Funny Boy

So, if spit up grosses you out- then don't watch. Otherwise, this is quite entertaining! Ben finds particular things funny at different times. Last night we were with my sister and friends and an ambulance drove by and it was pretty loud. In order to distract him from the loudness and the possibility of him getting scared- I was saying the word and he thought it was HILARIOUS! It was out in the car so it was dark and I didn't get him laughing really good on camera like he was at first, but this captures enough! Enjoy!

Ann & Mike

These are some of the pictures I took of my lovely cuz and her now hubby! Congrats you two!

I Will Possess Your Heart

I LOVE the new DCFC song in the subject line. It wasn't until recently when I REALLY listened to the lyrics and put it all together that it's a freakishly stalkerish song! But I still love it...

How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me

It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can't read - just yet

You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me

And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

There are days when outside your window, I see my reflection as I slowly pass

And I long for this mirrored perspective, when we'll be lovers, lovers at last

You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me

And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

I will possess your heart

You reject my advances and desperate pleas

I won't let you, let me down so easily, so easily You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me

And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

I will possess your heart

Our Trip

Oh my... I am SO tired. I'm falling asleep. I am lacking sleep... and need a lot, and I'm pretty sure I wont get "a lot" anytime soon. We got home from our vacation Sunday and I went to bed much later than I should've especially since we got to our house at 6pm. We should have been home earlier than that but there was a LOVELY traffic jam we were stuck in for about 2 hours because of a fatal accident on I-285. Anyway, the point is I should've had plenty of time to go to sleep early both that night and last night. But... I took pictures at my cousin Ann's wedding and was just to anxious to get working on them. It's hard to stop when you've started. ANYWAY, we're home and we had an awesome time with our family and friends.

To answer you Christina (and everyone else who is curious), here is what we did get to do:

• Ben met his Auntie Shauna and Randi, cousins and Uncle Greg and Aunt Samantha for the first time.
• Drove the Alpine Loop, stopped at Cascade Springs and walked around a little. Saw a motorcyclists that had driven his bike off the rode on one of the switch-backs! Oops!
• Had a Father's Day BBQ and celebrated Ryan's first Father's Day
• Went to the bank and the mall and saw a lady in our stake here at the distribution center when I got a new temple dress.
• Ate at Tucano's with Andrea Green, Ryan and Kate
• Got sealed as an eternal family in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. It was the most beautiful thing ever to be there with my man and then to have our little one brought in dressed in white! I will never forget it!
• Ben met his Uncle John and Aunt Clau and other cousins from St. George.
• Wednesday we celebrated Ryan's 27th birthday and went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point and then to the Mayan with the Webb's and Andrea. We had a lot of fun! We even got to play some Wii and XBox at the Webb's house.
• Ate at the Happy Sumo and rode the moonlight lift at Sundance with Andrea and Ryan Andersen. We even took Ben. Read here about it.
• Took Ben to Grandma's and Grandpa's house for the first time.
• Shopped some, got some good deals and cute things... Ryan was a little bummed though, we couldn't ever find anything for him. Pooooooorrrrr Ryan....
• We got to attend the sealing of my cousin Ann and her husband Mike at the Idaho Falls Temple.
• Took pictures of them until all of us couldn't stand it anymore. (I was their photographer.)


• Got too hot and went to Chili's and then to Wal-Mart and saw a lady (only in Idaho...sorry if you live there) with a GINORMOUS sunflower pin on her shirt! I think she must have just hot glued a safety pin to a flower she got out of the flower bins at Michael's craft store and decided it was PERFECT to make as a pin for that navy blue shirt. It was seriously the size of her head.
• Basically pigged out all week. We ate at a lot of yummy places. Cafe Rio was a must and I got to go. YUM!
• Drove a lot. A LOT. Ben was a champ and quite the little traveler. In his short little 3 1/2 month life he's been to TN, UT and ID! Go Ben! He only fussed when the plane was landing but other than that slept most of the flight. In fact, we had him sleeping on the tray tables. He was too squirmy and uncomfortable on our laps. It worked out perfectly!

Here is one of the pictures of Ann's wedding... I need to post more and fix more and do all sorts of things with them... any of you photographers- got any suggestions on where I could post the pictures for her and her friends and family to see with out going to Kodak, Snapfish, or any of those other sites? Something easy? Don't they look so happy? What a beautiful bride!

Vacation pictures to come. I smell another photo montage!!!!

picture survey

The rules are you CANNOT clean before hand, just go take the pictures and post them. (Thanks Sarah!)
1. Favorite place:

in the mountains and with my boys
2. Self-Portrait:

looking rough

3. What are your kids doing RIGHT NOW?

sleeping

4. Favorite Shoes:

Couldn't decide which one.

5. What does the inside of your fridge look like?

6. Show us the favorite room in your house:

our room OK, this was taken on another night... when it was clean.
7. Show us your kitchen sink!

not too bad... just too small in my opinion
8. Show us your second bathroom:

9. Show us your master bedroom closet!

well, my side anyway. Ryan has one just like it.
10. Show us your laundry room!

more like our garage with a cubby area for the laundry. we're going to put curtains up or something... someday

I need a vaca...

