Danny and Christin's Big Day

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.

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!"

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??

Life is going great. We went up to Idaho to spend some time with our peeps Cassie and Taylor. We had a wonderful time. We went out to tepanyaki and then had cheesecake factory for dessert. Taylor didn't tell us he knew the manager of the tepanyaki and he got their whole meal for free. Punk. The next night we stayed up till 1am playing scrabble, which was a riot, though not as fun as playing pictionary I think. But who listens to me?


Apparently Madeline likes corndogs??

Chris graduated from paramedic school. Yipee! Now he isn't so grumpy. he also gets a $600/month raise, which is nice to get when tons of our friends and family are losing their jobs. Security is a hard thing to come by in these hard times.

Maddie has had an ear infection forEVER. We did 3 rounds of different antibiotics and it finally went away with the last one. For five days. Then is came back. So all the docs could do was start her all over with the first antibiotic again. So now we are taking her the chiropractor instead and it seems to have gone away. Though now I am sick with a cold and Caitlyn has a temp of 103.4 out for nowhere. Just can't catch a break.

Jessica Anderson Peterson Anderson came into town today. It's her bday and we are both sick. But we ate Cafe Rio and had a nice time just chillin. She is gonna live here in Daybreak by me now!! Fun summer ahead with daily pool lounging and nice walks and workouts together. Can't wait!!

So my friend Joy has this awesome hardbound book of her baby Paityn's first year of life and I LOVE it, and want one for my family, so in order to do it I guess I gotta start keep a blog. SO I am gonna try.

Caitlyn loves being a big sister. She rolls around with Madeline in her arms and makes her laugh. Maddie loves it when Caitlyn barks at her and she loves to grab her curly hair. Caitlyn is an awesome helper with all bathing, diaper changes, and even reads her little sister stories. I am so proud of Caitlyn.





Here Maddie is pictured with the "C" she stole from Caitlyn's name in the background. Caitlyn can now spell her name and even write it! I can't believe how much she is learning at Shauna's preschool. I am very pleased with that investment. Caitlyn just had her school Valentine's Day party yesterday and had a blast. I am pretty sure she just thinks it's some random candy holiday, but that's about all it is anyway, right?


There are some days I feel like an awesome mom.
This is one of them. I love the days that Caitlyn and I just play. When Maddie's down for a nap and Caitlyn is like my best bud. These are the mom moments I want to remember. And today I beat Caitlyn in Candyland for the first time! I tried not to celebrate too much.