What I Want to Be When I Grow Up

Today Andy and Ashley were discussing their future plans. I think I changed my plans a million times growing up. I was going to mention one of them but decided not to. Another was being a nurse that takes care of the babies in the nursery at the hospital(which still sounds fun). So here we go:

Jakob: a paleontologist and a basketball player. Apparently he'll hunt for dinosaur bones on the off-season. And hey, he's a pretty good little ball player!

Andy: a substitute teacher and a soccer coach. Why set goals high right? He knew just what he wants... I asked what he'd do when he's not subsituting. He said he'd watch tv and sleep...

Ashley: A cowgirl and an astronaut and she'd have ponies. Oh and a ballerina. So I decided she'll be a dancing space cowgirl... easy right?

And Gavin? Yeah, Gavin wants to be a princess... we'll work on that one.

Which leads me into my next thing. I already tested the waters on facebook and not a lot of my neighbors check my blog(I think) but I decided to ask anyway. MY dream job that has been my dream for years is to have a bookstore. I LOVED You've Got Mail not for the story(although I loved that too) but because of her bookstore. I even had a name picked out and everything while watching the movie with my cousins.

SO I'm having a poll. Do you think a bookstore (with a copy center attached) would do well in the Lehi-ish area? Meaning, is it something you've wanted that we don't have? The poll is on the side bar. Check it out please!

Thanks so much! And watch out for dancing space cowgirls. :)

My New Hobby

About 2 years ago Steve let me get an artist's easel and paints from Costco with the promise that I'd use it. Well, 2 years later I finally got a chance, a room and a bit of time of my own to try it out. I decided to try the watercolors first since it seems a little more forgiving. What do I know?

So it started out as a cool picture from Thanksgiving Point I'd taken during the summer:

I decided that the whole thing might be a little hard with water colors so I decided to cut out the hills and the sky, etc and just concentrate on the stream which was my favorite part... Well, after learning how to REALLY watercolor(gotta love the internet), I managed to get the grass to look okay and the water to look like water... but I still didn't have it right and by that time it was rather late.

It must have still looked okay because Andy asked if I'd won it in a contest...

Anyway so on to tonight. I decided that I WAS going to make the rocks and trees look right. The painting had other things in mind however. I decided there was just too much green and not enough anything else so I pulled a Bob Ross and added some "happy little trees". Those were fun! I've decided we're destined to live in the woods somewhere because Jakob and I for some reason both love to draw and paint pictures of the mountains and forests. Anyway, after all that babbling, here is my finished project - until I decide I want to add something else. Oh and those brown things are a rabbit and a squirrel. The deer died a painful death in a nice white blur now considered a green bush(which covered the white blur). :)

My Baby's 1st Tooth!

Okay, so I wish I had a picture of his first tooth but as its small and he's still trying to get the other one too, there's no way he's letting me get a picture of his mouth!! So I'll just show this picture instead. Ethan had been playing with this toy until he got his toy keys. It slid down his chest and landed next to his mouth where he promptly chomped down on it - while still playing with his keys!

Ethan popped out a tooth on February 3rd(I'm a little behind...) and Mommy CHEERED and probably cried just a little. It took SO long for that little tooth to come out and for 3 days he'd had a fever! I felt so bad for him and couldn't do anything!

He's also clapping and loves to laugh and clap when you say yay... And when he's filling his drawers- gross but I'm totally serious!! Hopefully this means early potty training...

He's working on the crawling part and will stretch as far forward as he can without actually moving his knees. He'll roll to get something he wants if he's in an especially adventurous mood...

On to Gavin. He's quite the talker and has been for a while. My favorite sayings have come from the last couple days. He went up behind Ethan and gave him a big hug and said "you're my best friend!" Talk about giving Mom something to tear up about. :) It was so sweet!

Another one was when Ashley and Andy were playing Chutes and Ladders and he wanted to play. He came in said "I NEVER get to play" Yes, he is 2 1/2 !!! He's said many other whacky things but those have just cracked me up.

I would say more about each child but then what would I do for Christmas cards? I'll leave the rest for a little later. :)

Pictures of Ethan and Ashley

Its really late but I got these pictures from my friend that she took this last week and they were so cute I just had to share them!!! These were taken in my house and they turned out so cute! I had a really hard time getting them down to just these few but she did a great getting it all ready to print! What little cuties I have. :) Enjoy!

Pay It Forward

I saw this on a friend's blog and thought it would be fun--Here's how it works-the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well-before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 3 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick!