Where the mother crap have I been?

Warning. Warning. Warning. This blog contains no pictures, camera charger missing. Does contain much rambling in order to catch up the last four months.

Yes, where the mother crap have I been you might wonder...well I have been avoiding/dreading blogging the past few...months mainly because I feel like I should do some major catch up post starting back in June (and the idea of it makes me want to vomit in a bucket and
I hate to vomit). Yes freakin June, how the flip am I supposed to do that when we have been going non stop since June, way to much to tell. But today I'm home with a sick child, with no where to go because Arch took the Jeep to work today because his truck has a flat so dangit I'm going to blog.

Basically since the middle of June we have been gone traveling every weekend till the second week of September. I went to st. George leaving Arch with Zaylie for 5 days to go with my sister in law Cassie to help her mom with weddings (she's an amazing wedding planner) and it was freakin awesome to be baby free for five whole days. We went to Salt Lake to spend Independence Day with Arch's brothers, the next weekend we went to to Seattle Washington, and Camano Island for Arch's brother Sam's wedding, then it was off to Rachell and Tims wedding in Montana and then to Wyoming for her reception. That next weekend I went to Provo for a semi roommate reunion, it was only Katie, Lindsay and I but it was fantabulous! It was just like the old days as if five years had never passed. We talked about all the boys we used to date and had crushes on, all the funny roommate stories, and facebooked people all night long. As Nacho would put it, "it was de best."

Then the next weekend it was off to Rock Springs Wyoming to meet up with Arch's parents to drop Zaylie off so they could watch her in CO while Arch and I went to Rocky Point Mexico for my family Reunion. (that will most likely be a whole extra post itself, coming to my blog on a later date.) After Mexico some of us went to Las Vegas for a couple of days, we got to stay in a pent house suite at the top of Caesar's palace. We checked in with my grandparents and it happened to be their 50th wedding anniversary so the lady worked her magic and got us both penthouse suites. Awesome. After ten days of playing we met up with Arch's mom in SLC so we could become parents again. The next weekend we stayed home. Angels singing.

The weekend after that Arch's parents came to visit, they helped Arch put up a fence, while I hosted a neighborhood garage sale in our garage. As Arch's parents were about to leave they asked us if they could take Zaylie again until we came to CO for Sam's open house in 11 days. Well how can you say no to that, we had just begun to build our house (and I am the builder, that's right we didn't hire a builder, its me, and wow that is another blog post as well) so 11 days with out Zaylie would be the bomb digitiy to get things done. So with Zaylie gone we were free to help Zach and Keri move to Boise. The boys were beasts but it was so fun to help them move and see their new place. We even made the guys put up all of the pictures and decorate before we left, they loved every minute of it. :)

That next weekend we were off to Colorado for Sam and Amber's open house, it was a lot of fun to be with a bunch of family again, the wedding was great and it was so good to see our little munchkin again. Since then we have been super busy with our house, learning a lot of big lessons, and a few small lessons too. The framing, trusses, sheeting, and plumbing are all done, electrical, mechanical and the roof goes on this week. Oh yeah duh, we moved! We found some renters for our house, and moved into my grandparents house who are snow birds and head to California for the winter, so it worked out perfectly. Except that the weekend we chose to move I came down with the flu, fever chills, sore throat, throwing up, basically the works; I was totally out of commission so Arch and anyone else who could, packed up my house. So I have no idea where ANYTHING is and its driving me crazy. And of course Arch's comment to that is, "how convenient" right as if me the control and clean freak of the century wants ameuters cleaning and organizing my things. I think the idea of it made my flu even worse.

Thats All folks.

Good freak

I know, I know I've been MIA for way too long, and sorry to disappoint but I don't have some monster "catch up" post, however I thought I'd give you a little somethin'. This is Zaylie in April, nothing has changed much since these pictures were taken (except she's much slimmer), but she still LOVES to play with daddy's tools and help him work. She's totally a daddys girl and 99.5 %(see below to read about the other 0.05%) tom-boy, she loves to play in dirt, she rubs it all over her body and on her face, she eats rocks, and actually has a mullet, so if I don't put up her hair, she actually looks like a little boy. But hey at least she looks like a dang cute little boy!

Here is the proof of that 0.05% thats left of her genetic makeup that she might be some day and in some way "girly"

Zaylie also LOVES to put on my make up, she now can reach into my make up drawer and pull out whatever her little heart desires and just goes to down on her face, most of it ends up in her ear, which i'm not sure why she thinks it goes there, but hey at least she's showing some sign of knowing her gender!

Here she is putting it in her ear

yes thats her eating the make up

Here is a more recent picture of Zaylie with her Aunt Cassie, and yes she's blonde, she's been blonde for a long time now, yes she came out with black hair it all fell out and grew in blonde, yes archie and I both have blonde siblings and Arch's hair was lighter as a baby, oh and yes she's Arch's, I mean seriously folks look at her face... is there any question...really. Can you tell I get asked this barage of questions about 7 times a day?

My first shout out!

Happy 4 year Anniversary Babe! (Two days late whoops)

June 11th was our 4 year anniversary, its weird to think we've been married for four years and have been together for 5 1/2. Anytime people have asked us in the past six months or so how long we've been married Arch always looks at me and says "its been what... like 2 1/2, 3 years right" I just roll my eyes because he's dead serious, and I'll correct him by saying "no Arch remember we got married in 2004, its now 2008-do the math." Anyway, Arch took me to our favorite Restruant "Stockmans" then we came home and had a chocolate fondu picnic and sparkling cider (woot woot) on our living room floor. It was such a fun night, I'm so lucky to be married to a man who continually makes me laugh. I'm not going to go into some mushy gushy love speech because to be honest Arch and I just aren't like that HAHAHA, but we do love eachother and have loved the last four years we've had together.

