Pure, Safe, Beneficial.......

I am going to blog about a new thing that I just started. Anybody heard of it??? Apparently it is big in California.

I love it! They have great products for everyone including men!
They have a skin care line that is very popular called NutriminC RE9. This is for women. It is the Anti-Aging line. It is the first of its kind to address the "after" effects of sun exposure and aging with a REsult-oriented system of products for face and body. It was formulated in Switzerland and made in the USA with 9 key, anti-aging elements. I have been using it and loving it. I have grown up loving to be in the sun and I have tanned at the salons so........I am in need of healthier skin.
They also have a baby care line which I have been using on Breck. She has eczema in random spots on her body and after using the baby lotion for two days, it was gone. I have been using steroid prescription cream before this and it didn't seem to help much.
Anyway, they also have protein shakes and things for weight loss, make-up, nutrition, celulite creams, and aromatherapy.
I am super excited about this so if anyone is at all interested, this is my way of talking about it without being too annoying. Haha.
Leave a comment. Go to www.arbonne.com and click on shop online to view the products.
A lot of people sign up ($29) just to have 35% off of everything for a year. It's like a CostCo membership and we all love CostCo.
Many try the products and get so excited about it and want to do the business side of Arbonne. (like me!) Network marketing is all over the place and I have been sooooo ANTI network marketing, but because of trying and loving the products I thought I would give it a go.
Feel free to comment or ask questions! If you don't want to sign up but want to buy some product, then let me know and I will get it for you with the 35% off. Anyone who tries it will love it!
Ok. Have a great day!
-Arbonne Independant Consultant
Dana

I GOT STONED LAST WEEK.

OK. I'll bet I got your attention with my title! Haha. I did though. I had a kidney stone!
I hate them!!! I had a couple when I was pregnant with Gavin 5 years ago. I passed them. Then, never have I had another problem until about 5 months ago. I have been having a reoccurance for the past few months. When it happens I just took a pain pill that I had left over from when I had Breck. By the time it wore off, the pain would be gone and I would forget about it. Well, last Tuesday was different. The pain med. didn't work at all. The pain kept getting worse fast and I ended up throwing up because of it. Jake came home early from work to help me. By this time, it was so bad so we went to the ER. I walked in and told the Secretary what was going on and then sat down. Within 5 minutes I was throwing up AGAIN. This was good though because they bumped me up to "next with the doctor" because I threw up. Anyway, a bunch of non-productive morphine, meds for nausea, and more medicine that did work, I was comfortable again. They did a CT and found a 4 1/2 millimeter stone in there. They said that it was big but not big enough to surgically remove. They gave me pain killers and said to go home and pee in a strainer. After a few more days of mild pain, Saturday was the day I passed the stone. Hooray! If anyone has had a kidney stone they know the pain. Not fun at all! The stone has been analyzed and it is Calcium Phosphate. I will be seeing a specialist in May. I don't want anymore stones!
I feel better this week. Wow, it is not possible for a mom to get sick or hurt or whatever. There is too much to do. Ha.
I guess I will go drink a big glass of water now. (H2O is good prevention)

Master Bedroom

Now that we own our place we can do whatever we want with it. Hooray!
I wanted to change our master bedroom colors from yucky faded denim comforter to yummy colors. So, I chose chocolate brown and light blue. We are going to paint an accent wall behind our bed light blue too. We are in the process of getting a ceiling fan but the one we loved hangs too low from our 8 foot ceilings. Bummer! We don't really like any others so it might be a while.
Well, winter hit hard last night. Gavin asked, "How come winter takes so long?" Haha. I agree!
I just joined a gym last night. I am anxious to go and get into better shape. I tried on a bridesmaid dress last night for the first time and I couldn't zip it up all of the way. (I can't believe I just admitted that!) I am a nursing mother and that doesn't help either.
Anyway, I want my husband back! He has been working a ton of overtime the past few weeks and we have had it. Is it time for a new job? Who knows???
I'm dying to leave Utah for a while. Anyone else?
I'm going to go watch American Idol because I taped it. By the way, did anyone notice the Jamiroquai song that was sung on the guys night? He sang it alright but chose a great song!

Sick-A-Lick!

We have been sick for about a month and a half now. I hate it! Breck has had ear infection after ear infection. Now she has RSV! Poor thing. She also cut her first tooth this week. No wonder she has been irritable and not sleeping through the night.
I am finally getting better and getting my voice back. Of course, Jake managed to escape all diseases! Haha. How is it that the husband never gets sick??? It is good though since he goes to work everyday.
We are having a major case of the California blues. We were thinking about buying a business in the Inland Empire(just thinking, I promise) and we started to get excited about being where there is family and nice weather, etc... We emailed the broker about it and he replied telling us that he had sold the business already. We don't know if it would have been the right thing to do or if it was really a good deal, but the thought was fun. Now we are frustrated with Utah and the fact that we are stuck here for a while, or are we??? We will keep looking for opportunities and who knows, maybe we will come that way. (oh, I hope!)

