Days to look forward to....

Hey everybody! I know it's frustrating when you keep checking someone's blog and it's NEVER updated, so I wanted to let you all know that I'm in Hawaii right now and will post when I get back. I felt like I needed to put a new post up so people didn't feel like they needed to keep commenting on the look of my blog! Talk to you all soon!!

Revamping Days

So if you haven't noticed, I redid my blog! I have to give a HUGE shout out to the fabulous Britnee Fullmer, because without her I wouldn't have had a clue what I was doing. She is so great, she even makes house calls!! The downside of this new venture into photoshop and digital scrapbooking is that I am becoming obsessed. Guess how much Josh wants to let me sit down and play around on the computer? Right. So now my new bedtime is about 2am. I'm sure it will die down....right?!

Spring Days

I feel like I am always apologizing for being such a bad blogger! Sorry it's been awhile, but this way you get a lot more pictures to look at right?
We'll begin with Chef Joshy. He loves to cook, and sometimes I indulge him and let him use real food. In this case he made delicious goldfish and pepper soup. He loves to play "chef" with Daddy in which Josh's name is "Pizza guy" and Chad's name is "Chef." When I am invited to play, I am "Gusteau!"

Next is the big event of the past few months, Bethy's wedding! Yep, Bethy and Justin tied the knot! She was such a beautiful bride and it was a great day. I think the highlight of the wedding dinner was when Josh, during a poignant pause in someone's speech, screamed "Oh no! I peed in my pants!!!" The whole place just errupted with laughter. It was pretty embarrasing and then funny. Josh then ended the evening by finding a trash can and lying down in it. Am I a bad mom when the first thing I do is reach for the camera instaed of pulling my son out of the random trash can?!
During the wedding it was so fun to have all my family here. The next pictures are ones with cousins. They had a lot of fun playing in the snow.

Next comes St. Patricks day. Josh made this little hat at the gym, and that's about all the celebrating we did of that day.

Next comes Easter. We had a fun little Easter egg hunt with some friends, where Josh was racing around trying to beat his friend to all the eggs. He had so much fun. Then on Easter morning the Easter bunny brought him his new best friend, "Girl Duck." That is what he named the big chick he got. He then decided she was big enough to ride, and that's just what he did. The other day when some of his little friends came and knocked on our door asking if Josh could ride bikes and scooters, Josh got really sad and said, "Oh I don't have a bike! But that's ok because I have Girl Duck." So he took Girl Duck outside and rode around on her.

Last but not least is Josh's new obsession with dressing up and playing pretend. I decided to post the more masculine version. Much to Chad's dismay he loves to find my clothes and shoes and play "princess." My favorite game he plays is with his Grandma and Grandpa called "baby." Josh is the baby named "Nala", my mom is his mommy named "Grace" and Grandpa is the Daddy named "Maggie." Unfortunately Maggie spends most of his time on time out as Nala loves to send him there. The other day Chad and I got in on the action and we were named "Uncle Felix" and "Aunt Shirley," yet the twist is that I was Uncle Felix and Chad was Aunt Shirley! We also found out that Nala had a sister named "Uncle Rusty." We told Mommy Grace that she sure shose some interesting names for her children; a son named Nala and a daughter named Uncle Rusty!
Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading...(if you did!)

Scrapbooking anyone?

So I'm not a scrapbooker by any means. It just overwhelms me. I do recap of the year pages for my mother in law and mom for Christmas every year and that's about it. Anyway, I found out about this digital scrapbooking retreat up in Park City at the end of April, and I'm a little bit interested. I think I could handle digital scrapbooking. There's no mess, no going to the store or gluing and cutting. So they have a lot of beginners classes in the beginning of the weekend and then more advanced later. It would be helpful because I think they work through photoshop and that would be handy to know. Anyway, it's only like $100 and that includes your stay at the Park City Marriot. I think it would be fun! IF anyone out there is interesed let me know and I'll give you more info. It could be a really fun girls weekend!

Days O' Love

If you look at the time this was posted, you'll note that I can't sleep tonight! So let me be the first to wish you all a very happy valentines day. I love you all! I've been thinking about stuff I need to do tomorrow, and that took me down a stroll down memory lane...valentine lane if you will!

