Monday, April 11, 2011
Don't turn around!
This is what happened when I turned around yesterday. I thought it was really funny. I have no idea how he got biter biscuit on his nose like that, but it happened in about a half a second. If you want to see a hilarious messy baby, check out little Everett on Tyrell's blog. This is probably as close to funny as Sawyer's going to get though, the face he is making made me LOL.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Not the best day
This is a negative post, but we've had a rough day!
First of all, Andy does not enjoy his job lately. A guy has been on vacation all week, and for some reason, they gave ALL of his stops to Andy today, on a day that school starts at 1pm in Lacey (and he drives from Auburn). He called his mgr and asked about it and he basically said that not to sound like a threat because Andy is his favorite driver, but if the stuff doesnt get delivered, he is going to find someone that can. .
We were both stressed because we were supposed to go to the house place and sign the papers today. With Andy getting Sawyer at 4, there is no way he could have driven to Lacey to turn in the paper due today and get back to the house place to finish everything by 6. We decided we would have to bring it tomorrow since we will be in Lacey for my game.
Then, we find out that there is a $500 fee for the house and we dont have $500. This was probably the worst thing yet because due to my braces and stuff (down payment), we have like no money now. As in, i have to bust out the credit card for Sawyer's formula. There is no way we would get $500 by the 14th (last date to pick colors). The lady said we could sign and pick the colors, then we have a month to get the money. If we don't by then, they can sell it to someone else. I think we are going to do that tomorrow. I really hope we can come up with that money. We are going to try to sell our sounders tickets and our flooring and see if we can get it. We definitely don't have it in our budget. I would just hate to go through all that and not be able to get the house because of this money! I wish i could take off my braces and get the money back.
Meanwhile we were both starving all day, and I am so angry because I am spending an arm and a leg for something painful that wont let me eat because i can't chew due to the bumps restricting me from closing my mouth.
All in all, a bad situation. Here is to hoping things turn around!
First of all, Andy does not enjoy his job lately. A guy has been on vacation all week, and for some reason, they gave ALL of his stops to Andy today, on a day that school starts at 1pm in Lacey (and he drives from Auburn). He called his mgr and asked about it and he basically said that not to sound like a threat because Andy is his favorite driver, but if the stuff doesnt get delivered, he is going to find someone that can. .
We were both stressed because we were supposed to go to the house place and sign the papers today. With Andy getting Sawyer at 4, there is no way he could have driven to Lacey to turn in the paper due today and get back to the house place to finish everything by 6. We decided we would have to bring it tomorrow since we will be in Lacey for my game.
Then, we find out that there is a $500 fee for the house and we dont have $500. This was probably the worst thing yet because due to my braces and stuff (down payment), we have like no money now. As in, i have to bust out the credit card for Sawyer's formula. There is no way we would get $500 by the 14th (last date to pick colors). The lady said we could sign and pick the colors, then we have a month to get the money. If we don't by then, they can sell it to someone else. I think we are going to do that tomorrow. I really hope we can come up with that money. We are going to try to sell our sounders tickets and our flooring and see if we can get it. We definitely don't have it in our budget. I would just hate to go through all that and not be able to get the house because of this money! I wish i could take off my braces and get the money back.
Meanwhile we were both starving all day, and I am so angry because I am spending an arm and a leg for something painful that wont let me eat because i can't chew due to the bumps restricting me from closing my mouth.
All in all, a bad situation. Here is to hoping things turn around!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
9 month appointment
Sawyer went to the doctor for his 9 month appointment today. I didn't get to go for the first time since I had practice :( He hasn't been since he was 6 months old so we were curious to see how he was doing.
He is 20 lbs and 29.5 inches which puts him at 80% for height (previously 90) and 30% for weight (previously 50). That is pretty skinny, especially for being so tall, but she said she was not worried because he jumped so much from last time, and he eats 8oz bottles and literally anything we put in front of him. (I hope he keeps that non-picky status, he has never refused to eat anything.)
He has had a rash that we thought might be some weird diaper rash, but i guess it was some sort of fungus? (Good call mom!) We got a prescription for it so he should improve soon!
She said his teeth are coming in well and he is doing well otherwise.
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On another note, I am a little sad because we sold our Sounders tickets for the game this saturday because I was supposed to have a game, but it got cancelled because of our lack of numbers. For some reason, nobody could make it :( We are still going to play 7 on 7 (normally it is 15 on 15) but there wont be a ref or anything which is sad. We also had the hardest practice ever today. We had to run a lot, and do a lot of stuff that took all your energy, then run zig-zag all the way down the field (yikes), then sprint down and jog back 7 times! It was so hard, especially with my big bruised shin that hurts when I walk. I am glad to get in shape though. I can't do hard exercise unless someone is pushing me/other people doing the same thing pushing me, so i really need it!
