out with the old

Disclaimer: This blog is picture free due to technical dificulties or lack of technical skills.

I'm going to start this out with a shout out to one of my sisters who has inspired me and challenged me to dig a little deeper. She wrote a really awesome blog post here.

Lately I've been forced to make some grown up decisions, which I hate doing. Can't my mom still do that for me? Anyway, I guess that option has been gone for awhile now. To kick off this new found responsibility I have decided to start cleaning out my crap. I started with my closet yesterday and I must say it looks spectacular! It was quite the task seeing as how it's pretty large. I took before and after pictures, which hopefully I will be able to post soon. My next endeavor will be all the clothes that no longer fit Wyatt, wish me luck!

I loved going through all of my stuff and found some great things. Keys to the office I lost, pictures, wedding announcements, drawings from friends past, birthday cards, letters, papers from the hospital when I had Wyatt, etc. I found a letter that one of my sisters gave me after I had Wyatt, I think about it often but it was nice to actually read it again. It was just a confirmation to me that things will be okay and I'm on the right track. My family is nothing short of amazing, we all have different views and don't always agree on everything but we stick together. I've realized that what works for one of us isn't always going to work for the other and that's okay. Like my mom said, we've survived everything we have because we love each other. I'm so lucky.

a 2 year old said it... it must be true

"cool buns mom" followed by a patting of my buns.

that's right, wyatt thinks my buns are pretty cool. he probably wouldn't think that if he saw someone else's bare buns. but i'll take any compliment i can get!

Bedtime with wyatt is my own personal hell. I dread it every night. It is 11:09 and the bedtime attempt started 2 hours ago with the help of my cousin who was here watching Glee. When we first started having this nightly struggle, my cousin suggested these....
... which worked like a charm until about two weeks ago when he figured out how to rip them off. My friend Audrey suggested getting a lock for the door, so I'm going to switch his door knob around so that I can lock it from my side. (Side note to any concerned reader: I would always open his door before I went to bed and intend on doing the same thing in this case.) Somehow magically Wyatt can get through any locked door in our house so I'm a tad bit concerned that he will do the same. But I will attempt it anyway! Heaven help me... He's up again... *tears*

*UPDATE* 11:40 and I think we're in the clear... Understand the personal hell stuff now?

I've been horrible at blogging and decided to do a quick little update...

Wyatt turned 2 in July and we had a fun weekend in Glenwood with our family. Lots of four wheeling, games, a pool party, water fight, gifts and of course some cake.





I thought that I would make it out of the so called "terrible two's" and that W would be a perfect little angel. And boy was I wrong, this kid has some attitude. After three time outs and being slapped across the face and having my hair pulled in the check out line at Walmart, I have come to accept these next few months and I will do it with a smile on my face and a scratch on my cheek. He's too adorable and I just love everything about him, temper tantrum and all.

Wy with his head in the "bargage" can.

I have a new man friend and he bought me flowers. I think that any man that brings you flowers to your first date is a keeper. He is super sweet and nice and a total cutie. Our first date was this last weekend and it was a lot of fun and probably the best date I've had in years. I could go on forever, but won't. So far I haven't found anything that I don't like about him. We got together for the second time tonight and had dinner and watched a movie with our kiddos. We are going to get together again this weekend, and I'm definitely excited about that. Oh! I also baked him cookies and they were a hit. I now have permission to bake him cookies whenever I want to. I will keep you all posted (whoever the 5 of you might be!) and promise to blog more. But for now, I'm tired and it's late.

Special shout out to Kristen for making these dates possible, I never thought I'd let anyone set me up. And to Kylie for having the idea to take dessert. Thanks ladies!

What was I thinking?

Well not really sure I was! The Ragnar Relay Del Sol....

Every time I think about it, I want to throw up. There is a part of me that is excited and the rest of me is just terrified. I know in the end (hopefully) that I'll be glad I did it. And at least I'll get back in shape, right? So, here's to my training and the end of February!

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything to blog about. When your life is as boring as mine is, it lacks blogging topics. We had family pictures taken on Thursday and I'm pretty excited to see how they turned out. We haven't had them done in YEARS! Work is good and we're busy, which in the Real Estate market you have to be grateful for. Wyatt is great as usual and so happy. Sometimes I want to run away screaming but isn't that every mom? I hope so! And me.. well I'm just trying to hold everything together and hope it all works out in the end. Not really sure how that will happen, but hope it does.

how do they know?

how is it that a two year old that has never experienced the goodness of teddy grahams, can run down the isle at the store and come to a screeching halt at the teddy grahams and just know how great they are?