Cheese Snorker

My how early 6am comes on Thursdays. I managed to get back into going to my spin class this week. I missed 2 weeks because I was sick. Tuesday was ok, but this morning was hard! I had to do some serious self talk to keep myself pedaling. I was not particularly into cycling at 6am this morning. I’m proud to say I made it through though and even pushed myself for the last 2 songs. Want to hear about my new Courtenay Challenge? huh? huh? do ya?

In 3 weeks I’m going to the ladies conference that my mom and sister and I go to in Chilliwack. I’m super excited about it. At some point during the weekend we manage to get away and go shopping. A seriously favorite pass time of Roxy and my Mom. I like to shop, but they are pro’s. So anyways. I wanted to think of a way to have a little extra cash to shop with so I made a deal with Morgan. For every pound I lose before I go he’s going to give me $10. We already ruled out the loops holes of gaining it back and losing it again. Haha. So I have 3 weeks to work my butt off, literally. It’s not that he’s paying me to get skinny, I just needed some incentive to work harder at it. He already owes me $20! I would love this summer to be a summer I’m in really good shape and running and biking and outside lots. I’ll keep you up to date on the challenge as we progress…or don’t. hehe.

I got a Jorb! I got the summer student grant at the church. Morgan thinks it’s fantastic because technically speaking I become his assistant. Riight. Cause I’m really going to make him pies because my job title is assistant. Dream on. So anyways. I get to spend the summer doing things I love! I’m really excited for all the time I’ll have to work with youth and stuff. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll be doing, but I start Monday and hopefully I’ll find out more then. Yay!

Emily officially switches daycares next Tuesday. The day care she was going to was good, but they couldn’t give me full time daycare and I needed 5 days a week to make it work with this summer job. And they were going to be away for all of August, so it just wasn’t going to work out all that well. So now she goes to a daycare in the home of a lady from our church. She has great kids and during the day there will only be about 2 other kids there. She really likes it already. I think Emily is one of those kids who like anything though. Social butterfly that she is.

Random thought. Day before yesterday she shoved cheese up her nose and I had to get her baby nose snorker to get it out. ahh took my back to the good old baby booger days. She wasn’t impressed, but I was like “Um…I’m not the one who shoved cheese up there dude!” Oh and this morning’s cuteness. Emily woke up at 6:30, which would normally bug me, but I was at spin class and so she didn’t wake me up. haha. Morgan went to get her and just brought her to bed with him so she’d go back to sleep for a while. When I got home from spin class Emily’s door was wide open. I snuck into her room, but she wasn’t in bed. My heart sunk. I opened our bedroom door and let my eyes adjust. I couldn’t see her, but I could hear her sucky snoring. A little while later when I went in to wake Morgan up they were sleeping back to back under the blankets. It was soooo cute.

Well I’d better quit goofing around and finish this paper. Last class before summer vacation, which is just the weekend until I start at the church. haha

A Beautiful Wedding

I got a B in English!!!

My daughter is the most demanding little girl in the world currently. Even just in the hour we were at Save-On tonight she was randomly telling other people what to do. Here’s a few things she casually said while pointing her teeny little finger:

To a man in the produce department
“Don’t put that in your buggy!!”

To a lady in an aisle
“That’s rude, don’t do that”

To no one in particular
“Oh my Goodness you guys are funny”

To her daddy in the checkout
“Don’t pay for that!!”

To a lady from our church.
“Humpty dumpty did a BIG fall. I had bubba’s birthday cake!”

To me in the aisle
“We don’t want beans!”

As you can see it’s getting worse. She is turning into a little bossy two-year old. AHHHH!!!

On a better note, I am obviously doing ok with my weight loss progress because last night at youth I felt I was supposed to preach on the Bride of Christ and strongly felt I needed to do just that in my wedding dress. So, I made a deal with God that if it fit, I’d wear it. I was absolutely sure that wouldn’t be a problem on my part. No feeling silly at youth. So I came home and tried on my dress. 4 1/2 years later and the stupid thing fits! AHH. No I have to preach in a dress. Most likely the first and last time I’ll preach in a dress. So there I am walking out of my office into the youth room to Pachelbel’s Canon in D, Being all cheesey with my Extra special bridesmaid Coco carrying one of my seven layers of dress. It was pretty effective I think. My main message was just to be ready because Jesus is coming soon and he wants his bride to be ready. So, I’m hoping that the whole dress deal proved its point. If nothing else I’m happy that it fit again, because I know if God told me to wear the dress last year it wouldn’t have happened. I haven’t checked for a few days, but I’m pretty sure I’m only a pound or 2 heavier than when I got married! Here’s some photos of my second wedding dress day.

