Weavers in Real Life

Us in real life
My sister was kind enough to take this picture mid-sitting down. Looks like we are, well you can guess what I was going to say.

So I've been told that my blog doesn't really give an accurate picture of what our life is really like. Since you asked, I'll tell you.

• Up until 2 days ago, my side of the bedroom was covered in dirty clothes. Much of which were sweaty crusty running clothes. Bill's side on the other hand was nice and tidy, as always.
• I wanted to sign Asher up for a music class, but they are really expensive, especially for a 16 month old. So instead, we are doing our own music class. I'm enriching my son with the likes of Bob Dylan and Brandon Flowers. He'll thank me later. I'm still thanking my brother for a music education consisting of Pink Floyd, The Cure, and R.E.M.
  
• We are in freak out mode around here, Bill resumes firm life in 2.5 weeks and counting. I'm probably freaking out more than he is. Okay, it's all me. I'm scared.
• My car trunk is a storage unit for strollers. We currently have 3 in there. Usually just two, but a third has been added while we babysit our nephew next week.
• I LOVE to eat out side, Bill hates eating outside.
• My house is a disaster until 5 minutes before I go pick up Bill from the Metro. Then I rush around and pick up every duplo, dvd, stray cheerio and car and make the house look like we live in a museum. I try really hard anyway.
• I miss being able to go to the bathroom with the door closed. Or by myself. Is 2 minutes really too much to ask?
• I want to buy these shoes (in chocolate) for Asher. But alas, he will grow out of them before he ever wears them enough to justify the price.
• I get weirded out when old people come over and "pet" Asher when we are out and about. I just pray that they don't want to hold him because this little pumpkin is big enough to take home a blue ribbon at the county fair. He is definitely a healthy little boy.
• The drama between Asher and Cass never ends. I'm always having to protect the cat.
• According to Asher, we have a At named Ass. He can say car, I don't know why he can't say cat or Cass. Maybe he is calling Cass what he thinks he really is.
• I had to kill a giant spider the other night while Bill was out of town. I dry heaved 4 times by the time I killed it and cleaned up the guts that had squirted out. It was sick. I prefer to save those jobs for the man of the house.
• Lastly, I hate sweeping. Our apartment has all "wood" floors. Keeping the floors nice is not something I excel at. Give me carpet any day (except in the kitchen and dining room).

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Another less than perfect picture, no one is looking at the camera. Playing with sand is apparently really interesting.

Happy #5

Happy belated anniversary. Here's to many more!

picture circa 2005

I'm back

I'm back, did you miss me? Well, I'm back as long as I have something to say, so who knows how long that might last. Anyway, I thought I would give you a quick update on our family of 3.5 (I'll count Cass as a half). My mom was here for the last week helping out and it was great. She calmed all my fears, taught us, and fed us. Now we're on our own...it's kind of scary. But so far so good. Thanks mom!The babe, he is good. He eat, sleeps, and poots (a lot). poot= toot/poop, I bet you wanted to know that. I think it is fair to say that we like him a lot. Everyone told me not to wish him out because they are so much easier to take care of in the womb. They were right, he was less maintenance. But I sure love not being pregnant, and I'd rather be able to smother him with kisses than endure endless elbow pokes and waddling.Then we have the .5 of the family. I'm sure Bill would be displeased with me referring to our cat as a child since he is a cat not a human. But Cass has been struggling with older sibling syndrome. He feels neglected and has been acting out. He runs around the apartment like a maniac and misbehaves. He doesn't know what to think of the baby. But he is warming up to him and is very curious. All he needs is a little extra TLC. I think this picture states exactly how he feels about the baby, annoyed.

And last but not least. I love not working! I feel liberated! And I love being able to watch Hoda and Kathy Lee again. They really are hilarious. And lets be honest, the SNL skits about them are dead on, that is what makes them even better. I don't think I'm going to be able to go back to work. Isn't there some way I can make money and have good benefits while being home where I can eat crackers and bri all day with a dose of KLG & Hoda? If you know of a profession that allows this, please advise asap.

2010

I realize this post is a little premature for the new year, but we will be traveling, so I thought I would get this over with sooner than later.
Are you all ready for the new year? I think we are ready for a little adventure. We are excited for 2010 because:

We are expecting in April. It's a boy!
Bill graduates in June!
Bill takes the bar in July.
We move to Washington DC.
Bill starts a real job in the fall.

Could we have planned anymore life changing events for this next year? In hind sight, I don't think this could have worked out any better.


*of course hind sight is always 20/20.

4 years

Happy 4th Anniversary to us!

Things I should have known

Picture circa 2005

During my sophomore year of college, my roommate Vanessa was engaged. Our bishop was awesome, he provided them with a list of questions to ask each other so that they would better know and understand one another. I thought that the list was a great idea and wished that the bishop in our ward when we were engaged would have done the same. But lo and behold, he did no such thing. Well he kind of did, he told us "YOU MUST FIGURE OUT YOUR CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS" such as a star or angel on the top of the tree. That was it.
And three plus years later, I still wish we would have had a list because apparently I married a stranger. Tonight while heating up leftovers from thanksgiving, I pulled out the can of jellied cranberry sauce. I LOVE jellied cranberry sauce from a can!
So I'm standing in the kitchen eating cranberry sauce out of a can (with a spoon, I'm not a heathen), and I say "Bill, don't you love cranberry sauce from a can?"
Bill - " (silence) ."
I said again, but louder "Don't you love cranberry sauce from a can...........Bill?"
Bill "no I don't"

Who is this man, how did I marry someone who doesn't like cranberry sauce from a can, ridges and all? I'll keep him, but this definitely should have been disclosed during the dating period.

