Started up a wellness blog and Ghosts of Christmas Future

Two big events:
I've started up a wellness blog, with the idea of sharing fitness ideas and health tips.  I encourage anyone who reads this blog to check it out (All 3 of you).  I want to see if I can be a resource and help people lose weight or get in shape or whatever.  So far I've helped Nichole, Dave, Dave's wife Hope, and a co-worker.  It's only 4, but maybe I can really help some people who just need a virtual partner for workouts.  Check it out at Wellbodywellmind.blogspot.com

Also, I had an interesting weekend.  Nicky and the kids went down to visit family and friends and I was home alone.  Spent some time with a buddy from work, and it really made me appreciate what I have.  Sometimes, you don't know what you got till it's gone..

The front yard continues, and Taylor and AJ are awesome.  AJ comes to greet me at the door when I get home from work.  He's so lovable and hugable.. I really enjoy his time.  Tay is like an all or nothing proposition.  Sometimes she's totally awesome and fun, other times UGH!!!  But I guess that's how kids work.  Oh, we went out on the boat with the kids, and Tay loved riding on the tube.  At one point she and Nicky and Meme fell over backwards and flipped the tube... it was all Tay could talk about on the way home "How silly! we flipped the tube!"

I have been having lots of fun playing Starcraft 2, and I murdered a guy today who was playing terran with high temps... feedback + storm owns terran ground.  Rick has kidney stones so I've been forced to play 1v1s, and it's not actually that bad.

No pics today, have to find the camera, but hope to have the sprinklers done in a week or two, and then have sod laid.  I'll post some final pics plus whatever else I have.

Taylor's Birthday party at Funderland!

Had a great time, Taylor's party was at Funderland.  Lots of good rides and had great fun, Linda and Taylor are such cute little friends!

Week one of yard work done, Thoughts.. and of course.. pics

So let's see... I had an interesting day with Taylor today.  When I got up this morning, I came out to the living room with her and said "Good morning Taylor!"  She responded with a "No! Go away!" and used her purple marker to write on my hand.  I took her marker away and put her in her room for a few minutes while I ate my cereal.  I got to thinking, and while I was at work, I realized that she's acting out because she likes the attention.  I know, child psych 101, but I hadn't thought of it before.  She doesn't really understand that by acting poorly she makes people not want to be around her... she just knows that if she does chaotic things, people respond and pay attention to her.  Soo... armed with this new information, when I went home for lunch, I asked Tay to sit down next to me while we ate.  Then I asked her if she would go swimming with me after work.  We went to the gym and swam in the pool.  Then we got AJ ready for bed together, and I did her bedtime stuff too.  It was great, and one of the best parts is that she went to sleep easily and without any fighting.  It really was a great bedtime.

In other news, AJ was really cute yesterday, we hung out around the house and just played around.  Today at the pool he was standing on the side making dinosaur voices and jumping into the pool.  He's really a lot of fun, and I find him a lot easier to understand than his sister.  He reads the Caterpillar book with me, says all the noun words... My favorites are CA-Coooon and POP! when the caterpillar comes out of his egg.  Cherrie pah and pickle are cute too.

We are working on the front yard now..my list of things to do is huge, but we're making progress.  We recently painted the side of the garage coat 1 and also tilled the entire yard.  The list is long but it'll get done.  Lot of work tilling the yard, but neat to see the fruits of our labors.