?

7. i love waterfalls. i've been obsessed w/them thanks to the "love scene" in disney's cartoon "robin hood" where she gets the flower ring and there are fireflies everywhere and they go behind the waterfall into his secret hideout. my whole life i thought that was THE most romantic thing EVER. how pathetic am i?




8.it seems juvenile, but i LOVE the color purple. everything i like at the store, online, everywhere is PURPLE i can't help it. i fear that when you come to my house you will feel like you've been swallowed by an oompaloompa so i intentionally buy stuff and decorate w/ NON purple stuff just so you wont. but i'm not very good at it ;)





ok. so now i have to tag people. whomever. i don't know. someone do it if you want and then tell somemore people to do it :) heheh.

s is for...

super SUPERvisor! the toad has a supervisor that has been fighting to get him a raise! he first was just trying to get him the ones that he was in for, like his year-raise, and when he moved to a different department at work he was supposed to get one, and then his supervisor put in for a merit one as well, be cause he IS the HARDEST worker of all. but the superSUPERvisor's supervisor said... "um... no. how about just 1/3 of that" so the toad has been frustrated.

well just recently the superSUPERvisor came to him with paper work. he dug in some files and found out that his current "rank" if you will doesn't match his skill level. so all he had to do was fill out some paperwork to make it official! this gives him almost $100 more per check!! it doesn't sound like much, but every little bit helps! :)

isn't that SUPER? i think so.

for me

its time for me to choose! but i want your help! please COMMENT :)


i just want to know what YOU all think?


who is your HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE?


who is the BEST?


and WHY?

for my brother

know anyone looking for a house? feel free to spread this around!

* my brother is selling his home in springville!
* check it out here!
* tell your friends!
* quick facts:
o 3 Bed, 2.5 bath
o Great Springville location
o 1500 sq/ft
o Easy-to-maintain .09 acre lot
o Built in 2002

guest book

in my most recent post (alphabet tag) i realized i don't know who reads my blog, and i would be interested to know. my mom recently blogged about this, and added a guest book. i thought it would be fun to know these things as well. i know that i read a lot of people's blogs, and don't comment, just because i have nothing relevant to say. so if you are like this, and read my blog but don't comment, don't feel bad, just sign my guest book by commenting here! :) thanks :)

break from the alphabet for a different alphabet :)(can you steal a "tag?" i did!)

A - Attached or single: attached

B - Best Friend(s): the toad, and my siblings

C - Cake or Pie: pie, all the way, unless cheesecake counts

D - Day of Choice: hmmm... i LOVE wednesdays when i see kt and her kids

E - Essential Item: phone

F - Favorite Color(s): green and purple, sorry, they go together! :)

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: i like the clear (white) bears best

H - Hometown: delta

I - Indulgence(s): staying up too late (which i pay for later)

J - January or July: hmmm... its a toss up. i guess january

K - Kids: i have a vicarious child.... does that count? (someday i'll have hopefully 6 or 8)

L - Life is incomplete without: family

M - Marriage Date: june 2004

N - Number of Siblings: 5 (10?), 2 sisters,(2 brothers-in-law), 3 brothers (3 sisters-in-law) (plus my husband's 3 sisters and brother and sis-in-law, so...15?)

O - Oranges or Apples: i love pink-lady apples!

P - Phobias or Fears:robbers! see "r is for..."

Q - Quote(s): "(s)he who laughs, lasts"

R - Reason to Smile: my "vicarious child"/nephew AND the toad :)

S - Season: spring

T - Tag Eight: kt, mama, mindy, katie p., michelle,...who else reads my blog? well if you read this, i tag you!

U - Unknown Fact About Me: man! i've told most of these....(so they are no longer unknown) how about born in a bathtub? or when i was 19 i shaved my head and got 7 tatoos? and suddenly my mind is blank. so those will have to do! :)

V - Vegetarian or ...not?: i like meat, sometimes. only if i cant identify it as a body part :)

W - Worst Habit: eating! its an addiction. i need to retrain my brain. i eat because its fun and i like to taste and chew. not because i'm hungry. and my stomach regrets it later EVERYTIME!

Y - Your Favorite Food: wow. see "w"

Z - Zodiac: pisces! i'm a fish through and through! an emotional, generous, gentle doormat, and walking paradox!

