Yesterday Kasen and I were outside watching Jeremy wash down our inflatable pool. He was just hanging out in his underwear because it was SOOO dang hot out. He is always asking me if he can take his clothes off and run around in his underwear because he is "all sweaty" Anyway...so he was sitting in a chair about a foot away from me so I decided to start snapping some shots. I am not very good at using a camera, I mean I know how to take a simple basic picture. But I really want to start taking BETTER pictures and eventually get a NICE camera. It's on my birthday list and if I don't get it then, it will be on my Christmas list. :) So my goal was just to get a nice CLOSE up picture of just Kasen's head. After a few pics of the mint green chair, I decided to use a red blanket as a backdrop so that wouldn't wash out his see through skin so much. Not the best pictures, but I am working on it. 
Kasen and I went to the zoo earlier this week with a friend and her daughter. It was totally hot, like 93 degrees, and we all were exhausted by the time we went home. Here are a few pictures of Kasen's first trip to the zoo. Next time, we will be going in December!!! Clearly we didn't make it very far into the zoo since it was just WAY too hot and the kids started to get tired and cranky. That's ok. We still had fun!! 
We made it!! We auditioned on Saturday, and got the postcard on Tuesday! We are just patiently awaiting their phone call now! Hopefully it comes! Yaay for us!
Last weekend, my parent's, Jeremy and I, and my sister Jen went to LA to audition for the Family Feud. We were all really nervous and my dad even gave us mock questions on the way up to the show. My dad and I even drank some redbull so that we would be happy and spazzy.
When we got there, we drove into the parking lot and there were others families staring us down. It was pretty funny, because we were in our car talking trash too. So it was all fair. We got out of the car and walked to the conference room where the auditions were being held. (at some hotel)
They made us fill out a bunch of paperwork and called us up to take our picture. I wish I would have gotten a copy of it for scrapbooking purposes, but I didn't! Dang!
They told us they were going to call 2 families up at a time for a mock show. They were going to ask us two questions and it didn't matter who won or lost because they just wanted to see who would be a better support system to their team members.
They taught us how to huddle and pretend to look over at the other team, they taught us how to high five, and they taught us how to give a BS answer if we couldn't think of the right one. They taught us how to say "good answer!!" whether it was good or awful! They taught us a lot of useful information that I am POSITIVE we will use in our every day life! ie: Kasen are you a boy or a girl? BOY!!! ::Good answer!! HIGH FIVE!!::
So there were 11 teams there. We were the first ones there so we sat in the front row. After filling out our paper work we looked back and realized we were the minority. That's totally ok. Just surprised us a bit. 5 of the teams were African American, 2 were Hispanic, and 4 were Caucasian (us). :)
We were the first ones to get called up along with some other team. They asked the first quesstion, we won!! They asked the 2nd question, we won!!! We cheered like no other, laughed at each other and continuously gave high fives! We were VERY spirited!
They told us as we were leaving that if we made it, they would send us a postcard in the mail telling us so. That if we haven't received a postcard within 2 weeks to stop waiting by the mailbox and that we didn't make it. So we left feeling hopeful, but not guaranteed.
It was a fun experience and we all knew that whether we made it or not, it was a once in a lifetime experience.
This is the picture that we took for our ward website. It turned out really dark, but I lightened it up a bit. I think we look special. lol...
You know it's funny...when I was a senior in high school and went to go get my senior pics taken, the photographer told me that I looked like a young Christie Brinkley. When I was in high school, I did a little modeling at the time, so to me....that was the BEST compliment ever. Although I never saw that I looked like her, apparently I still do. I still don't see it, but will accept it since she is a total hot mama!
Yesterday was Jeremy's birthday. My mom watched Kasen so that Jeremy and I could go out together by ourselves. It was SOOO nice. Jeremy and I haven't been out without Kasen in a long time ALONE. No other couples with us. It was wonderful. We needed to bond again, and to be able to sit across the table from each other and hold hands. To be able to walk and hold hands, to have Jeremy open the car door for me. It was so nice. Did I mention that already?
Here are a couple pictures we took at dinner. The pictures that are darker, are because I had to turn the flash off so that Jeremy could actually keep his eyes open!! I tried to lighten then without making them look all weird, but I think you can tell still.
After dinner, which by the way was SO dang tasty. We went to a place called Bellagio's Ristorante in San Diego. We had a coupon and it was great!! Jeremy and I both liked ours, a lot! So yeah, after dinner, we went to Old Navy to pass a little time before our movie started. I had given Jeremy the option of dinner, nickel arcade, then movie. Dinner or nickel arcade, or dinner and movie. He chose dinner and movie. I had planned the Bourne Ultimatum but then when I told him about it he chose the Simpson movie? Ok. So we went and saw that and then went to Applebees for dessert afterwards. It was a fun night, and I am SO glad we got to do it alone! Thanks mom and dad for watching Kasen!! We BOTH appreciate it a ton!
Being silly with bubbles on his head!
Get the bubbles off my head mom!
AHHHH!!
Their in my eyes! Get em out!
My sweet little man in his tub of bubbles with a little water.
This is the finished product!
I would just like to say Happy Birthday to my dear husband!! He is such a blessing in my life and I am so happy to be with him. He means so much to me. I am so happy that he is willing to go to work everyday, especially TODAY on his Birthday to support our family and make sure we have what we need.
I love you babe!!
p.s. Happy 30th Anniversary to my inlaws!! Jeremy was born on his parents 1st anniversary!
Never once did he figure out how to use the mat the right way. So funny! I laughed everytime he came down and it was in his lap a different way. What a character!Then Kasen and Brielle had a really hard time sharing the cool car they had there. It's a typical car that most every family has in their backyard, but for some reason Brielle clung to that thing and wouldn't get out. So Kasen got in with her.
They did have a great time though, and that's all that was important to me!A couple friends referred me to JcPenneys to get Kasens pictures taken. Sarah was kind enough to give me a coupon for $3.99 a sheet! No sitting fee, and a free 8x10! So I couldn't pass that up since Kasen hadn't had his pictures taken since he was 4 mos old at Wal*Mart.
When we got there Kasen knew we were going to take some pictures but I don't think he knew that RANDOM people were going to take his pictures. They had warned us when we set up the appt that we needed to bring something that would comfort him if he was shy around strangers. Kasen IS shy around strangers, so we brought the trusty Bobby! When we walked into the studio Kasen flipped out when the photographer started to talk to him and tell him to smile. He ran out of the studio and down through the mens section before I even realized what had happened. My mom and dad came with me too for moral support and my mom bribed him with a cookie to come back. He did and after a few gross looking pictures with me in them, Kasen started to warm up. She started to play peek a boo and then started to play tickle with Bobby. After a bit he was starting to relax and started to warm up to the photographer and it was all good from there. Here are some of the pics that were taken of my sweet, cute little boy!
Friday night I went scrapbooking with a couple friends at a local scrapbook store from 6pm-midnight! I cannot believe how fast 6 hours goes when you are doing something you have SUCH a passion for. Here are a couple of the pages I did that night.
The quote says" sparkles and shine, I am blessed you are mine"
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