Jessica Tagged Me!

The rules: Answer the question using only one word. Then tag 4 others.

1.Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your significant other? Beau (That was her answer but isn't it funny that it is the same name, well except my Bo is spelled different!)
3. Your hair? pony-tail
4. Your mother? Ellen
5. Your father? Dan
6. Your favorite thing? Family
7. Your dream last night? None
8. Your favorite drink? Water
9. Your dream/goal? Debt-free
10. The room your in? Kitchen
11. Your hobby? Umm.... none?
12. Your fear? dying
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Moving
14. What you're not? Healthy (I'm sick with a sore throat, it sucks!)
15. Muffins? Cupcakes.
16. One of your wish list items? Money
17. Where you grew up? Small
18. The last thing you did? Laundry
19. What are you wearing? glasses
20. Favorite gadget? Phone
21. Your pets? None
22. Your computer? Desktop
23. Your mood? Sick
24. Missing someone? Bo
25. Your Car? Hyundai
26. Something you're not wearing? Socks
27. Favorite Store? Target
28. Favorite Word? Really?
29. Your favorite color? Lots
30. When is the last time you laughed? Q#2
31. Last time you cried? Friday

I tag...Mal, Katie, Ashley and Allison

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?

I posted a picture of my hair on my pregnancy blog to show how long it will grow while I'm pregnant (I don't cut my hair while I'm pregnant, just something fun to do, I guess). But I started thinking how much it's grown in the 5 or 6 months since I cut it. I think the average growth of hair is like a half inch a month or something like that, but I don't remember exactly how short I really cut it! Anyway, here's the comparison: Then & Now

*The funny thing about these pictures is that in both of them, I'm on the phone, even though you can't see it.

Fun With Daddy

Do these pictures even need explaining?

*click on the first picture and look at her face, it's funny!

I do think it's funny that he is licking her cheek. Who does that? And go figure, it's like pulling teeth to get him to smile nice in a picture, and the ones where he is she is just being crazy!

Random Pictures

Not much has really happened around here lately. I was going through my camera and had some random pictures to post. I said that I hadn't taken any picture from when we went up north a couple weeks ago, but I lied. I did. One of the nights we were there we went to dinner with Kylie and LuAnne, and their families. It was fun to catch up. We don't get to see them as much as we'd like, but someday we might live closer. Someday.

Boo and Aiden, they are good buddies.

We also had a birthday party for Boo's best friend Olivia's little sister. She turned one. After the party the 3 year olds stayed around and finished off the cake. Mostly they just licked the frosting off.

The day before Halloween we had some visitors. Ashley and DeAnna came to visit us. Boo was happy to have visitors.

She had to take their picture. (I'm starting to think she needs her own camera)

We also had more visitors this past week. My parents made the long journey down to come see us. Boo was really excited to have them here. We went to the park while they were here and on the way we picked up Olivia.

That night, I got the itch to learn how to make cinnamon rolls. I guess Boo had the itch as well. She's quite the little helper!

Announcing

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That's right, we're pregnant! Due at the end of May 2009. This is a card I gave Bo as a surprise to him with the news.

I didn't keep a very good journal with my first pregnancy so I decided to start another blog as a type of journal. It was set to private for the last month, but I set it to public today so that anyone can read it. Check it out if you wanna! I've been posting on there for a month or so, so go back and read previous posts! I will still post pertinent things on this blog like when we get ultrasounds and what not, but any other pregnancy stuff will be on the other blog.

Family Day

We had a family day in Tucson yesterday, and had a lot of fun. We decided to surprise Boo and take her to the zoo. I can't keep a secret about a surprise to save my life, so I ended up telling her on our way. So for about 30 minutes of the trip she asked "Are we at the zoo yet? Mom, this way to the zoo. You're going the wrong way!" We first picked up some lunch and headed to the zoo. Boo was very excited to be at the zoo. She just wanted to run to each animal, look for a half a second and then run to the next animal. Much to her dismay, her parents were not so inclined to want to run. Bo did a good job keeping her interest in staying with us by offering shoulder rides.

