September 20, 2011

I love Sonic.  Actually, I just love Sonic's diet cherry limeade.  And I always get the Route 44 size.  We don't have a Sonic super close by, but we drive the 10 miles or so a few times a month.  Today I went during Happy Hour and got myself not one, but two, Route 44's.  I need to drink a lot since I'm nursing :) 

September 19, 2011

Today I took Luke with me down to the County Clerk's office to get his birth certificate.  We had to wait in line for nearly an hour, but Luke was his usual happy self.  He's recently taken an interest in grabbing at and chewing on his toys.  Sophie the giraffe is one of his favorites.  

September 18, 2011

I taught the lesson for the Young Women today.  It was on "Good Health Habits" and was probably one of the easiest lessons I've had to teach.  I didn't really feel like I could bring cookies or brownies for treats though, so I opted for grapes and honey wheat pretzels.  These pretzels are my favorite snack lately.  

September 17, 2011

Saturday at Lowe's.  We had to buy some new heavier bricks to keep Cracker in the yard.  We filled the gap under the gate with regular bricks again, but Cracker has wizened up.  After nearly five years he figured out that he could actually move those bricks and he escaped again.  Now we have some big cinder block type bricks to keep him in.  

September 16, 2011

We are eating out way too often lately, and for no good reason other than I have gotten out of the habit of planning meals and shopping for them ahead of time.  But when we end up going out I always regret it because a) I don't really love most of the restaurants around here b) it is more expensive than cooking at home and c) I'm trying to lose weight!  Anyway, tonight we went to Pei Wei and Isaac had fun eating fortune cookies with his chopsticks.  

And thanks to this blog, I will be able to check back and see if anything exciting actually happens in three months.

September 15, 2011

We are leaving for Maui in just a little over two weeks, and I wanted to find one more swim suit before we go.  But I also wanted to lose a little more baby weight before I braved the nightmare that is swim suite shopping.  I was afraid I waited too long because most of the swim suits are pretty picked over by now.  Then I just happened to walk past a store at The Spectrum called Swim Spot and they had tons of suits, and most of them were marked down 60% off!  I ended up with two new suits and a cover-up and all at a great bargain too.  What more could a girl ask for?  

September 14, 2011

Time for my "Mother of the Year" award.  With all of the company and the craziness of the past week, I totally forgot to wash Isaac's karate uniform before his class today!  Our washer has been in constant use the past few days washing everything from sheets, tablecloths, beach towels, bath towels, running clothes, etc. but I just hadn't gotten to the whites yet.  Oops.  Isaac's class is really cute lately.  They added a few more kids and switched to an hour long.  He puts up a fight every week before we go, but once we are there he always loves it.  

September 13, 2011

We went back to the Lagoon today with our friends Christy & Hudson.  The water is really shallow so Christy & I just sat in the lounge chairs with Luke and chatted while the boys played in the water.  The slide was technically closed, but they had fun climbing up the rocks and sliding down over, and over, and over again.  It is nice once school starts up the Lagoon is pretty much deserted.  

September 12, 2011

My younger sister, Wendy, came down with my parents for the blessing.  We took a "sister picture" just like this in Sandy's living room a year or two ago when Wendy was visiting, so we thought we'd recreate the shot tonight.  We're missing Lisa - our oldest sister - but three out of four isn't bad.

September 11, 2011

Today was Luke's baby blessing at church.  We were delighted that both mine and Charlie's parents were able to come from out of town.  The blessing was beautiful and after sacrament meeting we came back to the house for brunch.  We invited all of my local relatives and some close friends, so we ended up with about 40 people at our house.  It was crowded and a little crazy, but everything went smoothly and it turned out to be a wonderful day.