Julie's Life With Boys

Most days Caleb and I do "Super School." This is organized time with Caleb in the mornings that includes a lesson, activity, reading and free time. One of the parts of Super School is excercise. Today Caleb picked out a T'ai Chi video to do. He was expecting it to look more like ninjitsu action. After about five minutes (surprising long) Caleb said, "I am done with T'ai Cheese!" I must admit that is exactly how I was feeling. I have never inhaled or exhaled my Chi before and it was a little rusty.

The pictures speak for themselves...

Caleb will sometimes do things for Elmo that he won´t do for his mother. That is why I asked Elmo and Caleb to go to the bathroom this morning before Caleb had an accident. He proceeded to tell me, anatomically speaking, why Elmo couldn´t possibly go to the bathroom. I must say I was impressed. See...notice on diagram A.... Perhaps it was Elmo indeed who taught this to him, as we did just attend Discovery Gateway´s ¨Sesame Street Presents the Body." It was there that we learned that ¨everybody poops.¨

Try not to get sick from all the motion!

You will find the blog in my "linkies" to the right..."How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody." Also found at: www.theanticlimax.blogspot.com Josh, by his own admission "picks the low hanging funny fruit." ...leave a comment on his blog. It will make his day.

This is Nathan, Josh's brother. I think someday it will too be made into a full length film about the human spirit.

My friend Jenni moved to Colorado a few weeks ago and I miss her so much. It really stinks when you don't know someone for very long but you love them! I guess you always hope you will be able to keep in contact. I like to look at her new etsy site (hand made crafts) to remind me about her. I love her baby booties the most. Taylor was the under paid baby model during the creation phase. For a while every time I saw Jenni she pulled out a booty and asked if she could try it on Taylor. I thought that was so cute. Not that I am moping around all day, but I can't describe how much I miss having her around.

Josh's blog.

For the last fourteen weeks I have been in the K-mart New Day Your Way weight loss contest. Last year one of the women who won lost 22lbs, so I figured I could do that! Well, I weighed in for the last time today and lost, according to their records 25.5 lbs. I was starting to think I may be in the running. The contest is based on weight loss (BMI), over all appearance, and an essay. Unfortunately I didn't submit my essay on time because I was confused on the dates so unless they have sympathy on me, I am inelligible. I am trying to think the weight loss and health are better than $10,000. I mean, they are great, but not priceless. I would gain 25 lbs for $10,000. Anyway, I got Josh to take this picture of me today to mark the end of my contest. The next fourteen weeks will be devoted to Josh and his goals.

One of the most dowloaded stories in Utah...tell me this isn't an April Fool's thing. Anyhow, old Snoop Dogg converts to Mormonism? Here's his comment about the missionaries coming to his door: “Y’all know me,” he said grinning broadly. “There were just certain things the old me -- the "natural man" -- needed to do. And these young guys are telling me that God’s not down with disrespecting ourselves. But it’s cool now.”

The snow in Utah is sneeky. I was so excited to finally have a few flowers but that is over now.

This is a picture of Caleb and our friend Madison in the helicopter at Discovery Gateway Children's Museum. Madison recently started working there and she gets a year membership as a benefit. Instead of putting her husband's name on it with her, she put my name! That means we can get four people in for free every time we go. It costs $8.50/person regularly. What a great friend. As a side note, she lives on Rugby Ct., a street I previously mentioned for how great the people were. We love the Moody's , the Parsons, and the Rhodes. Now there is a new couple on Rugby that we hope to get to know, but they don't know what they have to live up to.

My sister, her kids, my kids, and me on our way to Discovery Gateway.

On Monday my friend Jenni was going out with some friends so we had the rest of her family over for dinner and FHE. The Moodys are some of our favorite people, but they are moving to Denver next week. Poor Caleb is heart broken. We love their cute kids and Jenni had been such a great friend to me. Jerry and Josh go to the gym together...kind of. We will miss them so much when they are gone. This is a video of our FHE egg hunt with mostly Jerry directing, but with some Josh and Julie.

Taylor is a happy baby most of the time. We love his laugh. For FHE we took Taylor down a slide for the first time.

Considering the results of my book poll, someone told me it is obvious who is reading my blog... You decide what that means.