Armstrong Family

Bekah's baby

2008-11-05T10:07:00.001-08:00

Bekah and Chris's new baby Benjamin Grimm Rasmussen

Halloween

2008-10-28T22:41:00.000-07:00

Guin was a witch! She's not holding her broom right now.

Christmas

2008-10-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

My Christmas list updated

1.https://www.downeastbasics.com/ (they're having some sales right now)

2.Scrapbooking Stuff

Yay!

2008-10-26T17:41:00.000-07:00

So my best friend from my childhood bought me the most perfect crib set ever. I've been searching for a boy one and i just could not find one that i liked very much. I'm so happy i got what i wanted. THank you Kayla!!!!!!!!!

:)

2008-10-23T21:27:00.000-07:00

http://despair.com/viewall.html

Go here. It'll do you good.

Ultrasound pics

2008-10-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

He's hiding his face behind his hands

Ha Ha i'm growing a penis

It's wierd because these ultrasound pics aren't as clear as Guin's but i went to the same place. Maybe they used an older machine on me this time.

Baby Video

2008-10-23T11:46:00.000-07:00

Video of the baby

2008-10-23T00:54:00.000-07:00

It's a boy!

2008-10-22T21:30:00.000-07:00

I'll post the ultrasound pictures later when i get home. They gave us a whole freaking disk of them and the disk included pictures, clips of the baby moving, and the heartbeat. I went to the same place when pregnant with Guin and i got five pics and that's it. They've really updated.

my christmas list

2008-10-22T01:14:00.000-07:00

Christmas List for Fontanna

1.Scrapbooking stuff

That's all i can think of i'll add on as i find more.

Updated Christmas List For Guin

2008-10-21T23:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.target.com/Dinosaur-Friends-Toothbrush-Holder/dp/B0012XVK3K/sr=1-16/qid=1224657135/ref=sr_1_16/602-3458350-5539836?ie=UTF8&index=target&rh=k%3Adinosaur&page=1 This link is to some kinda cute dino things. Not these exact things they're kinda overpriced they are just ideas.

Guin's Christmas List

1.Fake Food Set
2.Fun Books
3.Movies
4.Bath Stuff(Bath paint, Color tabs, toys)
5.Color Wonder

Right now she is in to Dinos, Animals, drawing, baby dolls, reading, playdoh, stamps(like ink stamps not a postage stamps). She's just getting more creative and in to pretending so there you have it! Her bedroom theme is tinkerbell and fairies so there's that too. Her bathroom is pink and black.

Job

2008-10-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

So i'll have to think about my christmas list antje. So Zach got a new job that's more at a career level. It's with a place called Community Connections. He's something like a Recruiting and Activities Manager or something. Anyway it'll be a day job to.

To satisfy Antje

2008-10-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

Guin's Christmas List

1.Fake Food Set

2.Fun Books

3.Movies

4.Bath Stuff(Bath paint, Color tabs, toys)

5.Color Wonder

Right now she is in to Dinos, Animals, drawing, baby dolls, reading, playdoh, stamps(like ink stamps not a postage stamps). She's just getting more creative and in to pretending so there you have it! Her bedroom theme is tinkerbell and fairies so there's that too. Her bathroom is pink and black.

Tagged

2008-10-14T23:52:00.000-07:00

Crazy 8 Tag
8 TV shows I love to watch:
1.Dexter
2.House M.D.
3.Lost
4.So You Think You Can Dance?
5.Scrubs
8.24
i had to skip numbers, i don't watch much T.V.

8 things that happened yesterday:
1.I did laundry
2.I got caught up on Dexter
3.Did Dishes
4.Played with Guin
5.Danced a jig
6.Zach's first day at work
7.Felt the baby kicking every time i sat down
8.Gave Guin a bath

8 Favorite Places to eat 1-
1.My mom's house(best italian food ever)
2.My house
3.Olive garden
4.Booster Juice
5.Beijing Restaurant in Emmett
6.Tai Food(love curry)
7.Shiloh's Mother and Father-in-Law's(mmm philipeano food)
8.Movie Theatre Popcorn?

8 Things I'm looking forward too-
1.The ultrasound on the 22nd
2.Having the baby
3.Snuggling Guin to sleep tonight
4.Actually having money
5. My Halloween party
6.Halloween
7. Christmas
8.Breastfeeding(wierd maybe but i loved doing it with Guin and i've been reading about it so it's on my mind)

8 Things on my wish list1-
1.healthy baby
2.Having a clean house by thursday
3.Getting a car someday
4.Living in a real house someday
5.For guin and the babe to grow up happy and normally
6.To get a good night's sleep
7.To adopt a child
8.To never work away from home again.

