They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...

Q loves the outdoors. Again, how is this my child? So we have played in a few parks and outdoor stuff around the area.
Q loves to just run around and be crazy. She's even gotten better at being brave and going down the really high slides.

Sometimes we even just sit on the grass outside the condo. These parks should pay Q to garden for them, cause the girl is a master at picking "flowers" (aka: dandelions), and doesn't stop until they are all gone. 

Who doesn't love a yummy soft serve cone in the summer?

There's this big park close by our house that Q just loves. it has a huge fountain that has a sign saying "no swimming or wading" but that doesn't stop anybody for getting in. 

have I mentioned the extensive rock, leaf, stick, pinecone collection that we come home with every time we go outside. Q is obsessed.

That park also has a little pond area that has fish and ducks that swim in it.

One day we also went to the Thanksgiving Point gardens. True story: I worked here the summer that it opened in 2000.

I realized that taking a flower obsessed child to the gardens and expecting her to refrain from picking the flowers was similar to taking a crackhead to a crack house, and expecting them to stay clean. But, besides a couple little fits over not getting to hold any of the pretty flowers, the gardens were a hit! She loved the children's area, and could have explored in those little caves forever. 

We literally spent about a half hour feeding these koi fish. Q thought is was so great when they would all fight for the food. it's was cheap entertainment.

Kimmy had told us about this cool (free) park in Alpine that we just had to try. It has a cool little river area with rocks to play on and water to play with, and although the water is quite cold, Q loved it. I just sat on a bench in the warm sun getting a tan, while Q played (and of course found some best friends)

We are definitely summer people, and love when the nice weather allows us to get outside and hang out. 

do you love me? do you love me...

Well instead of a birthday blog, I may just put up a list of why I'm a loser..since I've only received a couple entries for my birthday blog. So here's your chance to save me from a weekend of depression...and prove your love for me. hahaha.

email ab98837@gmail.com

Love you.

I need you now, more than words can say I need you now.

My birthday is coming up, and I don't have anything big planned.

This is soooo NOT COOL.

I like to celebrate my birthday. I like to throw myself parties, or plan trips, or live it up...all in celebration of me! hahaha.

But with money, and other things, I got nothing planned.

So this is where you, my readers, come in.

In order to get my "celebrating angie" fix for the year. I plan on doing a blog post dedicated to myself for my birthday (June 18th)

So from now until June 17th, I want you to email me memories, thoughts, funny anecdotes, about me and I will post them in my birthday post! Please don't be afraid to send funny stories, or stories that you think might embarrass me...I don't want a post full of sunshine and roses...that's not me. :)

I know this blog post is totally self indulgent, but I think it will be fun to walk down memory lane with my friends and family, and have a little blog post for prosperity.

Thanks.

email: ab98837@gmail.com

You've got a friend in me...

Although most of our time is spent just Q and I, she has had some fun play time with a couple friends. I can't wait for her to start preschool in the fall, cause she will love being around all those kids.

Q with Tamu's niece Xeon. 

This is an old friend Demy's little girl Sayda. We met them for lunch one day and the girls ran around the mall play area.  Such cute girls. 

In our quest to find stuff to do and people for Q to play with, we have become quite the connoisseurs of mall play areas. some have cool play areas. some have trains that take the kids around the mall. and one even has a carousel. We usually hit the university mall play area at least once a week, and Q finds a new "best friend" every time. She loves other kids and gets attached really quickly. I worry a little bit about her getting her feelings hurt through the years, as kids, especially girls can be quite cruel, but hopefully she'll toughen up a bit. But for now it's so cute to watch her make new friends, and come introduce me to them each time. "this is my friend" "this is my mommy". so precious.

So play on... Play on

We of course had to hit up the children's museum in SLC. It's a guaranteed hit with Q, and I think the fit she threw when I told her it was time to go proved it.  She played in that little area forever, and couldn't get enough. Her favorite was the grocery store, and she was the best employee that place ever saw. She spent most of the time cleaning up and putting things away, and insisted she wear an apron (once she discovered them). Her second favorite was the gas station. I'm thinking I may need teach this girl to set her career sights a little higher. but it was nice to just sit down and watch her play and play. Outside they had this little helicopter that the kids could sit in and pretend to fly. We had to wait a bit to use it as these young boys decided it was their own private play area and didn't want to leave. but once Q was allowed to sit in it, she was happy. They also had this cool ball area that she loved until a bunch of older girls slammed her hand in one of the tubes. I may or may not have yelled at those kids. ;)
After the museum we walked around the shopping area there, and got some ice cream. just another fun day for Q and I.

