well, I've been tagged. So here goes:
8 TV shows that I love to watch:
1. Prison Break
2. The Office
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Scrubs
5. So you Think you can Dance
6. That 70's Show
7. Nightly News with Brian Williams
8. Friends reruns
8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Iggy's
2. Basila's
3. Applebee's
4. Jimmy John's
5. The Golden Spoon (not really a restaurant, it's a frozen yogurt place)
6. Bajio
7. The Bumbleberry Inn (just for the pies!)
8. Blue Sky
8 Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. Adam stayed home from work
2. I had a really good day
3. We ate at Durango's with Dusty's family
4. I washed dishes
5. I played 'kitties' with Anicka
6. I started a new book
7. I played a word game on Facebook
8. Anicka slept in
8 Things I'm Looking Forward to:
1. NaNoWriMo
2. The weekend
3. Making Halloween decorations
4. Finding costumes for Halloween
5. Halloween!
6. Thanksgiving!
7. Christmas!
8. meeting my weight loss goal
8 Things On My Wish List:
1. a house
2. more patience
3. a babysitter that lives closer to us
4. a raise for Adam
5. an end to this economic crisis
6. more time
7. a really great plot for NaNoWriMo
8. more sleep
8 People I Tag:
I... don't have eight people to tag. So if you happen to read this and want to do it, go ahead.
Annnd, hopefully I'll have time to write a real entry tomorrow!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Craziness
So Ryker's blessing is this Sunday, and I'm just a little bit stressed. Why? I don't know. I've got everything planned, I've given everyone food assignments for the potluck lunch, we've purchased all of the deli meat and cheese... I'm pretty sure I've got everything covered. All that's left for me to do is make some rice krispie treats and a pasta salad. Easy, easy. So why do I have to drive myself crazy worrying about everything? I hope Ryker's blessing tux fits. I hope there isn't another gathering at the park that afternoon. I hope everyone gets along. I hope Ryker isn't fussy during sacrament meeting. I hope everyone brings what I've asked them to bring. I hope we have enough food. Seriously! Every time there's an event like this my stomach ties itself in knots because I'm so worried about stupid, stupid things. Ugh.
Other things I plan to do this weekend:
-Clean my apartment
-Give Adam a haircut
-Give Anicka a haircut
-Get a haircut
-Dye my hair
-Watch Moulin Rouge with Crystal and Evie
-Go to Kaycee and Sienna's party
- Go on a date (sans kids) with my husband
And, on a totally unrelated note: Anicka has an imaginary friend. It kind of weirds me out. Her friend is named Shadow Sienna. She only calls her 'Shadow Sienna' for my benefit, though, because I get confused sometimes wondering whether she's talking about her imaginary friend or her aunt.
When we were going to the store the other day:
"Is Sienna coming with us, momma?"
"No, Sienna is at home, sweetie."
"No, mom. Not Sienna. Shadow Sienna."
Anicka is constantly chatting with Shadow Sienna. Sometimes she even does Sienna's part of the conversation out loud as well, in a high, soft imaginary-friend- voice. She asks for extra candy so that Sienna can have one ("sorry, but you and Sienna will just have to share"), she berates me for sitting on top of Sienna, she gets indignant when I don't seem to realize that Sienna is trying to have a conversation with me, annnd she's started to blame things on her little friend, too. "I didn't color on your papers, Sienna did it!"
Wow. I mean really, wow.
It's actually pretty funny.
Other things I plan to do this weekend:
-Clean my apartment
-Give Adam a haircut
-Give Anicka a haircut
-Get a haircut
-Dye my hair
-Watch Moulin Rouge with Crystal and Evie
-Go to Kaycee and Sienna's party
- Go on a date (sans kids) with my husband
And, on a totally unrelated note: Anicka has an imaginary friend. It kind of weirds me out. Her friend is named Shadow Sienna. She only calls her 'Shadow Sienna' for my benefit, though, because I get confused sometimes wondering whether she's talking about her imaginary friend or her aunt.
When we were going to the store the other day:
"Is Sienna coming with us, momma?"
"No, Sienna is at home, sweetie."
"No, mom. Not Sienna. Shadow Sienna."
Anicka is constantly chatting with Shadow Sienna. Sometimes she even does Sienna's part of the conversation out loud as well, in a high, soft imaginary-friend- voice. She asks for extra candy so that Sienna can have one ("sorry, but you and Sienna will just have to share"), she berates me for sitting on top of Sienna, she gets indignant when I don't seem to realize that Sienna is trying to have a conversation with me, annnd she's started to blame things on her little friend, too. "I didn't color on your papers, Sienna did it!"
