Weird

This is a very weird combination of food but Joshua loved it. A small piece of cheddar cheese, one grape, and a small piece of honey ham lunch meat all wrapped together and eaten at the same time. Has any one tried this? I offered him a salad with grapes, cheese and lunch meat on the side. Michael and I were eating chef salads so I just kept his all separate. That is what he came up with. He is such a goofy kid. I ate a grape and piece of cheese and it tasted okay but I don't prefer my fruit with my cheese. Does anyone have any yummy fruit/cheese combo ideas that taste great?

I have heard of cheese with apples... but beyond that nothing.

What I have been thinking lately.

• Why does my son have to go to bed angry and wake up angry. Last night was horrible and the night before. Monday night was Bible study so we got home very late, and Joshua didn't get to bed until 9:30. It was finally 10pm when he did fall asleep and he was balling the entire time. He woke up a few times in the night very upset. I told Michael I am making sure I leave the Church by 8:30 no matter what so he can get to bed at a reasonable time and hopefully not be so crabby.
• I might start my own business selling my wood letters I make. A friend of mine a while ago suggested I start selling my wood letters I enjoy decorating. Just last week I made 6 letters (Hannah) for a friend of mine who is having a girl. I enjoyed it so much the thought came back into my mind that maybe I should make them by special order and sell them on the internet. The same friend who gave me the I idea, thanks Shannon, gave me the URL to a server that allows you to sell items on it and they don't ask for a penny from you. What a deal. All I would have to pay for are the credit card transactions, like a normal business would do. So I would LOVE prayer on this subject. I want to dive right on in and start it up but I also want to make sure this is GODS!!! will for me. I have jumped into things before with not much prayer and would really like God to back me up on this one first. I don't want to be miserable later.
• I want Christmas to get here so Michael will be done with the semester.
  
• My son is addicted to the television and it is very hard getting him off. Yesterday he watched a lot of TV and all afternoon he had a bad attitude and especially before he went to bed he did. A while ago he watched a lot of TV because we were sick and that evening he had a bad attitude. I think TV correlates with his bad attitude so I am cutting him off. I read an article that says children should get only 2 hours of screen time, movies, TV shows, computer games, and video games are all included. I think it is a good idea. So now in the morning he gets to watch "Super Why" a great reading show he loves to sing a long with and "Barney".
  
• I love going to my pre/postnatal exercise class. It is on Tuesday and Thursday nights for an hour. I am able to get together with other pregnant women about 11 or 12 and exercise. I love being able to see everyone grow, and being able to see their babies after they have them. I was in this class when I was pregnant with Joshua and loved it, I couldn't wait to start taking the class again.
  
• I want to feel our baby move. Like any pregnant women it is always amazing when you get to feel your baby move around. I especially want to feel the baby move since at my last appointment I didn't get to hear the heart beat. I know the doctor said everything is great but I am still concerned.
• I want my son to sleep past 7am even if it is only on Saturdays. No matter what time he goes to bed he still wake us up at 7am or before. I would love it if he would make that time become a little later.
  

These are somethings that have been on my mind as of late. I thought I would type them down to get them off my shoulders.

This weekend

We had such a good time in Gillette this weekend. We drove up at 4pm after Michael got off of work and arrived around 8:30pm. On Saturday afternoon we went to Michael's grandparents 40th wedding anniversary. We were able to see a lot of Michael's extended family, we had a lot of fun it was great seeing everyone again. That afternoon we ate dinner, watched a movie and played rock band with my very good friend Shannon and her husband. I also had a good time playing with their daughter Lydia, she has such a sweet personality and is a lot of fun.Thank you for the wonderful weekend Shannon.


Lydia.


Joshua being a goof ball


Lydia wearing a headband a flower clip I made for her.


Laughing at me bouncing up and down while she bounces up and down.

Halloween

Here is a picture of Joshua at the Halloween Safe Treat in the Wyoming Union. They had a cute background all decorated out, and someone taking free pictures for the trick-or-treaters. Joshua was a little afraid to get his picture taken of someone he didn't know dressed up and Mr. Incredible. He is such a cutie.




We still haven't found our camera yet, I have called many times and feel like giving up now. I might call once more and that will be all. We haven't bought a new camera yet either and don't know when we can afford it so sorry for the lack of new pictures. We are going to Gillette this weekend to see a friend of mine and I am sure she will take some pictures so I'll post those when I get them.

I hope you all are having a great week.

Picture tag

This is a picture from July 4th 2008 in Washington park. Joshua is jumping in a blowup trampoline. He loved this and wanted to jump on it over and over again. This is a really bad picture. Sorry.

It works like this...go to your pictures, select the sixth folder, and upload the sixth picture from that photo. Then tag six people!

I tag: Danielle, Shannon, Wiesje, Jamie, Katy, and Megan.

