Not If I Don't Want To

Dear Belly-Time,
I'm supposed to be on my belly a little bit each day.
It helps strengthen my arms as I do mini push-ups.
It's supposed to make it so I am not always on my back, as to avoid flat spots on my head.
And it's supposed to strengthen my neck area muscles as I work on lifting my head up to look around.
But, suppose I just tuck my arm under me and lay my head down like this.
Now you're not so smart, are you, belly-time?

Musubi

I didn't know what spam musubi was until one glorious Sunday afternoon, my brother-in-law Jake brought some over. I've been hooked ever since. The sad part is that Wendy, Jake, and Holden decided it was time to move to Hawaii. Not sad for them I'm sure, but sad for us, but not only because of no more musubi, because of no more them.

Anyway... I was determined to learn how to make it on my own so I rounded up the supplies and dove in. I found a nice little tutorial on you tube which made it extremely easy and they have all of the ingredients (except the Spam) at Chao's on University Avenue in Provo.

I'm not a lover of Spam, but I am a lover of Spam musubi. All it takes is a little nori, rice, spam, furikake, and some soy sauce. I ordered a musubi form online for 3 bucks and I was set. This picture is from my first go at it and I think they turned out pretty good (not as good as Jake's of course) but good still the same. I'm sure I'll get better with practice:)

Weekend of Weekends

This last weekend was crazy. But it was crazy fun. This summer has been crazy, really. But it has been crazy fun. My BFF Tamsen is getting married in a couple of weeks so this was our weekend to celebrate. Friday night Tams, Mel, and I went up to Park City and played until 2 in the morning. We shopped at the outlets, ate at Wasatch Brewery, and went club hopping on Main Street.

I haven't been dancing for years so it was totally awesome. Although, I did discover that Harry O's isn't the cool place for 20 somethings that it used to be. It's now the cool place for 30 + somethings which is kind of scary. What's really scary is that I now fit in to that category.

When I got home around 3 in the a.m., this is what I discovered. Davey was still awake with four other people at our house playing Halo. I thought he would be tucked in bed trying to catch up on sleep, but no, Halo prevailed.

Then Saturday morning I had to wake up at 7, get ready, and drive to West Weber for Tamsen's bridal shower. I have no pictures, but it was fun as well. It's been great re-connecting with her family and girls I haven't seen in ages.

Then, that night I drove to Salt Lake with my sister Jessie to the Something Corporate concert. It was awesome but I was exhausted. Even the pineapple-red bull concoction I drank at the show couldn't keep me awake enough.

When I arrived home on both Friday and Saturday nights, this was the scene in my bedroom. Adelaide and Reggie had taken over our king size bed. Adelaide had to sleep in it because she is precious and she missed me. Reggie just sleeps in our bed always because we're too lazy to set up the crib. I ended up sleeping on the foot of the bed and Davey brought in Addie's mattress from her room and slept by us on the floor.

It's been a fun-filled crazy summer and it is almost over. School starts for me again on Wednesday and I will be trying to figure out how to balance 2 kiddos, husband, family time, homework, and anything extra-curricular.

Sweet!

Dog Days of Summer

With Reggie being around, this summer has been a little different from previous summers. Tennis, skateboarding, and biking have taken a seat on the bench for now in exchange for more mellow activities. And with the Dodgers running the other direction from post-season baseball, and football not starting for another month, I've needed a distraction.

Adelaide has introduced me to all of her games she finds and plays on Miniclip on the computer. My biggest accomplishment is passing the 60th Phase on Level 3 of Zoikz.

I even get a lot of support from our occasional late-night Halo tourneys at our house. Even better than winning is watching the looks on all our friends' faces when Megan turns out to be one of the best players. Nothing tops a husband/wife team in a futuristic setting of violence and mayhem.But the weirdest trend so far is my summer reading. My brother Rick got me started with "Lone Survivor" and Randy followed that with "The Electric Church" (not pictured). And Megan has finally got me to read the first two Hunger Games books in the last two weeks. And now I find myself waiting for the third. I'll say they are good (definitely more mellow than my brothers' books - believe it or not), but even better than that, I have found new motivation to read, being so discouraged by all the Harry Potter and Twilight hype (sorry).

Happy Dog Days of Summer.
Sorry to those who thought this was going to be a post about Captain America.