We went to farm country for his birthday and he loved it.
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Brantly turned 2!
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
It's been a while
I've had absolutely no desire to blog as of late. Much has happened mind you, but i haven't had the desire to share any of it. No not much of it is bad in fact only a tiny bit of it is. So we'll start back in September.
Justin and I shared our 2 year anniversary together :). That was lovely. We went to rodizio grill? And then went to a local fun center and played miniature golf. Haha we are still little kids and like to do silly things but to be honest i loved it. It reminded me of one of our very first dates after he came home for the very first time from baseball. We played mini golf and go karts...So it was fun to do something like that again on a special occasion.
October went by pretty fast. I love Halloween it is one of my most favorite holidays. Emery was Darth Vader Justin and i were storm troopers and bubs was r2d2. It was quite the hit. Justin got a promotion/raise which is always super rad. I had my very first symphony concert with the American Fork Symphony. We played a lot of cool music and even the harry potter suite. Our last song that we played was crazy and we didn't do to great at it which was strange because we had never not played it really good....oh well that's how it goes sometimes. We are now practicing Christmas music so i struggle with going to rehearsals because to be honest Christmas music isn't that hard....and it's by far not my favorite so the motivation is hard to find.
I also started to workout again...and then i got sick and now I'm pretty idle about it but am looking for the motivation to change that as well because I'm just not happy with the way i look even though my husband still thinks I'm as foxy as ever which is nice :)
Emery turned 5! Can you even believe it???? I sure can't. Justin stayed home from work and made her french toast for breakfast. We then just hung out until school and then after school we took her to build a bear and guess what....she put the star wars theme in it's paw hahaha of all of the other ones to pick she picked star wars...surprising, not really. She named her red panda bear Abella. I'm not sure where she got the name but that's the name. We had a small party for her that night which was nice. I made a star wars cake for her and she got everything she wanted aka play dough plus haha. Silly child. My mom likes to give gifts that create memories so we went to this place called kangaroo zoo. It's a warehouse full of bouncy houses and emery was in heaven even though she hurt her foot AND got a bloody nose haha she's hardcore. Baby b took a while to warm up to it but then had a blast as well. It was pretty fun.
As for the sad not happy part of this post, my cat spot had to be put down. My mom was kind enough to take care of him for me the last while so he really was more her cat than anyones. He had stopped eating a while back and would vomit anything he ate. She took him to an er vet and he has a big mass in his stomach. She took him to another vet and it was a very big fast growing invasive tumor and operation wasn't a realistic option. We put him down last Tuesday. It broke me. He was the cat i had got for josh for Christmas so long ago and he came back to me after josh passed. It was really hard for me to say bye to him. We had him cremated which i feel kinda silly about but i have fantastic plans for his ashes that i think will really help me :) He was a good fat beast and emery misses him a lot she tells me almost every day how he was so nice to her and that she will miss him and asks why he had to die. It's hard to try to explain death to a little 5 year old. She was very sad. Then to top that off our fish goober II died. We buried him today and she just clutched to my leg and sobbed. She asked me again why he had to die. I just squeezed her tight and told her i loved her and that it would be okay. She told me that she knew and that she would see him and spot and grandma Marilyn again. She misses grandma Marilyn.
Any who things are pretty good here in the smith household. Sorry there's no pictures but i really just am to lazy to upload and download and place and all that so maybe another time.
Justin and I shared our 2 year anniversary together :). That was lovely. We went to rodizio grill? And then went to a local fun center and played miniature golf. Haha we are still little kids and like to do silly things but to be honest i loved it. It reminded me of one of our very first dates after he came home for the very first time from baseball. We played mini golf and go karts...So it was fun to do something like that again on a special occasion.
