Week in Review

Busy week again. I need to take a day off and clean my house, but it's hard to keep Kire busy. We went swimming on Tuesday & Wednesday.

We met Max & Lindsey at Cabella's on Thursday and saw our friend Alicia, who came up from Colorado with her new baby Sam.

I've become more comfortable nursing in public, here we are in Cabella's.
Max & Kire checking out a mountain man. If you haven't been there, it's a pretty neat store. There are tons of mounted animals and fish to look at.

We also went to the drive-in Thursday & saw Transformers, I'm not planning on going again in our Subaru-not quit enough room anymore with 2 kids.
Jack is growing up. He is such a happy, smiley, content baby. Really the only time he fusses is when there's something wrong. And last night he slept until 5 for the first time ever! I hope it will continue.
Kire was being too quiet this morning so I went in his room and found him "doctoring" his dino's. That's a blood pressure cuff wrapped around a stegosaurus. Kire says the craziest things. Last night I was cutting watermelon and he asked if he could help. I said no, he asked why (he asked why to everything I say), I say "because I don't want you to cut your fingers off." He says, "why do you want me to have fingers?" No reason Kire, no reason.

I worked Saturday & Monday then took Kire swimming with me at my friend Melissa's house today. Now I have to work all day tomorrow, so my house will have to wait.

New job

Over the past year I've worked in an office in Roy as a sub, whenever one of their hygienists needed a day off. I love the office and told them to let me know if a job ever becomes available.

One of their hygienists had a baby about the same time as me and decided she didn't want to go back working 3 days a week, so we are splitting them. I'm going to work all day Monday, half a day wednesday, then I'll still work half a day Saturday at another office.

I am thrilled. Although I liked the other office I worked in, who let me go while I was on maternity leave, this Roy office is ideal. The hours are perfect, it's closer to home, it's 2 minutes away from my inlaws and I'm going to be making more : )

People have asked me how I am able to leave my baby. You know, it's hard, but it's also a great break for me, and I am still paying off a school loan, so I need to work. I am so lucky to have a job that allows me to work so little. And right now Erik is off for a good month, being a school teacher, so I really won't have to get a babysitter until Jack is 5 months old.

My neighbor, whose son is Kire's best friend, has offered to watch the boys once school starts. She's due in September so she might change her mind after a couple of days with the boys (don't feel bad about it Patty : ) Then there's also a daycare at Erik's work, so either way I have good places that I feel comfortable leaving the kids.

Dena, I guess you can call me Mary

Happy father's day to my wonderful husband, dad and father in law. I am so blessed to have such great men in my life. I got Erik a card that said "when we got married I didn't know you'd turn out to be such a great dad, I was just after your body." It's true. Erik is such a wonderful father; he never gets tired of playing or reading stories and rarely raises his voice-even though Kire drives us crazy.

Jack is no longer happy laying down in his swing, bouncer or carseat. In this picture he is trying so hard to sit up. So I just bought a Bumbo so he can sit up and he loves it.

For some reason Kire is dressed up like a jungle warrior, I'm not sure who helped him.

I also cut my hair. I love it, it's fun and easy, but I think I look a little like Adam Lambert.

Lindsey & Max

Yesterday I took the boys with me to Bountiful to meet my friend Lindsey, her boys Max & Channing, and her sister Natalie & her girls. Me and Lindsey met in St. George when we both went to Dixie after high school. We didn't know each other, but shared a room and quickly became best friends and have kept close since. She is one of the few friends of mine that know all about me & my family and I can talk to her about everything. I love her to death and appreciate her so much.

We were laughing yesterday because before we really got to know each other Lindsey was looking at a picture of me and noticed I had fat ankles. So that was one of the ways we first connected because neither of us have beautiful legs.

I was also remembering how we used to go "stalking" boys. On one occasion, in October, we stole dozens of pumpkins from peoples lawns and left them on some guys lawn. And I remember throwing burritos at some windows, Do you remember that Lindsey? Good times.

Macy, Kire & Max playing with the hose

And apparently Erik took this pic today while I was gone. Why can't they ever sleep at the same time when they're with me?

Hair Cut

I've been thinking about cutting my hair short again. I have a round face and this bob I have going on right now just accentuates that. What should I do? Here are a couple of ideas and please vote!

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I honestly love Mia Michaels hair #3 but I don't know if I can pull that off.

Last Week

We did a bunch of activities last week. We took Kire to the trout farm for the first time. Kire has never seen anyone fishing but he knew just what to do. He ran to the pond and threw his pole in and caught 3 fish. He could have fished all day I'm sure. We spent $12 on 3 fish and I made fish tacos that night.

Thursday we went to the ogden dino park. We have a membership and go a couple of times a month, but last week we went twice. On Thursday they were giving out movie tickets to the premier of Land of the Lost. We took Kire to it on Friday, he liked it because of the dinosaurs, but it was awful DO NOT SEE IT. There was a lot of swearing & sexual innuendos. If Kire was old enough to understand we would have walked out.

Most days Kire spends in our cul-de-sac driving cars and playing guns.

Playing "cowboys" with his best friend Austin.

On Saturday I took Kire swimming at my dad's after work. I wasn't planning on putting Jack in, but it was so warm I did and he loved it.

Kire & Jack with my sister Amy & Scott

Saturday was our 6 year anniversary. Erik had a football camp all day Saturday so we celebrated by renting a movie (Defiance-it was really good) then going to The Melting Pot Sunday evening. It was nice to get out without the boys. We were planning on going to a movie too but dinner took so long we figured we'd better get the boys. Dinner was really good, but next time we may just go for the dessert.

FYI: Last night we watched Gran Tourino, we've been trying not to watch R but this one was worth it. The story was great, but there was horrible language.

Screw the scale

If anyone has noticed, I haven't updated on my weight loss. This is because there have been no changes. I get extremely frustrated because I'm working out 4-5 x week plus eating better than I have in a year and the scale hasn't moved. So I'm not going to weigh myself. When I see negative results on the scale I say to myself, "well you might as well eat that batch of cookies because it won't matter," and I sabotage myself. So I'm going to keep eating good and exercising and hopefully it'll come off. I think starting Monday I'm going to give up sugar. I've already cut out most processed foods, but I love treats, and I hope that'll give my body a jump start.

I just bought the Biggest loser 30 Day jump start book. I'm not going to do the program completely because I'm afraid I'll lose my milk supply, but there's a lot of great recipes and snack ideas. Jack is almost 3 months and Kire weaned himself at 7 months, so Jack may be similar-he's a big baby too.

I also bought 3 of Jillian Michael's work out DVD's; so far I've only done the 30 day shred and I really like it. It does cardio and strength.

New Moon Trailer

This little gem was released at the MTV movie awards. My husband laughed at me because I seriously gasped when I saw Jacob, he is hot.

Rob & Kristen looked like stoners at the awards; she had on converse's with this awful dress & Rob wasn't much better.