Lost ipod!

I am so frustrated! rrg! I lost my ipod and that is the one thing I absolutely need for my job. I teach aerobics and download all my music onto my ipod to use it for my classes and yesterday it was gone. The most frustrating thing is that of course it happened right before Christmas when we are really tight on money anyways and need to save for the baby and I just feel so irritated! I either left it at the gym (which I doubt) and they don't have it in lost and found or in the back room where we get set up, or it got stolen. It is possible that Owen found it and lost it. And once Owen loses something, it goes into some black hole where it won't be found. I just want to vent about how irritated I am and now I really don't know what I am going to do for my classes. Luckily most my music is already on itunes so I just need a new ipod, but it is just coming up with the money to get one :( Looks like I will be burning some cd's for my classes for the next few weeks while I look for it. My birthday is the beginning of January so maybe I can save up money I get and get one then. I just wasn't planning on doing that! Ok enough, I just wanted to vent about it! :( I am so irritated!

Thanksgiving Point

For Christmas this year, Lee and I decided to not get each other any presents. We are trying to save money to pay for the baby and since money is tight anyways we decided to just not get each other anything. We did however, decide to buy a family present. We bought a year pass to Thanksgiving Point. We can go anywhere for free, the Dinosaur Museum, the grounds, the Barnyard, etc. The nicest part is that kids under 3 are free so we only had to buy a pass for 2 which saves us money and anyone that comes with us gets in for half price. We decided it would be a good investment for us anyways because it is so close to us and if we ever get bored we can just go to Thanksgiving Point and hang out there. A few Saturdays ago we decided to take Owen to the Museum and invited my friend Jill and Adam and their son Tate who is Owens age. It was a lot of fun. The boys ran around and had a good time. Lee actually wants to go back without Owen because he kept losing track of him and not watching him because Lee was so interested in reading about everything. Oh Lee! Anyways here are some of the pics!
Funny story, Jill and I got married 9 days apart, had our sons 9 days apart and now we are both pregnant and due 9 days apart! Creepy! Also, when we got to the museum we found out we both wore the exact same shirt! haha. So I ended up just wearing my jacket the whole time but we decided to get a picture of us anyways. Best friends for life! haha

The sweetest thing...

I sometimes wonder what Owen (or any other little kid for that matter) thinks about. What is it exactly that goes through their little brain, what kind of dreams do they have? Well, I think we have figure out what Owen likes to think about. Whenever we lay Owen down for a nap or bed, as we walk out, we can hear him chanting, "mama, daddy, feebee". Over and over.

If THAT doesn't make you feel loved and more appreciative of your family, then I don't know what will. In honor of Thanksgiving I will try to get on and post more things I am thankful for. I am so thankful for my little family, especially little Owen and listening to him chant our names as he drops off to sleep!

Hurricane Owen

Owen is a path of destruction. I love him to pieces but man, some days, you just wanna rip out your hair. We have a book called "Oops". Owen loves it. It is about a naughty little baby who learns words like "uh-oh" and "oops" by breaking things or spilling things. One of the pages shows the dog (who happens to look a lot like Feebee) with macaroni and cheese spilled all over it and the word "Uh-oh".
Yesterday I made Owen macaroni and cheese for lunch. I think you should know where this is headed. Owen dropped a handful of macaroni on the dog and said "uh-oh". On top of, earlier that morning he had done the same with his oatmeal from breakfast. I think Uh-oh is Owen's favorite word. In fact, I think that sometimes he does naughty things just so he can say uh oh and then come get me and show me.
Today comes and I decided that it was time to give the dog a bath thanks to Owen's "Uh-oh". I give her a bath and try to dry her then I get to work scrubbing our shower/bathroom. Dirty dog stink is not pleasant. While I am in the process of cleaning the tub Owen comes and gets me and says "uh oh". He had gotten into our drawers like he likes to do and pulled out my makeup and smeared my powder all over the carpet in multiple areas upstairs. Luckily, it is only powder so not a bad fix, I just need to go get the vacuum downstairs to vacuum it up. While I am vacuuming up the makeup mess Owen comes and gets me again. "Uh-oh". Oh great what this time. So I say "ok where is the uh-oh" and Owen proceeds to lead me to the top of our stairs where he thinks it is great fun to throw things down to our lower level. Toys, cars, blankets, cups, it all goes down. I look down to see a mess of a million toys and a splattered, broken, bright purple nail polish all over the floor and toys. Seriously? So I spend the next hour picking up toys, glass, sweeping and finally scrubbing each and every splatter with fingernail polish remover. It was the only thing that could get it up.
I think Owen may have learned "Uh-oh" a little too well. Time to hide that book.

