today was so lame. the weather was crappy and i was insanely bored. i was also JUST reminded about jeanettes graduation party tonight and i cant BELIEVE i forgot about it because i have the invite hanging right on my fridge. im stuck home without transportation or else id leave to go now. i would have taken ryan to work if i remembered this this morning. blahhh. what are you gonna do?

so the free coldplay concert in madison square garden june 23 isnt exactly for sure... you have to enter to be one of the many who "win" tickets, but you know how that goes. if it doesnt work out im ok, because theyll be at the verizon center in washington, dc july 2nd and ry and i will definitely be there for that.

joshuas watching wheel of fortune right now. hes so cute, he loves to watch the wheel go around and around. :) he's holding his "sheepy", his favorite stuffed animal that he sleeps with every night. its practically as big as he is but he lugs that thing around everywhere like a champ.
my little mosquito will be ONE YEAR OLD in a month and a half. it seriously feels like yesterday that i was brining him home the hospital. time FLEW. i never knew time to go by so quickly until i had a child.

23 days til florida!! commoooooon vacation.

 i feel terrible. i feel like i kept joshua in his crib for far too long, waiting for him to fall asleep and take a nap. normally i'd just get him up after a half hour or so but i knew i was going to priscillas tonight and didnt want him to be a terror. anyway, he did eventually fall asleep after an hour, a couple of rockings and half a bottle. he's teething so everything is a lot harder.

i spent the morning cleaning... i mean REALLY cleaning. dusting, scrubbing, clearing out, organizing, vacuuming, sweeping, polishing, the works. i don't mind it, i've always been this way. very clean and tidy. i thought i'd losen up after having a baby but joshy just makes me want things even cleaner so he's not crawling around in mess and breathing in dust and such. 

im watching cher on oprah and she is just so silly. cher, i mean. those outfits are ridiculous. calm down you old lady you. youre 61! youre so botoxed you can hardly open your eyes, let alone smile. you should be able to enjoy facial expressions at your ripe old age. and oh man, those costumes. they seriously scare me. if i had a nightmare i think cher would be in it, dressed up as some zebra looking thing on crack. shes so crazy.

usually i really appreciate days like this... hazy and cloudy with a little rain. but i really wanted to take joshy to the pool. oh well.

 

 i had such a good day with ryan and joshua. :) we all slept until nine, had breakfast, packed some sandwiches and sliced fruit and then walked down the ymca. the outdoor pool area is absolutely amazing... its like a mini ocean breeze! the water is heated so it felt great with the temperature outside being 82. we took a lot of pictures... here are a few.









we took a break from the water and had some lunch. joshy had everything we had! he's finally learned to self feed. i credit ryan for joshua meeting many of his milestones... ryan will take an hour to literally "teach" joshy these things. i'll always be like, "no, he can't do that yet... he'll learn on his own". but ryan will just gently force him to do things without our help. self feeding before one of them, as of yesterday. he's an excellent daddy. always knew he would be.

 

 today was "laundry day". i hate doing laundry. i only hate it because i have to load it into baskets, cram the baskets into the car, drive to virginia beach, unload the baskets, bring the baskets into ryans dads house, wash, dry, fold, put BACK into the baskets, cram BACK into the car, drive BACK to chesapeake, unload again and struggle up the stairs into the apartment where i unload the baskets of clean clothes and put on hangers and into our closets. were it not for that, I THINK DOING LAUNDRY WOULD BE FREAKING RELAXING!!!!!!!

:D 
i dont use the washers/dryers in our apartment complex because they cost money, you dont even get warm water for your money, and my clothes never really smell right, you know what i mean? i cannot WAIT to have our own washer and dryer. man oh man. my family was actually given a beautiful washer and dryer, brand new, from a rich family who was moving and didnt want them?? i dont know. anyway, none of us either needed them or had hook-ups to use them, so theyre sitting in my brothers garage until someone gets a house or something. hopefully that "someone" will be me and ryan. 

besides the laundry, we didnt really do much once we got home. we had random things for dinner, gave joshy a bath and put him to bed, and then watched "worlds most outrageous moments". oh my gosh, i laughed so hard.
i know this totally unlady-like, but this was one of the clips they showed and i just could NOT believe it! hahaha

and since were talking about funny things this will make you laugh too, im pretty sure.

