hats

I have bought Gage a few hats over the last couple of years. I think little boys in hats are too cute. Well, Gage wants nothing to do with his hats. We can't even keep his winter hats on him. We have to distract him and help him forget he has something on his head.

Today he found his dad's beanie. He will not take it off. Goofy boy. He's too cute!

Welcome 2012

I am glad that 2012 is here.

I am glad that I can stop and take a moment and look at my life and see if I am pleased with the results of the last year. I am not one to make resolutions. I do like to try a little harder and be a little better in all aspects of my life. Baby steps, right? ;)

As I was going through the last year of my blog, I missed all those things I would have blogged, if I blogged. I wanted to do a highlight post of our year. Sadly, I did not take the time to highlight our year. I plan to be better this year. I am even taking my valuable shower time to blog! Go me! (Oh, and my dishes are not getting done before work, sorry Dustyn!) I hope my plan does not fail. Otherwise, you might want to avoid me for the day. (please go to sleep and nap a little longer today, Gagey-O)

So here we are, the first installment of 2012.

I will do a Christmas 2011 post, but for now, I will tell you what Dustyn got me for Christmas! He got me some perfume and a new way to store my spices!

I wasn't sure how I would like it, but I think it turned out pretty good!

They are all on the side of my fridge. Nice, huh?

Some random things about Gage. He loves ANYTHING truck or cars. Okay, so he may be slightly obsessed. He talks about them all day long. He is quite a talker these days too. He especially loves Grandpa's red truck. And Grandpa. 

Gage has been a lot of fun over the last week. He got over being sick and has just been funny. He cracks me up all day.

 

His shirt says, "I'm the best present ever" and that is definitely the case. He's too cute. I cannot get enough of him.

He loves to give himself facials and rub whatever he is eating all over his head, his face, and everywhere else he can manage to get it. Mostly, it drives me crazy, but every now and again, I find it hilarious. Like this time!

 

Oatmeal facials usually result in a bath! (I think that may be why he does it!) He loves baths! (My other new years "goal" is to get tile up on our bathtub walls! I hope, I hope!)

We have not had a good year when it comes to computers. At all. It's been terrible. My computer battery died back in May/June. I had my iPod. I finally started using Dustyn's computer every now and again, but he needs it to do photos and all the other things that he has to do. I finally bought a battery at the end of October. It worked great for about a month. Gage loves to play with my charger. (unplugged) He sucks on it and whatever else he can do to it until I find him. Well, the little pins started sticking so my charger is no longer in working order. Dustyn took it apart and cleaned it. It worked great for a few days. One day I was working on something and I suddenly noticed how HOT my charger was (the part plugged into the computer). I notice a burning aroma and smoke. I quickly unplugged it and luckily my computer still seems fine. (of course I haven't been able to use it since that day, so who really knows). Our house smelled terrible for hours. Anyway, I am totally off on a HUGE tangent. Long story short, Gage threw a car and broke Dustyn's computer too. He has been going to send it in and get it repaired, but has't yet. So... this is what the computer looks like. There are a few more spots in the screen, but this is the largest at the moment. It's a tad bit annoying.

 

Well, our bad computer luck has not ended there. The other day, I was carrying Dustyn's iPad out to the car with some games. It fell out of my hands. Completely busted up two corners and broke the glass (only in the corners). Gah! Seriously?!?! I just ordered him a case for his iPad and iPhone. NO MORE broken electronics!

Our new church time is at 1:00 p.m. This is proving difficult! Gage usually naps at 11:30 or 12:00 p.m. He'll usually sleep for an hour and a half to two hours. (Of course he is STILL not sleeping now and it's 12:15 p.m. Maybe I will have time for that shower!) Last Sunday, I got him bathed and ready (except for his sweater) and put him down for a nap around 10:30 a.m. He did not fall asleep for over an hour. It seems like he had just fallen asleep as we had to wake him to go. He had good bed head! We got to church barely on time and he was a bear the entire time. Never wake a toddler from sleep! (This is my reminder) We took him plenty of snacks for church since he wouldn't get lunch. He wouldn't eat any. We brought cheese tortillas to church! and he wouldn't eat them! ha ha. So now he is tired, cranky and not wanting to sit still. Luckily he was good in nursery (he was the only one) and I even got to go to my own classes. He finally got to eat at 5:00 p.m. and didn't have a decent nap all day. Is this how ALL Sundays are going to be? :) 

 We have a tradition of going Ice Fishing on new years day. We have done it for years and enjoy it! We didn't go last year because Gage was just too small. This year we decided to go. I was quite nervous, but I figured we'd take our own car in case we needed to go home early. We usually have tents that get nice and toasty (HOT!) but we realized we had forgotten them once we arrived at the lake. Luckily it was a WARM day! I only had a light sweater on and I was warm. Gage was so excited. We got him all dressed and ready and he watched out the window for Grandpa to come get him. HE HAD to ride in Grandpa's truck, of course.