I, I live among the creatures of the night

Moving to Utah, a big city compared to Moses Lake, gave us some new fun things to do. And while the weather was still trying to realize it's summer time, we thought we would check them out.
First stop was the Hogle Zoo. I've mentioned before Q's love for animals (I'm not quite sure where that came from), so I knew she would love it. The Zoo also offers a little train that goes around the park, and a carousel! Two of Q's favorite things in the whole world so of course she made me pay to go on those twice. The Zoo seemed smaller than the ones we've been to in Seattle, but it was entertaining none the less, and it was a great afternoon.

I'm doin' just fine Getting along very well...

I know I have been slacking on the ol' blog, and I know that I owe you a few posts. I'm working on it.
But life has been a little hectic lately.

I finally left Moses Lake.

Yep, I did it. and it actually went pretty smoothly. I guess you might say it was meant to be.

Although Q may disagree. Every day she says she "wants to go home", and when I respond that this is her new home, she then says she wants to go to "mommy's home".  I'm hoping this goes away soon. Somewhere between Moses Lake and Orem I lost my even tempered, pretty chill little girl, and picked up her emotional, bad behaving, out of control clone.  I'm hoping this means that I get to skip that stage in her teens, but I highly doubt it.  Things seem to be better if we get out during the day, so I have tried to space out errands and such so that we aren't stuck at home all day.

Speaking of home, I am loving our set up right now. To avoid the stress of finding a place to live in a weekend, and helping me get down here, my awesome cousin Kelsey (and her equally awesome husband Jon) offered up their condo in south Orem for the summer (while they tried their hand at sales). It has been awesome. I put most of our stuff in storage, and just have to get up the energy and motivation to unpack our clothes at some point.  Their condo is the perfect size, and perfect location, and Q is excited every time she sees kids right outside her door.

With the new move, I decided to move Q up to a big girl bed. It just kind of made sense. She's doing okay with it, still wakes up a couple times at night, but is easily soothed back to sleep. So far, I have had no creepy experiences of waking up with her standing by my bed...even the thought gives me shivers.

Work wise, I have another awesome set up. I mean seriously, things just worked out so perfectly. With a new electronic system update at the office, came the opportunity for me to continue to do my medical billing job, for david's office, from home, remotely. Yep, I am able to be a stay at home mom, and a working woman all at the same time. It's great. I work in the mornings while Q is watching a couple shows, we hang out all day, I work when she naps, we hang out more, and then she heads to bed and I work until about midnight. It's a full day of being a mom and an employee but it's working good so far, and I can't tell you how nice it is to be able to take care of your own child (plus, the money I save on daycare). I'm excited for all the adventures and memories we are gonna make together.

If that's movin' up then i'm movin' out.

Things are officially in motion.

For those of you interested or able to help...


Moses Lake peeps:

My house 
(if you don't know where I live, then obviously we are not that great of friends and I will not require you to help me move)

Thursday May 5th
6:30 pm
Get all my perfectly organized stuff into a moving truck.....

Utah peeps:

Watchmen Storage
1450 w 800 N
Orem, UT

Saturday May 7th
3:00 pm
Get all my stuff in a storage unit...


Big thanks!

Well, you can rock it you can roll it.. You can stop and you can stroll it at the hop

(another late post)

It was Easter weekend when we went to Utah to search out living arrangements, and we were lucky enough to get an invitation to the Wise Easter celebration. It was Q's first experience with easter egg hunting, and I wasn't sure how it was going to go. But the girl got into it. 

All I did was walk around and help hold her basket if needed. She found eggs so easily, and was willing to get in there and get the eggs. I was so proud. 

She had so much fun! Along with the easter egg hunt, they had a pinata, and other fun games that Q just loved. 

They had these belts with bunny tails and ears for all the kids, I believe it was supposed to be a grab the tail kind of game, but the girls just wanted to walk around with the cute bunny tails instead. I think they make some pretty cute bunnies!

Q is kind of picky when it comes to candy, but she LOVED the eggs themselves, so that was good enough for me, the less candy around the house the better. :)

What a great day and a Happy easter.