We had gotten a package in the mail the other day and I kept the box for the kids to play in. After the excitement ran out, Logan deemed it his own and put all of his cars and trucks in there. He’ll sit in there and just play forever and it’s oh so cute! I like watching him lay his head down on the side of the box to see the wheels go around and around. Such a boy!

Of course, he has his blankie. Can’t do anything without it!

Do bath pictures ever get old? Not if your kids are as cute as mine!

We have a Mickey Mouse CD in the car that the kids just love. They LIKE all of the songs on the CD but they LOVE the first song on the CD, the theme from the Mickey Mouse Club TV show. “M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! MICKEY MOUSE!! They love it! So the other day we had it on and during the second verse where they yell, ‘MICKEY MOUSE! DONALD DUCK! MICKEY MOUSE! DONALD DUCK!’, Logan quacks every time they say Donald Duck. Too cute! We don’t know if he does it because of the way Donald Duck sounds or because he hears the word ‘duck’, but it’s so adorable! I hope he does it until he’s 16.

So, I have desperately needed to go grocery shopping for about a month now. We have been eating a lot of pancakes and mac and cheese (for the kids, Jeffy and I find something healthier for ourselves) the past couple of weeks and we are getting tired of it! I don’t know why I haven’t gone. It just seems like we’ve been pretty busy to even make it out there. Anyway, Lindsay and I finally went out today during Logan’s nap and got it done. I know, I know, I’m totally spoiled having Jeffy here to be a body for me so that I can go with only one kid. It’s so wonderful! Anyway, on the way home, Lindsay and I were just talking and an old school Weezer song came on and I started singing and we both started dancing and Lindsay said, “Ooooh, this is GROOVY!!” Aren’t three year olds fun?

Dear The Office,

Thank you for being so freaking hilarious!

Love,
J & B

I just got done watching the news from last night and I have a few things to say about PETA. I almost always think that PETA is crazy and extreme (becuse they are) but I can almost always see their point of view. Not saying that I agree with it, but everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this morning was something different. Apparently, PETA brought an idea to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk in their ice cream.

First of all, EW. Second of all, how is using cow’s milk harmful to a cow? Isn’t that what they were made for? Didn’t God create cows so that we could have milk to drink? Don’t cows get overly uncomfortable when they don’t get milked? I’m still trying to figure out why PETA thinks this needs to be changed. The only thing I can think of is that they don’t like how they are put into milking machines to get milked. Get. Over. IT. I’m not against breast milk in any way, I just don’t want to eat it. I respect women who nurse their babies because it’s the way God intended it. I never liked it much and think that women who do do it are completely awesome, but I think it’s meant for babies, not children or adults. There was one guy on the news who said he wouldn’t buy it for himself, but he thinks it would be okay for children to eat. I disagree. I know that once upon a time other women would nurse other people’s kids and that was okay. But I wouldn’t be so quick with the cash if I knew my kids ice cream had some other woman’s breast milk in it, who I didn’t know. Luckily, Ben and Jerry’s agree with me and told PETA that breast milk is best for babies. So here’s a question for all of you: Would you buy ice cream made with breast milk?

Jeff and I have been watching the new tv show Fringe and we both really like it. It’s like the new X-files for the new century. It’s weird and unrealistic but yet you just want to see what happens next and how it ends! How do they do that? But seriously, who comes up with this stuff? I try not to think about the people who write these stories because it disturbs me that they are out there walking around.

Beth and I have been noticing that Lindsay has been picking up cute little things from her friends, mostly Ashlee. Lindsay ALWAYS used to call us “Mommy” and “Daddy,” but a few weeks ago she started calling Bethy “Momma.” That made sense, because that’s what Ashlee calls Emily, and Lindsay and Ashlee spend a lot of time together. A few days after she started with “Momma,” she started just calling us “Mom” and “Dad.” I don’t know if she got that from Ashlee or from someone at preschool or from TV or what, but it makes her seem so grown up (in a make-your-parents-want-to-cry sort of way).

But today was the topper, and I KNOW she got this one from Ashlee. As I was heading back down to my office after lunch, guess what Lindsay said to me…

“I love you, TFC!”

(Ashlee calls me TFC, which stands for “The First Counselor”; I call her RSPD, which stands for “Relief Society President’s Daughter.”)

Too cute.

For details on our first day in New York, check out this post. Now for day 2.

We woke up exhausted again, having each only slept a total of about 9 hours over the past two nights. We had breakfast at the hotel, then we caught a cab to Walgreens (for some medicine for my sinus infection) and then over to the Brooklyn Bridge. When we were originally planning our trip, we hadn’t even thought of walking across the Brooklyn Bridge until my little brother mentioned that it was one of the highlights of his recent New York trip. So we walked across the bridge, and it was pretty amazing. It gives a great view of the city, and there’s something really cool about walking across such a historical bridge. I am consistently amazed at the things people were able to do so long ago, like build bridges that would last for centuries. (I’m often amazed that I made it through high school without the Internet — seriously, how did people write papers before the Internet? Did I really used to have to go to the library to do research? Weird!) So walking across this huge, sturdy, amazing bridge was a pretty cool experience.

In the past couple of weeks, our backyard has transformed from a mound of dirt to a beautiful (at least I think so) landscape with grass and woodchips. It really does make a difference. Now that we’ve completed our yard, it was time to move on to the inside once again. Finishing our basement has caused the rest of our house, mainly closets, to be a nightmare. When we moved Jeffy out of what is now Logan’s room, we put a lot of his stuff in our closet and the closet upstairs. It has been something I’ve just had to deal with because the basement wasn’t done enough to move it down there yet. Then his office WAS done enough but neither of us wanted to move things down two flights of stairs and then walk back up to get more. What a pain. Then we got distracted with finishing the backyard and moved the basement to the back of our minds. But now that the yard is done, we can focus once again on the basement. My brother-in-law Lane is moving in with us in about 2 weeks so that has forced us to get things done. Don’t get me wrong, the basement has been ‘done’ for awhile, it’s mostly just Jeffy’s office that isn’t finished. We never painted or caulked the baseboards but again, that was only because we’d have to move his desk and his computers and thousands of cords. No fun. But I have had it with the cluttered closets and am ready to get it done! Jeffy realized he would need some new bookshelves because the one he had before is about to fall apart and we didn’t want to risk moving that down stairs only to have it fall to pieces when we were done. No thanks. So, we went to Ikea (love that store!) yesterday and bought two new bookshelves for his office. So as Jeffy put those together, I caulked and painted the baseboards where they were going and also painted his door frame and cleaned out the closet under the stairs. It’s about this time of year that I start to get in an organizing mood. I told Jeff yesterday that during the winter I love to do things like this. He reminded me that it’s still summer. Oh yeah. This cooler weather is really throwing me for a loop. I’m enjoying it though! Anyway, so that’s what we did last night.

But before that we also put all of the beds in our house on frames! Since we’ve been married, our bed has always been on the floor. Jeffy never trusted those little metal frames and I just didn’t think it was necessary so we never bought them. But again, since Laney is coming, we’re switching Lindsay’s twin bed and the guest room queen bed so that Laney can have more room for his stuff. So, Lindsay has a HUGE bed now and she loves it. So, since we were moving beds anyway, we decided we’d put them all on frames, including ours. We’re such grown ups now! Our house has had some changes lately and Jeffy has been such a hard worker the past couple of weekends getting so much done. We love you!