my latest outrage

Jason and I were at Costco a couple of weeks ago looking for Christmas presents for his parents and I stumbled upon a book that disgusted me. The title is Love Letters of Joseph and Emma illustrated by Liz Lemon Swindle and Angela Eschler.I think that is such a gross invasion of privacy. These are two people that gave up everything for what they believed in. They gave up so many material things and gave up so many of their family. So many of their babies were buried in the ground and left behind. The hardest thing any parents would have to do. Joseph gave his life and in the end Emma was alone. Their love for each other was something so precious and something so personal. It is between any husband and wife and here are some people parading it around for everyone to see all so they can make a few dollars out of it. In the end Emma did not have the heart to go to Utah. I highly doubt that she would be all to appreciative about some one trying to make money off of her personal love correspondence to Joseph. Shame on them for putting money above respect of the prophet who restored the true church and for his wife who sacrificed so much.

My sister

Following the request of my sister even if it was a long time ago. I finally figure out how to take off the word verification things on the comments page. Hooray me. There you go big sis

Bratz are dead

It is a great day cause barbie won. If you don't know what I am talking about it would be the court ruling of barbie vs. Bratz. The case was that the design for Bratz was created by a person that still worked for Mattel. They then took the design to the competing company while still under Mattel employment. Now Bratz must stop making the doll and turn over any existing inventory over to Mattel. There is the possibility the Mattel will continue make and distribute the dolls. I'm hoping they burn them. I'm hoping that Mattel realizes how hated they are among parents and will not continue to sell them. Even if they do I will never buy one or let one in my house. It is a horrible toy that teaches young girls that they need to be sexy and waer really bad make-up. They even have matching bras and underwear for seven year olds. If any one is saying it a training bra give me a break.I personally with help my daughter vaule herself for thing that are important like her personality and her grades. Not how 'hot ' she is and what clothes she is in. that is a well paved road to a lot of problems depression, anxiety,and low self esteem. My favorite quote from the the article "Fast Times" by Deborah Swaney she is talking about how instead of buying a bra foe her seven year old she signed her up for soccer and was out cheering for her when she made her first goal"that , not a bra, is the kind of support young girls really need". i love it

biggest daddys girl

Kyla is such a daddy's girl. It is now routine for me to tell Kyla that daddy is home when I see Jason pull up to our house. She will run to the window and look out and when she sees him get out of the car she will start yelling daddly( not a typo she says daddly).Then, when he gets close enought she will run to the door and give him huggs and kisses .The first time I did this it was so funny because she didn't realize it was jason in the car. She never rides in the Accent so she doesn't recognize it as our car. When she realize it was Jason she started screaming" dada". She was so torn between looking at him through the window and running around the couch to the door that she kept just turning around in a circle. Then it turned into taking a step from the window and then running back. Finally when Jason came through the door the decision was easy to leave to window and she ran and gave him a big hug and snuggled with him.Then this past Wednesday Jason and I went out to see Madagascar 2 at the good old Spanish 8. It is cheap and close to my in-laws house. We dropped the girls off and we made small talk with my mother in law.Then we needed to leave because we were going to be late. We opened the door and Kyla comes over to see use off. I waved to her and said "bye bye". She waved back and says "bye bye bye bye" and keeps going until Jason says bye and waves. Then she realizes that he is coming with me and she starts saying "No no NO NO No no no no". She comes over to Jason and grabs his hand and tries to pull him back into the house. We finally had to just leave and she cried. Honestly though I love it when she does things like that.Not only is it something to blog about but its really cute and it makes me gratefully to know that I am so lucky to have a husband like Jason that is so adored by our babies.

