Damsel In Distress

I am getting so good at this whole rescue the damsel thing. I guess this one is technically my fault, but really no. On his way home from work last night at midnight, my darling husband ran out of gas. Lucky for him I had a friend over and could go and get him. It was funny. *SIDE NOTE – Freshmint gum and Pepsi tastes like yucky*

I’m most of the way through my school application. Here’s hoping that all goes well. I’ve been reading alot about the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant program and I find is crazy interesting. I’m hoping to start as soon as possible, but we’ll see. I’ve already missed the deadline for October, but if things go smooth , I could make it in for November. I don’t think I’d start until January otherwise. December is always so crazy. Cant believe I’m planning into December. I think I will do well with online schooling. I’m pretty good at self motivating. I’ll have to use my time better, but at this point I can do what I need to when I need to.

Roxy is moving home today!! I’m all excited. That kid can make me laugh…seriously. She starts her new jorb on the weekend. I think it will be neat for her to be around Emily more, because Em loves her “Auntie Roxy Pirate YAARRR!” so much. I have her picture on our fridge. Emily waves and says goo morning to it. Its cute. Its amazing how her little mind works.

We have a 24 hour worship thing on Saturday – Sunday. I’m looking forward to it. I was supposed to play for alot of it, but I think I’m only play a few hours now. I don’t think I could have lasted that long. haha. oops that reminds me I need to phone my babysitter and confirm stuff.

I put all my Loon like pix up on my Facebook. It just uploads better than WordPress and has unlimited space. Then I dont have to shrink the pics either. Here is a couple though for you.
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Out on the Lake
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Last year we took the same picture, but Emily was only a couple months old.
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Emily riding her rocking Harley with Bubba

What a Life

Not one single thing I planned on today happened. I was going to get up and have a leisurely morning, go for a run with Morgan, eat a salad for lunch, kiss Morgan good bye and help him make his lunch for work, play Lego Star Wars while Em slept if Coco could come over, eat a quick dinner and pick up a babysitter for Emily, Go to a consecration night at the church followed by worship practice and then when Emily was in bed and the babysitter was home I’d blog. I am now apologizing for the horrendous run on sentence. Mr. Ebbison, my English teacher, would be appalled. At least it’s spell checked, ok?

Here is what I did do. This time I’m apologizing in advance for my run on sentence.
I overslept, missing a phone call from Lana telling me to come to the drop in lunch at the resource center, I decided to go because I hadn’t seen Lana in a long time, remembering that Emily could go in the play room now because she is old enough I got her ready in a rush and headed out the door. After about 4 minuted in the play room Emily Freaked out because of the noise and then that was the end of my info session. I played in the playroom with Em for another 15 minutes before she really freaked out and demanded I let her eat crayons. Since I ate crayons as a kid I decided I wanted better things for Emily and we went home. Because Em hadn’t been up very long she wasn’t impressed with an early nap, but there was no way she was staying up either so off to bed with you! I enjoyed a pizza for lunch and woke Emily up for a “Lift the Lip” appointment with a dentist that Lana so graciously shared with me.

Emily did amazing with the dentist. She cried for a second while her mouth got the checking, but otherwise she was just super excited to hold a giant tooth brush. We got super points for being awesome parents and doing all the correct dental things for Em. My Extra Mom would be so Proud. Ill have to tell her. The Lady was so impressed with Emily and her routine that she gave me a sticker. Well Em didn’t want it so I got an Ernie sticker and a glow in the dark toothbrush. Can one really brush adequately in the dark? I doubt it. We didn’t even get a fluoride treatment. Touchy subject I know, but I would have got the treatment done if the lady had recommended it. She didn’t because Em doesn’t have a bottle to go to bed or a bottle at all actually. She doesn’t drink juice ever or snack all day. She gets her teeth brushed at least once a day, but we are working on twice. She doesn’t breast feed in the middle of the night. AND she can say “Bwush ya teeth!”. She even said it to the Lady. Tooth 5 is in ad 6 is almost through. Praise the Lord!

