Appreciation

Well I say! Sometimes you have to go without something to really appreciate an item.
I would like to say I am a person with gratitude (most of the time at least... I do have my snobby moments) but I am going to argue, from experience, that you can't really.. and I mean REALLY.. appreciate something until it is gone.
For instance..
When I lived in VA we didn't have a microwave for the first month. At first I thought.. "Eh! No biggie. We don't really use a microwave that much." But Lo-and-behold the very next day I wanted to re-heat some food and it wasn't so easy without a microwave. I also had problems with microwave popcorn, heating up canned veggies, boiling water quick, ECT ECT! Needless to say.. I only lasted a month B4 I gave in a bought a microwave.
Well... now we are in our new place in Herriman. It is a brand spaken new apt complex so NO internet company will provide for us. They will provide for the houses a block down the road from us but they need to get special permission to go a block higher. So we are stuck with SLOW crap-ole-A service that came with the building because NO ONE else provides service out here! ARG! Will I ever take for granted high-speed internet again?? I THINK NOT!!!!!
Also, in the move we lost our camera charger and then the camera. That is a sad story in it’s self because now I have a void in our pictures and lost frozen in time moments FOREVER.

SOOO.... to make my really long story short. Between crappy internet and no camera I haven't been on my blog for a while and I sure missed everyone!
Also.. I hope me being gone has made you appreciate me more... HAHAHA! Just kidding.
JEsS

Gonna miss the beach!

One of the nicest things about living in VA is being so close to the beach. The only problem is it is finally getting warm enough for us to really enjoy the beach and now we are moving :(



This last weekend it was 80 degrees so we decided to make it a beach day. Even though it was suppose pretty warm that day there was a cold breeze and it was foggy at the beach but we still had a lot of fun.




Ammon, Fiji and I kept running away from the waves and Ammon thought it was SO funny. He would actually get mad when we would stop.

We tried to bury Ammon but he wasn't to happy about it!

So then we tried to bury Fiji but he wouldn't hold still!

Then We burried Nate and I tried to make him look like a Mermaid.
and... Nate burried just right :)

Right next to the beach was a little carnival so we decided to take Ammon on a couple of rides.

The Helicopter ride! Nate got to impress us with his great helicopter skills lol

Then we got spin around in the Belly of a big monkey. (I don't want to hear about it Karlee)

This was Ammon's favorite ride but Nate wasn't so sure about it.

I ended up doing all the work too.

We had so much fun at the beach!

After playing all day we went home and dyed easter eggs and ate pizza and played some more.

Needless to say we all got a good night sleep that night.

Happy Saint Patty's Day!

We had such a good Saint Patty's Day!

We ate green food, washed our hair with green shampoo and conditioner bottles, we use green dove soap, dressed up in green clothes and even wore green make-up!

We also wore Saint Patty's green pj's!

We didn't think Nate would be home this week so we didn't buy him anything for our wonderful Irish holiday so Ammon and I cruised the town running errands in our stylin' Saint Patty's outfits and face paint (Which is a green eyeliner that I found ) trying to find Nate some little Irish trinkets so that the Leprechauns wouldn't get offend and then they might show us where the gold is?!?

That is why Nate's shirt doesn't match ours.

I told Nate when he came home he had to talk in an Irish accent the WHOLE time. But he only did it for a little bit... the stinker!

I would've done it but my Irish accent always turns out sounding Arabic.

Don't ask me how?

Ammon and I were so glad that Nate got to come home!

A Tribute to the Best Father-in-law EVER

I have such a great father-in-law!

He is always there for you when you need him.

He is a great father, friend, mentor and grandpa.

But...

The very best thing about my amazing dad-in-law is the

amazing women he married.

and...
the great job they did raising their children and
help raising their grandchildren.


Nate, Ammon and I sure love you Dad and all the
things you do for us

Gotta Love it When Mom Comes to Visit!

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What's yours is mine! What's mine is mine!

Everytime we go to the bookstore we get ammon a book.

This last time I found a really cute little pop-up book and I just knew Ammon was going to love it.

Look the duck has horns and teeth! Oh! It is just so cute!

The problem is that Ammon does love it. He loves it with his destruct-o- side and he wants to tear all the poor little pop-outs out! I know! Can you believe it? A baby who wants to tear paper!

I am really not as dumb as I am sounding. I knew when I bought the book that he would probably try to tear the pop-outs but the book was soooooo cute and I just figured I could just keep a close eye on him.

NOPE

So I did the only thing expected to do.

I hid the book and I will give it to Ammon when he graduates high school.

How to Torture your Child

So.. Sometimes Nate and I wake up in the morning, stretch and then we start brain storming… “Hmmm how can we torture our child today?”
This one particular morning we decided that we were going to cut his shag. We were hoping we weren’t Samson-iting Ammon but how could we risk an opportunity to torture our child? We decided it was worth the risk. (Plus I just can’t handle the bed head look ALL day long!)
So we put Ammon in his high chair and Nate (yes Nate) Buzzed off Ammon’s hair. He gave him a “high and tight” which is a military style hair cut. I just kept telling myself that his hair will grow back. It’s a little choppy but I think it is pretty cute. Luckily Ammon is young enough that he PROBABLY won’t remember us emotionally scaring him with an electric razor for the rest of his life. (That’s why we took pictures j/k. actually the camera died right before we got any good pictures.)

Before

During

The Spit Shining

The Cute Result

Conclusion = Sometimes torturing pays off!