a first for steven...

so at Christmas my mom put those wash cloth towels that are shaped like something in our stockings (yes we still get stockings!). these ones were shaped like mickey's head and you had to put it under hot water to make it unfold.

steven was going through his stuff and found his. he asked what it was! i was sooo surprised he had never seen or used one of these before. i could not let this go on any more! we grabbed it and went straight to the bathroom. im sure there were more important things to get done, but this had to be dealt with!!! of course as he warmed up the water i grabbed the camera to document this momentous occasion! so here are a few pictures (3 months after Christmas) to show you steven's first towel expanding experience!

1...the towel in its last moments of looking like mickey mouse's head!

2...steven holding it under the water and being ever so patient for the towel to be soft!

3...the stiffness is going away and steven is starting to see the actual towel

4...can you just feel the excitement in his face to see his new towel!! :]

so there you have it. the exciting times of our lives! i have been trying to get this up on here for the longest time. and wah-lah! i got it done! i hope you have had this exciting experience!!
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we are alive...all three of us!

let me dust off this blog so i can give the whole handful of you guys an update... even though you probably know it all!

so we are now 20 weeks pregnant (itll be 21 on friday). we found out last friday, 3/6, that we are having a girl. hopefully thatll be confirmed 100% next month! when we went for the ultrasound our little bun in the oven was very active (and i feel none of it!!). she was doing sumersaults and covering her face with her arms. grrr! so when we go back next month the doc is going to do another ultrasound to go over things again and to hopefully check her parts again! :]

i have been trying to be good and not go into the baby section...too much! i havent gotten into too much trouble! im quite proud. i know that this little girl is going to be spoiled rotten by everyone so i probably wont have to do much besides feed her! :]

aside from the baby, our lives are staying busy. steven is working tons of hours right now (thank God) and is raking in the overtime. I try and get lots done on saturdays when he is working. as for me, the school year seemed to pick up and get really busy ten weeks before the school year ended. im wondering how that works. i have received a handful of new students. which means working them into the flow we already had going on, paperwork, and meetings. but they are lots of fun. im also trying to get progress reports done and a 6 page report for my students who are going to kindergarten next year...and have meetings for each of those kids! oh the joys of paperwork, meetings, and business! its been a fun experience though and im going to miss it next year. but ill be able to spend lots of time with our little girl!

pictures will be coming soon...do not worry!

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"family" pictures...

so yesterday afternoon we went around town and took some "family" pictures. it feels weird saying family cause its only the two of us...for now. so we loaded up shannon and her camera and started driving around. here are some of the pictures we took...if you want to see more you can head over to our myspace pages. or perhaps my facebook once i get to uploading them on there. enjoy!!!

happy thanksgiving...

so being the preschool teacher that i am, i had to come up with a cute little project for my kids to do for thanksgiving. what better than turkeys. before i get to the turkey part i must tell you... at the beginning of the year i sent home a letter letting parents know things were going awesome with the kids and a little list of some things would could use in the classroom. one of those needed items were the cardboard rolls from toilet paper. so since i have dont that i have a 3'x3' drawer full of toilet paper and paper towel cardboard rolls! a the time i sent the letter home i had NO idea what i would do with the rolls but i knew something would come up. this was the project to come up!
with a little paint, turkey face cutouts, glue, and coffee filters...ta-da! you get a fabulous looking turkey. so i had to make one as a sample to show the kids what we were making. well at the end of the day, chelsey and michelle wanted to make a turkey also. so after we got some work done they sat down with all their supplies and made their turkeys. here are all of our turkeys hanging out together. so from left to right we have: gideon, fredina, and... i forgot michelles turkeys name! oops...
i love the ladies i have in my room. they are so much fun. here are the three of us with our awesome looking turkeys....
so to you and yours...happy thanksgiving! (i could probably direct this straight to you aimee since youre probably the only one who actually reads my nonsense!)

are my eyes seeing right...

so my low fuel light went on last night and i needed to stop for gas. so i decided to go to fabulous freddys. ive been noticing it was getting cheap. so i stopped to get gas and this is what i saw:
i havent paid less than $2 in a looooong time. granted its a PENNY less than $2, but still. its the numbers that i see! so as i was pumping gas i pulled out my camera as inconspicuously as possible. i succeeded! so then i decided that if it didnt fill up then i would go until $30. lately its been going beyond that. but not this time. it stopped at:
ok im joking. it actually stopped at $21.8-something. but being the anal person that i am i cant stop at odd numbers. so i just kept clicking until $22. this shot i didnt take as sly as the other. i forgot i left the flash open (which i didnt do on the first shot). because of my neglect i got this nice bright shot of the pump and my total! then i pulled out of the gas station quickly! now that utah has caught up with the rest of the world...we are happy campers or drivers!!

some visuals...

so a few posts back i gave an extended update on the mendonsa household! i let you know how steven started a new job. well i first learned that i spelled it wrong. its mikohn. i originally wanted to post some pictures of the kind of stuff he does. but i couldnt find a website (a result of my mispelling!). now that i have found out the correct spelling i have found some pictures. although he wasnt personally involved with these exact signs, he has been painting ones similar to this (i got grumbles from steven when i brought them up on the computer) and ones that are much more complex. so here they are:

lately they have been working on a lot of stuff that will be going into the new hotel in vegas called the encore. maybe ill take him down there and take pictures with actual signs he has painted... like a kindergartner on their first day of school! :] although it may be a bit traumatizing since he spends lots of time with these signs! we shall see i suppose!

tattoo freaks of st george!

so we have made it back from cali. its been almost a week since we got our tattoos finished (for steven) and started (for me)... our original appointment was set for noon to six for steven, sister, and myself. in the end it turned out to be from noon to eight and only steven and i actually got something done. so needless to say it was a long day for steven since he was there all day. he even had lunch and dinner with jimi. sister and i showed up at about five and those three hours were long enough! so check out the pictures... mine will be colored and done in december when we go out for Christmas... yay!

this is my arm. i decided to go with a wrap around picture set since the tattoo is so wide and my arm is little. gives you the whole effect! :]
and here is stevens all done. we should probably do a wrap around picture as well. ill work on that! oh and if you look at the post below this you can get the whole before and after effect with stevens...
enjoy...