What a cutie

This is tonight. We went to dinner in a hurry because this little girl was cranky! But she sure does look cute!

Pookie and her Daddy

Finally pictures of our "new" Ford Explorer. I love it. It has been perfect for us. The cd player and there is another 6 disc player in the center console.

The steering wheel with cruise control functions and a volume control.

The passenger seat, check out those leather seats with the heated seats. ;)

We took these right before we left for dinner tonight.

My eyes are open! lol

I have high hopes that this truck will be good for us. It even has the code like our big truck so we can lock the keys in the car and warm it up in the winter mornings.

Today KSov and I were both beat! Hopefully we will wake up feeling more rested tomorrow, because we have a lot to do and didn't do anything at all today. Although KSov told me tonight that he thinks we can't check in to the condo on Monday until the afternoon like 2 or 4pm. So that makes me feel better, since we will be able to pack on Monday morning and do our grocery shopping right before we head up. I did start some of my lists today. I made a packing list for our trip. Mine, KSov's, Grace's and Random stuff we will need. Still have to do a menu plan for tomorrow and a menu plan for our trip. Clean the house tomorrow, but that shouldn't be too hard. Also I have to do laundry, which also shouldn't be too hard either, we won't have a lot.

Well thats all for tonight!

Her Poop is now fresh and Clean

Well folks, its official. Really now, I think its fair to say I am really now a proud parent. My sweet darling, laughing, giggling, toddling, adorable, hyper little girl pooped in the bath tonight.
All of you not yet parents have this to look forward to. I have heard poop stories before and was sure it would come eventually. As well, I am sure that I will have more poop stories to tell. But tonight is special because it is the first.
We were having an early bath so we could get to bed early and be nice and clean when daddy rolled in. (Which he did, safely by the way, thanks for the prayers)
And so we were just about to get out of the tub when we pushed up on the edge of the tub, paused, grunted and pooped.
Quite a lot actually.
Mommy, laughed and thought to herself, "What do I do!" You can't stick her in the tub it has poop in it! Luckily for us we have been using a tub in the tub. Which about a month ago I thought was a waste of money because I thought she really could be in the big tub now. But tonight I was glad for it! It made cleaning up that mess way easy. So I turned the faucet back on and stuck her under it and rinsed her lil bottom right off. I think she was a little scared of the running water because she was crying plus mommy was trying to make her stand up. But we got through it and then took her in to get diapered up. And then Daddy came in!
She sure did miss her daddy. She gave him lots of hugs and then she got extra play time with Daddy while mommy cleaned up the tub. Then daddy rocked her to sleep. He sure did miss his little girl.
Tonight we are both beat. KSov had to get up early in Vegas and he didn't get much sleep the night before. Then he had to drive back home to Salt Lake and then go back out and do 2 service calls!
He finally got in around 7:30. What a day, but now its vacation time!! Well first rest by going to bed early.
I will try to remember to post some pictures of the truck tomorrow. We've got tons to do but I am so excited to!

I am Excited!

This is our Lil Monkey watching Sesame Street. I spent the last 2 nights trying to get this super cute video I took of her to upload. But after hours it would not. KSov is gone to Vegas and I will have to see if he has any idea when he gets back.

What you can't see is daddy. I think that is his arm. She was sitting on his chest! What a comfy place to plop your tiny lil baby heiney when your watching Sesame Street!

Silly babe.

So the last 2 nights I worked out hard. Tuesday night I ran for 35 mintues! I was really happy about that. I do believe that is the most I have ever run in my LIFE! It felt good. And I was planning on working out tonight like usual, but I am just plain beat. It has been such a busy week as a single mom this week. And I of course you know I am staying up way too late when my hubby isn't here.

I need to get some rest and get the rest of this stupid cold good and gone. The lil monkey is feeling better herself. She has been on antibiotics for her ear infection and has been trucking along. In fact tonight she hasn't made a peep since she fell asleep. This week and last she has been sleeping really restlessly, talking in her sleep and coughing and tossing and turning. So maybe this is the turning point for a good nights sleep for her.

Let me tell you how excited I am....

