bird, bird, bird, bird is the word

so izzy is learning a lot of new words lately, and it's so neat to hear what she's picked up. i keep reminding pete to be careful about what we say around her, because i am afraid (and excited) for one of those inappropriate moments with inappropriate words.

so here is what she is talking a lot about these days:

bird
bear
plane
train (with the sound tukka-tukka-tukka-tukka-choo-choo)
cereal
juice
apple (almost all fruits are apples for some reason)
mame (eda mame)
nana (banana)
dog or pup-pa
kitty
spider (said in the deepest new jersey accent ever)
bubbles
baby
duck
water (also said in a new jersey accent)
sun
moon
star
snowman
jump
*a whole slew of other words but check out this next one
and...

hot caulk (but not really the second word. think male chicken, but not rooster.)

she means to say hot dog, but it is definitely not coming out right. i don't want people to think we are pervs and allowing izzy to see/say/hear perverted things. i keep trying to correct her, but it keeps coming out wrong. she had a hot dog last week at costco and thinks they are taste-a-rific, so this is one of her things she likes to say. ai yi yi...

anyhoo, let's hope that she doesn't talk about this processed meat product at a church meeting or something like that.

only if...

...i can tone my tummy and thighs some more...

...if my bunnyhead gets a super sweet (well-paid) internship this summer...

then, i might want to splurge on these bathing suits. seen on anthropologie.

already behind

yeah, yeah. so it's the 7th of the month already, and i didn't post my resolutions. who's judging me, but me right?

so here they are. now you can tell me what i am lacking on throughout the year.

A lot of these will be repeats from last year, since I either did not do them or am still working to acheive them.

1. Write more letters

2. Eat more organic or locally-grown foods. Plant a (really) mini garden for some fresh herbs or veggies.

3. Sew something for Izzy.

4. Share the gospel.

5. Work on toning up and strengthening. Muffin tops are so 2009.

6. Be more charitable or volunteer more.

7. Have more dates with my husband.

8. Donate or better organize my belongings. (I get anxious about this all the time.)

9. Get cracking on geneaology. My mom and dad's side are going to be super hard, since both are from places that are not well-known for written records.

10. Hang out with friends more. Sometimes I can be too much of a hermit.

oh how i love her

i never knew christmas could be so awesome with a little kid. and with a lil' girl like isadora bea, it was the best christmas ever.

i'll tell you what you can do with your buttons

lil' miss isadora has not had a clock in her room ever, because i've been wanting to find a fun one for her to enjoy. most of those fun ones are ridiculously expensive, so i opted to make my own. i had a few band buttons that have been sitting around doing nothing, and i thought they would serve a better purpose being displayed rather than sitting in a box. (i don't care to wear them anymore, if you're really wondering.) here is what i did with an $2 ikea clock and my buttons.

finally decided

so i have put off buying and eating all organic as a whole, because i just wasn't really into the idea of paying more for food that looked smaller, older and generally less-appealing. however, i just finished watching this movie:



i can't remember which friend or acquaintance mentioned or recommended it, but i wasn't ready to watch it until now. man oh man, was i in for an awakening. i mean, i've read "the jungle" and known that there are pesticides and weird stuff that goes on in the food industry. obviously. i've gotten food poisoning a few times, but for some reason, i always thought that it was my fault for "choosing" the food that i had. i've also worked a couple of waitressing jobs and was a pizza chef (first job), so i know what kinds of gross things can happen. trust me, you don't want to know. this movie sort of reiterated more the importance of how i need to choose better for myself and for my family.

i already cook practically every day for my family, but there are still a few things that we buy/eat that we could change. even though it costs more money, i think i want to try and buy as much organic as i possibly can. i would like to make more things from scratch, and this is where my baking skills are going to have to take a step up. perhaps a baking class? i don't think i can stop eating meat. it seems impossible for me and my family right now, so i would like to try and seek out locally-farmed and butchered meat options. does anyone know a good place to go for that in utah? also, i am going to seek to get better at growing plants/veggies/herbs again. my thumb is so black, it might as well be frostbitten.

anyway, i know a lot of this can't happen overnight. i just know that i'd like to be more conscious of what i eat by supporting more local growers and farmers in general. i already read labels like crazy (for izzy), but now i am going to be more diligent about it. i want to instill healthy eating into my family, especially my kids, because i don't want them to end up with type II diabetes like most in my family or even dying from tainted food. and hopefully...just hopefully, there will be a good change in my efforts.

i guess this is kind of a resolution for me, but i hope that i can carry it through the years to come.

i love you new camera

so i got a brand new camera for christmas. and yes, i opened it already. we've had a little point-n-shoot that we got before we were married that was really starting to crap out on us. the screen was getting all fuzzy, and the pictures were coming out with weird 70s movie colors. for some pics, i guess that would be fine. i just didn't want to have it be that way all the time.

thus...on black friday, went out and got this camera.

i pretty much love it, even though i am still no good at capturing the greatest images. don't worry. i will learn. since it's almost the new year, why not it be a resolution?

of course, it's always fun to get really good candids of your family too.