8 People I tag-
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.Everyone

Life

2008-10-13T21:14:00.000-07:00

So i can feel the baby kicking now on the inside and the outside. We find out what it is on the twenty second of october at two pm. I'm pretty excited because then i can start on the nursery and all that. Zach got a job at Target and another one at some Top Flight Janitorial. It'll be nice to have an income to budget out but they're night jobs so we'll have opposite schedules. Guin is just getting over being sick but other than that she's been great. She loves the leaves outside right now and we'll be painting a pumpkin on thursday for our little halloween party. I figured painting would be better because that way she can be more involved. I'm planning on re-painting the house some nuetral colors along with the baby room. The purple is just a little to much. Besides that nothing much else is going on with us. My sister Bekah is having a baby in about three weeks and my sister jessie just found out recently that she's pregnant. That's all so i'll write later.

Smarty Pants

2008-10-10T22:53:00.000-07:00

So my little smarty head did this about a month ago. see how they're all organized into colors. Yay Guin!

19 weeks

2008-10-07T18:47:00.000-07:00

Christmas

2008-09-22T22:53:00.000-07:00

For some reason i am really excited for christmas. I just want to have it!!! i want to come up with homemade gifts i can give everyone except for the person i drew. Projects are always fun. Etsy is a good sight to look at for good ideas. Anyway at least Halloween is one step closer to December.

Happy Birthday!

2008-09-21T01:24:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKAH!

Portraits

2008-09-14T16:25:00.000-07:00

These are Guin's 10 month old portraits and Lilli's four month. Obviously it was christmas. Anyway i have a ton of all of them so if anybody wants one just let me know.

Mullet

2008-09-14T14:56:00.001-07:00

This was so wonderful i had to re-post it. This guy is my new best friend.

Peeing

2008-09-14T14:48:00.000-07:00

Guin sat on her potty today and went pee pee! It was a full morning wake up time bladder too. It's funny because her pee shoots forward like a boys so i kinda regret losing that little boy gaurd they put on toddler potties.

Tenzin

2008-09-14T14:45:00.000-07:00

This is Tenzin Michael Bess

14 weeks

2008-09-03T21:07:00.000-07:00

14 Weeks

11 Weeks

Baby

2008-08-30T22:38:00.000-07:00

My sister had Tenzin Michael Bess on August 31st at 9:20 am. He was 7 lbs 7oz and was 19 1/2 inches. He's really cute and small. He's got really white skin but really pitch black hair. She had him at a birthing center in nampa so she had him all natural, no meds. I forgot my camera(fail) so i don't have pictures yet.

Yay!

2008-08-29T12:46:00.000-07:00

Guin actually wanted me to put a barrette in her hair. Her cute curles look so much cuter when she has one in so i had to get pictures because she rarely lets me put one in.

So food.

2008-08-27T12:05:00.000-07:00

I went to allrecipes.com and i made crepes and this Chicken, Mango, Avacado salad. The crepe recipe turned out really good but the salad was just to strong for me. But i'm kind of into blander foods right now since my prego hates me when i eat really flavorful things. The crepe recipe didn't have any ideas for what to put inside them so i just used strawberries, whipped cream, vanilla yogurt, and powdered sugar. It was yummy in my tummy.

Guin's Bum

2008-08-17T18:08:00.001-07:00

Oh it's so pinchable!

Recipes

2008-08-17T17:54:00.000-07:00

So a friend of mine showed me this web site and it looks pretty good. I'm bored of the same old stuff i always make so i'm going to try some of these recipes and see how it goes from there. Anyway i'll let you know if they are any good.!

http://allrecipes.com/features/holidays/summergrilling/home.aspx

Regina Spektor

2008-08-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

There is a song at the very end of my playlist called The Call by Regina Spektor. It is really pretty. It plays at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian. It's ama-za-zay-zing. Listen to it.

At around 11 weeks

2008-08-09T21:54:00.001-07:00

I just ate so i look a little bigger than usual.

New Job

2008-08-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

Oh yah i forgot to tell everyone that Zach got a new job. His company is called Center Point and he'll be doing PSR for them. i think PSR means Psycho Social Rehabilitation. Anyway he'll start the job around the eighteenth and he'll be making fourteen dollars an hours. After ninety days they'll bounce him up to fifteen bucks an hour. It's in Nampa and so we'll probably move there soon.