October went by pretty fast. I love Halloween it is one of my most favorite holidays. Emery was Darth Vader Justin and i were storm troopers and bubs was r2d2. It was quite the hit. Justin got a promotion/raise which is always super rad. I had my very first symphony concert with the American Fork Symphony. We played a lot of cool music and even the harry potter suite. Our last song that we played was crazy and we didn't do to great at it which was strange because we had never not played it really good....oh well that's how it goes sometimes. We are now practicing Christmas music so i struggle with going to rehearsals because to be honest Christmas music isn't that hard....and it's by far not my favorite so the motivation is hard to find.
I also started to workout again...and then i got sick and now I'm pretty idle about it but am looking for the motivation to change that as well because I'm just not happy with the way i look even though my husband still thinks I'm as foxy as ever which is nice :)
Emery turned 5! Can you even believe it???? I sure can't. Justin stayed home from work and made her french toast for breakfast. We then just hung out until school and then after school we took her to build a bear and guess what....she put the star wars theme in it's paw hahaha of all of the other ones to pick she picked star wars...surprising, not really. She named her red panda bear Abella. I'm not sure where she got the name but that's the name. We had a small party for her that night which was nice. I made a star wars cake for her and she got everything she wanted aka play dough plus haha. Silly child. My mom likes to give gifts that create memories so we went to this place called kangaroo zoo. It's a warehouse full of bouncy houses and emery was in heaven even though she hurt her foot AND got a bloody nose haha she's hardcore. Baby b took a while to warm up to it but then had a blast as well. It was pretty fun.
As for the sad not happy part of this post, my cat spot had to be put down. My mom was kind enough to take care of him for me the last while so he really was more her cat than anyones. He had stopped eating a while back and would vomit anything he ate. She took him to an er vet and he has a big mass in his stomach. She took him to another vet and it was a very big fast growing invasive tumor and operation wasn't a realistic option. We put him down last Tuesday. It broke me. He was the cat i had got for josh for Christmas so long ago and he came back to me after josh passed. It was really hard for me to say bye to him. We had him cremated which i feel kinda silly about but i have fantastic plans for his ashes that i think will really help me :) He was a good fat beast and emery misses him a lot she tells me almost every day how he was so nice to her and that she will miss him and asks why he had to die. It's hard to try to explain death to a little 5 year old. She was very sad. Then to top that off our fish goober II died. We buried him today and she just clutched to my leg and sobbed. She asked me again why he had to die. I just squeezed her tight and told her i loved her and that it would be okay. She told me that she knew and that she would see him and spot and grandma Marilyn again. She misses grandma Marilyn.
Any who things are pretty good here in the smith household. Sorry there's no pictures but i really just am to lazy to upload and download and place and all that so maybe another time.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Muse
Last night was totally awesome. I got to do something i haven't done in a very very very long time...like 4 years long time. Some of you may think it's silly but I got to go to a concert. And for the VERY first time ever i got to be down on the floor for the concert. I guess when you go see smaller bands you're on the floor but this is muse we are talking about. I remember going to see the used way back when and just looking at the people down in GA on the floor and just being green with envy. So when the muse tickets went on sale back in April and i had gotten the okay from the hubs to even be able to go see this concert i patiently waited for them to go on sale and then i sat and thought...hmmmm we're going to do this the right way (it's been a really really long time since hubs has been to a concert...they aren't really his thing) so i got GA tickets. We got to be on the floor. for MUSE.
Here's a little side bit about hubs and I. When we are going to a big thing and we don't really know 100% all the details of everything we get a bit stressed. Add a ton of people to the mix and we get even more stressed. So doing things like this are always exciting haha.
Anywho. My mom came down and spent the night to watch the kiddos for us. We took the frontrunner train to downtown which was awesome. Unfortunately for me i made a poor choice of shoes...these boots totally owned my pinky toes and i have zero skin left from all the walking :(, but that's okay. When we got to the ESA (delta center) there was a big ol line that wrapped up and down the stairs for GA while everyone else who had seats just got to go in...that didn't make sense to us really at all since once we got in we could "supposedly" go to any portal and they'd take us to the floor to get a wristband. Well after we had walked around the whole place we finally were told the correct place to go and down we went, (after getting some pretzel bites and a soda....we got robbed haha oh well that was expected..and by robbed i mean they were both way overpriced).
