Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ohhhhhhhhhh Mexico..............

We took a Vestus Trip to Mexico last week and it was a blast!
I think I have decided I am moving to
Puerto Vallarta...........
We relaxed by the pool, ate incredible food, swam in the ocean, danced in the warm Mexico rain, talked for hours in our private hot tubs (on the balcony of our rooms), went on an amazing zip line tour, got fabulous massages on the beach, partied at a Mexican fiesta and tried to soak everything in at El Palomar (my new favorite restaurant).
We made the most amazing memories with incredible friends.

Vestus had an amazing year!
They won Agent of the year, Rookie of the year, Team of the year and the
Presidents Circle award for all of Coldwell Banker Utah.
They have worked so hard and it paid off!

Mindy and I dancing in the rain.
We were determined to have fun even in the rain. It was a blast! We all jumped on the trampoline on the beach in the rain, jumped in the ocean and then swam in the pool all in a topical downpour. We felt like kids again!
Blake and Eric dancing a mexican jig at the Fiesta!!

THIS IS THE LIFE......................

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Happy Birthday to my EVERYTHING

Yesterday was Blake's 29th birthday. What can I even say............ I LOVE birthdays, holidays, any reason to party but I think Blake's day is my favorite day. He truly is my EVERYTHING. I never even imagined in my wildest dreams to find a man like this. He is perfect in every way and makes me the happiest girl the world. He gets me........... gives me butterflies.......... I can't even put into words how much I love Blake.
We spent all day while Blake was at work planning a little birthday party. Jaxon was S000000 excited. He is a little party planner like me and told me exactly what we needed to do for his daddy's birthday. He picked a dinosuar theme with balloons, party blowers and hats. He picked out a special birthday hat for Blake and made a huge card. Then, he wanted to make a rainbow chip cake and had to have the #1 candle, 3 blue candles and crayon candles with sprinkles, green letters and gummy worms. He had me write "Happy Birthday Dad" with the green frosting on the cake and told me I was doing it wrong the whole time. He got a little rough sticking in the candles and the Happy half of the cake fell off. He was hysterical. We were out of white frosting so I told him chocolate was daddy's favorite and that we should put it on the cake and make it a rectangle. He was happy with that and let me tell you,
IT WAS A MASTERPIECE!
Probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. He was so proud of it.
He told me I needed to take him to the store to get a birthday present for daddy. He picked out a 3 ft gummy snake and a little toy turtle and wrapped it up. I have never in all of his life seen him so excited. We decorated the kitchen and put on our dino party hats and yelled SURPRISE when he got home from work. Tae loved it to! She loved all the balloons and her party hat!
That girl just loves her daddy..........you should see her look at him.

Happy Birthday Babe. YOU ROCK MY WORLD!! You really will be B Frederick by the time your thirty. But the truth is I am head over heels in love with Blake. You are amazing.
I hope this is the best year of your life!

PS- Get ready for your thirtieth. I am already planning the party. It will be insane!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

I woke up

I woke up this morning after my 3rd night of not so good sleep, Tae has her first cold and has been awake most of the night cuz she cant breath through her little nose holes. I am so thankful for her perfect little nose but I do have to say when Jaxon was a baby the cold situation was easier having one big hole for a nose and mouth. It all just came out....... nothing could get clogged. Sorry, gross I know. Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed to get to my pilates class feeling sorry for myself, Tae was finally sleeping in between Blake and I and it was snowing outside, I just wanted to sleep and I knew I had a long day ahead of me. I have to take Tae to the doctor, Boston to the vet, do laundry, clean up the house, take Jax to swim lessons, drive to whole foods to get more meat that isn't loaded with antibiotics/hormones (that is a whole other subject I am obsessing about that I will have to tell you later) and worrying about if my swimsuit I ordered online will come before we leave on our trip to Mexico AGAIN. I need to figure out another time to force myself to do my weights/cardio workout I was supposed to do yesterday that I didn't do cuz I did hair all day and I need to look good for Mexico right???? Also I need to finish painting my kitchen stools, I did one to see if I like it and I do sooooo I need to paint the other two, I need to get Jaxon new bedding and put one of the queen beds in his room, he has grown out of his little toddler bed. I have been looking online and can't decide what I want to do in his room that wont cost a million dollars. I still need to get a rug for Tae's room, curtains, reschedule her pictures I cancelled yesterday cuz she was sick and she needs some new jammies that she isn't busting out of. I need some new bath rugs for our bathroom and I am sad that the new bedroom set I was supposed to get today from a house I staged I don't get yet because the sale fell through and it is back on the market. I was really excited for this.
Plus, I would love to get some sunglasses for Mexico, some sandals and maybe a sundress or two......... the cleaners called me yesterday and said that they ruined one of my favorite dresses I have only worn once....... so sad.

Then I WOKE UP! I got home from pilates and got on my computer procrastinating my day and my sweet friend Amy had posted the story of this family on her blog. So I read it. Sobbing. Feeling so ungrateful and stupid for all of my dumb NEEDS and WANTS and what I have been stressing about. STUPID. Absolutely none of it matters at all.

In no way do I think I have experienced anything even close to what this family is right now, I cant even imagine. But I have had times when my little perfect world has been ripped out from under me and I have had to be strong and pray for my baby. At these times it is when you realize that nothing else matters. Literally NOTHING. Your world stops and all you can do is pray and hope. You feel so stupid for the little things that stress you out and that you let yourself get caught up in.

You are strong because you have to be. There is no other option. You have to be there for your baby when you would much rather take his place.
How fast do I forget what REALLY matters and how lucky I am each day to live the perfect life I live?? I am so ashamed and embarrassed to think of what I have let myself focus on lately.
It is the easy thing to do in this world when your life is going so good to loose perspective.

I don't like to think that at any moment my life could be turned upside down in one second. But the truth is it can.

I am so glad that Amy opened my eyes to this today but I am soooo not glad that this sweet, amazing mother has to go through this right now. I will pray for her little Bronson constantly and I hope you can do the same. Her life is turned upside down right now and she is helping so many with her story. I am not going to lie, I have left my kids for a second to grab a towel, the phone or something else stupid. Just for a second right??? That's all it takes. It is so easy to get busy with your day to day life and not realize this can happen to you. I will NEVER again even turn around while my kids are in the water.

I don't know why this had to happen to this family but I will keep praying for them. The prayers are working!

And as for me my attitude has COMPLETELY changed. I will do nothing but play with my babies today. Nothing else matters. I am the luckiest girl in the world...........

PS- My new swimsuit just came while I was writing this. I don't even want it anymore.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Best Friends......

Best Friends are hard to come by. You know the kind that you can talk and laugh with for hours. The kind that you can sit with doing absolutely nothing and you can't think of anything else your rather be doing. The kind you can be 100% honest with and can tell everything to, no judgements. Most of the time you have been through crucial times in your life together, where you grew and learned life's lessons the hard way but can laugh about it now.

The kind that you know are ALWAYS there for you no matter what.

Thats the kind of best friends that Tara and Anna are to me.

We had a girls weekend full of laughing, food, shopping, hair coloring, relaxing and working out a little bit to try and cancel out the 18 pounds of cheese we ate, among other delicious things!
I miss these girls................please come back!!!!