If anyone knows anyone that would like to play rugby and is free tues/thurs nights for practice and Saturdays for games, let me know. (If you have to miss a practice here or there they wont kill you but you do need to be there for the most part) I would not like any more games cancelled due to numbers! They dont need to know anything about it because it is pretty easy to learn and they teach you. There is also a position for every size person. The smaller/speedier people play backs and run and pass the ball more often, and the larger people play forwards and scrum, ruck, tackle more, and crash. Of course everyone has to run, pass, and tackle at some point. It is loads of fun and not as scary as it looks!
He is 20 lbs and 29.5 inches which puts him at 80% for height (previously 90) and 30% for weight (previously 50). That is pretty skinny, especially for being so tall, but she said she was not worried because he jumped so much from last time, and he eats 8oz bottles and literally anything we put in front of him. (I hope he keeps that non-picky status, he has never refused to eat anything.)
He has had a rash that we thought might be some weird diaper rash, but i guess it was some sort of fungus? (Good call mom!) We got a prescription for it so he should improve soon!
She said his teeth are coming in well and he is doing well otherwise.
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On another note, I am a little sad because we sold our Sounders tickets for the game this saturday because I was supposed to have a game, but it got cancelled because of our lack of numbers. For some reason, nobody could make it :( We are still going to play 7 on 7 (normally it is 15 on 15) but there wont be a ref or anything which is sad. We also had the hardest practice ever today. We had to run a lot, and do a lot of stuff that took all your energy, then run zig-zag all the way down the field (yikes), then sprint down and jog back 7 times! It was so hard, especially with my big bruised shin that hurts when I walk. I am glad to get in shape though. I can't do hard exercise unless someone is pushing me/other people doing the same thing pushing me, so i really need it!
If anyone knows anyone that would like to play rugby and is free tues/thurs nights for practice and Saturdays for games, let me know. (If you have to miss a practice here or there they wont kill you but you do need to be there for the most part) I would not like any more games cancelled due to numbers! They dont need to know anything about it because it is pretty easy to learn and they teach you. There is also a position for every size person. The smaller/speedier people play backs and run and pass the ball more often, and the larger people play forwards and scrum, ruck, tackle more, and crash. Of course everyone has to run, pass, and tackle at some point. It is loads of fun and not as scary as it looks!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Homeowners
Welp, it looks like we're homeowners. We go on Friday to sign the papers, and then can pick out the colors of the cabinets, floors, and countertop. We have to pick by the 14th or they decide for us- good thing we decided today haha :) They even let us walk around the wooden house that is just framed. They said it will probably be done around June.
Like I mentioned before, it is quite small- about the size of our duplex now. We just thought that since it would cost about the same to actually OWN it and not have the yelling neighbor, and be able to paint, and be putting money into our own stuff, it was worth it.
It is a cute little neighborhood on the street which is the border of Fredrickson and Spanaway, on the Spanaway side (yeah, we live in the hood now-gonna go buy a bullet proof vest). They are building a ton of new houses on our side of the street, and the other side is completely horse farms. It is actually kind of cute and we have a view of the mountain. It is a gated neighborhood with sidewalks and a little park thing with a big toy and basketball hoop. They are still building it but from the houses i saw, i got a peek and they looked like there are a lot of kids for Sawyer to play with :) We are excited to find new starter homes. It seems like a lot of the newer houses have like 5 bedrooms and cost at least $250,000 which is not in our budget yet.
The downsides is that it is like 15 minutes away from the places we are used to, and are going to have to start going to the Spanaway stores (I have an attachment to Puyallup) and our driveway, being the smallest house style, is only one car wide so we will be moving around cars. It is also in the Bethel school district, which might be fine for elementary, but not sure I want Sawyer going there for long so depending on how long we live there, we might have to use my parent's address so we can go to the Puyallup school district.
Things I like is that the kitchen is big, there is a harry potter closet, and the bathroom upstairs is bigger. We have the plan with the bathroom going to the hallway and the master bedroom, but that is better than now because our bedroom now doesnt lead to a bathroom.
I feel so grown up and accomplished. Married, baby, new car, own house... I am pretty excited :)
Here is the plan:
Like I mentioned before, it is quite small- about the size of our duplex now. We just thought that since it would cost about the same to actually OWN it and not have the yelling neighbor, and be able to paint, and be putting money into our own stuff, it was worth it.
