I wish people would update more......

So as I joyfully blog stalk all those wonderful people I stalk, I found myself getting REALLY annoyed at all of the people who don't update enough, then it hit me that the last time I posted anything was in January. Oops. I'm annoyed with myself now.

There is news from the Plaisted home. CODY GRADUATED! YEAH! He's now a Dr. of Pharmacy! He has a job offer on the table in Flagstaff AZ. with Walgreens, and on Monday he is flying down there to visit another potential job opportunity (it's his dream job, none of that retail nonsense:)jk). So either way it looks like we have the highest chance of moving to Flagstaff AZ. YAY! So this is our big adventure!!!! :)


I have begun my packing. It's MADNESS! We are going through all of our stuff deciding what we want to sell in our garage sale this coming weekend Friday from 5-8 pm. and Saturday starting at 7am,(Did you like my plug right there??? :)) and what we are going to move. I tell you our apartment is a DISASTER AREA!!!

I've never moved before so this is quite a daunting task. I'm packing boxes as we get them. I think I have about 10-15 boxes and "totes" packed already and besides seeing them all over my apartment you really can't tell that I've done anything. Carter is rather distressed at some of the things I've packed. He "needs" everything that I have packed away. Poor kid!

The boys are doing great! Carter talks about his "new house" a lot and keeps asking when we get to go there. I don't think he QUITE understands what is going on, but he gets bits and pieces of it. Toby is totally oblivious to what is going on. Besides climbing on all of the boxes I don't think he has a clue that anything is different (oh to be 17months again........).

How do I feel about all of this? I'm so excited, nervous, surprisingly melancholy, and SUPER anxious. I'm SO excited to move to Flagstaff. Seriously it sounds like the PERFECT place.....I've never been there, but I've been reading all about it, and tracking the weather on my desktop, and searching for family things to do. I've been really happy with what I've seen and found. I'm nervous to move because I've never done it before. AND we don't have anywhere to move to YET. And I don't know a soul in Flagstaff. I'm melancholy because even though I've never LOVED living in Wyoming, I do LOVE the people here. AND we are going to be SO far away form our close friends, and Cody's family. But I think the strongest emotion I'm feeling is anxious! I just want to be down there already, and all moved in, and meeting a greeting new people. I just want to hold Cody's first pay check in my hand and cry.

So, this is for those of you like me, cursing all the lazy bums out there not posting updates. Here is my update. Maybe I'll post more soon, but then again I'll probably be the slacker.

Until then :)

LOVE YOU

Yep.

It just so happens that right now at 7:15 my children are tucked safely in their beds and are actually asleep. I have the rest of the night to....Do whatever? With Cody gone I try to stay up as late as I can, maybe even fall asleep on the couch before I go to my room. I have this horrible anxiety about the funny noises my apartment makes, and people outside. I just lie in bed and picture someone breaking in and...I dunno killing us all maybe? So I make sure I'm too tired to think before I try to go to sleep. So I'm going to blog, then watch some TV, and enjoy some very nice, very much needed MOMMY TIME!

So I FINALLY uploaded some pictures today. Go me Right? Here they are. We'll Start with some C.U.T.E. ones of my sweet little boys. Followed by some Christmas, and Toby Birthday. Since I missed those 2 very important occasions in my Blogging. I hope you all enjoy.

Here is my lively, and energetic little man doing what he loves, playing with his Trains!

Here is my sweet Toby just swingin' I think this picture was taken in October. AWESOME weather for Laramie. AWESOME.

Oh Christmas Morning, how I LOVE it! :) They were S.P.O.I.L.E.D. They way children should be on Christmas. Toby's Birthday Cake. Made by me. I rock.....Toby after "playing" in his cake. I've always wanted a black baby! :)Well I hope you've enjoyed these pictures. I'm not guaranteeing any more any time soon. I hate uploading pictures on here.

New Hair Cut....

Do I go short, like this??Keep it longer, like this?

With these bangs?? (Both the short and long cuts, I really like these bangs.)

My haircut appointment is next Saturday....yikes!

