Saving the environment and a game of tag

Last night for part of FHE we took a walk to recycle our newspapers Turner had a blast riding on top of the stack. This stack is only about 2 weeks worth of papers. I thought he looked so cute sitting so high. Turner is anti-camera right now so Josh is "helping!" Here is a sweet one of Max in his swing. The swing saves my life, he wants to be in my arms most of the time so I was excited that the swing sometimes also works! Ok Janice tagged me! This is really the first time I have been officially tagged. I love blog tag! It is so fun to get to know people better.
Tagged .... the 5 things thing...

5 Things on my list to do today:

1. Nurse Max
2. Nurse Max
3. Nurse Max
4. Nurse Max
5. Make my family dinner
:) Can you tell what I do all day long? I try not to have too much else on my list but really I do plan to do the dishes and watch 27 dresses- anyone see it? I hope that it isn't too skanky.

5 snacks I enjoy:

1. Girl Scout cookies!
2. Keebler grasshopper cookies because they taste exactly like girl scout cookies
3. Yogurt
4. RF wheat thins
5. Ice Cream

5 Things I would do suddenly if I became a billionaire:

1. Pay everything off
2. Buy land, build a house and a start farming (Rice, wheat and corn anyone??)
3. Travel
4. Start a charity to help children improve their self-esteem (kids with high self-esteem become productive happy adults)
5. Play with my kids without having to worry about money

5 Places I lived:

1. Arizona
2. Utah
3. Montana
4. Wyoming
5. Arizona and Utah again

5 Jobs I have had:

1. Preschool teacher
2. Family Support working with family with children with disabilities
3. Family Support specialist working with families in the system
4. DCFS ongoing caseworker
5. Drug and Alcohol prevention specialist

5 Things People don't know about me:

1. I LOVE learning. Anything I want to know- I learn about it. I find great value in books. I taught myself how to crochet from a book. Anything I want to know I go to the library and check a book out on it.
2. This brings me to the next one- I secretly want to be a writer for a magazine. I would love to write a regular article on parenting. Not that I think I am a fabulous parent but I would love to be saturated with learning about parenting and having a reason would allow me to do that.
3. I work really hard at being social. It is a very integral part of who I am but I am scared to make friends. Plus I have to find the right kind of person that isn't going to get offended every time I say something dumb.
4. In the 4th grade I went through a phase where I wanted to be called Anne (my middle name) because there was another Tiffany in my class. Except she spelled it Tipheni. Maybe that is why I am a stickler on traditional spellings... everyone thought she was so cool because she spelled it differently. She wasn't :)
5. I still want to be very spontaneous and ache to take off on a road trip. But then I remember I have 2 kids and a tank of gas is half my mortgage payment :)

As much as I love being tagged I don't like to tag others because I don't want them to be annoyed with me if they don't like being tagged (I just want everyone to be happy with me) So if you want to do this tag then do it!

We have connection!

Well I am super super excited! I have the Internet :) I know all you bloggers must be scratching your heads but I haven't had the Internet for almost a year. Josh has a laptop he uses for work that has a wireless card and so he would bring it home to me every night so I could connect with all of my family and friends out there. It was nice but not enough. I missed the good old Internet abilities of looking up a recipe or sending an email when I was actually thinking of someone- instead of trying to remember when he got home at night. So we signed up again and I am happy. I thought all you other stay at home moms out there that depend on the Internet for a little bit of sanity during the day might understand!

Darth Turner

Well, I guess it had to get out at some point... my husband is a HUGE Star Wars fan. Some of you may have already known but hopefully I was able to keep it a secret from most of you. He has some Star Wars toys that are on the top shelf in the play room that Turner is NOT allowed to play with. These are not valuable collectibles mind you, they are just his Star Wars toys. Well today we were doing some rearranging in the play room and he decided it was time to educate his first born on the finer things in life. At first Turner was terrified of the mask and wanted nothing to do with it. Slowly he would touch it and eventually after he saw that there were cool buttons to push, he decided it was OK to put it on. We got a couple pictures of he wielding his light saber (is that even how you spell that?) Anyway I think he makes the cutest evil villain ever!

Brothers

Josh suprised me one day when he called and asked what size the boys wore. He had to go to Park City for business and stopped by the outlets to pick up matching outfits for them. I thought it was very thoughtful for this Daddy to be so excited over having two boys to get them matching outfits!

I forgot my camera!