Then I went for a walk with Kris and Lana, looked around a toy store and bought Emily her very first Robert Munsch Book. I plan on her having the whole set of Robert Munsch books because I loved them so much as a kid. I bought her my all time favorite one. The Paper Bag Princess. I love it. I think Ill make her read it over and over and over again. Then we got blizzards. I felt sick after a few bites, but ate the whole thing anyways. Whats wrong with me? Chocolate is evil. Then we visited Kim. Emily proceeded to eat rocks and dirt and scrape her knees twice. We have got to get a yard for her to play in. Then maybe she wont be such a monkey outside. Then we saw Karen and Brian’s new house. They are from our prenatal group. I expected Em to have a big melt down by this point, but she managed to play nicely with Promise and Rain. A couple of handfuls of dog food ingested later and we walked home for an early dinner.

Spending the rest of the evening freaking out was really fun. I was supposed to be at church, but things didn’t work out with a babysitter and I didn’t want to dump Em on anyone else last minute. Good thing too because she was, in her words “Gwumpy girl”.
Now it’s the end of a very long day and I’m trying to unwind.I’m going to do a Thursday Thirteen just for fun and probably read a book until Morgan gets off work. Gnight. Oh and I Edited Emily’s Page.

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Em is waking up so we’ll see how far we get on todays Bloggy.

Youth last night was good. We are working on some of the new songs. We didn’t actually play them though cause they need a bit more TLC. Plus who can instantly sound as good as delirious? Seriously? Next week we are takin it to the streets. Youth is in the A&W Parkinglot. Heres the story about it on CCLF’s page. 7pm everybody! I’m really looking forward to it. Some summers we do youth in the parking lot every week, but this summer we only get one shot. We just have a smaller crew this year during the summer.

Em is awake so Ill just post a couple pics from the weekend and maybe blog later.

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Em already loves Golf. Well she loves hitting people with Golf clubs.
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Em fell in Love with her cousins princess sandals.

L'chyim (Think Yiddish)

How many funny things can happen in one day? In my world the potential is amazing. I think of hundreds of things to blog about all day long, but then I cant remember them all. I’m tempted to carry a voice recorder and then have dragon naturally speaking transcribe it. Riiight. Since I’m that big of a nerd that’s exactly what I will do. or not do. Here is the lowdown of some of the funny things that happened in the last day.

I got called middle aged. Can someone help me with the knife in my back please.

Emily ate dirt and then…yep you guessed it…pooped dirt.

Emily choked on Timmys and Georgia rescued her.

Then she chucked her very full sippy cup which exploded in Timmys

Emily said the “F” word about a hundred times today trying to say “Walk”.

I cant remember them, but several times Morgan and I had word communication problems, which pretty much means one of us hears something absolutely ridiculous that the other person didn’t say.

Those are just some examples of my typical day. Not even counting our adventures in the supermarket. Again…I need to write a book about the weird things that happen to me. There could be a whole chapter on grocery stores.

I learned some new songs today. I’ve been trying to find some new things to play at youth. I found a bunch of good stuff. I burned L’chyim some stuff to try. I practiced a bunch of the new songs and I really like them. I’ve been playing my guitar so much lately. I love it. I’ve been learning alot and just having alot of fun. I’ve been playing my electric the most. Im turning into the noodle kid. The one that never shuts up. noodle noodle noodle. Its ok tho cause I wear my head phones.

I’m in the middle of a good book, so I’m gonna go read it and stay up late waiting for Morgan to get home again. I hate going to bed when he is still at work. It’s only till midnight tonight tho. So thats nice.

I have returned from whence I came.

I think memorable is the best way to describe my weekend at avalanche. There were good things and bad things thats for sure. Heres a recap of the funny things. We are driving down the coquahalla when the van starts to sound a bit too much like a Suzuki. We pull over and the van is now toast. Yay for Elisha who saved the day having only caught up to us 10 minutes before coming from Vancouver. So Leesh saves the day! We get there and all is going well. We set up tents and head for the conference. Skip ahead a bit until Saturday night. The day has been pretty good so far and we stay up a bit late for a concert and then head back to camp. I’m wondering…did you ever played with dominoes as a kid? I did, but nothing even compares to coming back to the camp and finding that 2 of the 3 huge tents have played dominoes while you were away. I’ll admit, not everyone thought it was as funny as I did. Ok mostly they did. Skip ahead a bit more to Sunday Morning. At the church service they had this drumming contest. They asked who could drum so my group yelled me and I ran up to the front. I jumped on stage to meet my competition who happens to be a guy I know from Williams lake. Imagine that! Rival towns drumming it up. We played stomp on these barrels full of blue and red paint. It was awesome. My dress is now perma tye dyed. Well I lost, but it was a cheer contest so It could have happened to anyone. But I won a t-shirt. YAY.

