Ice cream

So I sent Chad to the library to print off his paperwork so we can do taxes this afternoon, since we've procrastinated long enough. He leaves, and about 8 minutes later I look out the window and see that the car is still parked outside. I'm thinking to myself, "what could he seriously be doing in the car for this long?". So I call him and ask why he hasnt left yet. His response: "Oh....ummmm....I'm standing in line for the ice cream truck." Seriously?!?! I look over and see him standing with all the kids in line waiting for ice cream.

THEN another 5 minutes pass and he comes in the door with a bowl of ice cream, and says "here I got it for us to share, just leave me some i'll be back." YEA RIGHT! Of course after he gets busted he brings it up to share with me. At least he attempted to cover it up ;)

Happy Monday!!

Dylan broke our digital camera the other day and I swear I have picture withdrawls every time he does something cute! He was such a good boy today while I cleaned the house and organized his room. He played with his toys all day long and sat in his Thomas the Train tent with our dog, Shelby, and looked at his books. He did get into my colored pencils though. I found one chewed up and spread all over the living room rug. Atleast he stopped eating paper.

He finally got back on his regular sleeping schedule, only to awake the next morning to a daylight savings change. Of course that would happen. An hour shouldnt really make that much of a difference, but to a baby who has been on a time zone from the other side of the world it does. Now its 7:30pm and it looks like its 2 in the afternoon outside.

One thing I have enjoyed since we got back from our trip is the weather. It is such a change for only 2 weeks! Its beautiful. It would be nice if Arizona was like this all the time, a little warm instead of the equivalent to stepping inside a brick oven. But I tan faster in the Arizona weather and I'll take what I can get.

By the way, this is  picture of Dylan the day after we got home from our trip. He never falls asleep on the living room floor. He was obviously jet lagged.

Facts and memories

*When we were little my brothers and I were obsessed with playing "school". Sine I was the oldest I would always be the teacher. Once when we were playing in the backyard I found a rusty nail and carved names into our playground slide as I called them out and pretended to take attendance. Everytime we slid down, the carvings would hurt our butts and I was always terrified my dad would go out there and see that I had defaced our property until the day we moved.

*I hate heights and you will never get me to go on any rides that I can picture myself dying on.

*The past few weeks I have been trying to remember to go into our storage and get my bible because I couldn't for the life of me remember what some of the 10 commandments were. Everynight when I realize that I forgot again, I would pray and tell God I'm sorry and that I would get it tomorrow. I assumed by now he was tired of hearing it. My son got a daily bible for his birthday. I opened it up yesterday and flipped to the date, and it was on the ten commandments. I couldn't do anything but smile to myself.

* I love my husband more than anyone will ever understand. I could die today and still have lived a full and wonderful life all because of the short time I have been with him. I truly believe he was Gods plan for me.

*I probably take about 65 pictures of my son a day. I never want to forget anything.

*I really want a daughter and plan to start trying the day Chad comes home from Iraq.

*I am terrified of birds and cats.

*I dont do new years resolutions because everyday I try to be a better person than I was the day before, not just once a year.

*I have always had an obsession with even numbers. I chew my food an even number of times on both sides of my mouth, and take the same amount of steps on each food between the cracks in the sidewalk, even if I have to jump. I've been doing it since I was a little girl and I'm not sure where it came from.

*I love my family. Intermediate, extended, and by marriage.

*I will never forget the day I went up north with my family and fell head first into the little colorado river. My grandma had to pull me out by my hair. I remember jumping on my grandpas bed and telling him what happened, even though I was only like 3 at the time.

Trip home

We just got back from a much needed trip home. Dylan got to celebrate his first birthday, and get lots of love and attention from his family and friends who have missed him so much! Chad and I also enjoyed all the grandparents that kept him busy the whole time. It was a much needed break!

We were supposed to arrive on Monday the 7th, but accidentally drove to the wrong airport and missed our flight. Luckily the lady at the front desk felt bad for us and changed our tickets to the next day for free instead of charging us the 800 dollars it is supposed to cost. The next day we drove to the right airport, but our first flight was delayed 2 hours, so we ended up missing our connecting flight as well. We eventually did get there and then crammed as much in those two weeks as we could!

Family lunches and dinners, aloha festival, tattoos, zoo, family pictures, dylans birthday party, my birthday party, spring training game, shopping, a beautiful wedding and reception, bowling, movies, breakfast, lots of coffee, and ordered my bridesmaid dress for my best friends wedding.

It all went by WAY too fast. Dylan and I will be going back in 4 to 5 months, but the reasoning makes it bitter sweet, and i'm not so sure I want it to come as quick as everything else has. For now we're just going to be a family and live our lives. Try to do as much together as we can before we have to spend some time apart.

At the moment Dylan and I are getting mommy and baby time since its 2am and he wont sleep because he is now on Arizona time- thanks Dylan. Did I mention that today is my 21st birthday?

Just an update

These past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. We had a small celebration at home for Dylans first birthday where he got to shove cake in his face and wear a hat that he complained about the whole time. We started going to a couple playgroups and he seems to enjoy that even though he doesn't really interact with other kids yet he just does his own thing. Its more like an hour that I get to chase him around a big play yard than social time with other kids. But he seems to like it and I've also had the chance to make a couple of friends there and thats a definite plus.

We're getting ready to head back to the states for a couple of weeks to visit family and friends. I am hoping to get away from the depressing weather here for a little while, lets pray the cold doesn't follow us. I have decided that when we get back I am going to look for a job and a babysitter for Dylan. Mostly because 6 months of being trapped inside equals out to 10 to 15 extra pounds that really isn't needed and I would really enjoy some scenery other than the inside of this apartment.

I've been thinking about what to put in my next post for a while but I really don't have any interesting stories this time. Unless you want to hear about all the gross things Dylan has eaten lately but I'm pretty sure we already covered that a couple of times.