Wow. I mean really, wow.
It's actually pretty funny.
Monday, September 22, 2008
A Million Pictures (and very little else)
Sorry it took me so long to make good on my promise of pictures. But hopefully this post will make up for my tardiness.
Ryker is growing so fast, and getting really chubby:
Apparently Adam has a very calming presence:
Here is Anicka just being Anicka:
On Saturday we drove up to Fillmore and had a picnic in the mountains with Adam's family. It was so beautiful, we took a ton of pictures. Here are a few of my favorites:
Some pics of my cute nieces and nephew:
Going for a walk to pick leaves:
Ryker snoozing in his comfy carrier:
Adam getting beat up by his sisters:
Adam and Heidi torture Mindy:
A giant wasp nest that was in a tree next to our picnic table:
Mindy's husband waited until everyone else was safely in the car (except for Adam, who wanted to film the event) and then he shot it full of holes and ran like mad.
And, finally, here is an uber cute video of Anicka trying to sing to Ryker. She keeps forgetting the words.
Ryker is growing so fast, and getting really chubby:
Apparently Adam has a very calming presence:
Here is Anicka just being Anicka:
On Saturday we drove up to Fillmore and had a picnic in the mountains with Adam's family. It was so beautiful, we took a ton of pictures. Here are a few of my favorites:
Some pics of my cute nieces and nephew:
Going for a walk to pick leaves:
Ryker snoozing in his comfy carrier:
Adam getting beat up by his sisters:
Adam and Heidi torture Mindy:
A giant wasp nest that was in a tree next to our picnic table:
Mindy's husband waited until everyone else was safely in the car (except for Adam, who wanted to film the event) and then he shot it full of holes and ran like mad.And, finally, here is an uber cute video of Anicka trying to sing to Ryker. She keeps forgetting the words.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
like the spring we are such fools
Time just seems to fly past.
Ryker is four weeks old today, and starting to get chubby. I'm pretty sure he weighs about ten pounds now. I'll put some new pictures up in the next couple of days.
Having two kids is... different.
The first two weeks were the hardest. Especially because the day that Adam went back to work Anicka got sick and spent two days throwing up. That was... not fun. But we've kind of started to settle into a routine now and things are getting easier. My least favorite part of having a newborn is spending most of my day covered in some sort of bodily fluid. I feel like I'm constantly changing mine and Ryker's clothes and I can't wait to hop in the shower at the end of the day. But he's really a pretty easy baby. He basically only fusses when he's hungry, and he sleeps okay at night. I mean, you know. For a newborn.
Anicka is having a great time. She just loves her little brother and is anxious to help. But that can also be a bad thing. She likes to be as close as possible to him, and often wakes him up because she wants to play with him. She thinks it's funny to see him startle. It drives me crazy. But most of the time she's just so sweet with him. I'm sure they'll have a great time together when he gets a little older. He's just starting to coo and gurgle, and is awake and alert more often. I'm guessing that in another few weeks he's going to be constantly laughing at his big sister.
The good thing about being up at all hours of the night nursing a baby is that I finally have time to read. Books that I've read in the last four weeks include:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - one of my all time favorite books. Adam gave me the 50th anniversary special edition for our anniversary last month.
I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak - Apart from a rather disappointing ending, this book was pretty good, but I still prefer Zusak's newest work, The Book Thief.
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns - I enjoyed this book much more now than I did when I read it for my high school English class. I'm going to see if I can find the sequel the next time I go to the library.
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings - This was the first book in a fantasy series called The Belgariad recommended to me by an acquaintance. It was formulaic and predictable and I'm not sure I'll bother reading the rest of the series.
I also read the first two books in a series called The Hearts of the Children by Dean Hughes - This series is about an lds family in the 60s. It's really not bad, as far as Mormon fiction goes. The writing is a bit clumsy and heavy handed in the beginning chapters of the first book, but it gets better.
