The Cutest Kid

You know when your kid is so cute you can hardly stand it? You know when it's so warm outside you can go shirtless? 

(personally never experienced this to my recollection,

i'm not saying it didn't happen)

WE ARE SO HAPPY IT'S SUMMER

In case you were un-aware, the cutest kids are made of shirtless overall wearing ones. I seriously can't get enough of this little look. So cute, so back-woods-e

We are entering FINALS around here. Just to make sure you understood..FINALS. That means:

Everyone (mostly Colt) seems to be unpredictable in their moods

We NEVER see Jack in a regular pattern

Mom spends more time with Colt taking pictures like those above

Colt spends his time finding ways to not get good sleep so Mom spends more of her time up in the night trying to keep him quiet so Dad can get much needed rest. 

Rest=better grades (at least that is how I view it)

Despite the intense times around here, life is still good, we are still happy, the Catholics are still going to Mass every day and we are looking forward to checking off our FIRST YEAR OF MED SCHOOL!

Mother's Day

We had  a low key Mother's Day. I made my own mother's day card so I could display pictures of Colt I love on my fridge. Jack was really sweet and helpful all day, and filled my card with a lovely letter for me. 

He also sent me this. No explanation. I am pretty sure it's supposed to be my gift?

The following collage has nothing to do with Mother's day, other than I love it and it's from my friend Erica whom was watching Colt at the time. 

This one does have to do with my Mother. I love her. I Love that we have a good realationship. I love that I can talk to her, and I love that we are friends. I love that she encourages me, and tells me what a good Mom I am myself. Goo thing I had a great Mom to show me how to get to that point!

I Love my Mom.

My cutie

Being in the basket is so fun!

Especially when you have to work so hard to get to play with it!

My little Coltster is king of entropy, five min after the beast awakens, it's easy to see. 

Good thing we have him around so the universe makes sense!

Fishing, or was it?

Started out like a regular ol'fishing trip.....

We were just hangin', looking at the rocks

When all of the sudden the water and the mud jumped out at us like they never had before...

We sat in it...

Took Glamour shots in it...

And finally, it just seemed to get the best of us...

It was the best day.

Real quick

I know I have been MIA for a bit. I have been having adventures and away from a computer, or sacrificing my computer time so jack could study more. (BTW that equals good grades on tests, sacrifice well worth it.) now that I have justified myself....

Real soon I will catch up, but until then please visit this site http://www.atsu.edu/student_services/kirksville/leaders/orgs/saa.htm. And see how my picture is all up on the official ATSU website. We have induction Thursday and then I am the official historian, doing my historian thing. That will be part of my catch up.

Life is good, and great things are happening for us. I am so blessed and I hope I convey that.

More Fishing :)

We have some cool friends that own a really awesome house on the Lake. They let us come over and fish on their private dock, cool right? 

The kids couldn't get enough of wondering around the property. They have a tennis court, stairs, walkways, patios, grass, sand, hills, the list goes on and on. Kind of a nightmare for mothers next to the lake (well mostly me because my kid doesn't ever stop, Colt tried at least 5 times to get into the water. 

Here's an entertaining factoid: The children of our friends, love Jack. They make hypothetical plans with him. "I want to go to the zoo with Colter and Colter's dad" 

It's adorable. 

Colt loves Dad's hat, and makes sure that Dad has it on, because it belongs there. 

This is Brookie, Colt's love. He talks about her all the time, gets sad when we drive away in the car realizing we just left "Brookie? Brookie?" 

We are so excited spring is coming. I love watching Colt interact with other kids, it warms my heart. 

There are many times I enjoy taking a step back and just loving life right now. It does suck that Jack is gone all the time, and school puts so much stress on all of us, but we are lucky people. I am really happy with life these days. 

Friday Flashback: Updates with no organization.

Can someone explain something to me. The page views on blogger. I of course look at them, it's fun to see how many people at least look at it. I have never REALLY understood every little thing they are counting, so I just assume it's a rounded number, as I can count and estimate how many people I know read my blog and the numbers seem to match.

Now here's the deal, in the last 3 days I went from 553 views the first day, to 55 the second and to 615 the third. I feel like that is a strange pattern jump. I know primarily what two posts they were looking at (not ones I have written especially recently) and I am left baffled wondering what drew THAT MANY people to that specific entry. Strange.

We had our first board meeting (unofficial until May 2nd) and I am really excited about next year here, doing more medical school and being more active in the SAA. I have really failed in not talking more about medical school. Let's just say it sucks, like applying for jobs sucks. You really want a job so you do everything to carefully prepare and search and try and fail in order to get one. It's constantly stressful but in the end you know it will work out, you just can't see the end at all. Especially if you go through the military. I do feel envious of people who have selected a home to purchase, knowing that they will be establishing themselves somewhere. That still seems like a dream to me. The same dream I have about winning a million dollars on a lotto ticket I find in the gutter. It's never going to happen, but it doesn't stop me from looking for trash in the gutter.

 I have also been sick with some nasty head cold thing. I am done, it's been a week and a half of being repulsive to others.

Pageant. Could we just think for a min how fantastic it is to shop for dresses worthy of being on the Miss America stage?.........

That was a great min.

Now let's get a little Friday Flashback shout out to my homeboy Jack. (I am making a concerted effort to be kinda funny with that) I don't know if you got the impression that medical school seems especially hard before, so I am saying it now. I myself, not being the student, am feeling the weight and hardship from medical school. It's hard. Jack is going a REALLY good job of persevering. I am doing a mediocre job at enduring, but a fabulous job of distracting myself. 

Can you believe Jack towered over his family in such a manner? I believe this was taken just before leaving for his mission. 

This one just makes me smile. I have no idea who took it, or where it came from. 

More Swinging and More Ladies

Turns out the cold weather didn't detour this child from still loving the swings. It is FINALLY showing signs of getting warmer and we took a trip with some friends to the lake to enjoy the warming weather. 

The coat doesn't do the temp. justice. I just didn't have a better "jacket" available. 

Colt is still in love with Toy Story, and the finding of these water bottles has been marked in the best purchases for in my child's lifetime list. Woody and Buzz help Colt stay hydrated, and have more inanimate friends. 

Luckily, water bottles AND little ladies are willing to spend their time with Colt. 

These two would stay on the swing for hours if allowed. More so if they could get constant "underdogs." Contrary to his facial expression, he really loved this. 

It's a good thing it warming up, because it has done wonders to our bed time and exhaustion patterns. Not to mention the general cheery mood we all seem to have these days. Despite this nasty cold thing that I have had for a week now. Not just some stuffy nose, but so clogged I could gag because I can't breathe. On the positive side, it's forcing me to drink a TON more water, and that's just good for everyone right? 

Other positive things: planted some flowers in the yard like a big grown up girl today, found m&m's just existing in the cupboard waiting to cheer me up, am the new Historian for the SAA (student advocate association, the club I did all the children's activities for) painted my toe nails with fresh paint and have life/activities scheduled until September 15th in which Miss America is once again taking place in Atlantic City. Short rein for the current MA Mallory, but more fun for me in planning a viewing party so soon after Miss Idaho.