IF IT AINT BROKE

Well, life here is pretty interesting. They say that things break in 3's. Whoever, "They" is, is WRONG!!! Apparently, there is no magic number to things that break. Here is a list of things that have broken around our place in the last week or so.
1) Beloved Box Fan
2) Our DVD player
3) Our stand alone mirror
4)My body....I can't even blog about it, its too painful....let's just say chronic hives led to a month on steroids and now I look like the woman on Harry Potter that blew up like a balloon, but only in my face....two words: water weight. One word: GROSS! Not even pregnant did I look this bad...and besides I was pregnant...I had a baby....
5) Our Washing Machine....(and yes it flooded our kitchen majorly, and yes Rob was not home when it happened... nor was he reachable because he was tubing the Provo River, and yes I was washing ALL of our towels at the time of the breakage. All I can say is thank heavens for our amazing neighbors who saved the day.)
6) I'll leave this blank for the next thing that goes....

So, needless to say we are doing and will do our part to stimulate the economy in our neck of the woods as we replace these broken items. On the bright side, we get a new washing machine and dryer. The ones we had were purchased for $100.00 total and were 15 years old when we got them. They lasted 3 years and have totally paid for themselves. Plus, we discovered that the bottom of the washer was home to like a bazillion spiders and their babies....so I say good bye to the old washer and an enthusiastic, "HELLO!" to our new additions to the family! We will post pictures of them when they come.
But, I am not all miffed about the recent breaks...we have had some major blessings through out it all.
1) We got a new box fan whom we love.
2)We didnt really watch a whole lot of t.v. or dvd's before, but now we have filled our time with far greater things than watching a movie we might have watched before.
3)Um, I think all we get for brealing the mirroe is 7 years bad luck....oops
4) I no longer have hives...although I am thinking about trading back to the hives, seriously people...I look like a balloon...
5)duh, we get a new washer and dryer....yay for clean clothes and less noise hopefully!
6) we have seen just how much we are truly blessed to even have stuff to break in the first place. Some people in this world would give their all to have these "problems" that I am casually joking about.

so, that is it for this addition of, "If it aint broke..." Until next time.....
btw: I will post tomorrow about the formal dinner that Rob and I attended on Friday night....it was awesome!

Where is the baby?

Ok, so we may be terrible parents but we thought this was pretty funny.

Manti Pageant Trip

We made the trek to Manti this past weekend to see the pageant that Manti is famous for. We had a great time being together. Mom came with us and we had a great picnic before the show started. Here are some pictures from the evening. The pageant takes place on the hill in front of the temple. It is dramatic, but that is what a pageant is all about. The mosquitoes were almost as big as baby Robbie, but we were fortunate enough to have bug spray! Yay for modern technology.

Sometimes we have to walk before we can crawl

Rob and I went on a date tonight. We went to dinner and a $1 movie. We had so much fun, but the better part of the night was picking up little dude and heading home to all be together. Here is a little bit of our evening together. We are trying hard to encourage/help Robbie crawl, but the little man wants to walk. He rarely just sits anymore. He is always trying to pull himself up to a standing poisition and he will use any means necessary to do so. My hair is a favorite choice recently as well as any appendage that protrudes out that he can grab onto. Here we are chillaxin on the floor with our little man(and I just thought the little bum shot was adorable)The videos are of him doing his favorite activity right now...standing.... and finding random carpet pieces that have come loose and picking them up to examine them.

Our newest addition to the family!

So, Katie and Adam get a puppy. We get a fan...ah, the apartment life! This is our newest addition to the family. We have named her 'Boxy Lady', get it...ha ha kind of like Foxy Lady, but Boxy. I am so clever... She weighs in at about 2 lbs. She is loud enough to be a good little noise maker and she is clean! And yes, that is our old fan in the back ground. We have not thrown him away yet. He is breaking her in to her new territory.

Today, as on most days, Robbie and I spent the afternoon outside with our neighbors and their kids on our snowman blanket under the shade of our big trees in the front yard.
Here is our beautiful neighbor Laura and her darling son, Owen. He is going to be a heart throb.
Here is Little Dude with Daddy after dinner and before bath time. He is getting bigger all the time. Yes, he looks naked, but he does have a diaper on. Isn'e he adorable?
This is Robbie playing with the cap to his bottle. He put it in his mouth and was then talking with it in there. Just thought you would like to see him in action in the highchair.