little life adventures

 Our little life. Full of mostly insignificant adventures, but I sure love them all. Jane is a total hoot, Im telling you! She makes me belly gut laugh about every 20 minutes. It bugs me that I cant write down every funny thing she does. But I do what I can. Here are a few adventures as of late.

 Soccer games! We are always going to my cousins' soccer games, and jane loves it. Mostly because I bring about 10 bags of snacks each game. This is her practicing her lunges (first pic)- no joke. She would be proud to show you that she can do lunges, squats, push-ups, and the other day, I tried to teach her jumping jacks. Oh it was hysterical. Those take a little more coordination than her little brain can handle.

(Rocking the lopsided diaper.)

This is Jane's punishment. Nose in the corner. I cant help but snap pictures because it's so funny and cute and im seriously dumbfounded each time when she actually stays there. It's an instant tantrum diffuser. The other day I told her to go stick her nose in the corner. Then I said, pointing, and sternly: "Stay there. I'm going to the bathroom and will be right back. Stay there." She did.

After that little timeout, she ran and got her baby doll, plopped her into the corner, pointed and said in her stern voice "Stay there baby!! In da corner! Go baff-room. Stay there."  I about died.

We went to walk around the Brigham City Temple the other day. She was obsessed with the fountains and all the flowers. She found great satisfaction in pointing to each flower and telling me the color of each. The color thing finally clicked and now she is always telling me what color everything is. When we were leaving she said "Oh water fountain....so fun!" The simplest joys...

Another Provo trip! It was so fun to see "Un-ko Tim" and watch his frisbee game. He is a total stud. Jane kinda looks homeless in this picture. But it was 7pm and like I always say, thats the sign of a good day!

(also on this day, a few story times are in order)

First things first. You see my lovely blue flip flops? Well here is that story. I had a doctor's appointment on thursday morning and was planning on going to Provo straight from there. I loaded up the car with a bunch of boxes I needed to put in our storage unit and a whole bunch of other stuff I needed for the day by 8:30 am. It was a frantic morning. I got to the doctors office (10 minutes early for the first time! Winner!) And then I look down and see, well, my bare naked feet. And no shoes to claim them. Jane? She had shoes. Diapers? 10 of them. Snacks and food? About 10 days worth. Boxes and boxes? Sure. But shoes for myself? NOPE. So I got jane out of the car and ran across the street to the nearest walgreens. Walked in barefoot. (no shoes. no shirt. no service? welp. I suppose they made an exception for a frantic sweating pregnant woman holding a toddler.) Bought these bad boys for $2, and still made it on time to my appointment. Im still dumbfounded by that situation. I mean, really?

Anyyyyways...after that was over I finally made it down to Provo.

First stop in Provo was my storage unit where I had to load boxes and unload other things that upon first glance thought would be impossible. I managed to do it, 30 weeks pregnant, and yes I impressed myself. One of those moments where I was like...wow NOBODY was here to see what a beast I was just now, what a total shame.

There was another moment that will not soon leave my memory. When we drove into the storage unit, the code wasnt working so I had to get Jane out of the car and ask the lady who worked there what I was doing wrong. Well we figured it out and then got back to the car. I just plopped jane into the passenger seat because all we were doing was driving through a gate to get to our storage unit.

I parked in front of our storage unit, and got out of the car to get Jane. In the 2 seconds I was walking around the car, I heard a terrible noise. The noise of a 2 year old child LOCKING the car. She was now inside the locked car. I was outside. Guess what else was inside? My key, phone, purse, oh and did I mention my CHILD? I thought to myself THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING TO ME! Me saying "Jane press the other button!" resulted in Jane just pressing the lock button over, and over, and over again. I tried not to be a frantic lunatic, and kept on telling her to press the other button. After about 5 minutes of pure torture, Jane casually pressed the unlock button. (Thank goodness for her love of ALL buttons, and her uncanning ability to follow directions.) I wanted to just say a 30 minute THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES prayer. That disaster was averted and even before I had a nervous break down. 

Water games. I was hoping this would be a good 30 minutes of entertainment but instead, she sat in each bowl of water and then dumped all the water out of each bowl, quite dutifully. And that was that. So...2 minutes. Tops.

