A momentous occasion...

I just thought I would let everyone know that today I went to Sams Club to buy 2 things and I left Sams Club with only those 2 items, nothing extra, and I spent less than $20!!! I don't think that has EVER happened before. I always go with a list, and most always end up throwing a few extras in once I get there, and the bill has never been less than $100. But not today, I am so proud of myself!

Our House....

I'm bugged almost as much to post some pictures of our house, as I am to post new pictures of Kaitlyn so here you go Mom, Dawn, and Emily....

It seems like everytime we go check in on it something is always going wrong. First it was the a beam in the garage, then there was framing issues, then the stone we chose was too yellow, then they forgot to put in a built in shelf in the shower, installed a shelf where cabinets are supposed to go, and today the entire interior was painted the wrong color...GGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

This is the way we pitch a fit....

Today was just one of those days...Kaitlyn actually started off pretty happy this morning it just went down hill from there.

Here is my evidence that she actually was happy today...this was taken just before we left for the gym. She usually loves to go play at the gym but today when we went she cried the entire time I was gone (they finally paged me after 50 minutes of straight crying) Then when she woke up from nap time she woke up crying, flailing, and inconsolable for about 10 minutes. Then after dinner we had another episode ....

Picnic at the Park

I don't have anything really interesting to say I just keep getting asked to udpate (post pictures of Kaitlyn) so here goes... Today we went to the park, had a picnic and I took my camera with the intention of taking lots of pictures but I came home with only 2 so here they are....

We started to eat our picnic lunch at the tables but there was a HUGE bee that wouldn't leave us alone - I have never been stung by a bee and really don't want to get stung or have my daughter get stung either so they really freak me out (and so do most all bugs) - so we finshed our lunch at the bench (on the opposite side of where the spider was)



Kaitlyn was so excited to play at the park (we haven't been for awhile) but I feel bad because I have totally rubbed off on my daughter...she wouldn't go down the slides at first because they were "icky". But I eventually convinced her that one of the slides was clean enough for her to go down, then other kids showed up and she just followed them around.

Anyhow, nothing else interesting is going on in our lives...just Dan going to school, I get to play with Kaitlyn all day, and we were told our house should be finished on November 3rd (but we'll see)

Also if anyone is interested in the type of humor I grew up around click here. This is my totally my Dad's sense of humor, but will probably make everyone else in my family laugh too... and who knows maybe you too.

We're Back!

So we're back and have no more trips planned except for a possible Vegas trip in 2 weeks until we move into our house which will hopefully be the last move for at least a few more years 13 times in 4 years is enough for me .

We had such a fun time on our cruise! It's a little hard to adjust back to the reality of cooking, cleaning and having any sort of responsibility but I guess we can't be on vacation forever and we were really starting to miss Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn had so much fun playing with Grandma and Grandpa Liddle, beacme very fond of Jacob, terrorized poor Penny their dog , and was spoiled with lots of new toys!

Meanwhile Dan and I had a nice relaxing week. Our first stop was in Haiti where we just lounged on the beach. Then we stopped in Jamaica where we attempted to shop for cool stuff but all we found was a statue of Bob Marley so we returned to the mostly empty ship and got pampered at the spa. Next stop was Grand Cayman and we went snorkeling at some 7 mile reef didn't really come close to the snorkeling at Molokini and then went to a stingray city where we got to swim with, feed, pet, and kiss the stingrays supposedly Dan and I will now have 7 years good luck for the kissing part. The last stop was in Cozumel and we took a ferry to the mainland and went to Xel Ha which is a really pretty, huge, Disneylandish snorkeling 'paradise'. The days we were on the boat Dan spent most of the time at the Flowrider... basically a standing wave that pushes 30,000 tons of water a minute up a foamy slope he had so much fun on it that the last night he and Rich we went with our friends Rich and Shelley on the cruise rented it out for an hour. I wish I could have done it but that's something you just can't do when you're 6 months prego :( So I'm trying to convince Dan that we should just put one in our back yard - for only about $500K and operating costs...ok maybe in our dreams but if anyone else wants to do it let us know and we'll come over and use it!

We're not very good at taking pictures of ourselves so here's what we've got. I thought it was fun to get back to our room at night and see what animal the towel was folded into...I wasn't so sure about some of them so if you have better guesses let me know.

Here's some video of Dan on the Flowrider...

High School Coolness Test...

My mom sent me this test in an email, I thought it was pretty fun...what do you think?

This test is based on how cool you were in High School--what crowd you ran with, etc., it's pretty accurate. SEE IF YOU ARE STILL A COOL PERSON: Or if you have changed. Click Here

The past 2 weeks...

We FINALLY got our cable and internet hooked up and Kaitlyn is still napping so here's a quick udpate:

1. We moved back to Provo and Kaitlyn is so sad that we can't go to the "old mall" (aka Mall of America) to ride on the bus and the choo choo. But we did have such a fun time staying at my cousin Jen's house, or as Kaitlyn says "Jack's house", for a few days Jen, Kaitlyn keeps talking about wanting to play with Jack so I think we're gonna have to get together sometime soon:) until we could move into our "temporary house" where we will stay until we can move into our "new house" We've come up with all these names because poor Kaitlyn has no stability and is so confused about where home is.

This is how I let Kaitlyn pass the time away while I unpacked some of our stuff...jumping on the bed it was an airmatress so my reasoning for allowing it was that it wasn't that high off the ground and it was keeping her out of my way and playing dress ups

2. Dan made it back to Provo just in time for us to go to the first BYU football game...very hot, but still fun...Go COUGS!

3. We went and visited our friends Matt, Jaime, and Bentley this past weekend in California so Dan and Matt could go watch the BYU vs UCLA football game while Kaitlyn and I enjoyed just hanging out with Jaime and Bentley.

We're leaving this weekend to go to Florida to drop Kaitlyn off with Grandma and Grandpa Liddle while Dan and I go on a much anticipated cruise to the Carribean!!! So don't be expecting anymore updates until we get back...and pray that are plans don't get disrupted by a hurricane!