Camping and Swimming fun!

We have already had some fun trips this summer and we are excited for the rest of the year. So far we have gone camping, spent the weekend in SLC at my parents condo, and swam at Raging Waters/Seven Peaks. We hope to continue our fun with another camping trip, a weekend in Park City, the zoo, and many more swim trips. Anyway we went camping with Steven's family. It was kind of a bummer trip for me because I was working and unable to come up until late fri night and then almost everyone left saturday. So I missed some of the fun.  We did have a lot of fun and was able to just sit and relax. Korbin loved the camping trip and he did well the whole time we were there. It was definitely a new experience for us to have a child while we camped and I did not realize how much more stuff you have to bring for just one little kid! We were going to stay until Monday but on that Sunday morning when we woke up we realized that it was probably going to rain all day so we decided to go home and spend the night at Ryan and Rachels. Overall it was a lot of fun!

Steven kind of looks mad lol, I think he was just squinting from the sun. My two handsome boys :)

My sis in law Rachel and my cute nieces Bailey and Kyla

Korb going for a pretzel!

My bestest buddy in the world and I. He loved camping!

This is a little tent for him. It has a little air mattress and everything. I think he had more fun playing in it than sleeping.

Chunker Makayla. Korbins cousin.

Korb all ready to play in the dirt.

Korbin and his cousin Leah (3 months apart).

Korb sportin!

And last of all.. you cant forget the shower. Steven has never been soo excited to take a shower.

On to the swim park-

 Korb and I getting ready to go in.

 He LOVED the water and wanted to just sit and splash all day.

 Korb and his cousin Makayla. They both ended the day with crawling as far out in the water as they could.

 Kyla, Leslee, and Bailey

 Korb havin fun!

 My bro in law Ryan, excited that he got the triple tube. Which ended up being a BLAST!!

 My sis in law Rachel and cute little Leah.

 The two trouble makers again.

We had a lot of fun at Raging Waters and I am soo glad Korb enjoyed it so now we can go again soon!

Korb is 11 months old!!

Okay okay, he is almost 11 months old (3 days shy).. I figured since I had a spare minute that I would blog about Korbs past month before I forget!  If I remember right, I slacked a little bit and didn't get last months pictures and stuff up either, so this just might be a combined blog of the past two months. 
This past month we have been giving Korb more normal food so he can slowly transition. He really enjoys anything we eat. He has had a hard time with stage 3 baby food with the meats in it like spaghetti and meatballs or turkey dinner...etc. Im not sure if its just weird for him because of the thickness, meat, or what. He will eat meat on its own, just not from a jar! Besides those few things, he still enjoys about anything we feed him. He loves his sweet potatoes and squash and loves to eat little pieces of banana, ritz crackers, those little baby food wheels. He loves juice, milk, and water, and probably anything else if we let him try it. He is getting a lot better with his sippy cup which is good since he will be going to whole milk soon. He is awesome at army crawling, he started that about 4 weeks ago, and now he is super fast. He doesn't really try too much to crawl the real way because he gets around just fine how he is. He is showing more interest in wanting to walk (no, we are no where close to it), so we try to walk around the house a little bit each day. He has his two bottom teeth and we are still waiting for the top two. They are extremely close to popping through and we are hoping it goes a little smoother. He LOVES water and his baths and would probably stay in there all day if I let him. He can do about anything with his mouth.. he loves to make sssss sounds and tttttt and now he is working on pa pa pa. He clicks his tongue and does the motor boat with his mouth. He loves to stomp his feet which usually results in me getting hit over and over again. He is one funny guy and absolutely loves pickaboo! He tries to play it with me even when Im not ready. Its very cute. He is still a great sleeper sleeping about 12 hrs or so (which I love!). Well I better not go on anymore, but he is one guy little guy and I just love him to pieces!!



 I thought this was the cutest! With his little arms crossed and everything.

 One of the many things he likes to play in.

 "Mommy.. I wanna go with you!!"

