New Years Goals!

Okay new year = a new chance at keeping your new years goals! Right? Right! (I hope!)

This year I made it a goal to go to the gym at least 2 times a week. And with my membership at bally's having daycare for my little guy, it should make it easier! Mom Vatcher and I have been doing GREAT!!!!!!!!! I started 130lbs YIKES!!!!!! Crazy baby weight! And in the 2 weeks we have been going again, I am at 126lbs now! I am getting there. Mom Vatcher Broke out the healthy cookbook and we are going to rotate on cooking recipes from it for dinner, I have my special k bars for a snack at work now, and now to just break my habit of fast food for lunch! (as I am eating a chicken quesidilla with extra jalepeno sauce from Taco Bell!) My ideal weight is going to be 110-115. So only 11-16 pounds to go! Then it will be a matter of tightening up my butt, thighs, and tummy! Really, that is my only goal! Well, my main goal!

On other news! In February, I don't know what weekend yet, we are going to have a HUGE yard well with mom and dad Vatcher, and the Ellis Family on our block! I might even see if the neighbor want to do it also and make it a block yard sell! So, I will keep you posted!

WARNING.......

There is about to be a picture OVERLOAD!!!!!!! With all the moving that we do...I tend to loose things easily! This move I lost my cord for my camera, so I have been unable to upload photos for a LONG time!


I love dressing my little man up for Church, unfortunately, he HATES getting dressed! He screams and fights it the ENTIRE time!



For Aaron's first Halloween we dressed him up as a Skunk! He was the CUTEST skunk Ever! Plus, with Dad in the bishopric, he dresses up finally also!


Halloween weekend Michael was out of town til that day doing a writers conference in Ohio, so I went up with little man and Kristin to see the tans. The day after we got home, she we went into the hospital!
I can't believe how BIG my little man has gotten! FYI he is 8.75 months in the picture and weighs 21.5 pounds!
Seeing Grandma Vatcher at Steven Mission Opening "party". Which leaves us to the next picture....Steven got called to the NY NY Madrian Chinese Speaking Mission. He leaves Feb 16, 2010.

My little sonic the Hedge hog!
For Christmas (he's 9 months now) I was on the Activities committee and we got to plan the Ward Christmas Party. All and all I think it turned out so very good! We had good food, good music, and a good program.

Michael got me a wig for Christmas! I LOVE wigs! I think they are great! I have a really hard time growing out my hair cause I get frustrated with it very quickly. So, with the wig I get to cover it up when it is yucky!

Aaron is on table foods now, well, for the most part. He loves to eat what the adults are eating. if he is on our lap and doesn't have food of his own, he will reach out and get your food when you are not looking. So, we have just started to give him his own food when we eat, just in really really small bites. BTW he has his two bottom teeth.

He loves taking pictures with his mommy!
On to the corporate world. I got to go to my work party! This is my manager, Patsy! She is Great! and way fun!
Ok, back to Aaron, he is quite the ladies man. This is just 1 of his many Girlfriends!
He also thinks that he is supposed to do everything like and adult, like drink out of regular cups! LOL this was so funny to watch! I even had a girl and her mom come up to me asking me if they could look at him closer because they had been watching him from afar for a while now. They also wanted to pinch his cheeks! LOL that is a common want!
With Grandma Noe! He absolutely LOVES his Grandma Noe!
This was just way too funny! I handed him my bottle with just a little bit of cider left in it and he turned it very quickly into his mouth and drank it. Then continued to suck on the bottle.
Christmas morning......
Christmas dinner he had a little bit of duck, lots of broccoli (not on his plate) and a croissant.
The day after Christmas Our dear friends were blessing their baby boy! So we made a day trip up San Francisco to go to the blessing. Michael got the honor of being in the circle with Henri. This was such a special blessing because he was just baptized a little while ago and got to bless his own son! It was a wonderful blessing and I couldn't help but cry during it. He definitely had the spirit guiding him on the blessing!
Aaron was not quite sure what to think about this little guy, he didn't know weither to reach out and grab him or what to do. It was so cute!
Us and our boys that we have been wanting for a while. It just took awhile for our big boys to be ready for our little guys!
Aaron loves his present from Grandma and Grandpa Vatcher.

New years eve with my girls! Love these girls. (missing just a couple of them though!)



Well, that was me catching up!

15 random Facts about us!