Well, I suck huh? I haven't been all too great about updating the blog lately. My life has been a little crazy the last few days. I had to go to Knoxville, TN for work to our "main hub". We're here in Atlanta in the Corporate Headquarters, but all of our support teams like Customer Service and where the paperwork is processed, etc is all there. We left Sunday night and got back to Atlanta on Tuesday night. This meant me leaving my boys... which was not a happy thing for me. Overall though we survived, and I have to give HUGE kudos to my man for being such a good daddy and husband taking care of Ben while I was gone with OUT anyone helping him! Just call him Mr. Mom! After Tuesday afternoon he said he didn't want to be Mr. Mom anymore! He didn't complain once though and I appreciated all of his help. He was worn out when I got home! He's the best though and it made it that much easier knowing that even though I had to leave my boys, they'd have each other.

Having to go on that trip left me with some pretty lame nights of "sleep". I REALLY didn't want to go...I was pretty stressed about it and I was grinding my teeth at night. I'm glad that's over, but I'm starting to stress a little about our trip to UT this weekend. Not to go... but to see what Ben will be like on the plane. He's had an ear infection since Friday (he's on antibiotics so it should be gone by now-crossing my fingers) and I'm hoping the pressure on the plane wont hurt or do any damage to itty bitty ears. Also, Ryan HATES flying too and so this should be interesting. I told him to just keep his focus on Ben and making sure he's okay. Hopefully that will help. So what I'm trying to say in a round about way is that I haven't really had a good nights sleep in a LONG time and I'm just tired! Ben sleeps through the night about 90% of the time... so that's not it... just haven't had a good sound sleep. I wonder if I ever will again... there's still so much to do, we have to get so much ready now with a third little person involved! The kid is only 3 months old and he's got a whole suitcase dedicated to himself! Ha ha!!!

Things I would like to do in UT:

• See my family & friends (of course)
• Eat at Tucanos, Italian Place, Los Hermanos (I long for GOOD Mexican food, there just isn't such a thing here in Atlanta), Kneaders, Cafe Rio, Rubios...
• Go to the High Uintas
• Drive The Loop
• go shopping
• make sure Ryan has a splendid 27th birth on the 18th
• relax and not stress too much
• do something I haven't ever done in UT before, like the Alpine Slide or something.

I just got off the phone with a sales rep, and he ended the call by saying "okay thanks, love you baby". Hmmm. Then he fumbled and I think realized what he'd just said and was like "uh...sorry, yeah okay have a good one heather, uh bye!!" Too funny...mostly because he and I don't really get along too well.

There's a girl here that says exactly like "ExacT-ly". She emphasizes the T. It's kind of annoying.

Benjamin Breakthroughs... and other stuff

1. He laughed-laughed for the first time last week. He's kind of cooed before with a big smile, but he actually LAUGHED out loud. SO cute! And now every time he laughs he gets the hiccups!
2. He started "talking" a lot this past weekend. Like a real jibber-jabber mouth. Here's a little video from my cell phone so the quality SUCKS. Hearing him is what really matters... but seeing him is pretty fun too!
   
3. He's starting to need me to hold him more, which can be good and bad... I keep him pretty independent because I don't want him to need to cling... but I do have to admit it makes me feel pretty darn special that he feels better when he has his mommy holding him. But only for a few minutes until I need to go potty or do something that requires both my hands!
4. I have to leave my boys for the first time this weekend. This is really hard on me and I'm not happy about it. I have to go out of town for work on Sunday and wont be home until Tuesday night. It'll actually be the first time Ryan and I have been apart for more than 24 hours since we started dating... so that will be hard enough let alone away from my baby. My little, only 3 month old baby. ARG.
5. Ben is pretty much sleeping through the night. The night before last I put him down to bed around 10:30 and went to bed and woke up and decided not to go to work. Now we've been basically having to wake him up to feed him before we leave for work. I decided to just let him sleep yesterday morning and he slept until 8am!!! He's a good little sleeper. Occasionally he'll wake up in the night or early morning and I'll just give him his binky or turn him on his side and he goes right back to sleep.
6. He's loving the bath. I think we've got a swimmer on our hands which both of us are TOTALLY okay with!!! I held him up in the water yesterday on his belly and he was kicking and talking and having a ball! So cute.
7. We are going to UT a week from tomorrow and will be sealed while we are out there! We are SO excited to be united as a family forever! I am constantly overwhelmed with the blessing we have in our life, me especially. I have a loving husband with enormous amounts of faith and trust in me, a son who is a precious little soul straight from Heaven, a beautiful house, the Gospel... I could go on. I am just one lucky chick!!!

I will post more video/pictures when I get home tonight.

The joys of motherhood... being peed on while changing a diaper is one thing. But actually getting peed on and some how it getting in your MOUTH is quite another. EW.

I'm going to bed.