 He gets into EVERYTHING!

 Crawling under a chair eating paper. Classic.

 How about under the jumper?

 He gets this tray that is under the couch to play with.

 Happy Boy

 Playing outside while we garden.

 He loves playing with the fireplace and wont listen to us when we say no!

 Another favorite toy..fingernail clippers.

Cousins

 
 His beached whale.

 Every kid has to have a picture like this.

 Trying to eat his bottle while sitting. What a nerd.

My cute big boy!

Drive In

This past Saturday night we decided that we wanted to take a shot at going to the Drive In with Korbin.  We were fully aware that he wouldn't be too interested in the movie but we thought it would be nice to go see some movies without worrying about a babysitter.  Well.. I would have to say that it went better than expected!! He had fun crawling/rolling around the back of the truck, eating some snacks, and playing. When it was time for the movie to start he was almost ready for bed..so we all cuddled in the blankets and about 20 mins after the movie started he was sound asleep.  He slept through both movies and we were able to enjoy the movies without much hassle.  So it was a success and I am pretty excited to go again! Here are some fun pictures of our night.

 

What has been going on lately?

Well I thought I would do a little update on our family and what is new, old, and just entertaining.  I usually just blog on Korbin and his updates so I thought as I was sitting here at work I should blog about all of us.  About a month ago I was entered into a drawing because I did this fitness thing at work and I won a 3 month membership to Golds Gym! Note: before this I had NEVER won ANYTHING... like the only time I ever won was when every person won, so I would get a bar of chocolate or something gay like that. Anyway, I thought that was exciting!  Then about 2 weeks ago I entered a drawing on KSL and I won again! It must have been my lucky month! So I won 8 tickets to this motorsports thing in Tooele this weekend.  Well I work all weekend and didn't really want to find a babysitter for that so I decided to sell the tickets.  I got $220 out of the tickets (now I wish I would have sold them for more!)..and as I was thinking about what I wanted to spend this random $220 I realized I knew exactly what I wanted.. what was it you ask?? A king size bed! ha ha.. Lately Korb has been getting teeth so he has only wanted to sleep with us which makes the bed SUPER crowded.  So anyway I found a used king bed on KSL for $100 (no headboard) and then I decided I wanted a memory foam on it as well so I found a lady selling new memory foam for $25 (4inches).. so needless to say.. I got the king bed and the memory foam (8 inches of it!) and we slept awesome last night!  It looks quite funny because the bed is about a foot higher than the other furniture, but man I felt like I was sleeping in the clouds!  And I didnt even know Steven was in bed with me.  So I was impressed with my findings and winnings and I am proud to say that I actually have won something cool!
 Steven is done with school for the summer.  This was by far the hardest semester for him.. he had to do such ridiculous things and it took soo much time out of his week. So we are all happy he is done with it and passed.  Next semester he starts his level and then next Spring (2012) he will finally graduate!! Yay!
 I am still working at the Weber County Jail and I work part time.  Working part time and hurt us money wise, but it has been soooo nice being home with Korb that it makes not having money all worth it. :)
 Our little doggie Jimmy died a few weeks ago when we were on vacation.  He got out of our backyard and got hit by a car.  We didn't find out until we got home a week later that he died, and we were glad no one told us until then.  It is very quiet now at home and the crumbs on the floor dont seem to clean themselves up anymore.  Korb loved his little doggie and loved watching him run around.  Maybe one day we will get another dog, but not for a very long time.
 We are getting excited for the nice weather to show up, we have some fun plans! We are going to spend the summer at Raging Waters, Raymonds pool, The Tree house, our backyard, at drive ins, camping, golfing, and anything else we can think of.

Im done!

