I cut it close to wearing my crocs out in public today. They are just so darn convenient to slip on if you have a baby/diaper bag/purse/anything in your arms. We’ll see how this goes.

Ok and on to Goals…dun dun dahh.

Goal 1: “Keep fit and have fun” (thank you and Hal Johnson & Joanne Mcloed…dang now I’m going to have the body break song stuck in my head). The last 2 weeks have been somewhat disastrous in the eat good department. I think if it hadn’t been for a series of unplanned exercises Id be…well larger. I had my first real gain since I started in January. Added a nice 5 pounds back on. Grr stupid ice cream. but I’m back to normal life, whatever that is and back to the gym. I got a new scale that is digital and reads to .02 of a pound. Its encouraging because you can tell if you even loose .02. I loathe the scale at the gym its so inaccurate. If you stand on it funny it reads screwy.

Goal 2. Growing in my relationship with God. Being a real god chaser. I just got back from a steady stream of conferences. Sometimes those moments are real thrive and dive things. This year it really felt like a solid upward movement. I had some really awesome words spoken over my life. All really consistent too. The words “adventure” and “artist” kept coming up. All from different people. It was a cool thing for me. I had shelved a few thing to work on other things and so now I’m back in the groove.

Goal 3. Get organized in 2007. My oh-so-thoughtful-in-law’s got me these awesome hangers and shelving units. They have revolutionized my closet space. Its awesome. We switched from the drawer system to the hanger system and I’m loving it. Its working out rather well. Morgan and I are even sharing(miracle) one dresser for sox and skivvies too. Its super. Next we have to work on the basement because Morgan was being helpful while I was away and reorganized stuff into the walkway. Thanks hunny.

Ok…Game plan. I’m going to leave my goal update until later today or tomorrow. That way I can talk about fun stuff and Emily. Ok blue forty two…hut hut hike!

Firstly my gorgeous little daughter has a new gorgeous little boy to bully. His name is Issac Gordon and he was born last week to one of my bestest buddies. Go see his picture cause he is adorable. And click this pic too. Way to go Leah!

I was only gone a couple of days this weekend, but Emily learned like three new words while I was gone AND decided it was ok to wear hats. Yay my mom! So now she can also say hat, hot and out(because she is always being told “get out of there turkey”). I wonder what new ones she’ll learn this week. I think Ill have to update the Emily Page and put in an Emictionary.

While we were in Kelowna we got Emily a baby doll. At the beach last week she loved playing with Jada’s baby doll. She loves it. Its so cute cause she walks around holding it and hugging it and giving it huge kisses (something she is now very good at). We also got her a couple of hats and books and a bunch of new bigger non-plastic melt-in-the-dryer bibs.

I’m doing a “Croc-xperiment”. I got a pair of rip-off brad crocs. Those sandals everyone and their cat are wearing.( I looked, but I couldn’t find a picture of a cat in crocs sandals). So my experiment is to see if they are as comfy as everyone says they are. Or to find out if there is any reason to be wearing them in public. We say this lady walking down a hill in Kelowna wearing Crocs and walking with 2 hiking poles. Like was she hiking to Alaska or what? It was weird. So far I’m finding them fairly comfortable. I also got a pair of .33cent flip flops or thongs (as we always called them). so Ill trade back and forth and let you know the conclusion. My hypothesis is that both pairs of sandals will be equally comfortable and that I will end up wearing my crocs out in public by accident.

Well I have oodles more to blog, but I’ll get to that. Slow and steady wins the race.

Emily has had a super long nap today. YAY! that was perfect timing because after a late night last night I really need to have a nap too. She is going to be so hungry when she wakes up and I just realized that I have not eggs for a quick scram. Hmm. I’ll have to think of something else to make. I made quinoa (keen-wa) For her last night and she seemed to like it alright. She didn’t love it, but I can work with that. Her daddy’s spicy pasta brings joy to her teeny heart. I think thats all Em wants right now. She’s still content with power oatmeal in the Morning but need something more substantial than regular baby food the rest of the day. So now aside from a bottle of formula at bedtime we don’t buy any baby food. I had been buying it for when she goes to the sitters, but she hates the stuff and I don’t blame her. It’s bland and kinda yucky. So I’ll just have to get more creative with on the go meals. ooo Planning ahead

Speaking of planning ahead. I don’t know what night yet, but we are having meatloaf. I decided yesterday I seriously wanted meat loaf. I’m getting excited just thinking about it. Maybe Ill have my parents over. They like my meatloaf. Wow now I’m hungry.

Em is still singing away this morning as she slowly wakes herself up. I think its one of my favorite things about the little munchkin. I need to put a camera in her room…hmm our camera does have a remote… this could work nicely. She’s singing “E I E I E I E I E I E I” she still never gets to “O”. One day “O” will be her anthem of choice.

I’m in a silly mood this morning. prolly a combo of not enough sleep and to much coffee. Plus Leesh and I are hanging out which always makes me silly too!YAY! For the record I’m not abandoning a friend to blog. That would be rude. I am blogging while some files format and she is on the other Laptop watching Tivo. Gotta love that.

Well Emmy is finally awake enough to get her(otherwise she gets up grumpy). So I’d better go get the little punk.

We had home group tonight. I’m really enjoying it. I still find it one of my favorite times of the week. Its been nice being able to go again. I missed several weeks because I was away and so I felt like I was pretty far behind in our book, but I think I’m starting to get caught up. We just seem to be moving ahead faster than we have before. The book we are studying is called God Meant it for Good by R.T. Kendal. Its the story of Joseph and his Journey. I really love the insight into his life and the things that Joseph went through to prepare him for what lay ahead I find really encouraging. As I have never been in jail I should find any job or issue easy to deal with properly right? Because I never had it so good right? Haha…well maybe not, but I should at least take courage from Joseph’s story.

Ive discovered that I think out loud. I have some friends that think out loud so much you cant really hold a conversation with them especially if you think out loud too because theres alot of talking going on. I think its worse for Morgan cause he thinks better when no ones talking and so a outside thinker and an inside thinker cant both think at the same time. Ive decided that part of the problem I’m having processing all my info is that there aren’t enough hours in the day to think that much out loud. Good thing I ordered the MP3′s and they’ll be here soon.

Emily took her fist three steps last week. It was the night before I left for the NWCEC conference. My grandparents were there and they even caught a picture of her in mid-first-step. I’m waiting until they email me the pic and then Ill post it. Today she took 6 steps by herself. She was trying to catch auntie Gracie-dog.

Well I’m off to join the circus. Ill be back next week. I’m really looking forward so some semblance of normalcy next week. I haven’t seen Lindsay and Olin or Lana and Gabe for ever and Its Gabe’s 1st birthday next week. I’m going to have to get my act together for the week after because Its Emily Birthday too. I’m going to bake a sweet action cake!