October 10 on 10: Stephanie

Once again, I didn't make it to 10 pictures. I forgot to take pictures during the day. Missing: a baby shower, lunch with a friend, mid-day reading of my current book (while June napped and Rob took Henry to run errands... nice), and some grocery shopping.

June's "bed head" is often this layered long bob that a lot of women would ask their hair stylists for:)

We spent the morning at BYU's Homecoming parade. We love this parade - it's not too long, the kids get a lot of candy thrown to them and we get genuinly excited about seeing Cosmo (the mascot), the President of BYU, the parade grand marshal and other honorees that are often someone we recognize - a past professor, or prominent individual from Provo or from the Church, and the various dancing groups. And then there are the groups that elicit the insincere cheers (but, cheers nonetheless) like when we yell "yay school of accounting!"

The Alumni float - represent! I may or may not have gotten emotional as this float went by (and other floats). I just love BYU.

Chomping on some candy.

Later that night we enjoyed our weekly tradition of pizza and a movie.

JUNE 10 on 10 // MONICA

730 am, happy as can be! I love how he is so happy in the morning.

830ish out on a morning walk. He fell asleep on the walk.

9ish while he continued sleeping, I took a body shower and shaved my legs. Gotta get those things in!

9ish, I think, getting mr man ready for the day

10ish, after feeding him it was my turn to get dressed. He likes sitting up on a pillow. He thinks its pretty cool.

11ish, after another quick feeding we left the house and went to Nordstrom to pick up my bra that was made into a nursing bra! And to exchange my Birkenstocks for different ones. The ones I ordered arrived with lots of glue showing, and I am not going to pay for expensive shoes if it looks cheap with glue!

12ish, At Target, he slept so good I took my sweet time. New Birkenstocks.

Late 1ish, Vade hung out while I put away cloth diaper laundry

2ish, Looked at some books, he looks like such a big boy! 

...and we looked at his toys. He got this one from mom on his birth day at the hospital.

...And lots of smiling and talking to his mama.

5ish, after some feeding and nap time we headed to third place books to meet Jachen from the bus and shared our favorite sandwich. mmmmm. Our first time eating out with baby, and he did great! 

7ish, after dinner, I sat and fed babe in the car til 7 when we went into Barnes & Noble and listened to our favorite Joe Cross speak! Love him.

8ish, I held standing (not enough seats) baby asleep in my Solly Wrap the for over an hour and I WAS DYING. My back was killing me and  we were sweating and I was starving, cus i forget I need to eat more sometimes, sharing that dinner wasn't enough for me! So I handed baby over to Jachen for the last of the Joe Cross class.

MAY 10 on 10 // MONICA

6am//I LOVE 6am. That's when it turns light outside and it lights up our bedroom, and I think to myself "yay, i did the night and now its day time!" This is how baby sleeps, right next to me.

7am//early bath with me this morning cus Jachen planned to skype family early. Baths really have been helping my body heal, and him with me is such a little treat. He is so calm and serene.

He LOVES his daddy.

8am//Skype call with Jachen's mom

830am//Skype call with his grandparents. (his aunt and uncle too) Jachen rarely has seen his granddad smile, this was one of those times. His grandma emailed after we had the baby about how granddad was bragging to friends that he is going to be a great granddad. Which is something very unlike him to do.

9am//Jachen made me breakfast. So me and baby ate breakfast in bed. :)

10?//Jachen said to me "go do something, I get baby" and then snuggled him and took a rest with him

11ish//My one request for Mother's Day was that Jachen take the nail polish off my toes and fingers and then repaint my toenails. It was driving me nuts!

Sometime that afternoon after lots of feeding, and such

3ish//I cleaned some dishes and then started the pasta salad for our mothers day picnic

3ish 4 ish//Watched a little Star Wars

4ish//more feeding

5//family mothers day picnic. He slept the whole time and got passed around. Had a lot of fun, besides when the bird in the tree above pooped on my pant leg! Nasty!

I realized that now I have a kid in there and will have to participate in picture taking again.

February 10 on 10: Stephanie

We met Henry's friend for a play date at this amazing indoor play area in Provo's Rec Center. Lisa, I thought of you while we were there. This place is free! And amazing. I was sad for you that you don't have something like this in your town after our discussion of your winter of being trapped indoors.

Stopped by the grocery store just to buy cereal but came upon this happy find. It's to the freezer with you!

I let the kids watch a show so I could get some work done.

Whenever I vacuum Henry has to play "try to get me!"

Sorry about this one. Mold and hair that might not be mine are two of the most disgusting things to me, so not vomiting while cleaning our bathtub's jet thingies was my day's greatest success.

Rocking June after she woke up. If I can keep Henry occupied elsewhere in the house then I do this to help her get about 30 min more sleep (while I'm on Pinterest or reading a book on my phone). 

Finished up the tub, I finally trust that it's clean so I might even take a bath in it.

Prepping Dinner. They think they have to be in this room with me most evenings, never mind the playroom full of toys or the other rooms that must be more fun than this. This is not a mid-action shot either, Henry was just lazily laying on the ball and June was looking at her toes. Kids.

Making wheel noodles to hopefully encourage Henry to eat dinner... and that near empty plate is proof that it worked! (lot's of successes today, I guess!)

And did I mention I'm wearing polka dot pants today? (ps., I'm proud that I fit into these pants that only fit when I'm at my skinniest, but this is also a skinny mirror. pps. tip of the day: get a skinny mirror for your bedroom)

November 10 on 10 :: Monica

6AM//We have a pretty systematic routine every morning. Setting out clothes for Jachen while he takes a shower.

Making Jachen's food for the day.

9AM//After taking Jachen to the bus, I slept for an hour and a half then got up, made a protein shake and headed to the gym. Baby belly.

10-11AM//Getting my new glasses sized then headed to Winco.

Sometime after 11...maybe noon//home to unload the car in the rain. So exciting to finally have La Croix again, Winco has the best price.

230PM-530//At my babysitting job. Olivia 3, Stella 1

Both girls fell asleep. I love days like this. Stella sleeps the best when I hold her...I used to try and get her to sleep in her crib, but gave up, would rather have her sleep as long as she needs. I need. :)

Driving home in traffic.

640PM-//After dinner Jachen went to his YM activity. I am finishing off the delicious Lindt dark chocolate peppermint chocolates while blogging while watching 7th Heaven...I just started watching this show and I am kinda addicted. ha.