Thursday, October 9, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Quest for a Smile
Every morning after I feed Tucker and I am changing his diaper he always smiles so much. He will smile these huge smiles where you see all of his gums. I have tried so many times to take a good picture of him smiling but he will always move or stop smiling right as I take the picture. Here are a few of my attempts.
Conference Weekend
Sheldon and I had a very fun and relaxing conference weekend, except for the fact that it has been freezing cold up here! I am not looking forward to winter. We were able to go up to his parents house on Sunday to watch conference with them and celebrate his sister Dahlia's birthday. I always have an excellent time when we get together with his family, because there are so many people who want to hold Tucker that I get a nice break. Sheldon's parents have a huge garden and they were nice enough to let us pick a bunch of raspberries. They were so delicious on my breakfast this morning! Here are a few pictures of Tucker from this weekend:
Tucker loved bouncing with Sheldon on the exercise ball.
Tucker's almost smiling in this one...
This is Sheldon's sister Dahlia, she is expecting a baby boy at the beginning of January. We are so excited for her, Tucker can't wait for more boy cousins to play with. We hope she had a good birthday!
Another exciting/scary thing that happened this weekend was the black widow we found during conference. I had pulled out my cross stitch to work on during conference and had just taken a stitch or two when I noticed this huge spider right on my cross stitch. I quickly flung it across the room and woke Sheldon up from his nap he was taking during conference :) The black widow could have easily bitten me since my cross stitch has a black background I might not have noticed the black widow until it was too late and he had bitten me. Needless to say, I couldn't work on my cross stitch for the rest of conference because I was too grossed out. I hate spiders.
Tucker loved bouncing with Sheldon on the exercise ball.
Tucker's almost smiling in this one...
This is Sheldon's sister Dahlia, she is expecting a baby boy at the beginning of January. We are so excited for her, Tucker can't wait for more boy cousins to play with. We hope she had a good birthday!
Another exciting/scary thing that happened this weekend was the black widow we found during conference. I had pulled out my cross stitch to work on during conference and had just taken a stitch or two when I noticed this huge spider right on my cross stitch. I quickly flung it across the room and woke Sheldon up from his nap he was taking during conference :) The black widow could have easily bitten me since my cross stitch has a black background I might not have noticed the black widow until it was too late and he had bitten me. Needless to say, I couldn't work on my cross stitch for the rest of conference because I was too grossed out. I hate spiders.
Friday, September 26, 2008
I've been tagged!
Yes, unfortunately the title is true. I had hoped to escape this tagging game, but my sister finally tagged me to say 6 interesting things about myself. I feel like I am back in high school or EFY where you have to say your name and then one interesting thing. I never knew what to say, I think I always said something lame like, "I like to travel." Everybody likes to travel, that's not interesting! Well I don't know if I will be able to make it all the way to 6 but I will give it my best shot.
1. I really do like to travel, but the interesting part about this is I can say I have been an interesting place. I went on a trip to Hong Kong with my Dad as a graduation present from High School. It was definitely one of the coolest experiences in my life. I still think it's funny that I had to have my Dad translate even when the people were speaking English to me. I am also amazed at how good at eating with chopsticks the people are, I was always so embarrassed when waitresses would ask me if I wanted a fork. Being stubborn I would always say no, but it would take me forever to eat some things. How do you eat lobster tail with chopsticks, I am still puzzled.
2. Growing up I always planned on working for the CIA and there is still a possibility it might happen :) You never know how life is going to turn out. I had my life planned out in High School and I was going to work go on a mission after college, then work for the CIA for a few years, and eventually get married around the age of 27. Definitely did not even come close to following my life plan, which I think is a good thing. Life often turns out better than you can plan.
3. I have been hit by a Ford Truck, filled with sand, going 50 mph on my bike when not wearing a helmet and survived with no broken bones, concussion, or stitches. Let's be honest, that's pretty sweet. How many people can say that? I would post a picture of my totally messed up bike, but at the moment I can't find where I saved it on the computer.
