SAGURO LAKE

So I have been begging Rachel to take us out to the lake, I LOVE THE LAKE, so she did Saturday! It was all us girls and Todd. We had quite the group so we had to beach it for the most part, which come to find out was A OK for me. I had a rough time on the boat in fact the only time I was on the boat was when we got picked up from the dock and getting dropped off at the dock.

I was jealous of Faith and her tube time, I usually rather enjoy getting thrown around like a rag doll! The kids had a lot of fun swimming, eating and playing on the tube and the occasional trip on the boat!

So I was standing there minding my own business trying to help Todd. It was super hot and my swimming top was black so my belly was burning so I pulled it up over the baby bump, why not we are back in a cove no one but family, when my photo happy sisters think it's a great idea to take a picture of it. As I was sure it wasn't the prettiest pic. I wasn't that happy about it, when Todd starts wanting to compare (or mock), I then felt a little better about myself!

So I really am not poking fun, I mean he did POSE for the pic. and his wife did TAKE the pic. so no harm done, but I have no problem poking a little fun at myself! This next pic is what we now in my family like to call the up and coming Tsunami...

Now if you can't tell or don't get why we call it the tsunami, well sorry!

Justin came just in time to not miss out on all the fun, luckily daddy came or Paris would have had to go out on the boat (tube) all on her own because mommy wasn't gonna be able too!
THANKS FOR A GREAT TIME AT THE LAKE! LET'S DO IT AGAIN SOON, or maybe next summer when I'm not the beached whale!

I so wish I had better or any pics of the all us girls with my camera!

Summer time sum sum summer time!

This morning my niece and nephew had one heck of a lemonade stand! We (paris and I) were prepped for it yesterday so it was something paris couldn't wait to do! So I told her she had to do something for me so she could earn some money to buy that ice cold lemonade, cookies and otter pops! So she got up this morning and asked if she could sweep our walk way...

What a great kiddo! She did her part so off we went. We got there not too long after they first popped up their umbrella and they already had a lot of customers. Paris was so excited, we even got there at the same time as Hayden and Ethan!

We got 1 otter pop, 2 cups of lemonade & 3 cookies ALL for just 1.75! I ate ALL the cookies and drank most of the lemonade and paris did just fine on her otter pop. Well Paige and Taylor you 2 must have done an amazing job 30 DOLLARS later! (Is it weird to be 27 & doing a lemonade stand, they make more than I do!)

I REST MY CASE

Tonight I was asking Justin what he wanted for dinner and he responded with spaghetti. Normally I am a spaghetti fan but since pregnancy not so much but Paris loves it so I thought why not...

For anyone who knows me pretty good knows I don't really like red meat. Although I have been trying to do much better the occasional hamburger or the ground hamburger in the spaghetti sauce (for justin) but I try to get like the leanest meat I can find!

So we are all sitting around the table eating and paris is next to me and has this disgusting look on her face so I ask her what is wrong and she says "there is something hard between my teeth" I have always known and been very aware of this in the meat but when I mention it to others I always get the "your weird" look, so I just stopped eating it.(i know it's just the fat, STILL) But when she said she had something hard I immediately started to gag. Justin tells me to relax, so I am trying to pull myself together while J is telling her to just eat it, which makes me gag more! So I tell her to spit it out (I meant in the trash) so she does which lands on her leg than she picks it up and puts it on her plate. WHY AM I THE ONE NEXT TO HER!?! Well I finally regain my composure and continue to eat, NOT EVEN KIDDING the very next bite I took there was a fatty piece of meat! I know J thinks I over reacted so I TRY to play it cool, k I will just try to spit it out, put it on my plate and be done. Well my MISTAKE I looked at it, GAME OVER, I was in the bathroom within seconds with my head in the toilet! Needless to say I am probably back to not eating red meat for the next few years or more!

ESPECIALLY FOR YOU MARISSA!

SO ALL I WANT TO SAY IS... FOR THE LOVE! I KNOW I JUST SAW YOU GUYS A COUPLE DAYS AGO BUT I FORGOT IN THE MOMENT EVEN THOUGH I HAD EVERY INTENTION OF YELLING AT YOU THEN! ; ) BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THAT I DID LEAVE MY EMAIL WITH YOUR NON PRIVATE BLOG, THEN YOU WENT PRIVATE, AND I AM STILL NOT INVITED TO YOUR BLOG! JUSTIN IS STARTING TO WONDER IF YOU HATE US! ; ) SO IF BY SOME CHANCE YOU READ MY BLOG ANYMORE, THIS IS ME APPARENTLY BEGGING TO BE LET INTO YOUR LIFE, YOUR BLOGGING LIFE! (yeah i know i will probably see ya this weekend or sometime soon, but this was a little more fun for me)

THANKS BOYS!

My nephew Taylor and his cousin Austin helped me advertise for my salon. They strapped on their roller blades and taped my flyers onto peoples garages. Paris helped too she pulled the tape and passed on the flyers to the boys out the window. She started getting a little restless and wanted to blade and stick a flyer on a garage like the big kids. So Taylor being the great cousin that he is said that he would help her...

First house she was a little rocky but the boys were sure to hold on and let her stick the flyer on. She was so proud, thanks boys you both were awesome. Second time she thinks she is pro and wants to do it all by herself!

