Quincy on the iPad

Caught this great little clip of Quincy last night.  She is playing patty-cake with a giraffe on Grandpa's iPad.  I love how she taps her little fingers together.  It was so fun to watch.

Year in Pictures - Week 2

Sunday, January 22nd

This is my new bunk mate.  The kids call him Darth-Dad.  As I mentioned previously, he has been trying for a few weeks to get used to his darn cPAP machine.  It's not working very well and he still fights it and stops breathing.  Go figure.  Nothing can be totally normal with this fine gentleman.  We think he looks pretty cool though.

Monday, January 23rd

My kids, like most, need to have a night light.  Bump thought it would be cool to get Corban this very neon blue glowing clock for his room and it has become Corb's night light.  Notice it's position above his bed. . . it  no longer keeps it's place on the wall.  He doesn't use it for the time.  Even though the entire room is glowing brightly with a blue hue he still has to have it right in his face with his little fan.  I apologize to his future wife right now.

Tuesday, January 24th

Today when Bump got home from work he asked what I did all day today.  The below picture is what I spent my day reading.  Seriously it took me more hours than I would like to admit to complete this week's assignment in my online Geology class.  I enjoy it and I could drag it out over a few days if I needed to, but I love the feeling of just getting it done and then moving on to other things for the rest of the week.  Tuesday has become my study day for the week.

 Wednesday, January 25th

Today was Dino-Safari Day for the Kindergarten.  They got to dig for dinosaur bones and break open dinosaur eggs, paint their favorite dinosaur and many more things.  I was lucky enough to be assigned the DinoDance center.  We all got dinosaur tails and got to dance around to a few rocking dinosaur songs.  My favorite was the dinosaur boogie song and I taught the kids how to do the twist.  Most of them thought I was pretty crazy, but I got them up and dancing and definitely got my aerobics in for the day.  I am sure I was very entertaining to the other parents that were helping out.  The kids all had fun and Corban was the cutest one out there.  When I asked the kids if they noticed anything different about me today (expecting the usual reply of "you have a tail") one little boy answered, "you are one hot chick today."  I love Kindergartners!

Thursday, January 26th

I guess it is a week about Corban.  He has been wanting to grow his hair out longer and the poor boy has the thickest, most stubborn hair.  It goes where it wants to and I really can't do anything with it, so his entire life we have kept it shaved very short.  Well after finally letting it grow out more than we usually do I finally had enough.  Today he got a hair cut.  I promised that I would leave the front a little longer and that I would't completely shave it short.  I trimmed up around his ears and back and trimmed it all over, but left the front long so that he could spike it up.  He looks good, and even though it takes a blow dryer and hairspray to make it stick up like that, he is very happy with his new do.

Friday, January 27th

Quincy saw me playing with my phone and asked me to take a picture of her with her Cinderella doll.  I was happy to oblige.  She got this cute Cinderella doll from her California Cousins for Christmas.  Cinderella has become Quincy's best friend and I am happy to have a picture of them together.

Saturday, January 28th

Tonight we went out to a belated birthday dinner with Bump's parents and these two lovely people.  This is Bump's brother Jeremy and his wife, Jen.  We had a great time and continued to enjoy their company while we watched BYU lose a very frustrating basketball game against St. Mary's College.  While that was going on we kept flipping channels to watch Jimmer Fredette and the Sacramento Kings take on the Utah Jazz.  Jimmer didn't have a good game either. So, it was a bad basketball night, but we enjoyed good food and great company.

Year in Pictures - Week 1

I've been so terrible about blogging lately that I am following my sister's example by trying to take a picture a day for this coming year.  Hopefully if I do this then at least I will be posting something and it will nicely summarize my year.  The quality will not be like hers (her fancy camera cost a lot more than my iPhone and let's face it, if I don't use my iPhone for this it isn't going to happen) I will be using my instagram app to give the pictures some variety and it's great goal for me.  I will use my Sunday afternoons after church to post, so I shouldn't have any excuses!

Monday, January 16

In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday I took a picture of what Gabby wrote in school:  This picture wasn't actually taken on Monday since the kids didn't have school.  We actually went to the dentist for our celebration, which is where her inspiration must have come from.  Hopefully she sticks with her dream!

 Tuesday, January 17th

My sister, Tracy and her husband, Steve went to Costa Rica for the week.  We got to have my nephew Conner stay with us.  On Monday night Conner was playing with my exercise band and flipped himself in his eye.  I made him sleep on it, but the next day (Tuesday) had quite the adventure.  Tracy didn't leave me with a medical card, so I had to call different doctors and ended up taking him to see 3 different doctors through the day.  Luckily his primary doctor gave me a copy of his medical card.  By the time we saw the optometrist his eye was doing better.  We several ups and downs through the rest of the week with him missing school and having a follow up appointment on Thursday.  He is a great kid and has been fun to have, but I am ready for his parents to get home tomorrow night. 

 Wednesday, January 18th

Poor Bump just gets so tired in the evenings.  This week has seemed especially rough (he's still trying to get used to his CPAP machine) and he falls asleep quite easily as soon as he sits down.  I decided to take a picture of my view around 9:00 pm each night.  Bump asleep on the couch no matter what he is watching, or playing!

 Thursday, January 19th

Gabby practices piano every morning before school from about 8:15 to 8:45.  On this morning she had finished piano and was waiting for her ride.  She decided to get a little bit more practice in before she left.

 Friday, January 20th

Even though the kids each have their own beds we find them snuggling together more often than not.  The next night we came home from our date to find all three in Gabby's bed.  I don't mind as long as they aren't waking me up to sleep in our bed!

Saturday, January 21st

Happy Birthday to me.  Today I turned 37.  I went to a Relief Society morning side, then came home to a clean house thanks to Bump and the kids.  After a relaxing afternoon of doing absolutely nothing we dropped the kids off at a neighbors house for co-op and went to dinner (thanks to my brother, Lee) and did a bit of shopping.  I couldn't have asked for a more perfect, relaxing day!  Maybe 37 won't be too terrible!