million dollar baby

I was talking with my favorite cousin about being able to have a million dollars and what we would do with it or any large sum of money that happened to find its way into our bank accounts. She would put put her hubby through school pay bills and things of that sort. Jason and I would pay off our mortgage. If it was really big like millions the we would put in some kind of savings account and use the extra money from the interest to pay extra towards our house. Then we would but my parents a house up here and pay off jasons parents mortgage(which i think they own their house already though) Jason and I were then talking about it and how cool it would be to own our home and everything but in reality if you were suddenly to come into a lot of money how stressfull it would be. Suddenly you would have people calling you up to say congradulations and they would just happen to mention all of there financal woes. Then if you gave them money more people would call to get what they could get from you.All of the sudden you would have family and friends that you haven't talked to in forever calling just to say hiand maybe ask for a loan that they promise they will pay back. Just as soon as they get the money. You would want to help thoes that really deserved it.There would no doubtly be thoes that dug there own wholeand as soon as you filled it up they would get digging again. Money worries would go way down but then you waould have a new set of people problems. Also the fact that when you die would your family start their own WW3 over it. So many things. I say if you every come into money keep it a secret from every one.

Twilight is coming

Ok, so now the twilight hype has made me super curious about these books. The first I ever heard about the Twilight series was when I began work at Deseret Book last year. I was getting the overview of what goes where and where everything is from a coworker. She told me about how these books shouldn't be in the young adult section because it is to graphic about "how you feel when you are in love". Not really understanding what she ment because I define love and lust as two different things. They go together but different feelings. Kinda left me wondering wether Derert Book had a naughty romance novel in thier midst. I doubted it because one its a church books store and two this woman was very self righteous. She would take any chance she got mentions that she is on the Tabernacle Choir, or talk about how Micheal Buble shouldn't be in the store cause he swears at his concerts and things of that sort.Anyway I never really thought about them again till now almost a year later. All this hype and attention has made me curious. I don't trust the review I was previously given. My cousin( I love you cannie) says I would enjoy the books it but i'm not sure I have the time to devote to reading it and on that note i'm not sure I want to spend money on it considering i don't know if i will get around to reading it.My question to everyone out there is should I devote the time and money to read it? Is it worth it?

the second homecoming

Last week Jason and I taught a lesson on preparing for the second coming. While reviewing the lesson we asked them what they would tell their parents when asked what they learned that day. One of our boys Taylor exclaimed that we were preparing for the homecoming. Jason and laughed about it cause they are always so funny. Later, as we were leaving class we once again asked them what they learned and Lincoln said preparing for the second homecoming. You gotta love these kids.

funniest comercial

So i saw a commercial for Huggies diapers the other day. Soooo funny. Its a dad at a party he goes into the other room to change his sons diaper . When he pulls the diaper back the baby pees everywhere so he quick covers it up with the diaper. Everything is ok huggies saved the day. They also make the stream like it was coming from a pressure hose.Then he pulls the diaper back to try one more time it and again sprays every where the walls and ceiling. The dad covers the baby again and just is like what the heck.It is one of thoes comercials where the first time you are like what the....... Then the second time you just laugh. Probably so funny to me cause I do not have any boys so i have never experienced that kind of suprise while you change the diaper.

SOOOOOOO Cute

I love this picture it is so cute. All three cousins together. Breyton Scon Somerville, Ella Marie Beck, and Amourea Lynett Judd.

The perfect doll

I am on a hunt for the perfect doll for Kyla. I have already spent hours looking for one that I think Kyla will like. I don"t want the cheapest one out there but, I will never spend 80 or even 50 dollars on a doll for a 18 month old. I am one step to giving in and just buying a set at Costco and hide the stroller and accessories since she is not two yet and that is the age recommendation. Also Jason and I have a suspicion that she would try to climb in herself.

Candy Nails

It is pretty rare that I paint my nails these days.Its not hard finding the time to do it but it is hard to find the time to let them dry. I'm usually picking up babies, cleaning or making food. I"m not about to let one of my kids cry because i need to let my nails finish drying. By the time Jason is home and we have the girls in bed I have forgotten that I wanted to ever do my nails in the first place. You really know it has been a long time though when you finally paint them and your 18 month old thinks they are candy. I painted my nails a cute watermelon pink. The next morning when Kyla saw them she kept trying to pick them up and eat them. She would also lick them periodically. It didn't take her very long to realize I wasn't going to let her bit my nails.