Pictures

2008-08-09T18:26:00.000-07:00

These are our family portraits. One is cut off a little but it was a ten by ten and i couldn't scan the whole thing.

Birthday

2008-08-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

So for my birthday Zach got me a digital camera and a scanner/printer/copier. It's was pretty sweet.

Happy Birthday

2008-08-05T13:44:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife. I love you so much and I hope that your day is good. You are such a great mother and now your not even a teenager anymore. I miss you and wish that I could give you a birthday kiss but I will just wait until Thursday. Love You!

Zach

Nursery

2008-07-30T23:04:00.003-07:00

So for the baby's room I'm thinking of doing a jungle theme. Not like leopard print or anything but just some cute jungle theme. Here are a couple room ideas i like. If you see any similar let me know! The jungle theme is more for if it's a boy. i might have different plans if it's a girl.

http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/lai/lai13006v.html

http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/kli/kli5900beds.html

Finally

2008-07-30T20:52:00.001-07:00

So i finally went a day without feeling sick all day. i feel a little sick but nothing compared to how it's been. Anyway i hope it continues to be like this but you never know. I just hate feeling so icky!

Yay!

2008-07-29T20:33:00.000-07:00

Zach got his diploma in the mail today.

Married

2008-07-26T02:51:00.000-07:00

My twin sister got married. I was sad that i wasn't there but she was pretty sneaky about it so oh well. I don't know kelley very well(actually i don't know him at all) but i hope he's good to her and stuff. Anyway congrats Antje and i hope everything turns out well.

2008-07-24T15:30:00.001-07:00

Blah

2008-07-21T13:19:00.000-07:00

I don't really have much of an update but i figured i'd write anyway. Well my birthday is in fourteen days and it's kinda wierd because i won't be a teenager anymore. i'm going to be 20. It kinda freaks me out a little. Probably since i've been a teenager for so long and now i feel like i'm getting old lol. My morning sickness is getting better but i'm getting impatient with being in the first trimester. I want to show more and i want to wear maternity clothes and to get the show on the road. But i have to wait anyway. Guin is getting smarter and smarter and Lilli is at about the same level even though she is six months younger. Guin can memorize whole songs and when she hums them i can recognize what song she's humming. Maybe she'll be in choir. She seems to be really good with music so we'll see. The job search still sucks and the part time job Zach has just cut his hours down to fifteen hours a week. i am so pissed with that company and i just want him to quit. They've been screwing us over so much!

It Begins

2008-07-10T23:13:00.000-07:00

The morning sickness has begun except it's not in the morning. It's on and off all day. I am lucky though since i just feel sick and i don't actually throw up. I haven't had any cravings yet which is nice for Zach. I don't now how much he liked the three in the morning curly fry runs to jack in the box. I guess i did crave curly fries once but once isn't bad. I was looking at a picture of Ava today and i wondered if this baby will look like an armstrong like Ava does or if it'll look like a Rasmussen. Guin jumps between a Rasmussen and a Legg a lot. When she was a baby she looked so much like a Legg it was crazy but now she's looking more and more like a Rasmussen. A lot of people say "Oh she looks just like her dad!" when me and zach take her on walks and stuff. I think it's funny but i like it. I hope it'll make her feel less out of place compared to our other kids since she does look like Zach in a lot of ways. her hair color and hair line and the way her eyebrows are resemble Zach's eyebrows. So yah.

We are going to Jerome saturday and i am so excited to hold Cayden. I love holding little new ones so it'll be great. I don't know how great letting Zach hold him will be since that means less time i get to hold him. Anyway i'm done.

Long Time Short Time

2008-07-07T13:49:00.000-07:00

2008

2006

It seems like Guin has grown up so fast. Probably because she has! It was only around two and a half years ago that she was a little seven pound nub wriggling around in my arms and now she's running around telling people what to do. In another way it seems like so long ago that she first started to crawl and all that. It seems like it's been longer than two and a half years. It's exciting to see her grow and get smarter and smarter but sometimes i wish she could stay little.

Hard Week

2008-07-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

So i have to say that it has been a hard a week. i pretty much have no patience left. Guin has been so frusterating this week and i don't know why. i think it's because she's not feeling well but man! Anyway we've decided on Iliana Blaze Armstrong for the girl name so yay!