R is for....

ROBBERS!!! the sad part is, that my entire life (ask anyone) i've ALWAYS been terrified of "robbers" these are ANY persons committing ANY crime. (kidnappers, real robbers, burglars (sp?), rapists, etc. so really the last thing i need to make me feel "at ease" (not abnormally paranoid) is for my place of work to be robbed at gunpoint. as mentioned in "q is for..." i had luckily asked for this day off a LONG time ago...


this is a copy/paste from kutv.com (i would put a link, but the link i copy/pasted from yesterday changed by today, so this is will have to do):

Police are still looking for violent robbery suspects who hit three different businesses at gunpoint in the Avenues section of Salt Lake City on Monday night.

The robberies followed a nearby carjacking near the State Capitol.

According to authorities, a man hijacked a car on Main Street and was then accompanied by a few of his friends. The group then drove to the Avenues, jumped from the vehicle and hit three businesses.

A Subway sandwich shop, Henries Cleaners and a Dollar Cuts hair salon were all hit by the armed robbers.

It was a terrifying experience for 18-year-old Peter Burton - an employee at Dollar Cuts.

“I was horrified,” Burton told 2News. “When I turned to look, he just came across and pistol whipped me in the back and left a nice little gash on my head.”

In addition, a woman walking nearby was also robbed at gunpoint by one of the men.

"At that time, that person turned around, walked up to her and grabbed her purse... put a gun in her face and asked her if she was ready to die today," said Lt. Isaac Atencio of the Salt Lake City Police Department.

Officers worry that the aggressive robbers could strike again.

“We hope that if anyone had any information they could stop this from happening again before somebody gets hurt seriously or killed,” said Salt Lake Police Lt. Rusty Isakson.

The suspects were reportedly riding in a light-colored SUV -- perhaps a Chevrolet Tahoe.

Police are asking for the public’s help to find the suspects. Officers said any information should be called in to the Salt Lake Police.

q is for quite a day

so yesterday and today i had asked off at my work sometime ago because my little sister had scheduled her c-section and wanted me to help her with her 36lb child. see they have this little rule that you can't lift anything heavier than your baby (its usually an 8lb rule, but with her first, who was over 8lbs, they made an exception) so i went over early in the morning and played with him outside. our goal was to wear him out by noon, so he could get in a little nap before his sister came, so he would be a good boy and not throw fits. well...

i played with him (we looked at bugs outside) and when mommy and daddy (my sis and bro.in.law) came to say bye, he wanted nothing to do with them and just let them leave. about 5 min later he went inside to look for them. apparently he was thinking this was just a visiting day for me. when he didn't find them he laid on the sidewalk to look down the stairs into the parking garage for them. then he whined a little and found some more bugs.

noon came, and i tried to put him down for his nap. my sister's trick is to not give him any milk, (he can have anything crackers, apples, water, juice but milk) at least 2 hours prior to his nap. he usually naps in the after noon (1:00/2:00) when sesame street is just over. so to pretend sesame street was just getting over, i put on an elmo video and closed all the blinds. (these are mood setters and nap indicators) gave him milk changed him... an hour later he was not asleep and the milk was gone. great. so i tried again, (he had a stinky diaper so i don't blame him for not just sleeping in it)

another milk another hour and ANOTHER stinky diaper later, i realized this wasn't going to happen. so on top of the changes going on around him, and no nap, he was needless to say, in for a rough day.

i brought him to the hospital after a visit from my parents (it helps to have new toys, not that this kid needs any) and he did rather well

we kept him busy until about 6 when no one (he himself, mommy and daddy) could take anymore. so i took him home to just release any and all energy and fits and on the way my husband realized he'd fallen asleep. we drove for about 1/2 hour so that he could get a good nap but not too long and then took him home. he was obviously pretty spent from no nap and learning to share his mommy's, daddy's and auntie's (because i'll be honest, i'm like his third parent :) ) attention with this little pink bundle.

after being a bit emotioanlly drained from watching him, and just tuckered from a long day, i was driving home and got a text from my manager. all it said was "watch the news tonight".

since this is already super long see "r is for..."