Yay Cookies

On Tuesday I decided to make chocolate chip cookies for Jason because they are his favorite (and not to mention the only cookie he likes). I decided to have Kyla help make them. She helped me stir them with the wooden spoon along with a teaspoon in her left hand. When we were done mixing she turned her attention to her teaspoon while I measured the chocolate chips out of our Costco chocolate chip bag. When I poured the chocolate chips into the bowl Kyla let loose a little gasp of amazement, that chocolate was falling from the sky. She very quickly and very dainty started picking up the chips one by one before they had a chance to disappear. It was so adorable.

flip out

Kyla has discovered how much fun it is to flip. She lays on the couch with her head hanging of the end and then flips off. I do not have any video right now but I will post it when I do. She loves that and will do it over and over. Maybe we should put he in tumbling when she gets a bit older.

wonderful week of now

I spent most of this week in pain and puking in the toilet. It started on Monday as aches and pains. I took a warm bath and felt better. Tuesday it just got worse and having a five month old that was obviously not feeling well and a 18 month old that just likes getting into things made the day that much worse. Tuesday ended in me calling Jason freaking out and crying because he was 15 min later than usual. I did mention that Ammie had be screaming all day and I could barely move. Ammie was relentless finally on Wednesday morning (barely) about 1:00 in the morning Jason took her to the hospital. She had a 101 fever and we could not get her to calm down. she was fine and we were advised to keep giving her Tylenol to bring her fever down. Still, she was very miserable and would let us know.Which as any parent knows its frustrating when your babies cries nonstop and even more so when you know something is wrong but you can't do anything about it. Jason stayed home with me on Wednesday which was such a good thing because by then my head hurt so bad it hurt to move my eyes and my stomach was reminded me of why I hate being pregnant. Thursday comes and Jason stays home again and Ammie and I start getting red spots on our bellies. We both still feel like poo still . Friday my mother in law Carole came over to help me with the girls cause Jason's work needed him to come in that day. Friday ended with another emergency room visit though because once again Ammie was worrying us. She had the spots covering her body and we were worried about it being something serious for a five month old. Thank goodness the basic diagnosis was that it was viral reaction to the viral infection. In other words we are allergic the the virus. OK good to know. On our way home we stopped by Walmart got some allergy medicine and gave Ammie the dose the doctor recommended. During the night she woke up only twice to eat and went back to bed and only twice for the bink. Wow. What a difference. Thank you doctors. oh i also woke up on Saturday morning with everything feeling much better no aches and i felt like eating. yay i love food.

44th president of the United States

Congratulations to Obama for becoming the 44th president of the United States. Also for making history in being the first black president of the United States of America. Showing that a many Americans are now over the bigotry that inflicts our country. Although it wasn't who I was hoping for but all we can do is hope. Hope that Obama can be the President that we need. So I pray that Obama is different. That being a a good person and a good leader is not determined by you political association but by the choices you make. That he can be a great leader and help America in regaining our respect and how place in the world, jump start the economy, job growth. Fix the many problems of a country that was miss managed over the last eight years.

Congrats to my big sister!

Alicia got married on Saturday, November 1st. - Just telling them to give us a call when they return from "honeymoon land" in a couple of months!

If you are a natural born citizen, what are you hiding?

I'm not a anti Obama person, but this does raise some eyebrows as to what is going on. Why won't he just show a birth certificate? There are suddenly so many things that he has lied about and I don't know why.

Anniversary

On Tuesday, I spent the day with Kristen, my sister in law, sewing my car seat cover. It was really stressful considering both my girls were really tired, so they were not on their best behavior. I finished what I needed to, and then I was going to continue working at my house. Jason came and picked up the girls to take them off my hands . I needed to make a trip to the store to buy some supplies and then I came home. Jason and I spent the evening watching Heroes then we started getting ready for bed . I was in the bathroom when Jason quick jumps out of bed and comes into the bathroom and says "Happy Anniversary, hun!" We had both forgotten that it was our Anniversary until out friend Shawn texted Jason a happy Anniversary message. We had just gotten so busy that we both didn't realize that it was the 27th already. Happy second Anniversary hun!