Different

2008-07-04T14:45:00.000-07:00

This pregnancy is going way different than my pregnany with Guin. With Guin i pretty much fit into my normal jeans for the whole thing. I only bought one pare of maternity jeans. I didn't show with her until i was five months along. With this pregnany i started out in size one to two jeans and now i'm already up in size five. Size three still fits ok but it's a little to tight. I'm already showing too. You can tell that i'm prego if you know. If you don't know i probably just look like i've been eating a little to many twinkies.

2008-07-04T10:40:00.001-07:00

Happy 4th of July!

Baby names

2008-07-03T22:49:00.000-07:00

So as of now if our baby is a boy it's name will be Exander Neils Armstrong.

If it's a girl we are choosing between Iluna Blaze Armstrong and Iliana Blaze Armstrong.

Happy Birthday

2008-07-03T11:44:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Ava!

The Fam

2008-07-03T11:33:00.001-07:00

I just realized that in my "the fam" post i forgot to post a picture of my little brother william. so here he is!

New Nephew

2008-07-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

This is my brand new nephew Cayden! Charity and Chris' baby.

Names

2008-07-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

Boy names-Zander, Exander, Blaze, Xachery, Tenzing, Ash, Neils

Girl names-Azelia, Sippora, Zechora, Liana, Blaise, Iliana, Iluna

These are some names that me and zach are looking at. Go ahead and mix and match with them and show me what you come up with in a comment. Yes, they are different but as you can already tell i have interesting taste in names. Like my daughter is named Guinavieve Aquinnah. :) i love it. Oh and you can add your own names in. I just want some ideas.

This is so satifying

2008-06-30T18:55:00.000-07:00

Ravenous Monster Attacks Nearby Grocery Store!

2008-06-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

So for the past couple of days i have been hungry all day and i have been eating all day for the past couple days. I ate a whole cantaloupe in one sitting. Ok so i shared one of the halves with Guin but still. Then about an hour after that i was starving again. But right now, after a nice big serving of my mommy's lasagna, i finally feel full and fat. It's a good feeling and i've missed it. I guess this little tiny babe inside of me a fat little piggy. Once it comes out it'll attack the nearest store or restaurant and eat all their food. Anyway i think i need to get some recipes from my mom. :)

New Baby

2008-06-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

I have not written on here in awhile. We just found out recently that Fontanna is pregnant and I am so happy that I am going to be a dad for the second time. I am also really happy to see Fontanna happy especially after the miscarriage and knowing how hard it was on her. She is such a good mom that this baby is going to be very lucky. I know it will be hard on Guin but I think she will end up enjoying being the big sister. I love Fontanna, Guin and this new baby so much. I am so excited but nervous at the same time. I worry so much about being a good dad and a good husband (not sure whether or not I am succeeding at either) well I guess we are still alive so maybe that is a success. That is all I have but I know that even when my wife begins to grow heavy with child, she will still be by far the best looking and most gorgeous woman in the world to me. I know that was cheesy but I don't care because it is truely how I feel. I love my two girls and my new boy/girl.

Bursting Forth!

2008-06-29T16:20:00.001-07:00

Charity's is in the hospital having her baby right now. Yay!

Nursery

2008-06-29T12:45:00.000-07:00

So Zach and i have a calling in nursery. We are in charge of the quiet kids class. I'm really shy so i've been having a hard time interacting with the kids. Today i decided i was just going to jump in there and treat them like i do Guin. It went so much better and i think i'll really love this calling.

Getting Prego

2008-06-28T11:22:00.000-07:00

So last night i took a prego test (from the dollar store lol) and again, it was negative. :( So i set the test down on the top of the toilet and left the room to go put my cup in the kitchen. Then i went back into the bathroom to throw the test away. As i was about to throw it in the garbage i caught a glimpse of a really really light positive. I put the test down again and ran out of the bathroom and texted my sister Shiloh that i had gotten a really light positive. I wanted to keep it a secret so i could surprise Zach. When i went back in the positive wasn't so light anymore. I took another test this morning to confirm and yes, i am a prego. I'm just as scared as i am excited. The miscarriage was hard and i definitely don't want to have another one. Part of me doesn't want to pick out names or anything yet until I'm in my second trimester. But i am going to try to stay positive and what happens will happen. :)

My Fam and a boyfriend

2008-06-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

My dad Thomas

My mom Jeanie

Antje's boyfriend Kelley

This is Benjamin Grim Rasmussen(Chris and Bekah's baby)