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p is for....

postponing (closing until june 4) and Pass (as in the inspection with basic colors, they weren't exactly flying colors as we need a new roof PDQ but it still passed. they also said we need some sort of seismic strap on our water heater and something else i'll remember as soon as i hit "publish") :)

p could also be for paint, as they replaced the airconditioner last year and there is something that connects to the house (which has real wood siding) that wasn't painted underneath and now shows...

p however is not for... more later, and/or i'll keep you posted :)

o is for other odds (and ends)

so....

this is basically an update on our home buying. it turns out that lenders (banks specifically) have issues with the rent back process being too long. so we have to move back our closing date, to probably around june 1, (instead of may 1).

this isn't really any big problem to us as we aren't able to move in until august 1 anyway.

other than that, and that we are getting it inspected, (and they will be ASHE certified with at least 20 years experience) ;) everything seems to be moving smoothly along.

we will keep you posted! :)

n is for nuisance

nuisance is an excellent word to describe our home buying process! yes ladies and gentlemen, we BOUGHT A HOME!!!!

it all started while my nephew was napping and my sister was at the doctor, for her regular baby checkup. i was online, just browsing around on blueroof and looked in the neighborhood i used to live in, and found a house within my price range that looked pretty fantastic. so i copied the mls # and emailed it to my realtor, he had emailed us about a few houses that we were to walk through the following day. i suggested that if it were possible, we could take a look at this one too?

so the next day we met at this house. i like to keep in mind that this was something that i happened upon, sort of last minute. we arrived first (before our realtor) and as soon as we took a flyer from the box in the yard, my husband said, "lets put an offer on this house". i thought, "really?" but i let him go with his gut. we walked in a few minutes later and i felt too, that this should be our home. so after we tried to see the other houses our realtor had set up for us, (i say tried because we only got into one, the others either weren't home, or had things going on that we couldn't walk through), we got back to our car and told him we wanted to put in an offer. so we did, and he told us they had basically 24 hours to get back to us. so we decided to fast during their decision making time. around six p.m. the next day our realtor called to tell me someone else had also put in an offer.

:( boo. this whole process reminded me a lot of asking someone "will you go with me?" they say, "well, someone already asked me... so..."

so my realtor tells me that they instead of rejecting or accepting either offer, want to see if we can make an addendum to our offers.

now THIS part reminded me of the last part of jeopardy where no one says anything aloud, they write it down and lock in their answers and hope for the best, only they have a better idea of what the "right" answer might be... we had no idea. again, go back to the analogy you are asking someone to "go with" you, and instead of saying no, or yes, they say, "well, what will i get from going with you as opposed to going with someone else?" remember at this moment you don't really know this person, so you wouldn't know what to offer that they may like, but you have a friend you sort of knows one of their friends and your friend tells you, "try this".

so you do.

and now you have to wait ANOTHER 24 hours for a response.

by this time it is three days later, because we had to wait 24 hours from putting in an offer. then WE were allowed 24 hours to make an addendum and get it back to them, then THEY had 24 hours to decide on OUR addendum or the other person's.

our options were to 1: offer more money, or 2: offer to let them stay longer and lease from us until they are able to move (which SHOULD be early july, as they are building a house in montana) so we offered a little more money AND allowed them to stay AS LATE AS aug. 1.

at this point, our realtor said that the ball was in our court and once we caught it, the game was over. so we caught it, signed the papers, and we are IN. now its time to inspect and set up all payment plans. HOORAY!!!

M is for......

muerto motherboard! and more macs?


well... in the previous post i mentioned that we brought our other computer in to "the shop". they told us it'd be approximately a week before they could look at it, thus the purchase of this fine contraption i now type on.
so yesterday, my husband got a phone call from "the shop", who told him that the power supply of the computer died, and when it went it took the motherboard with it. boo.
so i get this text, whilst i am blowdrying this woman's hair that says, "what do we do? the power source died killing the motherboard with it. its a complete loss." that is it. so i panic, and i call my husband, and he explains that this "shop" rebuilds computers, and custom-builds them as well, they have a lifetime warranty on all parts, meaning that if they replaced our motherboard and it died again, they would replace it for free.
you have to understand that the place we bought our computer from originally was also a custom-building computer shop, and they had lifetime warranties as well, but they went out of business, leaving us "shop"less and the rival company announced publicly (like on tv) that they would honor the lifetime-service-for-free warranty on all computers made in their rival "shop", so natrually that's where we took ours to get fixed.
the problem is that to pay them to give us a new motherboard it would cost nearly as much as a new computer, and since my husband is recently converting to mac, we thought we'd rather just buy a new mac.

problem: $

so.... we are now seriously contemplating getting this little new arrival a twin. that way, we have the same memory, the same mobility (since the toad would have to go to school w/his).

however, we have to wait for that promised "everyone gets a huge refund" refund from the government...

well... more on this later i guess.

