what's new . . .

i'm one cookin' ma ma! ha ha ok, so i've always enjoyed cooking (when i took the time to do it) and i love good food (who doesn't, right?). i don't know what happened, but about a month ago when cassie invited me to her food recipe blog, i suddenly wanted to be cooking delicious dinners all the time and i haven't stopped since! i don't have many recipes of my own, so every night we have something different, that we've never tried before and most of the time it's amazing! there have been a few recipes ruled out though, because austin or i didn't like it, which is all good. i don't want to be cooking food we won't eat! i used to find cooking a drag, and now i look forward to making dinner every night! i've even planned out all the dinners for this month on my google calendar. what can i say? when i get into something i really like, i go for it! . . . and perhaps take it to a somewhat "nerdy" level, but hey, that' s just the way i am. :)

so i was hoping to be able to return to school this january, but there just isn't enough time in the day for austin and i to both be working part time and going to school. so i might take some classes in the summers, at least until austin's done with school and then i can go during the regular semesters too. anyways, the reason i brought the subject up is . . . i've decided to NOT be an english major anymore! i've always loved photography but i never considered graduating in it, until recently. so as soon as i can go back, i'll be working on graduating with a degree in photography! i'm really excited. i actually CAN'T WAIT to go back to school!

Happy Halloween!

better late then never, right? anyways, konrad's gotta be the cutest little dinosaur EVER! austin and i dressed up to coordinate with him. we were jurrasic park "co-geneticists" ;) take a look . . .

SARIE'S MARRIED!

yay! so happy for you sarie! you're beautiful and gorgeous and you look so happy! love you! hope you had a great time on your honey moon!!

had to get the girls together :) ... definitely the short one of the group. didn't realize just how much shorter i was till i saw this pic. i look so little!

they're trying to be "sara fun-size." sorry girls... it just doesn't work for you ;)

happy birthday to . . .

ME! ha ha i've been sick for the past week and when yesterday was the worst day ever... i sounded like a smoker, my head was in a fog, i couldn't stop coughing, and i was exhausted. konrad and austin have both been sick too. they're better now, for the most part. and so am i! i got my antibiotics yesterday and when i woke up this morning i couldn't believe how much better i felt! ...despite not sleeping so great last night because of all my coughing. so happy birthday to me: i'm feeling tons better! and to complete my birthday-day, austin took me to park city for some long-over-due (in my opinion) shopping. i've been waiting to get new clothes for when i was back to my old skinniness. and while i'm still about 5 or 6 lbs away, i'm pretty darn close, so it's all good. :) park city was beautiful and i got some fun jeans, shirts, and even a pair of shoes -- all great deals! we were going to go to the utah state fair and see boys 2 men in concert, but the strong winds, oncoming rain, and ridiculous traffic dissuaded us from that plan. so we came back, got our boy, and now we're just chillin' at home. don't want to be so worn out i start to get sick all over again. ;)

ok, seriously, it's been forever since austin i were together in a pic BY OURSELVES (love you konrad). and it's been forever since i thought a pic of us turned out cute :D

love you aust!

AWWW! it's raining! we got a little wet running from store to store up in park city.

gotta love the silly faces

and my final present of the night: TWO rainbows

talkin' on the phone

first of all... how cute is he?!?! we play outside every morning before lunch and today while we were outside, konrad talked to dadders on the phone. so cute. he chatted it up! the most i've ever heard him say on the phone. usually he just listens to the other person, but today he just couldn't say enough. so adorable! can't wait till we understand everything he's trying to tell us. :)

newly painted rooms

finally painted the living room and kitchen! we live in a basement apartment so the dark colors that were in there before made the place so gloomy. so we've livened it up with fun bright colors. hopefully i'll have time to get the bedrooms done before winter starts. right now they're not worth photographing. :)

my cute table and red chairs. this painting's cool too - it has all the colors of my kitchen in it

the top cupboards used to be an old, yellowed white, and the bottom cupboards used to be an ugly periwinkle blue (the paint was all chipped too). so don't judge the architecture (this basement was built in the 1920s) . . . just enjoy the fun colors. i really like the green, yellow, and red all together.

