Spring?

Just when the snow had melted from the flurries of yesterday, i woke up to a blizzard today!! it was gross! but by the afternoon the sun was out and the snow was melting. i think it is going to snow again. i just wish it would be one or the other, preferably the sun shining and warm weather! Today was Hunter's WIC appointment. there were other kiddos there Hunter's age. usually he cries when he is with others his age. he does great with adults and older kids but doesnt like the kiddos his age. but today he did great. He was standing next to this little girl and i never realized how broad his shoulders are until then. He looks like a football player with pads on.
We leave tomorrow for Brandon's homecoming. i got to talk to him on the phone a little bit. How weird it is for me that my nephew is home from his mission! how even weirder for him that his auntie has a year old baby, i am sure. it will be a weekend spent in the car but we are just so happy to be able to be with family and to get away. we havent gone anywhere for a long time. we are soooo thankful to zak & sam, and berret & tanya who are willing to watch over mildred for us while we are away. they are the ones making it possible for us to go. we really have the best friends. we are so blessed.

All a little boy needs is a box

Hunter loves to get into the cuboards and play with the pots and pans. he thinks it is so fun, although it comes with a price, he has pinched his fingers so many times. today was a really bad one. he wouldnt calm down until i called brad and he talked to daddy. his finger is still red and has a mark, OUCH! i know, it is only the beginning.

fixing the sink

our kitchen sink was out of commision for a while. finally brad had time to put on a new faucet and hunter was happy to help. brad took him to the store with him to buy the new faucet and then they came back, got under the sink with the tools and voila!! it is so nice to have the sink again!

Brad the social worker

brad got accepted to the social work program! he is so excited and relieved. this means that he has 2 more years, but then only one year of grad school. i am very proud of him, he has worked really hard and this is what he wants to do. so he will start this summer with the program. 40 people applied and only 25 got in, including his brother, nick. so because they are smaller classes, there is only one class available. so brad will have to take those classes in the only time during the day he can. this means he will loose some hours at work, but we will see what happens!

playing games

St. Patrick's Day

we had the most fun at our st. paddy's day party we had last night with our friends. we ate corned beef and cabbage, soooo good. one picture is of brad still at the table eating while we were all on the couches digesting. my niece jocey brought the guy she is dating, spencer, and he handles all of us really well.jocey had to do some activities for a class of hers and they were so much fun. the videos are of us playing a game where we had to catch something with our bodies, then race over to drop it in a box. we all just laughed so hard, but it made hunter cry. after the games we watched DARBY O'GILL and the little people. such a strange movie. but it was fun. we are so lucky to have great friends who like to play and laugh like we do.
When brad and i were going to bed our "pillow talk" was all done in an irish accent. even more of a shocker that brad did that is that he started it!! i am making a bingham out of him yet.
click on the photo for the album

here is a video of hunter boy dancing. sorry, no sound

weekend summary

I apologize that i have not kept up for the few that read. Friday while brad was at work i got my introduction of how life will be with a growing Hunter boy. It is just an eye opener of how growing babies are busy bodies. He was just all over the place and into everything. brad had duct taped a cabinet closed in the hall, so hunter couldnt get into the card games etc. i got to sweep the kitchen and hear this different noise. i got in and hunter ripped through the duct tape (remember he is hercules) and was playing with the checkers! oh he was so proud of himself. later he found my water bottle and poured water all over him, he was as happy as could be, and while i was loading the dryer, i would turn to get another handful of clothes, and come to find hunter had pulled out what i had just loaded! it was so funny yet sad because he is growing up. but atleast this will convince my sisters that he is normal. Yes he was a perfect baby, but now he is normal. Oh and he bit me several times. i would tell him no biting after he got me really hard and left a mark. so there we were, both of us in tears.
Saturday we went to the hot springs with tanya and berret, brad's parents and dave and jaime. it was fun. hunter really enjoyed it. it felt so good to just go and do something. i have that in me especially on saturdays. "lets go and do something!" brad would prefer to stay home but we compromise really well.
last night our friends came over. the guys played x-box and we went and worked out at the school gym. we took hunter with us in the stroller and he sat there. there was a dance going on at the same time. when we were stretching there was another girl on the mat and she finally asked "who is the mom? you all talk like he is your baby i cant tell" i told her that i was the momma but he is pretty much our baby. it was really funny.
that is pretty much it, for now.