L is for laptop

the day before my birthday our computer went kaput. highly irritating, not to mention inconvenient. we decided that since we are on very close speaking terms with a realtor, and we filed our taxes online that we should have access to a computer, besides that i always am wanting to look something up and my husband is as well. he said this would be mine. i feel so spoiled and have anxiety from spending so much money. but we joined the mac ranks, and i now have a mac book. crazy. i keep feeling like i should give it back, and i no longer sleep (neither does my poor husband) because i stay up all night playing on it. i really should stop and read my books again... :) besides that my sister got me addicted to facebook, and i've suddenly decided i can find everyone i ever knew on it. plus i feel the need to take every quiz ever imagined up, which is stupid too, but addicting.

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k is for.....

katie was actually the first thing that came to mind, she is my very good friend, we get along well, and have a lot of fun together, and i LOVE her little boy! she has her own blog though, so if you are interested to learn more about her click here. :)

the other "k" i was thinking about were my keys, i have two SETS. not two keys, but two ENTIRELY different key chains, which i take everywhere "just in case". dumb. that will be the death of me. just in case. i will NEVER be rid of ANYTHING, just in case. that is not the point of my blog.

on my main set of keys, (which keychain i got from my dad a LONG time ago, it is a gold goofy(disney) that he bought on some business trip,)
i have my regular: two car keys (one for each car [quick little bit about one of those keys which is SUPER handy: you can insert my husband's car key into the ignition, start it and pull it out. so in the winter, you can pocket the keys after that, with the car still running, lock the doors, take your window scraper, and defrost while you scrape, without the worry of someone stealing your car. mind you, they might still smash the window and steal your car, if you happen to be on the opposite side or something, but without the keys, if they shut it off, they aren't going any further. i don't know, it somehow gives me peace of mind])
,three apartment keys, (one for the mail,
one (which we NEVER use or have used) to get into the pool/recreation center by the office,
and one to get into my apartment [another side note: a while back, we suddenly couldn’t lock our apartment one day. we were leaving and i tried to turn the deadbolt with my key, and it wouldn’t budge. so my husband muscled it locked, and we left for walmart with a plan to buy some graphite, to slick up the lock, and a new deadbolt incase that didn’t work {our apt complex is EXTREMELY slow on fixing things, so we do them ourselves and don’t bother them, otherwise NOTHING would get done}. when we got home, it didn’t really work, so my husband muscled the key to UNLOCK it and messed around with the graphite till it stopped sticking, we never used the new deadbolt lock we bought]),
a key to the salon where i work,
and a key to katie's apartment. the last one USED to be on my other set, but i apparently use it THAT much, that it goes on my main set!

on my other set, (which i realized has more of those little bar-coded plastic things you beep before each purchase at every store in the universe than keys)
i have katie's car key, (mind you it only unlocks doors, cuz to drive her car, you need the fancy key)
and a key to my parent's house (because they decided to lock the "always open" window),
one to my cousin's apt, (we watched their cat over christmas break)
and three other keys.
this is embarrassing, because, i'm not sure what they are for. oops. i'm PRETTY sure one, (possibly two) go to my husband's parents house, and the third, POSSIBLY USED TO, until they switched a lock.?
also on this keychain (this even starts with a "k" as well) is a KNIFE. its a little like, switchblade dagger thing. its pretty scary looking, (except that its REALLY small) with a jagged little blade and all. my dad gave it to me a long time ago sort of for self defense, which luckily (knock on wood) so far i've not had to use it for. he told me that IF i DID try to use it, TRY wouldn’t be enough. if i found it necessary to pull on someone, i better do the job thoroughly. YIKES! mostly it cuts off tags if i buy new shoes or something, or stray strings on my clothing, or opens packages...
i also have a flashlight shaped like a carabineer (sp?) on this set of keys, its sort of irrelevant, and doesn’t even start with a "k", but oh well... :)
so there you have it ladies and gentlemen: my keys.