Christmas

Anyway. I started making a post about Christmas shopping with Joshua and then realized I had already posted about that day.

Yesterday we did go back and buy the $20 Christmas tree. I think it is the perfect size for our apartment and any other small apartment we have after this one. We also bought a tree topper. I don't think I'll need to get any Christmas decorations this year because we have a lot of Christmas ornaments from our wedding that I think will work with the tree. Joshua seems to think we should put our Christmas tree up today. He wanted to yesterday but I said no, then I said no about today. I am hoping I can have him wait until it is closer to Thanksgiving if not December 1st. I might get out the Christmas decorations and have him look through them. For family out there that want to buy a Christmas present for Joshua just give me an email and I can give you a list of what we think he would like and what we are giving him this year.

After we got the Christmas tree we went looking in the 50% discounted Halloween items. We bought a cow costume for our next baby and a pirate patch and earing for Joshua to play with, he enjoys being a pirate.

Well still no camera. I am going to call the Wyoming Union tomorrow to see if they have found one yet. Then I'll call the bus barn, I don't know if that is what it is called or not but you get the idea. Since we did take a bus to the Union I'll call to see if they found one. If not, it looks like unfortunately we will have to spend money on another camera and memory card. This will make it the 3rd camera we have had since we got married. The first we got for Michael's birthday from his parents, the screen somehow got cracked and we couldn't view the pictures we were taking any more. This one is lost. So sad, well I just pray that whoever found it will either return it or since what we own aren't ours but is God's I pray that some one is blessed with it and getting lots of use out of it.

For now, no pictures sorry.

We lost our camera

Yesterday was a great day. In the morning I went Christmas shopping with Joshua at Walmart. We first headed to the back where the Christmas decorations and Christmas trees are all lit up. We found a tree for $30 and I think we might end up getting it. It is a little tree I think it only stands about 3 feet tall, but I would love to have a tree this year (this would be the first time in our marriage to have a tree) and I think Joshua would really enjoy it. We just never had the space before this year for one. Then after looking at the decorations I asked Joshua if he wanted to look at the toys so he could tell me what he wanted for Christmas, "yes!" he said.

While in the toy section the first thing he spotted was a 'little Einsteins' piano, he enjoyed playing that and listening to the music. After that we went down another isle and he was very impressed with the collection of Playdough things, he wanted to take some home right away. Right next to that was a large doodle pad, one for the magnetic pen to write on then you can clear the image away. He wanted to take it out and play with it right there, his tiny one recently broke so I am sure he would LOVE to get something like that. Then he found something I remember growing up with I cannot remember the name of it but you look through it and you can change the picture you see. He first saw a picture of Dora and thought that was pretty cool. Then we went down another isle and he saw 'cars racing' thing I don't remember the name of it I did right the names of all the toys down but I don't feel like finding the list. He imediately started saying "two, be, go!!" over and over again. I put it in the cart just so I could read what it was called and when I put it back he was very sad. It was so much fun going shopping with my son, I am very much looking forward to Christmas and Joshua is too now. When I got home I told Michael there was a Christmas tree at Walmart I thought we should get, Joshua started talking abot Christmas in a very excited way. It was cute.

After Walmart we bought some bread and went to LaBonte park to feed the ducks. Joshua thought this was very cool. There is also a play ground near by so he played for a while. Then we went home.

At 4pm we took the UW bus to the Union for Safe Treat. It was so much fun, but a lot of people were there. I was very glad we didn't bring our stroller, there wouldn't have been room to push it. At the second table there were two bowls of candy. I told Joshua to go up to the table and hold up his basket while he says candy please. So he did. Then he noticed there was another bowl right next to that so he held out his hand and said Candy please again. It was so funny every one was laughing. He got a ton of candy and most likely won't be eating much of it at all.

After the Safe Treat we came home and I realized I didn't have our camera any more. I attached it to my purse but it must have fallen off. I checked the bus and the house and it was no where to be found. I am hoping that someone turned it into the Union office so I can get it back. I had a lot of pictures on there from this morning at the park, and of Joshua on the way to Safe Treat on the bus , and a picture of him and I and of Michael and Joshua in his costume on the camera. Please pray it shows up, SOON.

Once we checked the bus for the camera we decided to check the Union in the morning, at that time there still would have been a ton of people there at Safe Treat. So we drove to Pizza Hut for some wonderful pizza and hot wings. I wasn't too impressed with the hot wings and we probably won't be getting those again in the future but the pizza was great. Where we sat right behind our table was a bucket of blocks and a cute little picnic table for kids. Joshua had fun playing until our food came and I had fun talking with Michael, it felt like we were on a date.

Well I would normaly post pictures of our trip to the park and Safe Treat now, hopefully I can find our camera so I can post pictures later.