Bed Head Monkey

Colton's AMAZING hair defies gravity after his nap!

OH MY GOODNESS--I can't believe it either!

Aah Geez Mom, you're embarrassing me!

To eat, or not to eat-that is the question. . .

Guess we know the answer to that one.

Eight of a Kind

{8} shows I love to watch:
1 . Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe (so gross, can't help it!)
2 . How It's Made (reminds me of the segment on Mr. Rogers where they show you how stuff is made like crayons--why do I remember these things?)
3 . Planet Earth
4 . Jon and Kate plus Eight
5 . U of Florida or BYU College Football Games. Go GATORS!
6 . Destroyed in Seconds (I admit I'm a Discovery Channel fan)
7 . An occasional O'Reilly Factor--mostly for the pinheads or patriots segment!
8 . The news

{8} favorite restaurants: K-we don't eat out, we are poor college kids but the ones we miss from out West the Most are:
1 . JAMBA JUICE--thank you for creating the Orange Dream Machine--so good!
2 . Millhollow
3 . Bruchi's
4 . Red Robin
5 . Chicos (oh, the best pizza in the world!)
6 . Cascade Gardens (oriental place in Issaquah--hot and sour soup sounds yummy!)
7 . El Caporal
8 . The Mercantile (enjoy this for us all you Tri-City-ites)

{8} things that happened yesterday:
1. Drove Blaine to class
2. Cleaned the apartment top to bottom
3. Played with Colt and taught him how to stack blocks (He taught himself how to knock them over)
4. Finished off my latest book and enjoyed it thoroughly
5. Talked to both my brothers and my Mom
6. Made a good dinner and watched my son throw food off his highchair. aahh, help.
7. Exercised-enjoyed it.
8. Talked with my husband--caught up after a long day. So nice.

{8} things I am looking forward to:
1. Colton being potty-trained.
2. Time with our families
3. This election being over and if Obama wins, the day he's out of office.
4. Blaine graduating from U of F.
5. Someday getting to paint a wall--we are in apartment mode right now and I do love it but sometimes that sounds appealing. Then, again I don't have to mow lawn right now.
6. Snow at Christmas--can't wait to fly home and experience real cold! if you know me, you know that is strange because I usually don't mix well with cold weather.
7. When Colt wakes up from his nap in an hour and gives me a kiss.
8. Nancy Pelosi not being in Washington anymore.

{8} things on my wish list:
1 . That I enjoyed grocery shopping more--I just don't like it if I have to go alone.
2 . That I could talk to my Grandmas one more time to tell them thank you and ask their advice.
3 . More time with Blaine
4 . Many, many, many books and bookshelves to put them in.
5 . The hope that with my next child (i'm not hinting at anything) that my darn epidural works!
6 . That I could go back and be nicer to people I might have hurt.
7 . A beautiful, in tune piano of my own to play and play and play
8 . Someday, if I'm lucky a craft room where I can create lovely things.

{8} people I tag:
anyone else that looks at my blog and hasn't done this yet!

A Call of the Wild

What was that you said. . .the tortoise had a scare?

Hi Ho, Silver, and Away!

We heard about a wildlife preserve close to Gainesville called Payne's Prairie where you can see all kinds of wildlife supposedly and specifically alligators which I have been begging Blaine to find. Sadly, the only close encounter we had was with a mosquito. As the last picture further shows, there was not much to see, but luckily we were traveling with an animal of our own. Colt, you are a wild one and we love you!

Care For Some Hair With That?

Notice he's got the 'rolling' technique down--so proud.

But of course--still has to sample everything via mouth.

Grandmas have been commenting on Colton's growing hair (he was quite the baldy the first year of life thanks to me)--and he's wasted no time in styling his newly acquired crop. This, oddly enough is Colton's favorite thing to play with and keeps him amused for hours while Mom gets ready in the morning. He even shakes the blow-dryer back and forth and has now mastered plugging it into the wall--not so good for Mom?!

Conference Campout

Blaine and Colt relaxin'.

Colton's latest thing--upside down binkie. Further motivation for me to rid him of it entirely. . .

We hunkered down for Conference Saturday and Sunday and as the pictures evidence, Colton would not have survived 8 hours of church-attended conference. Thank you BYU Channel! It was so different not to be in Idaho working during Spud Harvest on Conference Weekend and spending the duration with my fam listening to the talks--we missed both of our families a lot and wished we were back home!

A Happy Birthday Dance for Dad