Dreaming of Southern California

Our vacation to Southern California went by way too fast.

I am sitting in my living room, freezing, heat turned up to 72 degrees.

I feel like if I close my eyes I can still see the waves crashing in on the beach,

the sun beating down warming us up, and no snow anywhere!

Back to Reality... AUGHHH

We had the best time,

Hiking in St. George

(Thank you Matt and Drue for the fun hike!)

Disneyland

Beck playing in the water, waiting for Grandma Ann to feel better after going on

SCREAMIN CALIFORNIA!

Grandpa Tom Tom was hooking Beck up with the good stuff!

Laguna Beach

(I wanted Aaron to show me where all the People lived from the show!

He thought I was an idiot!)

San Clemente

San Diego Zoo

This Camel was gross. I couldn't stop staring at it. The white stuff in his mouth is foam... YUCK!

Aquarium

(Beckham LOVED looking at the fish)

LegoLand

Sea life Aquarium

Long ride home in a snow storm.

We are already planning our next trip to CALIFORNIA!

Anyone want to come???

Working Mom!

I have learned very quickly that it's not as glamorous as it sounds,

Working Mom.

It's tough.

Planning, waking up earlier, getting TWO people ready, and being on time!

That's a LOT to ask of one girl.

Yesterday...

Beck up and ready to roll and 5 am.

trying to ignore him so I can sleep 20 more minutes

unsuccessful.

Feed Beck, change his clothes, ignore the temper tantrum, 6 am

Beck back to bed.

Time to get ready before work.

Wake Beck up to go to Aunt Deena's for the day. 6:45 am

Go to Starbucks for a tasty drink

(I'm ignoring the point count with weight watchers)

Drop Beck off.

He is tired and wanting his Mom,

this is a first. Poor Guy.

It makes it hard to leave.

At work I decide to to run to the mall before seeing Beck at lunch.

He needs a hat for our vacation.

Excited for his new hat,

I hurry to Deena's to see if he will keep it on his noggin.

No such luck.

He wants to tear it off and put it in his mouth.

FIGURES!

Beck poops his pants.

I'll hurry and change it and go back to work.

Deena has only TWO wipes left.

I can make it work. I have done this a million times. I can clean him in two wipes.

Challenge is on!

Beck clean, feet still in air, crying starts.

I look down, more poo coming out!

CRAP!!

Hurry put diaper down

search for wipes in diaper bag.

notice my leg is getting really warm

look down.

PEE all over me!!

Great, I have to go back to work with pee leg.

BECKHAM!

Crying, scared, and tired.

I pick my little boy up and rock him for a few minutes

(after mess is cleaned up).

Lay him down for a little nap.

Off to work, with my pee leg.

Like I have said plenty of times before,

Being a Mom is a very dirty job,

and worth every minute!

My Baby Boy's ONE!

My boy, my little baby boy is growing up too fast. I need a pause button! It goes by all too fast. I don't want to forget a single thing about him and this past year, but I will post about all that tomorrow. For today,

PARTY TIME

The decorations were very random. Just whatever popped in my head, that's what we

decorated with. His Birthday Cake, well... it's suppose to be a MONSTER

We had Lots of family and food. It was a perfect day ( besides the snow) for a bbq.

After all the good eats, then came the birthday song and cake eating.

I tried to get Beck to wear his Birthday hat, but he HATED IT!

I couldn't believe it, all that work for the best Bday hat EVER

and he refused to keep it on his head.

No big deal, right. He will love to eat his cake. I have been looking forward to this all week. Beck tearing into his cake, smashing his face into it, and smearing it all over the place. That's why he is wearing his old clothes.

DIRTY 'EM UP BUDDY!

NOPE he HATES that TOO!

He wanted nothing to do with the cake.

GREAT, I can't please this kid.

What does he want, an iPOD???

After we all screamed together, we moved onto presents (no ipod).

As you can tell, he was just as pumped for the presents, as he was for the cake and hat!

It was a great day. I love when family can get together and hang out.

Happy Birthday little fella!

Oh, and Beck wanted to thank everyone for coming!

Back from my Sabbatical

I took a little hiatus from running but as of today I am back at it!

Snow or no snow, I cannot put off running any longer.

After my lunch date, with my favorite ladies Stacey and Mikkel, to Ross Park Drive Inn I had no choice but to run. I love to eat Taco spaghetti and my hips and thighs LOVE to hang onto everything I put in my mouth.

As soon as I got home,

I loaded Beck into his jogging stroller, Phil@Teds, and we were off!

I made it 10 steps out of my drive way before my lungs started to burn.

The pain in my gut kicked in around 2 minutes and literally didn't stop

until an hour after my run.

I only made it a mile.

One lonely mile.

gut gripping, lung burning, mile...

Oh boy, oh boy.

I have a long way to go to get to that half Marathon.

One day at a time.

No more time off.

I am a faithful, out of shape,

RUNNER!

Where's Beck???

Lately Beck has been hiding out in a few places. In the hallway, playing with the vent. In the other hallway standing up against the hall closet, or the last place he likes is the window in the living room. So I checked all his HOT spots and he was nowhere!

I have to keep the blinds pulled up or else he can grab them and break them or better yet, remind me how dirty they are...

Of course, I should have known, the blinds I forgot to pull up,

that's where Beck is!

After a quick yell, "BECKHAM, NO NO!".

Lots and Lots of LAUGHING.

He thinks he is out smarting me.

It's on B, IT IS ON!

Boooo

Come on Jake, Everyone knows you messed up.

Veinna... Come on!

Just wait until reality sets in. She is not the one. She is too young for you.

Thinking with your boy parts will not find you TRUE love.

It will find you other things, like, VIENNA!

But really, She is not even that cute.

Aaron said she was but she has weird eyes and likes to look at the ceiling when she talks.

My vote is, he screwed up with Ali.

Now I have to watch the Bachlorette.

The visious circle of reality tv.

Open mouth, insert foot.

What is wrong with me

I continue to give people the worst compliments

I mean the best,

but it comes out terrible

I hardly ever realize it until minutes later

It usually happens at church

maybes it's because I am nervous because I don't really know the people I am talking to

so I try to come up with nice things to say...

You know, so they'll like me.

I don't think it's working!

Yesterday, I was sitting next to a really nice lady

about my age

she had a little baby

I was talking to her

don't even know her name

She said she had an 8 year old!

I quickly said, "WOW, you don't look old enough to have an 8 year old."

Thinking nothing of it.

Well, for all I know she could have got pregnant in high school!

This situation is mild compared to the other things I say.

I need to stop and think before I speak.

Someone put a muzzle on me!