It is a cute little neighborhood on the street which is the border of Fredrickson and Spanaway, on the Spanaway side (yeah, we live in the hood now-gonna go buy a bullet proof vest). They are building a ton of new houses on our side of the street, and the other side is completely horse farms. It is actually kind of cute and we have a view of the mountain. It is a gated neighborhood with sidewalks and a little park thing with a big toy and basketball hoop. They are still building it but from the houses i saw, i got a peek and they looked like there are a lot of kids for Sawyer to play with :) We are excited to find new starter homes. It seems like a lot of the newer houses have like 5 bedrooms and cost at least $250,000 which is not in our budget yet.
The downsides is that it is like 15 minutes away from the places we are used to, and are going to have to start going to the Spanaway stores (I have an attachment to Puyallup) and our driveway, being the smallest house style, is only one car wide so we will be moving around cars. It is also in the Bethel school district, which might be fine for elementary, but not sure I want Sawyer going there for long so depending on how long we live there, we might have to use my parent's address so we can go to the Puyallup school district.
Things I like is that the kitchen is big, there is a harry potter closet, and the bathroom upstairs is bigger. We have the plan with the bathroom going to the hallway and the master bedroom, but that is better than now because our bedroom now doesnt lead to a bathroom.
I feel so grown up and accomplished. Married, baby, new car, own house... I am pretty excited :)
Here is the plan:
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Funny baby
Babies are funny.
First of all, we get so excited when they do the smallest things. My mom noticed the other day that when he pulls on the music playing elephant that he makes him dance around. She sent the elephant home so i could try and we got super excited. We got excited when he bounes his arm bye-bye. I just noticed that he boogies when he hears music in general (probably my fault for dancing him all the time) and it just makes us so happy. It is funny to think if we got that excited when someone else bounces a stuffed toy around.
Second, they dont know anything. He shoots straight up the stairs even though he gets most of the way up and almost falls backwards. He will also pull himself off the edge of anything. You'd think there would be some instincts there! He also does the stick-thumb-out-and-push-anything-that-looks-like-a-button thing on the giant scab/bruise on my leg. How rude!
Third, they are exhausting. Here was my night last night (pretty typical): We get home from the babysitter, "Yes, he is asleep, i can eat" As soon as i sit down i see his little eyes peeking out of his carseat and he's going "oooh ooh". Pull him out and set him by his toys. Scoot scoot. He is up the stairs. I put him in front of his other toys. Pull up onto the tv and bookshelf and pulls off books. I put him in his bouncer so i can eat. Wahh! He doesnt like the jumeroo at the moment. Put him back in front of toys. Scoot scoot. He is in the coffee table (on the shelf below the table part) pulling at all our albums and papers. Put him on my lap and he grabs at my food. Put him on the floor and he is standing pulling at everything on the coffee table and knocks over my juice all over everything (phone, photo album, floor). Put him back on the floor and he pulls at any cord he can find. Why do they ignore toys, but play with anything that isnt theirs? Put him by toys again and he is up smacking at the TV. I heard you arent supposed to look at the TV too close, but that seems like the safest place for now. I am surprised there is time to eat! Whenever I am on the computer he crawls up me gonig "mommmm mama" and hits all the keyboard keys!
Babies are so funny, it is weird to think that they are little people because they certainly don't act like them!
First of all, we get so excited when they do the smallest things. My mom noticed the other day that when he pulls on the music playing elephant that he makes him dance around. She sent the elephant home so i could try and we got super excited. We got excited when he bounes his arm bye-bye. I just noticed that he boogies when he hears music in general (probably my fault for dancing him all the time) and it just makes us so happy. It is funny to think if we got that excited when someone else bounces a stuffed toy around.
Second, they dont know anything. He shoots straight up the stairs even though he gets most of the way up and almost falls backwards. He will also pull himself off the edge of anything. You'd think there would be some instincts there! He also does the stick-thumb-out-and-push-anything-that-looks-like-a-button thing on the giant scab/bruise on my leg. How rude!
Third, they are exhausting. Here was my night last night (pretty typical): We get home from the babysitter, "Yes, he is asleep, i can eat" As soon as i sit down i see his little eyes peeking out of his carseat and he's going "oooh ooh". Pull him out and set him by his toys. Scoot scoot. He is up the stairs. I put him in front of his other toys. Pull up onto the tv and bookshelf and pulls off books. I put him in his bouncer so i can eat. Wahh! He doesnt like the jumeroo at the moment. Put him back in front of toys. Scoot scoot. He is in the coffee table (on the shelf below the table part) pulling at all our albums and papers. Put him on my lap and he grabs at my food. Put him on the floor and he is standing pulling at everything on the coffee table and knocks over my juice all over everything (phone, photo album, floor). Put him back on the floor and he pulls at any cord he can find. Why do they ignore toys, but play with anything that isnt theirs? Put him by toys again and he is up smacking at the TV. I heard you arent supposed to look at the TV too close, but that seems like the safest place for now. I am surprised there is time to eat! Whenever I am on the computer he crawls up me gonig "mommmm mama" and hits all the keyboard keys!