Halloween!

Well, it's about time I get up some pics of our Halloween. It was so nice! This halloween wasn't freezing! Owen dressed up as a little cowboy and I was a punkrocker witch. Lee didn't dress up but he did wear a red striped sweater so I told him he was a candy cane. We had lots of fun trick or treating with Keaton and Cambry. We went around my parents neighborhood and apparently the Vice President of the Jazz live in their neighborhood and were handing out full size candy bars and Jazz tickets! So Monday after Halloween, Lee and I got the night off and went to the jazz game. What a fun Halloween!

This is the final load Owen ended up with and those are the Jazz tickets on top! Needless to say, Owen only ate about 1/10 of his candy and Lee pretty much took care of the rest! :)

I am turning into my mother

My mom loves to hang up little sayings or quotes all around her house. If she finds it uplifting in anyway, it will find a way to creep into her house. I always thought growing up that she did it for us kids. Either to help us, to uplift us, or just make us feel guilty! haha. But now that I am a grown adult and have to do things on my own, I have found that I have read little sayings that have helped me and I wanted to hang them up to remind me to be a better person. I am thinking now that she did it more to help herself.
Sometimes, being a parent to a toddler is the absolute hardest job in the world. Hands down. So a few weeks ago, Lee was out of town, hunting, for the 3rd weekend in a row. I was sick with 1st trimester sickness and Owen was being a toddler. Throwing tantrums, crying, whining, etc. Needless to say, I was feeling sorry for myself and decided to order out chinese food. When I finished and opened up my fortune cookie, a higher power must have been at work because my fortune read:

"The difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter"

And you know what I did? Hung it up on my fridge where it is still hanging to this day. Sometimes, turning into your mother isn't as bad as you thought.

Cookies, Pingpons and cough syrup

What a fun weekend. On Saturday night we went over to my parents because both my brother ans sister were home from college at the same time so we had dinner and then made sugar cookies with the kids. It was fun!
Then last night we decided it was time to carve our pingpons, that is how Owen says pumpkins. It is so cute! He has been obsessed with pumpkins so we thought it would be so fun for him to get all goopy. Last year, he didn't seem too interested in touching the goo so I was all excited this year for him to be big and messy. Of course, when you want your kids to be all messy, they don't. Owen did NOT want to stick his hands in the pumpkins and pull out the seeds. I had a hard time even trying to get him to touch them once they were out. Oh well. I always loved that part of halloween but I guess he will be like his daddy. Lee absolutely hates cleaning out the pumpkins so that meant I got to clean out 4 pumpkins all alone! Owen pretty much just ran around playing with the dog and wasn't too interested in us carving but he was happy to see them when they were done. He got real excited and ran around our house yelling "pingpon, pingpon, pingpon". What a cutie. I love his little words. He is such an amazing little boy and the things he does and says just make me so happy! Anyways here we are carving away and having a good time!
We bought these little boots for Owen that he wanted to wear around, even when we took off his clothes. So here is my little cowboy looking at the pumpkins in his boots
These are the finished products. I did the 2 small ones and Lee carved the 2 big ones!

On a side note, Sunday morning, Owen decided to find a bottle of cherry cough syrup (apparently I didn't put the lid on correctly because it was child locked) and dumped it all over our white carpet. Now we have a pretty pink stain as you walk into our bedroom. Lovely.