Sat. we had a"prescott reunion" of sorts. I am extreamly lucky to live so close to friends I have had since birth. Especially since I live a whole state away. Well my dear friend Meisha got transfered to Texas :( So those of us who could, got together one last time before she moved. I forgot my camera but Sherrie is also a blogger. Check out her "Winds of Change" entry at http://supercrawfords.blogspot.com/. Thanks Sherrie for posting this fun, windy day!

typing classes

My parents insisted in High School that I take a typing class. I didn't think it was very relevent at the time due to the fact that I wasn't going to be a secretary and at the time I thought that the only people that typed were secretaries. Computers were still very rare. They explained that in college I would be typing a lot of papers and that I would be glad I took typing. So I took the class on a good old fashioned typwriter with paper and everything. I was very glad that I took the class. I didn't get the best grade in the class but when I saw that the knowledge that I had gained was relvent in real life I quickly embraced the "home row." I became proficent to the point that it pained me to watch someone hunt and peck. Computers of course took over the world and typing was vital! Now here I am 16 years later with an infant in one hand and hunting and pecking with the other- so much for typing classes eh?

Birth announcment poll

Which announcment is your favorite?

2 weeks

I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks so I thought that I would play catch up and post some of my favorite moments. Well, Max is two weeks old today. We took him to his check up and the doctor said that everything looks great. He has surpassed his birth weight and is already a hefty 9 1/2 lbs. He is 22 inches tall which puts him 75% for weight and 90% for height. Turner unfortunaltly is sick but the Dr. said that Max should be covered by my antibodies. I hope so. Turner is doing very well with his little brother and asks to hold him all the time. He has learned that we don't drive our cars on brother's face and that when we touch brother it is very gentle (yes, those are Max's eyes but we don't put our finger in them.) He wants to share everything with his brother including his animal crackers and his sippy cup. We are all learning together and I am thankful everyday that I get to be the mother of these two sweet special spirits.

First Bath

Well, Max's umbilical cord fell of at one week! The next night we gave him his very first real bath. He wasn't sure that he liked it very much but he smelled so nice! Bathing an infant is such a fun experience- squirmy, slimy and fragile :)

Big and little Elmo

One of the benifits for Turner of having a new baby at the house is that I think he got spoiled more than the baby in terms of presents! My mom ran into Toys R' Us which hads a small baby section to see if she could find a new changing table pad for us and instead of coming out with a new pad, she came out with an Elmo towel for Turner. He LOVES Elmo which is funny since he had never seen a single episode of Seseme Street. Anyway we had fun with bath time the next night... not just Turner but Daddy too! (Isn't he adorkable?)

Toddler fun!

The day after my mom left was a tough day. Not tough like I thought it would be but due to the fact that we had a new baby and couldn't go anywhere it was boring. I thought I was going stir crazy but then I looked at Turner and he was just staring out the window. He isn't use to sitting around all day with nothing to do and I could tell that this was a whole lot harder on him than it was on me. I knew I needed to do something with him that was totally toddler. My final piece of motivation was when he started painting the windows with his spit. so I decided to pull out some frosting, grahm crackers and a knife and let him go at it (don't worry there wasn't a sharp edge on the knife... smooth as silk.) Well, he had a totally messy, splendid, toddlerish time. I loved every minute of it knowing that he was happy.

Daddy's boy

Just one of the precious moments we have had the last couple of weeks.

Bringing home my baby bumble bee

This is the day we brought Max home from the hospital. You can't really see Max but I love that I am holding my boys!

All is well

I couldn't believe that my husband wanted to blog about Max's birth. He is so sweet. Heather came to visit and took some adorable pictures of Max. Here is the link http://web4.sendtoprint.net/proofbook/ and type in Maxwelldavid- check it out. Heather is so talented and we are so grateful. Max's birth was amazingly perfect. I couldn't have even planned better. It was smooth, quick and very powerful. I have never been more amazed at God's ability to create our bodies to be able to bring children into this world. He really does know what he is doing. I read the book Hypnobirthing which made a huge difference and was very empowering. If you ever want to go natural I highly recomend it. Anyway enough of that- Max is doing wonderful. He is a great nurser so far which after what we went through with Turner is very releaving. So the winner of the guess the babies name contest is a tie. Only because my sister's internet wasn't working so I took her guess over the phone and it came in around the same time as my aunts. So Nicole and Shawna guessed it first! There are two honorable mentions- Jason who guessed Maxwell the very first week and the second to Shannon who guessed David Maxwell about 3-4 weeks before anyone guessed Maxwell David. Thank you to everyone who said prayers on our behalf I know that it really made a huge difference!