Cute mom moment.

Today at church during sacrament meetings closing hymn, Jarren is sitting on the bench with his hymn book open and while everyone is singing I hear "da daaa da da daaaaa dadaa dadaaaaa" (with high notes and low notes might I add). It was too cute.

Potty Training

Jarren has been going "peepee on the potty"! I'm so happy. He's shown an interest in the toilet for like the last 3-4 months but hasn't ever gone. When we were in AZ, he went 3 times in one day and then went a couple times a day all of the other days! YAY! I've heard that potty training a boy is usually harder but he isn't even 2 yet and he's going. He does NOT like the "training potty's" He has to use the big people ones. Everytime we take his diaper off "pee pee. pee pee!" and he runs to the toilet. Last night I was moving him to his bed after he was asleep and I changed his diaper cause he was still in a swim diaper and I hear this half asleep "pee pee" so I took him in to the toilet and he went for a long time!! haha even in his sleep he does it.


...now to convience a over worked tired husband to keep this up while I'm at work. This morning when he got home I heard Jarren say pee pee and heard Jake say "you went earlier bud." I was like NO Get him on that toilet!

Kinda late, but better than never. Happy 4th of July everyone. It's the first year I've taken pictures of the fireworks, it was fun!

A Serious Scare

Jarren+Keys+car+garage in Arizona=Jarren being locked in the car with the keys in extremely hot weather and scaring me to death.

Pictures from the zoo

Horrible horrible blogger!

That would be me. I have a lot to catch you up on, but I hate doing long posts with no pictures, so I will number the updates and make them short.

1. We moved out of our house and in with my parents. Jumping into a house too soon = too much debt.

2. We are not pregnant and don't know when we will try to be. Maybe after all our debt is paid off.

3. Photography is doing...ok. Not fantastic, need more clients. The more the marrier :)

4. Lawncare is doing good. We have exactly the same amount of clients as we did last year. Again..the more the marrier so send them our way :)

5. Jarren is using more words, more often. Still not really forming sentences, but we are getting there. He whines if he knows someone will give him stuff without making him use words, WE make him use them so sometimes he gets frustrated.

6. Jake is ALWAYS tired.

7. My allergies have gone HAYWIRE. They have put fluid in my ears, created cold like symptoms and are completely draining me. I have no energy at all.

8. My baby is going to be turning 2 in one month. ONE MONTH! I remember being pregnant and thinking it would never end...and now he's going to be 2. Oh...my...gosh!

9. Addictions are BAD. My new addictions: LOST

10. Jarren calls everyone on my phone list. Brittney being the number one request since she moved to texas in May and Kacy being the number two request because he likes dancing to her ring tone.

The end for now. Any questions? I'll post pictures tonight.

New Photos

New Photos on Photo blog!

Update on Kiddie Kandids

So my friend came with us to Jake's baseball game tonight and reminded me that I hadn't mentioned what happened with kiddie kandids. Well, they finally tracked down one of my knowledge reviews and I am officially certified! They back dated it to April 13th since that is when I originally took the test. Yay, I did it.

Other news...we moved out of our house. Too expensive for us apparently. So we are living with my parents, saving money. Hopefully that will help us be able to save enough money for a down payment on a real house of our own one day. Until then, my parents are nice enough to let us and our crazy {almost} 2 year old move in with them. :)

Jake got a new position at the factory. He now gets to work in the actual warehouse, where he has a set schedule and a pay raise :) that is always nice. The only hard part will be his schedule is 9:25pm til 8am, thursday, friday, sunday and monday nights. At least I'll get him for church and a few days during the week, we will eventually figure out a sleeping schedule. That all takes place May 11th. I'm so excited for him, it's a change he is looking forward to.

Other than that I'm just doing my own photography and being a mom!

70 and Sunny...

...at least you would think that's what it should be in the middle of April, and it was about 3 days ago.

Instead I woke up to this beautiful scene.
It would have been more beautiful if it were Christmas morning though. I wish summer were here.

Mooo-la

So at Kiddie Kandids you get a raise one of two ways. 1st, getting completely certified in 7 different categories. This can be difficult depending on the manager because you have to get most of the poses EXACTLY right. Feet crossed, eye direction, hands, head tilt, everything. You also have to have 6 different poses.
The 2nd way is for your annual review. I've been there for 6 months now soooo I'm not quite to that one.

I have, however, officially passed all 7 categories for certification...somehow I'm still not certified though. You do have to also take this knowledge review and pass that. Well...I've taken it twice now and they can't find EITHER of them in their system...ANYWHERE!! I know I passed both of them because I used notes and co-workers. Plus it was multiple choice and very easy. Yet...They can't find them. So yes, I am officially certified and no I do not have a raise. Lame.

Sleep Talking

I have to write this down before I forget haha!

Jake went to bed earlier than me tonight since he has to wake up early. I walked into our room and he sat straight up and was about to get out of bed and I asked:
"Where are you going?"

To which he responds

"Just seeing which part of the red one it was"

"What is the red one?"

"It's part of the final destination exam."


hahahahaha He layed back down and so I went and layed beside him and kept trying to ask him about it but he told me to stop picking on him...so I never found out what exactly the destination exam was for. I wonder what that dream was about. I'll have to ask him tomorrow.

My Cousin's baby

I did some pictures of my cousin's baby on Saturday. She was adorable, I loved it. There seems to be controversy over naked baby pictures. Check out my photo blog and let me know what you think. I also did my friends 8 month old baby the same day and will be posting pictures of that soon. Here's a preview of my cousin's little girl.