Ugh...

I'm just going to go off for a minute. The boys are now almost 6 months old and I still haven't lost any weight. I find myself facing this vicious cycle of wanting to lose weight but never doing anything about it. Then I start to think I'm not that bad until I try on 3 of my old dresses that I fit into a year ago and then i get so sad again because I can't zip them up. I'm sure a lot of women do this but how do I really get a grip on it? UHG....I don't know but I need to figure something out because I'm tired of avoiding mirrors and camera's.

OK, enough of that lame pity party I just had for myself. I need to say that I just watched the premier of the show GLEE and I'm pretty sure it's going to be my newest favorite show on TV. I think I have to wait until the fall for the season to start. Which is probably a good thing since I need to be doing less sitting and more getting out of my house and off of my couch. ;)

I'm desperate...

Okay, so this is a shot in the dark but I'm desperate. Does anyone have any idea a good place to look for inexpensive tickets for show in San Fransisco? We're going to try to get tickets to Wicked while we're in California but I'm so bad at searching for things online and I just wondered if anyone knew of good websites. (Besides Ticketmaster. I'm not a big fan of them because they're kind of expensive.) Let me know as soon as possible if you have any ideas. We leave this Wednesday night. Thanks for any help you might have.

Lagoon: Fun in the Sun

Yesterday the four of us went to Lagoon. We bought season passes this year thinking it would be fun to go in and out of Lagoon as we please rather than feel like we have to stay an entire day to get our full money's worth. We really had so much fun as a little family. We didn't go on any rides but we walked all around the park. They have this part called Pioneer Village and it was so fun. I don't remember ever walking through that section before but it was a blast. It's set up like an old village with antique china shops, an old store that provided the pioneers with food and grains, a blacksmiths shop. All kinds of things. We had fun and we'll be going back all summer long. Our good friends bought passes too so we're going to go all together and take turns riding on rides. I'm so happy the weather has FINALLY changed. We are all about being in the sun.

My three hunks!

Don't you just love the hats. They probably look like little girls with them on but I don't care. I wasn't going to have their two bald heads get sunburned. That would be bad. All in all, we had such a good time. A surprisingly good time. Even Joaquin enjoyed himself. (I say that because he really wanted to go up to Idaho this weekend but we are heading out of town the end of this week so I said lets wait until after we get back so he said okay but that I had to plan our "saturday" activity. So off to Lagoon we went.)

So like I just mentioned we're heading out of town. We are heading to beautiful sunny California at the end of this week to see our families and to go to Joaquin's cousin's wedding. We are really looking forward to this trip. We are going to see a lot of people who haven't met the boys yet so it should be a lot of fun having everyone meet the boys. We're very excited and I'm sure I'll have some pictures from that trip to update everyone on.

Such Big Boys

Brock and Everett in their big boy clothes. They look so grown up to me in these pictures. Brock really is so much bigger than Everett. I don't really realize it until I take pictures of them. Poor little Everett. He may be smaller but he'll always be able to say, I'm 40 minutes older than you! These little guys keep me so busy but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

My Dad came to Utah this past week to bring our new Mazda van. I'll have to get some pictures of the new van. We're still deciding if we want to actually keep it or not. I'm pretty sure we'll keep it. It's so nice having a van. I know it's pretty nerdy but who cares, We're parents now. We have no shame. Anyway, it makes going places so much easier. So anyway, back to explaining these pictures. My Dad is a really big help and I was trying to cook some dinner but the boys were grumpy and I had already given them their milk so I thought I would try to give them some of their new favorite sweet potato's but it was too hard trying to cook and feed. So my Dad said he would help out with that. This is him helping and the last two pictures are of the boys after my Dad helped. Gotta love Dads. I know the boys sure do love their Grandpa. It made me laugh because when I try to feed the boys, I try to get as little food on them as possible so I don't have to clean up a big mess but my Dad didn't care at all. I realized then, I'm going to have to clean up a mess whether it's big or small so might as well just let them make a mess. ;)

Kinda cool

Ok, so you know that commercial with the little 4 1/2 year old girl that can upload a picture on her computer, brighten it and then email it to her family? It's a windows vista commercial...ok maybe you don't know but it shows how easy it can be for even a little 4 year old girl to do this so I've been trying to figure it out and I finally did. It's nothing extraordinary but it's kinda fun. The picture up above is of the back of my big old head in Zion's a couple years back and I was just playing around with that little program and the picture below is the result. Kinda fun. Anyway, just thought I would share.

Another post for today...

The reason I did another post today is because I was looking on my friend, Becky's blog and she had pictures of her little boy with his Dad's hat's on so it reminded me of little Everett's pictures. So funny. So because I was going to put pictures of Everett I couldn't leave Brock out so that's the reason for all these random pictures. They are fun though.

Dad's Future Hunting Buddies

Brock the chub Everett the kicker

Check out their cool boots

Just hangin' out

Daddy and his boys

I can't believe how the time has flown by....(sort of.) I mostly can't believe that my boys are as big as they are. They are little tanks. Everett is still a little smaller than Brock but we think it's because he burns more calories by KICKING all of the time. I swear the kid will be a swimmer, runner or kick boxer. Brock is just kind of a little blob right now. He's pretty happy with just being. They are now 5 months old and weighing almost 18 lbs. We just started introducing solids and they both love them. I've started them on rice cereal but they didn't eat that very well then I mix apple sauce and they love that. Next I'm going to let them try sweet potato's. We'll see how that goes. I might have to take some pictures.

So now that the boys are older, I've been able to become more normal. Things seem a lot easier than when they were new born's. I was just talking to Joaquin about how hard the first couple of months were. I just remember not sleeping because of the every 3 hour feedings and every 3 hour pumping's. I'm so glad we are past that stage. I think when we have more babies, we'll do it a little differently. Like plan on not having a baby in the winter. I think that was a big part of why it was all so depressing at times. I was stuck inside for almost 4 months straight. Ugh... Now we go on walks and trips to the store or over to their Aunt Nickies house (Who they love!!!). They love it. Our next big adventure will be heading back to California. We are going at the end of this month. We can't wait. First we're heading to Bishop CA to visit Joaquin's Mom. She is so excited to see the boys again. The last time she saw them was when they were only a few weeks old. Veronica, his sister and her husband will be going to Bishop as well. Then we'll head to Sacramento for another 3-4 days to spend some time with my family. I'm hoping we get to go camping while we're there but I think Joaquin is scared to take the boys camping. He thinks it'll be too much work. I say, who cares. We haven't been camping in soooo long. Plus we'll have so much help. So we'll see what actually happens. It should be fun no matter what.