We are working on a video for Youth and Church. I’m loving all the stuff we have so far. Its awesome. Ill try to put it up as soon as possible. Anyways. I’m zonked from a long weekend without much sleep so Im gonna go get a coffee and chill out.

Oh yeah and we got given a new hugemongous awesome HD LCD flat screen T.V. YAYAYAY!!! Just in time for the season finale of Heroes. Which rocked by the way.

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Car Seats are Complicated.

I’m having an awesome day. The youth got a new sound board for Morgan to play with and Emily’s car seat came in today so we both had stuff to figure out. It took me forever to figure out how to adjust the car seat to actually fit Em. I love it tho. Its great colours and it even has a cup holder/cappuccino machine. Emily likes the new seat so much better already. Her legs aren’t all smashed up against the back seat. She still has to be rear facing until she gets a bit bigger, but this seat is definitely more comfy for her.

Emily hardly crawls anymore. She is getting so good at walking she doesn’t like to crawl. Its cute. She can even pick something off the ground without falling. Last night she tried to run. I just about died. It was so funny. She ran for about 3 feet then did a nice big head dive. Got a bit ahead of herself.

She is saying so much more now too. I didn’t realize it because lots of her words just sound like sounds. If you say “what noise does a doggie make?” she says “oof oof”. And she make car sounds and sheep sounds.She still says “uh oh” to everything and “ah da” for all done. “ma ma” is still reserved for whining only and she sings songs all day about her “da da”. Its really cute. She know at lots of signs too.

I did the most motherly thing Ive ever done for Emily yesterday. I made her scrambled eggs. I couldn’t bring myself to try them, but she liked them so they must have been ok. I made them again for my mom today to try so I’d know if they were ok. Morgan thinks it’d be funny if I started liking eggs because I’m going to have to make them for Emily. I doubt it.

I wrote a song today. I haven’t wrote a song in quite a while. It kind of came to me fast too. I was pretty excited. I guess I didn’t really write it. The psalmist wrote it in psalm 119. I think we might even sing it at church. I recorded it at the church before worship practice, but the recording doesn’t have the drums mic’d so I’m not putting it up here. Anyways. I’m just having fun with my electric guitar.

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Resurrection Sunday.

Probably the best day ever. My life would be absolutely meaningless without Resurrection Sunday. Well not the one in 2007, but the one a long time ago when Jesus rose from the dead. It really makes my life worth living. The thought of living this life without the knowledge that Jesus died for me and then rose again is…well sad. But today I am full of joy instead. Todays Easter service was great. I really enjoyed it. I had a blast playing the drums today. I even heard a few new rhythms come out of these hands.

Emily and I went for a really really long walk. It didn’t start out as a long walk, but it ended up that way. We were going to do the big loop around town. It takes about 45 minutes normally. We made it all the way around the loop and were headed past Save On when I realized that Emily had turfed her hat out of the stroller. AHH. That hat cost me 1 penny on Ebay + S&H. How could she be so careless and throw her hat out of the buggy. Ok well I wasn’t actually mad at all. I laughed and we turned around and backtracked. I probably wouldn’t have cared, but I really like the darn little hat. Its so stinkin cute. We finally found the hat most of the way back to where we started. Haha. silly Emily.

Well tomorrow is hop back on the health wagon. no more pop and pizza. Needless to say it was a rough couple of weeks. Ill find out the damage tomorrow at the gym. I’m even going earlier than normal tomorrow because Morgan has a dentist appt. and Thats the only time I can go. I’m not really looking forward to stepping on the scale tomorrow. I’m supposed to do a weigh in too. This is the first time Ive been nervous about a weigh in. the last few were so fun because Id practically melted the weight off. I’m pretty sure I’m still at a loss for this month, but it cant be that much. I’m still in the process of writing some new realistic goals for myself. Well see how it goes, but theres no way I’m going back up. Down down down!

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