Say what??

I'm in shock.

Cayden had his dentist appointment today.  We've tried having our dentist to see him but he REFUSED! So I thought we'd try a Pediatric Dentist.  To say I was nervous would be a total understatement. My stomach had butterflies - to the max!

The waiting room was so cool.  There was a big tree and inside the tree was like a play kitchen and a TV with I think a play station hooked up to it.  Cayden loved it and didn't want to leave.  I had to drag him out. Great start right? Yeah.

We went back to get "pictures of his teeth".  I was like oh great here it comes.  But he sat there and let the assistant put the lead vest on him. and he bit down on all the things.  Gagged a bit but he did it. I was SO proud of him. I couldn't keep the goofy smile off my face.

Then we went to the seat. They had Tangled playing on the TV in the CEILING. Is it weird that I find that so cool?? they even had these wireless earphones so he can hear it.  Then the assistant flossed (who knew we needed to do that - ha!) and polished his teeth. I'm shocked he let her do that. He gagged and kind of threw up when she put the fluoride foam on his teeth. He was a little weirded out by the sucker thing.

And then the Dentist came over. Yep, he has a cavity in between his front two top teeth. He's going to need it fixed since he'll have his front teeth for a while.

oh and Cayden has VERY crowded teeth. I saw his adult teeth in the x-ray and MAN they are going to be messed up.  They suggested we will be doing early treatment for them. yay...... haha but I want my kids to have straight teeth.

Well now I'm off to floss his teeth. Ha! I will do it tomorrow since they got it pretty good today. :)

SO proud of my little boy.

First Night

Last night was my first night at my new schedule.

The new schedule is 9 pm to 3 am. I got to put Creighton to bed. I also was able to play some Wii with Cayden and Adam before I left. I think I'm going to like this schedule. I don't feel rushed to get ready for work RIGHT after dinner.

On my old schedule, 7 pm to 1 am, I would fall asleep almost every 5 minutes for the first 2 to 3 hours - sometimes the whole time I have a hard time. Seriously I couldn't stay awake for the life of me! Last night, I was awake the WHOLE time. I didn't even feel tired! It was weird considering I worked 2 hours later!

BUT I don't understand why they would need me to work from 9 pm to 3 am. We hardly had mail the whole night. Granted it was because it was Sundays.  But I have heard that Sundays were always busy and always overtime. I was dreading it. Turns out - no need to fear.

This morning Adam had to work at 4 am which means he had to leave by 3:30 at the latest. I got home at 3:20 - hitting every green light possible.  It was weird to just kiss him good bye and crawl in an empty bed. But I did thoroughly enjoy the whole bed to myself.

I guess tonight will be the real test. Hoping we all get naps. Trying stretch it out til Adam gets home when he gets off at 12:30. We'll be watching Cars while playing cars.

Guess what????

I WON A GIVEAWAY!!!

And I have to say its probably the BEST GIVEAWAY YET!!!!   I'm so excited!!!

I get a FREE CARPET CLEANING from JP Carpet & Tile Care!!! And here's the description

from Tater Tots and Jello's Giveaway:

Xazmin and Jeremy are offering ONE Tatertots and Jello reader a 

free whole-house carpet cleaning 

Up to 6 areas (over 200 sq. ft. counts as 2 areas), plus ONE hall, and ONE stairwell. 

 And deodorizer application.**

The total possible value of this package is over $290!

 They're a Utah based company and I'm super excited to see the results :):)

Here's the example from Jen's house (blogger of Tater Tots and Jello)

Awesome!! Our kitchen grout needs some lovin', our family room and our play room.  And the hall and stairwell?? Yes please!  WOOHOO!!!

Thank you Jen from Tater Tots and Jello and JP Carpet & Tile Care!!! 

Can't wait :)

***Vinyl Craft Giveaway***

There is a giveaway for Vinyl Crafts on this awesome new blog I found Sugar Pop Ribbons.

