Good Laugh

This video is from Saturday Night Live last weekend. I laughed pretty hard so I thought I would share. Happy Friday!

The Lawrence Welk Show

Weird and Random

I was tagged to list 7 weird/random facts about myself and despite my initial "I don't think i'll do this one" response, I never have a good answer for those name-one-interesting-thing-about-yourself games and so I figured I would humor myself and try it.

Fact 1: I have sadly come to the conclusion that after you have a baby, you may be back to your pre-baby weight, but you will never have the same body. Period. And even though I know this is true I still tell myself that "I will start working out tomorrow and get back the body that I used to have and didn't appreciate." Never happens. My goal one day is to run a marathon, but I think you have to be able to run a mile without passing out first. Everything has it's season, right? Maybe I will start tomorrow...

Fact 2: My very favorite blog to look at is called Seriously So Blessed and it is pretty much my daily medicine. At first when I read this blog I was completely offended. Then I realized how hilarious and dead-on it is. If anybody is interested in a good laugh and Utah-girl humor, I highly recommend it! If you want to check it out, here it is.

Fact 3: I have always thought that October is the best month for a birthday, probably because I love October and that's when my birthday is. It always seems like I am meeting people with my same birthday. I don't know if I am just looking for it and so it seems to pop up everywhere or what. One of my friends growing up shared my birthday. One of Zac's old college roommates with whom we are good friends and I share the same birthday. I just found out that the twin girls in Jon and Kate Plus Eight have the same birthday too. Does anyone else feel the same way about their birthday?

Fact 4: Anyone that knows Zac knows how mellow and easy-going he is. He is probably the easiest person in the world to be married to. He always lets me have my way and doesn't complain about it ever with one exception: control over the thermostat. For the longest time we would constantly battle with that thing. I would turn the temperature to what I thought was comfortable. As soon as I would walk away, he would come behind me and change it in the direction that saved us money on energy - cooler in the Winter, warmer in the Summer. Then I would think "Geez, it feels hot/cold in here." And I would check the thermostat and sure enough it would be a degree or two hotter/cooler than what I set it at. I would ask him about it and he would tell me that he wants to save as much as possible on the energy bill in our house. Then I would say "But shouldn't we be comfortable in our own house?" And then he would smile and apologize and let it go, with a smug grin of course. And sure enough, the same thing would happen the very next day. And this happened for the longest time. Well I am finally letting it go. I figure that he has more than earned control of the thermostat with all that he lets me get away with. So this one goes out to you, baby. Thanks for letting me get away with a lot of worse things. :)

Fact 5: One of my biggest pet peeves is the positioning of the shower head. I am all about taking a shower away from the cold marble wall and so I always have to have the shower head pointed out. The problem with this is that if you forget to point the shower head down before you turn the shower on you get a very unpleasant surprise. Anyone who is weird like me and cares about this knows that when you first turn the shower on it shoots out a 1/2 second stream of cold water before the hot water comes out. A 1/2 second doesn't seem like a big deal, but every time I forget to point the shower head down before I turn it on I totally freak out. It mostly happens when I am staying somewhere other than my house, am out of my routine and forget about the cold stream until it's too late. Hate that!

Fact 6: If I could go back to school for anything in the world, it would be culinary school.

Fact 7: I was born with a big dark quarter-sized birthmark on my right calf. I always hated it as a kid and felt like that was the only thing that people could see if I wore shorts, which was probably true. I had it removed when I was 11 because it was pre-cancerous, not to mention ugly. So now I have a big scar on my leg, but it was well worth the trade-off. It's one of those things that I never think about, so when Harrison was born and I saw a big dark birthmark on his stomach I was like "Oh man, he probably going to hate that when he gets older." I love it on him. I totally think it adds character and I adore it, but I am sure he won't feel the same way about it when he is in a swimming suit and everyone can see it. Maybe boys don't care about that stuff. Does anyone know if birthmarks like that are hereditary? The older he gets and the more I learn about him, the more I realize he is a miniature Hillary, in boy form of course. The birthmark seems to be no exception.