Babies are so funny, it is weird to think that they are little people because they certainly don't act like them!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Home again
We finally made it back. Again. I feel like we haven't stopped moving for the past few weeks. We left Friday after work to go stay with my brother in Pullman. We woke up nice and early on Saturday and headed to Spokane for Fool's Fest. Erik and Destiny kept Sawyer all day so we didnt have to worry about him getting cold.
It was FREEZING there. It actually snowed a little. Then the sun came out and it was nice and warm. Then it got windy and started to hail and we were so cold we had to huddle like penguins. It was fun though. BUT, I have never been so tired in my life! Running, tackling, rucking, scrumming (is that a word?) each half was 30 minutes and there were 3 games planned. We lost the first against Eastern WA University, we won the second against Gonzaga, and by the 3rd game, we were ti-red. We had to "whore" 3 girls from another team because ours were all tired/sick/injured. My friend Megan broke her wrist in the second game! The 3rd ref was not very good and was allowing a lot of dangerous stuff, plus we were tired, so when our best player got tackled too high and got her leg twisted really bad, they just called the game before it was even halftime. We were all tired and cold anyway so there was no complaints. It was really fun though, it wasnt a tournament so it was all fun and everyone was allowed to start at least one game (I played the whole time through all 3 games). I think I learned a lot though and got to know the team a lot better.
It was FREEZING there. It actually snowed a little. Then the sun came out and it was nice and warm. Then it got windy and started to hail and we were so cold we had to huddle like penguins. It was fun though. BUT, I have never been so tired in my life! Running, tackling, rucking, scrumming (is that a word?) each half was 30 minutes and there were 3 games planned. We lost the first against Eastern WA University, we won the second against Gonzaga, and by the 3rd game, we were ti-red. We had to "whore" 3 girls from another team because ours were all tired/sick/injured. My friend Megan broke her wrist in the second game! The 3rd ref was not very good and was allowing a lot of dangerous stuff, plus we were tired, so when our best player got tackled too high and got her leg twisted really bad, they just called the game before it was even halftime. We were all tired and cold anyway so there was no complaints. It was really fun though, it wasnt a tournament so it was all fun and everyone was allowed to start at least one game (I played the whole time through all 3 games). I think I learned a lot though and got to know the team a lot better.
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| That's me trying to catch it against a Gonzaga girl |
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| That's a scrum, and you can't see me because i'm in the middle |
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| That is giant hail on the ground! It hurt so bad getting pelted! Oh and my giant XL shirt |
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| At Erik's- Get this thing off me mommy! |
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| I took this at a rest area waiting for Andy |
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| Another rest area picture |
Friday, April 1, 2011
2 New Homes
I have a new home at work. After like a year of talking about it, they finally cut the inventory room door in half (like a stable door :-/) and moved my computer to the desk in the tiny, loud, cold, inventory room. Once i moved in and opened up the door, it wasnt so bad. I liked being part of the action in the backroom tables, but I still can be a part of them when i open my door :) Here is a picture of my desk. I am kind of excited to have my own because i have a lot of extra space and can put up pictures and stuff. Plus I get double monitors which will help a lot :)
We also are looking at another home. They are building small, fairly cheap, new houses over between Fredrickson and Spanaway that we qualified for a loan. It is about the same size as our duplex, but we would own it for about $100 more a month. We are really considering buying one of these because they are just getting built now so we would get to pick the colors and stuff like that, plus it is a good time to buy right now, and since you have to have your job for a long time to qualify for a loan, we want to get one before Andy gets a teaching job since his years would start over. It has 3 small (smaller than ours now) bedrooms so we would still have a spare or room for #2 if we ever decide to have that one in a while. Just something we might do soon. We are going to talk about it this next week and will keep the update!
We also are looking at another home. They are building small, fairly cheap, new houses over between Fredrickson and Spanaway that we qualified for a loan. It is about the same size as our duplex, but we would own it for about $100 more a month. We are really considering buying one of these because they are just getting built now so we would get to pick the colors and stuff like that, plus it is a good time to buy right now, and since you have to have your job for a long time to qualify for a loan, we want to get one before Andy gets a teaching job since his years would start over. It has 3 small (smaller than ours now) bedrooms so we would still have a spare or room for #2 if we ever decide to have that one in a while. Just something we might do soon. We are going to talk about it this next week and will keep the update!
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