A day in the yard

Spring time, oh Spring time. That is the time when Conner insists on being outside ALL THE TIME. It becomes a love/hate relationship for me because I love being outside as well, gardening is my passion and I wait for it all year. BUT it has also become something I dread because I can't get much done while I am outside with him. He is getting in my way and stepping on my fragile plants and trying to dig with me while digging up stuff I just planted...sigh. In addition, being in the front yard trying to do my flowers is impossible because he is of course constantly trying to leave the yard. ahhhhh

Kay on with pictures!

Welcome back...if you remember my post last May(http://laurieandcoreykunz.blogspot.com/2008/06/look-what-i-woke-up-to-this-morning.html you will recall the creatures that invaded my yard last year are back. I have now realized what a huge problems this is and this year I am combating it early and next year will do it even earlier. I WILL CONQUER!!!!

(this is only about half of the bucket)

Conner and I found this birds nest in our yard the other day. He was fascinated by it and we put it in a dish so that he could keep it. He mostly just wanted to take it and show it to my dad.

MOAB

We had probably one of the funnest weekends in our lives! We decided to do a fast trip to Moab for Memorial Day weekend and went with our best buddies Megan and Levi and Chris. We just hiked and played and laughed all weekend.

Here we are right when we arrived in Moab getting some grub before starting our hike to the arches.

Me and the Megster.
Me, Megster, and her brother Levi. TROUBLE for sure :)

Corey sure looks like he had something important to say...

Finally to the arch...only to be greeted with a thunder storm, we took a picture and ran down that mountain as fast as we could without killing ourselves. Sand was blowing in our eyes and it started hailing. Thank heaven for the canopy on the top of the backpack Conner was in. The thunder and lightening was so bad I was afraid Conner was really going to lose it, but he held on and we got down before he got overly scared.

As part of our budget trip all five of us stayed in the same room. I loved it.

This picture is my favorite, Conner saw Corey spraying his feet with a foot deodorant stuff and Conner has been obsessed ever since. He begs and begs for Corey to spray his feet it is the cutest thing ever.

We went to dinner at this pizza place and they gave us our silverware wrapped in these bandannas.

The gorgeous one.

Beautiful, just beautiful. I want to go back so bad. I took this picture on our four wheeling trail, I tried to get the lizards but the slippery suckers always got away from me. I wanted one sooo bad.

Me and the Megster have the greatest times.

We got two jeeps to go up in the mountains four wheeling. Probably the funnest thing I have ever done in my life. I felt bad for the Con man bumping around in the back with nothing interesting to do but he was a good sport.

You can see here the three innocent kids and their nice clean jeep...

And then like five minutes later they come around a corner and meet up with us looking like this...

It got so much funner when I started driving. (oh and look at me, I'm not dirty. I'm comfortable and dry. Glad I'm not in that other jeep haha :)

This is how one of our jeeps ended up after our day came to a close. The other one wasn't as bad...mine and Corey's...but c'mon, we are more responsible AND we had the Con Man in the back! At this point the question was how on earth are we going to get this clean enough so they won't know what we did to it when we turn it back in!

Then the rain REALLY started to come. Twenty times worse than the day before at the Arch.

A small tribute to my mom

I didn't get a chance to write a post about mother's day. I have a lot to say but I thought I would just write a few things about my mom.

1. I love her Sunday dinner's, she does this for the family every single Sunday. I couldn't live without it.
2. She listens to me. Endlessly. There is really no one else I trust enough to really and truly pour out all my insecurities and trials with. She knows EVERYTHING about me. If I call her, she listens. When I first had Conner I literally called her every couple hours just to vent. She didn't mind. She just listened and made me feel like I wasn't crazy.
3. She goes with me to Walmart and to do errands.
4. She is a wonderful Grandmother to Conner.
5. She plays Scrabble with me on Sundays.
6. She goes on walks with me and Conner.
7. She gives me coupons.
8. She gives me bracelets.
9. She never tries to push her opinion on me. Some mom's tell their daughters how to be, what is right and wrong, how to raise their children, etc. My Mom NEVER does that.
10. I know, without a doubt, she wants the very very best for me.

Thanks for being my Mom, I love you!

just some pics

So it would appear my son is sending me a message...

(if you can't tell, this is one of those lovely kid nose sucker things, he FREAKS out if he even sees me holding it)

I found it hidden under a whole basket full of laundry in the basement.

Cold pizza and a drink, watching TV like a real man.

I found Conner playing his ukulele and singing to Barney songs, he is unbelievable.

what?

So my gardening has begun...I get creative at this time of year with my gardening and I made a small "green house" out of an old Costco razor container. I planted about four seeds and closed the lid to create that great green house effect. Well I left the rest of the seeds I didn't use in their bag and put them in the container so I knew which plant was which...well they were all getting big and ready to transplant and look what I found when I opeded the seed packets.
So all the time and tender care I have put into growing wonderful plants could pretty much be worthless considering all you have to do is leave them in their freaking packet and put them in a container that has wet soil. Good Grief. Check out all those plants that came from seeds just sitting there in their freaking package. I can't even believe it!

HAWAII

So I'm not an impulsive person, at all. But one morning a couple weeks ago Corey and I were in bed talking and out of no where we decided to fulfill one of those "to do before we die" things on our list. Do you have one of those lists? Well we do. Now we can cross one off! We had a beautiful trip in Oahu on Waikiki beach. Breathtaking, beautiful, paradise. I'm sorta pathetic in that all I like to do is lay on the beach when I go somewhere like that, but then again its my trip and I can do what I want right?! We did however go to Waiani bay to swim with the dolphins and snorkel. Other than that we just lay on the beach and shopped. Oh and ate the most glorious and entirely too expensive food on earth. Heavenly!

On the plane on our way!
We like to make fun of people when they go to Hawaii because they throw out the hang loose sign in every picture!

When we got there we went to Ala Moana mall, apparently it's the largest outdoor mall in the world. And let me tell you its TRUE. We got so lost there on our last day we almost missed our flight! On our way to the hotel we stopped there and had lunch. Pretty much the most delicious hamburger place I have ever eaten at, in my life! I know Corey's burger looks a little scary, but those are jalapeno fries on top of it, soo good.

Neiman Marcus, I love you. Sigh.

Hawaiia decor is oh so lovely. But it wouldn't be Hawaii without it!


First evening on the beach.


Most hilarious thing, while we were there they had a "Spam Jam" festival. The streets were lined with tents cooking all kinds of spam meals. Spam tacos, Spam nachos, Spam hamburgers you name it! It was absolutely disgusting, the smell of spam cooking filled the air.
Waiting in front of Cheesecake Factory trying not to smell the spammmm!
The lobby of our hotel

Now this picture holds special significance for the Cor. If you know Corey AT ALL you know he is addicted to dip. He has to dip EVERYTHING. His favorite is to dip in BBQ sauce. Well of course he asked for some at this restaurant and the waiter brought him a sample of every kind of sauce they had.

Snorkeling spot.

Ready to dive in with the dolphins!

View from the Lanai in our room.

Duke, the famous Surfer.
Thanks for enjoying our trip photos with us!

SPOOKY

I thought this would be blog worthy for sure. As most of you know Conner looks a lot like Corey, more so when he was first born: (http://laurieandcoreykunz.blogspot.com/2007/12/con-dawg-and-cor-dawg.html) but check out how much they really are alike.

case#1

Conner has a freckle on his right heel...

Not only does Corey have a freckle on his right heel as well, but its in the exact same place.

Case #2
Conner has this killer freckle above his lip. Gorgeous if you ask me.

Look who also has a freckle above his lip, IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE. Kay how spooky is this?