We have been going on lots of walks lately. One, because the weather has been fantastic, and two, because I put my fit bit on again and I don't want to be last place out of my fit bit friends. Truth is, I still usually am. But I also have been hitting my goal mostly everyday so I'm fine with it...my fit bit friends are all just freaks. (yes, you, colleen, my dear mother in law! I'm talking to you!) Jane usually gets bored and wants to get out of the stroller within a few minutes so I started giving her a bag of trail mix every time we go on a walk. Almond granola, raisins, pretzels, and chocolate covered sunflower seeds. She spends the whole walk digging through the bag to get to those little gems. And then once those are gone, she moves onto the raisins.

Well, that's all I have for this random-as-heck post.

Life is good, and we get our husband/daddy back in a few weeks!

J & K Conversations

Here are some recent jeff-isms should I call them?

We finally watched Catching Fire for the first time. I had already seen it so Jeff was interrogating me.
"Is there another killing game in this movie?" - j
"Not tellin'" - k
"if there isn't one I don't want to watch it. If it's some weird story about the freaking village, I'd rather just read about it online in a single paragraph!" - j
"...ok..there is a killing game." - k
"I'm in." - j

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"...and THAT'S why I love free back packs!" - j (he owns like 10 back packs)
"No, you like free back packs because you are weird." - k
"No I like them because whoever invented them deserves a gold star." - j

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"Isn't it funny how every woman tells every woman who just had a baby "you look great!"?" - k
"Ya. Even though they look worse than ever, ever, EVER." - j

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Jeff bought a huge 2 pound bag of swedish fish (i don't even like them, and i think he bought them on purpose so he wouldn't have to share with me). His sister was about to arrive to spend the weekend and and as we were sitting down to watch a movie he says:
"Man, I hope we don't have to share these. HURRY! If we are lucky, we can eat them all before she gets here!"

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"But first, let me just take a REAL quick nap!"- j

- everyday, 5 times a day.

I'm pretty sure I will have it written on his tombstone. 

I'd say overall, he's a definite keeper ;)

Probably getting gorgeously tan in summerrrrrr

this little thing hanging on our wall causes me so much stress. but have no fear, there are a lot more than 5 tally marks on this thing now. 

So, technically, it is summer. Because, school is out, and summer sales, duh. But also, mother nature disagrees. Cuz remember a couple days ago when it was may 12th and there was a 24 hour blizzard, which yielded us 12 inches of beautiful, yet miserable and incredibly inconvenient snow?!

silver lining: jeff didn't have to work that day it snowed. door to door salesmen and mid-may blizzards don't go well together. so i got to hang out with jeff aaaaaand he finally watched Frozen with me.

we kinda splurged a little bit that night too. so here is the story. we were all going to go swimming with jeff's coworkers and wives. all dressed in our swim suits ready to go. get in the car and realize it's a 45 minute drive so we are like "hahaha NEVERMIND". because, bedtime. so what do we do? go to target and spend all the money he didn't make that day. we bought our first tv, monumental. but then i realized jane was still wearing a swim diaper, which, i don't even know if it needs to be said because of how obvious it is, but those things are absolutely good for...NOTHING. nothing at all. so i picked her up out of the cart, because as usual she was trying to climb out, and she was soaked in her own pee. so i made jeff put her in her carseat because i didn't really want to touch her. ya...swim diapers and babies and shopping- never again.

so then we needed food, clearly. and jeff's favorite thing in the whole world is fast food. so we were pulled up to a new fast food restaurant when i was like "NO, NEVERMIND, I REFUSE TO EAT FAST FOOD." Health, and all that jazz, trumped my desire for a big juicy burger. So then jeff said "ok, if you aren't eating then i'm going to mcdonalds." OBVIOUSLY. I was having a predicament and said out loud:

"the problem is, i don't want to eat fast food, but i don't like healthy food either right now."
his response was pretty good: "that's why you eat mcdonalds. it makes you feel good for about 10 minutes, and then sick for the rest of the day. and after that you won't want to eat junk for a really long time."

touche. but it wasn't enough to make me eat mcdonalds.
although as i was passing the frantic baby a fry, in desperation, to stop her from crying, i think one of them (or 5) might've accidentally slipped into my mouth.

i think i went home and ate some baked apple chips and carrots for dinner. please clap for me if you are reading this.

well i intended this post to be a documentation of jane and all her cute little things. but i guess it went in an entirely different direction. OOPS. i'll update on jane another day.

she is a dang riot.

j & k conversations (part 4)

"I feel like I'm on drugs"
....where do you think the word 'grain' comes from?
....I don't like fast sundays." - j

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"jeff what should i eat?"- k
"Uhm, i don't know. But...OOH! can you bring me my chips?"- j

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"What would I do without you jeffrey?!" - k
"Cry all the time?....heck I'm here now and you still cry all the time."- j

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*after eating a bowl of western family frosted flakes (gross)
"UGH. I HATE WESTERN FAMILY!
...It should be called WORSTern family!" - j

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*i had tried to sell our little black banana chair online but when i told them this he insisted that it was his most prized possession. (even though he hasn't sat in it since we've been married....haha) He was not very happy with me so he came home from work, got the banana chair, and left. He then sent me this picture with the caption: "Boom, sitting in it."