I'm super excited about this giveaway!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything from Vinyl Craft!!

My favorite?

Isn't that adorable? Love the saying! :):)

Decisions.

I've decided....

- to stay at my job even though it might be rough working til 3 am. I'm going to work my hardest and hopefully pay as much debt down as possible.

- that I wish I could share something EXCITINGGGGGG!!! But!!! I can't :) no guesses.. and no I'm not preggers! :) (I just wish I was haha)

- that I can no longer be a negative person. It is SO draining!! I've been a trash talker about people at work and to be honest - I don't know them.  I know I'm a horrible person. But I'm determined to change my thinking about everything. I want to be a person that people love to be around.  I've also noticed that when I am trying to come up with something to say - its something negative or saying I'm tired or something. Its kind of embarrassing to confess how negative I have been but I'm changing :)

- to be a happy person.

- to not let things that are out of my control frustrate me.

- to be a happier mom and wife. I love those days where I'm happy and things always go smoothly! So I need  to just be happy.. JUST BE HAPPY! haha :)

-that I've lost my train of thought. :)

Reading the Book of Mormon fall 2011

There is an event on Facebook (click there to "attend it") that is challenging people to read the whole Book of Mormon from Sept 1 to Dec 31!

Wanna do it?? Do it with me :):)

Here's the schedule:

2 chapters or 4 pages a day (approx) to finish the Book of Mormon by Dec. 31, 2011. 

