Valentines Day and Teather Ball

Here were the guests to our valentines day dinner, Ky, Valarie and Maddie. 

 We had pizza and salad, yumm like my all time favorite meal.

Oh man lately I have been having tough tummy troubles and feeling totally desperate for any cure, I thought about starting the Simple Carbohydrate Diet (aka no carbs 'cept fruit and legumes) it was gonna be intense mostly just cuz I love my pizza and baked goods but I am gonna try some other helps and see how it goes.  But this diet isn't completely ruled out, I mean sure it would make me feel healthier not eat prepared goods or sugars. So I will probably still cut out those things as much as I can, anyway enough about me.

 We had a nice day recently and Kacen and I went to the park, he loves the teather ball.

 Kacen's all time favorite outdoor past time, riding his bike down any hill as fast as he can. He recently found out he can get going down the grass pretty fast too and it is really funny to watch him bump down the hill. I will try to get pictures or videos soon.

 Look at that form he is an athlete!

 We are loving Ky's new job cuz he works three days and has four off! It is so great. Well last night we went to get in bed and found Kacen like this, ignore all the clutter, but he was seriously hanging off the bed and fast asleep.

A Conger Friday

Because Kacen and I have been sick this week we have pretty much stayed at home the past couple days we decided to get out tonight and have some fun, haha we are so dorky. I threw on some pants and shoes and ran a brush through my hair and brushed my teeth (around like 7:00 p.m. cuz I didn't do it that morning). Then we went to K-Mart to let Kacen ride the $.50 merry-go-round, then we headed to CVS  and used my $3 CVS Register Rewards bucks to buy some Coke for Ky, pistachios for me and a chocolate covered marshmallow for Kace. Then we came home took all the cushions off the couch and made Kacen jump off things, haha. He loved it.

Yep a good ole night at the Conger's. After we worked the sugar out of his system and sent him to bed I was about to start blogging when my computed was hijacked by Ky, so I had to just sit around watching David Tuterra's My Fair Wedding, oh how many episodes have a I watched in the past three days? ummm...8. And how many episodes of Diners Drive-ins and Dives? Yikes like 15 or 20 not to mention the numerous times I have seen Toy Story (all 3), Monsters Inc, and Lilo and Stich. Am I a bad mother and wife because we watch so much tv? When you feel the way I do 15 weeks prego and sick with some nasty cold thing plus watching a sick two year-old who still manages to have like 3 billion watts of energy? No I don't think so at all.

Even with the sickness I still made some bomb dinners, try homemade baked chicken fingers with homemade winger's sauce and roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic glaze or Navajo tacos with marinated chipotle chicken, three homemade salsas (pico, salsa verde, and hot cooked tomato) and fresh fry bread. I am not competely useless and triple D does pay off with meal ideas. Oh but I am pretty sure my mother-in-law is a saint cuz she helps me so much with Kacen!

Kacen's Day-O-Fun

I have been sick for the past three days like runny stuffy nose, sore throat, tired, dizzy, headache, just so yucky. I have spent three days in the same pair of sweats. 

 Anyway I really meant to get to this post earlier but let's just talk a minute about the pictures. Our camera broke, we borrowed the in-laws, the battery was dead, the pictures then went to Tennessee with Perry, when they got back I realized we only took three, and the video and pictures on Ky's camera are now magically missing. 

So...sorry there are so few pictures but here was the itinerary, and yes I did actually write up an itinerary:

 

February 3rd Kacen's Day-O-Fun

9:00 a.m. Ultrasound (I am so bummed about how lame they are here)

10:00 Kacen got to pick out a toy at Toys-R-Us. So overpriced but Ky wanted him to have a toy store experience. The only toy he REALLY wanted was a power wheels way over budget, had pictures but all gone now.

11:30 Lunch at Chipotle 

12:30 Monkey Joes, $5.00 for unlimited bounce house fun. Kacen loved it and got so worn out that after only 2.5 hours he left without crying.

Then it was back home to nap, watch a movie, make dinner and have cake.

The cake was a cookies and cream cake it was pretty good, all homemade.

Oh that is Oreo around his mouth.

PS we got a new camera the next day so hopefully we can better document our son's life. He is so fun and so full of energy we love having him around. Even though he is so crazy and I want to pull my hair out and hide under my covers like 70 times a day there is at least a 140 times a day when I want to just watch him and smile because he is so cute. We are so grateful every day for him and love being his parents.

My Thoughts Today

This morning as I pushed a vacuum through the church: "My life has taken unexpected turns, it will be interesting to see where we go from here."

