it's crazy to look at the trash and see it filled with tissues. How does the body come up with so much to have run out your nose??? sorry. that's a little discusting. It started out with mosiah being a little sick, fever, etc and now Sebi and I are holding in there. I think I might be doing worse than sebi...but maybe that's just me thinking that. Today I think would be a sacrament only kind of day if it wasn't for the fact that sebi has gospel principels to teach. I hope that he's lesson goes well i know that he understands it but i think it's difficult for him to teach it to a class kind of setting. Today I grab Mosiah and we went to look out the window and there was two ducks outside!! We've seen these ducks before at the pool swimming and given them a few crackers and things but today they were right outside our patio. I quickly grabbed some bread and went out side to feed them. Mosiah really loves it. I'm so proud of my little boy. He really is a good little boy. He tried to go and feed them himself and they ran away so we sat down and threw out some more bread and they came back. I love duck pairs. Did you know the same pair of ducks will spend thier entire lifes together? It's true! I think it's very sweet. Anyway...i better go and blow my nose...i'm having trouble breathing again. bleh

I have 9 great ideas for a quiet book but I'm running into just a few creative blocks. So I start looking online, and while there are some good quiet books out there there isn't the ONE for me.....which is why i started the project in the first place.
Now I'm starting to re-think it all and second guess myself. It really isn't that hard to do and cutting the felt and sewing these "small" pieces together is a lot of fun. It's just that I'm re-thinking the whole thing and wondering if I can really do it and finding myself fusterated because of some tiny little road blocks.
That's really the biggest problem is that you need all these small parts for like one page of the book and it's REALLY really difficult to buy in tiny-isty-bitty quantaties. *sigh and while i'm trying to use scraps i have and get a little creative about it I just feel a little stuck. I know that when I'm done with it i'll be so proud because I've done it myself and it'll be just how i want it......hopefully.
Here are the list of the 9 pages and the idea for them
Make a face page ---- blank face with felt pieces for the eyes nose mouth ears, possibly even differant types of eyes noses and mouths (smiling sad big small etc)
Weave a Web ----- small black felt spider with string attached to page white pieces of felt for child to weave web over and under "creating a web"
Lace a Shoe ---- outline of a shoe, to strips of fabric with 4 eyelets to lace shoelace through
Catch a Fish ----- blue felt cut into shape of waves sewn on as a pocket, felt fish with magent inside to connect with "fishing pole" (stick, string and metal clasp)
Buckle the Collar ---- shape of dog cut out space for buckle to be sewn on
Match the Shapes ---- felt shapes velcro or snaps on back to match up with the page
Heres' where i'm running into problems (besides the other little problems with the pages I do have figured out)Zip up the Coat ---- jacket shape zipper........ Train? something with like button on the train Farm? fun foam animals inside "barn pocket"?
http://www.familysafemedia.com/quiet_book_-_quiet_activity_bo.html
http://www.makeandtakes.com/a-little-peace-and-quiet
http://fowlerfam.blogspot.com/2008/02/quiet-book.html

This was our christmas. Here at our house we didn't have a lot of presents and I had to force Mosiah to open his gifts so we could take some pictures after this one we just opened it for him pretty much and then he saw the actual toy and wanted to play with the stuff

This is the sand kit we got him. I think he's really going to enjoy digging around when we go to the park with this

Sebi got a nice sweater from my brother's family

We got this pool toy for Mosiah but we didn't think that he'd love it this much! as soon as he saw it he huged the little duck head and gave it a kiss! lol

finally we got that present opened. I look more suprized than he does

Mosiah in the duck again. it's like a little nest for him. He also got that keyboard because he LOVES to press buttons so we thought we'd put it to good use and let him learn the piano ahahha



We went to my brother's house in UT. I don't have to tell you guys that it was cooolllldd outside. we planned to go sledding. although we bundled Mosiah up he fell asleep in the 2 min car ride to the hill we were going to sled on. You can see what he thinks of this "winter" get up.

Us Christmas day opening gifts with my brothers family

My little sister Zafir with her biggest fan Mosiah

This is Mosiah Christmas morning. Sleeping.

Well that was our holiday season. New Years we stayed home too and kept it really low key and went to bed after NY hit midnight. *yawn* I'm tired right now...maybe i should take a lesson from my son and go sleep a bit.

nite nite

Yesterday we went to my mom's class. They were having a read-a-thon and she is always talking about Mosiah so she asked me to bring him. He had a good time running around the classroom. The kids were excited he was there too. I showed them that he knew how to give a high five and they loved that. I think he got a little confused when they raised thier hand for something b/c he tried to give them a high five then too.

