Thursday, February 11, 2010

Where do babies come from?

So today Caitlyn had her buddy Jonas over and they played "doctor" for like an hour while they just took turns sticking a baby doll up their shirts while they lied on the floor on their backs and the other one delivered it. Caitlyn starts saying to Jonas that babies come out of your bum and Jonas starts arguing with Caitlyn that babies come out of your stomach. So they call me in to tell them who was right and I just had to say, "Whatever Jonas's mom said is true." Caitlyn and I will clarify the details later. Phew.

And we ordered our NEW CAMERA today!! It will arrive in 6-10 days and I can't wait. We decided on the Canon Powershot sx20 IS. I bought a refurbished one for $319 with free shipping. It comes with a one year warranty so why not? And then I got a new 16 GB memory card on ebay for $38. Killer deal. And then of course, we get Lowe Pro bags for wholesale, so I got me one of those for super duper cheap. WHOO HOO! Now I can finally get some new pictures of my family up. Well, not now, but in 6-10 days.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Square Dancing

Today Caitlyn spent the morning packing a temple bag for her and Madeline. She pretended they were both going to the temple and left the house, stood on the back porch for a while, and then came back in. I asked her what she did at the temple and she said "square dancing!"

Friday, February 5, 2010


Long time... So Chris is in school fulltime and hating it. But he just needs to hang in there and then he will just have one more semester left till he graduates in Public Emergency Services Management. He has to have a degree to be able to test for Captain in 4 years. When his degree is done I get to go back and finish MINE! I am in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition at the U. I also happen to love school and can't wait.

We also started the Dave Ramsey "Total Money Makeover" thanks to the Maggiora's. It's been 8 weeks and we have made some huge changes and some nice headway. We are working to be out of debt in less than 4 years. Learning to negotiate prices was the most awesome thing I learned so far. It's so fun to get stuff for less than I used to.

Kristina Carter and Beka Madsen taught me how to price match, look through ads, and buy coupon on ebay, so I just had my first WalMart price-matching experience and saved over $85. Pretty dang proud of myself.

I am supposedly training for my first half marathon, but training is so stressful with the guilt of leaving the kids and putting that burden on Chris. Long runs are like 90-120 minutes and I just can't spend that kind of time on myself. I still have a few times, but getting up early is a real pain when maddie is up all night teething. So I have only run once in the past 2 weeks. I am going today though. Just a 5 mile.

Also we are in the market for a new digital camera and a new computer (thank you tax credit...). Anyone have any recommendations? We are thinking of the Canon Powershot D10 cause it's waterproof and shockproof and since we like to take our cameras to the beach and rockclimbing, I thought it was a good plan. As far as computers, Chris is digging the HP Touchpoint. We like the all in one concept. Feedback??