Prunes

I think I am in a state of denial that Luke is growing up. And because of that I do dumb things. The other day I left a thing of prunes in front of him for 5 seconds thinking 'he doesn't have the coordination to grab hold of that thing'. This was the messy result....






This is Luke hoping that there were some remains of his prune mess to lick off the tray-too cute!

LOST questions

Ever since season 5 of Lost ended me and Todd have been on a mission to try to solve some mysteries. We enlisted my sister, Laurel to re watch the entire series with us and we've been keeping a list of questions/observations we have after watching it all again.


So, we want to know what mysteries you have solved/ what questions you still have. We are building up our list so that when the last season plays we will have a list to check off. And if we watch that last episode and still have questions on our list....I don't know what will happen. Maybe it'll be a sign of the apocalypse or something.

Getting closer to the dream...

So, a couple years ago my sister and I decided that we wanted to open a cake business! We were so confident! I offered to make a cake for my niece's first birthday party. I was so excited, but it didn't turn out quite right.
The eyebrows on that bear...oh man, I felt so bad!

But I think we're slowly getting better, this cake was a lot of work, but it was so cool to see the finished product, and it tasted amazing too!

Little wiggles

It's amazing, as a parent, how exciting it is when your child makes even the smallest amount of growth. Yesterday Luke was laying on his little play mat and he wiggled himself around 90 degrees! It seems like the smallest most insignificant thing, but we were so excited about it! This little baby, who just three months ago, couldn't do a thing for himself is now learning how to get around on his own.

I have never understood our Heavenly Father's love for us quite the same as I do now that I have a child. I like to think that He is proud of us in the same way. Maybe today I learn how to be a little more self reliant, or I put a little bit more of my time into service for others, I could be wrong, but I think even those small, seemingly insignificant amounts of growth make our Heavenly Father happy, and make him beam with pride that we are His children.

The thought just gives me courage to keep going even if it feels like I'm not really getting anywhere. Today it's a 90 degree turn, but tomorrow it's a first step. It may take a while, but we keep progressing and over time we will be able to see how far we've come!

Dare Devil

I learned how to ski when I was 6ish. My parents started us young. But in my whole skiing career I have never been on a black diamond run! The 'scariness', if you will, of the ski slope is rated by three different shaped and colored signs. A green circle is the easiest, blue square is medium, and black diamond is the...SCARIEST! Today I conquered a black diamond run! Why now, as opposed to years ago when I didn't have a child to raise and a husband to take care of...yeah, I don't know either. P.S. A black diamond isn't as bad as a double black diamond, there was no risk of death involved-trust me.

Family Pics.

Todd's sister Angela took these pictures for us. We LOVE them! If you happen to live in the Seattle area, I HIGHLY recommend her. And if you don't...pay for her to come to you-it's worth it!=)

Goals

I have been inspired by some of my family members goals, so I decided to make some goals myself. I constantly have goals, and I usually do pretty good at achieving them, but I write them in a word doc. and never look at them, so this time I thought I'd post them so that I feel a little more accountable to get them done. Here they are...

My 90 day goals, Feb 24- May 24

Spiritual

-Write in journal once a week

-'Daily 4' every day (prayer, scriptures, exercise(pilates 3x, Leg kicks 3x), get ready)

-Get activity days planned 4 at a time at least 2 weeks before they happen

-Get rough draft of lesson done 2 weeks before

-100% Visiting Teaching

-Start marking scriptures as I study them

Financial

-Get tax info completely organized

-Start a CD

Homemaker/mom

-Hold/play with Luke at least 5 of the 8 hours from 9am to 5pm

-Find 3 new recipes a week on F.N. (add to already collected recipes to make 60 by end of 90 days)

-Make dinner 6/7 days

-Make 1 new dessert a week to practice my baking skills

-Me + Todd do chores 40 min a day to keep house clean

Personal

-Get caught up on 365 scrapbook and do new pages every 2 weeks

-Do 3 photoshoots

-Watch 3 photoshop trainings and take notes

-Go to bed at 9:00 5 nights a week

-Normal scrapbook pages, 1 every 2 weeks (6 total by end of 90 days)

-Add post to family history blog once a week (Luke, zebras & baby brother)

-Send birth announcement

-Do a semi intense project for 3 different people over 90 days

-Do nice things for Todd (aside from dessert) once a week

I intend to accomplish all of these, but if I find that I can't pay enough attention to my family while trying to get all this done, then I will start dropping the least important ones, until I can be the wife and mom I need to be. Wish me luck!!!