It's a fact. I make BIG kids!!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to take half the day off of work so I could attend appointments for both of my kids. After Justin and I picked up Ashton from daycare we decided we had a minute to sit down for lunch. We decided to go to my most favorite spot for lunch in Bountiful, Plates and Palates (if you haven't been there, you must go!!). The three of us dined on salads and panini's. YUM!

It was soon time to go to our first appointment which was Ashton's 18 month check up. We were thrilled when Dr. Black said there were NO shots this time! We went over all of his developmental milestones to make sure he was up to par. We discussed all of the fun things Ashton has been up to lately, such as: thinking every object is a cell phone and holding it between his shoulder and his ear and talking "sassy" just like his mommy, hearing the word TACO on TV and repeating it ALL. THE. TIME, walking around and reprimanding people while throwing his hands up and shaking them about (it's so hilarious!), and getting really good at his sign language for PLEASE, FINISHED, and MORE. The nurse came in and said well, Ashton's a very tall little guy! He's almost 3 feet tall (35.5 inches!!). I got to thinking about the formula for figuring out how tall your kids are. I'm not sure how true it is, but I was told that if you double the height of a 3 year old that's about how tall they'll be when an adult. So if Ashton is only 1... how tall will be be when he's 3? And if I double that...?? Is the circus going to call looking for the 10 foot man? Oh gosh... maybe the NBA? Think of the possibilities!!

After Ashton's appointment we decided that it would be fun to stop at Keva Juice before heading up to Justin's orthodontist appointment. I got the Keva Kolada. again... YUM!! Finally it was time for Justin to sit in the chair. Dr. Feller kept looking at Justin's mouth, and then his x-rays, and then his mouth and then said, "How old are you again???" to which Justin replied that he was 9. "I don't believe it!!" replied Dr. Feller. "You have the mouth of a 12 year old!!". After talking about how far advanced Justin's mouth was we decided that we'd take his braces off next month (he's only got braces on the top because they had to use the palate expander to fix a cross bite... I think I blogged about this... look for the medieval torture device!!LOL). After a 6 month break or so from the braces we'll throw them back on all of his teeth. So he'll be completely finished with braces by the 6th grade... This was starting to sound strangely familiar. I had braces from 4th - 6th grade also!

So it's official. I make BIG kids. Who grow up WAY too fast!! How do you make it stop??

Lake Powell

What a horrible blogger I've been. To my own defense... I had a FABULOUS vacation and then Mark was out of town on a business trip to Indianapolis and things have been busy busy busy. Now I'm home sick from work feeling really yucky... what a better time to update the blog?!?!














So Lake Powell was absolutely wonderful, as usual... except for the fact that Mark and Ashton stayed home. Mark has a new (really great) job and hasn't been there long enough for his vacation time to kick in. We couldn't afford for him to take a week off unpaid, so he stayed home. Ashton stayed home with Mark, call me selfish... but I really didn't see it being a relaxing and stress free vacation having to watch a toddler on a houseboat floating on a lake that is 300+ feet deep. YIKES!! So Justin and I left for a week of fun in the sun with my folks and some of my siblings. My brother took over 1200 pics and I took a bunch myself. So instead of trying to explain our fun, I'll just let you see it in pictures. Enjoy :)

Tubes

Ashton had ear surgery this morning and got tubes in his ears. The doctor said they pulled out lots and lots of goopy gunk. So he should start hearing and speaking much better now. Hopefully this little guy will stay healthy! :)

Goodbye Michael...

To Michael Jackson: THANK YOU!!!

For giving me memories to last a life time.

*Breaking into a giddy chuckle every time I hear "Thriller" and envision me, Kayci, and a thriller dancing Mark going down the dock at Lake Powell... tee hee hee...

*My mom taking mine and Dan's Michael Jackson record (like a real record...) and breaking it into a million pieces... and me following her down the driveway as she was going to throw it away... screaming, begging her not too throw my beloved MJ record away... all because Dan and I thought it would be SOOO fun to use her other records as Frisbees... whoops...

Good times... thank you... goodbye...

Diet Anyone...??

So about a month ago my mom and I were eating lunch at Biagis (YUMMO!!) and decided we'd go on a diet together. We knew our trip to Lake Powell was fast approaching and it'd be nice to be SLAMMIN in our swimsuits!! Well the next week grandpa Clay passed away and between the stress, sadness, and copious amounts of Swiss chocolate consumed the diet never really started... in fact it went in reverse... YIKES!! After everything settled down we decided we'd start again. I've been doing really well with my food but I think I really just want to tone up so I thought I'd take up running again... which was all good in theory, but then Utah got stuck under a constant HURRICANE and I couldn't go out and run at all. So I've got about 2.5 weeks to go. Does anybody have any diet or exercise secrets they'd like to share?? You know, the kind where you drop 10 sizes in a week?? Ha ha ha! No really, I'm serious!! I have to look good in THIS!