AMEN!

Anyone who knows me knows what I think of the whole Atkins fad, in case I haven't told you... Adkins is stupid!!! It's dangerous and not at all healthy. I don't care if you lose weight doing it, you can lose even more weight starving, or bingeing and purging. If you want to know the right way to eat, consult the word of wisdom for the best direction available. Anyway on a recent trip I was waiting for a prescription, again, and noticed this book under the counter. I love it! I didn't buy the book, I haven't ever had a problem eating carbs, or anything else for that matter, but I had to share it. I think it's disturbing that so many people followed this man, who is dead of a heart attack at 45 by the way, some healthy lifestyle. If you don't believe me, check out the Harvard study that showed that people on a high protein/low carb diet had almost immediately dangerous levels of cholesterol and triglycerides and exponentially increased risk of heart attack in less than 6 and sometimes 3 months. Scary! Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice.

ONE STYLIN' DUDE

Caleb has his own style. I am not nor have I ever been one that cares about fashion, I could care less about what is in. I only care that it looks decent and is comfortable. Caleb, I'm not sure what he is thinking most of the time. The other day R took them for slushies and I had to snap this pic of his fashion sense. So lets break it down shall we...
first we have the west coast choppers hat... ok.
next we have the sunglasses, hurley shirt, shorts and airwalk shoes... ok doing great so far. I have no complaints then we come to the strand of pinkish purplish beads around his neck... We were doing great until that point. I love him. I love that he isn't too worried about what anyone else thinks, so far. He does his own thing and I'm glad, I hope he continues to be independent and not worry about what other kids are doing/wearing. He is such a great kid.

LAST HURRAHS

Last night we went to Joe and Victoria's house for a family dinner before we leave, yummy tacos and stuff, seems to be our tradition. It was fun to hang out and relax and let the kids play with their cousins! I wish we had done that more often but everyone is so busy all the time. A couple of weeks ago we asked Caleb what he wanted to do for his birthday since we'll be moving on his actual birthday. He picked Sunsplash so that is what we did. Today we went to Sunsplash with some of the fam and then to Organ Stop Pizza afterwards. I couldn't believe that noone in Ryan's fam had ever been there, they lived right down the street for pete sake. Anyhow, as always, the boys had a blast at both places. This was the first time I wasn't stuck camping in kiddie land. AJ and Levi went on the real slides with us and then decided that Uncle Joe, Aunt Karla and Allie were better than us and they went with them instead, sorry guys for dooming you to the tamer slides. The boys, and us, had so much fun, I'm so glad Caleb picked it for us. I'm glad that some of his fave cousins could go to. What a great day! We leave in 11 days, crazy!!!!

HE'S GOT PERSONALITY

I took the burb to get the alignment done today and while we waited we went to Taco Bell, across the parking lot, for some lunch since I realized I had been so busy since I got up that I hadn't eaten yet today and it was after 1. Anyhow I got AJ and Levi taco supremes and AJ started complaining about it having tomatoes. Our conversation went like this
Mom, " you need to eat the tomatoes to be strong."
AJ, " I don't want to be strong."
Mom, "oh."
AJ, " I'm just going to be a big man."
Mom, " Big men eat their tomatoes."
AJ, "this one doesn't"

At this point the 10 people also eating there busted up laughing. I'm glad we provided them some humor. Anyone who knows me knows I don't give up easily so later when AJ asked why the high chair he insisted on sitting in had a step on it I said it's for little boys who aren't strong enough or big enough to climb up because they don't eat their tomatoes. He gave me a withering stare that I don't think a four year old should possess. He didn't even acknowledge my effort verbally, his look said it all. Needless to say, he picked off all but 2 tomatoes. I still won though because later when he wanted his candy he got rejected since he didn't eat his tomatoes. His retort, I ate 2 of them. I'm fairly certain I'm in trouble with this kid.

ANOTHER NEW (TO US) TRUCK

So Ryan periodically gets a wild hair and gets to looking on craigslist and seeing lots of "good deals" and decides to sell our vehicles and get something better. The problem is it is incredibly stressful for the entire family until it's all over and so now, as if we didn't have enough going on with the move, he sold both of our cars to buy a newer 4x4 suburban. So we looked and looked and looked some more and decided to buy a crew cab dually instead. Then today we obsessed some more and instead, on the way to buy the truck, bought a 2 wheel drive sub. We got a great deal and spent 1200 less than we would have on the truck and it's in great shape and has been obviously well taken care of. So now we have a home to go to in ID and a way to get the fam there, huge weight off my shoulders!!! Now back to packing and cleaning!! no fun! Only 2 1/2 weeks till we leave.

MOVING ALONG TOWARD THE MOVE

We found out today that we got the house we were hoping for YEAH!! That is such a weight off our shoulders, now we have someplace to go. It's in a nice small area with good, small schools and Ryan will have a total 6.8 mile commute, another huge relief. It will be so nice for him to not have to drive 45 minutes each way to get to work not to mention the gas savings! So this is our soon to be new home.
and this is our new soon to be back yard with the barn and workshop and pastures and stuff behind. That is pretty exciting. Now I'm wondering how the furniture will fit into it, girl stuff I know.

On Saturday night R sold our truck, he sold his car last Tuesday night, thus leaving us with no vehicle. There were lots of prospects listed for sale but as often happens, pics always look better than the real thing and so after a full day of driving around town looking at suburbans he says to me, "Sorry if you hate me for selling the truck." I don't hate him but I hate shopping for vehicles!!! So stressful and time consuming. So now instead of looking for a place to live, we are looking for a way to get us there. Oh well, we'll find something, we always do.

COUNTDOWN TO THE BIG DAY

We move 3 weeks from yesterday. We load the truck 3 weeks from Friday. I should hear about a house tomorrow. The truck is reserved, lots of furniture sold, lots of stuff packed. Lots of stuff donated. Lots more to do. That's good, busy keeps me from being sad. It's bitter sweet, an adventure waiting (with cooler weather, lots of green and 4 seasons), roots being pulled up( wonderful friends that volunteer to meet any and every need and just generally give me and my family joy). Gotta go, duty calls.