It's been a while

So - everything has kind of been put on hold this week. We've only played 1 Catan game, I haven't blogged, I haven't paid any bills, read any emails, or even cooked dinner. Why not, you may wonder.... I finally got a job. I've been looking since January, and it's been very frustrating up until now. I guess that people of Idaho just didn't understand how fabulous I am!

Last Thursday, I saw a job opening through a temp agency that sounded interesting. So I called them and they had me come in that day for an interview. Friday morning, the agency calls and says the company wants to interview me that afternoon. Luckily, my schedule was open, so I went in to meet with the company people and headed back home. The agency called me before I even made it home to say the company wants to offer me the job. Then I started on Tuesday. It all happened so fast, that I wasn't really prepared - even though I've pretty much spent the last 4-5 months preparing! So now Jon works an early shift and I work a later shift. I take the kids to babysitter and Jon picks them up and feeds them dinner. It's only been 4 days, and man, am I tired! I feel like I've gotten nothing done this week. But then again - I'm getting a paycheck now, so I must've accomplish something! I work for an international shipping company - think cargo ships, not UPS. It's pretty interesting and I'm liking it so far.

The moral of the story is this. This blog will probably not be updated more than once a week. If that. Sorry to dissapoint all you daily blog checkers. Maybe once I get into the swing of things with the new schedule I'll do better.

In other news....the kids are great. Here are a few pictures of Lexi eating. She's hasn't totally figured out the spoon thing yet, but she loves it. The only way we can get her to eat veggies right now is letting her feed herself the baby kind. I usually managed to get a few spoonfuls in her mouth, too.


Her hair is finally getting long enough to put in little pony tails. This is the aftermath one day...







Logan has been very adamant that he does NOT want to take the training wheels off of his bike. I keep telling him they're coming off when he turns six - he tries to compromise and says he'll take him off when he's eight.

A couple of weeks ago, he all of a sudden decided he wanted to try riding his bike without them, so Jon gave a go.... I think manage to ride for like, 2 seconds on his own. Jon held the seat most of the time. I think it was a little frustrating for Jon because Logan kept slamming on his brakes to take a water break.


The training wheels have not gone back on his bike. Neither has Logan.

Game On

It is a well known fact in the Lambson household that Jon is, let's say, very lucky when it comes to the game of 'Cities and Knights of Catan'. He just wins constantly. It has been a rare occasion for anyone else to win when he plays. He has been known to say 'Do you feel like losing at Settler's today?' when the more appropriate question should have been 'Do you want to play Settler's?'. I have learned to live with his gloating and sense of superiority.

Until now....

On May 16th, I won a game. Shocking, I know. We have since played many games, almost once a day. Sometimes twice a day. The most amazing part is - I have won the majority of these games. I say about 75%, Jon will concede to around 60%. So, we decided to keep track. I don't know how long this challenge will go on...until he gets tired of losing, I guess. We just started keeping track yesterday, and so far it's 1 to 1, but it's still early. I have plenty of time to win.

Bring it, Jon.

At The Zoo

Back in March, Logan's preschool went on a field trip to the zoo. Lexi and I tagged along. It was a chilly, slightly rainy day, but it turned out to be good, because most of the animals were out. Here are some of the highlights:

Two of Logan's favorites are ones they don't have in AZ - the penguins and the kimodo dragon. This penguin is getting ready to take off. The dragon is usually outside, but chose to stay inside this day.

Here are Logan and Lexi on the carousel. It was hard to get a picture of Lexi because I was holding her at the same time.

The snow leopard eating it's meal...apparently it was still hungry. Here it is later trying to eat the kids' fingers.

Here are some of the other animals we saw. Some monkeys, birds, zebra, a sloth bear (I think) and a red panda.

A Shameless Plug

I have this friend who taught piano lessons at the same place I did several years ago. While we never 'hung out' outside of work, I do consider him a friend and am so proud of him. His name is William Joseph and he just released his second album this week. The first album is called 'Within' and a couple of the songs off that album are currently on my playlist. He wrote two of the songs - obviously not 'Ave Maria'. His second album is called 'Beyond' and I've only heard a couple of the songs so far, but they are outstanding. His first album is available at Deseret Book, so I would assume his second one is, as well. He plays the piano, but the songs also have a full orchestra, and in some cases, voices, as well. He's supposed to be on 'Dr. Phil' today, so check it out if you have time. He's been on tour with Josh Groban, Clay Aiken and Il Divo. He's done all kinds of things that I could only dream about.

Anyway - I think William is amazing and I justed wanted everyone to know.

Bathroom Makeover

So - here are some pictures of the powder room makeover my Mom and I did when she was here last month. It was tough getting pictures of the whole room, since it is so small. But, here are two angles of the before:

It started off as a simple project - paint, wallpaper and maybe some thing for the walls. We ended up replacing almost everything (except for the toilet, sink, cabinet and tile floor). I didn't get before pictures of the light fixture or the tile backsplash, but here's a before and after of the sink faucet:

We swicthed the faucet, towel rack, toilet paper holder, mirror and light fixture. Then we added some wall hangings. Here are some more after pictures.

To get the full effect of how cool this room really is, you'll just have to come visit! My mom and I had a good time and she taught me a bunch of new things... like how to change a sink faucet and light fixture and grout tile. I can't wait for my mom's next visit so we can do another room. Someday I'll take pictures of what we did to Lexi's room last summer.