A very interesting girl came up to hubs and i and asked if anyone had played yet...that's because the tickets said show started at 7 but they actually didn't start until 8. So hubs being the smart ass that he is tells her yeah muse already played...you could see the brief moment of panic on her face so i assured her that he was kidding and no one had played yet and she just kinda laughed and moved away. She then ended up next to us again for a while and was dancing like she was way to cool for school. Entertaining.
While cage the elephant played (they were alright...) we thoroughly enjoyed watching these 3 drunken fellows...i almost think they were maybe high as well dancing around and just being soooo into cage the elephant. Before muse had even started playing they had been escorted away...i mean they probably didn't even know where they were...
The singer for cage the elephant was alllll over the place. He was dancing like nobody was watching him haha pretty interesting.
Once they finished up they cleared their stuff off the stage and muse set up. To say i was excited would be an understatement. They opened with a song that prior to the concert i was like this song would be perfect for them to open with...and then they did and it was awesome. They had this tower thing that moved up and down that projected pictures and was just soooo cool. They rocked out so hard and it was so fun to be down on the floor. The music was amazing. The singer can really really sing and they sound just as good if not better live than they do on their records. I think i enjoyed it so much because i could tell that they were just loving what they do and that translated to an awesome show. There were quite a few times where I'm sure i was just smiling like a goof. They also faked us out and we thought they were done playing because they had brought the tower down and everything went dark...but then they played unsustainable which me and emery really love to listen to really loud in the car without baby b. It was really cool to watch them play that song because it's more industrial so it was fun to see how they did that live. The singer also plays the piano and this piano was way cool. It was a grand piano and the bottom of the top...that makes sense i promise lit up when he played...The bass player's instruments all had lights on them. So after that song they played a few more. Justin told me to lift my foot 2 inches off the ground...i could feel the music and the floor and just everything pulsing into my foot. They ended their set with uprising. And this was totally perfect...there were some booms where my whole body was just like...wow.
Sorry the sound on the videos are horrible...
We then left and i thought i was going to die from my toes....so sad i'm telling you. We got back onto frontrunner at 11:50 and got home around 12:40ish.
I LOVED IT ALL!
I've missed concerts...it's something i need to do more of. Haha..now daft punk needs to come to town...hey a girl can dream right???
Here's a little side bit about hubs and I. When we are going to a big thing and we don't really know 100% all the details of everything we get a bit stressed. Add a ton of people to the mix and we get even more stressed. So doing things like this are always exciting haha.
Anywho. My mom came down and spent the night to watch the kiddos for us. We took the frontrunner train to downtown which was awesome. Unfortunately for me i made a poor choice of shoes...these boots totally owned my pinky toes and i have zero skin left from all the walking :(, but that's okay. When we got to the ESA (delta center) there was a big ol line that wrapped up and down the stairs for GA while everyone else who had seats just got to go in...that didn't make sense to us really at all since once we got in we could "supposedly" go to any portal and they'd take us to the floor to get a wristband. Well after we had walked around the whole place we finally were told the correct place to go and down we went, (after getting some pretzel bites and a soda....we got robbed haha oh well that was expected..and by robbed i mean they were both way overpriced).
A very interesting girl came up to hubs and i and asked if anyone had played yet...that's because the tickets said show started at 7 but they actually didn't start until 8. So hubs being the smart ass that he is tells her yeah muse already played...you could see the brief moment of panic on her face so i assured her that he was kidding and no one had played yet and she just kinda laughed and moved away. She then ended up next to us again for a while and was dancing like she was way to cool for school. Entertaining.
While cage the elephant played (they were alright...) we thoroughly enjoyed watching these 3 drunken fellows...i almost think they were maybe high as well dancing around and just being soooo into cage the elephant. Before muse had even started playing they had been escorted away...i mean they probably didn't even know where they were...