As Kacen was watching Kipper I dozed off and was awoken by him giving me a kiss, he can be so sweet.

Kyle and I were driving to the theater for a date and Ky was quoting songs to me, "Of all the things I've seen you're just about the prettiest thing I ever saw."

After the movie Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close: "I wish I could take away all the pain that children feel. If I could I would spend my life comforting all of God's children, and taking away all their pain. Wait. Jesus Christ already did that! What a blessing! I want to spend my days helping others."

I then came home and rocked my son to sleep telling him how much I love him.

Yeah today was a good day.

To come tomorrow, an account of Kacen's Day-O-Fun, yep that's what I called it on my itinerary for the day, oh yeah I did make an itinerary.

Terrible Twos, Two Days Too Early

Yesterday I experienced the most intense tantrum of the last two years.

We went to a kids play time at a local church, Kacen loved it untill.....story and singing time. I knew this would be rough he is always the problem kid at nursery during lesson time but I didn't know it would be as bad as it was.

He participated for a moment and liked playing the instruments but there was one toy that he literally could not keep himself from, a little tykes roller coaster.

I couldn't let him play with it and be a bad example to the other kids so I kept bringing him back to singing time and after about the third time he had enough, Intro: screaming, crying, swatting and freaking out. I practically grabbed our coats and bag and ran out the door because I had never seen him behave like that before.

This lasted the entire ride home 10 minutes, flailing arms and legs, head pounding, screaming. I don't know how I made it through this all without breaking down, though the tears were right on the verge the entire time. We got home and he collapsed over the threshold screaming. I set down my things and tried to calm him and he just swatted at me and head banged me, his grandma tried too and had the same result. Eventually by talking in a very soothing tone and picking him up gently and making him look right at me I got out of him what would help the situation. "More" as in he wanted food. Yes, he was hungry but the tantrum was not because of food, it was because he didn't get his way.

Anyway I am not looking forward to more of those situations. A friend of mine just experienced this for the first time too while at the post office and I felt just like she did when I was running out I just kept thinking, All of those women who I just met are probably thinking, "Yikes she is going to bring another kid into this picture? She has no idea what she is doing."

Oh well I still love Kace and he has super sweet moments like when I am just walking with him up the stairs and he wants to hold my hand, or when I carry him down to breakfast and he wants to give me kisses. I am grateful for his energy and hope that after all of this exhaustion goes away from the new baby I will be able to enjoy the high energy in our house.

Fried Chicken

Those of you know me well know I have a slight obsession with food, and it only gets worse when I am pregnant.

I have some strong opinions about cravings during pregnancy. I think we all, weather we are prego or not, crave foods.

But just because I all I want to eat lately is pizza (Totino's) and and pretty much anything deep friend smothered in marinara, salsa or wing sauce, that DOESN'T MEAN I EAT IT. I think that we all need to exercise some level of self control. Understandably some women do become so nauseated during pregnancy and certain food make them vomit I get that, but I can't believe that the only thing you can keep down is, steak, M&M's and Burritos. And even though veggies make me want to gag right now I snarf a ton of them down every week because IT IS HEALTHY FOR ME AND THE BABY. Not that I eat healthy all the time, now way, but I still don't eat only the things I crave, especially if they are unhealthy.

With all that said I am now going to be a total hypocrite and share a funny story about my weakness for fried food. Like I said I really have been eating a veggie-rich diet lately sneaking them in everywhere (veggie lasagna, roasted veggie baked creamy chicken taquitos, orange and ginger stir-fry). So yesterday when I was at the produce auction feeling hungry for lunch and a lady walked in with fried chicken I had a major crack in my self control and ran out right away to find some. Usually while at the market I treat myself to a delicious buttered pretzel bigger and better than any at the mall for only $1.25. But today I decided to splurge on a piece of fried chicken, and guess what? It was just as cheap as the pretzel and oh so good. It was so good that while I walked back to auction I was ripping into the chicken like a savage and making audible noises of satisfaction, I couldn't keep them from coming out "yummm, ummmmm, umyumm, hummm." And then the really sick and weird thing was after eating all the chicken off the bones my hands still smelled so good that I just kept smelling them. I am twisted I know, but it was so good!

Valarie noted, "It doesn't take much to make you happy, just the right kind of food."
That is too true, if I am grumpy chances are I haven't eaten recently or I really really want a certain food a certain way and can't get it. But if you can get me good food on a regular basis I tend to be a pretty happy camper. That is also why Ky's cheese plates were so great.

P.S. my $99 Day After Thanksgiving sale camera totally broke, done. So no pictures lately sorry.