And right now I'm reading a book called Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brian Sanderson - I picked this book up because the cover art was pretty and a quote on the front said "Highly recommended to anyone hungry for a good read" or something to that effect. I'm always nervous when I pick up a new fantasy series because so many of them are exactly the same, but so far Mistborn has a been a pleasant surprise. Sanderson has invented a form of magic called 'Allomancy' in which some people are born with the ability to ingest various metals and use them to do things such as:
soothe another person's emotions or influence their behavior
make metal objects fly through the air toward them
enhance their physical strength
Enhance senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell)
and possibly other things as well. I'm not very far into the book and the subject of Allomancy has just recently been introduced.
Anyway. I kind of went off there, but I love it when I find such a new idea in a book. love it.
And if anyone wants to recommend more books to me I would be very grateful. I need some ideas. The last time I went to the library I just sort of wandered around and randomly pulled things off of the shelves... Which can be a good way to find new things, but only if you have time to wander. I usually only have a few minutes. Anyway. I'm open to just about any type, genre or style.
Well, the baby is waking up, so that's all the time that I have.
Ciao everybody.
P.s. The title of this post has nothing to do with the subject matter, it's just the lyric of a song that I was listening to at the time I wrote this.
Ryker is four weeks old today, and starting to get chubby. I'm pretty sure he weighs about ten pounds now. I'll put some new pictures up in the next couple of days.
Having two kids is... different.
The first two weeks were the hardest. Especially because the day that Adam went back to work Anicka got sick and spent two days throwing up. That was... not fun. But we've kind of started to settle into a routine now and things are getting easier. My least favorite part of having a newborn is spending most of my day covered in some sort of bodily fluid. I feel like I'm constantly changing mine and Ryker's clothes and I can't wait to hop in the shower at the end of the day. But he's really a pretty easy baby. He basically only fusses when he's hungry, and he sleeps okay at night. I mean, you know. For a newborn.
Anicka is having a great time. She just loves her little brother and is anxious to help. But that can also be a bad thing. She likes to be as close as possible to him, and often wakes him up because she wants to play with him. She thinks it's funny to see him startle. It drives me crazy. But most of the time she's just so sweet with him. I'm sure they'll have a great time together when he gets a little older. He's just starting to coo and gurgle, and is awake and alert more often. I'm guessing that in another few weeks he's going to be constantly laughing at his big sister.
The good thing about being up at all hours of the night nursing a baby is that I finally have time to read. Books that I've read in the last four weeks include:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - one of my all time favorite books. Adam gave me the 50th anniversary special edition for our anniversary last month.
I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak - Apart from a rather disappointing ending, this book was pretty good, but I still prefer Zusak's newest work, The Book Thief.
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns - I enjoyed this book much more now than I did when I read it for my high school English class. I'm going to see if I can find the sequel the next time I go to the library.
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings - This was the first book in a fantasy series called The Belgariad recommended to me by an acquaintance. It was formulaic and predictable and I'm not sure I'll bother reading the rest of the series.
I also read the first two books in a series called The Hearts of the Children by Dean Hughes - This series is about an lds family in the 60s. It's really not bad, as far as Mormon fiction goes. The writing is a bit clumsy and heavy handed in the beginning chapters of the first book, but it gets better.
And right now I'm reading a book called Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brian Sanderson - I picked this book up because the cover art was pretty and a quote on the front said "Highly recommended to anyone hungry for a good read" or something to that effect. I'm always nervous when I pick up a new fantasy series because so many of them are exactly the same, but so far Mistborn has a been a pleasant surprise. Sanderson has invented a form of magic called 'Allomancy' in which some people are born with the ability to ingest various metals and use them to do things such as:
soothe another person's emotions or influence their behavior
make metal objects fly through the air toward them
enhance their physical strength
Enhance senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell)
and possibly other things as well. I'm not very far into the book and the subject of Allomancy has just recently been introduced.
Anyway. I kind of went off there, but I love it when I find such a new idea in a book. love it.
And if anyone wants to recommend more books to me I would be very grateful. I need some ideas. The last time I went to the library I just sort of wandered around and randomly pulled things off of the shelves... Which can be a good way to find new things, but only if you have time to wander. I usually only have a few minutes. Anyway. I'm open to just about any type, genre or style.
Well, the baby is waking up, so that's all the time that I have.
Ciao everybody.
P.s. The title of this post has nothing to do with the subject matter, it's just the lyric of a song that I was listening to at the time I wrote this.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pictures
Ryker Toone Melville was born at 7:02 p.m. on August 12th. He weighed 8lbs. 1oz. and was 21 inches long. We're all very glad that our baby boy is finally here!
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