We saw lots of different animals, but it was funny to see this:

A squirrel running loose on the paths. It made me wonder, did they invite the squirrel there, or is he a pest who just annoys the residents and guests.

I don't know which Boo liked more, the animals or the statues of the animals. She always has to take a ride on the elephant, and play with the squirting frog.

I didn't get a picture of it, but her dad was lucky enough to have a quarter on him, so Boo got to buy some food to feed the ducks. They were just swarming right around here trying to get some.

We found this cute egg shell in one of the bird walk ways, she wasn't sure about climbing in, but finally obliged by letting me take a picture.

Her favorite part was by far the little water park they had there. There were these green buttons that you could push to shoot water from various places. Luckily she stayed pretty dry but got quite a kick out of running around avoiding the shooting water.

While she was playing it was nice to sit in the shade and relax.

All in all we had a really fun time at the zoo. The more times I go to the zoo the more I like it. The walk ways are all pretty much shaded and it only took us 2 hours to walk around the whole zoo. Yesterday was also a very mild weather day, I would say it was almost perfect. I think I may never go in the summer again, fall weather is way too nice.

Afterwards we went to the mall. It was fun to visit a couple stores, it's been a long time since I last just window shopped in a mall. We also made a little time for Boo to play at the kids play ground.

After the mall we went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, Bo's favorite. I had forgotten how much I like their food!

Boo got a kick out of the restaurant. The waiters/waitresses did a line dance right next to our table that she just loved. She happened to be holding my camera right then and snapped a couple pictures. Isn't she a great photographer?

Halloween Festivities

I figured I shouldn't wait to post these pictures from Halloween, it could be Christmas before I feel like posting or get around to making time to post. Boo had decided that she wanted to be Cinderella for Halloween. On many occasions she has tried the costume on and told me that it was itchy. I wanted her to be the queen for Halloween, besides, after her being sick earlier this week, the queen costume was warmer. So I schemed a little... I had her put her costume on early in the day and let her wear it around the house. After about 30 minutes, she told me she wanted to take it off because it itched. Success, I won.

But then she wanted to wear something else. So she opted for her fairy costume. Of course this was not warm at all, and I don't have a jumpsuit to put on under it.

So basically she ran around most of the day in just a pull-up (we're having potty training issues.... Grrr...) until it was time to get ready to go. I reminded her that the Cinderella costume was itchy, and she obliged to wear the queen. I think it's just so cute!

I tried to do something different with her hair, something to make it look fancy. I tried to do a french twist, I thought it turned out pretty good. She was even tolerant of me poking her with bobby pins. She was a little annoyed with me this morning though, I didn't take it all out last night before she fell asleep on her floor, and she said to me "Mom, don't ever put these clips in my hair again!" Yes, ma'am!

I decided to be a football player. I dressed up as a football player about 4 years ago for work, and I realized I was a little bit skinnier then. But it still works. This is Bo's old high school football jersey, it even has his name on the back.

We went to our ward party which started with a chili cook off, and then a truck-or-treat. Boo was less than patient during dinner, she was ready to get her trick-or-treating on. So to bade her time, she took pictures with my camera.

After a loop around the cars, she consented to sit in the car and hand out candy with daddy. Can you guess what Bo is dressed as?...

Here is Boo and Olivia, the Queen and Tinkerbell.

Jordan and I, she's from the 50's, you just can't see all of our costumes. It was hard to aim the camera in the dark.

After trunk-or-treating, we went home and turned on our outside light, we had a little bit of candy left that we didn't want to keep. Boo had a grand 'ol time handing out candy. She stood waiting at the door for someone to walk up the drive way then would jump up and down screaming that "someone is coming, kids are coming!!!".

It was amusing. When the trick-or-treaters slowed down we decided that since we still had candy that the next people who came, we would just dump the rest on them and then be done. It worked out. All in all it was a good Halloween.

I commented to Bo that Halloween is much more fun when you have a child to enjoy it, this is the first year we have liked it since we got married.