Sexy Boots!!!

Londynn loves the song Sexy Boots by U2, so when she put on my boots that's the first thing that came to my mind. This is the first time she's tried these babies on and I couldn't help but laugh. I told her I wanted to take her picture and I got all sorts of poses.

Here she thought I was taking her picture, so I caught her dancing. Sorry about the bad video my camera is on it's way out. booo

Of course this would only happen to me

Why does it seem you always run into someone you know when you're looking your worst? Okay so today it wasn't someone I know but probably worse. I have a bad habit of running my errands right after I get done at the gym. So if you can picture this I was in shorts (shorter shorts than I usually like to wear to the gym because lets be honest my legs are far from perfect). I had no make up on and was sweaty (because I am actually one those people who sweat when I work out). Not a pretty picture. I had this great idea to run to a local farmers market to pick up some veggies (because my garden absolutely SUCKED this year) before going home so I wouldn't have to run out later with both kids. I get in there and start bagging my veggies and a lady approaches me and tells me that she is with the Salt Lake Tribune and they are doing an article on this particular farmers market and asks me if it is okay if she takes some pictures of me while I am shopping. What am I supposed to say? Sorry I look like crap so no? Okay that's what I should have said but I'm to nice. I agreed and while I continued to shop and she continued taking pictures of me I was regretting my decision. The only thing running through my mind is "I hope she's far away enough that you can't see my cottage cheese" and many other similar thoughts.

As I was paying for my stuff I thought maybe people won't recognize me because she never asked me for my name. Yeah right. As I was walking out she stopped me and asked me my name and Bostons name. I'm just hoping nobody reads the papers anymore!!!

Weekend getaway

My brother Brad recently returned from his mission and our family wasted no time on planning a little getaway with everyone. This last weekend we headed to Logan and Bear Lake for some play. It's pretty sad but this was the kids first stay at a hotel and they actually surprised us and did pretty well. They drove us crazy but they did sleep. We drive us thursday afternoon and met everyone at Maddox for dinner. Yummy!! We can't drive through Brigham City without a stop at Maddox.

Friday morning woke up and headed to Bear Lake. We had reserved waive runners for the day and they did not disappoint. It was a bit chilly that day (we were lucky if it hit 65) but we didn't let the cool weather dampen our day. We were just happy we didn't get rained on. We actually found that it was a bit warmer to hang out in the water than it was to hang out on the beach. After playing in the water all day we of course had to stop and get a raspberry shake. Oh and were they good!! That night we all went to dinner as a family. Anyone else feel that vacations are usually planned around where and what you are going to eat? I swear all we did was eat.

Saturday we woke up to rain, which kind of put a damper on our canyon plans. Instead we headed to the pepperidge farms outlet and then to some fun center for arcade games, laser tag and a game of bowling. Of course that was followed by lunch out and a pizza place. I think we all rolled out of there. By this time we were beat and it was past the kids nap time. We decided to call it good and headed home. It was a fun and tiring weekend.

Kids hanging out in the hotel

Boston for some reason thought the dirt tasted good

Londynn trying to stay warm and have a snack

Kelsey and Boston

Bryton

Boston thought the lockers at the bowling alley were fun entertainment. He could actually crawl in and turn around and almost get the door closed.

Jared and Boston at dinner

I heart London

No self esteem issues at our house!!!

Bad mom?

Does it make me a bad mom when my almost 4 year old gets in the face of my 2 year old and teases him, so he smacks her in the face and I just stand back and watch? I say she deserves it after all the teasing she does to him.

Kirby- the salesperson from HELL

Ever had a kirby sales person knock on your door? I have. The first time they came to my door about a year ago they came into my home and shampood my living room floor, for free. It looked amazing and the vacuum was pretty amazing too; however, priced at over $1500 there was no way I was going to buy one. The sales person wasn't to pushy, gave me her speech and cleaned my carpet and left. She stayed maybe 45 minutes tops. Well when they knocked on my door again today I thought sweet, they are going to clean my carpet again. Boy was I mistaken. I let them in because they said they would clean my carpet for free. All I would have to do is suffer through there sales pitch again, which as I remember wasn't to bad. When they showed up at my door it was 4:45pm. The girl said they were just finishing up another house and would return in 15 minutes. Fine no big deal plenty of time to get the carpet cleaned and dinner started before Jared returned from work. They showed up at 5:00 and started there sales speech. Of course he had to go through each and every attachment and show what an awesome thing it was and how it would save me "money and time" buying this product. He cleaned, my blinds, the sliding door, my ceiling fan, my kitchen floor, my carpet and then asked me if I would take him to the nearest bed mattress. My first thought was "are you kidding me" you didn't just ask me to take you to my bedroom or any other room in my house for that matter. Of course I'm to nice and really didn't say anything and after a moment of hesitation I took him to Londynns room. He started cleaning her mattress and after a second I could smell something was burning. I totally forgot that she has a plastic covering over her mattress and if he continued doing what he was doing it would melt this covering. I told him that I got the picture and he didn't need to do anymore but he insisted that if he didn't do a mattress then he wouldn't get credit for doing my house. He asked if he could do another mattress. I was a sucker and took him to my mattress. He showed me all the dust mites that I have been sleeping with and we returned to my living room. It's now 6:15 and kids are hungry, jared is stuck at work and I'm stuck with this stranger in my house. He continued to show me the "magic" this thing did. Finally after being in my home for two hours and asking for a drink, asking to use my cell phone, using the bathroom and another guy showing up at my door trying to give me the sales speech, I told him that I still had things I needed to get done tonight and could he please just shampoo my carpet and wrap things up. When all was said and done he left my house at 7:30 and only shampood half of the carpet. Are you freaking kidding me? Even if I wanted the vacuum and had planned on buying one, just the fact that you stayed at my house for 2 1/2 hours and wasted my time (and his) would have changed my mind about buying one. Never again will I let a Kirby sales person in my home.....and neither should you!

The weekend

Our weekend was full of activities as I'm sure everyone else's was. Friday night was our neighborhood block party/barbeque. Saturday was a picnic in the park with my side of the family and later that night was a barbeque on Jareds side of the family. Tonight just our little family hung out. We decided to head up the canyon for a little picnic and stroll around silver lake. We quickly discovered that we came unprepared and found that if we spent much time outside we were going to get eaten alive. The mosquitos were thick. Being the great photographer that I am the only pictures that were taken the whole weekend was our little trip up the canyon tonight, and even then only 4 pictures were taken. Fun times!!

We had a little visitor join us on our picnic.