My "NEW" House!

I have never claimed to be a very easy person to live with, in fact I know living with me is probably no picnic and that's on one of my good days! I tried to relay this message to Chris as best I could before we got married, but he married me anyway. Crazy boy! :)

After we got married, I moved into Chris' house. This was the house that he had bought during his first marriage, and I was a little reluctant to make this our permanent home. I haven't been shy about letting Chris know this. I have wanted to feel like this is my house too, and not like I moved into someone else's house.

Chris has always promised me from day one, that I could do whatever I wanted to this house to make it my own, and to make it seem more like our house and not his house from a past life. I have held him to that promise for two years and counting now! Yes, it's true, I can be that shallow, and insecure about myself!

We, (and say "we" LOOSELY) have done lots of things to the house in the past two years! We have re-painted the kitchen, and family room, with more rooms on the list to do. We ripped the carpet out of the family room and laid lamanent flooring down. We put a brand new office down in the basement and then of course turned the old office into Bubby's room. We have replaced furniture in different rooms in the house. We replaced the roof with shingles that I picked out, it was kind of a hard sale, but I think Chris likes them now. They are very different from the original ones, and I LOVE them! We will eventually paint the front door, I hate the plain white door, but I just don't know what color I want yet.

So you may ask...what in the world MORE could you do to your house? Well let me tell you!

This past summer has been somewhat crazy for our family,(had a baby four weeks early, Chris switched jobs, I quit my job, replaced the roof, lost Pampa Fraig) and as a result the yard has really SUFFERED! I mean it had really gotten bad! I have to admit that I could have been a lot more help in the yard, but I will spare you my selfish and insecure reasons as to why I wasn't.

So...since most of the stuff was either dead, or overgrown, we decided to tear it all out, and START OVER! I am so excited to have my OWN yard now! I will get to plant flowers, and bushes, and even put in a little garden. It will ALL be different!

So there ya have it! My NEW house! I may even be able to give up on the argument that we need to sell this house and move somewhere else!

I truly do have the best husband in the world! Who else would dig up their entire yard along with everything else I have had him do, just to make their wife happy!?! Thank You honey!! I love you!

These are some pictures of our "new" backyard. I was going to take pictures of the front yard but by the time it was finished, it was too dark. I'll have to post those tomorrow, along with pictures of our roof!


That's the Arbor we stood under at our wedding reception. I want to plant vines that climb up it. The spot on the left, is where I want to plant a garden.


I'm not sure what to do here...maybe just flowers? I'm not sure what kind yet. :)


This will have bushes and flowers also.

Keric's first "word".

OK, so it wasn't really a "word" per say, but it sure sounded a lot LIKE one! :)

On Monday one of my friends called me and asked if I would sub for her class today. Chris usually works from home on Wednesday's and in Tooele, Wednesday is always a half day of school for Elementary kids, plus as a sub you get paid for 8 hours even though you are only there for 4 1/2. All in all, it's a pretty easy day to be a sub! I talked to Chris and he was willing to take care of Bubby while I went to school today. So I got up and got ready, fed bubby and got him ready to hang out with Daddy.

I got ready to leave and gave Bubby a hug and a kiss goodbye. I said "Mommy will be back in a few hours, she has to go to school." He looked right at me and grunted a very audible "Huh uh". Chris and I both looked at each other, and said, "Did he just say 'huh uh?" It was so funny. I know he was just grunting, but his timing couldn't have been more perfect.

As it turned out, I got all the way to the school, only to find out my friend had not let the office know I was coming, and they had already found another person to sub for her. So Bubby got his wish, I was home in about 10 minutes. :)

I love how he is getting to be such a little "people"! He has such a funny little personality and is already so much his own little person. He's a sweet boy, and I'm so glad he loves his mommy so much.

Why does this make me so happy!?!

Ever since gas prices started going through the roof about a year ago, I have become somewhat "obsessed" with what the marque outside the gas station says on a daily basis. A year or so ago, I would drive to work and look at the marque and be totally disgusted. I would notice when the price had changed by one cent, and it would infuriate me. There would be times that I would need to get gas in the car but not have enough time to do it before going to work. My plan would be to fill up on the way home, and more then once, I would go to work with gas at one price, and come home with gas at another.

I know it's really just so stupid, because when you look at the big picture, what am I really saving, a few cents here and there. I guess it's just the principle of the thing. How could a gallon of gas cost more then a gallon of milk?

Well now that gas prices have been falling, I am still obsessed, but I am obsessed in a much happier way. I love to drive by Maverick and see what the new price is that day. It is even more fun if I find a gas station who has a lower price then Maverick. Sometimes gas prices change as much as three times a day, and it just makes my whole day!

My sister in law and her husband have a little "bet" going. Several months ago, Matt made the comment that he would never see gas prices at $1.89 a gallon in his lifetime again, she disagreed, and the bet was on. I really hope she wins!!

Today's Lunch Special

Keric has really taken to this "solid" food stuff! He gets upset if I don't shovel it in fast enough! :) Today for lunch we mixed Rice Ceral with some Peaches. He ate every last drop!! YUM!

Another Keric First...

This morning the three of us loaded up in the car and went to the polls. This was Keric's first time to come with his mommy and daddy to vote. We weren't one of the lucky ones who stood in line for 4 or 5 hours, we walked right in, voted, and walked right out. Now we are glued to CNN until "the fat lady sings".

I hope each of you went out and voted too!

I KNEW this day was coming, I just didn't expect it to come so soon!

Ever since my very first ultra sound when we found out we were having a boy, I have been worried about my little boy's "exhibitionism".

During my pregnancy because of my pre-eclampsia, I had lots of ultra sounds. Towards the end of my pregnancy I was having two a week. Of course I usually had a different technican, and every single time, they had some kind of a comment about his willingness to quickly show all of us his little man parts.

I remember saying to one of them, "I'm afraid he is going to be one of those little boys who is always naked and runs outside without his clothes on!" Well...I think I called it! Although he is too little to run outside, he is always a happier baby when he is naked!

The other day he was running a little bit of a fever, and he had a little heat rash on his chest. I gave him some Tylenol and put him in bed. Because he was so hot, I took his jammies off and let him sleep in his diaper. A couple hours later, I could hear him upstairs in his crib. I went up to check on him, and there he was..."wearing nothing but a smile!"

He apparently has now learned to take his diaper off. Not only did he have it off, he had kicked his diaper clear down under his covers. It took me awhile to even find the thing!

So I guess I better start warning my neighbors...the running around outside can't be too far off either!

He Likes it!

I have been saying for days now that I am going to start introducing Keric to solid foods, but I just haven't ever done it. At his last appointment his Dr. said he was probably ready for them since he drinks an average of 7 bottles a day still. Seems like he is ALWAYS hungry!

So today was the day! Chris set up his highchair a week or two ago, but today was the first day Keric actually sat in it. I got him sat down, and all strapped in, and then he immediately christened his highchair by spewing all over it. I think he has done that with everything now! Car seat, swing, bouncer, crib...it wouldn't belong to Bubby if it wasn't covered in baby puke!

I broke out some Peaches for him to try. I myself am not a big peaches fan, and from the look on Keric's face at first, he didn't seem too sure he was a fan either. Eventually though he started eating them and he seemed to keep most of it in his mouth and not just all around it, although some of that couldn't be avoided. :)

He is getting so big and he is so much fun! I can't believe my baby is already sitting in a highchair trying solid foods! Time is just going by way too fast!