Cruisin’

We had a great weekend hanging out with Uncle Bob and Auntie Pam! We are so excited they came out to visit us! On Saturday we went on a River boat Lunch Cruise in Muscatine; Maia went to play with the Ruffs. It was really cool, it was definitely a boose cruise but we were sitting in our own secluded section and we had a great time!

On Sunday Rob ran the Quad Cities Marathon!! We met up and cheered him on at mile 8 and then found him at the finish line. It took him about 5 hours and few minutes, it’s an AMAZING accomplishment!

This photo is about 30 feet from the finish line!

 

Miss Maia has been having LOTS of fun with family in town! She has gotten so mobile and has taken up chasing down Pam when she isn’t playing with her. It’s super cute! The girls were able to go shopping while Jesse was in school and Rob got to rest his sore feet! Maia is a pretty good shopper already! She is very talkative lately and makes noise especially loud anywhere she can hear her echo. Today she was cruisin along the wall trying to get into the diaper bag when she just let go and stood by herself for a full minute!! I couldn’t believe my eyes my tiny baby is getting so big so quickly! Along with all her crawling and cruisn’ she has taken to hitting her head on just about everything! We are tempted to look into a helmet to at least let her forehead bruises heal before she hits them again! She is pretty fearless our small one. She even stands in her crib waiting for us to come and get her once she wakes up!

Boards Weekend

As I was planning out my week I noticed I had at least one something going on every day this week! Then as the time has gone by one by one things on my to do list have gotten cancelled. Which is okay I can have things more spaced out this way but when my Dentist appointment got cancelled and rescheduled for next week I totally lost it! Who cries when they don’t get to go to the Dentist?! Someone with a toothache, i.e. I DO!! Yes it was kind of embarrassing explaining why I was crying to my husband but I have been waiting to see a dentist for almost a month now about this darn tooth and they moved my appointment! I am about 95% sure my tooth is cracked and I know it wont even get fixed right away when I got to the appointment they will have to do it at a next appt which is why i was so discouraged. So just one more week and I will know what to expect with that!

On other news we had a long weekend because Jesse isn’t taking boards for another year so we had some fun! We finished painting taught Maia to crawl and climb on her daddy and went to the zoo with the Ruff’s and Merrills! It was super fun!

Fish                                    Elephants

Goats                                 Emus

Lions! (this guy was soo loud!)  Turtles! Which tried to bite!

 

We also had some fun getting Maia a baby doll! She thinks its really funny, probably because it has no hair and no control of its body. Its a cabbage patch what do you expect?

  But she DID try to give it a baba! Quite forcefully I might add, she beat it with its bottle.

 

And today we went out to do a few errands and Maia was such a good baby. When we were at the grocery store I found her a treat to hold onto so she would keep being good. When we got home Daddy opened it for her.

Two hands up for Daddy!                       

All in all it was a pretty fun way to end the last long weekend of the tri!

 

We Painted!!

So it has been pretty eventful at the Fox house! This week I started my new job this week! I was able to do two massages this week, not much but its a good start! I am working at the Institute of Massage Therapy and Wellness in Davenport, it's definitely different from the school I went to but a job is a job.
I am happy to say I am posting from our brand new desktop!!!!!! My dad is so great! He gave us my brothers old desktop (which really isn't old at all but it's new to us!) it is about a hundred times faster than our laptop we were using. It's wonderful thank you dad!! How did the computer get here? Why my mom and Mandy came to visit and brought it with them! It's a short visit but it has been fun to spend some time with them. They helped us paint our apartment!

  

It's something we have been talking about doing for a while we just couldn't decide on a color. When my mom got here we went to the store and just picked a color I liked, my mom was skeptical at first but now that it's on the wall we all LOVE it!! With the new paint we moved the furniture around too it has been soo much fun to redecorate! We even had extra paint, like an entire gallon extra! So we will probably paint the kitchen and hallway to match; I mean its only paint and it doesn't take that long. Now I am just on the hunt for the perfect fabric for curtain in the living room. I hope to find and get them done before it gets cold out, I need them to help keep in the heat!

look at those cute girls!







