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To Wait or Not to Wait

by on May 4, 2011 in me, things i love

Our five year anniversary is coming up this month (May 19, if you’d like to send gifts just let me know). We have been debating what to do to celebrate. Because it is a big year, we thought maybe we should go on a vacation and get away somewhere.

We looked into shows in Las Vegas and thought about other places we could go.

Or… We could stay around here and celebrate by going to dinner or something and buy a new mattress.

In the end, after many long debates, we decided to get a new mattress. We found on last Saturday and decided to get it now. We upgraded from a queen to a king and it is WONDERFUL!

The first night we slept in it, Bryan climbed in bed and asked where I was. He reached over and touched my arm and said, “oh, there you are, at arms length away, just where I like you.” I laughed and laughed. We are not cuddly sleepers, we have to have our own space. The king bed does that so well we can both stretch out as much as we like and he still won’t be in my foot or elbow space…both of which are very important for me to have in order to sleep.

Our big problem is that we don’t have any bedding (we just bought a set of sheets and are using various blankets for right now).

I fell in love with this bedding that I saw on Apartment Therapy:

The post said that it is available at Bed, Bath and Beyond in stores but not online. So I looked in the stores here in Utah valley and had no success. I’ve checked online and it is nowhere to be found so now i have to decide if I should wait and hold out for the bedding that I know I love, or should I just go out looking for something else that I can love and buy that for our bedding instead?

Hmmm.

What do you think? I’m kind of picky about things like bedding, so it might be better for me to hold out. Technically, the whole bedding set is going to be my mothers day gift, so I would love to have it before mothers day.

Hmmm.

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Easter Fun!

by on May 2, 2011 in james, me, things i love

We had a wonderful Easter Weekend. While much of the weekend focused on James’ birthday, we still managed to squeeze in some Easter fun.

On Friday night, we were able to attend my dad’s concert for the Temple Square Choral. It was a beautiful concert. The songs and the order of the songs were reflective of our Savior’s last week on earth. A few of the songs were completely in Latin, but the Spirit was so strong. I am so happy that my dad is able to live his dream of singing with the Tabernacle Choir and sharing his Testimony through song. One thing that was extra cool, is even though we were pretty far away from the choir in the Tabernacle, we could still clearly hear my dad’s voice through all the other voices (probably just because we knew what we were listening for and we are so familiar with it (Bryan said he couldn’t hear it)).

On Saturday after James birthday party, we went over to my Grandma and Grandpa Walker’s for our annual Easter Party and Egg Hunt. It is always so much fun and there is always so much yummy food. This year we had sloppy joes, potato salad, watermelon, chips, dips and, of course, jelly bean jello salad (no jelly beans in the jello, just jello in the shape of jelly beans with whipped cream).

Much to my dismay, there was some spice in the sloppy joes that I had an allergic reaction to and I ended up needed to take some benedryl, so much of the evening is a little lost to me. But we did go out for a wonderful egg hunt and James was able to get in on the action.

Found it!

Got it!

Look Dad!

Because I was a little bit out of it, I didn’t get pictures of all the cute kids finding their eggs, just my own. But you can check out my aunt Kelly’s blog for more pictures. She’s more on top of it than me.

He only found two eggs before he was done with that game (and then we gave the eggs to someone else, he didn’t even get to enjoy the candy).

The Easter Bunny did join us Sunday morning. When I was little, the Easter Bunny always came on Saturday, and we celebrated with all the candy and things on Saturday, then Sunday the day was solely devoted to the Savior. I loved that. As a child and teenager, it helped me to recognize and remember that the holiday was about so much more than just the candy and pretty dresses. (It was actually later in my life that I realized that the Easter Bunny didn’t visit everyone on Saturday morning instead of Sunday.) Because of how it helped me to see the holiday, Bryan and I talked about it and that is how we decided we would like to continue to celebrate Easter with our kids. Because of the birthday party this year, it didn’t quite happen that way, but next year… the Easter Bunny will join us on the right day.

James did enjoy his Easter basket Sunday (okay, because of the benedryl trip I was on Saturday night, the Easter Bunny didn’t even visit us until after James nap… so it was about 2 pm by time we pulled out the chocolate).

What's this?

Neat!

There's something in here...

hmmm.

James did enjoy his first bunny peep. (The video is a little long. It took a little while for him to decide to open the egg with the peep inside, so even if you don’t watch it, just know that it was adorable. There isn’t much that James does that isn’t adorable to me though…)

It was such a wonderful day and such a wonderful weekend.

