Sunday, October 11, 2009

OUR WEEK IN PICTURES!

We have been busy here in Tucson. The weather has been absolutely PERFECT and we are excited to welcome in the fall here. Here's some fun pictures from some of our adventures this week.

Lois and I went to the zoo the other day and she was in heaven. She's such an animal lover! She especially loved the peacocks that roam around the zoo, the tiger, the polar bears and the giraffes. She also loved feeding the ducks!

She liked this peacock and kept kissing it. I subsequently wanted to kiss her to death because of her abounding cuteness.

Loving the elephant sculpture!

Lois got some new silver slippers. She likes them a lot. And so does mom.

Addie and her girls and Lois and I met up at the mall and then got some snow cones and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Lois and Avery were chowing down on their goldfish together.

I got a kick out of this picture...

Lois had a blast with her two boyfriends, Trevor and Jack, while all the mommies got together during priesthood session. We made carmel apples and chatted, and these three were dancing and cracking up together.

Jason and I got to go on a short date night and went out to eat sans Lois. It was very nice. And what did we do when you got home? Took silly pictures together, of course!! We were cracking up. Here are a few of my favorites.


Jason's especially awesome in this one. Nice, babe.

Such a serious little face...

Couldn't she be a poster child for Williams-Sonoma? On this particular day, she grabbed our pool key and her "purse" (AKA her WS bag) and was ready to rock n' roll.
It's amazing how much she picks up from what we do everyday...she's growing into such a little lady these days!

Do You Ever...

...wish they'd color the string to a shower loofah a different color? Every morning, after I'm done using my pink puff, it takes me literally a minute to find the string to hang it on the shower rack. Am I the only one that sits and twists and twists and twists until it finally emerges? Aahh, the frustration!

...wish that you had a moving message sign on the top of your car so that you could write and deliver witty and biting comments to terrible drivers? I often wish I had this capability on my car. I'm not saying that I'm a top-notch driver all the time, but there are some serious lame brains on the road these days and some days I wish I could tell them so.

...just die of love for your children? I look at Lois every day and have such an overwhelming sense of love that makes my heart grow ten-fold every day. On this beautiful Sunday, I am overwhelmed at the love my Heavenly Father has for his children - and the ultimate sacrifice of allowing his Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer and die for our sins. I'm grateful for a Father in Heaven who loves and knows me. What a blessing children are in our lives. I'm so in love with Lois and the things she has been able to teach me about this earthly life and the joy beyond.

...wish that you could eat whatever you want and never have to work out and still be skinny? I believe this to be one of the only true "liberal" thoughts I have...you know, wanting something for nothing. {sigh} To the gym I must go! What do they say? No pain, no gain? (but not literally... :-)

...hate having to do your hair everyday? I hate it. Hate it, hate it! Sometimes, I wish I could be like a man - get out of the shower, towel dry my hair and swish it around with my fingers. But I can't - otherwise I'd look like a wet dog everyday! I'm going to start wearing a wig at 50 so I don't have to do my hair anymore (an idea I got from a very wonderful lady I know.) Either that or go to a salon on a daily basis for them to wash and style my hair.

...feel gyped when you meet women who become the skinniest they have ever been after having children? They always say it's the breast feeding. While I love these people, I still think they stink. Because all breast feeding did for me was make me cry, cry and cry...NOT make me skinny!

...feel something so deeply in your heart and soul that you're often too emotional to express it? Today I bore my testimony in church. My, my. I'm such a boob. The older I get, the more emotional I become about expressing my testimony of the restored gospel and of my Savior, Jesus Christ - since it is one of the greatest gifts I have in this life and I hold it very dear to my heart. I'm going to be a blubbering mess by the time I am 50. Can't wait for that.

...wish the dishes would do themselves? This is on the top of my list of most hated chores, especially when you have to wash the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher. One day, I'm going to have a dishwasher that actually does just that. Wash the dishes! Anyone else out there have to wash their dishes before putting them into the dishwasher? I mean, how frustrating is that?!?

...wish there was a clothes fairy that came and hung up all your clothes that have piled up on your floor and/or bedroom chair? Also on my wish list? To look good in anything i put on my body.

...fall in love with your husband all over again? Especially when you see him doing stuff like reading to your child or helping around the house?

...wish you could break a terrible habit that you've tried over and over again to do so? I've been a nail biter since I was about three years old and have subsequently been trying to break the habit for about 20 years of my life and I'm still unsuccessful. The two times I've temporarily stopped? The year and a half I had braces on my teeth and the nine months I was pregnant. What gives?

What "DO YOU EVER?"