books

books and food* are maxson's love languages as of lately.
*food other people are eating
but for now we'll focus on books.

all day long maxson does which?

a. take all the books off the shelf/out of the basket
b. flips through books on the ground
c. brings me books to read to him
d. forces me to sit down so he can sit on my lap so i will read a book to him
e. all the above

e is the correct answer my friends.
it's a fun new stage. he's been interested in flipping through the books for a few months now, but it's only been the last couple weeks that he's been insistent on sitting on my lap to read him a book.
he can only get all the way through a handful of books: moo, baa, la la la; where the wild things are; goodnight moon; the going to bed book.
usually after 2-3 pages he gets up to find another book, runs back to me with a big grin, and situates himself on my lap to begin again.
we go through about 12 books in this process.

it's pretty cute…

lately

Excuse my absence of regular postings! Jeeze! Every night I think about blogging but between a bunch of dilemmas it hasn't been happening! So I give you to you, reasons I haven't blogged lately aka: what i've been up to.

1. we be loving the tonight show with jimmy fallon. curses to that show for keeping us up so late therefor making us tired every morning but props to making us laugh every night. i sincerely would like to be that man's friend.

2. reading the book i am a mother. FRIENDS: read this book. it's a super duper quick read (i'm not into reading books usually, listening to them is my thing) but this is a fast, enticing, uplifting book on motherhood that i promise promise promise  you will love and love that i told you to read it. don't put this suggestion to the wayside. and it's a short read, so no huge commitment.

3. playing outside and with friends. for two days it got up to 70+ degrees around here and i was the happiest person ever. i was rolling my windows down when it got up to 39 so 70 was HOT for me, i was literally sweating while at the park with maxson but my body and soul loved the warmth of the sun. maxson loves to run away from me run everywhere. no but really he is adorable to watch outside, his curiosity of this new world not restricted by coats, boots, gloves, and snow pants is off the charts. i love it dearly and it makes my heart smile. tonight we had dinner outside with the missionaries and after we ate maxson was just running around, we watched him play in the dirt by our garden boxes. i'm all up for letting him get dirty (especially in the evenings) but then we watched him stick a mouthful of dirt in his mouth. we all laughed at it. then he did it again and we all laughed again but called to him to not do it (he was about 2-3 car lengths way from us). cue more dirt shoved in mouth followed more laughter and more fervent pleas in not putting dirt in your mouth. this followed by at least 3 more mouthfuls of dirt being frantically shoved in his mouth as i jumped off the bench to get him to physically stop. why child why? of course i didn't completely stop him, i went in to get my camera…

4. being a lot more diligent at food planning, food prepping, and house clean up lately. i still go in my waves of good and bad of this and usually for two days a week i lose it all and then find renewed energy to pick up the pieces and begin again.

5. my computer is on its deathbed. it is getting pretty slow, even with me taking all my pictures off onto back up hard drives. AND it is crazy finicky at charging lately. only casey can get the blasted thing to charge and he has to work with it awhile before it acknowledges that it's being charged, mmeh, don't die computer!!! i need you to last me 2 1/2 more years!!!!

6. speaking of computers, maxson kinda wrecked casey's. the screen part is all wobbly and half of it is disconnected from the keyboard...

7. my "in the picture" project. the past few days when i've thought to blog i also think, mmeh, but i should update those pictures, ha

and there we have it

hop on pop

one afternoon, maxson decided he was too cool for sleeping.

i needed a mommy break and gave him to the daddy.

not too long after, i came back downstairs to a book reading session.

it was so tender.

not too long after reading books, maxson finally fell asleep on the couch :)

free!!

no casey and i are not free from work yet, but

there is a free picaboo book offer online!

go check it out!

it's like the canvas-picture offer i told everyone about a few months ago where you pay shipping and handling.

you make/order a 20 page picture book that you design!

way cool, do it, offer ends i think at the end of the month :)

did i tell you?

we saw it

and just as said so many months ago, we went to the midnight opening!

in fact we went to the 1 o'clock am opening slightly against our will

even though i really didn't want to go to midnight opening,

we really liked it and we had lots of fun together!!!!

casey reminded me that when we were dating we wouldn't have second guessed going to any midnight opening so we should try to stay as fun and wild and "young" as long as possible :)

haha i love him.

of course books are always better than movies, and you must expect not so good acting for that movie but casey really liked the fight scene and i liked all the cheesy lines i remember from the books

oh goodness...twilight saga!

but we didn't get the HP preveiw in ours!!!!

whhhhhaaaaa!?!?!?!?! HOLD THE PHONE!

yeah i know!

but we watched it the following day online.

doesn't it look epic!

we will stay "young" and go to those 2 midnight openings as well!!!!

SO EXCITED for it!

as another friend of mine mentioned, i am so proud to be apart of the HP generation!

i remember waiting what seemed like forever to have the 4th and 7th books come out!

those midnight openeings were so fun!

not knowing what was going to happen to harry,

like so many others, those books inspired me to love to read

plus i was pretty much the same age as harry when i read each book,

i thought that was soo kewwwl :)

and with twilight too,

i remember being so excited for that 4th book to come out,

not knowing what was going to happen,

sigh, i hope there are some more amazing series that will come out that'll be epic too

well that's that here folks!
we're going to a rodeo saturady night to colebrate the 4th!
i absolutely love the 4th of july :)
a summer holiday
watermelon
red
white
blue
sunscreen
swimming
bbq
decorations

i just love it
adios!!!

don't these words speak volume?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"

amazing how this one, smiple, opening line is the absolute epitome of one entire book.

haha love it.

a time for reading

it's summer time.

which means worktime

and with this job, it means reading time.

i'm taking a trip to the public library, hopefully soon, but am stumped with what to get

any ideas on good books you've read lately or not so lately?

i haven't read in ages it seems like bc of school but i'm ready to get my read on

so please, share with me your goods!