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awwwhhh I miss my long hair

My kid is so cute

Some cute/funny/smart things Crew had done/said the last week or so:


- I had Crew in my arms, I look down the backside of his diaper to see if he needs a diaper change when out of no where he says "KA KA". I say that when I check his diaper and see poo poos, but I don't think I had even said ka ka that day. He surprises and heck out of me sometimes with the things he picks up on.

- He saw his bottle up on the dresser in our room, he couldn't quite reach it so he goes and gets his car, pushes it over to the dresser stands up on it and grabs his bottle, what the........ what barely one year old has the thought process to think "hmmm I can't reach my bottle, if I put my car by the dresser and stand up on it I will be taller and will there for be able to reach it." maby this is normal, but he is my first so I was amazed. He also has started to do this in the kitchen to reach the higher drawers, scares the crap out of mom sometimes, as a car with wheels isn't the most stable thing to stand on and our travertine floor isn't the softest thing to land on.

- I have started to try and teach him animal sounds, I say Crew what does the duck say, he says "kak kak" so cute, thats the only one he knows really well right now.

- He loves to feed the dog his little baby crackers from his high chair, that's beef stews new favorite spot to hang out.

- The words he's saying right now: "da da" "ma ma" "cup" (it sounds more like "gum" when he says it) "ba ba" and of course "ka ka" and "kak kak".

- His favorite thing to do is race his car around the house, he goes super fast, gets to the end of the room and does a quick 180 and repeats this process a zillion times, sometimes he gets a little to comfortable, goes to fast around a corner and wipes out then "WAAAHHHHHHAAAA" hes drives a bit more conservative after his wipe outs.

Heres some pics of Crew in the bath, aka sink about a week ago right before I gave him his first hair cut.





Oh and here are pics right before we went on a walk the other day

And they called it puppy love

That furry black thing on Beefs leg is Chris Barlow's parents dog Max, he took quite the liking to our Beef Stew, and yay I finally figured out how to make my pics not so ginormous, thanx laura



This is his real girlfriend Lucy, david and Alicias dog, he's in love with her and she totally plays hard to get and beef loves it, she totally dominates him.

QUESTION?

If you leave a glass of juice on a short table with your 1 year old near by, what are the chances the glass will stay standing????????????????





























NOT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love my in-laws and some other stuff

Can I just say that my in-laws are freaking awesome. They called me this morning to ask if they could take Crew up to some of the Halloween activities at Thanksgiving Point with some other members of Jareds Fam and then keep him for a sleepover tonight. I was like YES!!! I love that they love Crew so much and ask to watch him and spend time with him. Crew loves Grandma and Grandpa Koz and spending time at their house, plus it gives me a opportunity to get some things done around my house/run errands and such. Richard and Julie are such great grandparents, they have pretty much every toy imaginable at their house, a pack and play, car seat, stroller, swing, 4 high chairs, baby food, formula, diapers and I'm sure some other stuff I can't think of. They bought all this stuff on their own just to cater to their 5 grand kids, and so they are as comfortable and entertained as possible while at their house. It means a lot to me that they go so far out of their way for the grand babies. Love you Richard and Julie



Here are Richard and Julie about a year ago with the grand kids, I think this was on Thanksgiving day (Crew is in the Jean outfit)

Other random thoughts/rants:

- Why do I love watching the girls next door? Every time they show them totally naked and barely blurr out their ta tas and ya yas I'm like "this is horrible, this is practically porn". Not to mention they are living in total sin with Hugh Heffner and banging him for money and a lavish lifestyle, yet I can't stop watching.


- Miley Cyrus CANNOT DANCE, I was watching one of her concerts on tv and she moves so awkwardly. My in-laws went to the stadium of fire this summer and they said she is tone deaf to. I do think shes adorable and gorgeous, she just can't sing or dance, isn't that what she's famous for?.... interesting.


- oh ya, I love this girl



This is Gina Carano, she is an EliteXC womens MMA fighter, she also plays CRUSH on Amerian Gladiaters. I was watching one of her fights the other day and she basically kicks ass, oh and she's totally hot. Most of you guys know I'm all about GIRL POWER and this chick is the epidemy

What I'm loving right now

Jared just went to go run some errands and took Beef with him and I just put Crew down for the night, so unless a cat decides to randomly piss me off, I think I should have some peace and quiet for the next couple of hours, YES!!!

Thought I would share some random things I am loving/not loving and such lately

CURRENTLY LOVING:

- My Jack Lalane juicer


This glorious machine is at the top of my list of daily necessities, I make a big batch of cabala juice (not affiliated with madonna) for jared and I pretty much every morning and I usually make a glass or 2 again for myself later on in the day. cabala is simply a acronym for carrot, apple, beet, apple, lemon, apple. I do a specific recipe consisting of red, yellow and green apples, and, you guessed it, carrots, lemons and beets. Its absolutely Delicious I crave it all the time, and not to mention really really good for you.

