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RACHEL I MISS YOUR FACE SO SO SO MUCH I COULDN'T BEAR TO WRITE IT ON THE BLOG.... BUT MY SEVERE DEPRESSION OF BEING MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY HAS BROUGHT ME TO THIS MOMENT OF SORROW... RACHEL GREEN COME BACK! MY LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT YOU IN IT.. I HEART YOU :(
you are my true one and only (russell disregard the previous statement)

Our son, the indoor boy

Korbin has had several issues with the grass this last summer and whenever russell and i sat him down in it he would freak out and lift all limbs possible....
Russell and i hoped that maybe his fear would differ for snow.... our luck was not so.
the other day he had his first real taste of snow bc of the MASSIVE snow that dumped on us in Eagle Mountain..

(his mood did improve when we
showed him how to make a snow ball)

Christmas was fun this year. For the first time russell and i got to play Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause and were in charge of Christmas at our house. Korbin got tons of presents including a really cool activity table that my super talented brother made for him

After Christmas morning we went sledding with some friends and let the boys show their "manly-ness" and make a massive snow man:)


OH and for anyone who is curious what happens to korbin when Russell babysits here is an example :)

ps.. i love you Russell and am grateful you are home to watch Korbin so i can go to work (which we all know is sadly my social life)

oh and alyse i miss your face... :(

Why I heart PRUNE juice

Lately Korbin has been having some MAJOR issues with well...the lack of poop..... to solve this issue I turned to the aide of prune juice....
When I bought the bottle of prune juice, and gave it to Korbin I expected it to take its course naturally, but I had NO idea it would take its course as quickly and well as it did... I really think the makers of prune juice should put a warning on the label... had I would have known how well and fast it would have worked I would not have given korbin a WHOLE bottle..X3.....
He loved the stuff... he downed it bottle after bottle... I being quite naive kept giving it to him....so stupid...

well a half hour went by and the unsuspecting me, heard something that sounded like water falling on the floor... I looked to see what I thought was korbin playing in the dog water again..but in turn found him in his famous pooing position.......
so to spare you the graphic details... lets just say the juice worked.. and continued to work for the next SEVERAL hours....
... NO more peanut butter for korbin...or prune juice...
on a happier note.. ya for the two hour "premiere" of 24 tonight.. AND me getting to sleep in till 6 AM because i am DONE with student teaching for this semester (for those that care I got all 3 (that's the highest :) )... guess I am one semester away from being "Mrs. Nelson" for the rest of my life....

It's been a while.. HENCE the MASSIVE post

(look how little he was, now he is a fatty:( )

Korbin was Yoda again for Halloween.. last year his costume that russell demanded we had him wear was WAY too big, but this year it was JUSt right. So to save some cash we jsut had him wear it again! He loved it adn have to admit he was cute:)
It is sad to look at how much he has grown over the year and makes me EVEN more baby hugnry (sorry Russell, I know the deal ;) )

I bought him a rocking chair and HE LOVES it we tell him to go sit in his chair and he runs over to it and sits and looks through book, and will every now and then point at the pictures adn say doggy or baby. He is learnign more and more words now and i proclaim him to be a genius.. if asked he will point to his belly button, nose, and feet. He sit and lay on demand ( sounds like a dog, I know.. russ taught him that one..) He is also very into drawling.. my walls are now covered to prove it.

Student teaching is going REALLY well (i think) and i LOVE it! I only have one mroe week and hten i am done adn will be sad to leave the kids are cute and my teachers are really great! it will be good to go back for three months in teh spring...

Took teh praxis today.. probably should have studied... oops.. guess i will take it again in Dec.. another 100 bucks down the drain..

