For the Love of Poop!

Since I spend much of my day with kids I often have a few funny stories to share with Sam at dinner. Lately they have had a common theme: poop.



A couple weeks ago Sam and I were watching the Sjoblom girls while Amy and Andrew went on a date. They asked us to make sure Emilie and Ella bathed, because the next day was Sunday. Sam offered to bathe Emilie. Once the tub was filled Emilie got in and from the other room I heard her say, "what's this Sam?" as she holds up a brown ball, resembling a very smooth rock

Sam said, "what is that?"

Emilie, "oh it's poop."

Sam, "it's poop!, okay set that here"

Seconds later Sam comes into the room where I am at (laughing, and so happy he had chosen Emilie) and asks me what to do. We emptied the water and refilled it, and disposed of the poop.



This past Monday I was watching Charlotte. Charlotte has a really hard time actually sleeping during her nap, but she still has to stay in bed for quiet time. The more behaved she is during this time determines how long she has to stay in her room. I could hear her playing and went in to remind her she's supposed to be in bed. As I open the door the room smelled horribly. Guilty Charlotte turns around and shows me her hands, "poop manda!" she was so excited. Charlotte had decided to open up a poopy diaper(left in her room by her mother) and color on the furniture with her poop. Let's just say Charlotte didn't get to come out of her quiet time early due to good behavior.



Emilie is potty training. And lately when I get to her house around 9 she is naked. Like most kids I think it's easier to understand the sensations. Having naked potty training kids makes me little uneasy but I decided to keep her naked to encourage potty time. She was in the next room over playing her leapster and runs towards me, "there's poop coming out of the bum!"

me, "okay let's go to the toilet"

she turns around to run towards the toilet and there was a big piece of poop stuck inbetween her bum checks. Lucky for me we made it to the toilet just in time for her to really push some poo out.



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One Year Older and Wiser too!

Having a February birthday was great whenever I had a "significant other".  I was guaranteed at least two presents without really having to give in return.  In the ninth grade I was liked by Joey Rice.  He went to great efforts to make me feel special, by decorating my locker with hearts on the outside, inside there was candy, streamers, and two teddy bears kissing(we never kiss).  In eleventh grade Jimmy took me to dinner and showered me with tennis gear and for Valentines day we went ice skating and on a carriage ride. . . . hopefully you are beginning to see the benefits of dating someone during February.  Well this year it was different.  I felt bad for poor Sam having to deal with so many important and special occasions.  But we have had such a great few weeks.  My birthday was a day full of my favorite things and people!.  We spent lunch with my sisters, mom, and grandma at Citrus Grill(if you have never been there GO!).  Afterwards we spent the afternoon getting my nails done and shopping.  We went and saw "he's just not that into you", which I was very excited for, funny show for the record.  And for dinner we ate at Red Butte Cafe because I love their pasta salad and french onion soup.  Saturday we spent with the Richard's and had a delicious dinner and chocolate cheesecake if you ever want the recipe.  And Sunday we spent the evening at the Peterson's.  Monday morning I had a hard time getting out of bed because of my "birthday hang-over" or maybe because I'm 22 and starting to slow down.  

The Richards surprised me with my very own lifejacket!!.  Can't wait to use it in as soon as the lake's melt.  

Isabel was rather full after a delicious lunch at the Citrus Grill

Sam got me the boots that I have been coveting for months! this isn't the best picture of them but it's the best one that I have.  

We are making it!

Sam and I celebrated six months of being married this weekend!. Can you believe it, on Sunday February 1st, we have been married six months!.  Time sure has flown by, we still feel like we just got married last month.  We celebrated Friday night at Macaroni Grill, because after we were sealed in August we went to lunch at Macaroni Grill while everyone else prepared for the reception.  It was just enjoyable this time as it was last, we splurged and got drinks, something we haven't been doing lately, I got an Italian Soda and Sam got a peach lemonade.  Then later that night we talked about everything we remember feeling the last days before getting married.  Sam experienced pure excitement, while I was anxious, nervous and a little bit of a wreck!  Funny how different boys and girls are.  

Anyways we have learned a lot while being married, but we have mostly been enjoying being together so much and having someone to depend on and count on.  We find ourselves at home a lot on the weekends because it's rare to both be home during the week with nothing to do.  When we stay home on the weekend we play the Wii together trying to beat each others high scores.  Right now Sam has the high score in shooting and I have the high score in ping pong, and Sam will always be better than me in Mario Kart.  We also spend lots of time in the kitchen and I am sure learning a lot about cooking.   Some of our favorite meals are, crab cakes, roast beef sandwiches, caramelized pork chops, and pecan glazed salmon.  Sam has really branched out with my cooking and is such a great sport!.  Since we met we have adopted some of each others hobbies and interests.  Sam introduced me to snow shoeing and we really like getting out doors in the middle of winter and hiking around in our snow shoes.  He also got me hooked on boating, even though he is a skier I really like wake boarding, and we are both really excited for the warm weather.  We also love spending night outside on the tennis court.  

I thought I would post some wedding pictures, since most of you haven't seen them.  Enjoy! and thanks for all the love and support throughout our engagement and these past 6 months, we love you!