 

Grandpa gave him some overalls for Christmas. They say, "beep, beep" on them, Gage's favorite words.

 

We tried to get him to eat breakfast in the truck. No such luck. The kid isn't much of an eater.

As we started walking out on the lake, Gage was giggling. He thought it was awesome.

Of course he wanted to get down and run. Thank heavens for the stroller!

We tried to get him to hold his fishing pole.

HA! Nope. Luckily Grandpa had a fishing pole holder.  

Every time Grandpa handed Gage his fishing pole, (or anything else) 

He threw it on the hole. He is a good aim. He hit the hole every time. Grandpa had to save a few things out of the hole.

 

We knew he wouldn't want to fish for long, so we brought the iPad. Ice Fishing with an iPad, who knew? Seems silly to me! Ha ha. But, he watched his favorite movie (Meet the Robinson's) while we fished. I don't even know if he could see the screen but he was completely content.

I caught the one fish of the day. (dinner tonight!) Gage was completely entertained by the fish. He giggled and giggled.

 

We were about read to go, so I decided to let Gage run around for a minute. I knew that if he got wet or cold, we could change his clothes and get him warm quick. He loved it.

It was SO slick though. He couldn't stand up. He did not want to hold our hands!

Uncle Chet found a sled to pull him in.

I think he would have sat there all day being pulled around. We decided it was time to go. Of course Gage did not want to go. He wanted to walk. So, Dustyn put him in the chair and pushed him back to shore. 

Once we got to shore, he got to get into Grandpa's truck so everything was a-okay! This is how he felt about being home.

 

me and my gang

(yep, that's right. me and my gang. that is what is currently playing on the radio. since i can not come up with blog titles, that is what you get. :)

I am happy to report that our lasagna was good. Phew. I suppose it's better than steak in the long run. Plus, we get to have left overs for a week. (okay, so maybe that is just good for Dustyn) Next time I will plan to make lasagna when I have a bit more free time and I'll make it all on my own. This time I bought the sauce and stuff and that is why it was so expensive. It's okay now, though. I just happen to be the pickiest person alive when it comes to lasagna. I'm weird.

In other news, I successfully took a shower while Gage was awake today. It worked out rather nicely. I got his sippy, blanket, some crackers, his favorite trucks, turned on the radio and he played in his crib. I was surprised how much he enjoyed himself. He sang to the radio (so funny) and made sound effects for his cars. (I had the monitor in the bathroom with me) Between all that he kept saying, "Where'd mahi go?" Yep. That's me. Mahi. :) I went to get him out and he didn't even want to get out. As long as he doesn't decide to learn how to crawl out of his crib in the next little while, we're golden.

We are off to go find some leftover lasagna and maybe clean up a bit before daddy gets home. And then it's off to work for me. Woohoo! :P

lasagna

A few days ago Dustyn decided that he wanted lasagna for dinner tonight. Sure, no problem. I stopped by the grocery store last night on my way home from work and bought what we needed.

While I am excited to have lasagna for dinner, next time I think we will just go have steak at the steakhouse. It'd be cheaper. :P  Either way, the lasagna is ready to go in the oven. It works out nicely since I have to work tonight and Dustyn has an opening social at the school. So we will both be gone. But, It will be ready when we get home. yum. It better be good! I could be having steak!

Work was pretty good yesterday. I had three students doing my job while I told them what to do. Nice. :) Sadly, today I get to do my own work. Boo. My main job today is to clean the auditorium. It takes forever and takes a toll on my body (so much vacuuming), but a job is a job! I really don't mind it though. I could, however, live without cleaning the boys bathrooms. *gag* Everyday I think, "AH!! I HAVE A BOY!" and then I hope and pray he has more respect for public property than some of the boys at the school.

I just looked over at Gage to make sure he was still playing nicely with his cars (he is right next to me)... he was going through feeling around the fireplace looking for lose grout and then trying to eat it. Gross. Who doesn't love chewing on pointy rocks. Where does he come up with this stuff?

I don't even know what other random things I was going to talk about. I've lost it all after running around trying to get the grout away from Gage as he tries to shove it in his mouth. Oh the adventures of a toddler.

Maybe I will come up with something later. Until then, I better start checking the grout.

Happy National Adoption Month!

Can you believe it's November already? Isn't Fall the best?

It's National Adoption Month! 

Of course we love adoption at our house. We thank our Heavenly Father for it everyday. We also thank him for Gage's birth parents. We love them. We are thankful for Korin and the choice that she made. We are blessed everyday for her decision. We pray that her life has been blessed too. 

I know we have done the question thing over and over... but if you have any questions about adoption that are lingering, feel free to ask them and I will address them over the next month! 

We had a good Halloween! Gage was not interested in trick-or-treating. We went to Grandpa and Grandma's house twice and that was it. We tried to walk to the neighbor's house, but he was screaming for Grandpa, so we changed our course and went back to see Grandpa. I had to head to work, so that was our halloween! :) We didn't even get any candy. 

Here are some pictures of our Superman!