A much needed post!!

I know that it has been a while since I've blogged but our internet signal went out again and this time we don't think it is coming back. Lately we have just been taking Kayl to fun parks and doing a lot of fun activities. We are trying to get him used to the idea of other children. He is growing up so fast it is crazy. I can't believe that in October he will be 2 years old.
The other week we took Kayl to the dinosaur museum. I think that I enjoyed it a little more than he did so we will probably be going back when he grows up a little bit more.

I tried to upload pictures but blogger decided to be retarded and not let me. Oh, well I'll give you a picture overload next week sometime.

My style has grown up

For as long as I can remember I hated the color brown and any form of it. Not until I got married and relized the awesomeness of the color.

Todd and went searching for a new couch that would be easy to clean an comfy to sit on. Our old couch was free so we never complained but we've had it for 3 years and it was not suiting us anymore. We looked forever for the right one and finally found the one I wanted. I guess ya'll can see our other little toy in the middle picture. We are slowly upgrading to furniture that we can be proud of. Look how grown up I am now!!

Next stop in our home improvments the bathroom!!! Maybe next month!!

When I grow Up...

I wanna be just like Daddy!!!

I feel like an adult!!

Ever since I've been married I have never lived in the same place for more than a year. I wanted to but either I hated the apartment or the rent got to expensive. Well, I just signed the lease for the place we are at now for another year. We moved here in April but we were finishing someone elses lease. With the rent being only 650 we were excited that it had a lot of amenities that our other ones have not. For example we have a dishwasher, washer/dryer hook-ups, and we only pay for power and gas. The major downfall was giving up our cats. I still cry about that.
Since we signed the lease for another year I decided it was time to make this apartment my home. I'm now saving money each week to do a little redecorating. Last week after we rearranged the bedroom I went to K-Mart and got a spectacular deal on new bedding for our big bed. I was super proud of myself.
I'm now saving up to redo the bathroom. I found the cutest Spongebob Bathroom decor and I decided that I'm going to do the bathroom that way. Mostly for Kayl cause he loves Spongebob.
I'm also in the process of searching for a new couch, I found a fantastic one at R.C. Willey. It is on sale and everything but I don't think I'll have enough saved up in time to buy it so I'm searching Craigslist and KSL as well. This is the one I saw at R.C. Willey and fell in love with. Wish I had the 750 to get it!!

I'm also on the prowl for a new vacuum cause mine is dying a very slow death. K-Mart had some awesome deals so I may go back for the one there.
I've discovered that K-Mart has awesome deals on everything.
If anyone has a couch that they don't need anymore let me know cause we need a newer one then the one we have. My mother-in law gave us the one we use now and it was really meant for a formal living room so it is not very comfy nor is it stain resistant. Kayl loves to smear crap all over it. I'm also looking for a decent shoe rack and a DVD cabinet that I can close and lock. Kayl's new favorite activity is grabbing a DVD and opening it to play with the disc. I'm slowly going to make this apartment mine.
Todd and I went to Wal-Mart and bought a bunch of picture frames and printed out a ton of pictures. Now our house is a museum of pictures from our life so far. I love walking in the house and seeing pictures of us, Kayl, and our cats. I want to get some more pictures up so if anyone has pictures of you with either me, Todd, or Kayl please send them to me and I'll frame them and put them up on the wall.

Thank you everyone for reading my blog!!

Room Rearrange

Since Kayl got sick I was keeping him in our room during the day and at night. Our bed was way to high and he is such a wiggle worm that I was scared that he would fall off. So at like midnight last night Todd and I decided to rearrange our bedroom. We took the entire bedframe out and now we sleep on the mattress closer to the floor. Kayl was so excited for this new setup cause mommy and daddy can now run and job on the bed while he is on it. It is one of his favorite games. He likes cause he can watch Disney movies better now. I like cause it is easier to just fall into bed.

Sick with what!?!

Kayl has been so sick lately. It was such a sudden onset and I was terrified. His fever shot to 106 and it never went down past 101. He was throwing up and was just so miserable. I didn't know what to do. Then I was on Facebook and I was reading my sisters status and it said that my brother had the swine flu. I got super scared cause she was at my house the day before he got sick and was holding him and playing with him. I rushed him over to the Instacare. They ran a strep test first cause his tinsils were huge. It came back negative so they did the Swine Flu test and that one was negative so they said he probably just has a virus so they sent us home and told us to give him plenty of fluids and switch of Tylenol and Motrin every 2 hours. I did that.
Then this morning I woke up to the scariest sight you'll ever see.





I freaked out and burst into tears. I thought "Oh crap my baby is dying" I called the Instacare and talked to the same doctor that saw him yesterday. I told her his new symptoms and she said that it is Roseola Also called baby measles. This is a nonserious but common childhood viral infection that starts with a high fever and swollen lymph glands. After 24 hours, the fever breaks and the child develops a red rash on the neck and trunk.
She said that it would go away but it may come back often. It was just terrifing. At least I know what it so I won't freak out next time.

Ode to a pair of Flip-Flops

Oh my Flip Flops,
How I loved thee
You started out pink and new
As the years went on you became old and faded
People told me to throw you away
I said Nay!!

I loved the way you felt on my feet
The way you let the snow in in winter
The heat in summer

I may have worn other shoes
But I swear it was just for work
I may have looked for new Flip Flops
But I always came back to you

Then why? My Flip Flops
Did you break today?
After all these years and all the accidents I had
You break on a day where I did nothing at all

I'll miss you my loves
I don't know how to replace you
No one sells your brand anywhere
What will I do with out you?