Such a poser

Always wanted to play the drums in a wedding dress!

My Bridesmaid Coco!

Artist Girl

I’m putting off waking up the Em-cabob. She was a bit crazy last night. oh well. hows that for timing. Halfway through my first sentence she starts crying. okeyday. I’m going to have to go now. haha Here’s a pic of her being the artist she is on her new desk. you’ll notice that she is also decorating the desk not just the paper. haha

My day off

It’s weird to be relaxing today. I am in desperate need of a day off, so I declare today is day off day. What I mean by day off day, is only going out this evening, doing laundry, dishes, cleaning up and taking care of Emily. That’s a good day off. Most day we are on the go for the whole day. We barely have time to make anything worth eating and the laundry keeps stacking. I got all gung-ho for flylady earlier this year, but I’m going to have to work at it pretty hard to keep up. Now that my exams are done I’m trying to decide what to do with my summer. No matter what I end up doing, I really want to make it a priority to exercise, make good meals, and spend time being silly with MK and Emily. I was looking at last summer’s beach day pictures, and I’m really hoping we get the chance to spend lots of time at the beach and the park with Emily. I know we will just have to make time.

Emily ended up coming to worship practice with us last night. All our usual babysitters were busy or sick.Normally she isn’t very good at worship practice, and lately she’s been going to bed by 8 or 8:30, so we weren’t expecting her to do that well, but she did great. She fell asleep on the floor behind my drumkit for a while. That’s my girl! then we put on her DVD player and she watched Kronk. She sat on Roxy’s bass amp forever, just feeling the groove. She played in the nursery and whined a bit, but overall she did fantastic. I used to bring her to practice lots when I was on almost every team. She used to play in her playpen or I’d wear her in the backpack while I played bass, but she is just to busy for that anymore. She wants to Go Go Go. Her lip is doing alot better BTW.

Well I think I’m inspired to do some laundry and putter cleanup, so wish me luck. haha.

Revertigo!

I started writing earlier today, but I made a good choice and decided to study instead. I am now finished my hard exams for this semester. I have 2 more exams, but one is a paper and the other is open book, so I should be fine. I’m pretty sure I bombed my English exam, but I’m hopeful about my psych. Ugh, that’s enough school talk for today. I’m studied out.

Emily’s Party was soo fun. It was a little chaotic, but I truly enjoyed it. Coco and Roxy and I stayed up until almost 2am finishing her cake. I had experimented with fondant earlier in the week, so this is what we came up with. The theme was ladybug, so Coco and I put black spots on plates and cups and lanterns and everything. They all turned out nicely. I confuse myself because I never think of myself as being domestic, but I was stinking Martha Stewart last week.

Emily enjoyed her party. She is so funny around other kids because she is the active monkey by herself, but the more kids that come into the room, the more she likes to watch what they are doing. It’s obvious that she isn’t shy. I just think she likes things her way and the is rather organized. She’s becoming rather bossy too. She’s always telling other kids what they should and shouldn’t be doing. On the weekend she even told Morgan “I’m sorry for don’t-ing”. It’s cute. My in-laws came up for the weekend, but I felt like we didn’t even see them because between being sick and Emily’s party craziness we didn’t even get much time to visit.

The gift-less party idea was a good one. We ended up being able to send a good chunk of money to our sponsor child in Uganda and Emily still got spoiled with gifts. Yay for grandparents. I think that’s a tradition that we are going to keep. Emily never even noticed that she didn’t get a whole wack of gifts because she still got some presents and she really doesn’t need that much stuff. We already have no where to put stuff. So thank you to everyone who donated towards Kwikiriza! You make a big difference!

Oh and I’m still upset that Carley Smithson got voted off American Idol last night. She was my choice for American Idol. I thought the only one I would be ok with her losing to was David Cook. He’s pretty flipping awesome. So now I’m sad, but I think she’s still going to do well for herself. She’s too good not to. Wow I’d like to kick myself in the head for being this lame. Here’s to next seasons stuff to watch!! Oh and Leesh…I think we have revertigo!