Later that night jeff was getting his stuff ready for his early morning workout...
"AH! Where are all my panties?!" - J
"....you sold them didn't you!!"- J
haha.
(i don't think anyone would want to buy his sweat infused boxers (not panties) that he has had for years; but i didn't tell him that. oh, and yes. he really said panties)

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*comes to the couch to watch a movie with a whole pitcher full of water
"why do you have a whole pitcher of water?" - k
"I'm thirsty and i don't want to risk having to walk back over to the sink during the movie." - j

hahaha. he is the laziest hard worker i've ever met. one minute he can be the hardest worker i know and then the next....
but at least he knows when to be a hard worker.

oh and that same night, i sent him to the store to get jane some medicine and he came back with 2 boxes of oatmeal creme pies, 1 box of nutter bars, and a bag of beef jerky....typical. he knows i never buy those things so when he is left to his own devices he goes crazy. haha. love that cute boy. (and it's a really good thing he has the world's speediest metabolism ;)

8 months and funny quotes

Jane is 8 months old today.

She is sitting like a pro and scooting around like she is in the baby scooting olympics. it is so weird. like one day she is reaching and crying for her toys that are too far away from her and the next day she just scoots on over and gets it like it's no big deal. its amazing what one day can do for ya....OH! also. she is sleeping through the night. For like 2 weeks now. there have been a couple days in there where she has woken up once- but to me that doesn't even count. This is a big deal, folks. Like the other day I slept for nine hours straight. For the first time since I was a mom and- it was the weirdest thing- the hallelujah chorus actually started blasting when I woke up and realized what had just happened.
...ha. Anyways, this month has been a good one for her. She can also take a bottle now thanks to her very diligent and persistent father. That is another downright miracle.

So to celebrate 8 months! Because, duh, there is a cyber "celebration" every month, here are my 8 favorite pictures of jane this month.

kicking her legs because she loves me so dang much. (the feeling is mutual)

playing with flour. i go to great lengths to keep this child stimulated! ha

i love watching her sleep. it's my favorite.

On a completely unrelated note, the other day I tried an experimental dinner and I didn't like it. I knew jeff was trying to be nice by eating it so I said: "Honey. You don't need to eat another bite"

His response: "It actually isn't that bad. I kinda like it."

5 minutes and 10 tiny bites later....."But like, you probably shouldn't ever make it again."

yeah he didn't quite finish his meal, but he gave it a valiant effort. haha

Here are a couple more jeff quotes as of late.

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"I'm gonna go wake up Jane!"- Jeff

"No let her sleep" - me

"But she is hungry!"

"No, she would wake up if she was hungry- TRUST ME"

"No kerri, I know how it is. You are SO tired but you just can't wake up. It happens to me all the time, so I'm going to go get her."

hahaha laziness must run in the family. ;)

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"THE SNOW NEEDS TO TAKE A HIKE! Why doesn't it snow in Wyoming or somewhere boring?!"
- i was deeply offended, having grown up there. hahaha

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So I had done something that bugged jeff and he said:
"Kerri. I love you. But sometimes?....I....still love you. and....I love you and that's actually all I have to say"
This is him trying to muster up the courage to tell me something that I did that was annoying him but then chickening out (like a smart boy) at the last second.
Very smooth save there, honey.

homemade bread and a funny husband

So one of our neighbors brought us a loaf of homemade bread a couple weeks ago. It took all of our self control to not eat the whole loaf in one sitting. Jeff and I couldn't get enough. And even though i LOVE my mom's recipe and I've used that in the past, I got the recipe from them because i wanted to see if i could recreate it. Let me tell you it is the BEST homemade bread ever. AND it's wholewheat!

Anyways, I found out that it was my neighbor's husband who made the bread. She informed me that her husband makes bread EVERY WEEK! lucky girl! So i turned to jeff and said:

"JEFF. her husband makes bread every week! I would die and go to heaven if you did that."
"well yeah duh, THAT'S why i don't do it. I don't want you to die. That would be dumb!"

haha. tousche.
Anyways, here is the recipe. (by the way I'm going to start posting more recipes on this blog)
 I've always had a fear of baking with yeast. It stresses me out. yeastaphobia, i like to call it. But I'm getting braver, and I'm  happy to say this bread turned out pretty good (not perfect though) on my first attempt!

