I figured it was about time to get my rear in gear. The baby is 7 weeks old, I am no longer working, and it is time to be the homemaker. I have commited to cooking dinner Monday - Thursday (Friday is date night, Saturday is a free for all, and my mom cooks on Sunday)! I wouldn’t call myself a culinary genious, but I certainly have a good mentor in my mom. I started out with homemade BBQ’d hamburgers with all of the fixings and fresh fruit. They were to die for, and I even added special touches - I stuffed Micah’s with bleu cheese (his favorite) and I buttered and toasted the buns. BUT I had a plan B. In case they didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to, I had a sidetracking plan in play. Micah has said he has been needing some casual business clothes, and a few summer things. So I went shopping the same day and had a stack of presents ready for him to open. The beauty of it all is that he loved the burgers AND the clothes!
Micah - You have really lived up to the challenge! Thanks for being such a good, kind, patient and most importantly….loving dad! XOXO Lindsey and Scout
Micah ran with a team called the “Utah Rednecks” in the Camp Pendelton Mud Run today. The team consisted of Devin and Ciara Lindahl, a girl named Kim and his sister Bree. In honor of the team, domestic Bree made really cool team shirts. They were bright yellow with “Utah Rednecks” on the front in red. On the back was their names in camoflauge. And the kicker was the arms of the shirt were cut off in true redneck style! They did pretty well, but Micah and Devin have plans to be running next year in even better style…..they want to come back with three other great runners and win the whole thing wearing pink, short shorts and zorro masks. Luckily Scout isn’t a little older, because that is definitely the type of thing a kid would be embarassed by!
Micah and I are going on our 2nd year anniversary! So to surprise him, I planned a weekend away with the two us and the babe. We headed out to Lake Las Vegas and spent the weekend at the Ritz Carlton. We had an absolute blast, and everything was perfect. We basically relaxed all weekend long. Some of the highlights were — Lounging by the pool ordering virgin Pina Coladas and yummy food, Going to the local jazz concert on the lake where we got take-out from a restaurant and hung out on the grass hill, staying in our room with Scout and ordering a good movie, and finally having the Seth and Brett clan come out and meet up with us at the lagoon for a few fun hours!
It has been a while since Micah and I went away together, so it was extra fun. But the cherry on top was having a little baby with us who was perfect the entire time! I think this is what life is all about!
Micah had to get to work so he took a flight home Sunday night, and I am staying in Vegas with Seth and Brett for a few days for a little more relaxation. If you call 6 boys under the age of 7 relaxing. But so far we have had a good time that has involved a lot of swimming and sun!
Scout absolutely adores his dad. He just looks at him and looks at him. This morning Micah got Scout up at 7:30 and I fell back asleep. I don’t like to sleep in, but I guess I was lacking in that department because Micah came and woke me up at 10:30. In the meantime, Micah had bathed and dressed Scout. He then took him to the hardware store to get a couple of things done. And then they just “hung out” and looked at eachother for a bit. He is a great dad, and Scout is one lucky boy to have him!
Congratulations to the Shmickster…he completed his second century ride ever. This one was better than his first -the Solvang Century- where he was miserable, and the wind was horrendous. This time, at mile 80, he was ready for the ride to be over. It was 107 miles, and he finished it out with no problems! Nice job babe!
Right after Scout was born, they inked up his foot and stamped it on a couple of documents. I thought it was really cute when Micah came back to my bedside with an imprint of the little foot on his arm! The nurse told me later she has never had that request before, but thought he was definitely an adoring dad!
If anyone has ever gone to the arcade’s, there is always some nerdy little guy hanging out on the Dance Dance Revolution machine. I am always baffled by how sweaty they get, and how addicted they seem as they insert quarter after quarter. Well, to my surprise…..Micah got us Dance Dance Revolution, and it is so fun! He has the total set up and it is projected on one of our walls.
So far, Skylar and Calin battle it out, Micah is getting pretty good (even though he does look like Sammy Davis Jr. doing a full tap routine with the big arms and all!) and Tristen and I had three battles the day before I had the baby! I totally think DDR (you can abbreviate when get good) is what started my contractions! Anyway, Tristen and I are going to DDR every night for an hour so I can lose my post baby weight!
Calin and Skylar had spring break this last week, so one day we headed down to Main Beach in Laguna Beach. We stopped at Johnny Rockets for shakes, and then set up a blanket and hung out for a couple of hours. The weather was perfect, and the waves were the biggest they have been in years. They were so big, there was not even one person in the water. We had a great time!
The other night, we dyed easter eggs. We ended up having a contest to see who dyed the best one, and the entries were from Me, Micah, Calin, Skylar and Bryan Thacker. (He was over watching a movie with Micah and joined in on the fun.)
I had the winning egg with my “golden delight” glitter covered egg at first. Then everyone stole my method, which bumped me to third place. But in the end, Bryan Thacker took first place with his “Endless Summer” egg. It was pretty awesome, but I will take credit for giving him the idea. He dyed the egg, and it looked pretty cool, but certainly was not worth a spot in the competition. Then I casually walked by and mentioned that the colors looked like the background of the Endless Summer poster. Next thing you know, he free handed a surfer on the front and took first prize. Congrats B. Tacky! But the funniest part was when my mom judged the eggs and Tacky got first place, Micah took his last place egg and free handed a surfer on it. He thought it might get him a bump up in the ranks, but he stayed in dead last. You can’t really see it in the picture, but his is the blue egg on the right side AKA last place!
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