Sooo funny.

So Chris came over tonight and saw my kitchen, and said "Laurie, what is going on in here?! Are you growing pot?"
So funny...I am starting to get ready for my gardening and I love using these jiffy green house things. I have them all over my kitchen and I need to get some more tomorrow. After Chris said that I did realize how funny it looks.

Lindsey Hakes Wedding (Kunz fam time)

Corey's cousin got married this weekend and basically it was just a good excuse for a family get together. We had so much fun seeing everyone. The first picture here is of me and Corey and Conner with Corey's grandparents, Grandma and Grandpa Kunz. They sure loved seeing Conner. They came all the way from Washington to see him....oh wait, I guess they might have come for Lindsey's wedding too...:)

This picture is just.....priceless. I think its left to right, Corey, Nick, and Matt.





Aunt Amy sure had a thing for Conner. She held him the whole time, she just loved him. It was so sweet.

Me and one of my dearest friends Jill. She is married to Rob, who is Corey's cousin. She is VERY VERY Pregnant and about to have a baby boy in like two weeks. Does she not still look so gorgeous? I sure didn't look this good two weeks before having Conner. Look at her eyes. This kid is going to be gorgeous, she and Rob are both dark olive skinned with blue eyes....whoa watch out. This kid will be a good lookin kid.

Ash and Conner, she always takes such good care of him.

Cute

Just two boys jammin

Conner and Chris have the sweetest relationship ever. Tonight, I was trying to pick Conner up to go to bed with his much wanted bottle, and he ran to Chris to get away from me so he didn't have to go to bed. He LOVES Chris.

Book Review - Family First

My latest read has been Dr. Phil's book named Family First.
As some of you close to me know, I love Dr. Phil. I have however been a little disappointed lately with how commercial he has become.
He is nevertheless one of my favorite self help people out there. I pretty much agree with every thing that ever comes out of his mouth.
As for the book, it was wonderful. It was very predictable, just what you expect him to say about saving the family in these days of crisis. But really it was a great book and I am so glad I read it. I give it an A for sure.
Unfortunately he presents the goal for the ideal, or "perfect" family. This is never going to be attainable...but I think all of his suggestions are completely worth the work and I think if we follow the plan of this book in our lives as we raise our families we can come out pretty well and think back and be glad about the way we raised our family.

Conner is 1!

On April 13, 2007 Conner was born. And on Sunday he turned 1 year old!!!
We just had a small family party but here are a few pictures of it.
Even tho he is becoming a little tyrant, he is still the joy and love and meaning of my life.

Conner got this AMAZING little winnie the pooh truck, car thingy for his birthday from my mom. He LOVES it.


Look at these AMAZING cup cakes. I fell in love with them when I saw them on my mom's table for Conner's birthday. I have to give credit where credit is due...some of you might know Michelle Bonnet, she made them for us. She lives across the street from my mom. She has started a cake decorating business and she is amazing.

Kay so this was the highlight of the birthday, it was more of a gift for Corey than it was for Conner! Corey saw this and HAD to get it for Conner. Its an electric fourwheeler. Its so cool. corey was absolutely delighted to get it and set it up for the Con-Man.

Grandpa Sylvia sent this box for Conner for his Birthday, it was sitting in the front room for a couple days and he had a blast playing with it. Little did he know the best part was yet to come!

Here is the cute gift Grandpa Sylvia got for Conner. He LOVES it. It's perfect for him because he loves books. Its a little reading table for a kid.

-Corey and Laurie...obviously.

It's his birthday morning and I let him have a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast. Oh man he liked it.

Bath time, trying to get rid of the "breakfast" mess.

We were at the store the other day and found this darling little kids chair. Conner loved it. And no, we did not buy it.

Jace (my best friend Ash's little boy) and Conner get along sooo well. They came over to give Conner a birthday present and we all just chilled.

Finding Neverland (where boys never grow up)

I have been feeling very contemplative the last couple days. I have said before that I feel like my baby has turned into a little boy.
It is becoming more and more apparent every day that this is the case. Sometimes I hardly recognize him with these big top teeth he just got in!
He is getting such an attitude, he looks right at me to make sure I am watching as he dumps out my make up bag or as he throws his food off of the high chair. He continues to make a run for it and crawl up the stairs every single chance we turn our backs, and then he gets to the second stair and looks over to make sure we are looking and he zips up the stairs just to make us run for him.
Last night he got up the second stair before I saw him and he fell and got a huge bruise on his forehead. But yet this morning he is back to his game!
I am torn between feeling proud that my baby is growing up and becoming independent and developing as he should be, but I feel sad because I almost feel like he is trying to make me mad! I am his mom, his livelihood, the person who would die for him, the person who gets up in the night for him and rocks him when he is sad.
Why is he trying to make me mad? Why is he screaming and kicking his legs when all I am trying to do is love him and kiss him and hug him? Why does he spend all of his time trying to destroy my house when we could be reading books and snuggling?
Don't get me wrong, he still has his moments when he wants to sit with mommy and read his books and give me kisses, But I swear this week his goal in life is to do whatever he can to frustrate my life and tear my house apart.
Looking at me straight in the eye and throwing his food onto the floor...that's real nice Conner!
I am sure all of you experienced mom's who are reading this post are laughing saying, "Dugh Laurie welcome to the real world." But you are right!! I am a first time mom, and I do romanticise it sometimes.
But its only because I love my boy more than food, water, or air.
sigh.....

