Nightmares

Sydney wakes up at night a lot. Okay, not every other night, but more than I would like. She roams the house, gets on the computer, goes in Aidan's room and turns the heater up full blast. I even bought a new heater (one we had before but broke and was unavailable till cold season again-boohoo) that beeps when buttons are pushed, so that I can hear (through the baby monitor) when she is in there (otherwise she is pretty quiet-- Sydney= silent but deadly). So anyway, early this morning, she made her way into my room. I thought she was with Jody (I refuse to let my kids in my bed. I HATE SLEEPING WITH KIDS.)-- he is a sucker for her. SO anyway, I hear Aidan in the monitor and start waking to go get him and I was just being slow about it. Then I heard the beeps. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. She woke him up. Fast forward to 8 am and Jody asked Sydney why she did not sleep very good last night (she did not get a nap yesterday, either, so she should have been so tired. She WAS really tired). Her reply was, "Because Scuttle ate Ariel, all ALL GONE!" It was cute and sweet and... I could not stop laughing! It was hilarious. Enough to drag my realllly tired butt off the couch to come in here and type about it.

{ps those are home grown pumpkins. We had 7 or 8. The one there that has green was a late bloomer, but I was so happy to have it, I don't care about the green!}

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I know, no one really looks at blogs to read all the things people have to say but I have this here to write so that is what you get :)

I feel like this has been a pretty trying year. My life is moving at full speed, but I am only able to move in slow motion, which has really just made me miss out on things I really want and look forward to {and I am especially sad about the things I have missed out on that I will remember the rest of my life}. The things I want to do right now are in sight, but somehow still out of reach. These are not even major things. What if I had major goals right now? Well a lot of things are major to me, but what if I was trying to do something really important like get through school?

Can someone please push pause and let me go hide till I resolve my issues and then fix whatever is wrong with my a-day-late-and-a-dollar-short ness? Thanks.

Random pics

Syd and her BabyLegs

Anniversary picnic, up Hobble Creek Canyon (great place, btw).

Eight Years

Not pics of us, but this was on our wedding day-- how cute is Joel?! He was so little! Plus tuxes just make people look so good.

Our photog was so original...

10.18.2008 -- Pumpkin Man Triathlon. Sad we are not there right now. Oh well.

Kneaders 10.18.2007 YUM.

Bellagio 10.18.2002 -- love Dale Chihuly. We also ate at the Bellagio's buffet. MMMM creme brulee.

Pregnant with Syd--10.18.2006. Come to think of it, I have been pregnant for three of our anniversaries so far. Hope if I am again, its only once more!

Autumn Art Open House

So the place this boutique is being held is AMAZING. I mean I would never ever spend $550k and live there (umm can I say.... Wasatch Blvd? You can get a HUGE house for that amount in my end of the valley these days too). BUT it is nice to walk through and think of maybe the days when no more kids live with you (and maybe no husband too! HAHA Just Kidding!!!). It really does seem like that type of place. Anyway so if you want to look at an amazing apartment-style condo building or go to a cute boutique, have at it. Its just west of (what used to be) the Cottonwood Mall, and the Jasmine restaurant(1740 East is the street to turn on).