Beautiful Waldport

Michael and I got away for the weekend, without kids, thanks to fabulous Aunt Melissa. It was great we stayed with one of Michael's co-workers, Shirley and her husband Kent. We had a great time with a few walks on the beach and a beautiful view from Cape Perpetua.

There was this cool little stone shelter that I thought was just so fun I wanted to make it my new hide out.

On our way home from the beach we stopped at Spirit Mountain Casino for their buffet. I think I tried a bite of almost everything. Definitely worth it however if you get there before 3pm it's heaps cheaper.

Potty Training is the Pits

7/29/08 Update Eddie is completely potty trained including keeping dry at night. He hasn't peed the bed once since taking away his pull-ups. He goes to the bathroom all by himself now. The main problem we have is that he doesn't put his underwear back on after he's done. He'll come running out of the bathroom with nothing covering down there whether we have guests over or not. Hey but at least he's doing all of his business in the toilet and I'm not having to clean it up anymore. NO MORE DIAPERS!! (well for at least not for nine months or more, meaning I'm not prego yet). I've got to say waiting to potty train until the kid is a little older is fabulous.

So we've started potty training the Word. He's been in underwear for about a week and a half and still has yet to go number two in the toilet. Yuck! Seriously this has to be one of my least favorite parts of motherhood. But maybe he can pay me back for all the diapers he's used by becoming an underwear model.

Julie and Andy's Wedding

So I made the drive up north to my friend Julie's Wedding. She was gorgeous as brides tend to be. Our mutual friend Alan was there with his wife Kristen. They were pretty much the only people Michael and I talked to. I tried to take a picture of Alan but he has this thing about not being normal. So it took a few tries.

Shalyse's Surprise Baby Shower

As per Shalyse's request I've put this little video of her surprise shower that Gina and I threw for her. Her reaction was priceless however I don't think I got the best angle for the video.

Father's Day

So I learned something. I can fit 20+ people for a sit down dinner in my dining room. Wow! I think I should start having more dinner parties. If only I could talk Michael into it. I love having people around. It was great we hosted 4(Josh, Merillee and their 3 kids; Nichole; Melissa, John and their 5 kids; Jared, Charlotte and their 2 kids) of my 7 siblings, as well as Grandma and Grandpa Booren.

AC had a blast with his cousins
there were 12 kids in all.

Word just kind of wondered around eating strawberries

Women's Conference 2008

So since I put a picture in I figured I should probably also explain a little bit about the trip. We decided that we should have a sister's trip so six of the women in our family including all Booren sister's and two sister in laws went to Utah for Women's Conference at BYU. We had a lot of fun together despite a few bouts of PMS. We even did a temple session in Salt Lake on Saturday morning. Maybe we can do it again sometime.

Silly boys

I have six boys and one girl this week. My sister Melissa and her husband went to Hawaii and being the glutton I am, offered to watch her five kids. She mentioned that I don't have a car big enough to take everyone anywhere and I laughed at her saying, "I'm not going anywhere with that many kids, we'll just stay at home for a week." True to that statement so far we've stayed home. If the weather is nicer maybe we'll all walk to the park tomorrow. Right now the three youngest boys are playing on PBSkids.org laughing at the gas noises the teletubies make. Little boy laughter is so sweet. Got to love the fact that they'll laugh at almost anything. I have to remind the boys that their ideas of funny are different than mine when they ask how come you're not laughing.

I love that AC likes to sing along with my music. It kills me that he is so good at music when I suck so much. I'm teaching myself to play the piano though so maybe some day that will all change. Learning to play the piano on my own is really slow going but like anything it's fulfilling to do something you didn't think you could do. Okay so why do people like to blog so much? I've barely written a few sentences and I already feel like I'm rambling and there is no way anyone would want to read this.

My page Sucks

Okay so I totally realize my site sucks. If you want to know what's going on with me check out my myspace page which is much better at
www.myspace.com/megloveslife

Or Go to My husband Michael's site at
http://www.bizanbandit.blogspot.com/

Meg