Venting from a Stay at Home Mom

Ok, this is for everyone who was following me during my Insanity Challenge. As most of you know Cody and I did about 6 of the 9 weeks with out a hiccup. Then Christmas Break happened, we all got sick, we got stuck, and we dropped the ball. Last week was Cody's first week of his new rotation, and I tried to pick the ball up again. Every time I tried to work out one of my Children needed to be held, fed, cleaned, or played with. Now as you can see, here I sit blogging, but I can honestly tell you that if I quit blogging right now, and went to put on my shoes, ONE of my boys would need something, and then some thing else, and so on and so forth for the next 45 minutes or so. Then as soon as I give up and turn my video off, having only been at it hard for about 15 minutes, they would be perfectly content, until I tried to turn my video back on. I tried working out at night, but honestly with Cody gone I'm completely wiped out and in desperate need of a Diet Coke, and a candy bar and defiantly not feeling up to an intense work out. ALSO, I only lost 3 pounds with it and I was working out 6 days a week, and I was sore and tired and hungry... I want to LOSE weight, NOT gain a whole lot of muscle. Toned maybe, but I still want the numbers to go down on the scale. So here is a question I'm posing to all of you......Do you think a rec.-center membership (where they will watch me kids for the time I'm exercising) is worth it? We are EXTREMELY poor. We live off of student loans and public assistance and I have never been able to justify giving myself that little perk, but I still have 15lbs to go (ok really only 10lbs. to my goal, but 15lbs. to my ideal weight, the weight I want to be before I get pregnant again). I'm thinking that it could be my anniversary/birthday present? I just don't know if I can justify it. It'll be SUPER expensive.

Onto the other things I wanted to say. Last week, having Cody gone was miserable. This week, I'm going to MAKE it be great, and fun for my boys. Carter talks about his daddy almost all day while he is gone. So I'm going to try and keep us SUPER busy. Any ideas on fun activities, mostly indoor activities because it's -11 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now. I'm hoping that there are some women in my ward that want to do a play group a couple more times a week than just Wednesday (if you are one of those women let me know).

Sorry for no pictures again. Cody is getting frustrated with my lack of computer skills and wants me to learn how to put the pictures up myself...and I just don't want to. Maybe that will be my project for this week. Thanks for reading.

P.U.K.E.

So the Christmas break was like every other one. We saw Family. We played games. We ate food. We opened presents. We got snowed in, in Ogden (because Cody didn't listen to me when I told him we needed to head home. Not the point I'm making, but note worthy). We got sick. Yep. My M.I.L got the flu two days before we FINALLY left Utah, and as a result I now have two puking, pooping, crying, grumpy, aching, sad, irritable children. AND Cody left for rotations yesterday. All of that aside let me tell you about my day:

Both of my kids were up all night long. HORRAY.....So I slept in until a whopping 7:30 just to get up, feed my kids get showered and ready to take Toby to get his shots, go to Wal-Mart where Carter puked in the isle, and to the DFS where the lady snapped at me and made me fell about 2 inches tall. Thanks for that ma'am my day hadn't sucked enough yet... Then I had to carry 2 crying kids up three flights of stairs, and unload groceries. Meanwhile Toby (I was thinking he was watching cartoons with Carter...) gets into my bedroom and pulls down my Precious Moments wedding cake topper and throws it in the toilet where it shatters. All of this by 11:00 am. I'm ready for bed. I need a diet coke, and a chocolate bar. Neither of which I got to on the shopping list because Carter PUKED IN THE ISLE before I was done. All of this could have been avoided if we had left Utah when I said, but no one listens to me. What do I know, I'm just the mom........

Alright I can't really be too mad at Cody, I understand. It's not his fault, I'm just really bitter about what my day has been like and my poor kids are breaking my heart. I'm sorry I being a downer, but I don't have any one to call, my mom is in Africa and all of my sister work. So I'm venting on my blog. Thanks for listening.

Week 5

So here we are in St. George...we missed a day or two, but then we doubled up our workout, doing the one we missed in the AM and then the one for the day in the PM. It worked well, except now we are both sick. Lame. My mom is also sick, so I hope our immune systems can fight it so we can keep going with the program. My grandpa came up with me this morning and did the warm up with me. He's my favorite. I LOVE being here with family. My dad is home from Africa, and Carter is LOVING having 2 grandpa's. Well that's about all for now I guess.....MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Bloggy Blog

So we skipped Saturday (first time we've missed a day...) and sat around and watched the Big Bang Theory (HILARIOUS!!!!!!) Then Sunday was our day off. Today we started the second block of 4 weeks with all new videos. I did the fit test and then only made it through half of the second video...it is still playing right now as I type. I'm going to die.....Also, I'm tired of blogging every day, so.....I'll blog on Sunday's and tell you all about the week.........We leave Thursday for Christmas, and my Dad fly's into Vegas on Saturday. I'm SUPER excited to see my parents and Shena. YAY! I'm going to miss Krista and Mya and their families this year though! :'( So next time you hear from me it'll be from (hopefully) SUNNY ST. GEORGE!!!!!!!!