Hunter was so funny tonight. he was in his onesie and had one sock on and was all over the place. i was surprised that he kept that one sock on for a couple of hours. his new game is eating brad's toes when brad is in the chair. he is such a silly monkey and we love him so. click on the picture for the album.

Sunday Afternoon

This is my favorite picture from sunday. the sun was shining through our windows and we even had the window open. it felt soo good to sit in the sun and have fresh air come in the house. We can actually see ground now the snow is melting! So after our sunday naps and dinner, we just sat in the front room and soaked up the sun. it felt great.

Project Runway

This is actually one of our favorite shows. Brad will actually watch this with me but not the sound of music. if you can make sense of that, please help me. So we watched the last project runway last night and it is soo entertaining to listen to Brad's commentary as their clothes are on the runway "i dont like christian. i want to reach out and punch him. he is too advant garde" it was funny. But christian did win because he is FIERCE!!
Our heater is out and it is very cold. brrr. luckily we have a space heater for hunter boy's room.

Photo Album Experiement

So here is a little photo album. i am still trying to figure things out. so you can click on the picture and then do a slideshow of some fun pictures.

Exhausted

Oh my gosh i am so tired today. I had class this morning and then ran to get Mildred's hair done which is way out in the boondocks. It takes FOREVER for her hair to get done so i had to find a babysitter. SO tanya watched hunter but it took longer than i thought(3.5 hours!!) so i had to run and pick him up so tanya could go to work and then go back out to nowhere to wait for mildred to finish. I know what you are thinking, you cant believe tanya is working! i cant either! Anyway, i get home and i am just ready to drop or cry, whichever was to come first. Our friend Miranda is staying with us while she waits for her townhome to get finished and bless her heart she cleaned our house and did the dishes that i have not had time to do. So i think the crying came first, full of gratitude and relief. She offered to watch hunter so i could sleep. Call me rip van winkle because 4 hours later i woke up!! Brad got home shortly after i fell asleep. And i am still soo tired.
Today i also registered for summer classes. After a day like this, what am i thinking? this summer will be hard since brad and i are BOTH going to school. should be interesting.

Happy Birthday Brad!

Yesterday was Bradley's 27th birthday!He celebrated by being sung to in primary (i was giggling the whole time)and our primary class made him a crown. His family came over for dinner last night and Gramma Landon made brad's beloved red velvet cake. It is to DIE for. I always think that it should be in the shape of an armadilla like on Steel Magnolia's. Great movie. I digress. So Bradley is now an old man. We do feel young since we are the oldest of our groups of friends. They other day someone told me they graduated high school the year i went on my mission. That sucked. Even worse is that she is already graduated from college!!!! Yup, pouring salt on that wound. Only 2 semesters left.

Miracle

I have now won Setters of catan two nights in a row!! I won last night and tonight. I am not very good at being sneaky though. when i get something i need or a victory point or something, i start giggling. but i am however a good liar.
Keep checking the blog because i am always adding. i guess i am addicted now.

Photo Album

Hunter is getting so old, we cant believe it. here are some pictures to see how he has grown. Click on the picture to see more.

Africa

Mom and Pappy are in Nigeria this weekend. They always have the most amazing stories to tell. It is always so fun to talk to them on SKYPE and to hear them giggling and laughing with each other. My favorite was when i was talking to Mom and i heard Pappy in the background "josie!!" and he was just shouting. it was a cockroach and Mom had to go and kill it for Pappy. It was just funny to me.

Monkey Boy

The other night i was doing homework and i heard bradley say "oh my gosh!!" and i look over and our little monkey boy had climbed his walker thing and was getting into things on the book shelf. i could not believe it!! he is always on the move and climbing! he is soo spazzy which we all know is nothing like me (wink wink). It gives me great joy when he is dancing the minute he hears anything with a rhythm, and if there isnt music playing, he will start singing his own song and dance. i absolutely LOVE IT!!