So, has your significant other surprised you with any news since you've been together?

Our Apartment

We painted our apartment. Just this one wall.

Tribute To Freckles

Well, lets face it, I have freckles and I hate them. One day I walked up to a makeup counter at Macy's and told the lady at the cosmetics counter that I needed some makeup to cover up my freckles. She said it couldn't be done. Yeah right lady. Of course it can be done. Nicole Kidman had freckles at one point in her life, and now she doesn't have any. Amazing! So here are a few actresses with freckles that do a pretty good job at covering them up.

In order to get L.Lo. with freckles, you have to get the mug shot from the police.J. Moore

In the Traveling Pants movie, Lena (Alexis Bledel) let her freckles shine!

Sister

Sister

And here are my sisters, we all have freckles. I had to search high and low for a picture with L.L.'s freckles, but her freckles are so light, this was the best I could do. I'm trying to embrace my freckles(see close up above, normally close ups show too much freckle, so I usually avoid them). I suppose I wouldn't be the same without them, but it wouldn't hurt if they were just a little lighter.
And finally I stole this picture from CJane. This is her sister Nie Nie, and she is beautiful and she has lots of freckles.
Did you know that women with freckles are kindred spirits? Yep, it's true (with the exception of the first picture)! Speak up if your my freckled kindred spirit!

**People with a freckle don't count, that freckle is probably a mole.

My.....Our Anniversary

If any of you are feeling sad, fear no more, I have something to cheer you up. I'm going to tell you about my anniversary, okay our anniversary. Yesterday, Bill and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. We are so old. I was grumpy for the whole day. It started out that I was in the shower when maintenance guys came by and started pounding on my door. I had it locked. They pounded some more, and then they let them selves in. I yelled from the shower to get out. They yelled back that they had to come in. I told them to get out anyways. So they got out, and I grabbed a towel, stuck my soapy head out the door and told them to come back in 20 minutes. Stupid guy gave me attitude. I was bugged. Then I had to wait all day to go and pick up my man. I waited and waited. I knitted, I talked to my mom, I went to the library to check my non-existent emails and I waited some more. Then the hour finally came, hurray. So I drove down to his work, parked where I always park when I'm waiting for him to come down (next to a fire lane) and stupid parking police lady came and gave me attitude that my wheels are stopped, which means I'm park and told me to get lost. My bad mood came back, especially because Bill took his sweet time coming down from his office and it was 104 yesterday (cooler than usual but still way too hot). So I'm baking in our car until Bill comes down, I tried to put on a happy face, but it was no good.......until we got to our first activity of the night!
We saw The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2!! Mock me if you like, but it was fun. It didn't follow the 2nd book really at all, but I'm all about a silly movie occasionally. It gets better, Bill was one of three men there that night and I thought it was hilarious. I can never doubt his love for me, not after that movie. Oh yeah, the other great thing about the movie, Lena (Alexis Bledel), has lots of freckles!!!!!!!!

Okay, so after the movie, we went to a tasty restaurant called Rosemary's. Oh yum, that place was so good. We had all sorts of great/controversial food. The flavors were fantastic, the service was incredible, it was fine dining at its best. Besides all the great food, my favorite part was at the end of our meal, after we had had dessert (because I love dessert), the chef sent us a plate of bite sized desserts and wrote in chocolate "Happy Anniversary". It was a great night! The end

**Be jealous, how many of you can get your man to go to a traveling pants movie on opening night!?!

Car=Communication

In our last ward, Bill and I taught the Marriage and Family Relations class. It was really fun. We decided to open our class every week with a quiz to see how well you knew your spouse. Questions would consist of listing you and your partners 5 favorite books and 5 favorite hymns and other such things. This would (we hoped) encourage couples to talk more. Well Bill and I like to do our major getting to know you in the car. Road trips are perfect, you are trapped in a car for many hours so we talk about all sorts of things. Some of my favorite questions are:

"Would you still like me if......."usually I say things like: I only had one eye, I had a huge mole on my nose with hair growing out of it, I had no arms, I had 3 legs (I'd be one fast runner)!, I were French, but was still the same old freckly me, my hair grew like a horses main, or had a giant goiter.
You get the picture. I'm sure you'd all like to know the answers to these question, well the answer is no- he probably wouldn't have dated-married me. But some things we did find out or decide from these long conversations:

-Our boys will never be in ballet

-Bill never ate exotic foods like- Indian, sushi, tomatoes, sour cream, Thai .... until he met me.
-One frivolous purchase we are going to make when we get out of law school is a Dyson vacuum.
-Bill tried to race me down the mountain the first time we went skiing together- I had no idea he was racing.
-We will have a trampoline and a swing set, you can't be a respected Mormon without at least one of the two.
-We realized that our official song is Changes by 2Pac.
You get the picture: So what have you discovered about your spouse since you've been married?