Bad Mom...

Against better judgement, we took Landon to RedFest this weekend. It's basically a big outdoor concert on the University of Utah campus. I've been before in the past and felt like it wasn't too crazy to bring a tiny baby... Ok, so I am a bad mom. Anyway, we felt pretty dumb wheeling the stroller through the line and into the concert. To our surprise, it ended up being really fun! The Format played an all acoustic set, so it was perfect. Lucky for us, Landon slept the entire time. Until the middle of Jack's Mannequin when the fat kid in front of us decided to light up. Normally we would just ignore the toker, but I figured it was a little early to expose Landon to this punk's bad habit. So we left, got some Chili's and rented a movie. Sam picked the flick, and to his defense it was actually pretty good! The move was called Nueve Reinas (nine queens). I love when people recommend films to watch, so let me highly recommend this one to you! It is in Spanish, but if you can read you will probably like it.

A Much Better Week

I have to say this week has been a huge improvement since my traumatic weekend last Saturday. Buff came with us to the outlets in Park City, then to dinner at Ruby Tuesday. The deals at the outlets were so good Sam and I went back the next day to get more stuff! Landon is already 8 weeks old, I can't believe it. He is starting to be much more entertaining. I am so proud of my little boy, or maybe its more gratitude than pride that I have. Anyway, Landon has been sleeping 8 hours through the night! YESSS! Thanks to BABY WISE I actually get some good sleep. I seriously thought the day would never come. According to the book he should be sleeping 12 hours through the night by 12 weeks old, what a treat for mommy! Not only is he a great sleeper, he's such a sweet baby! He likes strangers and going out (also a treat for mommy). He doesn't really fuss or cry, unless he's really hungry (I don't blame him, I do the same thing). Oh, and aunt Erica sent a Bumbo chair! He's kinda too small for it now, but I can tell he will love it. He already smiles when I put him in it, even though his head is flopping around all over the place. Thanks Erica!!

Why I love Salt Lake City...

Today we woke not to Landon screaming, but to band music trumpeting through the streets. Lucky for us it was the annual Avenues Street Fair, right in our front yard! We decided to take advantage of our prime location and ventured out to the street. There was good food, fun shops and hundreds of the strangest people I've ever seen(Buff fitting in with, and spotting the best of them). There was even a "comedian" dressed as a cowboy. I don't know if his outfit was part of the show, we didn't stand there long enough to find out. He wasn't funny, and we were sick of him trying to impress the crowd by cracking his Indiana Jones whip. The fair wasn't all bad, Landon did get his face painted, by MIDGETS! Yes, there was a tent set up called "Little People" face painting, 2 dollars later we had some great pics and a crooked U on Landon's face. The fair seemed to be a huge success, as there were thousands of cars parked all over our neighborhood ALL day long. The parking lot of our complex seemed to be the favorite spot to illegally park for the event. Later in the day as I was leaving to run errands, I smashed into one of the idiots who decided to park behind my car. NOT on purpose. I wish I was brave enough to let the poor bastard suffer in wonder at who would smash his precious automobile and just leave, but my conscience ,or maybe it was my husband, wouldn't let me. Now I sit and wait for a phone call that I assume will be far from friendly (i left a note for the lucky fool). Thanks Salt Lake for a wonderful day!

Landon's Blessing

Sam blessed Landon on Sunday. We had a lot of family and friends in town and it was a great weekend! Landon was thoroughly mawled and quite sick of being drug around. Grandma Terry (Sam's mom) got Landon the cutest blessing outfit, BUT since the kid seems to grow so fast it was a little snug come Sunday. By the time we shoved Landon into the outfit he was a bit fed up. Then came his favorite, the dreaded car seat! After he was all buckled in I looked down and noticed our precious angel all dressed in white...

I SWEAR on my life this picture was NOT posed or doctored in any way (although it does seem to fit, what with the skulls and all). I guess he just had enough! What a great pic to capture his special day.

Yesss!

I noticed there is a nice new "add video" option when creating a post. Now I can share my favorite past time with everyone... Making Videos! I don't have many friends up here and Sam is super busy working full time and going to school full time, but this little hobby occupies my time nicely! I'm sure Sam will be thrilled with this new feature, or just thoroughly embarrassed. Lets just say he is not the biggest fan of my videos and has already banned me from putting our son in any of them. Here is one of my first vids, my sister Buff is the star of most of them, but I'm always looking for fresh talent!

Wedding TaG!

tagged shmagged... It always comes back to haunt you!
1. Where did I meet my husband?

Salt Lake City @ the Gateway Applebees, in the kitchen! I think I was shoving hard boiled eggs thru a french fry basket (that's how they prepare them for salads, totally gross).

2. What was the first thing you said to your husband?

Probably "Who are you?", or "Hi, I'm Amy". I was new and trying to meet everybody.

3. Where was your first date?

I don't think it was a "date" but there were 4 of us, him and I, Ashley and Chong. We went to Chili's then Wal Mart.

4. Where was your first kiss?

Pine Cove apartments, in his room... I know, that's bad.

5. Did you have a long or short engagement?

Really short... We were OFFICIALLY engaged on Oct. 9th and married that December. But we knew we were getting married for a while before he actually proposed.

6. Where did you get engaged?
At a park up on the mountain. It overlooks the whole city, so pretty!

7. Where were you married?

Mesa Temple

8. How did the reception go?
They both were fun! I don't really remember the one in AZ because I was freaking out about my purse that was left at the temple.

9. How was the Honeymoon?

Well, after almost being kicked out of our condo, and sitting thru a timeshare sales pitch from hell, it was AWESOME! We went to Orlando for a week. We hit a different theme park everyday, talk about exhausting!

I tag: Posey, Erica, and Jessica!

St. George

We finally got to take a short vacation. Sam has 1 week off of school before the fall semester starts, so we took advantage of the time and headed to St. George to visit his family. Posey was in SLC visiting me over the week, she and I left Friday for SG. Sam came down later that night after work. She stayed a night there with us so she wouldn't have to drive the whole way back to AZ in one day. On the way down we had 3 car seats crammed into her rental car and boy was it a trip! We got pulled over and there were some funny things that happened, thankfully the cop was pretty nice. Sam and I just hung out all weekend and caught up on much needed sleep. Grandma Terry gave Landon his 1st REAL bath, and he loved it! Some of Sam's close friends and us all had babies at the same time that we wanted to meet, so we had a bbq. All in all a great weekend!