Our Week in a Blink

Here is a quick recap of last week! It was another busy one, with Ty out of town. We tried to fit in lots of fun, though.

On Monday, Ty was still in Canada (look at all the snow)! I maybe-accidentally-on-purpose "forgot to take the kids to their school carnival. Whoopsie! AND I may have real-life-forgotten to feed them dinner. BUT! Nobody died. That is a win ;)

Tuesday was a tough day! While Mads was at dance class with Penny, I took advantage of kid-free time and ran some errands. On my way home to pick Madison up, I ran over something that completely deflated my tire! Ben was an expert fill-in-husband and put the spare tire on so I could get to the shop. Thank Heavens! (Look closely behind the girls to see my suuuuper flat tire). 

Wednesday I was able to attend my Uncle Keiths funeral with my parents and grandmother. It was nice to be able to support our family during a hard time. 

Ty also made it home on Wednesday! We were very happy to have him back after almost a week and a half of traveling internationally. I let him get reacquainted with the kiddos while I went to our brand new book club on Wednesday evening. Check out that candy-scattered charcuterie board! That's my kind of snack plate. 

Thursday was a big day. My very first crown. BLAH. I mean, I don't know anyone who enjoys dental work, but it wasn't my favorite day. 

Luckily, we were able to turn the day around and visit our very favorite, Cornbelly's! Kasja and Jordan came with us, and we found Mad's best friend Penny to play with. Kase got super brave and climbed the rock wall like a certified monkey. His gymnastics skills gave him a considerable advantage. 

Friday was a busy day, and I didn't snap any pics! Mom watched the kiddos while we went to dinner to celebrate a friend's birthday. Kase was thrilled that he passed his 'physical goal' he made during church a few weeks ago. He wanted to be able to do four whole circles on the mushroom, and passed it off during Friday's class! Go Kase! 

Saturday we found our way back to Cornbelly's, after lots of homework and General Conference. This time with Sam and Andrew, or, as we lovingly refer to them "Samandrew"! Though it was quite windy and cold, we were able to stay long enough to enjoy the fireworks show before headed home to warm up. 

Cheers to a good week, and on to the next! 

I am a comedic genius!

Just ask Kennedy.

you just fell in LOVE with my little girl, didn't you.

I don't blame you. I think it is impossible not to

<3

Update- quickly

This post is dedicated to my Aunt Laura Lee. She is a Holman, by birth, and as such she has little patience to read a post that is much longer than a couple paragraphs ;) So we're blogging bullet style today!! We've got lots to catch up on, so buckle up...

LITTLE GIRLS

• Baby K rolled over for the first time. Hasn't done it again since. Apparently you have to prop her up on her elbows just right in order for proper rolling to commence
• My little sister Samantha turned 11 on the 2nd of July! Wholly cow, she is getting old....
• Baby Abigale was blessed, she is precious. She is also TINY, she is like a quarter of Kennedy's size. haha

I LOVE THE FOURTH OF JULY

• Woke up at the butt crack of dawn to go watch the hot air balloons
• Was ditched by my grandmother, my aunt laura lee, my mother, father, and siblings. Who gets ditched by their grandma? I'm a total loser... SO only Tyler and I enjoyed the balloons. Kennedy was there, but she did not enjoy them. Nope not at all. She would cry every time they blasted the fire
• Went to the parade. Got free Coke from the Coke Zero man. Kennedy also didn't enjoy the parade. (apparently sirens and honking horns fall under the same category as the fire blasting.)
• Went to family BBQ numero uno- at Grandma Holman's house. I cut the cheese wrong (No, I wasn't farting, I cut the actual slices of cheese incorrectly. Who knew there was a right way and a wrong way?)and about gave my Uncle a stroke
• Hurried over to family BBQ numero dos, with the Kolste klan, at South Fork. A bug crawled on my leg. It was gross. Kasja tripped, and Mr. Gentile fell over in his chair. We're all lucky to be alive
• and last, but not least we went and watched the fireworks. My absolute favorite part of the 4th...