Well I have officially hit the wall of searching for a new job.  Over the past year I have been looking DAILY for any type of job that is in the schools.  I haven't been picky at all, just hoping to get my foot in the door somewhere, anywhere.  Well I thought that I would have some good attributes since I have my degree and I have a good work ethic.  I guess I was wrong.  The past year I have been to over 15 job interviews and I haven't got any of them.  Here is a question.. how on earth does a person (I wont list her name) get a job in a school with no experience, no real goals, and terrible work eithic, and yet I cant get ONE offer for a job.  I dont feel like I am going above my range and I dont feel like I am picky.  So either I interview really really bad (which could easily be the case), or I have the worst luck in the world (which also could be the case).  I dont know what to do.  I am so exhausted from looking for jobs, going to interviews, and hoping they call me.  I think I will just be at my crappy going nowhere job for the rest of my life because I am done looking for a job and I am done hoping that there is a job out there for me.
 This last job that I interviewed for looked pretty nice.. it was a comp lab teacher where I would help kids with the computer.  It was awesome hours and I had above the qualifications for it.  I even had an amazing connection.  The interview I thought went really well. I had them laughing and joking with me, and then they all seemed impressed with me, or so I thought.
 Well as you can guess.. I didnt get the job.  I just dont feel like I am asking too much to get a job doing something in the schools. I dunno what to think anymore.. my confidence is shattered and Im exhausted.

Korbin @ 9 months

So I am a little behind since Korbin is now almost 10 months old. But here are his 9 month pictures taken by my wonderful sister Megan (Check out her photography blog on the right -Megz Corner-..she does cute stuff!).  Anyway.. these pictures turned out super cute and I had a hard time limiting the pictures to the cutest ones..                                                          

This wasn't posed. He did it all on his own. :)

There was soo many more cute ones, but I figured people probably didnt want to see every single picture :)  So this month he has been a productive little boy.  Still no crawling but he is getting better and better. He gets up on his hands a knees and doesnt quite know what to do, so he just falls down.  He has also started getting on his hands and feet, but has the same outcome.  So we are getting there! He loves loves loves to roll..he now directs his path by moving his arms and turning. His new favorite thing right now is to clap his hands! It is soo cute! Everytime I say "Yeah!!" he will clap, or even at soccer/basketball games and others are clapping, he will clap also.  He is super proud of himself.  I am trying to teach him how to wave, but I have to be careful on how I wave so he doesnt think milk is on its way! (sign language) He absolutely loves his jumper and the roller thingy..he could do both of those all day everyday! He is in love with tags.. hint hint (Collette I will pay you to make me a tag blanket for Korbin)..He loves to chat and has now started talking with his tongue out. Funny! He is still an excellent tongue clicker, I am always amazed at how he learned how to do that soo early! He has now gotten too big for his car seat so we had to buy new car seats to have rear facing.  At his doctors appt here were his stats.. (Even the doctor said the length must be wrong..guess I should measure him myself)  Weight-23.66lbs (87%) Length 29.25 (77%) Head 18.3  (80 %)  His length went from 99% to 77% and his head went from 51% to 80%.. either he has changed big time, or the lady didnt know how to measure.
 He got his first two teeth in. The first tooth came in the week before he turned 9 months and the second tooth came in the week after that. It is his two bottom teeth. Now we are waiting for the others to come in..we are okay with them taking its time because he HATED getting teeth.
 Towards the end of the 9 month mark he had to move from 12 month clothes to 18 month clothes. He is going through them too quickly! I can  barely buy them in enough time for him to outgrow them! Below are some pictures from this month.

I always seem to find him rammed up in the corner when he takes naps.

One day he managed to get the bumper over his head and he jammed his head against the wood posts..you can see the indents on his head! Silly kid!

He started actually picking up the pieces of food and putting them in his mouth. Before he could only pick them up. Now he can feed himself! yay!

Here he is rolling around..he was rolling so much that he wrapped himself up in the blanket.

Sucking on the tag of his toy.

He is getting stronger and can stand against something. Here he is rooting for ReAL! This is a 24 month outfit.

Here he is in his roller.. one of his favorite things. He can only go backwards and in our small kitchen, it doesnt give him much room, but he likes it anyway.
Below this post is another post, so check it out if you are bored!