11 Months

Today Steven is 11 months old! I cannot believe that a month from today my little boy will be a whole year old! It seems like just yesterday we were in the hospital with him but at the same time it feels like I've known him forever. He's still not walking on his own but I just know he'll let go one day & be zooming. There are not a ton of new pictures but enjoy them anyway :)

Steven gets pretty sweaty in the car because he air conditioning can't get to him directly. So one of those days when he was majorly sweaty I just messed with his hair & this is what came out. I love it! :)If only I could get his hair to look this way every day!
Josh & Steven at Josh's parents' house.

If Steven were a girl I'd do this hair style like very day! Somehow he has learned how to fold his arms already He also likes to get food on his hands & then rub them all over his face, eyes, & hair
I so love this picture!
Steven playing nicely while I helped my brother moveSteven & IWhile Josh was in Missouri, his mom took me out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. So yummy! (Thanks, Rhonda!!) Josh's dad, Steve, watched Steven for me while we ate. They love each other! :)

For some reason Steven thinks it's fun to push himself backwards on the floor

Addendum

I just wanted to put a little post script to the previous entry. I should've put this in there before! Anyway, I just want to say to all my friends that are military wives that I so admire you guys! I know to you 2 weeks seems like nothing & I don't know how you do it when your husbands are gone much longer! I don't know if I could do it & I admire your courage and strength. So yeah, 2 weeks may seem like a long time to me, but I just want to say kudos to you gals who have to go through so much longer! Love you guys :)

Misery

Tomorrow morning (very, very early) Josh is flying to Missouri for two weeks. Why is he going, you ask? For work, of course! I never thought I'd say that... One of their current clients who has land in Utah recently bought land in Missouri. He wants some landscaping done & Josh is the man. It's a good thing for the company & great for us personally (can we say $10 EXTRA per hour for going?? Yes we can!) but it will still suck having him gone so long. I am not so happy about that but what are you going to do? The client is thinking about having other work done so everyone is hoping that once Josh gets out there the client will decide that their company should do the rest of the work. If that happens then Josh will probably be going back for about 2 months. That would be a lot of extra money but I'm not looking forward to that prospect very much. Everything's still up in the air though...I'd rather know one way or the other but I guess I just have to wait. So if anyone wants to come visit me, nows the time to do it! Sleepover anyone??

10 Months

I know this is a little late but we just barely got the internet set up at our new place. Here are some pictures of the latest happenings.

I think pretty much every time someone sees Steven they comment on how long his hair is. It is very long and there's not much I can do with it but I still like it :) This is after we had gone to the pool & I made his hair all crazy.

If I could just somehow get his hair to look like this & stay like this, life would be good ;)

This picture to me looks like he would be saying, "Oh, Mother, I didn't realize you were there. I was just reading this delightful book."
On Wednesday Josh's parents took us to dinner at Thaifoon (YUMMY) & Steven started to get a little restless. I thought I'd fed him enough but he constantly surprises me with how much he eats. Rhonda came up with the great idea to get him some cookies. He very much liked that idea :)

Steven stuffing his face with cookies

I'm not sure where he learned this but whenever he's getting down from the couch or our bed he will turn around and go down backwards. Neither of us taught him that...

He loves my phone & if it's in eyesight & I don't let him play with it he will screech like a banshee. I don't let him see it anymore.

This is Steven's new happy face. I'm not sure where he came up with it but I think it's very cute :)Surprise!One day I came home while Josh was watching Steven & I found him asleep on the floor. Josh said he had been playing & then didn't hear anything for a while & he was like this. First time he's ever done that.Steven will do this sometimes. I'm not sure if he's sleepy or just worn out from holding up all that hair ;)

One of the many funny faces my son makes.Groucho Marx impression?Who needs toys? Just take the funnel from the utensil drawer!How could you not love this face? :)

Happy Birthday, America!