173 lbs

So, for my two week weigh-in I now weigh 173, so that means I have lost 7 pounds! Sweet!

Crafty Miss Mafty

I am so excited about a project I have. It is a cover for our "baby carrier" car seat. You tie it to the handles and then your baby doesn't get windblown. I went with my sister in law Kristen and picked out the fabric cause she tried explaining it all to me, but it all just went over my head so I was so happy she was willing to go with me. I am so excited about it cause I will actually make something that is cute and I will be proud of it and I can post pictures! It's going to be so cute! I don't know how long it will take to finish, but I think it would be so cool to have it finished by this weekend so I can show it off. All of my family will be in town cause my beautiful sister Alicia is getting married. - Oh, so exciting!

You like me! You really like me!

I received a call yesterday from my best cousin asking me why I haven't posted anything in a while. Well, I must confess that I like having pictures to go along with my stories and I filled up my camera taping Amourae growling. Yup, she growls. I'm sorry that it has been a while, but I have been busy and pictureless.

Bananas

I have some bananas that need to be used. Does anyone have any ideas besides banana bread? Edible or not, I just don't want to throw them away. If you do, please let me know.

Quick, I don't know what to do! Where is a celebrity!??

Jason and I love the show Heroes, but I'm so annoyed and wishing that they kill off Claire the cheerleader. Hayden Panettiere has a mock endorsement for John McCain where she truly shows of her immaturity, lack of respect, and the lack of an ability to be funny. Her overconfidence shows through with the opening line being "I know I'm hot enough to hold your attention for at least thirty seconds". Does she realize as soon as she leaves heroes it will be "Hayden who"? Well , I guess she doesn't. She couples voting for McCain with smoking and not wearing a seat belt and just to prove how mature she is, she drops the F-bomb about three times. Wow, Hayden! You are one classy girl! Actors should really stick to what I pay them to do, entertain me, not to give me their political opinion. So to Hayden and other celebrities that think the world needs them to tell us what to do (cause if you're not famous like them you are an idiot and can't think for yourself ), I say, "SHUT UP already!"





Every one smoke if you vote for McCain!

Her first solid food

Ammie's first cereal. She is getting so big.

Just like her daddy!

So my hubby Jason has been known to create some interesting food combinations, like a potato salad burger and things of that sort. Here is Kyla and her combination of taco soup and what she did when she got a hold of some pop corn that we were snacking on earlier. Just like her daddy!

The problem, and a plan.

I am now on my quest to achieve my pre-baby weight. I have also decided to keep up my progress on my blog cause I think it will help me stick to it, knowing that someone will be reading and knowing if I'm slacking or quit. My pre-baby weight was about 156. I lost 10 pounds during the beginning of being pregnant cause I was not able to keep any food down. I more than recovered after the morning sickness stage by gaining 60 ( ya that's right) pounds up until Kyla was born so that put me at about 226. In the following three months before we got pregnant again, I went down to 185. This time around, I lost about 15 pounds (I think) in the beginning months. The day I delivered I was 206 which was better than the last time. Then, I got down to about 192, and I was fine with that for the time being since I am nursing and I can't cut calories. But, I noticed this morning that my jeans fit a bit snug. It bothered me all morning. So, after dinner I went to the bathroom and hopped on the scale. Yup, I gained weight. 8 pounds to be exact. So that puts me at 200. After the weight roller coaster of being pregnant for 20 months (almost continuously) I'm ready to have some stability. Now my resolve is to get back down to 150.
I'll start with exercise and being more conscious of what I eat, but until i put Amourae totally on formula, I will not be able to cut calories. Right now I have a DVD that has exercises for women who have had children. I am going to do that and get up at 6:30 so that I can hopefully finish before the girls wake up. I'm thinking I will do posts of my actual weight so I can be accountable and also if I run into slumps I can get advice and encouragement on how I can do better. I might even post "before and after" pictures so I can see the difference. I don't know. Let me know what you think about that one. I'm hoping that I will have everyones support to help keep me motivated. I'm not sure if I should do a weigh in every two weeks or once a month. The purpose of doing it as soon as every two weeks would be to assist in keeping me vigilant. For now, I think that is what I will do unless any one has any other ideas.
OK. Starting weight 200 lbs. Wish me luck!

