January In A Nutshell

Gees 2011 is flying by!!!

Tyler and I are going to try to have a date night once a month...new years resolution of mine...so here's a picture from our first one! We went out to dinner at Chilis and than walked up and down Mill Ave here in Tempe. We walked a little bit by Tempe Town Lake and had a good time. It was a bit chilly for me but the walking, Tyler and my coat kept me warm. I did end up with a nasty blister from my heals but it was worth it!

I'm trying to go out with Lowe at least once a week to somewhere fun (and for the time being new since the Valley is a whole new area for us). This last week we went to this indoor amusement park called Jambo. I thought it would be overrunning with children seeing as how it's really inexpensive but surprisingly there were only 3 other kids there when we got there. Lowe liked all the carnival rides they had, I on the other hand did not like them much. We did both enjoy the huge jumping castle they had. Lowe loves to jump so he was in heaven!

And being the little boy he is, Lowe discovered DIRT! He loves to go outside and just sit in this patch of dirt and dig at it with his hands and feet. He was so filthy the other day he almost became a mud monster when we took him to the bathtub to get clean.

Our neighbors brought us a bunch of oranges and we decided to dust off our juicer and make some juice. We were all recovering from being sick, Lowe with a double ear infection and Tyler and I from colds. It was the best juice I'd ever tasted! Lowe had fun helping Tyler juice the oranges.

Here is my little man hamming it up. That teddy bear he has a death grip on is from the urgent care trip we made when he was febrile at 103 for longer than I was comfortable with. While in the UC waiting room, I asked him what he was going to name his bear and he told me Teddy Grahm...so, that's the bear's name. It's really cute because he absolutely loves that stuffed animal!

It was laundry day and this is how Lowe helped me out...stole the laundry hamper, put it on his head and ran around the house playing Red Light Green Light. It's his favorite game of late and he could play it all day long if we didn't get tired of playing it with him.

I couldn't find Lowe the other day and when I finally wandered back into our office, this is what I found. He really likes to do anything that we do and messing with the computers is his copy cat thing of the month. I can hardly use the laptop around him because he'll climb up into my lap and press all the keys on the keyboard and mess it up!

At church yesterday, Lowe was being pretty good and playing with two of his toy cars when I heard him making kissing sounds. I looked over at him and he was making his cars kiss! It was sooo funny! Tyler just rolled his eyes but I had a hard time keeping my laughter to myself. Lowe is growing up too fast...too bad Neverland doesn't exist or I'd wisk him away right this second!

Selfish...

So Tyler and I have been married for over 6 years now. So many other people we know have been married between then and now and each time I see their wedding pictures...I get a little more jealous each time. So I convinced Tyler to rent himself a tux, squeezed myself back into my dress, dug out my veil and necklace and talked my awesome friend Beka (www.lowephotos.info) into taking re-wedding pictures for us!

Here are a few of my favorites!

Those are not the shoes I wore on our wedding day...wish they were but they weren't. They were my only heals short enough to go with my wedding dress!!!

I can't wait to pick out a few of the pictures and frame them! Yeah to still fitting in the dress 6 years and a baby later!

And I just wanted to tell Tyler how much I love him and how incredibly handsome he is!!! Sexy!!! Love you lots silly!!!

The 12th Day After Christmas...

Happy New Year!!!

This first picture is just a little late getting posted but Lowe really enjoyed helping me make a bunch of Christmas goodies. Silly boy!

This year we were able to make it up to Idaho for Christmas, brr, but really really fun!!! Lowe got to play with all his cousins on Tyler's side of the family. Santa came for a visit on Christmas Eve and brought all the boys matching pajamas and Evelynn some super cute ones as well. Here's Lowe modeling his pair.

And here they all are: Lowe, Mak, Evelynn and Emmett. Lowe was not really a good sport when it came to getting group pictures taken...please refer to kellygoffdesign.blogspot.com for further evidence of this...we got some family pictures taken and Lowe was just not feeling it!

Lowe got a little balance bike and absolutely loved it! Once we get a working camera, I'll get some cute ones of him running the bike around and posted! Lowe had a lot of fun and so did Tyler and I. Tyler got to go out with the men and go shoot some of his dad's guns which was fun and cold for them. We all went over to the hotel and swam in the pool...it was an indoor one (of course) and Lowe and Evelynn enjoyed the hot tub a whole lot more than the big pool (which is fine with me because i prefer it too!!!)

So it's 5 days into the New Year and so far so good on the resolutions. I'm trying to think of mine as monthly and weekly goals instead of an entire years worth of stuff to do. I figure it'll be easier for me to have things broken down into smaller bits so it's not so overwhelming! I think that's the reason why I never get through more than a few days, of weeks if I'm lucky, on resolutions...thinking about doing things for an entire year blows me away!!!

I pulled out my new sewing machine today and embellished a kitchen towel!!! It looks pretty cool if I can say so myself. I also used the serging stitch on it to fix a hole in one of Tyler's shirts and wow is that fun to do! The fancy foot is crazy but effective. I can't wait to start on other projects! Keep checking back for a possible towel/apron giveaway at the end of the month!!!