- Clean Carpet


Yesterday Jared went and rented a carpet shampooer from home depot and I cleaned all the carpet in the upstairs, (and Jared did the downstairs). It was crazy how dirty the water was when I emptied it each time, practically black with tons of pet hair, wish I would have taken a pic. It only costs $17 for 4 hours and I think its only like $25 if you keep it 24 hours. Now my carpet is nice and clean and smells good too. Ironically I was changing Crews diaper today on the newly clean carpet and he decided to take a pee as soon as I got his diaper off, something he's only done a hand full of times. Its all good though, a little baby pee beats dog diarrhea all over the carpet any day (true story, happened more then once), was not a good day to be a tan Olde English Bulldog named Beef Stew.

- These 10 LBS bags of carrots from Costco


They only cost $4.50 a bag, I used to pay that at Good Earth for the 5 LBS bags

- Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders making the team on CMT


O.k. so I secretly want to be one, I guess you have to live in Dallas or something, details. But seriously I love this show

- Making hot home cooked meals on these chilly nights


This is Granny Myers goolosh I made tonight, it doesn't look that great in the pic but it was super yummy I thought and easy, only used one pan, I'm all about dirtying the least amount of dishes/pans etc... when cooking.

- Not necessarily something I'm loving but thought I'd throw it in here since we got it today


Our old flat screen Broke that we got at Costco almost 3 years ago, Jared took it back and traded it straight across for this way better LCD T.V., can't beat Costco's return policy



Crew was thoroughly entertained by the box twine stuff

- Skinny Jeans


While I was in Las Vegas last weekend I picked up a pair at Holister, I tend to get stuck in a style rut with my clothes sometimes, so this was kind of a big step for me. I love them, they are way comfortable and will look great with my Uggs this winter.

- This guy


Can I just say that Jared is a wonderful, fantastic and amazing husband. Yes sometimes I want to strangle him, as I know he does me. But he does a great job at taking care of our family, God knows he works his little A off each summer, pounding the pavement from sun up to sun down so we can have a cushy life, he's a awesome dad and Crew is nuts about him, I love watching them play together, he tells me I'm hot, gorgeous or pretty everyday, and the best part he's HILARIOUS, Those of you that know him, know he's quite the funny guy always making jokes and finding humor in pretty much everything, There's not many dull moments living with him.

- and this guy


I'm nuts-o, butt crazy in love with this kid, nuf said

- yes this guy too


Really he should be in the loving and hating list down the page but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, Regardless of how many shoes hes chewed up, trash cans hes raided and times he's gotten me up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I love this dog, he's so much fun to have around and makes a great addition to our family

CURRENTLY HATING:

Pee Spots:




When Beef Stew pees on the lawn it makes these big cute yellow spots. I've tried to remedy this many different ways, feeding him ketchup and tomato to supposedly neutralize the acid in his urine, didn't work. Tried training him to pee in the same spot every time, didn't work. Followed behind him with the hose and soaking the pee spot, works pretty good except when it's 6am and freezing out, or even if its not, sometimes its the last thing I want to do. If you know anything else I can do please let me know

CURRENTLY LOVING AND HATING AT THE SAME TIME:

- Spin Class


This class is awesome, because it makes me feel amazing and whips my booty into shape, and its only 45 min long, but the most grueling 45min ever. Ive been going to the 6am classes, which I also love and hate, hate getting up at 5:30, love getting my workout over with so early and getting home before Crew even wakes up.

EXCITED TO BE USING SOON:

My awesome new snowboard Jared got me for Christmas last year, can you guess which one?


I started to really love snowboarding last season, and I can't wait for the first big snow storm to head up the mountains

WILL BE MISSING SOON:

- This fruit, mostly the grapes


I grew these, ok not really but they did grow in my backyard, and they soon will not be any longer, I heard something about grapes not growing well in freezing cold temperatures.

- The fall weather

I LOVE this time of year, especially after burning up all summer in Vegas and Arizona, its nice to come home good ole Provo.

