Unemployed and Loving it!

Thats right! After 12 year in the work place and after 5 years of my 1st career i'm hanging up my go to work 9-5 or (24-7 in my case) hat and taking up my new hat of 4 1/2 months taking care of our little king of the house.
I sold my preschool to my dad's company ILP and officially i was done with responsibilities last friday. I'm still helping get things changed over and on Monday June 9th when the summer classes start and i'm not there to worry about any of it will my bliss be complete!
I love my school. It was a great 5 years. Maybe the hardest 5 years of my life. I really feel like i was running it for 3 times that long with all the work it took to figure out what i was doing and keep it being successful.
I really believe that children should learn a second language when they are young. I'm very biased towards Spanish but really any lanugage would due. I might elaborate in a future post???
I have loved to watch hundreds of preschooler come into our doors and know "Hola" and leave joking around with their friends in Spanish. I have loved to get to know many hispanic women who have taught me so much more about the spanish culture and language. I have made many wonderful friendships with the parents of the preschooler. Although i will not miss having to deal with many of the diverse types of mothers!

Thanks to everyone who has helped me get through these past 5 years! It was great!

And anyone that would still like to have their child learn Spanish the school is still open!

New Toy

We have been looking into getting a bike trailer for a little while, and with some of the money I got from my graduation we were able to get one. We got it from Costco and really like how easy it is to set up and put away. It is made for two kids which is good (eventually we would like to have a little brother or sister for Har). It also comes with a front wheel so that it can be used as a jogger stroller.

The first time we tried to put Harrison in it, he was too tired and screamed his guts out. This afternoon was so nice outside that we decided to try again. He not only let us put him in, he actually liked it! It was so funny to see him sitting in it, he looked so small! Here are some pics...

The Daily Plate

I just wanted to put a plug in for The Daily Plate. It's a website that helps you to keep track of the foods you eat and the exercise you do. Sabrina and I have both been using it for about a month and we have both been able to lose some weight just by watching the calories that we eat. I have used other calorie counting websites and widgets, but they didn't have a database of foods as extensive as The Daily Plate. It's easy to use and it's free!

Josh Graduated!

Congratulations Graduate!
Josh finally Graduated. He's been at it for just under 10 years. He has been putting himself through school and took a 2 year break to live the enchanted life in San Diego... (serving a mission) and he now has a Bachelors of Science from the David Eccles School of Business!















We are so proud of him! The best part was that he was able to have his baby boy participate in the festivities!
I am so grateful that he deemed getting a bachelors degree important in his life. Harrison will always know that education is an important aspect of our family.























































































































After his graduation ceremony we went to dinner at Josh's favorite restaurant, the Red Iguana. We had some delicious food and after dinner my brother Paul commented to me that our parents both have bachelors degrees and now all of their kids and spouses have degrees as well! I though that was very impressive. Having a college education will be something that Josh will always be proud and grateful that he has.

He will even be glad that we made him attend the graduation ceremonies.
Here are a few pictures of graduation.

WAY TO GO JOSH!!! We are all so Proud of you!




















Looks like Harrison could be a cute ute after all! He's so proud of his papa! but i wont say what he really wants to be...

New Blog

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know about a new blog that I started called My Bilingual Kid. I have been trying to speak and read to Harrison a little in Spanish but I am going to try to get a little more serious about it and have set up this new blog to keep a record of how it's coming. Feel free to check it out and leave any comments or ideas.

Front Runner

We took advantage of the last day of free fares on the new Front Runner train last night. It was standing room only when we got on in Salt Lake. Luckily someone offered Sabrina and Harrison a seat so they didn't have to stand. We got off at the next stop in Woods Cross to meet my mom, Jod, and B. The train we wanted to ride to Ogden was pulling up right as B was parking and he had to run and hop the fence to get on before it left.

Things seemed to be running a little slow, but we eventually made it to Ogden. B even made a new friend, Steve, on the way up. We had planned to eat at the Union Grill which is close to the Ogden station. I think about every other family riding the train had the same idea because we had to wait half an hour to be seated. I thought the food was really good and would definitely eat there again.

We ended up missing the train we wanted to catch home by just a couple minutes and had to hang out in Ogden for an hour until the next train left at about 9:00pm. It was a long ride home. There were a bunch of "hooligans" as my mom said and kids running around being loud. All the noise and the bright lights made it hard for Harrsion to sleep, so he was crying most of the way home. We found out while on the train that there had been an explosion at an oil refinery in Woods Cross that was slowing things down.

It was a fun little adventure and something that we would for sure do again but maybe on a Saturday when it's less crowded.