Happy Easter

Easter was great this year and very relaxed. We had a request for more pictures of Cory (I know, he's hot) so here are a couple of him and Phoenix on Easter. We're teaching Phoenix a little bit of sign language and the first picture is him doing the sign for "eat".

Phoenix's Favorite

If there is any sort of container holding any sort of item Phoenix LOVES to pull it out and throw it over his shoulder. For example, when we were at my parents house last month, he loved pulling everything out of his suitcase. He also does this every time I do laundry, and have clothes in the laundry basket. He does this with his toy box, he does it at Cory's parents house with a plastic bowl full of measuring cups, spoons, and other kitchen items, he does it with our basket full of magazines. He really doesn't care what it is.It will keep him occupied forever as long as you keep putting the stuff back in for him to pull out again. So yesterday I had just washed diapers and put them in the laundry basket to take back into his room and he started doing that so I put him in the basket and started pushing him around the house. He wasn't sure what to think of it at first, but then he relaxed and had a good time. It was fun.


Phoenix is so squirmy now! I went in to get him up one morning recently and he had somehow gotten his left arm and his right leg out of his jammies. How in the world? On a related note, it's the biggest pain to change his clothes/diapers anymore because he just rolls around so much. He will not lay on his back long enough to get his dirty diaper off, much less get a clean one on. It drives me crazy!! Good thing he's so cute. Otherwise, I'd have to send him back.

Kevin Youkilis is absurd

Why is this a link? I don't know. But happy baseball Season anyway! It officially started on April 5th. We love baseball at our house. We do not love Kevin Youkilis. Let me tell you why. He has the most absurd batting stance ever. This picture doesn't really do it justice. You need to see a video. He wiggles his butt around. It's not pretty. Also, he is bald, but has this ridiculous beard/mustache thing. I think that if a person is bald, they should not make up for it by growing a bunch of hair on their face. It's backward. Nothing against Kevin as a person, it's mainly his looks...


We have a family fantasy baseball league that includes myself, Cory, my dad, my brothers, Cory's dad, Cory's brother, and Cory's brother-in-law. We'll see how it goes. Which player am I most excited about on my team? Tim Lincecum, pitcher for the Giants. I hope he does as well this year as he did last year. I also love Jose Reyes. I should have wicked amounts of stolen bases this year with him and a few other really fast guys on my team.


Now for our update. For those of you who live in the Boise area, the Boise Art Museum is free on the first Thursday of the month. Cory and I took Phoenix last week and it was pretty cool. They have an Early Works of Ansel Adams exhibit right now which was really neat. Also, they have a couple of galleries for local high school students to show off their work. Those were my favorite. There was one really funny one that was a sculpture of an acorn with two legs sticking out of it called "Side Effects May Include..." Also, I LOVE Costco Hot Dogs and hadn't had one in forever so I went and picked up a couple before we picked Cory up from work to go to the museum and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they are still $1.50 for the hot dog and drink. I thought for sure the price would have gone up. It's been the same for as long as I can remember. I love that!!

This picture is a bit blurry, but Phoenix loves to hang out UNDER his exersaucer now. It's his own little fort.

I was trying to take a good picture of him a couple weeks ago but he was only happy when he was playing with my "flip video" camera.

This is what happened when I took it away...

Seconds on the Microwave

We went to Weiser this weekend to watch little bro Q in the school play, 7 brides for 7 brothers. It was really cute, and he did a great job! I also took some senior pics for him while I was home, and here are a few of my favorites. I think they turned out pretty well.

Also when we were home, we found something interesting. That is that my mom, my sister, and myself all hate the beeping sound of the microwave and we all leave a few seconds on the clock when we have food in it so that we don't have to hear the noise. It drives Cory crazy when I forget to clear it, and Trenna said it drives her roommates crazy, too. How weird! Who knew that the beeping of a microwave could be so annoying to so many people for so many different reasons? I also saw Marae and met her BF for the first time. They're such a cute couple!

Eating an Apple

Video!

JCP Pictures

These are the pictures of the pictures that we had taken at JCP.





A few weeks ago we had some friends over for dinner and games. Between the 4 couples there were five kids, and I'm not sure if we're going to do that again. We tried to play trivial pursuit and it was so difficult that we decided that whoever got one pie piece won (normally you get 5 or 6)! But it was still fun.
We went down to Utah a couple of weekends ago for our neice, London's, blessing. It was so fun to see Cory's sis and bro-in-law. We also hung out with Trenna for the day on Saturday. Our niece, Madolin, who is 2 1/2 was so funny. At one point she was running around in circles in the living and Cory was sitting on the floor reading a book or something, and all of the sudden she stopped and said "This is fantastic, Cory!". It was so cute. Phoenix didn't hardly sleep the whole time we were there, so that was tough, but that's just how he rolls.
It seemed like there was more I was going to say, but now I can't think of anything... I am going to try to post a video now. We'll see how that goes.