Someone recently reminded me of how much Mosiah has grown. Here's a funny little video from yesterday.

also i'm suppose to start packing up the house and i just don't have the will power to force myself to do it. *sigh. I know that it'll be better in the long run b/c then we will have an eazier move....it's just so annoying, since I just packed everything up 6 months ago. But hey, if it means saving 100 bucks in rent then yeah it's worth it.

didn't get the house, loan grinches nuff said
desided to renew contract at apt complex
bought a VitaMix for aniversary, much smoothie making insues

find out Pica is pregnant
Pica feels sick most of the time, lots of soda drinking to curb nasusa
Sebi's sisters family comes to visit good time
Pica has sharp sharp pains in abdomin, ER visit....9 1/2 weeks along
Sebi gets laid off day before Thanksgiving (thankful we don't have a morgage to worry about)Thanksgiving, made the bestest mash potatos in VitaMix. Mom steals all the left overs of the potatos

apt complex going to charge much more to keep our 1 brm, SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to move to a 2 brm
Mosiah gets a screaming complex, drives Pica mad.
Sebi and Pica are challanged by little sister to "go on a date" (we went and we had a WONDERFUL time playing pool)
Picaorganizes laundry area, and washes lots of clothes

Sebi goes to some interviews
Thursday play group from 10-12 much much better than Wednesday playgroup that is a hit and miss
Prep on Saturday for Sunday, clothes picked out, diper bag packed, showers done at night.
Went to battle of the ward choirs, 90% of the aduiance is in one of the 7 choirs (kinda funny at the end when they all go up to sing the Hallaluh chorus, very few people left sitting in the pews)
Pica realizes that everything must some how get packed, so they can move a few blgs over
Sebi starts his new job
Which acutally brings us to today. I guess there are some other things that I've missed but I guess that's what happens when you don't post for a long time.

hahahah! i remembered my username and password! horray!!!

BLEH! GRR! UGH! bllllleeehhh!
THERE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A MOTHERS GROUP TODAY AND I MADE SEBI TAKE THE BUS AND I KEPT THE CAR AND I GOT ALL READY. AND MADE THE BABY TAKE AN EARLY NAP AND EVERYTHING IN MY DAY HAS BEEN LEADING UP TO THIS SO THAT I COULD GO TO THIS MOTHERS GROUP AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DRIVE ALL THE WAY TO THE CHURCH?

NO ONE IS THERE!!!!!!!
UGH!
I was really looking forward to this since it's almost like there aren't any kids around here for Mosiah to play with and it's always too hot out side to really go outside. soooo lame so lame

i hate arizona

What a great idea!
http://www.persil.com/ThirtyThreeThings.aspx

i'm seriously thinking about printing some of them off so that i can have them in the future when i know that the kids will come to me saying that they are bored. I think the other great thing about this list is that it makes kids creative and use thier imagination which sadly is something i see less and less kids using (at least a few of the kids i know). I think it's fustrating to see children ages 5-11 only ever intrested in playing video games. What about books? What about going outside? What about exploring? Creating? I know a family with a dog and 4 kids....but they got another dog to play with the original dog because their kids just don't really go outside. They have all kinds of backyard space and backyard "toys" like a jungle gym swingset, giant trampoline but they don't ever go out there it seems. I don't know....I think families should do more camping than resorting.....or at least this family i'm thinking of should.

either way. this is a great list!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOSIAH!!! WE LOVE YOU!!

These are the pictures that Sebi drew for me so that Mosiah could have a Peter Rabbit themed party. Didn't he do an awesome job?!?!?!I love them. And thanks to him my little idea for a theme is actually going to work out....I think. I'm going to try and make a Peter Rabbit for the cake too. Oh! and the cutest part about all of this is that as soon as Mosiah saw the rabbit picture he tried to hug it and he was all excited about it. :) awwww.Sebi really is the bestest. Thank you Amor *besito*

this is just a pic of Mosiah today....awwww he just woke up. little does he know that his birthday is right around the corner!

UGH! i'm running out of ideas to do for Mosiah's 1st birthday. i want to do something thats totally him and that would be cute. I thought of a Peter Rabbit themed kind of thing (we could play hop scotch, and pin the tail on the bunny etc...) but since i dont think i can pull off a real looking Peter Rabbit cake. I don't want to do jungle b/c that is a little over done. I thought maybe I'll just have a regular ol' bir'day...with out a theme at all except that he is turning 1. I don't know.I feel like all the things i've been thinking of aren't original enough or something. :P *phooie.

Arizona

Arizona has been hot hot hot. right now we have our A/C running day and night. We are waiting for the first bill to see how much we'll have to cut back. Really it's not too bad as long as you don't go out in the blazing heat. Thankfully Mosiah doesn't mind staying inside and actually!! I have some news! He's walking! wow!! horray! it's so wonderful to see him get around on his own. He does pretty good turning and just yesterday learned how to clap!

