Little Soldiers

"Gather up the ammo were heading out" Yelled the Captain. "aye aye captain" the soldiers said as they started gathering up leaves and putting them in bags. "Let's GO!!" All the little soldiers ran across the yard and laid down beside a car with their ammo and guns looking underneath in hopes to sneak up on the enemy. But the soldiers did not realize they had left a man behind still gather ammo. When the last soldier notices he runs over to the car crying "GOBBOT GOBBET" giving away their hiding spot. Captain Garrett is quick on his feet and rolls on the ground and hides behind the tree so he is still covered. One by one the other soldiers follow. But the last little soldier can't quite get the concept of rolling on the ground. He falls to the ground and attempts this over and over again till finally Captain Garrett yells "TIME OUT!!" and runs over to me and says in the nicest way he knows how "Megan, Bridger is kind of in the way". At this point I'm forced to interrupt their pretend play and get Bridger. I kindly lead Bridger over to the swing to distract him from the older boys. As Bridger is crying, Garrett is feeling bad for him. So the 8 year old boys decide that Bridger can work to their advantage. They run back over to the tree to gather more ammo and Garrett yells “Bridger come on we need your help”. I let Bridger go and he starts running to the tree extremely happy screaming "GOBBOTT GOBBOT I WUB U". Captain Garrett says "Interrupter Interrupter what is he saying?"A soldier replies "He's saying we need more ammo". But really what my little soldier is really saying is Garrett Garrett I love you.

Love Thy Neighbor

I was recently told about an issue that my 8 year old step-brother is having with a friend and it shocked me and made me very upset and sad for him and his friend. I was told that Garrett (my step-brother) was no longer able to go inside his friend’s house because the parents of his friend thought that he came from a weird family. It has nothing to do with Garrett’s character. If you meet him you would realize that he is one of the nicest and caring little boys ever. This family that banned my step-brother is a very active member of our LDS ward. So my thoughts on this is, aren't we taught to love thy neighbor, to not judge, to forgive...ect. To make matters worse my dad and step-mom's reply to this is, well Garrett your friend is not allowed in are home either. After my dad told me this I had no reply because the only thing I could say would surely start an argument. Why? Why would you do that? The only person here that is being grown up about the situation is Garrett and his friend and they are 8 years old. That's what I wanted to say but didn't to avoid an argument and It’s not my place to intrude on their family issues. I just hope someone realizes they are being an idiot.

Door Locks

Having a lock on bedroom doors, great for when I was a teenager. If I was mad at a sibling I could lock myself in my bedroom and make nasty comments to them as they got a bobby pin and tried to unlock the door. This was really fun to me. I did manage to get so much anger out of them that I had my door kicked in once and several times had them unscrew the door knob. But on the other hand they did the same to me. So I also tried the whole kicking in the door thing. Didn't work so well I just put a hole straight threw the door, which is still there to this day. This is all fun and games for us as teenagers but when my almost 2 year old son loves to push button, turn and twist things but still can't turn a door handle, probably a lock on the bedroom isn't the best idea. Since I'm living at my dad's house Bridger's room was once my little sister’s room. And my dad was so kind to put locks on all the bedroom doors so other siblings wouldn’t come in and bother us. Well today Bridger started throwing toys at me like normal and as punishment I put him in his room for timeout. When timeout is over I went to his room to let him out. Come to find out, Bridger had locked himself in his room. I had forgotten that he had a lock on his door. So I yell inside to Bridger to turn the handle but no luck. He doesn't quite understand what I'm talking about. So, I got a bobby pin and hanger and attempted to unlock the door. Meanwhile Bridger is in his room laughing and having a great time with he's toys. This brings up a whole lot of memories of my teenage years, but I use to be a pro at unlocking these doors and I now cannot seem to remember how to. Lucky my dad is right up stairs to come and help me out. After 30mins with a bobby pin and hanger we give up and took off the door knob. Bridger is finally free, not that he cared he was having fun in his room. But I have now witnessed my future with teenagers if I put locks on their doors. I will ground them to their room and they will laugh at me as I try to unlock there door. Moral of this story is, I'm not putting locks on my kid’s doors unless it's me locking them in their room.

Bridger's First Hair Cut

I made the brave attempt to cut Bridger's hair. I have cut Jeff's hair 3 or 4 times and had only screwed it up 2 times. So I thought I had a 50/50 chance to get this right.  But when I'm under pressure you know I'm going to screw up. I think that's why I couldn't play sports because when they need me to hit the 3 pointer to win the game, I would end up over thinking it and I would forget what team I'm playing for and score for the other team.  And well Bridger's first hair cut...that's a lot of pressure for me. When I started trimming it all was looking good, but I could not adjust the length of the trimmer so I just took it off and well the pictures explain the rest. I felt so bad.  Then I thought Bridger doesn't care he's only 18 months. As sad as it is my biggest concern was Jeff's family teasing me about it. 