TWENTY ONE

• Yes, I turned 21. Jenny said she bought me a beer. I still haven't seen it. I think she drank it, AND she probably didn't share with Matt. For shame!
• Had a lovely birthday party with the fam on Sunday. Ate my weight in chocolate cake, ice cream and Cafe.Rio.
• Ate even more food at Iggy's the next day with all our buddies:D
• Still haven't renewed my license. I think that is against the rules.

P90X

• Failed miserably at said work out, and diet. I blame the birthday's, holiday, and also- my complete and utter lack of any sort of motivation whatsoever.
• Recommitted last Monday (my 2nd recommit, by the way. Yes, I am aware of how pathetic that is)
• 14 lbs to go until I'm technically out of the 'overweight' category (according to the BMI). 33 lbs until I hit my pre-pregnancy weight. And 38 lbs until I weigh what I did when I got married. wow. I've got a long ways to go still. Please pray for me. haha

Welp, I hope my dear sweet LauraLee found this post more bearable than the others :P I will be sure to post pictures soon! I've got a few, just cant find the blasted cord to upload them? wish me luck.

Picture post

Disclaimer: I may have gone a little over the top on the pictures, but guess what. My blog. I can do what I darn well please. Take that sucka

The Bombay experience went over fantastically, if I do say so myself. and to polish of the evening nicely, we went and saw The Proposal afterwards- aka, my new favorite movie...'to the windowwww, to the waaallll' hahahahahaha

Who does she belong to? Proof of Bombay. eat your heart out Just so you know, baby k loves to pose, even while sleeping
her preferred pose of choice? hands on face of course.

takin a sleeper...kissin daddy
hangin out with grandpa Holman, and aunt Alex

Okay, the next three pictures are of the picture frames I made all the dads for fathers day. There is a kinda funny story to go along with it... These frames were finished, and ready to be gifted not last Saturday, but the Saturday before that! Now way to think ahead, be prepared, right? WRONG! the 13th of June, we were picking up some necessity's for little miss Kennedy, and the thought dawned on me- 'Its fathers day soon! Crap! Its tomorrow! What luck, we're at wal.mart right this second, I can think of something quick, put it together tonight, and it wont look like I completely forgot about it!' I labored all night long, attempting to make each frame look as white trash as possible.... soon called it quits, and drifted off to dream land. Bright and early Sunday the 14th, I woke up, and wrapped up daddy's and grandpa Holman's frames to give away. At the top of the stairs, I offered my mom a sneak peak at the presents. She oo'ed and awed, and said how cute they were, then she said in passing as she walked away, 'Its not fathers day today, you know..' WHUHH? what do you mean? not today...that's impossible! I jumped onto google, my trusty 'i know everything' friend, and sure enough, mom was right. ugh. Anyway, made for a way less stressful next Saturday. I spose all's well that ends well.

Here is Tyler's frame

grandpa Holman's frame
And grandpa Kolste's frame

Today, Kennedy had her two month well child check up. Needless to say, she was the cutest baby out of all the other baby's in Dr. land. She also is very healthy! She weighed in at a staggering 13.4 lbs (which puts her in the 99th percentile for her weight), and has grown to a very lengthy 24 in. (96th percentile). What does all this mean? Well, she's a big 'un, but at least she's proportionate ;)

where does that hefty 13.4 come from? at least 10 lbs of it is from these amazing cheeks!

