Mick's Birthday

Mick's birthday was great. Pretty uneventful but still good. I let him sleep in, play his xbox as long as he wanted and made his favorite cake, Tres Leches. He did have to work so he actually spent most of the day doing that. For lunch the office came over with large amounts of Taco Bell. It was fun having everyone over. I enjoy playing host. :D They all really liked that cake also. One of the guys offered me 30 bucks to make him one. haha. I let him get his birthday present about a month ago so he didn't really have any gifts to open. Like I said, pretty uneventful but good.

Sisters

I can't even begin to describe how much i am missing my sisters right now...

(and my parents)

((oh...my brothers as well))

okay i am missing my family!

Sleep. Posted by a Friend

One of my friends posted this on her blog and I loved it so much I had to share it. I know there are quite a few young mommies out there like me who will love this!

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sleep has been a little harder these days. with all the moving and with mick and i stressing out so much i think its affecting him.

i'ts been hard.

Thanks Megan for the beautiful words on mommyhood!

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Black And White

i really wanted to enter this photo in this weeks photo challenge with is "black and white".

but i love it so much more in color.

then...

i realized it totally fits in the black and white theme!

four weeks

four weeks until mick takes our little family back to utah! well that is what i'm praying for. in order to go back in four weeks, {August 14th} he needs to get 15 sales a week for the next four weeks! He totally has the potential to do and I am very confidant that he will. BUT....maybe a few extra prayers from friends and family would be so nice! Chaz misses mick's dad. i don't think he's had a single table scrap since we left utah. haha. poor guy. he has such a hard life. 

Yesterday mick and i made breakfast for the office. it went pretty well. they are super loud and it overwhelmed kenny. one of the guys was holding him and scared kenny, who started crying and so one of the girls took him and tried to make him feel better. she walked over to where i was standing and i was just going to try and console kenny with words so i could finish making breakfast but then he did something he's never done before. 

he reached out for me with both his cute little arms. 

it was so precious that i had to take him! he's so a mamma's boy! i do need more people to hold him because i don't want him to be shy and get too attached that he gets super upset when some body besides mick or i are holding him. ya know?

it was a super hard day after everyone left. drama in the office is annoying and getting way crazy. after everyone left kenny was just super fussy and didn't take very good naps. about 6 he started really crying and he cried off and on (mostly on) until about 8. I put him in the baby carrier and walked around the neighborhood to calm him down. he finally fell asleep about 8:30. at one point i'm pretty sure we were having a contest at who could cry harder and louder. it was rough. 

today has been much better already. i think he's making up for his lack of sleep yesterday. its only 3pm and he's already had about 4 fairly long naps. i have to keep him up till like 7p.m. so he'll sleep in past 6. haha. 

don't worry. i still love love love being a mommy of my kenny boy. he really is a great baby. we've just had a rough couple of days. he gets frustrated more lately. he really wants to be crawling and walking and running already.  he's bored with most of his toys. what do you do with a 5 month old to keep him entertained and happy?

He now can sit without any support!

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i've been itching to design a new blog but i can't think of what it should be about so i thought i would offer to design a blog for someone else if anyone is interested! it would be so much fun for me. just leave me a comment and we can talk details.

p.s. people get confused about leaving me comments. it will post after i approve them. i had a weirdo for a while leaving totally inappropriate comments so i had to make it so i looked at the comments before they get posted.

my favorite reason to lose sleep

this little guy is a pretty good sleeper. he always has been. you would think i would also get all the sleep i needed but guess what. i don't. i worry about him rolling onto his face and not breathing. haha. he definitely prefers to sleep on his tummy. just like me.

its been so nice being in an actual house. i'm not use to all this space though and it totally freaks me out. once the sun starts going down i turn on almost every single light in the house on. i say lots of prayers. i laugh because i know its so silly but i just can't help it. haha

so today my sister told me a pretty awful story. my 17 year old cousin's boyfriend and soon to be father of her child has not made a good impression on me so far. but i have never met him in person and he's had a pretty rough life so far so i figured i would just give him as many chances as he needs to show some maturity (he is after all only seventeen). well, today was the last straw! my sister was showing him and my cousin a picture of kenny and he said that he thought kenny was an ugly baby. that he just wasn't cute.