4. Sheldon and I LOVE to play board games or any type of game. We have a almost a whole closet filled with just games. Sheldon and I are both pretty competitive, but I think I am more competitive, which is probably not a good thing. I am usually not very nice to Sheldon when we play, but luckily he is pretty nice to me so our relationship survives. Some of our favorite games: Settlers of Cataan with Cities and Knights expansion, Scotland Yard, Shadows over Camelot (this is one of my favorites because you can be a traitor), Pirates Cove, Scum, and Chess (when I win).
This post is turning into a novel, so I think I am going to stop at 4.
I tag My Parents, Dahlia B., and Carrie C to say 6 interesting things about themselves.
1. I really do like to travel, but the interesting part about this is I can say I have been an interesting place. I went on a trip to Hong Kong with my Dad as a graduation present from High School. It was definitely one of the coolest experiences in my life. I still think it's funny that I had to have my Dad translate even when the people were speaking English to me. I am also amazed at how good at eating with chopsticks the people are, I was always so embarrassed when waitresses would ask me if I wanted a fork. Being stubborn I would always say no, but it would take me forever to eat some things. How do you eat lobster tail with chopsticks, I am still puzzled.
2. Growing up I always planned on working for the CIA and there is still a possibility it might happen :) You never know how life is going to turn out. I had my life planned out in High School and I was going to work go on a mission after college, then work for the CIA for a few years, and eventually get married around the age of 27. Definitely did not even come close to following my life plan, which I think is a good thing. Life often turns out better than you can plan.
3. I have been hit by a Ford Truck, filled with sand, going 50 mph on my bike when not wearing a helmet and survived with no broken bones, concussion, or stitches. Let's be honest, that's pretty sweet. How many people can say that? I would post a picture of my totally messed up bike, but at the moment I can't find where I saved it on the computer.
4. Sheldon and I LOVE to play board games or any type of game. We have a almost a whole closet filled with just games. Sheldon and I are both pretty competitive, but I think I am more competitive, which is probably not a good thing. I am usually not very nice to Sheldon when we play, but luckily he is pretty nice to me so our relationship survives. Some of our favorite games: Settlers of Cataan with Cities and Knights expansion, Scotland Yard, Shadows over Camelot (this is one of my favorites because you can be a traitor), Pirates Cove, Scum, and Chess (when I win).
This post is turning into a novel, so I think I am going to stop at 4.
I tag My Parents, Dahlia B., and Carrie C to say 6 interesting things about themselves.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Pictures!
I finally received access to view my pictures online that I had taken at Target. If you want to view all of the pictures go to this website https://www.thesmilestation.com/home.asp?AC=LTTT0890104779TAR and enter ELAINE MILLS as the customer name. These are some of my favorite pictures, I love the first one because it looks like he is planning a conspiracy. The second picture I also love, because even though I hate to see him sad, he really does look so cute.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Tucker's Morning Jog
This past week we have started taking Tucker out for runs with us in his jogging stroller. He loves it and will either sleep or just sit there contently. It is starting to get cool here in the mornings so we always bundle him up and he looks so cute with his hat and blanket. I love in the last picture it looks like he is waving at the camera. We also took him to Target to get pictures taken this week. We got some pretty good ones, so in a week I will be able to access them online and post them here. He is a pretty wiggly little boy so it was hard to get a good picture. I would have to hold his pacifier in to keep him calm and then take it out when the photographer was ready. Tucker has really started to smile this week. It is cool because he is actually looking at you and focusing on your face when he smiles. He doesn't do it very often, but it is so exciting when he does.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Getting back in shape
Sheldon and I went shopping the other day for new running shoes. Last year we had a gym membership to a small gym and unfortunately they went out of business. We had signed up for a year membership and since we only had a membership for 4 months, they gave us a refund on our money. We have been saving that money to buy new shoes for when Tucker was born to help us get back in shape. I was able to get 2 new pairs and they are definitely the nicest running shoes I have ever owned. They are so comfortable. We went to this great running store in Orem that looks at your old pair of running shoes to see how you run and then gives you shoes for your specific type of foot and running style. They also let you take the shoes out for a run to test them out. The plan is for Sheldon and me to run a half marathon sometime next spring. Sheldon has run a marathon before, but I have never run anywhere near that far. So I am a little bit nervous, but I am sure with the right training I will be able to do it.
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