OH and i got a ticket... yes i was "speeding" and i TOTALLY thought the speed limit was 35 NOT 25.. maybe they should post a sign.. STUPID LEHI! .. but no worries Russ got one too-- (his story is better ask him :) )

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Why I am falling farther and farther behind in school....

we were able to have a photo shoot the other day with some really good friends, and i do think that the one behind the camera is a miracle worker bc
1. she got Russell to not look stoned in his picture.
2. she made korbin look photogenic.
3. she made me look some what decent :)
THANKS again:)
oh and korbin is talking non stop now--most of which is gibberish.. BUT his big boy words now include: doggy(first) ball, mom, da, ba ba (bottle) uhh..( more, up etc) be be (baby).... HE LOVES to dance music and sadly the boy has more rhythm than i do, we caught him bobbing along to 50 cent in the club the other night, he does the hand gestures and everything.... Reading is another one of is prime distractions! he will sit and look at a book for hours (makes it really nice for when i do decide to take a crack at the never ending pile o hw...)

greatful for neighbors, kitchen windows and ladders...lesson learned

so.... i being the total genius that i am... locked myself out of the house.. russell has my keys in Arkansas till next Thursday, and i have his- without any keys to the house. yes you can nag me now about having two sets of keys..
anyways in my early morning rush out the door htis morning at 7, i locked both the garage door AND the back door AND the front door... (normally we leave the garage door unlocked and shut the big garage door). so after i try all the ground level windows and saw that they were locked (all bc i watched csi last night) i was at a loss of what to do other than attempt to climb on the roof and try the windows upstairs...

THEN
my very prego neighbor saved the day by sharing her amazing talent of breaking into houses with cc cards... so while she attempted to cc her way in to my house through the front door, i remembered the kitchen window was most likely unlocked and grabbed her ladder and tried it from the back of the house.. my way won.. and i am sure it was quite the show for the nasty stinky ol neighbor who lives behind us (he was sitting on his porch smoking while i lifted myself up through the window (thank you swimmer arms:)
and now i am VERY proud to say my child is asleep INSIDE in his crib.. i win...
needless to say i am going to get a spare key

Let Me Clarify

You can tell when I have a paper (or two) to write bc i suddenly have a massive jump in the amount of blogs......
So i need to clarify my feelings about snow... In an earlier post i stated that snow needed to stay up in the mountains... well actually i am fine with it coming down to my level..but on two conditions...
1. when i wake up i have the chance to look out my window and see everything covered in gorgeous white (with out annoying footprints)
2. it melts and all evidence of the whiteness is gone by lunch time...
so with those ground rules stated..bing it on...

I love my job

two stories

1. tonight at work there was a lady who needed to buy two swimming suits...she had left her suit and her children's suits at home and claimed that she didn't want to waste the gas to get home and get them......... her grand total came to 65$.... so the way i see it is.. unless she lives 4 hours from here and drives a massive diesel truck it would have been easier to go home and get the forgotten suits...but bc i lack a life i looked up her name in our system (she paid with a cc..) to see where she lived... Saratoga Springs.. (ie less than 10 min away.)... some people are stupid....

2. Also tonight there was a family that reserved the pool for a party from 8-10 pm.. there was a large hairy man in that family.. and it was brought to my attention that on his rather hairy back there was heart that had been waxed or shaved into his back hair.. it made my night... i wanted to take pictures for proof but i chickened out....

Should be doing my homework Part 2

so... instead of writing a much dreaded response paper (I secretly dont even know what i am supposed to respond to.. i dont pay attention in class..) i am chooseing to do two things instead... blog stalk other people and create my own blog entry..
this entry will be without pictures seeing as the camera is with the husband atnerd confrence..... so.....
today i took Korbin swimming with Carly and Lannett and their offspring. It was so much fun! Korbin really loves the water and it is fun to see him get so excited when he plays in it. I hope he will love it as much as i do when he gets older.. and not so much the other sports (wink wink russell :P) But we will see!
So when i was driving home i noticed the snow in the mountains... and this makes me happy and botherd.. one the snow is still FAR away.. and that is where the snow should be, for those who like snow they can go and see it there.. WAY up there... and down here us normal folk we can remain untouched by the nasty wet cold stuff...Two .. Snow brings the inventable death cold.... I HATE being cold.. THe only pleasant thing abuot being cold is getting warm... rumor has is that the snow will be creeping its way down here to my level this saturday.. this does not please me... well it except in one way.. it will cover up my very poor excuse of a yard and stop the city from yelling at us for our lack of grass and massive amounts of weeds...
now i am rambling and Korbin thinks he is done with his dinner (gound beef and peas..ew) i know this because he is now feeding the dog...so have to go bathe the child before he starts to smell again..
ps.. russell it is sad to look out the window and see your truck and not have you here... :( come home

