Catching Up

Ok lets try this again

I have a bunch of photo's I never posted from the last several months So:

Crewser chillin like a villan in his "jammas"

I miss her SO much. This is our ex next door neighbor dog Shady. She was the sweetest dog ever. Our neighbors are renting the house, so when their landlord found out they had a dog, he said Shady had to go : ( I would have taken her in a second if I didn't already feel my plate was full with a dog, 2 cats and a 2 year old.

Walking in mamas character heel. His dad wound be so proud. Actually Crew is obsessed with shoes he's always putting on mine and Jared's shoes and walking around the house

HALLOWEEN 09

Thanx to Laura for the awesome skeleton costume, whom I mooch a costume off every year for Crew

Faify, Crew and Brody

An attempt to get a photo of all the Kozlowski grandkids at their little halloween party

ha ha, driving home after trick or treating, he was sooooo tired

FALL

Dressing up the dog in my "No more stinkin tacos" shirt



1st experience with magic markers





Best wrestling buddies, Beef and Big Foot



This is just to random and Jared like to not post, don't ask

CHRISTMAS 09



Crew on Santa Koz's lap. Bless Richards heart, he dresses up in this costume (that they bought) every Christmas for the grandkids. They just love it. What grandparents go out of their way to buy a santa costume to dress up in, just to make their grandkids happy? Freaking awesome ones, thats who. OK I know Crew does not look happy here. He only started crying because right before this Faify got her new bike from Santa and it was a bit too much for Mr. anything with wheels obsessed Crew man to watch her wheel it away.



OK all in right in the world now



Thanx G'ma and G'pa for the awesome Trike



This was the 1st year we had Christmas morning at our house with just our little family







Crew's latest doings/sayings/favorites :

- This kid is talking up a storm I feel like he can say almost anything now

- He counted all the way to 10 for the first time the other day, thanx Little Einsteins. I swear he learns so much from that show its crazy. Almost makes me feel not guilty about letting him watch TV

- Current favorite shows: #1 Little Einsteins, Chuggington and Hip Hop Harry

- Crew has taken a recent interest in flaculence (spell?) and does not hesitate to let everyone know "I farted" whenever he does

- Loves taking "tubbies" with his hermit crab, duckys, pelican and dolphin and such

- Current favorite food: Bo-a-ear-e-o Traslation: Bowl of cereal, mostly oatmeal squares and raisen bran

- Other favorite foods: Mac n cheese, jelly sandwich (PB and J), cookies, yams, orange juice, raisens, cottage cheese with oranges or pineapple, cliff bars, chocolate, chips

- Favorite games: Fishy game (lets go fishin), ice (don't break the ice), mem-ry (memory), shoot hoops (basketball in his room) and going down his little slide in his room

- Playing "get me"

- Terrorizing the dog and cats

- taking all the pots and pans out of the cupboard

- washing his hands

- He loves the movie Cars and he favorite toys are his Lightning Mcqueen, Mater, Ramone and Sarge

- Jumping on the bed and couches

I'm sure there's a lot more stuff but that will do for now

More half marathonin

I'm officially running the Utah Valley half marathon on June 12th. I registered for it today, thanx to my girl Darise for persuading me. I'm really excited about it, its good for me to have things like this coming up to look forward to and keep me in shape. It starts at vivian park up Provo Canyon and you run all the way down University Ave to the Provo Towne Center mall. That seems SO far. The last half I did in Las Vegas wound around all over the place up in the mountains so you couldn't really get a visual on how far it was from point A to point B. I ran my last one in 2:37:00 about, thats a tiny bit less then a 12 minute mile average pace. I know slow as a turtle right. That one I was really just concerned with crossing the finish line. I want to improve my pace this time, maby a 10 minute mile goal. Darise is fast so it will be good for me to train with her. I better get me some new Asics soon and start runnin.

That little stinker

Crew just said to me "Stop it ma'ma, your in time out" with a very serious tone and wagging finger to boot

Also:

Little man loves his juice, this is my way of pumping him full of vegetables without him knowing it. I juice everything from carrots to spinich and beets and as long as there is a granny smith apple in there to sweeten it up he'll gulp down just about anything

Winter Stuff

Crew LOVES to dig in the snow with his "scoopie's" (and tease the dog) I guess if we can't dig in the sand at the beach then well take the next best thing. I attached a video on here of Crew throwing snow at Beef Stew but blogger won't let me publish it dang it. Its was really cute too, oh well.