I think it makes things so much brighter and will help a TON in the winter when I don't want to open the blinds because it will let in the cold!
I can't have a blog without a photo of baby so why don't we end with one of her in her new Cougar sweatshirt! She watched her first Cougar game with daddy on saturday! With an intermission for some shopping with Mom, Grandma, Mandy, and Shari!

Avocados

I have been thinking about what kinds of things to blog about and I can think of all sorts of things during the week but then I sit at the computer and everything goes out the window! Lets see what I can recall :)
My cousin Kenny left on his mission to South Africa last week! I am so excited for him! Totally gonna write him but postage is a couple bucks a letter, maybe I can email him :)

I have been so bored with food lately, just wanting to try to make new things etc. I recently made Jambalaya it was fantastic! And some new chinese stir fry recipes have turned out really well too! With all my new treats I've been making I have plenty of left overs to deal with. This week we made Nachos Supreme

left over taco meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, avocado, sour scream and queso!

Best Leftovers ever :) (at least for this week!!)

I have finally received my Massage Therapy license for the state of Iowa! So I am going to see about getting a job so I can make a little spending money. Actually right now I need money because I think I cracked  a tooth and finding a dentist that accepts medicaid has been next to impossible! This week I am going to go to the Institute for Therapeutic Massage and Wellness and see if I can get hired on to do a few massages a week. Ideally I would work from my home or have a place I rent but I still have a little baby and renting a place to work can cost almost as much as our rent! Thus my dear friend Shari is going to help me get on board at the school where she works and teaches.

I was just realizing today how many women I know that are expecting!! Its so exciting being a mom and I am so happy for my friends I hope everything goes well for them and their babies! I have one friend who lost her daughter and had no way of knowing anything was wrong or would go wrong. My heart broke for her when I found out, and I still find myself feeling sad and even guilty about it. Guilty that I have my baby girl to hold and play with and she has to wait to see her baby girl again. Tears me apart sometimes! But the strength I have seen from her is so inspirational, through this hard time she is going through she and her husband have held strong to their faith, family and friends. I can only imagine the difficulty they are facing but I keep them in my prayers daily both to strengthen them and myself. It helps me to realize what a miracle it is to have a child! And such a cute one at that!

With our trying new foods I haven't left Maia out! Today I made a short video of her as she tried avocados.

She'll come around to foods that are green eventually...we hope!!

Also shout out to my dad for being so awesome!!! He is sending us one of their old desktop computers that was once my brothers but since Scott is now at school and has a laptop we asked if we could have it. My laptop though I love it dearly is having a difficult time running these days. THANKS DAD!!!

Yep that's my dad dunkin not just donuts

A Blog! -Now we can be cool.

Zebra Baby

 I have been reading a lot of peoples blogs lately and so I decided to create my own. I have one from High School all about bands and such but I wanted a new one to dedicate to my little family.
 So we just got back from a trip to Denver to visit my family it was so fun! When we left Maia was just getting good at rolling over and spinning around. Now she is even better at it and can scoot backwards. While we were gone we discovered she had 3 teeth buds coming in! Not in the front but on the side, now two days after we first found them she has 3 more on the other side! My poor little girl has 6 teeth coming in at the same time! Only one has broken through, her little vampire tooth. How she knew Twilight was popular and the Vampires are all the rage I do not know. My trendy child.
 Jesse has a lot of tests lately and spends his time studying or playing Star Craft, or both. We are also listening to the Harry Potter series on tape. Cuz I don't have much time to read them and I'm a bit stubborn to read the books everyone tells me to. But I am enjoying them we are on the last one Deathly Hollows.
 Tomorrow I start my Circuit Training! I have some inches to lose post baby and being in shape never hurt anyone. Well that's debatable but I will resist.

 Also I am doing a Walk for Life for Lymphoma and Leukemia in September (around the time Pam and Bob are going to come visit us!)  So I have been rounding up things to sell in the ICAA garage sale, so August 20th anyone needs anything all profits go to benefit blood cancer research!