Miles turns 1

My nephew Miles celebrated his 1st Birthday this past weekend. How time has flown. His mom KeriAnn, decided to have a Safari themed birthday party. We made a lion cake for him for his tear-apart cake and cupcakes for every one else. They turned out really cute. Miles received many educational gifts, spoiled really. The whole family was there except Melannie and Adam, as they are off in Hawaii. It was good to see every one and enjoy a night together celebrating Miles and all his “miles”tones!
He is the cutest little guy. He looks exactly like KeriAnn, its crazy. He is going to be one handsome boy!

New Years Resolutions

I have several new year Intentions for 2011.

*Get some hobbies.
*Get Back into Oil painting 4 paintings this year
*Learn to Dance
*Body Building Great eating workout p90x 6 times a wk, elliptical 3 night a wk
-Have the body I have always wanted
wake @ 6 get 30 min cardio elliptical, 60 min p90x then 30 min elliptical @ night while I watch my shows.
**New RULE** No work out-No TV
*Travel to new places this year.
-Hawaii in January
-San diego / San Fransisco-July
-Idaho-May
-Yellow Stone-June
-Lava Hot Springs-Aug
-Moab-Sept.
*Save $ bank 3 months paychecks

*Potty Train Avery
*Teach Avery Colors, 1-10
*Get Jack into a sport
-interests BMX racing, Karate, Baseball, swimming, soccer

For now!

AVERY'S POTTY TRAINED!!

Little Avery Kai is official easy from this point on. In my opinion teaching to eat, walk and potty train, are the hardest things to teach. We have accomplished all of them. This week he has only had one accident including naps and bed time. It took 7 months to get that little booger trained but he finally kicked in and did it! I am so happy. I wanting to give up several times but new I had to keep repeating the process.
Jack seemed to be a bit faster than this but oh well.
Ave first was bribed by candy then stickers then we took a small brake & didn't push so hard. I constantly had to ask him to go and then had to make him. After 7 months he finally just started going by himself. He had shown signs of wanting to go for months so I started him but then the fun wore off, hence the rewards.
Looking back on it it was not so bad..
Now, time to have the carpet cleaners come back!
He's great he goes, dumps outs, closes the lid and flushes all himself. The hand washing needs work.





Guess what else? I'm $60 a month richer. No more diapers and wipes!! yahoo

Cookie Fund Raiser

Jack is doing a fundraiser for school. Personally I dred when they come, but hey you have to support them. He's quite the little sales guy, in a cute way. He made a few phone calls and this is about how it went. "Hi, it's Jack. I'm doing a fundraiser for school and I'm selling cookies...how many tubs can I put you down for"? after a few laughs on the other end, the customer asks what kind are you selling? Jack proceedes to tell them the flavors, then ends with a "Doesn't that sound delicious"?
Yes we practices it, but man did he hit it. His uncle Nick and KeriAnn had to repeatedly put themselves on mute because of theier laughter.
I was proud of him. He received 9 orders and raised $173.00. Surpassing his goal of $140.00 and earning five gifts. One of which he received today. It was a stuffed pug with detachable bone. He was so excited when I told him that he had hit his goal. He jumped around yelling "Yes, I did it, I did it Mom, I'm going to go tell all the kids in my class"!

VALENTINES PREP

Oh boy have I got a fun week of Valentines in the planning!!
Its all about us this week because the day of actual Valentines, is filled with kids.
I'm starting it off a week early and have seven days planned of fun lover fun!!
What?? are you thinking?
Here is a hint.
Those zumba dancing clases will be involved in a private dance for my him only!! wish me luck its has always scared the crap out of me.
Colbs will be visited by his own personal Cupid, wings and all!
He just might come home to his wife baking a little love in a sexy little apron and that's about it. Something to do with oil and a plastic sheeting-need I go any further...message oil, candles and finally a good nights sleep on our new mattress!!!
Ending the week with a night at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, along with Yoga- flexibility son!!, relaxation, swimming, hot tubing, ice skating and Fine Dining.
Lets hope it all turns out the way I have it in my head!
Thanks to my friend Wendy, I think this year wil be a success. Something totally different than usual.
I'll try and get some good pictures in.

ZUMBA DANCING

I have been going Zumba Dancing with some of my friend’s n the neighborhood. I don’t have any pictures but man is it fun. I suck at it at the moment Jenny’s quite good and Wendy is awesome. You feel a little silly at first but the fact that everyone in there is doing the same thing and into it. You get over that really quick. We go every Tuesday night at 8:30 in Saratoga Springs. Colby stays home with the kids and seems to enjoy that time alone with them. So I’m glad. The time off for me is well needed. Its hard work and a total sweat fest. I’m excited for when I know all the dances and don’t mess up so much. Wendy is going to lend me a beginners DVD to help me out. They move very fast in class and you just have to go with it. It’s not really teaching its follow the instructor and catch on as soon as you can. I had no idea Zumba had so many different types of dance in it. Probably more that I recognize. Zumba combines Latin dances like salsa, meringue and cha cha with reggaeton, cumbia, calypso, quebradita, hip hop and belly dancing. So, every class will have between eight and ten dance routines. It’s a lot to take in but I intend on getting good at it. Its great to go there with my new friends a little ore bond time, getting to get to know other women has been good for me I’m glad I’m attempting it. I need a little spice in my life friends and dance.
Dancing is one of my 2011 intentions!

Miles & KeriAnn DAYS!!

Yesterday we went out with Keriann and Miles. We have decided to Make a weekly event out of it and hang out every Thursday. We’ll switch of in each others town. We went and ran some errands that I actually ended up getting nothing accomplished except feeding my kids. We first went to…..can you guess? Ya Taco Amigo the best food in the WORLD. I dont know what it is but I never get tired of eating there. My kids love it my family and friends love it so we eat there weekly.



We then went to Cabellas for an activity my boys love it there and hey it FREE! We looked at all the animals played a few games of hunting and then ran around a little more.


I love hanging with Keriann she so easy to be with. I think the only thing she expects when she comes down my way is to eat at TA! So it works well. Next week is here turn. I wish I could hang at her house but the dog gets to me too badly so well have to make it an out of house event!