one month

it is hard to believe that today Amelia is 4 weeks old. she is growing so fast, and we are having so much fun. yesterday while she was napping (along side daddy) i painted my toenails then hers. they are so cute. it was kind of hard cause they are so little but it was worth the struggle, the little wiggle worm. maybe i will get Darrin to post a picture of her tiny toes on his blog today.
we have decided that while we are both home with her this summer we will go on one adventure a week to spend time with her. last week we went to the aquarium and this week we are going to park city to see some of my work friends and go shopping at the outlet stores!!! we are also looking at going to the kenocott copper mine i think it will be cool to see...of course Amelia won't remember all these trips but Darrin will take pics so we can show her later. and to top it all off our last trip of the summer will be our big trip to Louisiana. we are looking forward to it, all except the heat and humidity there!

Mia...

need i say more...she is wonderful and beautiful and takes up so much of our time...but it is so worth it. we are doing great since we got home 3 weeks ago. mia is sleeping at least 5 hours straight at night (most nights) and eating well. she has grown about a pound since we brought her home making her close to 8 lbs. now. i am not going to say i have an excuse for not writing on here much...but you know why...hopefully. i am bad about posting pictures but feel free to check darrins blog, he as set a goal to post a least 1 picture a day and i can guarantee most will be of mia. if you want to get to his blog just click on "the hubby" on the right side of the screen and it will take you there. i am going to try and take a few pics of my own and post them once in a while too. we are so thankful for all of those who have helped, called and sent congratulations wishes. ok she is crying...bye!

i know it has been a while...but here is the good news!

so it has been months since i last entered anything in this blog, and i accredit that to the fact that i have been very sick and doing all i can to make it through each day. fortunately it has gotten better so i can find a few minutes for myself and get to tell everyone what is going on. well back in September (hince the date of the last entry!) we found out we were pregnant. today we had the ultrasound and got to see the baby from many different views. the technician was great about explaining all the little details to us and pointing out things like the nose, lips, ribs, heart and even measured the head, abdomen, arms and legs. the final shot we got of the baby was from the bottom we got to see her butt! yes it is a her. we are having a girl! many have already asked if we have a name, and we are still working on it. if you would like to see pictures of the ultra sound just click on hubby and you can see them on Darrin's blog. we are very lucky that as far as we know she is very healthy and growing well. we looking forward to seeing her for the first time around June 15th! keep a look out for more updates soon! and i promise to write a little more often then every 4 months!

the wrong side of the bed...

so i never really believed in superstitions but yesterday you could have fooled me. i think i really did wake up on the wrong side of the bed. i was running late for work and in turn i made darrin late for work. i ate my breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast in such a hurry that i spilt some on my navy pants. i thought i wiped them up...but when i got to work i realized that i had not...and i found 2 more spots. when my 10am snack time came around i spilt yogurt on my pants and had to go wipe them off again. everytime i tried the white towles in the lair left tons of fuzz on my navy pants. i luckly made it through lunch with very little on my pants. after a long crazy day at work...i left a few minutes early to walk home. when i was almost home...i went to step up on to the curb...thanks to the red no parking paint i slipped and landed right on my face. i was able to catch myself a little as i ended up in the grass. i am lucky to only have brused my leg and knee. i hope that everyone does not think darrin beat me up again...cause it was just me having woken up on the wrong side of the bed....

just another day in my crazy life!

Maybe Yellow...

so i know that i have never had a green thumb. most of the things i have tried to grow before have been very successful....at dying! but this year i decided to try and plant a little garden in the small space we have next to the house. i planted tomoatos, bell peppers, squash and zucchini. i have learned alot from this and i am hoping that next year i can do better.

i waited a little while to plant to make sure that it would not freeze again. for a while i thought that it was effecting the plants...up until about 2 weeks ago. then one little tomato appeared, then a few more...next i found a zucchini almost big enough to pick and about 5 more growing...then my little bell peppers started to show up. I know that it is nothing compared to many other gardens...but i am proud of my first real little garden.

so...i have decided that i do not have a green thumb...but maybe it has turned a little more yellow and eventually it may get that great crayola color of yellow-green!

pictures to come...they are still on darrin's camera!

another project...

this weekend i had a little time to myself while darrin went to see then new batman in imax with his dad and brother-in-law paul on saturday. so i decided to go to joanns to find a project, something kind of fun to do. in my search i found this simpson fleece remnant on sale. so i got it and made darrin a couple of pillows out of it. they go great with the random orange chair we have in the living room and with is bart.

although this was fun to make it was not my main project that i worked on that day. i had seen a few articles and examples in a few other places so i decided to make some decorations for my dining room wall. it had been empty since we moved in and this seemed like just the thing to do. i bought some letters in all shapes and sizes, and some paint in complementary colors. all the letters look random but if you would put them in order they would spell our names. of course we would have to repeat some of the letters but that is ok. we are going to one day add a letter or two when we have kids to signify their names also. as you can see there is a big L in the middle this was a project i did before the wedding. all of darrin's sisters and their families helped us do so much stuff i made them the same letter. i used the first letter of thier last name and spelled it out on the letter then added the year they were married. i made us one too, and we figured this would be a good way to display it. the picutre on the left also shows what it looks like all set up in our dining room (keep in mind that is my table for summer. i change it to go along with the seasons or holiday!) this was just a little more about where we live and what our new home looks like...more to come as the projects unfold....

the new do...

so a few weeks ago i called my friend kelsey to see if she could trim my hair...by the time i got to her house i decided to chop it all off. so here is what it looks like now. i can also do it curly but i prefer it straight. it takes much less time to fix and is much cooler. the only thing is that i can't pull it all up in a ponytail, some of it still hangs down in the back.

as you may notice this picture does not look like it was taken at our house...and that is cause it wasn't. it was taken at the hotel in park city. we went and spent a few days in park city last week while i was at a conference. it was loads of fun and i still go my work done and we still had time to do some fun things like go swimming, go out to eat, and take walks along the trails. if you want to see more of our trip look at the pictures darrin took on his blog. more to come as it happens...