P.S. If any one has any advice, tips, or encouragement, speak up!

Little Miss Independent

Along with our new calling, Kyla gets to go to nursery two months earlier than normal. After Sacrament Meeting, we went on our quest to find which nursery she would be in (there are 4 of them in our Ward), and each time we went into a class and found out it wasn't the one we were supposed to be in, Kyla got very upset because she would see the toys and want to play with them. At this point, she had been deprived all during sacrament cause we don't let her run around. We require her to sit on our lap or the bench with us and play quietly. So, by now she was very upset cause she thought she was not being allowed to run around and play still and she had had enough. Finally, we found the right nursery. She didn't even care we had left because she was so delighted with the toys - which doesn't surprise me at all. She is very independent and confident. That is how we raised her to be, and we take pride in that fact. But, part of you wants her to be sad when you are gone. Jason went to check on her and her reaction was kind of a "Hey dad! You're here. Cool, you're leaving. OK, see ya later!" When it comes down to it, though, I'm glad that she functions well without me cause that is the purpose; for them to some day not need you to function. We just got a jump start on things.

Our New Callings

Our new ward is awesome to say the least. More people spoke to us in our first week of being there than in the entire year we were at our previous ward. When we had our meeting with our new bishop, he had told us there were three calling we had been requested for already but he had not yet decided which one we would be called to yet. We went home wondering what the callings were and which one would be ours. Thoughts of nursery were brought to my mind and not only having to take care of my own 16 month old and 4 month old but 6 extras. Luckily, this morning we are meeting with our bishop, so I only had to worry for about two weeks. We got the news that we will be the CTR 7 B teachers. Thank goodness no nursery! We hopped right into our calling and met our kids this morning and started practicing for the primary program next week. I believe that Jason and I will enjoy this calling. They are really nice kids, and right now there are only four of them .

Little Moments

Yesterday, Jason and I were driving home from IKEA (the happiest place on earth). I had one of those moments were you stop and look at your life from the outside, and I realized how awesome my life is. I'm listening to Jason talk about our shelves that we are putting in our bathroom and I'm just watching him and I can't help but smile. His hair is sticking up a bit in the back and he is smiling and excited about the shelves. I can't help but realize how lucky I am that he chose me to be his forever friend. Out of all the girls he dated, he picked me. Its a humble feeling that makes my eyes water whenever I think about it. I teared up just writing that sentence. I have a husband that is so wonderful and supportive and loves me for being me. How simple a thing yet the most precious. How lucky am I! A loving husband, two adorable daughters, our first home, and so many other things that I will never be able to list them all. Anyway, I just needed to announce to the world how I feel cause I don't ever want to take for granted all the things I have.

Better Late than Never!

So, I kinda skipped my introduction of my blog for my first post, but better late than never I guess. Well, I'm here following my family's lead of having a blog . The convenience of being able to let everyone know what is going on without out having to call every last person in my phone book . I see how nice it is that I get to be connected with my family even though some of them are hundreds of miles away and I really do appreciate it. Hearing all of the funny stories and seeing the personalities of my nephews and nieces develop . So, I decided to do the same and allow everyone to get to know my family just a little bit better and see the chaos that comes with having two babies that are a year apart, a hilarious husband, and two friends that are renting part of our house. Yup, we have a full house and I'm sure things are about to get interesting. So keep checking in and we will see how things go.


Oh, and if you were curious - the picture is of me in the hospital before we had Amourae.