Motherhood is driving me crazy...

I'm sure any mother reading this post will laugh at me about how silly I'm becoming, but I assure you , I don't feel silly. Bradley has always been the kid who will get out of his room when HE wants. We've done many things to try to combat that idea. I few short months ago he would climb over the gate we put up at his door and go open the front door and take off outside. I had no idea when he did this as it was usually between 7am and 8am. With the little bit of sleep I get, I would sleep right through him leaving. I would usually be awakened by him coming in to give me a flower or hearing him talk on the other side of my window. When we moved to this house I thought, "okay new surroundings, central air so we can close his door, and the bedroom doors lock!" We have lived in this house for about 5 months now and I have discovered in that time that my child is special. It took him less than a week to figure out how to unlock his bedroom door. So we switched the knob so that it locks from the outside. He then used a helicopter propelor to unlock the door and get out. That took about a week. It took us a while to find that helicopter because he has discovered how to use hiding spots. So we finally found it and threw it away. For the last week now he has been using cards from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Memory Game that we got him for Christmas. I'm at my wits end. The only thing I can think to do is to get a door know with a key. I've also had my eyes on the ones that you have to punch the number into. It would help him learn his numbers quicker probably. I have no clue of how else to fix this problem. I will lose what's left of my mind very soon now.

OK I'm gonna blog

the wife talked me into writing a blog. i don't really do the whole blog/facebook/myspace/talk to people thing, but it thought i could try to be a little cooperative. so now i guess i have to figure out something to write about.... well.... lets see.... jessica and i are thinking about picking up the guitar. i think it will be fun for us if we can stick to it. that seems to be the problem with lots of things. i seem to have a problem sticking to one project long enought to get in a good habit or to get goot at something. itmaybe i'm just a big old cated individual. well as far as hobbies are concerned. i am dedicated to my family and to my work. maybe a bit to much to my work, but thats life. i guess i have to be dedicated to my work in order to provide for my family.

So it's 2009 now...

I figured probably I should post something before 2009 really gets started. Being a stay-at-home mom, I don't see too many changes between one year and the next. It just means that for the first few months, I have to write twice as many checks because I'll write 2008 on the date instead of 2009. Dave's birthday and Bradley's birthday are both coming up too quickly. In 13 days I will have a 3 year old. I can distinctly remember thinking that this kid wasn't going to make it to 3 throught his existence so far. I think next year will be really hard though. With Dave turning 30 and all. And Bradley turning 4! That scares me more than you'll ever know! So in the upcoming year, we will see my brother graduate high school, my parents hopefully finish their kitchen remodel and maybe even get pregnant again. (Pleas don't freak about that last part.It is not set in stone. It's just an idea we had.) So good luck with all you have planned for the new year! And may we all have a less stressful year than 2008 brought!

That's a pretty big butt...

So I'm sitting here folding laundry and minding my own business, when Bradley comes up to me with his Mr. Potato Head and says, "Mommy, look in his butt!!" I sit there kind of shocked and manage to stifle a laugh and say, "Yeah honey good job". Then he proceeds to put the Mr. Potato Head up to his ear and go, "Oooooh". (It sounds like a ghost.) Then he whispers, "Oh what was that?" And do you know what that was? Not the ocean, not the hollow plastic of a Mr. Potato Head. No, Ladies and Gentleman that was the sound of a DINOSAUR!! This Mr. Potato Head is very special. Not only can he balance a pizza on his head, but his butt is a worm hole for the Mesozoic Era!!

I was waiting for Dave...

I wanted Dave to put a post in the family blog about Christmas, but he didn't get around to it. So, I guess I will!. We spent Christmas Eve at our new house! Our Christmas tree was so cute in our new living room. And the amount of snow we got right around Christmas was crazy, but it made the whole house look more authentic. I tried really hard to keep the house smelling like delicious food for the holidays. Even though we were going to Dave's parents' house for Christmas Day, I baked a lot of bread and dinners so it would smell yummy. On Christmas Day we opened presents and trucked through the snow storm to travel down to Orem. We built Stitch and opened presents and ate food pretty much all day long.



We did our sleep over the next day which included seeing Twilight. It was a decent show. It's one of those movies that I'm glad I saw, but probably won't go see again. All the girls came over and we had to dig and push Shayla's car and dig out a space for Lisa's. After we thawed out, we started baking. We made homemade oreos and cookie balls and a pizza. It was tons of fun, and the goodies were amazing!! We watched 27 Dresses and Juno. Then we called it a night and everyone crashed. We made breakfast burritos the next morning and did makeovers. Everyone looked beautiful!!! Then we all parted, not having to dig anyone out this time. YAY!!

All in all I had a blast! However, I am plotting something very mean for the jerk that ignored 4 shivering girls trying to push a full size car into a parking spot by themselves. I will get him for that!

Christmas 2008

So another Christmas has come and pretty much gone. It was a small Christmas this year, but still well worth the effort. All of our Christmas decorations must be down by the 2nd week of January (as ordered by our "friendly" HOA). So apparently the birth of Christ isn't a good enough reason to keep global warming on the rise. Crazy, I know. This year, Dave got a Metallica DVD that he's been missing for years. Jessica got a baking cookbook and 2 matching breadpans. The rest of the living room is covered with everything that Bradley received, which included a Mr.Potato Head with accessories for fireman and chef, 2 sweatshirts, a book and matching puzzle, a snoopy doll, a memory game, 2 hats, and other things that I can't remember at the moment. Ibanez got a bag of catnip (which she was NOT high on when she jumped into the tree this morning). We went to the Dickson's house and got a book, silly puddy, and Firefly on DVD!!!! YAY!!! SO HAPPY!!!! We also created a stitch, not like the sewing kind...the Disney kind. Yeah, I don't know what possesses Lisa to do these crazy things, but they always come out amazing and I'm just glad I was able to be a part of it. I will post a picture as soon as I get one. Aside from that excitement, we just ate off and on all day. It's been great! Next year, we'll probably have to put some more work into the whole Santa Claus thing. Bradley was super easy to negotiate with this year. That will change I'm sure.

Anyway, Happy Holidays, hope all is well for you!

New Family Blog!!

This is our new family blog. It will document anything worth documenting (and probably some posts will be not so worth while) My other blog (The Wonders of Motherhood) will be updated more often as well, hopefully. I'll try not to copy everything from one and put it on the other, but there maybe some posts that are the same. Sorry, we're just not that interesting.

As for the first post...

Our cat, Ibanez now fetches!! She has taken a liking to one of Bradley's cotton gloves. She will bring it to you and wait until you throw it, then she will chase after it and bring it right back. It's rather cute until 2am when she wants to play. She doesn't stop meowing until you throw it. But aside from the time issue, I love that she plays! Maybe I can take a video of it one day and post it so you all can watch!