Three and a half.

My hands smell like a baby. You know what I mean?

I just got to hold the most beautiful three and a half pound baby on the whole earth.

It's one of those things that just makes your heart happy.














This isn't helping that baby hungry thing.








Don't worry Mom. I'm not having a baby. :)

Perfect Score

Did you know that when you take a test in the BYU-Idaho Testing Center and you go out in the hall to check your score on that little screen and you get 100%, next to your I-number it says 'Perfect Score!'?


I do. ;)

Disclaimer: I am NOT pregnant.

Lately I have been having dreams where I am pregnant. In the most recent one, I was having quintuplets. Please pray for me that this is not a sign of what is to come. Kidding. :) After waking up and realizing it's just a nightmare dream I can't help but think about the future. With motherhood on the horizon (however distant) I often find myself wondering what kind of mother I will be. Will I be able to teach my children what's important in life? Will they be rebellious, will they fight with each other, will they be soccer players, will they make good decisions, will they like me when they grow up? With all the uncertainty of what's to come I find myself hoping that they inherit some of their father's traits. Like being funny, charming, good at everything under the sun, determined, smart, happy, witty, confident...I could go on and on. If I could just have one small peek into what it will be like to have kids maybe it would be easier to know when is the right time. Or maybe it would make me never want to have them! But I doubt it. I mean seriously. Just look at them.

Rough day.

Today consisted of:

school
homework
laundry (sort of.)
napping
dishes
grocery shopping
and really sore muscles

I'm tired and grumpy and still have to cook dinner. I got cranky with my husband and told him to give me some alone time. I just finished all my homework for the night and thought I would reward myself with a little blog time. And as I sit here I can hear Travis banging around the dryer trying to fix a belt? or something. And I'm so grateful that I have him. He's mine forever and I don't have to fix that awful noise that the dryer is making which is really good because let's be honest, I wouldn't have the slightest idea how. He's here and I don't have to do it all alone. Except for the grocery shopping. Sounds like a good trade to me. :)

When it rains, it pours.

Literally.

Benny.

Once upon a time there was a boy. A brother in fact.

 He was a farmer at heart. And loved horses.

He had a little brother who he liked to compete with.

Waterskiing was something he was good at. If you call crashing good. ;)

The boy liked to show off. Especially his legs.

See what I mean?


Sometimes he was a little crazy.

And he definitely loved to ski.

He served the Lord in Portugal for two years.

Then one day he met a girl.

They fell in love. And then one day this happened.

And then a few years later, this happened.

Over the years the boy grew and turned into a man. And then last week he turned into a father.









Once upon a time there was a girl......

:)

It's about time.

Well since I haven't blogged in, oh almost two months, I thought I would get back on top of things. This summer has been a weird one. Trav was in school until the middle of July and I was working until the beginning of August. After that we headed up to Swan Valley and stayed most of the time with family while Trav worked with Joes on the farm. He loved every minute of it and I seriously loved getting to see Lulu every day. That kid could soften even the hardest of hearts I swear. So it feels like summer just started and now we are going back to school tomorrow! I have always been a summer girl and love everything that entails but this year I just did not get my fill of warm weather and tan lines and melty ice cream cones. Good thing we have family in arizona we can visit in a few months when the weather really starts chilling our bones.


In spite of being the summer lover that I am, I have always loved back to school time. It's seriously one of the best times of the year and I love the new clothes and sharp pencils that go along with it. It's just a really refreshing time of year and I always think of the new year starting in september and not january. Since we have not really been at our apartment much all summer I haven't been cooking. Like literally not cooking at all. I have been gathering recipes that I want to try and some of the old standbys that we love and I wrote up a dinner plan for the next month. I'm going to see if we can stick to this one and if it works out I want to do one every month. I obviously can't plan exactly what we will eat every night but I just put together five meals a week that we can cook whichever night we want. We have been eating out way too much lately and I have really wanted to kick that habit since it's not helping my thighs much.


Travis got a new job that he will be working part time this semester and we are both really excited about it! I'm excited because it means I get to be in school and he's excited because it's an engineering job and he is going to learn so much! Oh and the pay isn't bad either. :)


Oh and I decided to continue with my family picture/sibling posts because I only got to Ben. I thought this might be a good time since they have a new (tiny and adorable) addition to their family. More on that later.


Does anyone even read this? Ha.

The world would be a better place if my idiot neighbors didn't smoke right outside my window.

Especially since it's the one with the fan blowing air right into my face. I love secondhand smoke and all but come on. Really?



So remember when I was making a list of 100 things I want to do before I die and I only finished like ten? Well I'm working on it...I promise. I'm just not blogging that much. But I will. If I don't die of lung cancer first. ;)

It's about time.

Well a while ago I sat down to write a post. As I'm right in the middle of the dang thing my computer gets a virus! I have to admit my computer is getting a little old. At least as far as PCs go and although she has been pretty good to me over the years I could tell the good behavior wasn't going to last much longer. I guess I haven't updated my spyware in a while but still! Hello! I need my computer. It's the only thing I have to keep me occupied on my day off while my darling husband is off at school all day! Ok. Enough ranting.


So lately we have been up to a lot of fun stuff. Which I would post pictures of but we are seriously the worst picture takers in the whole world. Not even exhaggerating. Well anyway.

We had a really fun weekend and did lots of stuff with both of our familys. Saturday we slept in and then went to Trav's little brother's baseball game. I didn't grow up watching or playing baseball and up until last year when I met Travis, I thought baseball games have half times. But after a year of being part of the Roe family, I can proudly say I watched the whole game and knew what was going on at least ninety percent of the time. Ha. After that we went to the family barbecue and did a super fun scavenger hunt. One of Trav's cousins thought the whole thing up and it was seriously so fun. After that we went to my brother's and had another barbecue. It was fun to see my little neices. Man they grow up so fast!
Then of course we went to the fireworks with the Roes. Personally I would much rather light them myself in my own backyard but it was pretty fun. Until we went to leave and it took us almost two hours to get home because of the traffic! It should take us ten minutes. It was crazy. If we go next year we are for sure riding bikes.
Yesterday we went up to Swan Valley to enjoy the fireworks there and well...lets just say...they are doing the best they can. It was fun though. And it only took us ten minutes to get home. And then we found a very large amount of fireworks leftover from old family reunions. We stayed up so so late lighting the majority of them. It was really fun and the little girls had a blast with the forty seven boxes of sparklers. Pretty sure my hands will be permanently scorched from lighting to many at once!


Well that pretty much sums it up! Now that my computer is fixed and I have access to the internet I will be posting a little more often! :)

Hawk.

Hi people. So today I:

• finished four paintings for my bedroom. 
• did about a million loads of laundry. (why does our washing machine have to take fourty seven hours to do one load?)
• cleaned the egg shells out of our non working garbage disposal. still non working.
• took out the trash and all the rotten food in the refrigerator.
• washed all the dishes! now we have glasses! yay!
• wrote a blog post. oh wait...
• finished the dark knight which i started last night and promptly fell asleep to in the first five minutes.
• slept in!  
• ummm...i think that's all.

Oh yeah and I have a mohawk. Like a really cool one. Yeah. Be jealous.



Travis played in a soccer tournament last weekend in boise. We stayed with my best friend from high school who I have not seen in like three years. It was so fun! And I read the new twilight book. The short one about Bree Tanner. It was so good! I want to read twilight again. Ha. And we watched shutter island! It was super freaky. That's it. Sorry that you are now down a few brain cells for having read this whole post!




(When I figure out how to get pictures from my phone onto my blog then maybe Ill show you my paintings and my hair!)