First tomorrow is Friday and then I am off next week and we are going snowboarding. I know I know I have maybe mentioned it a few times already. But I can't wait to see how I do on the slopes! The last time we went I was heavier and remember feeling really out of shape. I am hoping to last longer on the slopes and am looking forward to enjoying all the perks of the condos.

Speaking of being heavier. I am really excited because I am practically into my old jeans. I have had 2 pairs of jeans that were my favorite from when KSov and I got married. I was really in the best shape ever at that point in my life and didn't realize it. I still had a skewed view of my body and didn't appreciate all the hard work I had put in to getting there. Now I feel like stamina and excersise wise (thats not really a word you know) I am back to that same spot and am getting ready to take it further. The difference is I love how I look now and feel really good about myself. Don't get me wrong- I still have goals I want to achieve but they are achievable goals and front a different view point. For instance I want to have toned arms. I want some guns! Yeah! So soon you might see a pic of me in my old jeans!

Also I am so excited for this weekend because we are having a Superbowl party. Now some of you may know that I really don't care so much about football. And I don't have a favorite team, although if you want to drop a comment about who I should be rooting for, please do. But I am excited to have family over. We will be celebrating some birthdays and the Superbowl together.

I am thinking about making Guy Fieri's Jambalaya sandwhich. We made if for our last football party and it was sooo yummy. If I make it this time I will take pictures. Although you can get the receipe on the Food Network.com. And I have been craving it a lil bit. But I need to price it out because I think it was expensive...just can't remember. We may also have Bean Dip and/or Pizza Dip and/or some Guacamole. The problem with guacamole is its sooo expensive to buy avocados for a big crowd. But I may do it because at Winco Avocados have been 33 cents each.

We will see, we got to run the numbers.
So those are the main things I am excited for....OH WAIT! One more, actually. I am soooo excited for my sweet husband to come home. He will be leaving some time tomorrow and driving back from Vegas.

Now all I have to do is make a million lists! I love lists....

Tubes it is.

I stayed home with Grace today. She had not been feeling well all week. Sleeping very lightly and coughing, like me. I was going to send her to school today and have KSov take her to the doc in the afternoon, after he finished his work he had to do. But when she woke she felt warm and she was super snotty. She was not feeling good at all. Really clingy and not herself. So I decided I would keep her home and stay with her and be the one to get her to the dr. Sure enough she has ANOTHER ear infection. My poor darling. We are officially going to get tubes put in.
The pediatrician has some referrals for us and we need to make some calls. That is what I will do this week. Poor baby, she just does NOT feel good at all. All day she was clinging to me and very snuggly. Which lately is not like her. She is normally so independent, with all of her running around.

Anyway, just wanted to let you all know that she will be getting tubes some time soon because of all these ear infections. Tomorrow will be the first day at the toddler room. Hopefully it will be a good day even though she isn't feeling so good.

Also KSov found he has to go to Vegas for the rest of the week. He is driving so we will be praying for a safe trip for him.

Tavernacle; A dueling Piano Bar

Just a quick wrap up of the weekend. We had Grandma Janeen watch our sweet daughter on Saturday night so we could go out to a birthday party for a girlfriend of mine. She had reserved some tables at a dueling piano bar. It was a lot of fun. They were good musicians and it was funny to see the birthday boy or girl (there were a lot of people celebrating their birthdays) get on top of the piano and do the hokey pokey or head shoulder knees and toes!

I had originally planned to take pics of the new Ford on Saturday before we went down to Lehi to drop off Grace but totally forgot. So I guess I will have to try to take them at work on my lunch.

Then today we slept in! Way late...It was good because I haven't been sleeping as well as I normally do and so I enjoyed sleeping. We got up and went to breakfast/lunch and then got some groceries and a stop at Kohl's. I was able to get a snowboarding jacket in an awesome lime green, for only $60 bucks. Normally they go for around $150-$180. I was going to get the a gray one in a Men's small, but it wasn't as heavy. This one is down and quite cozy. I am stoked. I was also able to get 2 new bras that were buy one get one half off.

I do have to say I hate buying bra's. Maybe because if your significantly well endowed like I am. You have to pay significantly more money for your bras. And if you gain and lose your weight there as well it seems like you need a new one all the time. Especially after having Grace and the effect breastfeeding has, bras are just a pain in the neck. Not that I would prefer to go bra less, because I am not saying that...at all. It just something that men don't have to think about and a good fitting bra totally effects how you feel about yourself and how people see you. So you have to deal with it. Anyhow I got 2 new ones and am happy, just wish they didn't cost so much.