Sep 1  1 Nephi 1-3

Sep 2  1 Nephi 4-7

Sep 3  1 Nephi 8-9

Sep 4  1 Nephi 10-11

Sep 5  1 Nephi 12-13

Sep 6  1 Nephi 14      

Sep 7  1 Nephi 15

Sep 8  1 Nephi 16      

Sep 9  1 Nephi 17-18      

Sep 10  1 Nephi 19-20      

Sep 11  1 Nephi 21-22

Sep 12  2 Nephi 1      

Sep 13  2 Nephi 2      

Sep 14  2 Nephi 3-4

Sep 15  2 Nephi 5-7      

Sep 16  2 Nephi 8      

Sep 17  2 Nephi 9     

Sep 18  2 Nephi 10-13      

Sep 19  2 Nephi 14-17 

Sep 20  2 Nephi 18-20      

Sep 21  2 Nephi 21-24

Sep 22  2 Nephi 25      

Sep 23  2 Nephi 26      

Sep 24  2 Nephi 27-28      

Sep 25  2 Nephi 29-30      

Sep 26  2 Nephi 31-33      

Sep 27  Jacob 1-2      

Sep 28  Jacob 3-4

Sep 29  Jacob 5           

Sep 30  Jacob 6-7    

Oct 1  Enos & Jarom 

Oct 2  Omni

Oct 3  Words of Mormon      

Oct 4 Mosiah 1-2      

Oct 5  Mosiah 3

Oct 6  Mosiah 4-5      

Oct 7  Mosiah 6-8      

Oct 8  Mosiah 9-10      

Oct 9  Mosiah 11-12      

Oct 10 Mosiah 13-15      

Oct 11  Mosiah 16-17

Oct 12  Mosiah 18-19      

Oct 13  Mosiah 20-21      

Oct 14  Mosiah 22-23      

Oct 15  Mosiah 24-26      

Oct 16  Mosiah 27      

Oct 17  Mosiah 28-29      

Oct 18  Alma 1      

Oct 19  Alma 2-3      

Oct 20  Alma 4-5      

Oct 21  Alma 6-7      

Oct 22  Alma 8      

Oct 23  Alma 9-10      

Oct 24  Alma 11      

Oct 25  Alma 12      

Oct 26  Alma 13-14

Oct 27  Alma 15-16      

Oct 28  Alma 17-18      

Oct 29  Alma 19      

Oct 30  Alma 20-21      

Oct 31  Alma 22-23      

Nov 1  Alma 24      

Nov 2  Alma 25-27

Nov 3  Alma 28-29      

Nov 4  Alma 30      

Nov 5  Alma 31-32      

Nov 6  Alma 33      

Nov 7  Alma 34-35      

Nov 8  Alma 36-37      

Nov 9  Alma 38-39

Nov 10  Alma 40-41      

Nov 11  Alma 42-43      

Nov 12  Alma 44      

Nov 13  Alma 45-46      

Nov 14  Alma 47      

Nov 15  Alma 48-49      

Nov 16  Alma 50-51

Nov 17  Alma 52      

Nov 18  Alma 53-54      

Nov 19  Alma 55-56      

Nov 20  Alma 57      

Nov 21  Alma 58-59 

Nov 22  Alma 60-61      

Nov 23  Alma 62-63

Nov 24  Helaman 1-2      

Nov 25  Helaman 3-4      

Nov 26  Helaman 5      

Nov 27  Helaman 6-7      

Nov 28  Helaman 8-9      

Nov 29  Helaman 10-11      

Nov 30 Helaman 12-13

Dec 1  Helaman 14      

Dec 2  Helaman 15-16      

Dec 3  3 Nephi 1-2      

Dec 4  3 Nephi 3-4      

Dec 5  3 Nephi 5-6     

Dec 6  3 Nephi 7-8      

Dec 7  3 Nephi 9-11

Dec 8  3 Nephi 12      

Dec 9  3 Nephi 13-15      

Dec 10  3 Nephi 16-17      

Dec 11  3 Nephi 18-19      

Dec 12  3 Nephi 20      

Dec 13  3 Nephi 21-23      

Dec 14  3 Nephi 24-27

Dec 15  3 Nephi 28-30      

Dec 16  4 Nephi     

Dec 17  Mormon 1-2      

Dec 18  Mormon 3-4      

Dec 19  Mormon 5-6      

Dec 20  Mormon 7-9      

Dec 21  Ether 1-2

Dec 22 Ether 3-4      

Dec 23  Ether 5-7      

Dec 24  Ether 8-9      

Dec 25  Ether 10-11      

Dec 26  Ether 12-13      

Dec 27  Ether 14-15      

Dec 28 Moroni 1-5

Dec 29  Moroni 6-7      

Dec 30  Moroni 8-9      

Dec 31  Moroni 10 

whew that's a long list... but hopefully you can join in.. I'm excited to read it and learn more! :)

***Cutting Edge Stencil Giveaway***

Simply Sadie Jane is doing a giveaway for Cutting Edge stencils!  and I wanna win sooooo badly!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE their stencils!! My favorites and some examples are:

Source

Source

So go! And enter if ya want an awesome stencil...

If i don't win.. I'll eventually buy my favorite one :)

picniking around

Shows how bored I am somedays :)


before:

after:

not much different but I had fun for a few minutes :)

couponing

man alive. Where I shop I am never stuck behind people who use tons of coupons. So I have never been annoyed (and i find people who find couponers annoying irritiating. Get over it.. They're saving money. its a good thing to save money!)

and I want to start saving money.  so I was looking at some couponing sites (and I've seen that show "Extreme Couponing" on TLC) and people are crazy! I don't want to invest TONS of time into it and I don't want to go from store to store to store to save on one particular item.  I will continue to only shop at Harmon's and Target. No way will I ever go back to the devil's place Wal-mart to save on money. even if we both lose our jobs. Nothing will ever make us go back to that nasty, dirty place.

Back to coupons. I found a site and we buy most of the things on the list. So I'll be checking the website and printing coupons for the next paycheck.  And maybe I'll get over myself and use them. I'm always embarrassed to use them for some reason.  But they're there.. Why not use them? So I'm going to.  Good thing I have an "in" with Harmon's - my SIL works there. So I can ask her if certain coupons are allowed and what not.  Sweet!

