Snow Angel

Top of the hill
Looovin It!

The foot you can't see is just a sock, I lost my shoe on the way down.

If I look cute enough, maybe they'll take me outside again.

Tonight we went winter gear shopping for Jack since we have good 3" of snow outside and it seems like maybe it'll be around for a while. We got boots, a snowsuit and a sled... which of course we had to try out as soon as we got home.

Our sloping front yard seemed like as good of a spot as any, so we made a little sled path that went directly into the street. Yeah, Safety First.

Jack had so much fun that once we came into the garage, he still did not want to get off the sled. Prying his cold fingers from that sled was not pretty.

Today I went into Anchorage to meet my friend Megan who's getting married in November and wanted to go to Pier 1 and a couple other places with me to bounce ideas off of. Also, since I'm a designer, I get an extra 20% off at Pier 1-- so that always makes me a good shopping buddy if you're going there.

Then Jack and I met up with my sister Holly at Quiznos, where I ate- and Jack spit out- lunch.

Then this afternoon, I totally jacked up my foot and have been limping around all night. I was coming down the steps in the garage, with the lights off, and stepped directly on one of my heels that was upside down like some sort of twisted booby-trap. It tore skin and gave me a good sized gash right at the arch (which, if you've never had a gash on that part of your foot,HURTS) I tried to shower tonight but even the water running over it stung so I ended up taking a bath with my left foot elevated out of the tub. (Also, did I ever mention I have a low pain tolerance;))

I'm soo glad tomorrow's Friday. On Saturday we're meeting up with a guy who's going to remove some trees off of our property, and I think I'll bring the sled since we've got some killer hills!

Our weekend.. and Pay It Forward winners...

Winter fishing in Alaska.. yes, that is snow behind him.

The closet Jeremy installed last night.

They wanted 13 drawers!

Your stuff is FINALLY going out today, sorry for the delay! Hope everyone likes it.

This weekend was same ol', same ol'- but of course WAY too short. Friday we went to Arbys for dinner (classy) and then watched the most retarded movie on the face of the planet. It's a Jamie Kennedy movie called "Kickin It Old School" and I'd rather Kick Myself in the Face than watch it again.
Saturday Jeremy went fishing with a couple of my cousins who came up with my aunt to visit my grandma who lives with my parents. She is 90 years old and has dementia and declining health (my grandma, not my aunt;)). We've never heard of fishing in October, at least not in Alaska. At this point, it's basically winter fishing. In fact, Saturday we got our first SNOW of the season.. though its mostly gone now.
I hung out at my mom's house and visited all day with the girls. Then we came home, did some cleaning, watched yet another movie (Fantastic Four 2--gotta love Netflix) which was fine in an X-Men sort of way.
Sunday was another Open House so it was a mad dash to finish cleaning, church, and then out to my moms for dinner. Another couple came that LOVES our house, but still noone to put their money where their mouth is.
Yesterday, I measured at 3 seperate houses for closets (although one was a bust, they wanted us to BUILD them a closet that currently doesn't exist in their home. Yeah.... not contractors people. And if we were, why would we limit ourselves to only building closets? Dumb.) Jeremy did an install after work last night and I worked on bids.
Jack and I may go to the Valley to visit my sister Heidi today and work on some projects together. She is mostly recovered from surgery (Lauralee, I think you're the one who asked.. she had gastric bypass... she actually is blogging about it and her link is under "family") She has already lost about 20 lbs. in under 2 weeks, so that is so great for her.

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

For Becky

Good comment, but where's your blog?:)

We got this little number at Costco for $30. It has a couple more tents that attach to the ends. It was supposed to be for Jack's birthday but Jeremy couldn't wait and opened it as soon as we got home. (Soo Jeremy)

I don't really fit.

Friday night's get together- Jack, Tyler and Xander.

Jack's buddies! By the way, I highly recommend those suction cup bowls.

Carey, Jeremy doesn't really use a recipe for the chicken spaghetti but I'll try to get something more than ballpark measurements out of him and post that soon. And I don't believe in keeping recipes secret.

Soo busy!

For some reason work has picked up SO much. I feel a little overwhelmed to say the least. On top of my "day" job, the closet business has picked up as well and this whole switch to the new manufacturer has been ridiculously time-consuming. We're FINALLY up and runnning with the new software and are officially a dealer as of today so that is SUCH a relief. I've spent this evening going over tutorials and trying to familiarize myself with everything.
I still feel like the weekend just happened so I will give you the weekend update. On Friday we had some friends over for dinner. There was a total of 5 kids running around, all under the age of 3. We had to yell over the kids to talk, but it was a lot of fun. Jeremy made chicken spaghetti.. using a recipe he got from a lady in the South where he served his mission. I love it when Jeremy cooks, or anyone for that matter!
Saturday we went to the property in the morning and staked out which trees were going to need to be taken down (sad) and staked out the corners of our house which looks TINY. Why is it that the foundation of a home always makes it look like your building an outhouse? It was fun to walk the property and dream.
Sunday was a nice relaxing day. Taught our monsters, came home and had leftovers, and vegged all day. Loove those Sundays!

Pay It Forward Winners!

OK, so I didnt end up drawing until this morning. The winners are:

Sarah
Lupe
Debbie (Guess you weren't too late!)

Sarah and Lupe, email me your addresses!
Debbie, a Pay It Forward is just something that when you receive, you agree to "Pay It Forward" to someone else. A chain of good deeds or surprises. Since you dont have a blog, you can choose any way you want to Pay It Forward. (And you dont have to choose 3 people, just 1 is fine;))

So we took some family pics on Thursday, but we waited until it got too dark so we ended up needing to use the flash which completely changed the color in the photo and washed us out (I think) We are going to do a re-do. But here's a pic..