Aunt Brittany LOVES Kennedy- she loves to watch her, and hold her hand, and she can't wait for her to be able to talk to her :)

Anyway ladies and gents, I gotta get some shut eye- beauty sleep is not easy to come by. and lets face it... heavens knows I need as much as a lady can get. and with that said,

GOODNIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, DON'T LET THE BED BUGS BITE

time to chillax... before I end up looking like this

I am frazzled, to say the least. Really, I promise, I have not been in my right mind all week. Sadly, there is a good chance my fragile altered state wont return to normal for quite some time. Damages may become permanent. For all your sakes, lets hope this is not the case. This week has been exhausting for me. Its been full of working late, managers meetings, shoes breaking during said meetings, birthday dinners, trips to salt lake, miss Utah, wanting to throw things at the miss Utah magician, and the emcee, adventures driving home from salt lake in the rain late at night with 3 other directionally challenged women, lots of u turns and missed exits, bridal showers, and catching up with old friends, and rain, oh the rain, and staying up entirely too late. Yes, I know that is a run on sentence. It may not even be considered a run on sentence, lets just call it a mess of words, and phrases heaped together in a manic rant of some form or another. I'll kindly spare you the details of each said event, because a) my fingers would fall off typing such a long story, b) your eyeballs would fall out of your head reading such a long story c) there is a large portion of the work, and various other activities throughout the week that I wish never happened in the first place. Needless to say, I am sure looking forward to this weekend!

Tonight we are taking Nils and Diana out for a night on the town for Nils birthday. We missed his family party on Tuesday due to crappy planning on our part, in addition to me having to work late. So we are attempting to make it up to him by treating him and his darling wife to a little cuisine experience I'll just simply refer to as The Bombay Experience. If you haven't experienced it yet- you should be strung up by your toes and hung from a ceiling. (ew. that sounds kinda gross now that i think about it...sorry)

It has been strawberry days all week, and I haven't had a chance to do ANYTHING strawberry-ish yet. Luckily,we are going to make up for it tomorrow, by going to the ever popular rodeo. Gonna put on my straw hat, my boots, lasso up my husband and grab baby K and make our way to the rodeo arena. This is where we will gladly sit on wooden seats, eat strawberry's and cream, watch some cute kids mutton bustin, some funny guys rope and milk cows, pretty girls in sparkly shirts running their horses around barrels, and some real live cowboys ridin bulls, and buckin broncos. i. love. it. all. There may be one small hitch with my rodeo plans- I am acutally a liar and I don't really own a straw hat, or the boots... but I'll improvise!

Its also fathers day this weekend! YAY DAD's! That's right, it will be Tyler's first real live Fathers Day! I love him so much, and he is such a flippin cute dad. I really would love if you could all be a flyon the wall, just so you could see how adorable he is with Baby K. (that would be a heck of a lot of fly's...) I made (cause I'm broke) small little gifts for Tyler- the same thing for his dad, and my dad too for Fathers day. I don't want to ruin the surprise, so I cant tell you what they are- BUT I will take pictures of them, and post them on Monday. I think they turned out okay. I'm not super crafty, but when you're broke, its time to pretend! ha ha

I hope you all have a super fun- and CHILLAXING weekend :)

PS. Sunday- after wishing all the dad's happy fathers day, I plan to pass out on my bed, and not wake up for a month or so- lets hope my mental health is healed by then

The weekend

Baby K hangin out in her swing

P90X is coming on Tuesday. We will start P90X on Wednesday. I am afraid. haha.

Tyler and I have made a deal though, that makes me a little more excited about the hell I'm about to walk willingly into. If I stay faithful to the workout program, for the entire 90 days, he GETS to take me country dancing! ?He says he'll let my cousin Curt-O teach him how to dance for reals even too. I tried to offer taking real country dance lessons, but he scoffed at the idea of paying for such an event. So professor Curt-O it is...

Anyway, our weekend was pretty jammed with weddings! Love is in the rainy air apperantly. Thursay Tyler went to his buddy's temple ceremony ( I couldn't get work off to go) then that evening we went to their reception. Then Friday, we had a wedding dinner, for a close family friend of the Kolste's, and a different reception for a girl we knew in our singles ward. Side note- Her reception was freaking awesome for one reason, and one reason alone. It was held in this Log Cabin house, and adjacent to the main room inside, there was a taxadermy room. It was amazing. Complete with a couple bears, and some full grown dear. The entire cabin was filled with Moose heads, and stuffed ducks and what not. It was pretty funny. Anyhow, back to the subject, we rounded out Saturday night with a reception for the couple that we went to the wedding dinner for on Friday. It was held outside, and up until the last 15 min, it didn't rain. But man, once it started to come down, it came down hard and fast! It was intesnse! haha, the poor bride was drenched.