We Are Building A Home

I think living with my dad finally took it's tole on me. We were planning on staying for another year. but I can't have another baby here and I don't have a kitchen. I'm really sick of making lunch and dinner out of a toaster oven and microwave. I got feed up one day and started looking for somewhere else to live. My husband said if you can get a loan for a house we could move. I think he was pretty curtain we couldn't get a loan. Well if you didn't notice we got a loan. We looked at houses to buy but found the best option for us was to build.  

I'm overly excited about this and I'm not sure it's really happening. I'm waiting for something bad to happen to screw it all up, which makes me nervous. 

This is the neighborhood. Our lot is the one highlighted white. There is a walking/running trail right behind us. I'm hoping I'll actually use it and start running everyday. 

This is the floor plan of our new home. The living space was originally smaller but we are adding on to make it larger. It comes with an unfinished basement. That is were the washer and dryer hook-ups are, that actually kindof sucks. If you notice in the plan it does not have a window in the master suite. It's lying to you! there is a window there.

A Dog Loving Family

Within a week my husband and I decided to watch 2 movie's about dogs (Bolt and Marley and Me). Now I haven't cried since we had to give up our dogs a year and half ago and we have watch dog movies prior to this. Well, it finally hit me. After watching Bolt I went to bed and cried over losing my two dogs (Twix and Gimli) and watching Marley and Me within a week of this did not help the situation. Not to mention we started watching a T.V. called Dogtown (it's about rescuing dogs that would otherwise be put to death). All of this combined finally made me realize how much I loved them and miss them. 

If you didn't know I had to give up my dogs for Bridger. If I wanted to be a stay at home mom I had to move back to my dad's house where he would not allow dogs. I know I made the right decision that doesn't mean it was an easy one to make. 

On a happier note, Bridger is finally saying real words. The words he has mastered so far besides mama and daddy are Toby (His cousin's dog), puppy, Woof Woof, Ball, Buh Bye and Banana. Interesting how most are dog related and the other ones start with B.  Jeff and I went to the park the other day and Bridger sees some dogs and wants to go pet them. So we go pet the dogs after 15mins with these dogs I thought we should go so the owner can get on with what they were doing. I pick Bridger up and start to walk away. Bridger starts to cry scream because we took him away from the dogs. So to help the situation I see a different dog I point at it and say "Doggie". Bridger starts to run towards it. The dog notices Bridger and starts to run towards him. Just as the dog was about to jump on Bridger in excitement the owner calls his dog off. The dog runs back to the owner and Bridger starts to scream. The Owner says to us "did my dog scare him?" I said "no just the opposite he's upset that the dog left." I'm thinking Bridger likes dogs just an assumption.  We are a dog loving family. By the way I thought I would mention the first movie that made me cry, it was Homeward Bound. 

A Big Boy Bed

I said when he can climb on his bed himself I would change his bed to a toddler bed. Well he's been able to do that for awhile now. I finially gave in when his crib broke. So last night we turned his crib into a toddler bed. I was very curious about how he would like this. It was bed time and Bridger climbed into his bed we gave him kisses and turned out the light and closed the door. Of course he started crying but I said we would wait 30mins and if he's still crying we will go back in there and comfort him. I'm not sure how long it took but he was asleep before the 3omins was up. I was in shock that was alot easier then I thought it would be. Well today nap time comes around. I thought to myself this is going to be the hard part. Again I was wrong, he climbed into bed I gave him kisses and left. He didn't cry. He is actually asleep right now. I underestemate that boy.  Now time for potty training "Yicks!!!".

Broken

What I am learning about being a parent is first do not keep glass in reach of children. As soon as Bridger could touch our pictures on our table he loves to play with them. I tryed to keep him away but you eye goes off him for 2 seconds and he has thrown one to the floor and broke the picture frame. That I wasn't so up-set about. but today he did something I was truely up-set about. I found a great floor lamp for really cheap on KSL and I bought it. It was nice because it was heavy which made it very sturdy and it was a glass top with a 3 way light. I did not take into consideration that our other floor lamp that broke was plastic and very old (my sister gave it to us for our wedding, So that makes it 6 years old and more well traveled then a lot of people I know).  Anyways this lamp broke from old age and I'm sure bridger always unplugging it and pushing it over didn't help. So when I got this very heavy lamp I thought no way could bridger push this over. well everything was great for the first couple of months he didn't unplug it or try to knock it over. Until the past week he started to unplug it, but still no pushing. Has i'm doing my hair in the bathroom I hear something fall and glass breaking. I thought to myself, I don't have any glass in reach of bridger a picture must have fallen off the wall. I went to check it out and Bridger pushed the lamp over. It scared him so bad he just stared at it for a second then burst into tears. Maybe he's learned his lesson, so maybe just maybe my nexted floor lamp won't get broken. I definitly won't be buying a glass top one again.