Candid Kids

Why am I updating? I don't know. Does anyone read this? Haha.
It's been a long time. We are now in our townhome and we are enjoying not throwing money away for rent.
I am, however, sick of the construction that is always going on around me. Sometimes I can't even get off my street for a few minutes because a huge cement truck is blocking. It's a pain!
I like to take pics of the kiddos so I added the one I love.

I am ready for spring and grass and outdoors with warmth and all that jazz.
I am ready to visit California and hang out with the family.
My good friend Kelsi is getting married in May so I'll be down then.
Peace out!

HAHAHAHALLOWEEN

Well, this will be our last Halloween at the "village" apartments. We have had 5 Halloween's here. Weird to think about. I wonder how many we will have at our next place???
I had to put a couple of pics on of my kids.


Jonah was Sonic the Hedgehog. Gavin was a pirate. Breck was a flower for about 5 minutes. She hated wearing the costume so I took a couple of pictures and took it off.

NBA Season coming soon!!!!!!

I'm so excited for the NBA season to begin! I hope my Lakers do well this year but I believe they will. "D Fish" has been traded to the Utah Jazz. (He hasn't been with the Lakers for a while either but I love him.) I can't believe this! Poor Jazz. They are still trying to win a ring. Hahahahahaha! Sorry, not this year guys!
Ok. It's been a while since I have blogged. We went to California and had so much fun. It was a good trip and the baby did really well on the road. She is 3 1/2 months old and has been sleeping through the night for a month or so. I'm so lucky.
My brother told me about a website where you can download songs for 8 cents per song. It's awesome. It is free to register too. www.musicmp3.ru
It is from Russia I guess but all in English. I have gotten some nice tunes from it. I'm glad because I was getting tired of my same music.

We finally got a picture of our whole family. A guy from our ward called last night as the kids were getting into bed and wanted to come take our picture for an updated directory so...........I posted it. It isn't the best but it works.
I visited our townhome on Saturday and they were mudding the walls. It's getting closer to being done. I'm excited to move into it.

Goin' back to Cali, Cali, Cali..............

We are driving down to California this week. I am so excited. My husband is having a tooth issue and my brother is a dentist, so we are heading down for free dental work. Hooray!!!(not hooray for pain that Jake is going through)
I love coming home! This is the only reason it is good to live out of state, because I love to come back. Ha.
These are my favorite trees. I have a palm tree sticker on my car too. I love how tall they get and how a sunset looks through them.

Loveable Laughter

This is so cute! She had been asleep on my shoulder for no more than 60 seconds when she just started laughing and laughing in her sleep. She started and then Jake grabbed our camera in hopes she would do it some more, and she totally did. I couldn't believe it! I have only been able to make her laugh two or three times so far. She is two and a half months old. I wonder what was so funny???
What a cutie pie!



It was pretty dark in the room. It is more visible on my camera than on this site.
Dang it!
It is definitely worth a listen though.

Crazy Utah Weather.

Two days ago it was 90 degrees and I was sweating from carrying my kids and my groceries into the house. Today it is supposed to be 56 degrees as the high temperature. Crazy!!! It snowed last night and this morning here. It has melted of course but it still snowed! I had to turn my heater on this morning. I am now realizing that we all need new winter clothes. My boys have pants that I have saved from last winter and thought that they could still use them. I guess they have grown up because they are all too short in the legs. Hahaha. Duhhhh Dana!
I wish I knew where I could find baby coverall's. I like those better than shirt and pants when they are still infant's. Any suggestions? I don't want my baby to freeze.
She seems too small for sweatshirts and jackets so........who knows?
Jonah's birthday is on Monday. He will be SEVEN! I'm old! I'm almost 32. That's weird.
We are getting Jonah a bike for his birthday because we gave his old one to Gavin for his birthday back in July.
Jonah is enjoying first grade. His teacher is a little fruity but oh well. We will be switching schools soon when we move.

I don't really know......

...you know, what to talk about? I sometimes sit here at the computer and think about what I should post about. I really don't know this time. Haha. I would like to talk about that. Do you ever talk to a neighbor or someone in your ward that you just never know what to talk about? I do. Every now and then there is a person who I have absolutely nothing in common with or for some reason, can't find anything to talk about with them. It ends up being a very random or short conversation and I end up making up a reason to walk away from it. I hate this! Why can't I just ramble on about nothing like I am right now?
What about when you go to pay at a store and the cashier doesn't look at you or say, "Hi, how's it going?" It bugs me so I usually look at their name tag and call them by name and make them talk to me. It is their job you know.
Also, isn't it funny that almost everything that happens in life can be related to a "Seinfeld" episode. I think about that sometimes.
I also want to say that I really like this "Blue Bunny" brand ice cream called "Chocolate Fudge Brownie". Yummy.
Ok. That was my very super terrific happy random post for today.
Goodbye now.
PS- I miss Dad.

