oh no.

makemebabies.com claims our unborn children will look like this:

and this:

lets keep our fingers crossed this is not accurate :-)

Dear Mom,

Happy late birthday!!!! In honor of you turning 28 this year, I thought I would do what you have been asking me to do forever- send updated pics of the house!!! See, I AM a good daughter :-).

I hope you know how wonderful you are and how much I look up to you. Throughout my lifetime you have shown me the true meaning of love, and for that I am so grateful. You're the best.

Ps- Hurry up and move out here already ;-).

pss-for everyone who is not my mom, please excuse the million pictures of the house. There are a lot of them but what the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets.

LOVE,

Katherine

The house

The entry way
Entry way table (with the cute candy jars from Costco that I got for $20!)
Dining room with dining room table

living room, from the dining room
the TV area (bad pictures oops. I'm already upstairs though so I'm not taking another one :-). Also the only picture i have hanging up so far. we will get there though)

The kitchen area from the dining room

Kitchen, with the ugly supposed to be brown but turned out diarrhea colored paint I got. don't worry though, Marianne helped me pick out a chocolate brown today that will look great!

oh dang, who is that hottie in the downstairs bathroom?

The downstairs bathroom is shaped too odd to get a full pic, but you can see the tan paint in both pictures. AND I know you have missed these guys :-)

The stairway. kind of. Just thought I'd throw in this for good measure. haha.

the loft upstairs

Our bedroom. I don't think the blue looks quite this blue in real life. It's more muted. I think. I hope.

The other part of our bedroom

Our bathroom

Our bathroom

The hallway to the other rooms

The guest bathroom

The guest bedroom

The guest bedroom again

I didn't take a picture of the other guest bedroom because its full of nothing and its not painted.

I hope you enjoy this though and tell me if yall hate or love the blue! love ya mom!!!!!

funny husband

during church bj and i were talking about having babies, baby names ect. this is how some of our conversation went:

BJ: if you REALLY wanted to get preg now, we could
Kat: you are so sweet. you always want what i want. why?
BJ: ...bc otherwise you get cranky.

ah, so charming.

Kat: i can tell we are going to have a girl first
BJ: bc we are having a hard time coming up with girl names???
Kat: yea
BJ (with a frightened look on his face, he holds out his hands and starts counting off...) what about chelsea, brownie, cupcake, sprinkle, fudge, or twinkie....

hahah....what!?

Kat: what if we named one of our girls blake?
Bj (in a very matter of fact way): ....then everyone would think she is a boy.

...true. maybe.

bj has this innocence about him that makes him brutally honest without meaning to be. he is always making me laugh, even if he is not meaning to, and i love that about him. husbands really are great! ...most of the time ;-)

saturday is the day to get ready for sunday...

So today at the gym i saw a little old woman laying on a big blue mat doing crunches. when she was finished with them, she very slowly got up and proceeded to grab her walker and push herself out of the gym. is that a little strange to anyone else??? she deserves points for for still going to the gym at that age....but it was still a little odd.

speaking of the gym, i have a new toy that i LOVE and that has made me to go the gym consistently for two weeks now. yea i know two weeks is short. in MY world however, two consecutive weeks at the gym is a miracle.

a while back courney john told me about a polar F6 heart rate monitor. her sister lori, who has a six pack (and she has TWINS mind you), uses it and loves it. so courtney was telling me about how it works and it sounded really cool. it monitors your heart rate, and by doing so it tells you how hard you need to be working in order to make your workout most effective. it shows you the exact number of calories you are burning bc it knows your height, weight and age. it also logs your weekly totals so at the end of each week you can know how long you worked out for and the total calories burned. so anyway, bj got me it for christmas and i am loving it. maybe its silly, but it really motivates me at the gym bc i can see exactly how hard i am or am not working.

so thanks for the advice courtney! :-)

tomorrow we start our new calling- teaching CTR 5! there are TEN of them and i am so excited!!!! i think 4-5 year olds are hilarious. i am sure they will be a handful, but fun nonetheless. the only downfall is that the little hellions may work as birth control for us and push our plans of getting preg this summer even further down the road....kidding ;-) sort of. haha.


and no, i dont actually know these children. they came up on google when i typed in "classroom of 4 year olds". creepy? slightly.

i made these chocolate chip cookie dough brownies to bring for the class tomorrow. bj keeps telling me we are not aloud to bring treats anymore....but i refuse to believe that. i always loved the teachers that brought treats....and thought the ones who didnt were lame. so if i have to win these 4 year olds over with sugar, so be it.

here is the recipe if you guys are interested-

http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2009/01/thaaank-you-betty.html

yum. ill let you know how they turn out :-)

i was going to try to play catch up...but that would take MUCH too long. so ill just say....

american idol has started and I LOVE IT! i cant wait to see what this season has in store for us. haha. a lot of people love these first couple weeks where they weed out all the freaks, but i like the show from the top 24 and down. its more fun. however, i still watch the beginning otherwise i would miss out on little jewels like the bikini girl or the self proclaimed 'sexual chocolate' man that preformed for us last night.

another note on tv shows, i have recently discovered i love love watching them with my husband. he is hilarious. he will say things i dont expect to hear from him and it makes it me laugh out loud.

anyway, just thought everyone should know its on so that yall dont miss out :-)

ashley and cj come to visit!

a few weeks ago ashley and cj came to mesa to see us! it was so fun having them here. they were wonderful guests and it was fun to have some girl time with ashley and virg. we had a high school musical marathon and made homemade samoas that were DELISH. (this is the recipe, don't know how to do the link thingy though -thanks kristen :-). http://http//thepkfordfamily.blogspot.com/2008/04/homemade-samoas.html )

in classic ashley form- her not letting me get a picture of her.

high school musical 1 and 2 were not terrible. don't get me wrong, they were not good either. they were cheesy and predictable and corny beyond belief, but not so bad once the experience was over :-). just kidding ashley...kind of. haha.

PUPPY!

we have a new puppy! yes, i am aware this is the third time i have announced this on my blog. in my defense though, we don't actually have three dogs that live with us. dakota (the first dog) is at brads parents house and will probably (hopefully) be there forever :-). i know i know, i'm a dog abandon-er, whatever. she has too much energy for a house with a little backyard. we still have our little moose though, and now that we have a backyard we decided he needed a playmate. thus, puppy is now a part of the young family.

he is a 7 week old lab/golden retriever mix. and he is quite possibly the cutest thing EVER. he is tiny and we love him! he doesn't really have a name yet though, we are still working on that. originally we thought 'duke'... but it isn't really sticking. any ideas????

PS-one of the best parts about getting the new puppy: as soon as we can trust moose to be alone with him for long periods of time they will both be OUTSIDE DOGS!!!! hallelujah! no more mass quantities of dog hair all over my house! YES!