Hope this helps save us some money :)

blah blah blah

* Last night was my first night back and I was called to work 8 hours. Which means instead of working til 1 like I normally would, I had to work til 3:30! How irritating. Especially when you walk into work and see that everyone is called to 8 hrs and it NEVER gets called off.  The numbers even went super low.  Oh well.

* We went to Cayden's speech screening today with the Jordan School District. It turned out to be pointless.  They hadn't read that Cayden had IEP's (speech goals) with the Granite School District.  So one minute into the screening they read what I wrote on this packet that he had IEPs.  So we stopped the screening and they told me that Cayden has an already "in" if he has current IEPs. Sweet!  I don't think he needs speech for too much longer. He's getting SO much smarter day after day.  The minute he was getting "screened" he knew so many things.  Like the picture of the cage.. What 3 yr old knows that? haha.  They were impressed.  But in his current IEPs, they were worried about sounds he has to stay with his tongue and lips like "st", "s", "th", "ph", "f" and the sound that goes with "gone" - he says it like "dawn".

* Creighton is walking like CRAZY.  I love it.  He's still super woobly but he gets right back up! :) He also loves wrestling with Cayden. It is so hilarious! Another thing is hilarious is Creighton will take his blankie (which is another story) and put it over his head. Then he'll attempt to walk! He never makes it far. but its still adorable :)

* Adam has some exciting stuff that MAY be happening soon!  When its more okay to talk about it, I will share :)  Other than that, Adam is just awesome being a husband, handy man and chef!  He's amazing at cooking and I love everything he cooks! :)

Creighton and Cayden Cuteness

Sunday 8-7-11
Gorgeous huh?

weirdest positions

Love this!

always drawing faces and stick figures

trying to find fireworks with his "naculars"

Loves laying on the ground playing
just like daddy used to when he was a kid

we got him a new blanket and he LOVES it!
He won't get out of his crib without it

love me some sleeping baby pictures
Nursery wears him out :)

looking like such a big boy and stud

"Mom I gotta get to work and fix something"

Finally knows how to drink out of a straw!
and every straw he sees he thinks is his now!

blurry but cute!

We went on a Train

(around June 24) and got to see Cars 2.

Cayden with Max (our nephew) waiting for the train

Monica (our niece) and Creighton

Cayden really was excited I promise.. haha

Aunt Toni with Creighton - so cute!

Creighton gets distracted

Before the movie we got a drink from Hot Dog on a Stick

We were way early - watched some fountains

Got some balloon dogs

 Cool story about the balloon animals. There was an older lady sitting outside the food court area of the mall.  She was blind and offering to do free balloon animals!  It was SO cool to see her create a balloon dog by feel and touch.  So crazy!  She had some major talent for being blind! Awesome.

can never get a good picture!

We ended up throwing away the balloons when they weren't looking cause they kept dropping them and getting in the way.

Cayden sat through the whole move - I was proud. Creighton, on the other hand, did not! Toni gladly stood up with him for the last 15 min or so. :)

The train was cool. I've never been on the Trax trains.. Adam and I might have to do that on a date one time to go downtown! So much easier than trying to find parking downtown.

playing catch up..

I'm a boring momma! Lately I've been stressed so much that I've been naueasous. So we've been inside a lot lately just playing and watching Nick Jr. (unless its the morning then its Disney Junior or The Price is Right)  But on Sunday, after a fabulous experience at church (the boys were superb!) I decided after they woke from naps that it was time to be outside. It was nice enough. So we went on our driveway and drew with sidewalk chalk while we waited for Adam to get home from work. After playing with chalk (and when Adam got home and drew a little), the hose came out and it was playing in the water time.

Here are some pictures from 8/7/11:

Adam was making it "rain" on Creighton

Cayden getting squirted with the hose

Look at that face!

an attempt at a picture of them together

sooo cold and soaked

I know blurry.. but it was going to be a cute picture of Creighton's naked bum