A day at the Gay-way...I Mean The Gateway

The cool water show! Honestly, it was like a really, really small "Vegas" water show!
Josh was ready to go get all of the water.

Not quite sure what he was looking at at first.

So a few weeks ago we decided to take Josh to the Gateway. It was a gorgeous day and Dave was off for spring break. We went down there mostly just to eat lunch then walk around. I remembered there was the "water fountain show". Anyway, Josh LOVED it! It was a lot of fun. Even when we were surrounded by a LOT of people who have chosen to love the same sex...yucky! Anyway, here are some pictures.

Fun in Josh-land!

So the last few weeks (at least the few warm days that we've had), we definitly took advantage of the warmth and spent the days outside. Here are just a few pics of Josh enjoying new adventures outside. This first picture is when we went to the Layton park. It was a lot of fun. It took a good while to get used to walking on sand, but once he did he was ok. But since he is still very young, there wasn't much for him to do, so for his fun, he sat and hit this yellow hand-rail. It's amazing what entertains this kid! :)

Josh enjoying hitting the blue pole...I know, whatever entertains them...whatever!

Josh pointing towards the camera, he wanted to put the camera in his mouth...too bad! Notice the front-facing car seat! He LOVES being in the car now! It's so nice! Hasta la vista infant car seat! :)

Josh's new talent...sticking his tongue out as far as he can...what talent huh?

Yet, another talent, pulling one arm out of shirt all by himself! What can I say, he is our prodigy! :)

Anyway, other than watching our son grow up, Dave and I are about the same. Dave is doing well in school, and staying very busy with it. I am just staying busy with being mom, wife and nurse. My work has been insanely busy lately. Last week for example, Davis hospital has 110 total beds in the facility, and we had 111 patients...yeah, figure that one out! It SUCKED! Anyway, we still have to move and there has been nothing even close to what we have right now and what we pay. WEll, just keep us in our prayers, it will all work out eventually!

EVICTED

So you will be able to tell by the spelling that this is not Nicole but I have to tell this story. So it turns out that we are living in our nice inexpensive apartment illegaly. Yes our landlady did not know that her house is not zoned to be a duel family dwelling. I had an idea that this was the case because we do not have our own mail box or garbage can. I guess that because of our apartment manager experience in Logan that people in the city just do not care. I was wrong because when Nicole decided to call and see if we could get our own can the lady informed us of the violation. So now we have 90 days to find a new apartment.
I think it is funny that in Logan we lived in, and managed such crapy apartments that violated so many city codes, even the occupency codes. The Logan city people knew that our apartments violated these codes but they just did not care to bother with it. So now that we have an apartment that is clean, does not have water constantly leaking through the cealings, and is not jimmy riged up from top to bottom, we get kicked out. I think that the apartment gods were just not satisfied with the fact that we were so comfortable.

New Haircut

Well I FINALLY decided to get my haircut and colored. Trust me, it's not that I didn't want to do it, it was to finally make the decision to spend the money on doing it. Anyway, thank goodness for a tax return, I did it. I love the result, it isn't much of a change, but I'm really glad I am back to having blonde in my hair. I just didn't feel like "myself" with such dark hair.

Anyway, it was fun! And Dave loves it too! :)

Josh is ONE!

From March 7, 2008 to
March 7, 2009

Happy birthday to my sweet son Joshua! He turned one today, March 7th. Today has been a day of reflection for Dave and I. Besides remembering the day that Josh was born to us, we have really reflected about this entire year and how much Josh has changed our lives, and just how grateful we are for our son.

Today we just had a little birthday party and served cake and ice cream. Josh got some little toys, books and clothes(from me...and Dave). Also, he was able to taste cake and ice cream(that wasn't sugar-free). He GOBBLED it up! It was really fun to watch. After eating the cake and ice cream Josh got directly into the tub to clean off. After a few hours, and when the sugar level dropped in his blood, he finally went to sleep!

We had such a fun day! Because it's Josh's birthday, I thought I would talk about some of the things that Josh does that puts a smile on our faces!

• He gets so excited everytime we get him ready to get into the bath. We usually undress him in his bedroom, and then he literally runs to the bathroom. It is so fun to see!




• He loves reading books and flipping through the pages by himself, heaven forbid that mom or dad flip the pages! :)




• He loves food. Anything that he can feed himself, he loves even more. I am pretty sure if he could live off of goldfish crackers, gram crackers, nutrigrain bars, and bananas, he would be happy!




• He has the GREATEST laugh. When I get inpatient with him...very infrequently :)... he will just look at me and laugh and I can't help but laugh back at him.




• He has the cutest smile! I could just look at him all day.




• Even though now Josh puts himself to sleep, the occassional times that I get to put him to sleep, I could just watch him sleep for a very long time! He looks so angelic!




• He still loves his green cup. I loves to hold it and shake it while walking around the house. I don't know what his facination is with it, but it makes me laugh.




• I love getting Josh out of his crib after he wakes up. He is always so happy to see us. In fact, Dave and I always fight over who gets to get him, because he usually will cuddle with us when he wakes up! It's our favorite!




• I love how his face lights up whenever he sees anyone he recognizes, like his Grandma and Grandpa Fisher!




• Josh loves it when I let him get out of the shopping cart at the store and let him walk around! He goes nuts! He starts "talking" and laughing while walking down the isles! It's fun to see!

Anyway, I just want everyone to know just how grateful I am for this little boy! We love him so much and we love being his parents! We are blessed to have him! Happy Birthday Joshy!

My tax-return gift!

So here they are, my tax return washer and dryer! I am so excited to have a washer and dryer that are reliable and that actually wash and dry a load of laundry under 1 1/2 total time!

We got Kenmore's from Sears. Pretty good price! I was thinking about getting front loaders, but I really didn't want to spend more than $800 total. Anyway, I love them and they work great! Now it's fun to do laundry!