This is my brother Chris and My sister in law Rebekah

This is my sister Antje, my sis Jessie, and my sis Shiloh

This is Shiloh's husband Michael

This is Jessie's husband Nathan

This is my niece Lilliah and of course my daughter Guinavieve

Shiloh and Michael are prego but i don't have a picture of him. His name is Tenzen Michael Bess

Fontanna

More dreams

2008-06-24T23:42:00.000-07:00

So i have really weird dreams all the time and i always remember them. Just so everyone knows i am deathly afraid of tornadoes. I dream about them a lot. Sometimes i can actually feel myself raising up into the air. That's when tornado dreams really freak me out. Anyway is there a cure for stressful scary dreams? Sometimes i have dreams about zombies and i have to smash their heads with my bare hands. Sometimes i have to find ways to protect Guin from impossible situations. Sometimes our car crashes into water and i have to save three people. I'm talking crazy gory stuff. Nothing normal really happens in them. The most relaxing dream I've had lately is falling in love with Andy Dick. Weird yes. Is their any one else who feels my pain?

gdiapers

2008-06-24T19:33:00.000-07:00

So i've decided that with our next baby, whenever it may come, i want to try using gdiapers on him/her. I've read good reviews and bad reviews. I like the sound of them because they are flushable and they are really cute. They are also good for the environment and i'm always a supporter of that if the product is fairly easy and a reasonable price. They are more expensive then disposable diapers but hopefully by our next baby we'll be able to afford them. Anyway just some random talk.

Basketball

2008-06-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

So Zach bought Guin this basketball hoop because she really likes it right now. Yes, she will sit down with Zach through a whole game and love it. On commercials she'll scream "Basketball Basketball" until it comes back on. So today me and her were throwing our bouncy balls into the hoop and i missed and said "oh momma missed, mamma sucks." Then Guin tried to throw the ball in and missed. In a sweet little voice she said "Bin missed, Bin suck." Now every time she misses she'll say "Bin suck". It's so sad and so cute too. I forget sometimes that she copies everything i say so i can't put myself down or she will too.

So You Think You Can Dance

2008-06-17T22:19:00.001-07:00

These are some of my favorite dances from the show. It's an awesome show!

Zombie Dance

Hummingbird Dance

Brandon Bryant

Popper

The Sand Man

2008-06-17T19:14:00.000-07:00

So my dreams hate me and they always attack me with horrible creepy nast. Last night i had a dream about an evil spirit called The Sand man. In my dream an hourglass and three small glass cups would appear above a persons head. The person had a certain amount of time to find four different kinds of alcoholic drinks and they had to fill each glass with a each of these different drinks. Some people had two minutes and some people had three days. It just depended on the size of your hourglass. If you didn't fill the glasses in time, the hourglass and cups would explode into sand and the person would have a very painful experience. Their bones would start to twist and warp and bend in ways that weren't natural. this would happen to them until they were dead. I remember in my dream after about a week of this happening all over the world people started to try and adapt to it and go on with normal life. Every little once in a while you'd hear the horrifying screams of someone who must have forgotten to bring some alcohol with them. When it was my turn to be tested by the Sand Man i just happened to be in a bar having a drink(no i don't drink and i don't know why i was at a bar). So i was pretty lucky. I only saw the Sand Man once and that was what woke me up. He was just kinda a shadow but a really scary one. But anyway it was like watching a horror movie and i woke up shivering and scared out of my pants. I should make a movie out of it. It'd be pretty scary.

Father's Day(continued)

2008-06-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

We went to settler's park today. Guin had a blast. It's a park that has a water park where water shoots out of the ground in different places and water pours out of buckets onto your head and stuff. It also has just a normal park with slides and swings. The park is nice because it's not built on top of cement it's built on this squashy sponge material so when your kid falls down they don't get so scraped up. The park has a new sound area with over sized instruments that kids can play. The instruments sound really cool. There is also a fishing pond and lots of open grass area and picnic tables. Anyway it is sweet so if you live in the meridian area you have got to check it out. Anyway after we were done in the water the ice cream man came and we got popsicles and that was about it.

Fontanna

father's Day

2008-06-15T12:44:00.000-07:00

For father's day i got Guin a white tie to decorate. i helped her and it turned out really cute and cheesy. I still have to figure out what to do or get for him.

Yesterday we went to the cherry festival in emmett. It was pretty fun. Guin liked the crazy bus ride. It's like the Ali Baba except for little kids. After me and Zach had some fun with her Joe took her on a couple rides and then walked her around the park. She went to the free petting zoo and then she fell asleep at the parade. I tried to get to her as fast as i could but i was to late. She was already out. Thank goodness she still went to sleep by 3am but it could have been worse. whew!