Besides the heat and the baby...Sebi seems to like the new job. and I think it will work out really well for us...the only problem is once we sell our second car I'll have no way of leaving the house except for the bus. *sigh. Well, for now it's fine. My mom is on vacation and she can drive me around. Sebi also said he might look into riding the bus to work which would be nice too.

Oh! and we had a HUGE rain storm the other day here! here are a couple pics

Ah the merry merry month of May. Well, actually its almost over and then we'll be moving. Ack! I sure hope those boxes get delivered today so i can start packing.

Baby is sleeping. Which is good because man! oh man is he cranky when he hasn't slept!

Today my goals are to get the house in a some what liveable order. Or at least get all the clothes picked up. Maybe even put away (that right there will help a lot with the house at least looking picked up)

oh! posting is so fun do to to do to do to do

Just wanted everyone to know that if you know anybody that is wanting to open a new salon, purchase salon equipment, or even get their salon design, they should go here for salon equipment.

hi-diddalee-he a pierates life for me!

for Valentines Day my husband got me ......
an annual pass to DisneyLand!
what a great guy. i'm sure glad i married him!
...now what to make for dinner???

sorry if you can't load all of those pictures...try going to our web-site.
It has all of them and more too :)

i'm married.

it's still wierd to think about and even to say. and it's only been a week. I already told my husband (lol) that it will probably not be till next month that it's real to me. See, we've been dating for so long that we know just about everything there is to one another, yes there has been some new ground but i think the weirdest part is that i don't have to send Sebi home anymore, there's no more figureing out who's going to drive to who's house etc.
The wedding was beautiful. Small. very small i think there were probably more empty chairs in the sealing room than filled chairs... :S and it didn't help that they were all lined up against the wall oh well it was still wonderful. The temple really is the best place to get married. something totally unexpected to me (that i can share outside the temple) is that there was this "you may now kiss the bride" moment! lol i think we were both so nervous and excited that most of everything just seemed like a blur.
Our reception was a blast. I started to worry when i got there and almost put myself into a bad mood when i said "hey, you know what? this is MY party for me to E N J O Y and so i am going to" like i said it was a blast. I hope everyone had as much fun as i did. to my suprize not only did i get my dad to be there too but he brought a CAKE! it was GORGOUS too. and even more amazing is that he brought it on the grayhound bus and made it in the Motel 6 in the morning of my wedding day.
So then we went off to our honeymoon...wait..sorry i have to tell you the 2 most awesome things about the wedding (besides cake). 1st--is that instead of throwing a bouquet and only ONE girl getting flowers, i had ribbons with "wedding type" charms stuck into the top of my cake and ALL the single girls got to pull one ribbon out, who ever got the ring was the next to get married. and everyone else got something too even if it wasn't the ring. 2nd--we had roses stuck to ferns....neat effect but they were kinda dieing, we didn't have bubbles or rice or anything for people to throw at us so i asked my wonderful RS Sisters/Bridesmaids to pass out the roses and tell people to throw the petals at us as we left it was A W E S O M E because those flowers were actually used for something and they would have died anyway! ok!
So then we went off to our honeymoon down in Anahiem we were so tired i don't even remember what the room looked like...except that i think i did watch Saturday Morning Cartoons the next morning. and then we went to Disneyland (ofcourse!) we left a little early because we were still quite tired. after that we came home to our appartment and opened all our gifts. Church on Sunday and then off to our "real honeymoon" in Vegas that Sebi's boss had paid for as our wedding present! we stayed directly across the street from the Belaigio and had a PERFECT window to see the fountain going off every 15 or so minutes. That fountain really is AWESOME and if we were really really quite we could even hear the music :)
OH! and our room had a huge suite style bathroom with the biggest tub i've ever had the chance to bathe in. We went to eat at a super upscale restraunt (sebi picked it out) in the Luxor and had valet service i felt like a QUEEN. THIS THE THE TABLE WE SAT AT the next night we went and did the rides at the Hilton that are all StarTrek. if you like StarTrek and have EVER thought ....it would be so cool to be on the bridge i was SOOOO TOTALLY THERE!! it's cool! seriously and we had a ton of fun! we even got asimulated by the Borg! and then we went to eat at the "Galaxy Diner" place and Sebi got the flaming ribs of targ! they were delishes! I even met a clegnon, probably Warf's sister! Our seat at the reasturant there was right under these giant models of the Enterprize!

now were back home and sorry i don't have ANY pictures of our honeymoon :( oh well i guess we'll just have to go back and do it all over again!!!

This is my first post. I'm a little nervous! :) hehe just kidding.
I'm so excited because my announcements are finally done!!! HORRAY! ....now if only i had everyone's i know addresses :S oh dear.....