WHOLE-WHEAT HOMEMADE BREAD
Ingredients:

6 cups warm water

2 tablespoons yeast

2/3 Cup sugar

2/3 Cup oil

2 Tablespoons salt

13-14 Cups whole wheat flour

Directions:

-Put 6 cups of warm water into the bosch (or whatever mixing device you have) with 2 Tablespoons of yeast and 1 T of sugar. mix slightly. Let sit until the yeast reacts. 

- Once the yeast has reacted, add the rest of the sugar, oil, salt, and HALF of the flour.

- Mix in the bosch (or other food mixer) until all clumps are out.

- Add the rest of the flour 

- Mix on high speed for a long time (5-7 minutes) until the dough is sticky but it cleans the sides of the bowl.

- Spray table with Pam, and put the dough on the table to rise. Place a thin towel over the top to prevent drying out of the dough. Let it rise until it doubles in size.

- Once it has risen, cut dough into 4 large, even pieces. 

- Form the 4 pieces of dough into loaves and put them into sprayed bread pans

- Let bread rise in pan for 20-25 minutes.

- Put in an non pre-heated oven at 350 and bake for 35 minutes. (it may be less or more time depending on the oven and climate, just check it occasionally to make sure it isn't burning)

and voila! you've got delicious homemade bread, a happy tummy, and a happier husband.
and also your apartment will smell like heaven.

even though this bread is perfect the way it is, i might be brave try using raw honey instead of sugar next time just to make it a little bit healthier. still trying to decide if it's worth the risk...

he hates when i disrupt his bread eating by taking a picture. poor fella...

I'd like to end this post with another funny Jeff quote.
"Ya know? Some people are just born a good person. Well, Im a bad person being good. I should get more presents."
- he used this as an argument to convince me to let him buy a gun.
hahahahaha.
aaaand it worked. mostly just because im so grateful to have a husband that makes me laugh so hard. we both have a really quirky and exclusive sense of humor and we are always cracking each other up.
i love being married to that "bad boy turned good" ;)

the difference between girls and boys.

being home with my mom, my brother william, and sister has been quite the change of pace.

i have other humans to entertain me. and sometimes annoy me, but that's a story for a different day.

my brother william and his "best friend" andrew were yelling at each other in our kitchen the other day.
literally.
yelling. screaming.
it ended with william yelling unabashedly
"andrew! JUST GO HOME!!"

my mom asked william what happened and he was too angry to speak.
all he was able to muster between gritted teeth was:
 "I'm never talking to andrew again."

the next day there was laughter in the basement.
the laughter of young man voices.
my mom went down and to her surprise, william, andrew, and another of his friends were playing video games.
wait, what??!

my mom was confused and called william upstairs.

"will, why is andrew here? what the heck?"
my brother just looked at my mom, rolled his eyes, and said
"mom, we're not girls"
then went back downstairs.

so, there's that.

2 things you don't say to your pregnant, hormonal wife.

1. while rubbing your belly, he comes across a pink mark and asks "what's that?!"
oh nothing just the hideous manifestation of me growing your child. aka the stretch mark.
what else would it be?
husbands- if you happen to come across one of these on your wife's belly- SAY NOTHING.
and just for the record, i only have gotten a few small ones on my sides. not ideal, but could be worse.

2. the second thing you don't say to your pregnant wife is almost a post in and of itself:

so jeff and i were at a wedding the other day. while we were waiting for the couple to come out,
we stalked other random newlyweds. obviously. we saw one couple in particular that both looked like they had just stepped out of a magazine. total models, i tell you. it was a little ridiculous.
to make myself feel better about not being a model  i said: "I bet their kids will be ugly." (rude, i know)
the only reason i can justify saying such a comment is that it is probably false. and i was mostly kidding.
but everyone knows that happens sometimes- two really good looking people have pretty average, or below average looking kids. in my experience, the most common scenario is 2 medium looking people having drop dead gorgeous children. am i right? i informed jeff of this and then said (perhaps too optimistically) "i think you and i are medium looking, so maybe that means we will have really good looking kids!"

he doesn't say anything for a moment.
and then, as if i was no longer in an emotionally delicate, hormonal and semi-irrational state
he said in his most serious, nonchalant tone "ehh, i think we are a little less than medium."