Fontanna

Plastic

2008-06-13T12:26:00.000-07:00

So i'm an old hogie now and i like news. I read that plastic baby bottles and other plastic bottles carry a chemical called Bisphenol A that they now believe leads to health and develormental problems. Now they are saying that vinyl shower curtains are unsafe also. I was kind of scared because i used plastic bottles with Guin but then i read that Playtex Drop-in's are safe to use. I used Playtex Drop-ins with Guin(thanks mom!). Whew! But i do use vinyl shower curtains. I think i'm going to switch just to be safe. Better safe then sorry right? Anyway i'm a safety freak so you'll probably hear some more on safety from me soon.

I hate pizza hut

2008-06-12T20:28:00.000-07:00

So i wanted to order pizza so i got online to order and i chose pizza hut because they have stuffed crust pizzas. So i chose to build my own pizza and did one half extra cheese, pepperoni, and jalepinos for zach and me and guin's half was extra cheese, green olives, and ham. So Zach goes and picks it up and brings it home. We open the box and instead of green olives there and green peppers. So we figure it was just a mistake and we called to get a new pizza. The guy told us that even though it says green olives online they don't have them at thier store so they just decided to throw green peppers on instead. WHAT THE FREAK? Why didn't they just call us and ask us if we wanted something different? Wouldn't you be pissed if you went to a restaurant and ordered chicken alfredo and they bring it with ketchup on it instead and say "uh we ran out of alfredo sauce so we just threw some ketchup on it". No way! you would order something new. I'll throw this stinkin' pizza in your face fools! It's not like the pizza was free. It cost fifteen bucks. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! People are crazy.....

Fontanna

Boo!

2008-06-11T13:40:00.000-07:00

So Zach has another phone interview and it's NOT in Jerome. Boo on that. But i'll just be happy when he get's job. Wherever that might be. I just really want to babysit Cayden lol. Anyway the job is in Surprise, Arizona and it is at a place called Interfaith Community Care.

Guin has definately become a daddy's girl. She has been his permenant attachment all this week. I'M starting to feel left out. That's never happened to me before. I've never had competition. I've got to step up my game. Maybe i'll slip her candy when Zach's not looking and then she'll be mine! I'm just kidding. i love it that she loves him. It's great that she has a stable family life now.

Fontanna

Fart

2008-06-11T13:11:00.000-07:00

Today Guin was watering the flowers and i was taking pictures of her doing it. She looked so cute so i said "Guin, you're so sweet". Then right after i said that she squats and farts really loud, laughs all snorty, and says "Bin farted". Bin=Guin. I don't think she's as girly as i thought she was. And she sure isn't sweet, she's stinky. It's so crazy. She is a complete contradiction or something. Picture this, a little girl in a frilly dress, carrying five dolls with makeup smeared all over thier faces, heading for the computer saying "snakey and mouse". She loves to watch snakes eat mice on youtube. But she also loves to play dress up. hmmm.

Fontanna

Battle of the Dads Look-alike Meter

2008-06-11T00:04:00.001-07:00

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Well at least Zach wins in the areas that count the most lol.

Fontanna

Ugly Child

2008-06-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

Supposedly this is what me and zach's kids are supposed to look like. i hope not!

Fontanna

Cute Pictures of Best Friends

2008-06-08T21:30:00.000-07:00

Top: Bath time Giggles

Middle: Guin with her arm around her best buddy

Bottom: Holding hands

Fontanna

Dogs

2008-06-08T19:58:00.001-07:00

These are our two little puppies Dino and Koka. We take them on a walk every evening. Guin loves it and we like it too. Guin likes to help hold the leash and it's so cute because she will order them around like we do except they aren't doing anything wrong when she does it. Anyway it's nice to go on a walk as a family every day.

Fontanna

Babies!

2008-06-07T21:24:00.000-07:00

So Charity's baby shower(one of them lol) was today. We're so excited to see what Cayden looks like! And to see him in his new outfits. I'm also excited for Ttenzen(uh oh probably spelled wrong) Shiloh's baby and Bekah's baby. They will all be coming so soon. Yay i love babies! I can't wait.