25 days until florida. :) rys mom called me this morning and told us we'd be taking a couple days to go to the gulf coast. !!! :) i know its a few hours away from where his family lives but im so excited. white sand, clear water. pretty. :)
we reeeeeeeally need a vacation.
 

today i was in another "funk". blah, i hate when i get like that! ryan is so kind and understanding, though... if i was married to someone else i don't think they could handle me with the grace that he does.

jack johnson has the sweetest song on his new album. :)

[She could make angels
I've seen it with my own eyes
You gotta be careful when
you've got good love
Cause the angels will just
keep on multiplying

But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine
We share the same soul
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
We Share the same soul
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
We Share the same soul]

:)
anyway,
so we didnt do much today. i took a neighbor of ours on an errand this morning, came home, made lunch and then took the most wonderful nap while ry played mario party. he borrowed a nintendo 64 from his brother this week. :)

when i woke up ry made dinner and then we took joshy to dairy queen where we all split one of those chocolate covered strawberry waffle cone bowls. MMM. :) went to walmart and picked up a few groceries and cards for mothers day, came home, put joshy to bed and now its time for the shows!

 Today started off horribly (slight stress-induced breakdown), but it got better. :)

I knew I needed to get out of the apartment so we took Joshua to the pool at the y. It's so cute there! Like a mini ocean-breeze. Joshua was so sweet... he's always so cautious about new things, but he loved it! I laid out and got some sun while the boys played, then we moved to the indoor pool. We went outside by the other pool again before we left for some snacks and more sun and then came home and showered. Joshy's so cute... he plays in the tub while i shower and I love it. :) I'll miss those moments as he grows up and gets too old to shower with mommy. :(

We had to be at the church at four... my dad went on an encounter so we had our entire family there for the service. Everyone came over afterwards for dinner, then i cleaned and hung out with ry for a little bit. He's off recording now.

I'm not sure what we'll do the next two days, I'm just so so SO glad that ryan is off. ive missed him.




27 days till florida!!!

 today was going to be a busy day so i had everything laid out the night before. i woke up at 8:30, later than i had planned, but at 9:30 all three of us were ready to go and we didnt have to leave until 11. :) 

so i made ryan a really nice breakfast and then we took joshua on a long walk through some neighborhoods. the weather was absolutely GORGEOUS! the sun was warm, there was a cool breeze, perfect. :) 

we dropped joshy off with my mom and then i had to take ryan to work. i needed the car for a Shaklee Women-to-Women luncheon at Lake Wright Golf Course. on the way there i almost filled the gas tank up with DIESEL!!! ugh, that would have been a nightmare. i was like, why can't i choose a gas type?!?! and then bam, big bold letters right in my face saying "DIESEL". haha. anyway, i got lost on my way to the luncheon but eventually made it there and had a wonderful time! there were crab-stuffed mushrooms, spinach and cheese crossants, chocolate covered strawberries with other fruit and cheese trays, coffee, tea, desserts... the whole shabang. i loved it because the entire thing was centered around womens health and what we need at different stages of life (early 20s, late 30s, pre-menopause, ect,.), as well as childrens health. i was one of the speakers, talking about my experience with Shaklee products throughout my pregnancy. at the end i was given a gift for speaking, met some other nice business builders in Shaklee, and headed home! fun. :)

priscilla came over when i got back... we hung out and talked for a couple hours. i put a movie in for us but fell asleep on the couch at 7. i felt terrible! haha. she left at eight and i slept until 10. i dont know why i was so exhausted... at least now i can be up for ryan when he gets home. 
i miss my man.

 so i just found out some insanely lame news.
we filed our taxes through H&R block. we did have direct deposit but basically it was a RAL (refund anticipation loan) from HRB. they paid us and then the IRS paid them. THAT means that the IRS never saw our bank account info. all this to say we'll be receiving a hard check... in july. ?!? thats so messed up. screw shopping and tattoos. 
at least we have rys bonus coming in a couple of weeks, i just didnt want to spend it on that stuff.

blah.

today i was really lazy. somehow i managed to get 15 minutes on the treadmill. at least its better than nothing. joshua wasnt having fun in the nursery so i had to leave early. he's a little nervous around african americans (most white babies are a little skeptical) and the girl taking care of him happened to be black. she was being really nice but was also quite animated, trying to console him and make him laugh. from the fitness room i could see the look of terror on joshuas face and just had to go get him. he warms up eventually but it takes time. we have neighbors who are black and he's cool with them now. 

my hair is getting long and annoying. i'm trying to get past this rotten phase. my hair grows at a reasonable rate so im just lettin' it do its thing, hoping ONE day ill have what a want, can take a lot of pictures and then whack it all off again. :)

i have a horrible headache. i plan on curling up with popcorn and a big blanket to totally veg out in front of the tv until i fall asleep.
sounds perfect.

 i found out information about the stimulous checks. thank God ry and i had direct deposit on our taxes. if we had gone with a hard check we wouldnt have received the money until july 11th, wayyyy after our vacation. 

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=181972,00.html

today im just getting bills straight, cleaning... taking it easy. joshuas napping right now but as soon as he gets up ill take him to the ymca for a couple of hours. i havent worked out in a while. :/