Boys thanks for being patient with Paris, and for getting ALL the flyers done! I guess it's a little better in teams eh Taylor!

SU....SUPRISE!

Rachel woke in a great mood thurs morning (my moms bday) and threw a spontanous trip together for my moms birthday. With in 4 hours Rachel, Faith and I got rid of our kids, convinced our hubbies to take over for the night, got meals planned, grandma in on the surprise and we were up in payson just in time for a fabulous BBQ dinner! It was great seeing moms reaction, and fun seeing grandma play such a great part. This was true girls night! We played cards, had fun girly chatter late into the night (i think grandma took the later hour better than i did) we woke had a fantastic breakfast, enjoyed the weather outside on the porch and then it was time to go back and get our children. Back to reality! HAPPY BDAY MOM, YOU DON'T LOOK A DAY OVER...35! LOVE YA

LOL!!!!

A few days ago Justin and I were talking and we were trying to figure out what Paris wanted for lunch. Justin says to her do you want a wiener and Paris kinda giggled and I said a "wiener" is another funny name for "hot dog" daddy likes to use. And as the conversation was happening I thought, wonder how long that one is going to take to come back around...


TONIGHT Justin was using the bathroom and not shutting the door in true manly fashion & Paris walks down the hall...
Paris -daddy why are you using the hall bathroom?
Daddy- I dunno it was closest.
Paris (kind of stutters)-Well when your done "hot dogging" it come to my room!
& walks out!

Reality In Perspective

So Paris loves to take pictures of anything and everything, as we were leaving today she was snappin shots and took one of me. When I went back to look at the picture my first thought was holy crap I'm HUGE! MIRRORS ARE SO DECIEVING! Then my second thought was seriously I don't think I was any bigger than what I am NOW when I HAD PARIS! And then putting time into perspective, I am just about 6 months, if this was my pregnancy with Paris this would be over in 9 WEEKS! Then reality hits and they are watching me pretty good this time, so I will probably go full term, which means I have 19 weeks to go! Man I'm gonna be GIGANTIC!

TAKING MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS

I swear I have been doing nothing but clean this house for the past week! But here's the deal... Justin has only 2 jobs around this house, dishes after dinner and trash when its full! Well he has been home "sick" the past 2 days and he thinks that in titles him free of EVERYTHING! So after dinner last night he didn't do dishes and I didn't do dishes! Needless to say they were still in there the following night (IT'S THE PRINCIPLE) so Paris decided that she was tired of seeing the dishes in the sink & piling up so.....

We didn't even know till we heard the water running and we went in there to yell at her to turn it off! She just turned to me and said I LOVE YOU! DANG SHE'S CUTE!

SWIMMIN BY END OF SUMMER!

For the past couple days all I have been doing is cleaning and trying to organize this house, which seems never ending! Paris, needless to say is quite bored and sick of sitting in the house! Faith and the boys left to Pine so we thought we would go over there and use their pool while they were away! And yeah as this is normally not something exciting to post about, this time it is! Paris was so eager (and has been begging me) to try swimming with out a life vest or floaties! Since the water had been too cold for me to get in this is all she has been getting. But today was hot and she was by her self in the pool and I thought now would be a good time to see what she can do!

Well the first couple times she swam to me she kind of panicked, but with in minutes she was swimming almost no problem! She was awesome! By the end of the hour she was swimming by herself to the noodle in the middle of the pool!

WOW I am shocked! By end of summer Jonah won't be able to leave her behind on the step! Way to go Paris, Mommy couldn't be more proud!

Follow up to name post

So the names have been narrowed down to three...

RYDER is on top but,

River and Hawk are still in the running!

Thanks to you all who have played along and gave your imput!

YOU ROCK SUCKA! (lol)

(for now) FOR THE MOST PART, ITS DONE!!!!

I AM SO PROUD OF MY MAN! We have always talked about how we would like to be productive and remodel a ran down house, well we got the oppertunity sooner than we thought! Because we have never attempted such a chore we were a bit reluctnant to take on the challenge not sure we could do it! And as it certainly hasn't been easy it has really done us BOTH good to do the labor work! AND A HUGE THANK YOU MY DAD, KAREN AND DAMON (& Justin really did get a lot of volunteers to help us out) TO BRAD & EMMY, JESSE, JOSH, REX & LU (and girls) JOE, TYLER, RYAN, todd!Mara & faith for babysitting! I MUST SAY THOUGH THE" MVB" (most valuable brother) GOES TO BRAD (& Emmy) they were the first ones there and the last to leave, I think the first weekend we worked on the house they spent probably 30 HOURS in 3 days! And just about the same on the 2nd weekend ALL THE WHILE NEVER COMPLAINING & A SMILE ON THEIR FACE! "that's what family is for" as Brad would say while sincerely meaning it! WOW our THANKS just isn't enough!



FLOORING- 15OO dollars

PAINT FOR AN ENTIRE HOUSE- 1000 dollars

FAMILY THAT IS THERE TO HELP - *PRICELESS*


OH and Justin has found out just how to turn me on! Nothing is better than watching Justin sweat and not by playing sports! ; )