P.S. I know all my pics are HUGE, I know how to resize them on photobucket.com but thats alot of extra work to do to each pic, after I upload them from my camera to my laptop, then my laptop to photobucket I'm not so much feeling like doing anything else to get my pics on my blog, is there a easier way? maby some of you seasoned bloggers can enlighten me

VEGAS TRIP

This past weekend I headed down to Las Vegas with my best friend Kass Henson to go visit our other best friends Brooke and Carolyn and have a girls only weekend. The days leading up to going down Kass and I could hardly contain our excitement, 3 whole days and nights with no kids, no husbands, no dogs, no houses, no cleaning, no responsibilities, we were stoked to say the least. Don't get me wrong were nuts about our hubbys and our kids but sometimes us girls need a break. We drove down Thursday evening, Kass was nice enough to drive her Tahoe, yes we spent a small fourtune on gas, but all of Kass's and Blake's and all of mine and Jared's cars are ALL gas guzzlers, so our options were limited. It was nice to have all that time to just talk, made the drive go by super fast too, we got down there in no time it felt like, we got there at like 830 pm and were tired and just wanted to chill so we stayed in our room and talked forever and went to bed. We stayed at South Pointe hotel casino, which is a gem in Las Vegas. I don't think we could have picked a better place to stay, its not expensive and its super nice, we only paid $79 a night ON THE WEEKEND. If you stayed on the strip for that price you'd be at circus circus or some other ghetto hotel. Our room was super clean and roomy, it had a big bathroom and a big flat screen T.V. mounted on the wall, ya in a standard room. Friday morning we jogged over to the dog park I used to take beef stew to everyday when we lived in Vegas 2 summers ago and back to get our workout in, then Kass was itching to head over to H&M so we found out there was one at the "town square" mall, which is a brand new outdoor mall with a bunch of nice restaurants and above all a whole foods market, possibly the best store on the planet. Town Square is alot like the gateway, we didn't even feel like we were in Las Vegas when we were there, its super nice. We did a bunch of other shopping there before heading back to the hotel to meet Carolyn at the pool, which is super nice. This was the only warm sunny day out of our trip so we took full advantage and laid out for a good chunk of the afternoon. It started to get super windy so we ended up in the ginormous hot tub along with everybody else and reminisced about old times and such. That night Kass and I headed back to town square to eat dinner at Claim Jumper, my favorite restaurant in the world, Jared and I used to eat there almost every weekend when we lived in Las Vegas so I had to go. We did a bit more shopping then met up with Brooke to continue our night on the town. She took us to Tao at the Venetian to go dancing. There was a huge line to get in and a $50 cover charge, but we were with Brooke, this girl has mad crazy hookups and knows everyone in that town, we walked right past the line and into the club and didn't pay a dime either, I love having hip single friends. This dance club was crazy, huge, extravagant and like nothing I have ever seen, Kass and I definitely weren't in Kansas anymore. Now I know what some of you might be thinking, Ash your a mom, LDS and married why would you want want to go to a club like that? Its the dancer in me, I can't help it, I can only go so long before I need to go jam out and shake it on the dance floor to super loud hip hop music. We wasted no time and headed straight to the main dance floor, let go of all inhibitions and rocked out, there is something about freestyle dancing to those hard hitting beats and just letting go and letting my body do whatever feels natural that is very healing, stress-relieving and not to mention totally fun. We only stayed for about an hour and and half before taking off, headed straight back to the hotel and crashed. The next day we slept in and spent the entire afternoon at the spa, we didn't get any treatments but you can pay them $25 to use the facility, they have a eucalyptus steam room, sauna, pool, hot tub, nice lounge areas, it was a little bit of heaven, when we left there we felt like a million bucks. We got ready and met Carolyn for dinner at Claim Jumper AGAIN, It was so fantastic I had to go back. Afterward we shopped around and met Brooke back at the hotel, we were just going to go back to our room and chill and talk, but we walked by the BINGO room and noticed that people were filing in there and buying their bingo cards, Kass was not about to miss out on this so we played. Get this it only costs $4 for 13 games and you get 9 cards to play each game, now you can pay more and if you do the pay outs are just bigger if you win, I figured for $4 I didn't have much to lose. It was actually REALLY REALLY fun, and a little embarrassing, I called out bingo when I didn't really have it, I got a bingo but we were playing double bingo, meaning you have to get 2 bingo's on one card to win, I was unaware of this. I'm pretty sure everyone in the room thought we were retarded, we were also the youngest people in there, I know your shocked right. The next day we headed back to Provo, but not before playing bingo again and meeting up with Brooke at Ihop for one last whoo-ra. We spent a good part of the drive back jamming out and singing as loud as we could to N'sync, Backstreet boys, miley cyrus, grease soundtrack, danity kane, pussycat dolls and many many more. I had SOOOOOO much fun on this trip, laughed so hard and grew even closer to my already close friends, especially Kass, I love you like a sister and I know we'll be super close friends always.









We were bored while waiting for our table at Claim Jumper so we took these ugly pics



This is the Brooke face, a couple of you will get this





oh ya I forgot to mention we got in a marker fight at the bingo game



this was the bingo officiant guy





Kass's favorite slot game WHEEL.....OF.....FOURTUNE



We went to this H & M like 4 different times



Brooker T, I love this girl