Dinner Time

This is what our daily dinner routine consists of:

1) Making delicious food. I am a very picky eater. I make things that most people like because that's what I like. Nothing really weird or gross. I'm talking normal stuff like spaghetti and pizza and chicken dishes and soups. Good stuff, okay?

2) Getting the kids to the table. Usually there are threats involved and some whining on their part. It's like they don't want to eat. Okay, they really don't.

3) Once prayer is done, we dish out the food. There is usually loud crying or complaining or even screaming about what we are putting on their plate. Again, not alien weird food. Normal good food.

4) More threats, bribes, or whatever we can think of to make them eat.

5) None of the aforementioned methods work.

6) When dinner is over, we both sigh and hope that tomorrow's dinner time doesn't come too soon.

So now that we have established the norm, let me explain what happened tonight. We had spaghetti. I make yummy sauce that even has a little sugar in it. Who doesn't like sugar? We also had peas and garlic bread. The crying came when the sauce went on the plates (they like to eat just plain wheat noodles). More crying when the peas went on the plate. Threats, anger, etc. We finally got Bridger to open his mouth for a bite of THREE peas. He immediately started grabbing at his mouth trying to scrape the peas out his mouth. They wouldn't come out so he put his finger down his throat to try and get them out and he gagged himself and threw up his grape juice/noodle mix all over himself. Immediately after spewing he looked at Adam and with the most threatening devil face he could muster said, "NO! I don't like it!" Then more crying.

Brody fared a little better in that we forced him to take ONE bite of peas and ONE bite of noodles with sauce and he kept them in his mouth/digestive system.

To those of you with older children, when does this end?

And also, anyone wanna come over for dinner?

House Pictures

Some of you have asked about our house. It is going really quickly. It should be done in a few weeks, but we aren't moving in until September 25. Adam's new job/getting out of the military kind of complicated the loan process so we have to wait until then to close.
Here is the house right after the landscaping was put in. It's kind of a weird angle, but it's to show the tree all the way to the left there. It's a Japanese Maple and I love it. I can't wait to watch it get bigger each year. Also, in case you're wondering, they don't stain the door until the very end. It's not going to be yellow.

So the vinyl is in the bathrooms, the hardwood is going in this week and the carpet next week. Then all that's left is the cabinets and it will be done. We can't wait until we can move in and have more space.

First Day of School

Brody started school today. He went to a preschool last year for 3 days a week/half days but this year he is going 5 days a week for 7 hours a day. It is the Georgia-sponsored Pre-K program, so it's free, which is nice. He didn't get into the nice elementary school pre-k class so we enrolled him in the next best thing- a day care that also provides the Georgia Pre-K approved curriculum. It's not a clean place or an organized place but I am trying to have a good attitude about it. I'm really hoping Brody will like it. Today when he got home, I asked him what he did at school and he told me he couldn't remember. I asked him what he had for lunch (he's not allowed to bring his own lunch so he has to eat whatever they give him) and he couldn't remember. So who knows how it went. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Bridger was excited to drop Brody off at school and then later said he wanted him back. Bridger and I had a good time. We had a little while when we were both kind of bored and wonder what to do without Brody to play with. Bridger is way happier and nicer when Brody isn't around. Bridger even took a 3 hour nap, which gave me 3 hours to nap and have quiet time. It was amazing.

New Job

Adam is finally done with the military. He started his new job yesterday. He is working in the same building as before, only doing something a little different with his language and he is now a civilian contractor. He gets to PICK OUT what he wears to work. No more Navy janitor uniform or the girly crackerjack one either. He gets to go to work with a beard and long hair and if he really wanted to (which trust me, he doesn't) an earring. It is liberating for both of us, actually. No more random pee tests, no more seminars about not doing drugs or raping people, and no more Navy Pride Day.

So here is Adam on his first day of his new job wearing snazzy civilian clothes.

I'm not sure why this creepy Easter Bunny picture is the only one I can find of him wearing his Navy janitor uniform.

We really have been grateful for the opportunities that the military has given us. We have met amazing people and friends that we will have for the rest of our lives. Adam has learned a lot of skills, gotten his degree for close to free and learned a few languages too. We have been really blessed. Now we are looking forward to the blessings of civilian life!

So can you tell I'm excited?

Family Pictures

We had a service auction for Enrichment in May (or was it June?). It was a lot of fun. I knew what I wanted to bid on right when I got there. Sherrie and Jay Johnson are amazing photographers in our ward. Sherrie donated a photo session. I snatched that up as fast as I could. We cashed in a couple of weeks ago and went downtown to the Riverwalk in Augusta. Go to their website for a small taste of what they did:

http://picturethepossibilities.blogspot.com/2009/07/jessica-and-adam-family.html