Fact 8: I am pretty much the last person to board the Twilight Series train. I am currently about 150 pages from the end of Breaking Dawn, and I am so ready to be done with it. I am ashamed to admit that I am a book cheater. It is a huge book-buzzkill, but I do it anyway. I got about halfway through Breaking Dawn and was like "I can't stand it anymore!" I thought it was going in a really weird direction and got really bored and so I thought "I am going to find out what happens because I can't read another chapter without knowing if all this is worth it!" So I peeked ahead and found out what happens and 2 weeks later I am still not done. I totally ruined it for myself. I will read a few chapters every now and then but the thrill is pretty much gone when you know how it ends. Maybe one day I will finish. I probably should, because I really want to read The Story of Edgar Sawtell
and I won't let myself start a new book without finishing the last one. Sigh. I am making a promise to myself right now that I won't cheat on Edgar Sawtell. It's so not worth it.

Fact 9: I have a new found appreciation for Tina Fey and am now a devoted fan.

Fact 10: I just realized I should have stopped at 7.

Getaway

I have been a slacker at blogging lately. We haven't been home a whole lot and my camera ran out of batteries, so I haven't had any cute pictures to blog. Boring! Zac went to Washington DC 2 weeks ago for work so Harrison, Maisey and I went to my parents house for the week. I am so not a fan of Zac being out of town and I figured that it would go by quicker if we were with family instead of at home by ourselves. Zac hasn't ever been to DC, so he was really excited to get to be there, even though he was working the whole time and didn't get to see a lot. Then the next week he had to go to Scottsdale for training, so we all headed back up to my parents again. Harrison got to spend a lot of time with grandma and grandpa which was great because I left for Scottsdale 2 days later. I left baby boy with my parents and he had a blast! They went fishing, went swimming in the hottub, fed him everything I don't let him eat and they even bought a walker for him to use which he LOVED! He cruises everywhere in that thing. Zac and I got to do pretty much everything we don't ever get the chance to do like go shopping, eat out and go to the movies. We saw Eagle Eye, which was so good! Has anyone else seen it? It's your typical movie with a weird computer-goes-bad-and-tries-to-kill-off-the-government plot, but the action made up for it. I even cried 3 times during it, which is weird. But we both loved it. It was nice to have a couple days of downtime, but I was so ready to get back to my baby. When we got home, Harrison saw us and looked really confused. It took him a little bit to realize who we were and then he got really excited. So happy he had so much fun and was good for my parents, but I have to admit I was a sad when he looked at us and was like "Uhm, who are you and why are you interrupting my playtime with grandma and grandpa?" Bless his heart. I am just glad that he eventually remembered us. :) It made me realize that going on a getaway every now and again is probably as good for Harrison as it is for me.

Random, a few months ago I cleaned out Harrison's room and put a bunch of stuff away for storage in his closet. I was looking in there this morning and I found these pictures that I love from Mother's Day that I framed but never hung up.

The 3's

I am a little late on this one, Tara, but here goes:

3 Joys

* Watching all the leaves change in the Fall
* A spotless house
* Watching Harrison learn something new, most recently walking along furniture

3 Fears

* Zac dying before me
* Getting rear-ended (I am constantly looking out my rear view mirror and yelling at people if they are too close)
* Snakes

3 Goals

* Running a marathon
* Raising Harrison to be a gentleman
* Lose the rest o' the baby weight

3 Current Obsessions

* The Office
* Cooking
* Selling the house

3 Random/Surprising Facts

* I lived in China for a semester
* I totally rock at Cranium
* Harrison and I get the same look/squint on our faces when we are thinking hard about something - i didn't think those sorts of things were hereditary but apparently they are.