Tagged by Teisa

What were you doing 10 years ago?

Going to school and being totally and completely in love with Jared Watts (as all of the girls were :)

Name 5 things on your to do list:

Do laundry
Clean
start my gardens
take a nap
go to hair school (when conner gets into school)

What are some snacks you like?

Cookies, ice cream, anything with a diet coke, you know the usual

What would you do with a billion dollars?
Invest, pay tithing :), buy a house in holladay that I love, buy corey a car, save the rest.

Name 3 bad habits:

Only 3??
1. I drink too much diet coke
2. I eat too much junk
3. I am pretty critical of people, worry too much, and get offended too easily

Name 6 places that you have lived:

Just Salt Lake City.

What jobs have you had in order:

Babysitting
Family History Library
Robyn Todd
DDI Vantage
Nanny
LDS Welfare Services
Wife
Mom

5 things people don't know about you?

I hate to talk on the phone, i love email and text
I sleep with a heating pad every single night, I cannot sleep without it
I hate to do my hair- it takes too long to dry
I am a sunshine worshiper. If its sunny, I am happy. If its cloudy I am not so much.
I have a phobia for crowds.
I HATE to cook and don't cook.
I take a bath every single day, I know most people think baths are grosse. Owell.


Now I am going to tag...................................Ash, Suzie, Lindsey Pizza, Quinnie, Claci

I am a true mother now...if I wasn't already

Well for the past week the flu has hit our house. We are all over it now thankfully, but dude...talk about the worst week of my entire life.
Last Saturday night Conner woke up in the night having thrown up all over in his bed, and then I dumbly brought him into our bed where he threw up all over our bed.
The next day he continued and then the diarrhea started in. But thats not the worst part. The worst part was that I then got it. I got the worst flu I have had since I was like 10. I was so sick. Ask Corey and my mom, I cried for 24 hours straight. I could not stop crying. I was so sick, I could not figure out how I was going to take care of my sick one year old while I was so sick that I could bairly move. My case of it was a little worse because I got a fever (which thankfully Conner didn't get). The fever was killing me, I ached all over and it would not budge. Conner refused to eat or drink, and was simply miserable. I bought three different flavors of pedialite and he wouldn't drink any of it. He went from drinking three 8 oz. bottles a day (along with solid food) to no solid food and about 1 oz of bottle a day. He lost tons of weight as you can imagine. Today when I was getting him dressed none of his pants would stay on him.
The story got worse tho, I started feeling better and Corey got it. I guess I should thank heaven that I got better right as Corey got sick so that I was at least able to take care of Conner and Corey.
We are all better now, but dude, the worst week ever. I spent the entire day today (other than when I was watching Conference) spraying every single item in our house with Lysol and Chlorox wipes.
Anyway now that you have heard my sob story I can honestly say that I have been baptised by fire and am a true mother now. Up all night with a sick kid for a week....thats love baby.

Conner refusing to eat-- he was so listless he just fell asleep every where.

My parents came over to try to help comfort the poor kid.

Corey came home sick from work and laid on the couch for about 24 hours straight (except for when he was barfing)

Book Review-ECLIPSE

I just finished Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer.
I give this book an A. I liked it a TON more than New Moon, as all of you told me I would.
Eclipse is the third book in the "Twilight" series by Stephanie Meyer about a teenage girl who falls in love with a very handsom and very irresistable vampire. Eclipse further explores Bella's torn feelings between her vampire love and her best friend Jacob Black who loves her too. This is a great book and way way way better than New Moon. I can't wait for the next book in the series to come out.

A Family Visit

Cody and Melissa (Cody is Corey's little bro) came to visit from Washington last weekend. It was a blast and of course the two kiddlings got along great they immediately started playing and pretty much did everything together the whole weekend. Being that they were born the same week I think that they are for sure kindred spirits!

Dinner night one...Rodizio Grill. The boys get a kick out of all the different kinds of meats. (From left to right, Cody, Corey and Christopher- the three bros).


Dinner night two, Tres Hombres (my personal fave) the kidos loved listening to the guy singing with his guitar.

Trying out some of the old toys

I am tending my friend Traci's little girl on Fridays now and I pulled out some of Conners "old" things for her like the boncy seats and swing and bumbo chair etc. When Conner saw me getting this stuff out he just thought he was in heaven exploring them again. He is clearly too big for them but whateva.