Anyone for pogo?

Pretty in white!

Ok. We blessed our baby girl this last Sunday. It was so nice. My mother-in-law made the blessing dress. Isn't it cute? There are little white flowers around the bottom of it. I love it!
This is my husband with her. Why I didn't get a photo of the both of us with Breck.......? Who knows? I never remember these things.

Townhomey Home.

Ok. Here is where our townhome is at. A lot of wood. You can see some finished buildings in the background. Our's will be darker colored not the off-white color. The hard part of buying brand new is that we have to wait for the park to be put in. Also the trees, grass, plants, etc.... Bummer! I don't think I would let my boys play outside for a while because of construction that will still be happening around us for a while. Oh well. We will have to drive to the community park around the corner or something.

Fall Ahoy!!

It is September 1st today and it was cool outside when I took Jonah to the bus stop. I enjoy Fall time. I like it when the leaves start to change and I like it when I can wear jeans and sweaters. I will miss my Rainbows but they will come out every now and then when it's snowy. I sometimes wear them to the bus stop in the winter time.
Jonah started Soccer last night and Gavin will start next week. It is an indoor league. I love outdoor Soccer because I love it when it rains on a game. I love the smell of wet grass. It reminds me of back when I played Soccer at the Laguna Niguel field out on Crown Valley Pkwy. It would be night time and foggy and cold. I loved it! Ahhh....memories.
I have decided that I like Fall and Spring here in Utah. I enjoy the beginning of summer but not the 103 degree days. Yuck! When Fall comes, everyone is dying from the heat and ready for the cooler temperatures. When Spring comes, everyone is dying from the freezing temps and ready for nice warm days to play outside. I like those feelings when those seasons come. Can anyone relate with me?
If I lived in California it would be a different story though. I would want June/July weather all year so I could live at the beach and let my kids play all day in the sand and water. I hate a dirty car but if it is sand from the beach.........that's ok. Haha.
We are blessing Breck girl this Sunday. I can't believe she is two months already! She grows too fast. She is so smiley and fun. I wish all family and friends could be here for the blessing!

"Much Ado About Lupe"

Well, my life can sometimes be filled with drama. Two days ago I was shopping in Old Navy and I left my phone in the cart when I left. About 10 minutes later I realized and turned my car around to go get it. It was nowhere to be found. I was a little emotional about it as I walked through the store asking people if there was a phone in their cart. I even called it a few times from the store phone. I left and went to a Cingular store to see what I could do. They disabled my sim card and put my same phone number on a new card and put that into a loaner phone. As soon as they did this I received a text message from someone I didn’t recognize. When I got home the same number called me. When I answered there was a girl asking for LUPE. “Hmm..LUPE snatched my phone from Old Navy”, I thought. I told her that LUPE stole my phone and if she talked to him she needed to tell him to return my phone ASAP. She seemed awkward. DUH! I went on to the internet and logged onto my Cingular account. There I found a couple of numbers that LUPE had called as soon as he stole my phone. Dummy!!! I called them and talked to a couple of guys that knew LUPE. I told them the same thing I told the girl and that I was not going to stop calling until he returned it. I then gave the girls # to my husband Jake. Jake called her and she gave him the runaround. He went online and did a reverse phone look up and found that she lived in West Valley. He then sent her a text telling her that if she didn’t call him back within 20 min. he was going to call the West Valley police on her. (scare tactics) 5 min. later the phone rang but it was a woman upset about the police thing. Jake calmed her down and explained what was going on. She said it had been her niece using her phone to text this guy LUPE. She was mad and yelled at her niece and said that she would help get our phone back. She did not want to involve the police because she herself was on probation. After many hours of text messages from her to LUPE with threats of calling the police or giving out his other phone # to us………..we got our phone back. At 10:30pm our home phone rang and it was LUPE calling to tell us that he left it with the cashier at a certain 7-Eleven store. We called it and found that he was not lying. Jake went and picked it up. After wiping it down with some Lysol wipes, we embraced our dear cell phone. We are so glad to have it back in our lives. I honestly don’t know how people lived before without cell phones. LUPE is 13 years old.

A happy Breck I happen to know

She's happy and fun and cute to boot.

Breck-A-Boo

My boys love their little sister. They are constantly sitting by her and calling her Breck-A-Boo. They think it is funny when she has the hiccups because of the full body jerking that goes on when she has them. Breck is smiling a lot more now and making all sorts of noises. She's pretty good at entertaining herself in her crib. I'm anxious to fit into my old clothes! I made my family drive with me all over Salt Lake Valley to different stores because I wanted to buy something cute. When I would try stuff on I would hate them. I would leave the store empty handed. What a waste of time!!!??? Jake and I are going to try Weight Watchers "core" diet again. Before I was pregnant I did W.W. and lost a total of 17 lbs. I'm ready to do that again except this time MORE!! I hope I can be strong. I like sugar! I'm dying to see a good movie. Any suggestions?