January

We have been good this month and we survived the 3 huge storms. I love falling asleep to the sound of rain. In Uruguay we only had a piece of metal (I think aluminum) between us and the sky and so even when it was barely raining it was pretty loud. I used to just lay there and love that sound. It rains more often there than here so I got to hear it more and since I got home I miss it. So this last week it was so nice to have all the rain. Here are a few pictures since it has been a while since I posted any. Bryn has finally started letting me put her super cute bows in her hair. I have been getting and collecting cute bows since she was born but she would never leave them in so all I have to say is FINALLY! And thanks to Heather and Rachelle for giving me some cute bows to use! This is her cheesy smile that she gave me when I said I wanted a picture. I think I have a sarcastic kid on my hands. Payback for all the sarcasm I have dished out I guess.

Snuggling with Grandma during her visit last weekend.

And I cannot seem to break her of the style-your-hair-with-food habit that she has. She is such a goofball.

I got to go see Leap Year last night and it was cute. Man for my 20th wedding anniversary (in 15 years) I want to take a trip there. Then I drove home blasting Juanes, Shakira, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Arbol and Reik and sang at the top of my lungs. It was so fun!! Good times, good times.

Randomness

Ok, well so far January has been nice. We have been cleaning and organizing like crazy! We had a whole bedroom full of so much junk that you couldn't even go in the room. So we cleaned it out and threw away a TON of stuff and re-organized the garage and everything is much more organized. I always put organizing off but it feels so good to have everything clean and in order. Hey, what do you know the scripture about a house of order is true!! And Bryn is so funny because she has recently become OBSESSED with Blue's Clues. She doesn't even want to watch Dora or Backyardigans anymore. She calls it Clue clues and gets so mad if I don't turn it on when she wants it. She is so funny with the phases that she goes through. And I want to post my goals for the year here so that I can be reminded to accomplish them.
1) Re-read the Book of Mormon and really study it, not just read it.
2) Continue with my quote book which I have been neglecting.
3) Deep clean one room in my house every week
4) Lose 10 lbs. I know everyone sets weight loss as a goal but I am really going to do it. I am drinking slim fast for breakfast and dinner and I am walking 3 days a week and doing wii active the other 2. My goal is to lose the 10lbs by about March since that is when we want to start trying for baby #2 again. We will see how it goes. No pictures this time but I will post more later. See ya!

Poetry

So, I have for some reason felt like reading poetry lately. This is not a habit, I usually can't stand poetry but I had a book from a class in college and I started reading through it again and realized I like some poetry. Here is a funny poem by Alexander Pope:

Where-e'er you find the cooling Western breeze
In the next Line, it whispers thro' the Trees
If Chrystal Streams with pleasing Murmurs creep
The Reader's threatened (not in vain) with sleep

I thought it was cute, funny and true!

And here is one by Shakespeare:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

Apparently I only like humorous poetry, but still. I just thought I would share. That is all.

2010!

Here are some pictures of us and Bryn at about 8pm. Bryn only made it to about 9:30 and then she was in bed. We stayed up playing Guitar Hero 5 until late because it is so addicting. I gave Bryn her first taste of some sparkling cider and she wasn't too fond of it. She only took 1 sip and then didn't want any more.

The New Year's Kiss!

With Daddy!

Funny stuff

I got this off of someone else's blog and I think every one applies to me! It's too cute.

-I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

-There is a great need for sarcasm font. (Seriously)

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it. (I always have done this and thought I was just weird)

-How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

-Was learning cursive really necessary?

- Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

- Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies" (I would say Yep that's P as in..........Pnuemonia)

- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

- I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dang it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

-Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet you anything that everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...