It was Kasja, and Jenny's birthday today!! Woot Woot! we love Birthdays. We had an amazing dinner at the Kolste's complete with icecream cake, then ran to catch the last half of Jenny's party and visit with our psudo family there.

And a little baby Kennedy update: She is still cute as ever, of course. She has decided that she really hates laying down when she is awake. She loves to be sat up so she can stare at the world around her. I think she might not be feeling very good today, she doesn't have an appetite almost at all. She has only eaten about half of what she usually does. But she isnt fussy, and she doesn't have a fever, so I am not really sure what is going on? Anyone out there have any guesses? Maybe she will be back to normal in the morning. She has started smiling a lot more often, but I don't know if its voluntary or not? But its dang cute. I need to keep the camera with me at all times so I can catch a pic one of these times...

Being back to work has been good. It went a lot smoother than I imagined it would. I feel like everything is back to normal. Tyler has been doing good with baby K. He has figured out exactly how to burp her! I could NEVER get her to burp very well, it always took so long for her. But now that Ty has figure out the magic touch, I just hand her to him, and she burps within seconds. Way to go babe!

Tyler also took Ryan fishing with his brother Kristian, and their little sister Siri last week. They had so much fun. It was pretty cold, and Siri and Ryan ended up chasing gophers for most of the day, but they did end up catching 4 fish by the time they packed up to leave. Ryan has since decided that Tyelr and him are best friends. And he thinks it would be a good idea to go fishing every single day. And if they can't go every day, then at least once a week. haha.

I guess thats mostly everything of importance. None of it is really important, its just life I guess.

We have a VERY busy week next week, so I'll try and remember to take lots of picutres, and find time to post about it as it happens!

The time has come

I went shopping yesterday quick after work for some pants. What a joyful experience!... NOT. Yes, it was there in the fitting room I realized just how much of my pregnancy weight is clinging to my body. gag. So the time has come to try and figure out how it the world to convince it to leave. Oh how I wish I could just give the extra chubb a call, and let it know that it is not welcome anymore, and that it would would promptly pack up and leave. Sadly, don't think it will happen :(

Today is the day I am turning over a new leaf. So far, I have taken what I think is an excellent step to get me back to my pre-baby K weight. This morning I paid Kristi $5 to keep me away from the snack room at my work. I may have to up the dollar amount in the event that I crave a Milky Way badly enough that I physically overtake poor Kristi who is roughly the size of half my left leg. That's right, I can take her. Hmm, maybe I should consider paying off a couple of other people in the office. There is strength in numbers.

Also, my dearest husband, Tyler, Doesn't know it yet, but he will be helping me also. He will kindly be purchasing me a little workout video called P90X. Now, for those of you who do not know what P90X is, stay up a little past midnight tonight and flip through the channels on your television set, and you will see the P90X infomercial on every other station. There is a good chance I will loose weight from this program, not from sticking to the exercise routine, but because it will no doubt KILL me the first time I try it. The dead don't hold onto their weight well ;)

And vegetables. They are disgusting!! However, I hear rumors that eating healthy requires lots and lots of vegetables. I do not promise I will eat them. BUT I do promise that if I eat them, I will not enjoy them. I'm gonna mull this part of the plan over for a while... it seems harder than the P90X thing...

I don't know if I have the guts to post a 'before' picture. I'll think about it for a day or two, and perhaps post one then.

I'm also not going to post my beginning weight, but my goal is to try and loose 45 lbs. I don't know how long it will take. It may take a little while... 45lbs if half an Olsen twin!!

Also, When you see me sneaking a Milky Way, slap me in the face, and kick me in the shin. I'll have to put it down so I can chase you down and pull your hair. (and luckily, the chasing part may burn a calorie or two!)

Wish me luck, this may be a long hard road