i gasped. my husband thinks I'm in the 30th percentile (or lower) of attractiveness!
awesome.
i already feel like a bloated whale, but i liked to think of myself as at least a medium looking bloated whale.
he had plenty of good excuses and "that's not what i meant" statements
that he whipped out to (unsuccessfully) undo his undo-able comment.

so anyways, does anyone know what the chances that two less than medium looking people will have good looking children?

i fear they may be doomed.

and here is a picture of two really attractive people for your viewing pleasure. wouldn't want to burn your eyeballs with yet another picture of the less than medium andersens.

disclaimer: we may not be the hottest on the block, but we sure are in love. (even despite the occasional undo-able comment) and given the option between those two, i would totally choose the love over and over again :)

one other small confession. jeff and i went to the dollar movies 2 nights in a row.
glad that's off my chest.

J + K conversations (2)

so i've been writing down little conversations jeff and i have had recently
the ones that make me giggle- or just make me happy.
it will be fun to look back on someday.
and these conversations completely encompass our relationship- i LOVE it! :)

"hey tomorrow is our 6 month anniversary!" -me
"oh yeah, thats awesome!" -jeff
"yeah, so maybe you could make me breakfast or plan a romantic getaway or..." -me
"it was just valentine's day, AND your birthday..." - jeff
"will you at least get me some sour patch kids?" -me
"yeah...if you share."-jeff
"deal." -me

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"are you anxious for our baby to come?" -me
"yes! i want her to be born today! i just want to play with her!" -jeff

that just made me really happy, he rarely talks about his excitement so i guess i didn't expect it :)

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*jeff was having a very rare venting {whining, semi-joking, semi-not} session*
"...and PT is hard...."
"...and i have a test coming up"
"...and my muscles aren't as big as i want them to be"
"...and i want a butterfinger"
"...and we're having a girl... and girls are weird"

hahahaha. the truth comes out! ;)

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Jeff:
"oh your nose...it looks soft!" he muses incredulously
"I WANT TO FEEL IT....."
*he rubs my nose like an abnormal human being*
"OH YEAH...that's good. oh my gosh. I'm addicted." 

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"marriage is so happy...like, almost too happy." - me
"yeah its like when you go to a free all you can eat tucanos buffet and there is so much good food you don't even know what to do with yourself!" - jeff

so cute, even if i am being compared to a buffet of food :)

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"jeff, will you puh-leeeease go with me to get my blood drawn?" -me

"if you give me a reason too." - jeff {one of his favorite lines}

"because i want you to hold my hand." - me

"a real reason, honey." - jeff

*a few more pleas later, and he is on his way out the door with me*

"i hope you know. the only reason I'm doing this is because i know you will go and write on your blog about it and i want myself to sound like a good husband." - jeff

hahahahaha. for the record, he really is a super good husband -
i mean really, who wants to go wait in a doctor's office and watch a doctor drain blood out of your wife? i can't say i blame him.

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"jeff, say something nice to our baby!"
*leans down to my belly and whispers:*
"something nice"

now every time my belly is in close proximity he leans down and whispers
"something nice"
hahaha :)

i love being married to him!

{J&K} funny conversations

here are a few funny conversations me and my husband have had
in the past few days that i want to always remember.
they may or may not amuse you like they amuse me :)

*laying in bed trying to fall asleep.

"jeffrey, do you have anything you want to talk about or tell me?"

"yes! tomorrow, I'm getting new dog tags and a free t shirt from the army"

"no jeff, i mean something about how you FEEL"

"....oh, i feel happy that I'm getting a free t shirt."

i laughed for a long time after that.

oh boys....

*me running in late for work because i accidentally slept in

"kerri, did you wake up like 5 minutes ago?"

"psh.....no"

"then why are there still lines on your face from sleeping and you are wearing the same clothes you went to bed in?"

"...no comment."

 {haters back off}

*jeff changed out of his school clothes into comfy clothes...

"jeff, why are you wearing pajamas and your combat boots?"

"because, umm i like them. and they are new :)"

ok this is just hilarious. he is like a little boy who gets a new batman cape a refuses to take it off.

he literally was wearing a school outfit with other shoes. 

changed into comfier clothes 

and then took like 10 extra minutes to put these on and tie them up.

just to sit on the couch and relax.

he cracks me up. :)

thats just a tid bit of our life together in the very recent.

 i will definitely keep em comin :)

happy conference weekend. I'm just loving it way too much!
I'm making muffins, breakfast casserole, and maybe some yummy homemade bread.
jeff is, well, eating it.