Duh, Duh, Duh, Another one Bites the Dust!

Well looks like I will get the privilege of attending TWO weddings this summer! woo hoo! Mike's brother Tyler (same age as me) FINALLY proposed to his girlfriend of three long years this past Friday night. We are soooo ecstatic and love Julie to death. Of course my own proposal was by far the best ever...but this one is definitely a close second! Julie is a phenomenal artist (check out her website HERE) and was asked to do the artwork for a huge concert in Hawaii called the Kokua festival by none other than Jack Johnson. See she was Jack Johnson's nanny for quite a few years so she knows him pretty well. Anywho, Tyler saw this as the perfect opportunity and he jumped on it. It went down like this. They asked Julie to come up on stage to recognize her for her outstanding artwork and Jack Johnson's wife Kim, said they had a special surprise for her. Out comes Tyler on stage and asks her to marry him. How cute eh? Apparently there were 10,000 people or so there so good on him that couldn't have been easy. Luckily they had quite a few people filming the whole thing and we got to see the entire thing go down when we skyped with them on Saturday. It's the best! Maybe they'll let me post it on here...we'll see. So looks like we'll be heading to Hawaii in August. Saweet!

Congratulations Tyler and Julie. We sure do love ya!





How cute are they right?

Back to School, Back to School to prove to myself that I am no Fool

Can you name the movie from my blog title? (I did change the words a tad)

So I am sort of, kind of, not really going back to school. I signed up to take an Accounting course that starts this Monday at a local college. I am pretty excited though. I just wanted to see if it would be something I would like. I had originally gone to school for Human Resources Managment but have since decided I don't think its for me. I've decided to just start taking courses to see what I'm interested in. A little ol' game of process of elimination. I'm just hoping I'm not the oldest person in the class. Wish me luck!

I've also started Weight Watchers again. This girl needs to get her bootay into shape, ship shape. I was successful on it before and I like that there is freedom in the plan. There really isn't anything I can't eat. It's all about moderation (so instead of inhaling 4 chocolate bars I can devour 3 1/2..hahaha) Today was Day 1 and I stuck to it. WAHOO. One day down, 9,999,999 to go. ;) Some of my motivation is that I've told myself if I want to start thinking about bambino numero 2, I need to loose some of the weight that bambino numero 1 left behind.

Jack-a-loo and I have started swimming lessons. It's so much fun to take him in the pool. He was the only boy in the first class we went to and he sure let it be known! He sure strutted his stuff in that pool. It must have been that sweet swimsuit I purchased for him. He was babbling and sort of screaming for the majority of the class. It was probably just baby talk for "Hello Ladies, come here often?"
hee hee Toodles for now.

Forget Oysters, The World is his Lollipop!

I just had to post this. Here is how I found Jack this morning:



Really? Does EVERYTHING need to go in his mouth? Including our dresser knobs?

;)

Here Comes the Bride! (Well not until July)

One of my little sisters is getting married. Emily Shannon Rose will be tying the knot on July 17th. I'm so excited for her. I can't believe that she is old enough to be married. Time really does fly. Why I remember it like yesterday when she as wearing her Little Mermaid attire 24/7 complete with her 101 Dalmatian headband. Emily has had a love for animals her entire life. She wasn't very into dolls or barbies, she was all about the animals. She can even impersonate some of them to a tee hence the reason why when I was a teenager and talking to my friends on the phone they would hear barking in the background, ask me if we got a dog and I would respond with the typical, "Nope, that's just Emily". I actually don't call her by her first name I call her by her nickname of Deeber. How did this come about you might ask? Well when I was in grade 6 or 7, I was over at my friend Krystal's house and we were playing with her little brother Daniel. Although they didn't call him Daniel, they called him Deeber. I thought that this was a phenomenal nickame so I brought it home and gave it to Emily and it stuck. I know she will be forever grateful to me for giving her this blessed nickname. hee hee

Congratuations Deeber Deeb and Mark. Can't wait till the big day. Love you lil' sis.

Jack Be Nimble, Jack be Quick

Well gone are the days when I could just sit my wee Jack-a-Loo on the ground, surround him with some toys and be on my merry way. He has moved on to bigger and better things. He is officially crawling. It is the cutest thing ever. It's more like a shimmy than a crawl but I'm sure he'll get the hang of it. We were at my parents house this weekend for Easter and he made his grand debut. Here is a little blurp that Mike caught on video with his phone camera (sorry about the poor quality)



Mike and I think Jack's crawling reminds us of one of THESE Click on the word THESE and have a look and let me know if you see any similarities.

Of course I found it absolutely and utterly adorable until I realized that I have to keep a MAJOR eye on him and start baby proofing. Just yesterday he managed to get into the dog's food dish twice, picked up random little pieces of paper he found somewhere on the carpet and immediately put them into his mouth, and of course headed straight towards all electrical outlets and pretty much anything else dangerous. I had to resort to putting him in his playpen so that I could at least go to the "loo" without having to worry about him. This is how I found him when I came back...




He wasn't very happy with his Mom for throwing him in baby jail. Poor guy. Incarcerated at the tender age of 8 1/2 months. At least we don't make him wear the hideous orange jumpsuit. He also has uttered his first word. Can you guess what it is? GIFTED! I know! Crazy eh? hahah ok, I might be telling a little fib. It was more along the lines of Mama. YAY! Nevermind the fact that it came after ba ba and it sounds more like mla mla, but a woman can dream right? He says dada now too but let's just make a note that mama came first. All my hard work has finally paid off. He truly is a joy and he makes us laugh all the day long.

My exercising is getting off to a slow start but it's starting nonetheless. I just signed up to run a 5K this June with my sister in law Shari so that gives me something to work towards. I started a running program called Couch to 5K It's great because it literally takes you from not running to being able to fun a 5k in 9 weeks. There are some exciting events taking place in mine and Mike's family this summer (details coming soon) so I need to get my butt in gear...like 5th gear!

Mike and I are still playing the waiting game for school which is always loads of fun. We actually applied to the University of Idaho as well (which will be quite a long shot) just as a backup.

Three friends of mine had babies on or around April Fools. Congrats again Robyn, Dayna and Ethney. Love you girlies.

Anywho, that's it for now.

This is Katie-Running-Around-Like-A-Chicken-with-its-head-cut-off Ryan signing off.