order 101

Check out this beauty of a find I had after putting Mont to sleep tonight:

What you see:
two messy little drawers, misplaced, and left.

What you don't see:
jewelry on the floor
necklaces in their rightful drawers

I was elated when I found this little surprise.. he was playing by himself with his "treasure chest" and must have emptied 3 drawers and pulled out their contents. Typically when this happens, there are necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and other little things scattered around where he once sat. But THIS TIME, there was no mess, other than the two pulled out drawers, only one on the floor, and all the necklaces he had pulled out were in one drawer together (see right drawer). In other words..

He picked up when he was done playing!!


Simply beautiful..... !!


*another fun tidbit: while saying prayers tonight, he was sitting on his changing table facing me, while I leaned onto it, with my eyes closed and arms folded. While I was praying aloud, he was trying to distract me so bad: either trying to eat my face or give me some major big kisses. Oh that was a hard prayer to get through without laughing.. 

small world

When Mark is flying around the world on a 7 day trip and runs into one of his greatest long-losties, (this here is Sven) we realize how small the world can be. 

Here they are in the dusty middle east, sharing a laugh and a photo. 

I really appreciate all the feedback on my 'reeder questions'. I am going to try the V-8 stuff and see if Mont likes it. Then I'm thinking of trying a couple of those recipes (thank you, Rach!).

ALSO, thank you for the happy anniversary wishes! It was on the 16th, but as Mark has been gone, we are going to celebrate this week upon his return.

First showing tomorrow evening! ... I have some cleaning and cramming to do (cramming = Buckwheat and his things into the car, for instance... sorry poochie woochie!)

reeder questions

Bed Head
1. My pillows have been slowly turning into rocks every night, despite my best fluffing efforts. Do you have favorite pillows? If they are feather pillows... how do you get the feathers to not occasionally come out and prick you in the face? Mark uses a memory foam pillow (with the 2 different neck height options on top and bottom), but even the lower side still gives me a sore neck. Suggestions?

Yuck to Yum?
2. Mont is a picky little eater. He likes shredded cheese, peanut butter on wheat thins, syrupy (not too syrupy - he has his limits by which I am shocked b/c I love the syrup!) breakfast foods, granola bars, oatmeal, toast, milk, pretzels, chips, Carnation hot chocolate (hello vitamins!), cookies and chocolate.

Sometimes he likes string cheese (the last few days he's not been a fan - I guess he ate himself sick of it), sometimes he likes yogurt, sometimes he likes pizza, sometimes he likes pasta, sometimes he likes taco meat, sometimes he likes baby food (I'll give it to him when he'll eat it - only way he'll eat vegetables and fruit) sometimes he likes nutri-grain bars, and sometimes he likes what I eat.

I know the "he'll eat when he's hungry" but I have different questions.. I'm thinking about ways I can trick Mont into eating healthy foods. For instance, I want to try the V8 fruit juices with the veggies in them.. has anyone tried them, and liked them? Or any other healthy sneaker tips like carrots in the brownies?? haha.. Or any tips at all on what to feed picky toddlers?

It's a good thing he likes taking his vitamins every day (blah! - have you ever tasted baby tri-vitamins!? How does he like those and not pizza?!)

?s
3. I know I have more.. but I am drawing a blank. There may be more of these "reeder questionnaires!"

wanna see where we live?

Our house is for sale! dun dun dun... 

And I made this blog up with a bajillion pictures to link to while looking at home-for-sale websites. 

Take a look and tell me if it's user-friendly! 

So far, my family says it is, but it doesn't hurt to have more feedback. Right? Right! 

Take a little looksie:

PS - we actually just booked our first showing for Monday.

(we're giving FSBO a try... for now...) 

I love adventure

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Anniversary to my Mother and Father in law!!

And a Happy little Birthday to Buckwheat!

We have our new assignment: Grand Forks, North Dakota!!!!

Marrying my Mark, I knew I would have to be up and ready for any adventure the Air Force sends our way, no matter how expected or unexpected it may be. So far, all the adventure has been extremely fun! I think this will be the same. Yes, it was a shock. Yes, it is going to be even COLDER than Alaska in the winters. But the winters and shorter and the summers are MUCH warmer. So warm, and sunny, that I will be growing all sorts of stuff in a garden with my little helper Mont (who may just dig them all up with his little furry pal).

Moving is coming a lot faster for us, unfortunately. We are in the process of putting our house up for sale all over the place. In fact, I've made a blog with millions of pictures... I'll post that maybe tomorrow.

We will spend the summer and probably early fall in California, just north of Sacramento. I plan on getting a nice tan to make up for all my Alaska wintery-whiteness. Then it's off to the mid-US!

We're excited!!