yeah.

i was pretty furious. i know that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". but seriously?! it made me so dang mad! i guess i am just uber protective of my baby. i can't help it. and of course i know the truth. kenny is ADORABLE! and i'm not the only one who thinks so!

all sorts of MOVEment!

today i wanted to go for a run. but with baby and lack of a jogging stroller i couldn't. so i went for a speed walk and it was AWESOME!!!!!! with the heat and the slightly faster walking pace i felt like it was a great workout. i am eating a little healthier and drinking way more water.

we move into our new little house tomorrow! i cannot wait to get out of this awful hotel room! its a way cute little house. fully furnished. two bedrooms. a nice size kitchen. check it out {HERE}!

other than that. life is boring. we (hopefully "WE") only have 5 weeks left! if mick can reach his goal of 200 in the next 5 weeks we will be on our way back to utah. but if not. i will fly back with kenny and chaz. (mick is thinking he will fly me back anyways so that we can get all our stuff we've accumulated over the summer back.)

20 weeks

Kenny at 20 weeks

-rolls over. a lot
-eats solid foods
-scoots to get to where he wants
-loves to swim
-favorite things to play with are mom's phone and water bottles
-he has TWO teeth
-officially in and almost out of 6 month clothes
-LOVES dad and chaz a LOT
-enjoys tv. especially sponge bob square pants

hahaha. i love that he's getting older and bigger. learning and loving new things on a daily basis. he is way too much fun. i am so grateful to have him in life right now. the lord knew i would need kenny more than ever during this hard and long summer.

(5 weeks until i will be back in utah!)

i am craving pie

i can't go anywhere to buy a pie. i don't have a car. it's too hot to walk anywhere.

i can't bake one. i don't a kitchen.

blech. i hate craving things i can't have. hahahaha. oh well. its good. i don't need a pie. but i want one.

New Photography Blog Posts

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hot days + swimming pool = almost an entire tube of sunscreen.

because i would feel like the worst mama ever if he got sun burnt.

I know these photos are all of the same thing. but seriously. who doesn't want to look at a bunch pictures of  one of the cutest little guys out there? 

he sure does enjoy swimming!

New Hairs...

I WANT this hair style so bad! I debated cutting my extremely long hair for months and I finally found the style I wanted. My hair had been the same since high school so it was time for an update.

I went into the salon thinking I would be cutting off maybe like 5 inches tops. Just about level with my chest.

The stylist said that if I did just an inch more I could donate it to Locks of Love. So I was like Yeah! An inch isn't that much.

She cut. She lied. I cried.

My hair definitely is NOT to my chest. I had no idea in order to donate you had yo have at least 10 inches. My long hair is now short.

I don't hate it. I don't love it either. I definitely miss my long hair.



I will try to get better pictures of my new hair style. I have no idea how to work the locks anymore. it sucks.

I never thought I would say that...

I am missing Utah.

This new state we're in sucks. I really don't like it. its the ugliest place i have ever been. its 100 {plus} degrees every day. AND the worst part is that we are now living in an extended stay hotel room (Which isn't Texas' fault but it doesn't help my feelings for Texas improve any). i just want to go back to utah.

so i started this post two days ago. here's what has happened since.

one of the ladies from the front desk just walked into my room and yelled at me for having the Chaz. rude. sooooo rude. she told us we had to get rid of the dog or get out. yep. rude. mick went down to talk to them to see if we could have a couple days to find a new place and she said no. so mick asked if we were just suppose to be homeless and her answer was "that's not my problem". again...SO FREAKING RUDE!

anyways. that also didn't help my like for this state.

i think we may have found a new hotel to stay at. :( i cannot wait until we go back to utah.

i miss my friends. i miss my family. i didn't realize this was going to be so hard. it was hard moving to south dakota. personal reasons. its been even harder moving to texas. blech. i wouldn't choose to be anywhere else though. as long as i am with mick and kenny and chaz i will make the best of any situation. state. extended stay hotel room that doesn't even have a stove.

i hope this job will be worth all the hassle and tears.

again. i wouldn't chose to be anywhere else as long as i am with my husband and baby. (yes and pooch)

it will get better. now that i have vented i am ready to make the best of this. wish me luck though.