Girls vs Boy

I now know that having a boy is so so so much different than having girls! Brock is so freaking busy and he gets into everything I am so worn out by 5 p.m! The girls were so sweet and so good and I didn't have to baby proof anything because they would stop whenever you would say no. It was always with a sad face and cry but they would stop. Mariah did get into the kitchen utensils when she was mobile but didn't make a big mess like Brock does. The girls hated hated being dirty! Brock is a whole different story. I have to start baby proofing my house because of him. He is constantly getting into the pantry and helping himself into whatever he can get that is at his level. If there is a box of crackers open and he can get to it there will be a little trail of crumbs throughout the house and I know he got into something. I have to baby proof the utensil drawer and all of the cabinets that are his level. There is no point in cleaning the house because it will look like a tornado has hit 5 times inside my house. There are trucks and cars and books all sorts of toys everywhere. I have to look in the garbage can to make sure he hasn't thrown anything away. I have found some plates and cups in there before. I always make sure the toilet seats are down and bathroom doors are at least close because he's played in the toilet before. The toaster and popcorn popper are constantly in the middle of the kitchen all the time. By the time 5 pm rolls around I am ready for him to go to bed. He is so busy and I love him to pieces but give me a break Brock. He's to cute to stay mad at though. He looks at me with those big brown eyes and then he smiles and I'm done for. I love having both worlds and I'm sure as Brock gets older it will be more interesting around the house. I'm a little worried for my walls because of what I've heard about boys and walls. Dents, color, and scratches here we come in a couple of years or who knows months. Love my kids though.

Sometimes they don't think

So we have our family pictures this coming Friday and my hubby did something last Friday that I couldn't believe. A couple of guys at work gave him a mohawk! Yes, Brandon got a haircut a week before our family pictures. I wasn't too mad because what could I do about it, nothing the damage is already done. I just had to give him a hard time. I also had to give Shawn, the guy who I guess talked him into getting a mohawk, a hard time by texting him thanks for the lovely haircut. I originally decided well I'm just going to move the picture date and give Brandon's hair time to grow but decided not to. I had everything all planned out. My nails were getting done, outfits bought, and my sister in law was coming out to help me with the girl's hair. I decided not to change the date and let it be because I figured in 30 years Brandon will look at these pictures and think what was I thinking. I'm not liking this new hair do on him and I am so thankful that his hair grows fairly fast. He thinks that he is going to keep this do but maybe if I call him Mr. T he will not do it anymore. The reason for the mohawk is for their little flag football team that they have put together at work. The guys at work thought I would totally be mad but I had my little moment and I was done with it. I'm hoping Shawn decides not to "try" to fix it like he said he would. Leave it alone because the next thing I know Brandon will come back with a shaved head because they totally messed up. Guys!

Peach Days

Another Peach Days done and over with. I forgot how much I hate pushing a stroller down Forest Street! I have all the freakin people I have to maneuver through and the stinking cords that are all over the sidewalks and street! Arg. Besides that I had a good Peach Days, short but good. I ran the 10K race and can I tell you that has to be one of the hardest races I have every ran (including my two 1/2 marathons)! First of all why would you want to start a race at 9 a.m. on Peach Days! It's freakin hot! I really don't find the excitement of running down the parade route either. Second reason why it was a hard race for me was Highland. Need I say more. Those of you that are not from Brigham don't know that Highland is a very up and down street. It's like a freakin roller coaster you go up and then you go down. As we (my friend and me) went up cuss words were flying through our heads. Don't worry they didn't come out of our mouths, well some did but not the horrible ones. It was bad and to make matters worse it was windy. So running up a hill with the wind blowing didn't help what so ever! The wind was fine when it was flat or when going down the hills but not going up. By the time we hit main street I wanted to give up. I kept telling my friend not to leave me because I didn't want to run down main street all by myself. We both were dying but we ended up finishing the race before the parade even started, thank goodness! We were both pretty proud of our time and how fast our average pace was. We finished it in 54 mins with an average pace of 8:54. That was pretty good for us considering we were dead tired and we had those hills that killed us. I'm glad I ran that race but I probably won't run the race ever again. The hills killed me and not enough water stations for a race that starts so late. I seriously was dying of thirst and the first water station's water wasn't ever cold!

The kids rode the rides and I was dying of heat. It was so freakin hot and the lines for the rides were sooo long. Grandma bought them tickets (10 each) and that was plenty for them and me. I didn't go to the 10 year reunion but did run into a girl that was on the committee. I told her my reasoning for not attending the 10 year and she said that they made name tags with our senior pictures on them. I was like great I hated my senior picture. I was sporting the mushroom do. So I will attend the next reunion, which will be a 15 or 20. I think she said it would be a 15. We will see though.

Sorry no pictures for this post. Brandon forgot to grab the camera to take pictures during the race and the kids watching the parade. I also forgot the camera when I went back to my mom's to shower so another post with no pictures.

Peach Days + 10 year

Ever since I can remember my family and I have always gone to Peach Days. We use to live not to far from main street and Brigham so it was just a walk for us. My mom would take me and my sister to the kiddie parade and then the big parade on Saturday morning. We would go get the scuba burgers once the stands were selling food and then grab some yummy peach cobbler. We would ride the rides and sometimes we were able to play the carnival games. As I got older I would go hang out at night with my friends but I would always watch the parade with my mom. I've gotten older now and I have kids and I still go to Peach Days. I've missed a couple of years here and there but I try to head down to Brigham City to enjoy my precious Peach Day. So many memories. Oh yea and they have a 10K race on Saturday right before the parade and me and my friend from school will be running it. I tried to get my uncle to run it with me (it's been a goal of his to run the Peach Days 10K race so he says) but he bailed on me. He said next year. So now I will be running this race down the parade route so everyone can see. I seriously may be getting some glasses to disguise myself.