and this is our fun living room! it used to have brown and tan walls . . . so we made three walls white, and then one accent wall orange. it's very "austin and sara." ;)

this is sort of random . . . i just really like my little reading corner :D

cutest personality

it's not that he doesn't like clothes . . . he just prefers to be naked

he already knows that daddy's blackberry is WAY cooler than mommy's cheap little nokia phone

plus, he's just plain cute all 'round

he LOVES toothbrushes. he like to brush his teeth. no idea where he got that ;)

REALLY loves MY toothbrush

hiking to stewart falls

for celene's b-day we hiked to stewart falls . . . i hadn't been there before! they're very cool. literally. i didn't dare go in them!

dad = pack horse

like i said . . . totally cool

i love the falls

gorgeous

konrad loves his uncle jordie

i love catching the "moon-rise"

STINKY STINKY STINKY!

i'm always happy and excited to see my baby boy in the morning . . . except for one sunday morning when austin said, "honey! get in here [konrad's room] and bring the camera!" i obviously assumed that konrad was doing something adorable and cute. i couldn't have been more wrong. although the smile on his face was the same one he wears every other time he's showing off, his little "trip" was anything but cute. as i walked into his room, i smelled the stink before i saw the mess: konrad had taken off his poopy diaper and proceeded to paint himself, his crib, his blankets, and the wall with his poop. and yes, the brown smudges all over his faces and everything else is his poopiness. since i hadn't had breakfast yet i had to fight the urge to gag. you might think it couldn't get worse. well, think about this: we put him in the tub to wash off and before we could even start scrubbing, he took a piece of poop that'd floated up from his bum and put it in his mouth. i shrieked, ran out of the bathroom, and tried to keep from gagging yet again. austin was left with the fun little project of getting the poop out of konrad's mouth. needless to say, not the way i saw my sunday morning going. it was horrifying then, but at least we can laugh about it now. :)

poopy

still poopy

cleaned everything . . . even his mouth ;) (not really)

consolidating my life

i have decided to reduce and simplify my life, and one way is to have only ONE blog. yup, i could barely keep up with one, so how in the world did i think i could handle TWO? no idea. so i've transfered my two favorite posts from askguntherlife.blogspot.com to here, and the rest is history. it wasn't that great or important, so i deleted it :) so from now on, it's just this one. enjoy! i'll be keeping up on this one, with lots of cute pics of konrad, so check back every now and then to ooh and ahhh over my precious boy.

St. George - April 2009

We went to St. George this past weekend and it was awesome! We went down Saturday morning and here's how our trip went:

Here's on the way down... Konrad's trying to eat Bailey's orange juice.

No luck yet... can't get through the stinking top!

We met a bunch of the family at Sand Hollow resort and spent some time by the water. Gorgeous day!

Bailey's adorable feet.

The water was cold Saturday, but it gets very warm in the summer. We are definitely going back to swim!

I got kisses!

Konrad got kisses too :)

All together now... ahhhhhh

Bailey is walking on water!

Konrad started crawling around on the rock...

...he was having so much fun!

Not sure what this pose means...

...but I know what this one means: walking into the water!

I kept a hold on him... he was backing himself into the water on purpose. This kid would live in water if we let him.

He wanted to play with it, even though it was cold.

So excited... walking into the water again!

Leaping across the rocks to find more water.

Found it!

OOOO... that's cold! Let's walk out of the water now.

Sunday afternoon we met at the park with all the family again. It was so sunny and warm, we had to be outside enjoying it!

Konrad stayed on the blanket... he doesn't like the grassy feeling on his legs. It's pretty funny watching him try to get his legs off the grass while also trying to crawl away from the grass.

Becky and Ayla!

So cute!

The brothers... Jordan and Austin were playing lacrosse-catch, but the Austin saw a Red-Tailed Hawk and had to get his binoculars out and ready.

Still waiting...

Jordan always has his lacrosse stick in hand.

This was perfect timing... I now have proof that Bailey "abuses" Konrad by throwing the Elmo ball at his head ;)

Gotcha!

There were more fun time, but these are the ones we caught on camera. I foresee us visitng St. George sometime soon in the future!