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

Projects

I’m taking another day off today. I should probably be doing school or something productive, but I don’t want to. I like that my idea of a day off includes working half of the day . *left for 6 hours*

Ok so then I ended up working through half of the day. I’ve been fighting with typesetting  posters and stuff this week. It’s been a pain in the butt trying to get everything to print. I’ve really enjoyed the project though. I think I’ve learned alot through this project. I’ve been looking around alot for ideas and concepts and thing. I found 2 great sites for helping my with ideas.

CreativeMYK.com
Church Marketing Lab on Flickr.

Both of those sites offer critiquing of work too. I put up a screenshot of the GDS website we’ve been working on and god some good feedback from that, and I’m planning to put up my posters for feedback too.  *oops I got side tracked again. *I really need to stop multi-tasking while blogging. seriously. Anyways. I’m working on a few projects right now, here’s the one I finished today…Just the poster.

Being Maternal

I think it’s funny that PluckyMama should post pictures of Silas when he was a baby today because I’ve been feeling rather maternal lately. I went to visit Lana and Kris in the hospital today. They just had baby # 2. If you remember their oldest was four days older than Emily and very much apart of our baby journey 2 years ago. I kept telling myself that I was super stoked that Lana was having a baby and I wasn’t, but tonight I held baby Isaiah in my arms and it took me right back to teeny baby Emily. Isaiah slept in my arms for about an hour. His little face twitching and pouting. He’s a cutie. Looks alot like I remember his brother looking.

When I walked out the door to go visit Lana, Morgan yelled behind me. “Don’t get any ideas while you are there!” I laughed it off, but came home feeling all baby giddy. Totally nerdy. Morgan was like “ew you are getting maternal hormones all over everything.” I was like “come on, I can’t help it its built in ok!”. It didn’t help that Emily was beyond cute tonight and went to bed really well and everything. I figure tomorrow during a tantrum in church I’ll get over it. For the record, NOT pregnant. Not planning on being pregnant any time soon. I’m a Wife and a Mom and a student and a youth leader and and and and and. The last time I was pregnant I was so sick I couldn’t even work. I’m not really thrilled with the idea of puking for another 9 months again. Or I guess 7 1/2 months in Emily’s case.

One thing I am looking forward to for whenever we do decide to have #2, is this blog. I didn’t start blogging until Emily was 9 months old, so I didn’t post prego pics or newborn pics or anything. I think it will be really good for me to get to blog while being pregnant.

Emily at 4 months

Emily at 1 Month. Before she was even supposed to be born.

Random thought. I think I’ve had one comment in the last month and I wonder if anyone actually reads this blog. No worries that I’ll quit writing anytime soon though. I need to get all these thoughts out sometime. I’m just curious who reads this. So if your are being all anonymous, please comment and say hi!

Lazy Past Self

We went to JAM (Jesus and ME) conference for kids this morning. It was super fun. Emily loves being with the other kids. They were nice enough to make an exception for Em to come for a while even though she’s only 2 and the other kids have to be 5 to go. She even won a prize for having the smallest croc clad feet. She was pretty good for a while, but then she got bored and needed to come home. I went to chuck her into bed for a nap and remembered that past self left a nasty mess for future self to clean up later. Lazy past self. This morning when miss Em got us she started yelling. So like a good mom I ignored her for a few minutes and then went in to get her. She kept saying something with her sucky in and I couldn’t understand her.In other news…the sucky is going bye bye on Monday. Anyways back to the past. I made her take out her sucky and she says “I did a pee”. I’m like “of course you did, it was a long night”. Then she said “Mommy will clean it up”. Thats when I noticed the huge wet mark on her sheets. EW. Somehow she got her diaper off inside her pants and pee’d everywhere. Lovely. It’s understandable why past self left me that mess. Unfortunately present self couldn’t make future self do it later and had to deal with messiness pre-nappy. Grr. anyways. Cleaned her up and put her down for a nap. Now I’m contemplating taking a nap too.

I took a lame quality video clip of Emily with my digital camera. She’s scribbling, but we made up a little song for her name, so she’s spelling her name. She thinks Coco is over and wants to give her the picture, but Coco isn’t even there. It’s super cute, so here you go.ok so now it’s taking forever so look at it on my facebook or I’ll add it later.

Be a Go-er

I’ve been listening to podcasts by Greg Stier and Rob Kelly and I was really inspired by both of them. I listen to a section of a message from Rob Kelly a couple of times and wrote down what he said because I think that being a GO-er is a big part of who I am. Jesus gave the great commission to us as a purpose for our lives, and I just really liked the way Rob put it, so here it is. Check out the whole message here.

When the neighbor needs help - GO
When someone needs a ride - GO
When there is a culture to be crossed - GO
When someone needs groceries - GO
When there are memories to be made - GO
When the conditions are just right - GO
When you don’t have a clue - GO
When there is a flight to take - GO
When someone is hurt - GO
When the church doors are open - GO
When there is a friendship to be made - GO
When someone needs a hug or a pat on the back - GO
When there is food to eat - GO
When the grandkids are playing a game - GO
When someone is crying - GO
When something is broke grab the duct tape and - GO
When it’s time for a nap - GO
When there is celebrating to be done - GO
If someone asks - GO
If anyone asks - GO
If everyone goes - GO
If no one goes - GO
People need Jesus so Go