Awww out of the heat!

Hello everyone, this message is coming from amazing weather in Flagstaff! Since Jason left Thursday to come up hunting, my aunt invited us to stay at her cabin and then Jason just joins us at night to sleep.
Have fun in the torturous weather down south and I will see you soon, (hopefully, when Jason gets back, I will have lots of scrapbook days stored up). :-)

I'm sicky, hope you don't get sicky...

So like a century ago...ok four months ago, my amigas and I planned a 12 hour scrapbook day! We have been so excited and waited and waited for the day to come to ditch the fam and get caught up on some pages! Weeellllll, I woke up after a rough sleep night Friday (Sat morn) feeling quite gross and was in denial that I was maybe getting sick. I never get sick! Supposedly the lovely fever Logan had last week and slightly passed to Gavin more than likely turned into Strep throat for me

Well since I'm a true Scrapper (according to Tiff, hehe) I stuck out the 12 hour scrapfest and had a great time binging on sugar and Some Burros, and of course managed to get some pages done. I also managed to breathe those 12 hours all over my sweet innocent friends so I pray none of you got this gross stuff! Anyway, I HOPE I am almost done with it but my throat is still on fire and I am so wanting to be done with this by now. I even missed my Nana's Bday dinner at my parents on Sunday. The one and only time I am alone in my house with the world at my fingertips, I am sick and miserable so I basically tried to sleep while they were gone (would have rather have been scrapbooking...) Anyway, gotta try to sleep while the boys are asleep, Gavin has been a little pig at night lately (must be growing).

To my poor friends, I hope you are well and not hating me right now!!! :-)

Big Boy!

So today Gavin is 6 months old! I can't hardly believe it! Part of me thinks the last six months have gone so slow (ie. shoulde surgery and recovery which has been the last 3 months of his little life, not being able to hold him and take care of my kids or myself for that matter, was quite interesting) And then part of me thinks it has gone so fast, half a year is a long time and he is getting so big!

This morning when I went to get him, he was on his back! I have recently started putting him on his belly at bedtime and he is sleeping great through the night, so this morning when I went in and he was on his back I thought, FINALLY! I mean, he has rolled over a time or two before but has never been interested really, something tells me this little boy is a "go with the flow" kid. Which is great with me. AT least I finally have a milestone to put in his scrapbook, haha!

With my mom on Sunday, I started giving him a little rice cereal for the first time and he was so funny. For as ready as he has been to start solid foods, he certainly didn't gobble it up like I thought he would. In fact, he didn't even know to open his mouth, I had to wiggle the liquidy stuff into his mouth and then he just spit it out. So funny. He did do a little better yesterday so we will see what this afternoon brings for me!

At the end of this I will put a pic of Logan up of him pretending to use my breastpump! NICE! Is this going to traumatize him forever? haha maybe he will be more sympathetic to his wife someday, who knows!

Husband Tag, I'll be back Gavin is crying...

Husband Tag:
1. What is his name? Jason Robert Forward
2. Who eats more? Usually him but only because I make myself stop...usually!
3. Who said "I love you" first? He did
4. Who is taller? He is, not sure by how much though...
5. Who is smarter? Politically and Book smart? He is! Common sense? I am! He makes everything way to difficult
6. Who is more sensitive? Definitely ME!
7. Who does the laundry? I do but only because I am very particular and he has ruined my clothes before
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? We switched when I was pregnant so he does now
9. Who pays the bills? I do, again very particular I am about this stuff!
10. Who cooks more? He does!
11. What meals do you cook together? We help each other out and usually whoever cooked the most, the other cleans up. Except when Jason cooks he uses the whole kitchen so I have him help!
12. Who is more stubborn? Probably me, but he's a little stubborn too!! I agree for us too Tiffany!
13. Who is the first to admit they are wrong? We're both pretty reasonable at coming to a conclusion
14. Who has more siblings? We each have one. He has a sister and I have a brother
15. Who wears the pants in the relationship? I let him think he does!! :) amen!
16. What do you like to do together? Anything! Dates, talk eat vacation. I'll let him hunt alone though
17. Who eats more sweets? definitely ME!!
18. What is his guilty pleasure? McDonald's Fast Food, fast food, fast food. Cookies or snickers is his only sweet thing
19. How did you meet? Through a friend on Halloween first semester of college
20. Who asked who out first? He did, with his friends help, heehee
21. Who kissed who first? HE DID! Fiesta Mall parking lot haha
22. Who proposed? He did
23. His best features?His eyes (the way they crinkle when he laughs) his arms,
24. What is his greatest quality? Goal oriented and doesnt quit til he reaches it!
25. Tag: Brookly is the only one not tagged so you have to~!

Busy Bee or OCD?

Well, I have been quite busy lately...when I get something in my head that needs to be done, I can't stop til it's done! I have had the idea lately to start getting Logan out of his crib. First off, he has never climbed out (well he FELL out once and has never done it since) but the poor lad is starting to run out of room. Especially since he has to sleep with 500 "friends", his fave book of choice and a blanket. Dear Mercy me...
anywoo, the past couple weeks I have been on craigslist, ebay and every bedding site under the sun to decide what I wanted to do to make his "big boy room" something he would love for years to come....(drum roll please...)
I found the bed set on craigslist, practically new since it was just their guest bedroom and although I am really creeped out usually by used mattresses, this one is virtually brand new, (not gross, and very comfy)! Besides after Jason and I went "new" mattress shopping and saw how muy expensive mattresses are we thought...when he's older we'll get him a superb one that he can take with him when he's outta here someday!
So, the bedset was pine, I painted it til midnight for two days (thank God for the recent beautiful weather) and I am very happy with how it turned out!

Fun in the pool!

So Happy 4th of July everyone! Yesterday we went to my in-laws and went swimming for the first time this summer! How sad my kids have seriously been deprived. With a gimpy arm there has been NO WAY I could handle two kids in the pool so we hadn't gone yet. We put Gavin in the pool for a little while, he looked so cute in his suit! I love it when they are so little that you can put nerdy hats on them and they have to comply...tee heee.
Logan was so fun swimming, we worked with him on kicking and blowing bubbles and he did really well. He even went underwater, (hated it but didn't cry)...Logan is like me in that he HATES getting his face wet, he and I are such wimps.
Last night we had our neighbors over for a "grill out". According to my Ohio neighbor, it isn't a BBQ (ahem, Tiffany...) it's a grill out since it says grill on the outside apparently. Whatever I say, as long as there is yummy food I will be there!

Okay so poor Logan looks slightly dorky with his hat, but...it was HOT and my kids are TERRIBLY WHITE. Those two together makes me a nerdy mom whose kid swims in a shirt and a nerdy hat! Maybe someday he'll thank me when they don't have skin cancer. :-)

Here I am!

Hey fellow blogging friends! I am finally jumping on the bandwagon of blogging (again)! I think it's such a fun way to keep in touch and write down those cute memories of our kids that we would otherwise forget! It's always the little things that make us look back and have fond memories right? So here I am, I am trying to make a cute page so I may be calling one of you to see how it all works...Creative or somewhat creative blog to follow...hehe