Race Time!

This...

Is making me... Sad

But He is very Happy

Because he loves dirt bike riding in the rain!!!

The rain is no bueno for the 'do, but excellent for the riding conditions!

Garrett raced the Hollister Hareball this weekend and placed 5th!!! I'm so proud!!!!!!!! He got a sweet trophy!

My husband is so awesome!

New Moon

ON Friday we went and saw New Moon with Katie and Candace. We had such a good time! Rowan had his very first movie theater experience and did not fuss or cry at all! I was so shocked! He was such a good boy!!

Afterwards we went to our favorite place for lunch, Armadillo Willy's!

So, as far as the movie goes... (spoilers ahead)

I LOVED IT!!

I was pleasantly surprised at how good the graphics were for the wolves, I was worried about that! I Loved the Volturi, especially Caius. He was super creepy. I thought that Dakota Fanning did great as Jane. I liked all of the wolf pack!

It was hard not to convert to "Team Jacob" in this movie. Even when I read this book for the first time, I had a bone to pick with Edward for leaving her. I always felt that if he loved her so much, he would have stuck by her side through thick and thin. Because, she was in more danger with him gone!

I loved the scene with Jacob and Mike at the movie theater...and I loved the part where Jacob tells Edward that Charlie is making arrangements for the funeral. The directing was so much better than the first! I loved all of the camera angles they used.

I did not like the part where she got on the street bike...SO LAME. And it wasn't even in the book. And I didn't like the part when she tells Jacob that he is "kind of beautiful", I thought that was cheesy acting on her part. And Jacob's weave was off the hook. EW. He was so cute once his hair was cut!!

All in all, I would give it an A-.

I am so stoked for #3. =)

Ridiculously Paranoid...Or exceptionally prepared?

I choose to go with the latter.

Last week I finally ordered my Emergency Disaster kits from Red Cross. I was totally stoked to get them in the mail!'

You can get one here Amazon.

I got one for my office, one for each car and one for the house. I also bought a Kid's bagillion piece first aid kit for Rowan, complete with cute band aids and smiley face stickers.

I also beefed up our kits with Road flares and Little Tummy's Poison Treatment Kit. My motto is "better safe than sorry!"

I'm planning to add more emergency water and some emergency clothes to the kits. So far I have added emergency clothes and some extra food to the kit I have at work.

I have our Carbon Monoxide detector up in our home, but don't have batteries in our fire alarms.. STRANGE. That is our project for tomorrow!

Going's ons

Lately, we have been just having a blast being low key and hanging out at home! We have signed ourselves up for a lot of commitments through our church, so when we get down time, we like to just be with each other. I went back to work two weeks

ago and it is really bittersweet. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with, but I miss my baby boy more than words can express. I think the fact that I have such an awesome job helped the transition, because if I didn't love my job 100% I wouldn't have been able to do it. I would rather work at McDonalds doing the night shift then to leave my sweet baby for a job that made me miserable. I'm not going to lie, some days I just want to pack up and come home to cuddle my little boy, but the rational part of me knows I can't do that. So if I must work outside the home, I am so thankful to God that he put me here.

The second I get home, I wash my hands, change my clothes and my baby boy is in my arms for the rest of the night! I only put him down to use the restroom! ha ha. After he falls asleep in my arms, Garrett has to practically force me to put him in his crib!! What can I say? I like to watch him sleep!

So the first few weeks of Mr. Mom has gone incredibly well! Garrett is such a natural with Rowan! He is taking Paid Family Leave until January! They have such a good time together! Garrett says its is "EasY" taking care of a newborn baby, and I'm so proud of him! Rowan has his good days and bad days still, so Garrett definitely has a taste of that. A baby with Colic is no joke!

Since I was pregnant, Garrett has become quite the shutterbug...he was never too much into taking pictures, but now he is all up in my grill with the camera! Which I am super thankful for, because many times, mama's get the short end of the stick in the photo department because we are always the ones taking the pictures!

I love Genetics!!!!!!!

So happy that my boy inherited Daddy's good looks..

And Mama's weird Personality!!!

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Random Rowan Facts

When I kiss his feet he smiles, He makes a kind of schreachy noise when he's happy. He kicks a lot and likes to pull Mama's hair. When he sees his lambs in his mobile, he gets so excited and smiles. He has been sleeping in his crib in his own room for over a month, and doing great! Now that he wiggles so much we had to take the bumpers off of his crib! He starts out in the middle and then ends up upside down and sideways! He loves to chew on his fists or on your finger or on my arms. His Acid Reflux is so much better, but he still has some hard days. He was pulling my hair in church on sunday and making such cute noises. Russ said that he was just "filled with the holy spirit" and letting it all out. Too cute!

We had our Christmas Pictures on Saturday! I went and got my hair cut and styled, a Manicure & Pedicure and then We did our pics. Rowan was such a good baby! Especially considering his last photo shoot. The pictures are amazing! I will share some after I send out our Christmas cards!

Today he laughed for the very first time! Garrett was playing drums on his tummy and he was cracking up! It was the cutest thing in the world.

Rowan is such a joy in our lives. I wonder every day how I ever lived without him...

Life's Good.

Book Swap website!

This website is awesome! I just listed 10 books and cannot wait to start picking out books! I read so much, that it is becoming quite an expensive habit.. eek!


You just create an account, type in the ISBN # (on the barcode of the book) of the books you want to trade, and start swapping! Once you mail out a book to someone, you get to pick any book you want! All you pay for is shipping!!


They have everything,.. Novels, cookbooks, how to, etc.


I think I'm going to trade in some of my older cookbooks for ones I have not read yet. And I'm going to get some decorating books to get some ideas for the house.





Click on the link above and sign up!! =) I get points if you do!