Yesterday I was productive... Today I am not

Yesterday I made:

made toast
went grocery shopping
made peach jam (freezer)
made peach jam (normal.. not freezer)
made peach syrup
peach cobbler
peach pie
canned peaches
made frozen peach Popsicles
cleaned up mess from peach mania
changed two MASSIVE blow out diapers (children under teh age of potty trainign should not eat burritos....lesson learned)
painted my whole kitchen
painted my whole kitchen again
picked up after the small child (several times)
cleaned up dog poo (stupid zoey.. you would think that after three years she could poo outside.. how am i ever going to potty train the small child???)
choose a color for my white boring living room
did homework
did homework some more
bills
AND
worked at the pool....

Today I:
dodged a yet another phone call from my visiting teacher supervisor (poor lady.. you think she owuld give up after six months)
ate a WHOLE bag of popcorn (health for the holiday does not start till two more weeks!.. bring it)
made this blog

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

So my dear sweet wonderful husband agreed to take me to the So You Think You Can Dance concert tour thing last night! Can i just say it was freaking amazing! i am still in awe at how coordinated some people can be! I mean really how do they do that! If you don't know what i am talking about...Google it ..or better yet you tube So you think you can dance .. and you will see...

We even brought Korbin with us--with high hopes of him being good-- we were even shot a few looks of "what were you thinking" when we sat down with him in our laps... but they ALL ate their words -in fact on phrase we heard was "he should win the baby of the year award" :P our child SLEPT the ENTIRE time! He was fussy at first with all the screaming and the music but... he gave up and laid his head on my shoulder and PASSED out and did not wake up until we left.. dang good child:)

The concert really was so fun to watch! the only draw backs were the stinky foot girl in front who assumed that everyone behind her can see when she stands up or SITS on her legs to get a extra few inches higher.... stupid stupid girl.. and the neck breather behind Russell and the fact that we did not have a remote to turn down the sound.. it was INCREDIBLY deafening between the music and 4000 screaming girls +10 boys...... but the hearing loss Russ and i will have to endure was very much worth it!

APA my A$$

So i have to write a paper.. in APA format. Which is not really that bad.. i am a SUPER senior in COLLEGE, this is not the first time i have had to do this. My original major was ruled by the world of APA format.... I USED to know how to do this.. i USED to have the stupid manual that told your how to write according to the STUPID guidelines... but seeing as i HATE clutter i did what i do with anything that has no real value in my life... THROW IT OUT... I now regret this decision A LOT...

Why cant i just say where i got the quote in a simple sentence. Why do i have to claim my findings in some STUPID nonsense formation that just makes things look to complicated to even care about. It is not like i am claiming that i wrote the quotes i am using, they are TOO far above my intelligence and written by someone who has WAY too much time on their hands... there is no way i want to even pretend to be them. so why cant i give them their credit how i want to and not in the stupid APA format wants me to.. GAY .... that is all i have to say....

I should be doing homework....

so.. i THINK i have kicked korbin of his NASTY habit.... key word THINK... he has slept through the WHOLE night every night this week and I have loved life--if only i could let myself sleep in now.. i guess one step at a time eh... getting up at 6 am isn't THAT bad....

Korbin has a new nasty habit now.. he HATES his car seat and it has become a game to get him into his car seat which FYI is LOTS of fun when you are in a hurry or when it is raining. .cant wait to see how it is when is it snowing.......... he thinks it's really funny to stand in his seat and laughs really hard when he does this..but when it;s time to sit down and get

buckled in he arches his backs and trys to get out..

this picture is crap..cuz it's with a cell phone.. but it

gives you an idea of what i am up against.. naughty

little boy......

I win..... or it's a MEAN trick

So I am proud to say that Korbin did sleep through the entire night... he didn't make a peep the whole night through..but sadly that did not allow me to sleep the whole night through.. I still got up, sadly out of habit, around three..... dang.... BUT the fact is he slept the WHOLE night... so therefore I win... :) Now this can be a big mean trick he is pulling on me... would be the first time.. he is awfully smart... so keep your figures crossed!

