The Bright Side

If your kid poops in the tub, at least it forces you to clean it...

Slackin'

I know I'm terrible. It comes in phases. I am still not taking any pictures. I'm also sure that there are things I need to update all y'all on but I can't think of them right now, so here are a few shout outs I've been meaning to make for the last couple of months.

Todd's Boise Clutch and Auto on Fairview and Mitchell in Boise. The best place to get your car worked on. They have the best staff and the best prices and they're super honest, in my experience.

Rocky Mountain Collision Repair on Fairview and Main in Meridian. They do emissions tests for $8.88!

Grooveshark.com. They have tons and tons of music and you can make your playlists and listen to them on any computer for free. While you're there, check out the song Sleep Well by Mae. Remember how Skylee's middle name was almost Mae?

Liberty Northwest (part of Liberty Mutual) insurance. We got rear ended in Feb and the other guy had Liberty Northwest insurance. They were so awesome and easy to work with.

Bountiful Baskets.   It's a food co-op. They deliver fresh produce every week or every other week (they have different locations and you go pick it up) and it's super cheap. I actually haven't done this yet. Saturday is my first one. I'm excited. They say you get about $50 worth of produce for $15 (or $25 for organic produce). You can check them out at bountifulbaskets.org if you're interested.

More RAM!

Cory and I have had our computer since we got married (almost 6 years ago) and it's been pretty slow lately (maybe due to the fact that they make ipods w/ more memory than our computer). We learned from Cory's dad (who has been selling computer hardware components for 20 years) that we could just get some more RAM and our computer would run faster. He hooked us up w/ 2GB for free! Now we're going to buy a 2TB external memory drive to put all of our multimedia files on and we should be good to go for another few years. Pretty exciting spending $100 instead of the $700 we were going to spend on a new computer. I already noticed that these pictures uploaded WAY faster than they have in the past.

 

Speaking of pictures, I have been really really really bad at taking them lately, but here are a few from Christmas and one from the hockey game that Cory took Phoenix to. He LOVED it.

New Kitchen Table

I spent the last two days with my dad making this table and two benches while my mom watched the kids. My parents are the best! I got the plans from Knock-Off Wood. It is the Modern Farm Table and benches. I am in the process of refinishing a couple of chairs for the ends so that I can put the kid's booster seats on them. I also made a kid's table for when we have people over, but still need to paint it and make benches for it, so pictures of that will come later. AND, this table cost less than $100 including all of the paint and primer and everything!

Skylee is One!!!

It has already been a month since my last post

It gets me every time! I always load the pictures in the wrong order. Oh well. I failed to mention this in my last post, but my little sister got married and the SF Giants won the World Series! Both very exciting, and both things that will probably only happen once in my lifetime. I have been a Giant's fan since I was born (believe it). I never thought this day would come. I was so excited when they made it to the World Series that I was convinced that we were going to go to SF for a game until I went to buy tickets and found that the cheapest ones for $400 a piece. Would have been fun, but not fun enough to spend $1000 just on tickets! Cory has also been a Giant's fan forever (well, since his dad's best high school friend pitched for them in the late '80's). Cory and my dad bonded the first time they met because it somehow came up that when Cory was younger, he had a stuffed animal named Nuschler (Will Clark's middle name). For those of you who don't know, Will Clark is one of the greatest Giants ever and I'm pretty sure he's my dad's favorite player of all time. But don't quote me on that.
Trenna's wedding was beautiful, and she, of course, was beautiful. Her husband is the nicest guy ever. We're happy to have him in the family. Here are a few pictures from the reception in Weiser. They had a "Candy Bar" so Phoenix was in heaven. Skylee would have rather been sleeping :-)

Ok

So I bought a new camera (actually an old junky one) off of craigslist. I kind of thought if I bought one, I would find my old (actually not old at all) one. It didn't happen that way. So now I have a camera but I rarely get a picture that isn't blurry. Here are some pictures from the last few months, anyway.

Phoenix thought it would be funny to try to sit in Skylee's bumbo with her. She thought it was funny too... at first.

We found an awesome spot on the Boise river off of the greenbelt and went there a bunch of times this summer. Phoenix loved throwing rocks in the water. So did Cory.

Skylee's getting all grown up. She loves to throw/roll the ball back and forth. She just figure out the walker recently and LOVES to push it around the house. She gets ticked if she runs into something and gets stuck, though. She sure knows how to throw a tantrum.

Phoenix is always into mischief. This time, he found the bag of suckers that we bought for our road trips this summer.

We went to the Boise Zoo last week. It was supposed to be one of the last nice days we were going to have this fall and it was beautiful. I thought that I had uploaded more pictures than this, from the Zoo, but I guess not.

The kids were dragons for halloween and it was so fun. Phoenix loved it.