Then we went down and picked up Grace. She was eating dinner and she gave us her big smile when we came in. We hung around for a little bit while KSov helped his mom with her digital photography homework. Grace was just toddling around back and forth playing with the toys and other things she shouldn't. She is so cute she loves walking down the stairs. We have tried to teach her how to go down the stairs backward on her tummy, but she thinks she is a big girl and she puts one foot out at a time and holds to my hand and goes down all Topsy turvey but one step at a time. She really doesn't like being held much anymore. And I understand why, I mean after all if you are a big girl who is walking everywhere, then its just plain annoying when mommy wants to snatch you up and kiss all over your sweet baby face. She is so independent and she thinks that she is so funny. She still loves music and whenever daddy sings to her she starts doing her lil baby butt dance.

But she is not feeling good. She was snotty and green this morning according to Grandma and she was messing with her ear tonight when we were at Grandma's. So when we got home we just bathed her and put her to bed early. Hopefully we will get an appointment for her tomorrow that KSov can take her too. Tomorrow is her first day in the toddler room and I hope it goes good. I will take her in the morning and then KSov will pick her up for an appointment in the morning assuming we get one.

Well that was supposed to be a quick wrap up, but I guess it was more of an all detailed report.

The new week is here and we will be getting ready for our snowboarding trip, planning meals and groceries and getting rentals. So we will be busy this week! We also might have people up on Sunday for birthday dinners/super bowl party. Is anybody else having a Super Bowl party? Who's your favorite team?

Anybody up for a Vacation?

This picture was taken last week, but I hadn't posted it yet. Taco meat, guacamole, and corn!

Ahhh, Finally we are wrapping up the week here. It has been so long but seemingly quick as well. We are getting close to our vacation. Have I mentioned that?? The week of Feb 8th-15th we are going about an hour north we have reserved a 2 bedroom condo with our timeshare credits we have and are planning on going snowboarding. We have been saving especially for this trip and we have Grandma Janeen coming up as well for the first half of the week.

The second half was going to be spent with a friend of KSovs from the military his wife and little 2 year old girl. But unfortunately they won't be able to make it. So this is the official invitation to someone who wants to come out through the long weekend and come snowboarding with us or just hang out and chit chat at the condo, jacuuzzi and work out, suana, movies, go out to eat, play in the snow, cook. Did I say Jacuuzi and wine? The room is already been reserved and we would love to have someone come and visit us in our home state away from home! lol!

Just ask me if we have filled it yet! Come on you know you want to!

Anyways...let me know!

Tonight I made a receipe from Pioneer Woman's Cookbook, KSov and I for Christmas. Well first I have to say I made her tomato soup receipe last weekend and with a few tweakings of my own...DELICOUS!! It has been the tomato soup I have been dreaming about ever since our Alaska trip where a fancy chef made me the most delicous soup ever. Yes this soup is truly that good. Like I said I tweaked it a lil bit, as I am learning to do that myself more and more often these days. I think I would do it more but just lack the time.

But I digress...tonights receipe was Linguine with Clam Sauce or something like that. It was thoroughly enjoyed by....Grace. Yes can you believe that? This girl slurped up her noodles and ate her tomatoes from a salad I made and had yummy avocados as well. She loved the clam pasta, more that daddy!

In fact Pioneer Woman writes how she made that pasta dish for her Man on one of her first dates with him years ago. He was a real meat and potatoes man who ate all of her clam dish without a grimace and he didn't even like seafood that much. I thought KSov would like it a bit more than that, although I am thinking I was maybe just as wrong as Pioneer Woman! Ha! Live and learn!

Well I did my Weight Loss Yoga tonight and hopefully I will sleep better tonight. I haven't been sleeping well and I woke up at 4am this morning with a plugged up nose and couldn't get back to sleep! I will take some Nyquil tonight and hopefully feel better tomorrow.

Bowtie's for Baby!

I love this child, she is my heart. Look at what a smart baby! She knows she is getting her picture taken.

Grace Brooke Sovereen-your amazing!

Mommy and Daddy love you!