Oh my Flip Flops
How I loved Thee!!
So, I'll try to fix you with super glue
But I doubt that will work
So, I bid you fond farwell!!




I know it is a picture of Kayl but it is the best one I had of my Flip Flops

Update!!

So, our Internet signal went out for about two weeks again. Not much has been going on in the Tangreen home. I got my hours massivly cut back at work and was really upset with that. They should go back up in the fall but for now I'm looking for a second job because one shift a week just doesn't help. Kayl is getting smarter everyday. The other day he found an empty box dragged it over to the TV and stood on it so he could get the remote. He was also taking a bath and I was sitting on the toilet just watching him when all of a sudden he crawled out of the bathtub walked over to me, tried to open his potty. I told him no because I thought he just wanted to play with it. He looked straight at me and peed on the rug in front of me. I guess he just wants to potty train himself. Thankfully Todd's job is way busy right now. He usually has to work 6 days a week so that kind of sucks but it is good money. Well, that's it for now.

Does anyone have a scanner I could borrow for a day or two? I really need to scan all of my old pictures to my computer!! Thanks!!

Daddy's Little Helper

Kayl was wandering around the house today and he found where I hid his big box of Goldfish. He decided that since I wasn't looking that he would open the box and dump them on the floor. I turned around and found Kayl sitting in a mound of Goldfish and so proud of himself. He sat there and ate the majority of them.
Todd got the vacuum out and turned it on. Kayl ran to him and started to push the vacuum. It was the cutest thing ever. He got mad when Todd turned the vacuum off because he wanted to clean more. I know who is vacuuming when he gets older!!

Success

My Child No Longer Drinks From A Bottle!!!!!!!!

We got him some SpongeBob sippy cups since he loves SpongeBob. Ever since we got them he hasn't touched a bottle. I'm so proud of him!

The importance of money (in 19 month terms)

Jingle-Jingle

Run to mommy, she has jingles in her pocket.

Grab Mr. Pig

Hit mommy with Mr. Pig and point at the top of it.

Make mommy put jingles in in Mr. Pig and laugh and smile.

Wait til Friday when mommy goes to money store.

Bring Mr. Pig

Give mommy Mr. Pig to give to money lady.

Get a piece of paper.

Todd and I thought it would be a great idea to open a savings account for Kayl. When ever we have loose change we put it in a little piggy bank that we got when we opened the account. Kayl now knows the sound of loose change and will run to us when he hears it. He will bring his little piggy bank too.
I go to the bank every Friday and the minute I get the piggy bank Kayl runs to the door. He loves the bank and loves the little piece of paper that he gets after Mr. Pig gets empty.

How beautiful

I love this Temple and was so excited that we got to pass it twice. I so badly want to do a session here. Isn't it beautiful.

What camping does to little boys

We left Grover today at 5:30 am because this little child decided that it would be fun to wake up at 4:30. Right as we got to Bicknell I looked back and saw this. He was just a little tired!

Kayl's little wagon

Todd's mom and step-dad gave Kayl a cute little wagon one day. It is a cool moon wagon. He was a little afraid of it at first but when we were in Grover he never wanted out of it. We used the wagon a lot more than the stroller. It was so fun!!

Capitol Reef

I was a little sad that it rained all day when we went into Capitol Reef. Kayl hated the rain so we didn't get to do any of the hikes that I wanted to do. I really wanted to show Todd the waterfall that I love to play in. We drove there and no one was there. It was still drizzling but I didn't care. We climbed down and it stopped raining and the sun came out for fifteen minutes. I had to get in the water but I didn't have my suit so I just waded in my jeans. Kayl loved the water and didn't want to leave. He only got mad because it started raining again.

Our Forts

When I was little, we used to go down to Grover once a year. We had such fun playing in the hills. We would gather flat rocks from the hill and build forts around trees. I'm amazed that the forts still stand to this day. My fort was the coolest because it had a built in chair. I would sit in my fort for hours and just watch the sky.

Grover Trip

This post is most likely going to be a bunch of little posts but I was overdue for a Grover vacation because I haven't been there in 3 years.



This was right when we got to the cabin. Todd has never been to Grover and he really liked it. Kayl had a good time to.

This just happened!

For some reason my sink all of a sudden did this. I walked into the kitchen and heard my neighbors water running and all of a sudden water was everywhere. I called my landlord but so far no one has come and I have no idea what to do. I'm out of towels and it keeps getting worse. The water has almost reached our carpet and it smells so bad.

Time for an update!!

I'm totally about to go to bed tonight and I lay down and find an Internet signal. I don't know how long it'll last so I'll try to get as much written as possible. We went to Summerfest and took Kayl on his first ever ride on a Merry-go-Round. He actually quite enjoyed it. We also got two new pets to replace our cats. Their names are Bill and Ted and they are our cute frogs. Kayl loves to look at them all day. We are also starting to potty train Kayl but I have no idea how to potty train a child. Any help would be fantastic. Well, that's all for now. I'll have more later because we are going to Grover this weekend!!

Update!!

I know that it has been a while since I've blogged, but when you don't have the internet what are you going to do.
We've been pretty busy lately. Todd has been working more and more hours and he sometimes dosen't get home till 6 or 7. I've been working like crazy at Iggy's and I'm still hoping to start serving soon.
Kayl is my little walking machine. He just doesn't stop. He discovered how to push himself into the kitchen so Todd and I had to go thru the entire house and baby proof it.
We love our new place we just really miss the cats. We've been without them for a whole month but it feels a lot longer.
Sorry that this post isn't longer and there aren't any pictures it's just that I have to blog from the library and they don't give you near enough time to write anything bigger.