Fontanna

Cute Mother's Day Idea

2008-06-06T21:30:00.000-07:00

Guin made this (i helped a lot) for all three of her Grandmas. Any way check it out if you're into home made gifts. It's good for any holiday it is a Picture Bracelet

Fontanna

Finally!(i like this title)

2008-06-04T22:16:00.000-07:00

So my carpet in this trailer is like 25 years old. And it smelled like poo. Also our house has been tornado wreckage for quite a while. So yesterday day we decided to get a steam vacuum from albertson's. So we did our whole house and now we are working on cleaning the darn thing. Anyway it'll relieve a lot of stress and i'm glad Zach is here to help me. I love 'im! <3

Fontanna

Fonzy's Look-alike Meter

2008-06-03T14:50:00.001-07:00

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Zach Look-alike Meter

2008-06-03T11:38:00.001-07:00

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Family Look-alike Meter

2008-06-02T20:33:00.001-07:00

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Sunday

2008-06-02T11:54:00.000-07:00

So this sunday was pretty great. We went and had a picnic by the river and then Guin threw rocks into the river for about an hour. She loved it. There was a park right by where our picnic was so we went there next. It just happened to have a three horn and a long neck. Geuss who Guin's favorite characters on The Land Before Time are? Little Foot and Cera. She kept going up to them and hugging them and talking to them. It was cute. Then we went to Maggie Moo's ice cream place and got a banana split to share. My favorite scoop on that was the Better Batter. MMMMMMMMMMM! I didn't even get any pictures because i can't find the camera. Lame. The End

Fontanna

Me too!

2008-05-31T12:13:00.000-07:00

So i've gotten really bored with my hair because i'm trying to keep it as normal as possible until me and zach get married again. So i cut my bangs along with Guin's. It's not a very good picture but it gives an idea.

Bangs

2008-05-30T23:13:00.000-07:00

I cut Guin some bangs because her hair was getting in her eyes. Here they are!

Stretch Marks

2008-05-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

So this is a little tip for pregnancy stretch marks. It worked for me but i don't expect it works for everyone. Anyway i used to have my belly button pierced before i had Guin so when i got pregnant with her i got three big lightning strike stretch marks that were caused from the scar when i took my piercing out. After i had Guin i had this funny wrinkly belly that i called my grandpa and my booty looked like it'd been attacked by a tiger. So my grandpa shrunk a little bit after i had Guin but after about six or eight months i realized it wasn't going away. Then i went to the Family Dollar and Found this stuff called Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula, Massage Lotion For Stretch Marks. I got it for like two bucks. After about 4 months My stretch marks and my grandpa were practically nonexistant. My sister says it works really good as a face lotion for wrinkles too. Anyway have fun with my worthless advice. Lol.

Fontanna

Nose Ipe

2008-05-30T13:51:00.000-07:00

So poor Guin has a lil' stuffy nose. :( This morning she woke up saying "nose ipe, nose ipe". I've tried wiping her nose but it's just to deep to get out. Poor girlie. Anyway here is a picture i stole from Charity of Ava and Chris. She is so beautiful in it i just have to show her off.

Fontanna

Daisyzombie

2008-05-30T13:39:00.000-07:00

So my sisters and I have been making a bunch of crafts over the past few years that are really cute. We keep on wanting to do the farmer's market or something but we never get around to it. So the other day my sister Shiloh was in downtown nampa and she came to a store that had just opened and was looking for stuff like what we make to sell. So we brought in some examples of what we make and she said she's take them. They get thirty percent and we get seventy percent i think is what the agreement is. Anyway we decided to call ourselves Daisyzombie. Kinda crazy but it fits us. Anyway it's so awesome and it is going to be so much fun!

Fontanna

Job Search

2008-05-29T02:11:00.000-07:00

The job search really bites right now. I had one phone interview and did not get the job. I have been applying to a lot of jobs and it is hard sometimes because I feel like I will never find a job and I worked so hard in school so that I could get a good job. However, I know that I cannot give up and I will apply to 10000 jobs if that is how many times it takes to find a job. I read this book that my mom gave me for graduation called the uses of adversity. It is a great book and I recommend it to everyone. I really appreciate what Fontanna wrote in the earlier blog about working on things. I love her and little guiny so much. I know that I am probably like the worse husband ever. I will still continue to try so hard to be the best because I want to be that for them and myself. I try everyday to be the best and I want to be perfect but I am nowhere even near that but they put up with me anyway. Thank you Fontanna for trying to work on things it really means a lot. I love you! Guin daddy loves you!