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Too Many Dogs!

by on January 17, 2011 in james, movie monday, things i love

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I Can’t Get Enough

by on December 1, 2010 in james, things i love, wordless wednesday

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Evolution of Crawling

by on November 15, 2010 in james, movie monday, things i love

Remember when SBJ was just starting to learn to crawl?

He’s still not quite there yet, but he’s getting better.

He’s pretty fast too. I can’t take my eyes off this kid for a second before he’s on the other side of the room.

p.s. if you read my blog in google reader, or another reader will you let me know if you youtube video showed up? I was having issues with it today.

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We’re Ready!

by on October 27, 2010 in james, things i love, wordless wednesday

Bring on Jazz Basketball!

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He’s Adorable

by on October 20, 2010 in james, things i love, wordless wednesday

Stinkin' Adorable

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What’s Goin’ On

by on October 19, 2010 in me, ten things

Here are 10 things that have happened lately.

  1. Bryan got a new job – He no longer works for OrangeSoda. I was a little sad to see him leave OrangeSoda, it was a fun company and he enjoyed what he did. He now works for Monavie (they sell juice … I promise we won’t try to sell you any. He’s working with their websites). He was really excited about the change and enjoys his new job. Sometimes change is good.
  2. I got a new phone! Bryan’s new job gave him some money for a new phone so he upgraded his iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4, so he thought it would be good to upgrade my iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4. Now we can do video calls with each other. It’s pretty entertaining.
  3. I celebrated my birthday… for a whole weekend. My birthday was on Sunday this year, so Friday we went to dinner with Bryan’s family (half of the family anyway. It was last minute so some of the family had plans). Then on Saturday we met my family and Rachel in Salt Lake for lunch and LOTS of shopping at Gateway. For my birthday Bryan decided it would be fun to get me lots of new clothes that better compliment my post-pregnancy body (I never realized how tight my shirts were until I was finished being pregnant and now have a little tummy. Not terribly flattering).
  4. Rachel got me a Pillow Pet for my birthday! It’s pretty awesome.
  5. I got a letter from Joseph. I miss my little brother, but I know he’s working so hard and being a great missionary. The people of Peru are pretty blessed to have someone so awesome with them. I’m glad to hear that he is able to speak Spanish well enough that he can express his personality. He’s a funny kid.

    Grandpa and James

  6. My Grandma Walker broke her leg. I got a phone call Friday before last from my mom letting me know that my grandma had fallen and shattered her femer. We went to the hospital to be with her and I saw the xray, there were a lot of little pieces of bone. They did surgery on it and put a plate in there to hold it all together. The doctor said the surgery went really well. So that’s good. She’ll have to stay in a nursing facility for a little while so they can help her do physical therapy and strengthen the leg. We’ve gone over and visited a lot. James likes to go on rides with my grandpa in the wheelchair.
  7. I left Baby James with someone other than my mom, Bryan’s mom or my mom’s friend (an adult) for the first time. I went to lunch with my aunts one day and left James with my cousins to babysit. Jackson and Keagan are 16 and 15 so I knew they would be fine and I knew we wouldn’t be gone very long, but I have to admit, it was a little bit weird. I didn’t freak out, it was just weird.
  8. James keeps getting faster and faster and better at crawling. He doesn’t always bury his head in the carpet to get from one place to ther other. He’s actually starting to lift up his head and use his arms. It’s a change to have to keep my eyes on him so much more often. Before he was mobile, I could do the dishes or read my google reader and look up and he’d be laying on the floor in the same place I put him playing with his toys. Now if I look away for too long, he’s made his way across the whole room. Luckily, we have the stairs already blocked off so Teddy can’t go anywhere, now I just have to get something to keep his little fingers from touching the fireplace when it’s on… he likes to make his way toward the fire, I think he likes the colors.
  9. James has decided that sleeping through the night is a bad idea. When it started to get colder at night, the amount of time James would sleep got shorter and shorter. I thought his jammies weren’t warm enough, so we bought him so warm jammies, but he still wakes up two or three times screaming. He flips to his tummy and runs out of room to flip back over to his side (he can only roll from his tummy to his back one way right now. He can flip either way to go from his back to his tummy, but isn’t as talented from his tummy to his back). It makes me tired.
  10. To begin my 27th year, I stubbed my toe. It was not pretty. I somehow stubbed it and made it bleed and it wouldn’t stop for so long. I couldn’t even figure out where it was bleeding from. It was strange. Then it was so swollen that I couldn’t get my shoe on for the rest of the day. I stayed home and watched Beauty and Beast. Turned out to be a good day.
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