I AM A TERRIBLE BLOGGER

So much has happened since my last post, end of school, Christmas, New Years, Sugar Bowl, Winter break, and now school restarting.  Obviously I can't tell every detail of all these events but I want to share the highlights and some of the pictures.  

Sam and I both survived the end of school and can't believe that it has started again.  This semester Sam is taking a lighter load and investigating the business world by taking Fundamentals of Business, which he is surprisingly interested in already.  (he's already going to the library to do the readings, on the first week of school!).   I am taking multiple ESS classes, one of which I get to practice my group fitness leadership skills and have to teach a fitness class.  Hopefully I have a little bit of my mom in me, and will be able to shake it as good as she did back in the day. 

This year we were a little concerned that Santa Claus wouldn't visit us.  We had a couple things working against us.  Neither one of us have changed our addresses on our drivers licenses, how would Santa find us?.  Also our landlords have bricked our fireplace off, how would Santa get in? So we were pleasantly surprised to wake up and find that Santa did remember us and found us.  We were also pleasantly surprised that Sam survived all of the Christmas season without throwing up!.  

We enjoyed spending the Christmas time at many family parties.  We are also very excited for Anna, Sam's sister who got engaged to Dave Peterson (not my dad, but I am very jealous that she gets to take on Peterson for her last name) on Christmas day, what a great present! 

The day after New Years Eve we flew out to N'Orleans with most of my family for the SUGAR BOWL.  Boy does Sugar taste sweet.  Of course our favorite memory from the trip will be the sweet show put on my our Utes, but there were a few other highlights.  

For those of you who haven't had the opportunity of attending a Utah sporting event with my mom you are missing out! I was sitting behind her and tried to capture her enthusiasm. 

We also enjoyed the weather in the 70's walking around the French Quarters.  

We had a very fun and busy Christmas break, we topped it off by both getting sick for the last week and stayed home from work in bed!.  Now we are feeling better and excited for the upcoming semester, birthdays, and winter activities.  

CHRISTMAS IS IN THE AIR

The recent snow fall has really brought the Christmas spirit around our house.  I am so glad it didn't snow too much when we were trudging around campus.  

This morning we had the great opportunity to go to 'music and the spoken word' on temple square.  This week was extra special because once the broadcast was over there was a mini performance highlighting the program that was sold out all weekend.  The music, bells, orchestra, and dancers were all wonderful but my favorite part was the special guest.  Brian Stokes Mitchell was the guest singer this year and was absolutely awesome.  He sang the best songs, 'the friendliest beasts' was one of our favorite.  The Christmas music definitely got us excited for all of the upcoming festivities.  If you are looking for some good Christmas music or maybe even someone new to listen to he's worth checking out.  

thank goodness for moments of fresh air

We have survived another week and are counting down the days until we are completely done with school all together.  Before I am finished I have 5 papers, a project, and 4 finals. . . . December 19th I will be a whole new woman!  Sam on the other hand has 4 finals, approaching rather quickly, and they are much harder than mine, who seriously takes general chemistry and organic chemistry back to back.  He's been working hard to get a jump start on studying to his back to back finals on December 15 and 16.  But this post wasn't supposed to be about finals.  It was supposed to be about everything but finals... 

So on Saturday morning, I was searching the internet for a particular game to give the families I nanny.  I was searching on Target online and it'll tell you what store whatever you want is available in.  It said it was available at Fort Union, I called to check and Sam told me to see if they had Wii Fits too.  And they actually did!  This is the one thing we really wanted to get, and hadn't been able to find.  We launched out of bed and got ready to make it to Target in about 40 minutes and secured our very own wii fit.  We are so excited to open it up on Christmas day, just in time to burn off all the holiday goodies.  But we are trying to forget that we bought one so unwrapping it will be a surprise.. please help by not talking about it.  thanks. 

After having such a successful shopping morning we decided to buy our very own Christmas tree.  We had a very few options of what kind of tree would actually fit in our tiny little living room.  We were searching for a tall and skinny tree and found one that is just perfect!.  

sam's so strong!!! 

So come on over and check out our fully decorated tree and hang out.... after Dec. 19th!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

T-BIRD to HONDA to DODGE MAGNUM to ???

Last Monday I agreed to help a mom out who desperately needed a sitter to watch her kids Wednesday to Saturday. She has good kids and it's easy money, so I agreed to help her on such notice. That Wednesday we were just settling down after feeding everyone dinner when the neighbor knocked on the door, telling us that our car had just got hit. Luckily the driver had pulled over and stopped. Turns out he was another neighbor driving with only a permit, looked down to turn on his lights and BAM hit us.

Today we took our car to get inspected, it will take 4,991 dollars to fix our car. We now have the option to either total our car and take the money, or have them fix it. Being new car owners we aren't sure what to do but, hope to figure it out soon.

Also today we noticed that we have driven 8 cars, for at least a week, since we got married three months ago. Cadillac, T-bird convertible, Honda, Acura, Mini, Porsche, Escalade, and now the Dodge Magnum.

If you have any input on what we should do, please help us!!