I tag Jenny Weller, Mallory, and Brittani Evans

Haircut

I finally broke down and took Harrison to get his hair cut today, so I thought I would post a few pictures. He did really well. The scissors and buzzers didn't scare him at all, but he hated having to hold still and he kept wanting to look up at what the hair stylist was doing. I was very proud of him and I am so glad that it's overwith. I just love a new haircut!

Is it Fall yet???

We have had a lot of fun doing last-minute end of Summer things. We had a ward barbeque last weekend at the Spanish Fork swimming pool. It is so nice there! It was even nicer that they closed the pool down for our ward to be there. It was a bit cold for babies, but Harrison loved it anyway - I think mostly because he got to walk along the side of the pool and felt like a big boy... nothing gets a bigger smile from him than that!


This picture is the result of the swim... Harrison's hair went crazy! Which reminds me, I really want to cut his hair. Zac says that we should let him keep his precious baby hair as long as possible, and I say that it is driving me crazy. It has about 3 different textures to it - one side is curly, one side and the front are stick straight and the back is always fuzzy. I don't want to regret cutting it too soon, but he is seriously starting to look homeless. What do you think?

Last Saturday was the first BYU football game of the season, and Zac could barely sleep the night before! We got Harrison his first BYU garb - a T-shirt and a beanie, which will be brought out in a month or so. I was a little worried about how Harrison would handle sitting at a football game for 3 1/2 hours, but he did amazingly well! He and I sat under the bleachers with all the other moms and babies during the first half - it was so hot! A bunch of clouds rolled in at halftime so we watched the rest of the game from our seats. Zac had been waiting for this game ever since he found out we were pregnant. I don't think Harrison really has a choice of whether or not he's a BYU fan. I love that Zac wants to take him to all the games though. There is nothing cuter than seeing all the dads there with their little boys teaching them all about football.

Last of all, we have some exciting news! We put our house up for sale this week, which feels like a huge accomplishment. We have been debating about it ever since the beginning of the year, and we finally decided that it's the right time. We feel so far away from family in Springville, even though they're all only about an hour away. We feel like we are constantly going up to Syracuse and it is starting to get old. Zac doesn't work in Provo anymore, so there really doesn't seem to be any reasons to stay. So for the past week, we have been doing some serious fixing-up. I am happy to say that I am now a self-proclaimed Mrs. Fix-it. We cleaned out the whole house and scrubbed it and have it looking beautiful! The realtor came and took pictures, and we thought we didn't need to have it super tidy for awhile. My parents came down the next day and helped me get a good start on the re-paint of the bathroom. We originally painted it dark brown to match our bedroom and it was a seriously horrible job - we only did one coat and not one wall looked good. So we got the whole thing fixed up and painted in a day. The next morning, I was moseying around the bathroom taking the tape of and admiring the paint job when the realtor called and said that more pictures needed to be taken and they would be there in 2 hours to take them. AAH! I seirously freaked out and I haven't moved so fast in my whole life. I managed to put the whole bathroom back together, hardware, cupboard doors and all, and clean the house just in time for them to arrive. Hopefully that's all done with. The nice thing is that people can only see our house by appointment, which takes a huge stress off of me so I don't have to keep my house spotless all the time. Wish us luck!

Just pictures

It's been awhile since I've posted and I wanted to share some cute pictures, but I have a cold and my head isn't really working, so that's about all that I have to say about it.

Harrison and I have been sick, so Zac went to the store last night to get some medicine and this is what he came home to.

Harrison and Grandpa Kim... Harrison was ready for bed.

Here is one of the pictures at the waterfall.

The other morning I sat Harrison on the couch and was in the other room. When I came back, Maisey had laid on his lap and they were snuggling and Harrison was petting her. It was so sweet.

I love this picture.

Harrison with cousins Berkley and Cali.

Harrison had eaten some otter pops at Grandma and Grandpa Elder's, and as if that wasn't enough fun, he got to roll around on the deck in the dirt. He was a mess!

Harrison can't crawl or walk yet, but he really wants to. His latest trick is to walk in circles while holding on to whatever he can... this is what my mom and Justin came up with.