So what's your best, or even better, worst valentines day? I have to laugh as I think about Chad and my, shall we say, least succesful valentines day.

Chad had made reservations for us up at The Roof. Cheesy you say? Well, I'm all for gazing off into the eternities while dining on a lovely buffet! Anyway, I got off work late and therefore we were unable to make the reservation. So where do you go on valentines night without a reservation? Well that was the dilemma.

Then Chad had a great idea. He had heard about this great new place that he wanted to try. It was called Wallabys. Yes, Wallabys. Do you all know what Wallabys is? If you don't, let's just say it wouldn't be your dream valentines meal. So we're thinking it's a really nice steak house. Chad said they did catering for really nice events.

Chad calls for directions and for some odd reason he asked what the dress was like there. This is so not a Chad thing to do, and it's not like we ever dress up for dinner anyway. Well, the reply was, "uh, I guess dressy to dressy casual." And the best part about this fabulous new place was that they could get us in right away!!
Wow, we really scored!

So we set off for our fine dining experience and as we pull up, we knew something was amiss! We enter expecting to give the hostess our name, but instead are shuffled immediatley in line to order our food. Someone had seriously misrepresented this place. After we order our hunk of barbecued meat, they hand us our paper plate and paper utensils. And it's not even Chinet, it's the really thin, flimsy kind with the fluted edges.
We just sat down and laughed. The best part was that the dress for this place was "dressy to dressy casual!" It's still something we sit and laugh about. So in that way, it was actually one of the best.

Our best one had to be our first one together before we were married. Chad took me up to see figure skating during the Olympics. It was so amazing!! (There, that was a much shorter story!)

So share your best V-day stories with me and please have a wonderful day of love!!

Pump up the jams!

So the past few months, well just 2007 actually, was not a great one for my physique! Therefore, in an unprecidented move, I have decided to get in better shape for the new year. 2008 here I come! So I need all your help. Tell me your favorite songs for working out. You know the ones that come on and gives you that push to work harder? I need some new ones. And if there are any blog hoppers out there, please contribute as well! I want all I can get. So everyone think so you can help me bust a move while I'm slimming down!

Potty Days

So here is Josh and his teddy modeling the latest addition to his wardrobe...BIG BOY UNDERWEAR! I have to say I truly never thought this day would come. After Christmas I decided enough was enough and it was time to potty train this kid. He would say, "Mommy, is it time to ride the potty train?" I think he was a little disapointed when the potty train turned out to be the toilet.
So I camped out with him in the bathroom for a day, pumping him full of fluids so that he'd have to go. I have to say, this was a pretty frustrating day! He just wasn't getting it and he was having accidents. I was thinking maybe he wasn't ready, but then by the end of the day he was telling me when he had to go!
So he had the pee thing pretty much down by day 2, but the much larger battle was ahead of me....that's right, poop!
If I thought day one was frustrating then I had no idea. Josh pretty much had been holding his poop in for a day because he was scared to do it. I was doing all I could as far as bribing him, but then he starting screaming at me, "No, I don't want treats! I don't want treats!" So then I pulled out the big guns. I found a toy horse catalog that came with one of the horses he got for Christmas and told him to come sit on the potty, poop and pick out the horse he wanted for his prize. This got him pretty excited, but shockingly, not enough to go through with it. Finally, it got so bad, and so comical actually, that he was running around in circles holding his bottom, jumping up and down and hopping from one foot to the other because he had to go so badly. He screamed, "Mom, if I poop I won't have a body!" Well no wonder he was scared! This literally seemed like a life or death decision for him! Anyway, in the end he sat on the potty and picked out the horse he wanted (which just arrived today, Bayberry is his name!), and finally went #2!
I wish I could say that was the end of the drama, but everytime it was time to poop we were faced with a lot of screaming and a lot of running around and hopping on one foot. But one week later, I am happy to say that it looks like Josh is pretty much potty trained! HOORAY!!! Oh and let me tell you I have been peed on more times then anyone should and in an unfortunate turn of events, I knelt in poop! Other than that, it wasn't too bad. So I am officially done with diapers! (For now I guess...that's kind of depressing!)
ps- This Hellogoodbye song is in tribute to Joshy, he loves to get crazy and dance to this one. Great job buddy!!