SLEEP TRAINING : AKA : HELL..... HELP

SO I KNOW THIS PIC IS REALLY WASHED OUT BUT LOOK HOW BLUE HIS EYES ARE!!

So we had Korbins one year doc apt. today- and i am glad to say that he is a healthy thriving one year old... he is 22 lbs, and 30 inches long, with a big head (we knew that already hence the c-section.) The Doctor asked if I had any concerns or questions like all good doctors do... I said YES! My lovely child for the past MONTH has found it in his heart to WANT to wake up around 3 ish and demand nothing but a bottle.. now keep in mind I did try other methods such as, plugs, ignoring it, and water in his bottle... NOTHING worked, the kid knows what he wants... so I being the mother climb out of bed with flashbacks of when he was a tiny newborn, for these "late night feedings"....

WELL... the Doctor did have something to say about this... apparently I am in the COMPLETE wrong with this and I need to so what is called SLEEP TRAINING, and now that a month has gone by it will be EVEN harder to break this late night snack habit... lucky me... according to the doc I am to let him cry until he falls back to sleep, and continue this till he is rid of the nasty habit.. easy enough... he even said it will take about two weeks.... I can do that!

So night one....



Three a.m.... I hear him start to whimper... I stay in bed and pretend not to hear it.... the whimper begins to turn into a cry.. which leads to pissed off I hate the world cry.. and then to the my mom doesn't love me, sad cry..... to silence....and then back to the whimper...etc....

This CRY CYCLE (as I will call it) continued for ONE HOUR.... I am sure it would have gone on for more than an hour but his pissed off I hate the world cry turned into really bad sounding coughs bc his thought was so dry..poor kid... and I could'nt take it anymore..... so sadly I GAVE IN.. .and went to comfort him with the thoughts of..., I CAN get up every night for the rest of my life at three for a few min to make my child happy (I was sleep deprived and CRAZY in this thought process)...........

Well he had been crying so hard he was really warm and had a small fever... ( I feel like a horrible mother) so I gave him some Tylenol and rocked him to sleep. (which by the way is the best feeling in the entire world... holding your sleeping child... so i placed my sleeping child back in his crib and went back to bed at 5:00 a.m. this morning... NOW i am sure i will here several suggestions and PLEASE DO! I apparently need them..........my goal is tonight I WILL NOT give in.... so stay posted and hopefully you will read a success story and not a failure one......

I LOVE MY HUSBAND

So I have been contemplating on making this new recipe I got in the relief society binder... Cheesy broccoli casserole... sounds simple enough..and I do like cheese.....

So I bought the ingredients and made it for dinner tonight... and ... it tasted like BUTT! I think the new name should be BUTT IN A BOWL. I managed to eat two bites and then gagged down a third till I said NO MORE.. sweet Russell is still denying of its resemblance to the taste of butt.. BUT did agree to cook a pizza.... :)

So I have learned my lessons...1. stay clear of Relief Society recipes.....

2. Next time i feel like betty crocker... DONT

3. Always keep frozen pizza in the fridge (it can never turn out wrong)

ps: KORBIN FEED IT TO THE DOG... and she ate it...

And he is one

(any suggestions about to filp this without starting all over?!?!?)Korbin and his girls (Kennedy and Avery)






Korbin and Kennedy "sharing" jello...

So it is official, Korbin turned one on Saturday. Russell and I made a cake, and we had a big party and he got WAY too many presents for a one year old:)

He loved it all though especially cake:)



It is SO sad for me to think about how big he really is. I can remember when the doctors first lifted him up for me to see how sur-real it was and then holding him to first time and realizing the he was all mine. I remember taking him home from the hospital and putting him all wrapped up tight in his crib and thinking how tiny he was compared to everything around him. I miss him cuddling with us on the couch, I miss his little boy coo's and sounds. I miss him sitting still for more than two min at a time. I miss having a little baby....

I used to make fun of my mom for crying at every littel thing when we were growing up, but now that I am a mom I totally understand. I have caught myself several times tearing up over stupid little things... Last night russ and i were looking through his new born pictures and videos of him, and couldn't help but to cry.. sad I know... But to me he is all grown up and not a baby anymore... I just miss it, that's all..... hmm time for baby number two???????