Saturday was Independance Day & a pretty darn good one, too. In the morning I went down to Provo to see their Grand Parade with my siblings Marc & Dave plus all Dave's assorted in-laws. We had an awesome spot right near where we grew up as kids. Very big blast from the past! Afterwards we had a BBQ with lots of yummy food. Later that night we went to see the Riverton Fireworks which are always great. I took lots of pictures so enjoy!

My nephew, Ethan, during the parade

I thought it was going to be hot so I brought my AWESOME purple umbrella...instead it rained.
Sibling love! Me, Marc, & Dave

Marc

Ethan

Mary

Dave

I make the weirdest faces when I'm with my brother, Marc....

Woooooooo Missionaries!

I thought it was kind of weird that there was a human drop of blood....

What can I say? The Outlander Series has made me obsessed with all things Scottish. Did you know that Payson has not one but two pipe bands to its name? I thought that was kind of weird...maybe Payson was settled by Scottish people....

This picture was actually supposed to be the next one but we didn't realize the camera was zoomed in this time...

What we meant to do with the above picture

What did I say? AWESOME purple fan, huh?? ;)

I just thought this was a cool picture

In between parade & fireworks & waiting for food, Marc & I played Super Mario Brothers 3 on the Wii! It was awesome! We stunk, though...

Steven at his first fireworks show

Sweet as pie picture Marc took of some of the fireworks

Family shot at the fireworks

Steven & I enjoying the show

I really like this picture even though you can't see our faces

Too bad Steven looks drugged or sleepy in this picture...hehe
More fireworks in this one but no Steven...

Home Sweet Home!

For those of you who don't know, and that's probably a lot because we've been pretty "on-the-down-low" about this, but Josh & I are officially HOME OWNERS!! It's a first for me, Josh owned a home before we were married, but it's been long enough that we get the first-time homebuyer tax credit! That's one thing I'm thankful to Obama for. Anyway! One of my goals in life was to be the youngest member of my family to own a home. So unless my brother buys a home in the next year, I can check that one off my list ;) Stupid little goal, I know, but I'm happy I've accomplished it, especially without breaking the bank!

So here's a little about it. It's a 2 bedroom condo in Taylorsville between 950 & 1100 square feet (the previous owner says the later, the appraiser says the former...who knows? Still bigger than our place now!). I thought Taylorsville was far away, but it's VERY close to i-215 & there's tons of stores & places to go around. Plus, since it's so much bigger, we'll be able to have people over more often! It's an older place but very nicely remodeled so the only major thing we are going to do now is paint. We may decide to redo the countertops later & Josh is thinking about doing some bookshelves around the fireplace but all-in-all we're very happy with it. We hadn't been telling a lof of people about it until recently because it was the third place we had put a bid on & the others had fallen through & we didn't want to tell everyone and then have this one fall through as well. Anyway, here's pictures of the "before" & I'll post more later of the "after."
This is the living room. It's kind of an odd shape (very rectangular) so there's not a TON of room but it's still great. Pretty floors huh? "Fake" hardwood but less matience and they're throughout the whole house

I almost wish there wasn't a fireplace because it makes the placement of the TV very tricky...

Dining area (to the left when you walk in)

The kitchen is great, especially with the bar & pot rack, but I HATE the color.

This is actually the second, smaller bedroom, but in this picture it's the "master". It's really hard to tell what color the room actually is because it's so dang dark in there....
This was the kids room so they had more room to play but it will be the master room when we move in

Bathroom

Obsessed!

A few months ago, my friend from work, Brooke, told me that she had started reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Since I very much love reading (especially series) & hadn't really started a new series in a while, I thought I'd take a wack at 'em. The first book was only....oh about 750 pages but I was very much hooked from the start. One night I seriously stayed up until 3 am reading & only went to bed because I knew Steven would be up in a matter of hours & I wouldn't feel good on so little sleep (not because I was tired or bored). Currently I am on the third book, Voyager, & still loving every one of it's 1059 pages. Brooke started reading the series again in anticipation of the seventh book coming out in September & was hoping to catch up with me but I really don't think that's going to happen ;) Thanks, Brooke, for the recommendation! I am so hooked! Go read them everybody :)