j is for jane

jane eyre, which i'm reading! my goal is to read (and own) all of the classics. speaking of: j is also for jane austen! whose compilation-of-books-in-one i just bought as well! hooray for books!

j is for judge

WARNING: THIS IS NOT A LIGHT-HEARTED BLOG



last night i was coloring a woman's hair, in the magazine she was perusing, she found a small picture advertising a television show called "jon and kate + 8". it is about this family who had twins, and then had sextuplets, and i guess how their everyday lives are. so we began to discuss how people had to have help in their pregnancies, and this led to discussions on other topics, like post partum depression and this led to discussions on divorce. in this midst of these topics, i mentioned having served a mission, therefore, my client knew my standards immediately. she told me she knew these standards, and wasn't trying to cause contention, but how, she wondered, do we (mormons) get married to someone without having premarital sex. she asked, "i mean, don't you ever wonder what it would be like to be with someone else?" i told her "no! i think of how intimate that particular act is, and if i hadn't had the standards i have, i would have shared that intimate "first" with some random loser! and none of my boyfriends and i even know each other's whereabouts, and if i DID run into my "first" how awkward would that be? and if i did know his whereabouts, would i just think of him instead of my husband? and wouldnt that cause contention between my spouse and i? and wouldn't he always think i was comparing him to past relations? how hard would that be?" she heard me out, and when i had finished my rant, she said, "that's sweet, i hadn't ever thought of it that way before." people judge others' standards too quickly i say.
somehow our discussion reverted back to mental disorders (previously mentioned post partum depression), and i told her about a discussion i'd had with someone previous to her about multiple personalities. have you ever seen sybil? this is what my previous conversation partner and i had discussed. he told me he was watching it in his psychology class, and they were understanding, or trying to understand how multiple personalities worked. i found it very intriguing, but my color-client kept asking me if i thought it was real. i happen to think mental disorders are VERY real, and i would like to study psychology someday. this led to her asking me why, and so began the topic of the book my dad speaks of often "please understand me" or "type-talk". and i began explaining to her the biggest difference between one of my sisters and i. that would be that of a judge and a perciever. judges are good with schedules, budgets, and lists. percievers fly by the seat of their pants till their pants are full of holes, which they don't much notice...she has a place for everything, and everything in its place. her house is virtually clutter-free, and mine has all the clutter that normally accumulates in a house, plus the clutter that probably got kicked out of her house. i'm ok with it, really. i do wish i could better organize and i wish i didnt feel like keeping EVERYTHING, but i do, so. oh well. my point is that in studying psychology, i would be able to better understand everyone, i just think it would be interesting.
the last part of our conversation turned to another type of judge. she told me that she was watching "court tv" and it was the strangest case. she told me that the wife had had an affair, early on in the marriage, realized the mistake she made, confessed to her husband, who obsessed about it, and who much later had his own affair and then randomly and suddenly, the wife died. the autopsy told of poison, (like that found in anti-freeze) and the husband denied it, but was convicted. i said, "why was poisoning her an option to him?" (again, with the psychology) "why didn't he just get a divorce?" then our conversation turned to others like this man, mark hacking, (why didnt he just run away when he realized his wife knew all his lies? he could have called his family from another state, and said, "i need to start a new life, i lied about everything, i'm changing my name, dont try to find me" then she would still have a life, and lets be honest. so would he.) and ted bundy (she told me she had read a book about him and how brutal he was, not just snatch someone here/there, but sometimes more than one at a time, and they watched each other be tortured. she said that he must have been all about having power. i said "so be a manager at walmart, they have little power trips, they have control over people! be a cop, be a court tv judge! they have power, and they are more normal!" i just think that can be channeled elsewhere.

i is for icicle

heads up! the other day i was cutting this man's hair and he warned me not to comb too hard, or apply any sort of pressure on the back of his head as it was healing, he told me. what happened you ask? he walked out of his front door and a very large icicle fell on his head and nearly knocked him out! he told me it bled quite a bit and he was barely able to get inside to tell his wife before he blacked out. he actually never fully blacked out but said that he started to. so... look up outside your doors all, and knock those icicles down before they knock you down!