My beautiful glass top floor lamp before Bridger thought it was a toy.

The pictures after Bridger got to the floor lamp.

Our Bathroom Remodel

There was vinyl around the tup but it started coming off so are opptions were to caulk it back on or take it off and replace it. It was so ugly I really did not like the idea of putting it back on. So we decided to tile the shower area. 

Ugly pink wall paper that we had to remove on every inch of the walls. I didn't think about taking before and after pictures until most of the wall paper was gone.

After sanding the walls. It's to bad we didn't get a picture of Jeff after this. His hair, eye lashes, eyebrows, and clothes were all white.

The vanity area after the remodel. I do not have before pictures. All we did in this area is paint and take off ugly pink wallpaper. 

After the remodel of the bathroom. Jeff tiled the shower and painted. We also removed ugly pink wall paper. 

I had no idea that Jeff was able to do tile this well. I didn't know that he could paint so well until we did Bridger's bedroom. This is very exsiteing to me because now I can put him to work more often. LOL! I think Jeff might not like that idea.

Inconsistent Make-Up.

I'm having a huge problem with my base. I've been using the same base since high school and I have never had a problem. I found the color that was perfect "Buff Beige"and the brand that was perfect CG Smoothers. When I went to the store awhile back they were out of the stuff I usually get so I got some stuff that was same brand, same color (CG Continuous Wear). They were in the same bottle, same brand, same color. So I figured it's all the same but maybe the texture would be different. I was so wrong it made me look like a ghost. It was 3 shades lighter then what I normally wear. Well same thing happened again last week they were out of my normal base so I new better then to get Continuous Wear again. I saw TRUblend and it was on sale and I had heard good things about it from my sister. So I got it (same brand, same color) thinking the same thing that I thought about the other base. Again I was wrong. I should have learned my leason from before but this time the color was 3 shades darker. I left it on because I wasn't really in the mood to wash my face and start all over. When my hubby came home he noticed the difference and said my face looked grey. I really like cover girl but how can you say they are all the same color when they are not. So the color wheels they have to match your skin with is probally inaccurate too. I'm very disappointed and I hate wasting money on make-up because it's so expencive. 

From left to right: CG Continuous Wear, CG TRUblend, CG Smoothers, CG TRU conceal, CG Fresh complexion. 

Why I Haven't Been Blogging: I'm an Addict to Video Games.

Every now and then I get in the mood to play video games and I just happen to find one I really enjoy. It's called Eternal Sonata. I don't like many games but I'm a huge fan of role playing game, ones with a story line, for example Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Fable. I'm also a huge fan of online role playing games like World of Warcraft but I've decided not to play that type of game anymore because I become addicted to them and I'm afraid that addiction will resort into me neglecting Bridger. My addiction to Eternal Sonata is nowhere near the addiction I had to World of Warcraft so Bridger actually gets fed. Why I'm I not playing right now??? Plan and simple Jeff is playing a game right now and so if I can't play at least I can talk about it. Another example on how I'm only kind of addicted. I actually gave up the Xbox so Jeff could play. Anyways here are some screen shots from the games I love.

Eternal Sonata

Kingdom Hearts 2

Final Fantasy 12

Fable 2

These are my two favorite charaters of all time.

Kairi (this is who my daugter is going to be named after)

Rikku

A Hair Cut

I've been thinking of getting my hair cut like this for about 2 years and I have never gotten the courage. So let me ask all of you for opinion on if I should cut it like this? Be honest! and please let me know your opinion so I can either get my hair cut like this or get over wanting to.

My Playlist

I added a playlist on my blog with the song that relate to my life. 

When your going threw your life some songs stick with you forever. The reason why some songs stick with me is because they describe my emotions at that time. If you know me very very well, you will be able to tell what each song means to me and how it fits into my life. I also enjoyed putting this together because it made me feel all thoughs old emotions again. Enjoy!

When Your Baby Becomes a Child.

This is a list of thing that  have made me realize that Bridger is no longer a baby but a child.

1. He can lounge in his kid sofa by resting his feet on the arm rest.

2. He says "No Mamma". 

3. He needs be hiding so no one can see him poop.

4. He knows what a cookie is and knows where I hide them.

5. He will not eat is dinner because he acts like he's full but will make an exception for junk food.

6. He thinks farting is funny.

7. Two 3 hour naps a day is not nessisary. One 2 hour nap a day is just fine.

8. He enjoys shocking himself by putting the end of his baby monitor hook-up in his mouth.

9. He thinks jumping on the bed is fun.

10. He can go up and down the stairs.

This is just stuff that reminds me of what little boys do. Bridger will always be my baby but maybe I should stop calling him a baby and start calling him a little boy....?