Tagged again

TAG--YOU'RE IT!! I've been tagged by my friend Breanne, and I dont normally take the time to do this, but I'm sick in bed and Zaylie is sleeping so inbetween googling the upcoming election and checking blogs I decided to do it.


Two names you go by:
1. Shan

2. Shantay


Two things you are wearing right now:
1. pajama pants


2. pink t-shirt



Two of your favorite things to do:
1. play games or hang out with friends/family


2. go out to eat


Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. go to IHOP


2. go on a freakin vacation which we will never do because Arch never wants to take the initiative plan anything or to "waste" the money on five days of frivilous spending...we never got to even go on a blasted honeymoon unless you call driving and hotel hopping across the unted states from idaho to D.C. a honeymoon--I mean isn't this life about experiences, how in the flame (i got that from Averi and LOVE it) are we supposed to experience what this world has to offer if we never leave the magnificent (sense the sarcasm there)state of idaho. Please excuse my rantings, as you can see this is a sensitive subject.


Favorite Pets:
1. none


2. none- they require work, which is pretty much like having another kid, and really who wants that. Just kidding, I love Zaylie and would welcome any other children we have some day but for serious, I would never EVER want a pet, plus they stink and shed and you have no idea what they are thinking so they could just attack whenever they wanted and you'd have no idea it was coming.


Two people who will fill this out
1. Cassie will in about two months only because she'll feel bad that no one I tagged will do it

2. Averi, I'm sure she hates these things as much as the next person but she's always there to come through for me.

Two things you did last night:
1. Went to mutual


2. Went to the cocoa bean with Cassie and Keri to get a cupcake...delicious.

Two things you ate today
1. vanilla wafers


2. It's 11:22 and I just went downstairs to try to find something else and there was nothing besides tortillas and rotted strawberries, so I'm back up in my bed starving.

Two people you last talked to:
1. Archie

2. Keri

Two things you're doing tomorrow:
1. Showing Bobbi how to make a brag book.


2. getting bids from contractors for our house



Two longest car rides:
1. Idaho Falls to Washington D.C


2. Colorado to either Florida or New York/Canada border its a pretty close tie



Two favorite holidays:
1. Christmas time (the whole month of december I love)


2. Fourth of July

Two favorite vacations:
1. Well I haven't really been on one and probably will never go on one, but if I had to choose I would say...San Fransisco when Cassie and Brennen got married

2. Destin Florida but mind you I was 14, so its long overdue



Two favorite drinks:
1. Koolaid


2. Mountain Dew

I tag, Cassie, Averi Kylie Bobbi and Amanda

Juno

Everyday I get people asking me how old I am which usually follows with, oh my I could have sworn you were 16 years old. I substitute teach at the middle schools and highschools and every time with out fail I get mistaken for a student...I'm being told to go to class, or a teacher will come in my classroom and ask where the teacher is, or the students will ask me out etc. A couple of weeks ago an APX Alarm salesman came to my door and asked me if my mom was home... I said no, but my husand is. Anyway needless to say, because I am constantly being told how young I look, I have always felt super young. Remember back when we were all kids and you'd say some new slang word like, oh lets say, "the bomb" or "for shizzle" and your parents would be like what the heck does that mean? I remember thinking I am never going to be like that, I'm going to be the coolest mom and will always listen to the hip music, and watch MTV, and dress cool, and know all the slang terms even when I'm 45. Well I'm only 23 years old and I've already let myself down.



Arch and I watched Juno last night, and anyone who knows me would know that I have "phrases" if you will like hold the phone, shut the front door, good freak, that flips my switch, I hear ya squawkin big chicken, I'm pickin up what your puttin down and they just go on and on(which really I owe most of my phrases to Averi, Zoolander and Nacho Libre) but this movie put me to shame. Half way through the movie I started thinking, good crap I don't understand half the stuff this girl is saying, I am TOTALLY moving towards the "what the heck does that mean" kind of mom. I think one of my favorites she said was "up the spout" meaning pregnant oh and "honest to blog" meaning are you serious? Anyway, this may be about the most random post I've ever posted, but its just been on my mind and I didn't have any pictures to update ya'll on so this is what you get.

Zaylie update

I've been getting hounded about not posting pictures of Zaylie by everyone I run into, so I decided to go overboard with the pictures so ya'll will leave me alone. I put them all in a slide show because there were just to many to put all on a the blog so i'm sorry you have to wait through the whole thing just to see the pictures...annoying I know but there was just no other way. Enjoy.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Rexburg Mini Bazaar!

I wanted to let everyone in Eastern Idaho know about the Rexburg Mini Bazaar on Saturday March 29th. Its going to be the craft fair of the season!

Where: The APX building on Main St.

When: 9 am to 5 pm

Vendors Include:

Lia Sophia Jewelry, Scrapbooking, Creative Memories, Stampin Up, Mary Kay, Vinyl Lettering, Wood Crafts, Avon, Shabby Apple Dresses, baby hair bows, hats, baby braclets, quilts, blessing dresses, Photography, home decor, and so much more!