Keeping it Random

#1 

This picture.. Favorite status! I love it so much.

#2

This was the first time Micah had rice cereal. 

We definitely did not plan the kiss me shirt haha but come on, wouldn't you like a kiss right about then?

#3

Lately I could eat oatmeal for every meal.. I have it for breakfast a lot, and then by the time dinner roles around I'm just wore out and the only thing that sounds good is oatmeal.. Put some peanut butter, bananas, and honey in there.. Yum. Definitely had that for dinner tonight. 

#4

Micah makes a great center piece for dinner. 

(don't worry we always watch him super close when he's on the table.:)

#5

Micah loves his friend Jaycee. All she has to do is walk around or look and him and he starts laughing.  It is the funniest thing! I just love it.

#6

Remember that one time when it was valentines day?  I should have wrote a whole post on it, but that didn't happen so here is the mini version.. 

So Matt stayed up till the early hours of the morning working on a project the night before valentines.  Annnd we were both sick.  So I wasn't expecting a lot from that day.  So Matt went up to campus, and when he came home he walked in the door like this.. :)

I just love him! So thoughtful :) He surprised me with every kind of chocolate he could find.  It has definitely been a problem.  I can't stay away!  I finally had him hide it from me so I don't eat it all super fast. 

The balloon has been Micah's favorite ever since.

#7

Micah is all about technology.  Seriously?? He is only 5 months old! (well almost six, crazy!)  He did a pretty awesome double roll to get to my lap top the other day.  I wish that one was on video, it was awesome.

And its always a struggle to try and get to a phone whenever he sees one.  

#8

Ok, it doesn't get much cuter then a couple of little blue eyed friends squished in a stroller together with their owl hats. 

It was so funny, Micah was loving it even though he was getting squished.  I think he liked how warm it was.

#9

At a ward party a while back.  All Micah wanted was the table cloth.  And that boy is strong!  He would pull the whole thing with everyone's food towards him. 

#10

This is how Sunday naps usually end up.. Us trying to rest while Micah tries to play. :) I love it.

#11

This guy. I just can't get enough! 

And I'll stop there because 11 is kind of our number and it just feels right :) 

Happy Tuesday!

Our President's day adventure

This past Monday was President's day which meant no school! 

Unfortunately it didn't mean no homework,and Matt still worked, but we still found time to have a little adventure. 

We decided to go to Idaho Falls because we wanted to get grocery's and its always fun to get out of the house. 

Side note.. notice the sock in the left of the picture? There are little socks ALL over

my house.   We put socks on Micah's hands when he sleeps, and then we bring him 

downstairs and take them off.  And then of course Micah is always pulling

off his socks.. It makes for a lot of socks all over. haha anyways..

So as we were driving we realized that we should have brought our stroller.. When we got there we went into the mall and Matt was carrying Micah in his car seat.  We quickly realized that carry the car seat everywhere was going to be a huge pain.  

So we thought why not buy one of those cheap umbrella strollers?  we have been wanting a little one anyways that we could take places easier.  So we went to ross cause it was close, but there was only a pink one.  Then we went to walmart and found one that we wanted.  It was in a box, but we figured it was just folded up in there.. So we opened it up in the arcade room (haha) and realized that it required assembling. 

So here we are in the arcade room building our stroller. haha I thought it was funny. 

But it was totally worth it.  Micah loved being able to look around everywhere we went and we loved not having to carry him!

Oh I almost forgot. That trip to walmart was one of Micah's first times to be out of car seat. 

He thought it was pretty cool to be able to look around. 

So after all that craziness we headed back to the mall. 

The new stroller was awesome and Micah was just in awe of all the new things to look at!

He eventually fell asleep in his little stroller.  It was super cute.  But then we had to wake him up and take him out in the wind to the car.  Poor little guy.  

Once he was awake he decided it was time to have a blow out.  we happened to be by a carls junior so I ran in and changed his diaper and cloths.  After all that craziness we decided to just eat there. 

And then to finish it all of we went and did our grocery shopping. 

I have this thing about putting Micah's car seat in the little seat place on shopping carts.. So we just pile our grocery's around and on top of him haha

And that's how we spent our holiday!  It was super fun to have a little family time away from homework :)

Breakfast

So I'm jumping on the quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) train

I have been seeing recipes all of over for quinoa, but I never thought much of them.  But I am doing this meal plan and it has quinoa so I have been eating it.  I decided to look up why its supposed to be so good for you and wow! It's awesome!

Here are some of the health benefits:

High in Protein

A complete source of protein, meaning it has all 20 amino acids which includes all of the essential amino acids.  These essential amino acids can't be made in the body so they must come from your diet.  That is why they are called essential.  Not many plant sources are a complete source of protein. 

High in fiber

It has lots of vitamins and minerals

And it is low in fat

Pretty awesome right! The first time I tried it I ate it raw with a ton of flax seed and blueberries.  Not gonna lie it was gross!  But I think all the flax seed is the main reason why haha
But  I have been perfecting the way I eat it for breakfast and now I really enjoy it! 

First I cook the Quinoa in my rice cooker.  I did 1 cup quinoa and 2 cups water.  It made a bunch which is nice cause then I don't have to cook it every morning, I just store it in the fridge. 

Then I add: 
blueberries
strawberries
flax seed 
and Almond milk

You could do whatever kind of fruit you wanted. I put in flax seed because its good for you, but I don't love the taste so I don't put in too much. 
You could do regular milk if you wanted, but I just happened to have this vanilla almond milk and it makes it really yummy :)

So that has been breakfast this week! Love it! 
Happy Valentine's day!

5 Months!

I'm not even going to say it this time because I say it every time. 

Alright fine I'll say it, I can't believe my baby is 5 months old!! Time really does fly. 

As you can see Micah can sit up now! 

I really wanted him sitting in his 5 month pictures so one of us would sit there and catch him when he tipped over while the other one took pictures. 

So there was a lot of this going on..

But we still managed to get a lot of cute pictures.

I just love his face expression in this one haha

Mostly he just really wanted to hold and eat the 5 month sticker 

A few things about Micah:

He is a mover! He can roll both ways and scoot.  It is still so weird to me to lay him down on his back and then look over and see him on his tummy and scooted off the blanket I had him on. Crazy!

Micah has the sharpest fingernails ever! And he loves to scratch things, especially his face and me.  I cut them all the time, but they are still sharp.  So he always sleeps with socks on his hands.

Whenever he gets tired he rubs his eyes, but it isn't really rubbing, more like scratching. 

So even though I always put socks on his hands while he naps and when he goes to bed he still manages to scratch his face ALL the time. Poor little guy. 

I'm pretty sure Micah's mission in life is to get his right sock off

Seriously. All day every day I am putting his sock back on.  And its just his right one.  He hardly ever pulls off his left sock.. 

Rice cereal is the latest addition to Micah's diet.

He seems to like it pretty good, and he is getting better.. The first time was a huge mess. 

He mostly just loves to hold the spoon and chew on it. 

Haha he really isn't scared of it..

Also I think he likes trying to eat the wash cloth I wash his face and hands with as much as the rice cereal..

Micah loves his toys. 

His favorite are his singing lion

he gets super excited every time he sees it. 

And his crinkle book.

He loves to chew on his book, but he wouldn't do it for the picture haha

Isn't this precious? My husband takes great pictures :)

We just love our fun, energetic, and slightly crazy little boy!!

Lamoille

Lamoille NV is a couple hours from where I grew up.  It is an oasis in the middle of the Nevada desert.  My family has always loved going there to camp and hike.