Only difference is I redid my hair to this:

1. We have been married for 4 years 4 months and 4 days today!
2. We have a BEAUTIFUL baby boy who is 7 months old today!
3. I am an Assistant Manager at Plaza Apartments
4. Michael works at 5 Guys and Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory
5. Michael is Writing a fantasy book - very cool
6. I love to eat peanut butter, mayo, and Baloney sandwiches
7. I love doing crafty project.
8. Michael is craftier then I am. lol He is more creative.
9. I got a professional degree in Bridal Consulting
10. Anything to do with planning I LOVE to do.
11. Michael and I served in Primary the first 3 years of Marriage I hated it, he loved it.
12. Michael would love to be a stay at home dad!
13. I could never be a full time stay at home mom!
14. I want to own my own Bridal Consulting business!
15. We want to have 4 of our own kids and adopt a little girl from Taiwan!

::screaming::

As most people know, I am an assistant maanger for an apartment complex. I love my job! I love working with all the different people and love seeing all their backgrounds. I love seeing where everyone is from, we have them from all over! It is just so cool!

Part of my job is to take the applications and process them to get approved. We have 3 simple requirement, like all apartments do. 1) Possitive rental history- meaning you don't have and eviction, forclosure, or a lot of NSF checks. It means that you have 2 years of good rental history that your landlord would totally rent to you again if you came back. Simple as that. 2) Possitive credit- meaning you don't have 3 accounts and all or most are in collections. You have everything in good standing. and 3) you can prove that you make 3 times the rent amount as your income. This is sometimes hard, because there are quite a few people the get paid under the counter in cash. Not an easy thing to prove. Well, most of the time we ask you for your last 3 paystubs. We calculate your monthly income and if it is 3 times the rent you are good.

Well, Most of the time, we approve everyone, wether by themselves or with a co-signer. Other times, like yesterday, I have to be the bad guy and tell them that they are declines and to come and pick up their deposit. Normally people are very understanding and will just say okay and pick up their checks, unfurtunately, yesterday was not that easy. Without give to much info, the person was declined for not meeting any of the requirements. So, it has been my displeassure of being yelled at for 2 days by this person. This person keeps telling me how discrimative I am being towards him because of his last name. OMG!!!!!!!!! That is rediculous! I wanted to tell him that I didn't care if he was a >>>>> or a Smith. Either way he wasn't approved. So, he was telling me that he was going to sue us and me for discrimination, well I told him to go ahead and try, but it wouldn't go anywhere. He continued to yell at me for the longest time and normally I can just deal with it, but after 2 days I was so tired of it and hung up on him and that was all I was going to put up with. I was tired of being yelled at and tired of hearing the bad language.

Well, today, after hanging up on him I get another call from someone else that knows our policy for pest control and thinks that they are special enough for me to bend the rules for them. After telling them know and seeing if they want to schedule for next week, they just scream and hang up. OMG what is with people and yelling today! Days like this make me want to hind in my house and never talk to another person ever again, or just to punch them in the face, but I could never do either one.

I am a nice person, at least that is what everyone tells me! But maybe sometimes I think I need to be not nice so people don't think they can just walk right over me and treat me like that. But I never will, because that is just not who I am. Every time I will just smile, while yelling at them in my head, calmly answer them and tell them how it is. Heavenly Father has blessed me with patience and I am going to be putting it to good use at the is job with some people.

Friendly Reminder

Last night while talking to one of my dearest and bestest friends ever, lindi lu, she reminded me that I have not updated my blog in a while. So, here I am with my camera pluged in, looking at all the pictures that I have not shared with everyone. So let the stories begin.

When leaving for work sometime last month, Michael put Aaron in my drivers seat with me to say good bye. It starting like this...

and ended like this.....he wants to drive already! Smart boy!

Isn't that the cutest smile ever!!!!

Since I was little, I have always looked forward to the day I would have my son or daughter, and be able to take them to all the fun stuff for the holidays. Well, everyone that knows me, knows that Halloween and Christmas are my 2 FAVORITE holidays ever. Well, Monday night for FHE I decided that I wanted to take Aaron to the pumpkin patch. I know he doesn't quite understand it yet seeing how he is only 6 1/2 months old, but as you can see in the pictures below, he really did look like he had fun! He is so eexspressive. I love it.

I promise it is just the angle, but my little boy is not really that FAT. He is a big boy at 20lbs but not that big.

Family Photos!