Justin and I decided to stop at Wendy's to get root beer floats today. They call them Frosty Floats and it's vanilla frosty with root beer...obviously.
Justin: Can we get 2 Frosty Floats?
Lady at Wendy's Drive Thru: Okay, would you like root beer on that?
WHAT???
Justin: Um....Ya we do.
We laughed all the way home! Who orders a root beer float without the root beer?
Can we get a root beer float without the root beer...while you're at it, just hold the ice cream too and we'd like to just pay for an empty cup with the Wendy's logo. :) Some people are funny.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Potty Update
Mya is now officially potty trained! Today is day 6 and she hasn't had any accidents since Sunday and is now wearing big girl panties! Yesterday she told me she wanted to wear panties so I let her, crossing my fingers for no accidents...and she hasn't had any. She'll tell me every time she needs to go. She's so proud of herself and happy and so are we. It's cute seeing her little bum in panties now instead of a diaper. She's just so cute!
Friday, July 16, 2010
It's Potty Time!
So I started potty training Mya yesterday. She's doing great. Yesterday she only had 3 accidents. This morning when she woke up, she was dry and went straight to her toilet to go. We only had 1/2 accident today. I think she started to pee a little, but then remembered and held the rest in while she yelled and told me she had to go potty. I'm so proud of her. She's doing so good!
Bitter Sweet
I always feel better when I vent, so I guess this post is for me. I love being a homeowner. I love the pride you have in your home as you work to fix it up and keep it nice. I love the memories...but at the same time, I hate being a homeowner. What happened to mom and dad taking care of everything and not having a care in the world except when your homework assignment was due and what you were going to do for the weekend? Oh ya, I grew up. Blah! And with that comes responsibilities...
Let's start with our dishwasher...2 years ago (ONLY 2 years ago) we bought our dishwasher. She treats me good. I love how she looks in my kitchen (since it's the only decent looking appliance in my kitchen) and she cleans so good! But what I don't like is how loud she is getting. It was the quietest dishwasher I had ever heard when we got it. I had to stop to listen to see if it was running. Now, it lets our entire house know it's running....like it's lacking attention. Justin's torn it apart only to find nothing wrong with it. We talked to an appliance guy and we are now just waiting for the motor to seize up on us. Great.
Then let's move onto our washing machine. We had to replace it just over a year ago and when we did, it was a good option to get a refurbished one from Advanced Appliance. It was the same washing machine my mom had before she upgraded to her front-loader. But someone in our house (me) has a hard time keeping the loads at a reasonable size and weight. Sometimes it is to worth it to pack an extra towel or pair of pants in it to avoid ANOTHER load of laundry to wash and fold. Well, we had to get the clutch replaced on it again...yes again. The clutches that should last 3-5 years only last me less than a year...Yes, I am now doing smaller and more frequent loads of laundry.
Now let's move onto our air conditioner. 2 years ago it wasn't working and we had Barlow come and look at it. It has a leak in the hose so instead of replacing the part, we just had them try to seal it to see if that would fix the problem. It didn't and we had to have them come fill the coolant stuff up again last year...once again, I've used the wonderful cooling devise enough this year that it's telling me it wants a break...Looks like we'll need to call Barlow again.
Am I really that hard on appliances and technology? Man, I think these are the same things I vented about 2 years ago. But my lovely 15-year-old stove, refrigerator, and water heater is still working. As much as I wanted them to go out when we bought the house, I'm just hoping they'll hang in there for me for a while longer. I think I'll keep paying my tithing just to make sure things don't get out of hand.
Let's start with our dishwasher...2 years ago (ONLY 2 years ago) we bought our dishwasher. She treats me good. I love how she looks in my kitchen (since it's the only decent looking appliance in my kitchen) and she cleans so good! But what I don't like is how loud she is getting. It was the quietest dishwasher I had ever heard when we got it. I had to stop to listen to see if it was running. Now, it lets our entire house know it's running....like it's lacking attention. Justin's torn it apart only to find nothing wrong with it. We talked to an appliance guy and we are now just waiting for the motor to seize up on us. Great.
Then let's move onto our washing machine. We had to replace it just over a year ago and when we did, it was a good option to get a refurbished one from Advanced Appliance. It was the same washing machine my mom had before she upgraded to her front-loader. But someone in our house (me) has a hard time keeping the loads at a reasonable size and weight. Sometimes it is to worth it to pack an extra towel or pair of pants in it to avoid ANOTHER load of laundry to wash and fold. Well, we had to get the clutch replaced on it again...yes again. The clutches that should last 3-5 years only last me less than a year...Yes, I am now doing smaller and more frequent loads of laundry.
Now let's move onto our air conditioner. 2 years ago it wasn't working and we had Barlow come and look at it. It has a leak in the hose so instead of replacing the part, we just had them try to seal it to see if that would fix the problem. It didn't and we had to have them come fill the coolant stuff up again last year...once again, I've used the wonderful cooling devise enough this year that it's telling me it wants a break...Looks like we'll need to call Barlow again.
Am I really that hard on appliances and technology? Man, I think these are the same things I vented about 2 years ago. But my lovely 15-year-old stove, refrigerator, and water heater is still working. As much as I wanted them to go out when we bought the house, I'm just hoping they'll hang in there for me for a while longer. I think I'll keep paying my tithing just to make sure things don't get out of hand.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Parker's Blessing
The 4th of July was very memorable this year. The entire weekend I was busy getting things ready for Parker's blessing. But I really wanted to make sure we took Mya to fireworks Saturday night. Of course, I forgot my camera for the fireworks, but Mya is so fun to watch fireworks with! She got so excited with every firework and would shout out either Whoa, Wow, Ooh, That one almost scared me a little bit, or Oh wow, that was a big one! So cute! We went to Hooper's fireworks and there were actually no mosquitos because there was a breeze. But I was really glad we made sure between all of the busyness that we went to those. Before fireworks, Justin took Mya to our friend's house for a barbeque and she loved it. I had planned on going, but everything was taking twice as long as planned that day.So on the 4th we blessed Parker. The day couldn't have gone better. Everything went really smooth that morning and sacrament meeting was so great. I of course cried. There's something about blessing your baby...the spirit is so strong! Then after people came over and we had a breakfast. We had cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, muffins, banana bread, cake, breakfast bakes (which, I'm putting the recipe on the side of my blog since I've had a lot of requests), fruit and lots of chocolate milk, orange juice, and milk. All of the food was yummy. I loved Parker's outfit. Such a stud! It really ended up being such a nice 4th of July weekend.
Swimming Weather!
It has been so hot lately! Once it finally started to warm up this summer, I decided to go find Mya a sprinkler toy or something since we can't seem to find her pool this year. I ended up coming home with a slip-n-slide! She loved it. She doesn't really get the whole slide-down-on-it-on-your-belly concept, but she loves crawling through it and hanging out in the little pool at the end.
Then last week was our ward's swim party at the Roy Aquatic Center. She had a blast! She even went down the big slide with Justin!
Ever since we went to Florida to visit Rebecca, Mya's wanted her own tube for swimming. So today I bought her one along with some floaties for her arms. I think we'll have to go swimming very soon so she can try out her new toys!
She was so excited she went and got herself dressed...what a goof!
Then last week was our ward's swim party at the Roy Aquatic Center. She had a blast! She even went down the big slide with Justin!
Ever since we went to Florida to visit Rebecca, Mya's wanted her own tube for swimming. So today I bought her one along with some floaties for her arms. I think we'll have to go swimming very soon so she can try out her new toys!
She was so excited she went and got herself dressed...what a goof!
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