This year it just so happens to be my 10 year class reunion on Peach Days. I was thinking about going and decided alright I will go but then the girls ended up having something going on the same night. Saved! I just don't know if I really wanted to go and see a bunch of people I really don't care to see. I have facebook and I talk to those people that I want to talk to. Besides you end up bumping into a bunch of people from school during Peach Days so that in itself is like a reunion. I didn't go to my 5, I'm not going to my 10, maybe I will go to my 15 or 20th. We will see.

Great Deal.

I got a smoking deal on a jogging stroller today and I am so excited to start using it! I never thought in a million years that I would ever buy a jogging stroller because 1-they are expensive, and 2-I was never really into running. Now that I can't seem to get up early to go running and I've slacked big time on running I figured I could go running as soon as the girls head off to school. I borrowed my friend's stroller to see if Brock and I would like it and we both loved it. I loved the fact that I could get my run in the mornings and Brock loves to be outside anyways so it was a win win situation. I told Brandon that Brock loved the stroller and that I would use it to go running in the mornings as soon as the girls are off to school. He agreed (he told me no more strollers after buying a new umbrella stroller) and so I was off to KSL to find a jogging stroller. I went there because there was no way I was going to spend the money for a brand new stroller and if I could find a stroller in good condition for a good deal then I would get one. I ended up finding one that was pretty much brand new and I told Brandon and he told me to offer her $60 less than what she was asking. I called her and never got a call back. I went back to KSL on Tuesday and I found the same stroller for way cheaper so Brandon told me to talk her down from $110 to $75. I told him that I'm not a very good negotiator so I asked if he could do it. He did and she sounded really nice he said. She had to ask her finance first and the reason why they were selling it is because she is a month from having baby #2. He called and called and I called her that day and no answer. I was starting to get bugged because I have been calling these people to buy their stroller from them and no answer, what the heck! So this morning I asked Brandon if she has called him and he said no. I was mad. I checked on KSL to see if she still had it up and it was still posted. Brandon called her again and then called me back after a couple of minutes. The reason why she wasn't answer our calls was because she went into false labor and was in the hospital. I totally felt bad because I called her a not so nice name. She then asked if we would take $85-90. SOLD! We went to pick it up at lunch and it's pretty new. She only used it 10 times and nothing was wrong. So I got a stroller that goes for $189 for $90. I love my husband and his salesmen ways. I am so excited to start using it. I don't have to worry about missing my runs because I can go while the girls are at school.

Homework is no fun

The girls have been in school for 3 weeks or so and it's going great. Jazmin is doing a lot better now than her first day of school. I think her first day of school she just got up so early that she was tired. Plus going from half day to full day is an adjustment in itself. Mariah is loving school and she tells me what so does everyday. The only thing that I am running into that's a problem for Jazmin is homework. She is on B track so she gets out at 3:30. I know pretty late huh. I feel so old when I tell her the "when I went to school" stories. Never thought I would ever do that but I do. Anyways, so as soon as she gets out of school she has a snack and I let her watch a little cartoons for 10 mins and it's homework time. We do her math, spelling words and whatever else she has. By the time we are all done she only has like 30 mins to play before I have to take her and Mariah to whatever they have. On Tuesdays they have cheer and Wednesdays they have dance. She got so mad yesterday because homework took a little longer and she really didn't have too much time to play. She says she hates B track and homework. The world is horrible to her I tell you. Next year that plan is to have them both on A track, but I'm a little worried about that because they have to wake up earlier to go to school earlier. We will see how the school year ends. I may be pulling my hair out because of the little things that Jazmin does that is driving me nuts about school. At least she stopped complaining about school lunch.

Offer

We've had our house up on the market now for 7 months and not a single offer. We have had tonz of people come through but no takers. Our house is priced a little higher than all the other houses in our neighborhood but we are not that desperate to move. I was half tempted to tell Brandon lets take it down because no one wants to pay what we are asking for. Our house is priced at $209,000 while all the other houses are below $200,000. It's cute because the girls have been praying for our house to sell fast so that we can move, and I'm just thinking no don't pray for that. We love our neighborhood. We love how there is a park across the street from our house and they have good friends. I don't think the girls are realizing that if we move they lose their park, their swing set in the backyard, and they have to get new friends. Well Wednesday night I get a call from the realator and he tells me that we have a offer. I couldn't believe. After being on the market for 7 months finally someone has made an offer. Our realator comes out to our house Wednesday night so that we could see their offer and accept or counter back. We knew that they were really serious when their offer was $205,000 (only $4000 below what we are offering). The only thing we didn't like was that they wanted us to pay their closing costs. So we countered back with 2 different options that they can choose from. If we can sell our house for $209,000 everyone in our neighborhood will be doing back flips. No one in our neighborhood has been able to sell their house over $200,000. We will see. Brandon thinks that these people really love our house and our emotionally attached. I don't know what to think. I love my friends that we have made here and love love my neighborhood. We will see what these people decide on doing. No all we do is wait.