My Garden Grows

My Garden is growing! Hooray! These sunflowers were the ones I planted from seeds and now they are blooming and beautiful. I also have some tomatoes and strawberries growing. So far, no bell peppers, but I do have flowers, so hopefully we'll get some. The Jalepenos are doing great in the upside down grower. We're trying one tonight with tacos. I'll let you know how that goes... I love my sunflowers, though! I'm so pumped that I can actually grow something.

I...

I am: wife, mom, daughter, sister and nursing student.

I know: even though school is the hardest thing I've done, it will be worth it!

I want: to eventually become a midwife.

I have: to go to the library here in a minute.

I wish: that nursing school won't be as hard as I'm thinking it will be...

I hate: loud chewing.

I miss: Germany.

I fear: not living to my full potential.

I hear: Baby Bach and Liam's singing. So cute!

I smell: Vanilla Bean Noel lotion that I just put on.

I crave: mint dark chocolate three musketeers!

I search: constantly for my cell phone.

I wonder: how I will ever survive having more than one child.

I regret: eating that whole sandwich at lunch-- I hate being too full.

I love: the gospel and my Savior.

I care: about everyone.

I always: read before I go to bed.

I believe: in eternal life.

I dance: with my kidlet.

I don't always: keep my plants watered like I should.

I fight: over silly things.

I write: in my blog and scrapbooks.

I lose: bobby pins, constantly.

I win: because I have a wonderful hubby.

I never: am without my camera.

I listen: to a bit of everything.

I am scared: not succeeding in nursing school.

I need: A massage

I am happy about: my life.

I tag: Anyone.

The Next Bubble Boy...

Why the next bubble boy, you ask? Well, here is the story...
So, my sister invited us to go on an improptu camping adventure this weekend. My parents agreed to go, so we threw everything in the car on Thursday night and headed up Friday. It was kind of a crazy week, since I had been working all week, but we were all excited. We went up to Bocca Reservoir, which is right near Truckee. The minute we drove up, Liam shouted, "Lake, yay! Boat, yay! Papa's boat, yay!" He was beyong himself with excitement. We got everything set up and took a quick spin in the boat that evening. It was beautiful. The air was clear and it was cool and refreshing after a hot week. Surprisingly, Liam went to sleep pretty easily and slept great in the tent. We enjoyed the evening, looking all dorky and what not with the head lamps for reading and roasting marshmallows for s'mores. The next morning, we were up bright and early so the guys could go fishing. Unfortunately, no fish. We had a fun morning and Liam enjoyed getting VERY dirty(you can see in the pictures...it was very dusty!) We had to run to Truckee for a few things and then went back to camp, where we sent Liam swimming with Daddy, Titi, and Izzy. I went and did my first real photo shoot up at anothe camp-turned out pretty well... My mom went with me and we came back to camp to a screaming Liam. He was beyond tired. He had broken out in hives everywhere. He wanted nothing. I tried putting some steroid creme on his legs for the excema and allergic reaction, but he screamed more. I was getting worried that something was really wrong. So, we headed home. He didn't even want clothes on. He was asleep before we left the park. It was a bummer to leave, but we needed to. He slept long and hard last night, but his eyes were all swollen this morning. He also has scratch marks every where from his incessant itching. But he is slightly better... Wes said he's going to have to be the next bubble boy with all of allergy problems. It's such a bummer because I really have been wanting to get things under control. Hopefully we'll get the allergy mess figured out soon. Poor guy. Anyway, here are pictures from the first night and day. I can't put captions because blogger is being weird again and won't let me see the photos, but there is more... We went back for a second day!













Day TWO:
Let's try this again. :) We went back to camp this morning to get our stuff together and let Liam go out on the boat again. All of Liam's long pants were dirty, so we put him in some overalls. Wes affectionally referred to him as "Huck Finn" the entire day. I guess it's time for some new jeans. But, Liam didn't seem to mind. He had a great time this morning. We took a boat ride. I think we need to get Liam a water bed. He seems to sleep easily in the boat. :) It was a bummer we had to pack up and leave, but we had a good time this morning. Hopefully next time will be better, allergy wise.

More Twilight Movie Fun!

Check these out!
It's a scene from the movie. I like it, although there is no dancing in the book! It captures Bella's true awkwardness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLES_OZxCi8&fmt=18
And another official preview. Ahhhh I'm so excited for December 12!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw3oIe4WgGI

The Official Birthday Party Post!

I've been promising it, so here are the million and a half pictures from Liam's super fun party! Some might be repeats from the quick post, so I apologize ahead of time. Here I am at about 9pm the night before slaving away on the cake. I wish I had taken a pic of Erica and I with the masterpiece. :)

Here Liam is with Nana with his very own 'park' he got from them. He calls it "Liam's Park."
Aunt Pam feeding the kids their 'octopus dogs' and 'starfish cheese.'
Sweetheart
Liam enjoying his octopus.

Weeee!!!!
The kids LOVED the water balloons!
Fun Party!
Lots of lovely party gifts from everyone.
Liam had to take a break from presents to eat some fruit snacks in Nana's presents.

So happy that everyone is singing to him!
:( :( Taking my beautiful cake apart.
Owen was sooo cute. He was jumping up and down with excitement chanting "cake! cake! cake!" Such enthusiasm deserved the first piece.
Cake and calmari
Alli being so sweet and helping the little boys down the slide.

Liam giving Owen a hug.
Izzy LOVED the balloons. She was giggling so much.
Cute Cousins
And finally, papa giving Liam his bath after such a super fun party!

Bits of This and That

As previously stated, Liam and I headed to my parents' house this past weekend so I could get some scrapbooking done. We would get stuff together in the mornings, then head to the park for a picinic so Liam could get all of his energy out and take a good long nap in the afternoon so we could get some work done. One day we went to the swimming pool park that I played in many, many times as a kiddo. It was fun watching the kids in swimming lessons, etc, and I'm excited to get Liam going on some lessons, too.
Here he is with Papa at the park, reaching for the sky. He loved riding the merry-go-round with Nana. I think Nana got a bit dizzy though.

He also loves that he can ride the bigger swings now. Weeeee!
Helping Nana with Papa's sheep page.

This is how he spent another afternoon right outside the kitchen door while we scrapbooked right by the door. We forgot his trunks, but oh well, no minds nakedness here! haha He was in Heaven.
Back home. Yesterday we went wild picking raspberries on our bush. Liam LOVED them, if you couldn't tell. He ate the whole bowl.

And seriously enjoying the homemade popscicles I made. I just took some yogurt and pureed some peaches and bananas and chunked some peaches. Add some lemon juice to keep it fresh and VOILA! yummy, healthy, summery snacks! Who wouldn't love this face?