You have to admit it's catchy (;

I love Regina!!

Jaxon's birthday!

Jaxon's 2!!!!

Jaxon turned 2 last week but we celebrated last night.

I got Jaxon a football kind of on a whim even though we're more of a soccer family. Surprisingly it was a huge hit.

He jumped off Jen's lap right away and started throwing it all over the yard. Cool.

Then he stopped to mow the lawn (;

Better late than never...

Happy Birthday Jen!!!!

Not all step mom's are evil ha ha. In fact mine is pretty awesome. Lately I have felt especially grateful to have such good relationships and wonderful people in my life. It really makes life more joyful to have great people to share it with and Jen and her beautiful kids are definitely some of those people. Thanks Jen, hope it was a good one!

Not good at being "fragile"

So we have this VW van that we rarely drive because it has a problematic transmission. The biggest problem right now being that it won't go into reverse. But we were driving it anyway to move stuff.

So of course we have to push it out of the driveway before we can go anywhere. Well I don't like to steer when someone else is pushing so I insist on being the pusher. I forget that I'm pregnant when there are no mirrors around and I'm just no good at being delicate and fragile, so here I am pushing our van down the driveway while Ivan steers. Which was fine until our new neighbor comes out (we kind of know them from our ward but not really) and offers to help and Ivan and I felt so dumb because here is this pregnant lady pushing a huge van down the driveway while her husband rides in the driver's seat. Yea it was embarrassing and our neighbors probably think that I'm crazy or at least that my husband is a really mean guy, hah!!!!

We Moved

We just got done moving. I'm still putting the house together but I have to bask in the joy of this move. As much as I really was content living in our "low impact" home, as Ivan likes to call it (it was rather tiny.) I am loving having a lot of things I didn't have before such as;

2 bathtubs!!!! (all we had was a shower in our last place)
More than one room! (our living room was also our bedroom)
A DISHWASHER (Ivan doesn't have to work so hard to make up for my slacking in that area anymore)
A real bed (our "hide-a-bed system was pretty... interesting)
Most of our stuff out of storage (dishes, furniture, craft stuff etc..)
My own craft room!!!
And even a room for the baby

It's amazing how many simple things in life you learn to appreciate when you suddenly get them all back!!

Happy Father's Day!

I am definitely blessed many times over in this area as I have many wonderful fathers play a role in my life. I would like to shout out to my very own Papi who is irreplaceably one of a kind, and from whom I inherited my independance, my stubborness my good looks and my modesty ( ;

And also;
Russ -thanks for all you do!
Robert- if your son is half as wonderful a dad as you are my son will be a very lucky kid!
Micheal -thanks for being such a great dad to my nephew!
My beloved grandpa who's watching from heaven

and my darling Ivan who is soon to be a daddy and I feel confident he will be a very good one since he is so sweet and adorable with all the little ones and so kind and sweet.

As well as all the other dads out there who their dad thing!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!

handmade gift update...

Well, the first of my winners received her gift. My momma had been telling me she wanted a purse like mine so this is the one I made her.

I can't believe...

My baby brother is turning 18! Aw, he's all growed up. I guess I should be used to it, I haven't been able to call him my LITTLE brother for a while now. It's still hard to believe I used to rock him to sleep when he was a baby. I love you Matthew!

Rub it for good luck...

You know you want to haha!!

Just to make you jealous...

Here's a picture of a salad I made with lettuce from my garden

And gnocchi with fresh basil from the garden (very close up shot, ha!)

Yummy!!!