Zach

Oregon Trail

2008-05-29T02:07:00.000-07:00

I was looking at the pictures of the old historical sites at the back of the triple combination (Book of Mormon, D&C, Pearl of Great Price) and I saw a picture of the pioneer wagons. For some reason I thought of the Oregon Trail game that we used to play when I was younger and I thought it would be fun to see if I could find it online to download. Sure enough I did and found out that Fontanna had never really played it before. We ended up having a lot of fun playing it. Two of our people died but I think that I should be over it by the end of the week. A two day mourning period should be sufficient. I would recommend that if you want to have fun, play the Oregon Trail game.

Zach

The Oregon Trail

2008-05-29T01:21:00.000-07:00

So i have never played the Oregon trail game before. Zach decided that i needed the experience to become a true nerd like him. He pushed up his glasses with a snort and headed out for a journey through google.com. He finally found the first old school version ever made and we started to play it. we'd take ten minute turns so one of us could watch Guin. it was surprisingly really fun. We ended up being number seven on the oregon trail TOP TEN. woot woot! we rock. anyway that's all about that.

So i am have OCD. Certain things have to be certain ways and perfect and everything has to be how i want it. i've been working on it because it really affects zach in alot of ways. it makes him feel like he can't do anything right and to me before yesterday his way wasn't right. then i read this little article on how to get your husband more involved with helping out with the kids. there was this one quote that said "his way isn't wrong just because it's not the same as your way". So now every time i feel the urge to say "this is how i do it so you should do it like that" i just chant that quote to myself and walk away. so what if he puts her socks on different? so what if he uses different cleaners in the bathroom and he cleans the shower first instead of the toilet? it's ok because his way isn't wrong just because it's not the same way i'd do it. Anyway i'm doing better. not perfect, just better. i never thought the baby center bulletin could be so helpful.

Fontanna

Finally #2

2008-05-28T20:29:00.000-07:00

So today Guin FINALLY went to the bathroom in her potty. It was messy and amazing. I think this is the most excited i've ever been about pooping. My sister Shiloh and I decided that in the two years we've had our daughters we've had more conversations about poop than we have in all our years before them combined. It's funny how things change after you have a baby.

Finally!

2008-05-27T21:40:00.000-07:00

So today we FINALLY got our portraits back from JCPenney Portraits Studio. They turned out great. It was amazing we got any good pictures because Guin was so mad the whole time the lady was taking the pictures. I'm going over to my parents sometime this week to scan them so i'll post them on here later so people can check them out. Anyway it's exciting for me because it was our first professional family photos. Yep.

Fontanna

2008-05-26T23:57:00.000-07:00

I think this video is so adorable. This little duck is sharing his bread crumbs with his lil' fish friends.

Fontanna

Compare Us

2008-05-26T20:02:00.000-07:00

So this is a picture of me(Bottom) and a picture of Guin(middle) and a pic of Joe(top). Let me know if you think she looks alot like me or alot like Joe or both or neither. Just for fun!

Fontanna

Potty Training

2008-05-26T13:28:00.000-07:00

So today is Guin's second day of serious potty training. She has had zero successes so far. Except once with my sister she made a tiny little poo in the potty. I never wanted to hear the sound of pee trickling into the toilet so much. I'm using a method my sister is using with her daughter. It's working great with Lilli so we'll see how it goes with Guin. The method is putting normal underwear on them and so when they have an accident it's really uncomfortable so it gives them motivation to use the potty. I really hope it starts working better soon. Potty training is more work than i knew. But such is everything with kids. Don't get me wrong though! Being a mother is the best job i ever had!

The picture below is of Guin's first time actually going pee in the potty. That was the first time i tried to potty train her but she got sick the second day and so it was bad timing.

Fontanna

Guin's New Skill

2008-05-26T13:26:00.000-07:00

So when you have a toddler there are all these amazing milestones that they go through. They can jump without falling on their nose, they can eat without half their meal ending up in their diaper,they can draw things like circles and lines, they can sing and memorize songs, and they can a little. These are all wonderful things that you love to watch your child master. There are also some milestones that aren't shared so publicly but they sure are funny. Guin learned one of those today.
I was sitting on the bed with Guin and we were waiting for Daddy to get a diaper and wipes for that wonderfully stinky morning diaper change. Guin layed down on her stomach, stuck her bum in the air, and let out a huge fart. I said what i always say "Guin did you toot?" She usually just laughs which means yes she did or she says noooooo which means there was something yummy that came along with that fart. but this time an amazing thing happened. Her reply was "Nooooooo, mamma's toot". So her amazing milestone of the day is that she has learned to blame things on other people.

Fontanna