Blog-Cation?

Would you believe me if I decided that i needed a little time away from the blogging world for the sake of needing to take a break? Well, you are probably right when you are thinking that that is just an excuse and the truth behind it all is that I am lazy...

Actually, life just hasn't been very blog worthy lately. Boring, slow, never-changing...yep, that is life! Alright, let's get down to business...my last "real post" was on February 23rd-ish(?). Well since then, I have overcome my extreme illness, as has Calvin. Joel has returned from his 2 week adventure in Bloomington (and by adventure I mean, schooling, random roadtrips and crazy hotel workers chatting on the computer at 1:00am in the morning---but for those stories, you have to ask Joel really).

After I started feeling better, I decided that I had to get out of this tiny town of loneliness and despare and hit the road to visit Angela and Aaron! We had a great, but too short, of a visit! We ate at PF Changs (which i could eat at everyday of the week!),
This of course is everyone's dessert dream! YUMM YUMMwatched a RedBox Flick, and stayed up way too late! I was so excited that I got to spend time with them since I came down on a Wednesday and left the very next day! Thursday I had to make a stop at Best Buy and drop off my camera...I know, so sad! Well, if you haven't noticed, my pictures have been lacking lately, that is because in january my main lense broke and I have had to wait to go to Utah to use the warrenty I have on my camera to get it fixed. Hopefully in a few weeks it will be all better and I will be able to get back into the swing of things with an AMAZING photoshoot I am planning with Calvin!

Little did I realize that those two days I chose to go on a little road trip alone, a nice big snow storm was suppose to make it's way through Utah and Wyoming. Yeah yeah yeah, I looked at weather.com, but seriously if I had known it was gonna be that bad, Iwouldn't have gone. Once I got on the road to head home, things were looking good...there was A LOT of snow around, but the roads were clear and just wet, even through the pass into Wyoming.......BUT THEN........

Crazy, slippery, snowpiled snow on the roads. Driving 10 mph praying that my car, blue steel, could handle the steep roads. All was good and well, sort of, until traffic came to a hault on what happened to be one of the steeper hills that you come to when going through Evenston. I was terrified, really! Driving in this type of snow is somewhat new to me, and having serious anxiety when it comes to cars and driving didn't help any! After waiting 20 minutes for the freeway to open again, it probably took me at least that long to get blue steel up that hill...UGH...it was awful! Once I found an exit that had a nice place to stop and eat, I pulled off, gathered my sanity, feed my screaming baby, and then got back on the road and finished my drive home (which was clear and beautiful after about 10 miles
This is a quick shot I took while I was in a stand still..

Okay. So that was an adventure.

Saturday I went to the final class for our foster care training. I am excited and nervous to be taking on this new duty in our lives, but I know it is what we should be doing, and I am ready to give a baby part of our lives for however long it may be. The most common question I think I get when people hear that we are going to be doing fostering is, "are you crazy?!" They ask that because we are not planning on taking any children that are older than Calvin, so that limits us to newborn-7months. We will see if I loose all sense of time and direction when I am takleing two babies, but I am not worried!

Calvin is a monster, weighing in at and probably a little over 23lbs. He is very mobile now, and as of TODAY can offically crawl (yes, the right way of crawling on hands and feet) BACKWARDS. I think he gets confused be sometimes he cries when he wants to move forward, but he just hasn't figured out how to get those legs going in that direction yet. We are baby-proofing like crazy (post to soon follow) and we are always busy watching Calvin as he explores new territory around the house. No, he doesn't sleep through the night yet, yes I am trying to do what I can to help him, and yes, I could sleep for a week and never feel guilty about it. LOL In other news regarding our little love bug, I have offically packed all his 6th month clothes and pulled out the 12 month ones. He doesn't really fit into the 12 month outfits yet, but I don't have very many 9 month outfits, and they are really hard to come by around here...so we are going to settle for what we can and get er' done! the good news is that i have some super cute clothes for him to wear, the bad news is that I think by his first birthday, he will definitely be in 18 month clothing, which means I need to start shopping now! For all those relatives out there (wink wink - Nanna & Gammie) feel free to buy any clearence items for fall that are coming available. I would recommend 24 month-3T outfits! :o)