The singer for cage the elephant was alllll over the place. He was dancing like nobody was watching him haha pretty interesting.
Once they finished up they cleared their stuff off the stage and muse set up. To say i was excited would be an understatement. They opened with a song that prior to the concert i was like this song would be perfect for them to open with...and then they did and it was awesome. They had this tower thing that moved up and down that projected pictures and was just soooo cool. They rocked out so hard and it was so fun to be down on the floor. The music was amazing. The singer can really really sing and they sound just as good if not better live than they do on their records. I think i enjoyed it so much because i could tell that they were just loving what they do and that translated to an awesome show. There were quite a few times where I'm sure i was just smiling like a goof. They also faked us out and we thought they were done playing because they had brought the tower down and everything went dark...but then they played unsustainable which me and emery really love to listen to really loud in the car without baby b. It was really cool to watch them play that song because it's more industrial so it was fun to see how they did that live. The singer also plays the piano and this piano was way cool. It was a grand piano and the bottom of the top...that makes sense i promise lit up when he played...The bass player's instruments all had lights on them. So after that song they played a few more. Justin told me to lift my foot 2 inches off the ground...i could feel the music and the floor and just everything pulsing into my foot. They ended their set with uprising. And this was totally perfect...there were some booms where my whole body was just like...wow.
We then left and i thought i was going to die from my toes....so sad i'm telling you. We got back onto frontrunner at 11:50 and got home around 12:40ish.
I LOVED IT ALL!
I've missed concerts...it's something i need to do more of. Haha..now daft punk needs to come to town...hey a girl can dream right???
Monday, September 16, 2013
The bubs is 1!
Yeah i know he turned 1 a week and a half ago buttttt I've been struggling lately with wanting to do a whole lot of anything so sorry it's a late post :). Anywho on his birthday emery and i baked him a cake and when daddy came home from work we did his cake smash photos.
which you can see he just totally loved.
It was fun to watch him just go crazy and get it EVERYWHERE like honestly....everywhere. We then just hung out with dad until he had to go to class. Then we went and roamed ikea with my mom which is always fun because ikea has the coolest stuff eva. I think he had a good birthday. Emery kept giving him loves and telling him that he was 1 year old and he would just smile.
We had his party on Saturday at our house. We bbq'd hotdogs and it RAINED like crazy. Luckily our house has a pretty big kitchen/living room that everyone was able to fit pretty comfortably into. Baby b was lovin all of the attention. It was sad though when we took him his cake he did end up touching his candle for a split second and that freaked him out...i got it on video. It's sad but i couldn't stop laughing...i feel like i do that when i'm trying not to cry haha.
A huge thanks to everyone for making it such a special day for the little guy.
On Monday we went to the Dr. He didn't even gain a pound in 3 months. He has dropped down to the 96th percentile for weight lol. He did grow 3 inches and is in the 95th percentile for height so he's just one solid dude. He got 4 shots and that was sad...emery was not a fan of that happening to her brother. She also got a flu shot.
He has 9 teeth. and they are all pretty gappy so his smile is totally awesome. He still only mostly says dad and cat. He totally loves his sister. He is finally sleeping good through the night which is heaven for us. He is a jolly little guy. He's started the screeching phase where he sounds like a pterodactyl...not my most favorite I'll admit. He's eating big kid food and loving every minute of it. He inhales mashed potato's i think those might be his most favorite. He loves bath time and loves checking himself out in the mirror. He totally hates kisses...you're really lucky if he lets you have one. They are rare treasures.
and yesterday...he started walking. WHAT! We didn't think he was actually going to do it but then he did and we couldn't believe it. We got a video of it on face book I'll see if i can get it onto here. It was pretty amazing.
He's a fantastic little man and i can't even imagine my life without him. I love him more and more every day. Happy birthday baby boy!
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