Pay It Forward!

I got this great Halloween "Pay It Forward" from Brandi. Thanks so much! The purple guys are stamps and the eyes are gooey little toys, not candy (I checked!) It's so fun to receive "Good Mail!" I love it, Brandi!

Tuesday afternoon I entered a new chapter in Motherhood. I was wiping down the vanity while Jack was taking a bath. I hear him say "Pooo-eeey".... Um, yeah. This is the LAST thing you want to hear while your child is bathing. It was SOOOO gross!! I realize that most babies do this but sure enough, not MY baby, right?!

Yesterday, my older sister Heidi went in for her surgery. It went really well although she was pretty weak and drugged up when we went to visit her after work. They did the procedure lapriscopically (so amazing what they can do these days) and she just released an hour or so ago which is quick!

Tonight I'm having my little sister, Holly, come over and take family pictures. I still have no idea what we're going to wear.. I just know I want "fall" pictures. They may also end up on our Christmas card, who knows. We started doing the picture card after we had Jack. Does anyone else thinks it's kind of funny when a couple sends out a pic of just the 2 of them? I'll post them this weekend if they turn out okay...

Today I got the funniest email from Jeremy. The subject was "starter list" and it was 11 items with links to their respective websites and pricing for CHRISTMAS presents. I was cracking up, so true that men never grow up!

OK, so this is the official post for my Pay It Forward. Leave a comment on this post and you are automatically entered into the Pay It Forward challenge and in doing so.. agree to Pay It Forward yourself! I will put names in a hat and announce the winner(s) on Sunday!

Still want some of this cool air blown your way?

Yesterday, when I left for work, it was 23 degrees outside. I was wearing my winter coat and gloves. Luckily, no snow yet..but I'm not holding my breath on that one. Our fall has been beautiful, but fall in Alaska never lasts too long.

On Saturday, we listened to the first session of conference and then had to leave to my little brother's football game. We get BYU radio on our Dish network so we can DVR it, but I hate that we never know who's talking! (Apparently, general authorities don't feel the need to state the ubiquitous "For those of you who don't know me, my name is.." ) Still better than going to the Stake center! It was Cody's championship game (they lost- darn't!) but it was fun.

It was FREEZING outside! We packed hot chocolate, blankets and winter gear. It helped some but not enough from keeping me from wanting to pour boiling water in a bath and never come out. I'm really going to have to toughen up, I always have an adjustment period every year at this time.

Jack didn't seem to mind the cold and ran and played the whole time-- even stealing the teams football at half-time.

On Sunday we watched both sessions from home and then went out to Jeremy's parents for Sunday dinner (1st Sunday). We celebrated Aunt Tina's birthday and Jack's cousin Bryce's birthday who is just 7 weeks older than Jack and is his best buddy.

It was SUCH a nice weekend and so nice to stay HOME from church now and then, haha!! Can't beat church in PJs!

Projects of the Week

OK I never did tell you all how my "postcard" class went. It was so easy and fun. It was on Friday night for a couple hours. For some reason I thought it was Saturday too...which after making one is hilarious because they really only take like 20-30 minutes to make or less. The pic on the right is my "practice" one that I completed in class. Its a little rough so don't look close. The one on the left is the one I didn't quite finish yet. I spent most of the class talking or shopping (if you shop on the night of the class you get 15% discount. And since this particular store has all the nicest, most expensive name brand fabrics, I couldn't resist. Plus, I like sewing but not more than shopping.)

You can get directions on how to make one here.

Today I have spent some time piecing together the "boy" quilt (I still need to add one more row of the sports ball squares) for the Child Care center that I'm donating it to. I used flannels so that it will be softer and warmer than the average quilt. I made up this pattern..I wanted something pretty easy and simple so that I wouldn't burn myself out and could easily make more in the future. Plus, I am not a big fan of "traditional" quilts, I am definitely more contemporary.

This is the flannel I picked for the "girl" quilt, which I've already started cutting out even though I'm not done with the boy one. Typical me!

Jack is feeling better, thanks for everyone's concern. He's decided the "keyboard" (we have an extra cordless one) is his new favorite toy and even wants to take it in his crib with while he sleeps. Nothing more comforting than a nice, soft..keyboard.

Pedialite, laundry and projectile vomiting

Jack on Sunday in his bulldog PJs with his bulldog, Buddy.

Yeah. So..this has been my life for a couple of days. Actually, the wierd part about it is that yesterday Jack was completely fine. He went to my mom's house while I went to work, and was completely fine..came home and wrestled with dad, ran around and giggled all night.
Sunday morning however, after deciding to let him "play" in his crib for a little bit since he was just making happy sounds and not crying, I went into his room to find that he had thrown up all over his crib and rolled around in it. Yeah. (enter Feelings Of Guilt) So gross, and SO SAD!!! After an hour or so, he ran over to his chair and wanted up to eat. So I made him oatmeal (Heeellllooo. Completely forgot about the whole B.R.A.T. thing!) and gave him milk, which was all over the couch an hour later.
Skip forward 2 days. This morning, I gave him milk again, thinking all was well. Except all was not well. He ended up projecting curdled milk ALL over my kitchen, floor, cabinets, dining room rug etc. Poor guy and thank heavens for my little Bissel, and my washing machine that has now washed his innocent stuffed doggy 3 times in 3 days.