Jared and I went snowboarding a couple of weeks ago at Brighton with my sis, bro in law and nephews. Here he is stalling from getting out of the warm car into the cold :)



trying to catch snowflakes





It was really fun to go with Jared, plus it gives me something to work up toward since he's so much more advanced then me.

New Years Resolutions 2010

Ashley Siruno inspired me to make a new years resolutions list. These things have been up in my head and I have been doing some of them but I'm thinking it will help even more if I write them down. And oh ya I haven't blogged in like a month and a half, I've sort of lost the will to blog lately. I think this usually happens to me for a period every winter, it just seems like there is really not all that much to exciting going on or that I really want to take pictures of in the winter. And sometimes I just need to take a break from thinking about taking pictures. I love having pictures I just hate taking them. Its nice to just go do something sometimes and truly enjoying yourself without thinking about documenting it. Maby I make to big of a deal about it in my head. It fact I think thats it, I can bring my camera along and if I feel so inspired to take a picture at any given moment I can and if not I don't have to, problem solved. I'm glad I thought of that :) Anyway before I got off on a tangent I was going to list my new years resolutions

1- Read 1 chapter of the Book of Mormon everyday - I've been doing this since Sunday and so far I'm right on track. Ya know I have been LDS my whole life and have never read this book that is the cornerstone of our religion cover to cover in order. Yes I've read it a fair amount over my life bouncing around all over the place but never from beginning to end all the way through, so here I go.

2- Attend the temple one day a month, this I'm really bad at but I really want to make it a habit. And it shouldn't be that hard, I actually like going, I just need to pick a day every month and go.

3- Attend all of church every week

Thats it, I don't want to make to many resolutions because I think the more I make the less likely i will be to keep each one. I think spiritual goals are the most important for me anyway. I feel like if I can do these things and keep my relationship with God strong and feed my spirit then other areas I want to improve on in my life will just fall into place. In the last general conference Dale Renlund of the seventy said " Don't be casual in your worship to God " I couldn't agree more, its vitally, extremely important for me and the welfare of my family.

Soft Water VS. Hard Water

Does anyone have an opinion about soft water VS. hard water? and why? I know this is really random but I have really dry skin and it sort of drives me crazy. It seems like no moisturizer in the world helps me either. Trust me I have tried a million of them. So I'm thinking the problem could be the water I'm shower/bathing in/washing my face with. I've been reading up on how soft water really makes a difference for the good in your skin and hair, and your soap lathers better and you will save money in the long run on soap/laundry detergent blah blah blah. But I'm really curious if anyone has noticed a difference between the two?

Hip Hop ya don't stop

So I've been substitute teaching hip hop at 9th east Golds gym a bit lately (I'm teaching again tomorrow night @ 8 in case anyone wants to come) Today Lindsay (the girl I sub for at Golds) texted me and asked if I would sub her advanced jazz class at Utah Academy for her, um are you serious? was my initial reaction, I'm not an advanced jazz dancer how am I supposed to teach an advanced jazz class? Lindsay assured me I could totally handle it, and I could teach them a hip hop combination if I wanted to. I told her I would do it. So the class ended up going quite well, I was really happy. The new owner of the studio, Aimee asked for my phone number and told me she would call me to sub there in the future. I really want to have my own hip hop class(s) at some point, so this is really good experience for me. The point of all this is I'm really really grateful to Lindsay for believing in me and providing me with these opportunities. She probably doesn't think it has been a big deal at all, but its a big deal to me. If she wouldn't have asked me to teach her class tonight, I wouldn't have met Aimee who asked me if I would sub there in the future. It just goes to show how one opportunity can lead to another opportunity. And sometimes it takes someone to believe in you for you to believe in yourself. So Lindsay if you read this, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done for me though out the years. I am a better dancer and now a better teacher because of you. You truly are a mentor and hero to me. So I hope to teach more and more. Dancing is a huge passion of mine and a huge part of my life, Its in my blood, its in my veins, its in my guts. I'm not the best dancer or dance teacher in the world, not even close. But ya know what it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I have a passion for dancing and it makes me happy, really happy.