this boy loves his baseball

on our last night in fresno we decided to head out to a grizzlies game. 

i know the grizzlies are only a minor league baseball team but for some reason i love going to those games!

don't get me wrong, i wish we could have squeezed in an A's game while we were there. 

but this was just as fun, in my opinion. 

and sam loved it!

i seriously CANNOT wait until sam is old enough to play little league. 

i will be the mom screaming obnoxiously on the sidelines. and i make no apologies about it. 

ben also can't wait to teach sam how to play baseball and spend endless hours playing catch with his outside. 

some of his best childhood memories come from the years he played little league. 

his whole family talks about his good ben was at baseball and how fun he was to watch. 

so fingers crossed that sammy boy inherits those genes. 

anyways, the game was so much fun and the food was great. 

who doesn't love a baseball game on a summer night with some greasy food and kettle corn?

and a few iphone photos

currently

i should probably update this blog with more than just updates on sam. 

it's just so hard to find time. 

however, sam man is napping right now so it's the perfect opportunity. 

- ben is currently preparing for an MBA program which begins next year. this all happened so fast but he is so excited. this has actually been a huge blessing because he is doing his program through the University of Utah at a satelite campus up here in utah so he can continue to work full time while completing his MBA. win/win. i am so proud of him!

- i have been a little bit of an emotional sap lately. i was completely unprepared for how fast sam was going to grow. he is at such a fun stage but sometimes i look through photos from the day he was born and the first week of his life and completely lose it. as my husband will tell you, i have a tendency to be a bit dramatic. one moment i'm thinking about how quickly the past 6 months and flown and the next time crying to ben about how tomorrow sam will be walking and the next day he'll be leaving on his mission. when, in actuality, i have, oh i don't know, 17.5 YEARS before i have to worry about this. but this is just how my brain works people. my heart just can't handle thinking about sam leaving me one day. 

- i'm currently in the middle of jillian michaels 30 day shred. and it's killing me dead. losing baby weight is hard! and takes a lot of patience. 

- having a baby changes a lot of things, obviously. but one thing that has been hard is finding time for ben and i to have a date night to be with just each other. it has been so hard for us to leave sam at all. we had just been taking him with us on out dates. a few weeks back i was telling ben i felt like we just needed some alone time. he and i and no one else. baby free. but i told him i was scared of actually leaving sam with anyone else. that weekend he told me he had told his brother that we would watch their kids while they want to a church function. i was totally fine with that (their kids are complete dolls) and when we got there he told me that they were actually watching sam and we had the night to ourselves. i can't even put into words how excited i was, and completely surprised. i knew sam was in good hands and i was so excited to be alone with my husband. it was perfect. 

- shopping for clothes for sam has officially become a problem. it is so much FUN! i would much rather shop for sam than for myself. and whoever said dressing boys wasn't as fun was full of it. 

- i need summer. so bad. we are do done with the snow over here. i can't to buy sam some cutie little swim trunks and a mini beach towel.

- ben got a week off  of work at the beginning of april so we are going to fresno and can't wait! it will be such a nice break and i can't wait to take sammy boy to fresno. we're planning a day in san francisco and are counting down the days. 

- sam isn't even six months and i am already baby hungry. true story. i mean, i don't know if i could actually handle another one just yet. but the thought of sam having a little brother to play with just makes me so happy. 

-also, i finally have my camera back! it has been at canon being fixed for months but it is back and i have been going a little overboard on the pictures. 

life lately

hello hello. 

well friends, i've finally made it. 

this week is officially my last week working down here in utah. 

for the past 6 weeks i have spend monday-thursday down in utah teaching swimming lessons. 

don't get me wrong, i have loved it. 

being with cute little kiddos all day long is pretty rewarding. 

but i'm not going to lie the past 8 weeks have been hard. 

i was in fresno teaching for two weeks and then went straight to teaching in utah for 6. 

being apart from ben for 4 days each week is rough. 

i feel kind of lame sitting here whining about being apart from my husband. 

i realize that i could have problems far worse than this. and i am grateful that i don't. 

i sat next to a woman in relief society today who was telling me about how her husband has been deployed in iraq for over a year. 

that whipped my perspective right back into shape. 

anywho...

this week is my last week. 

ben will come down this weekend so we can have a little mini getaway and spend some time with his sister and then it's back up to idaho to start work...

dun dun dun.

since when do ben and i have real grown-up lives?
i recently found out that i got a job working in idaho falls at a facility called access point. 
access point is a family services facility that works with children with developmental disabilities. 
so i will be working with the developmental therapy program. 
i'm not sure that this is something that i am looking to do long term but am i so grateful that i was even able to find a job?
yes. very much so. 
i'll let you know how it goes.


this past weekend ben and i headed up to rexburg for a little temple date night. which was much needed. after which we got horkleys and ice cream and drove around rexburg reminiscing. 
who knew i would miss rexburg so much?
and i only live 15 minutes away. 
but seriously, being a college grad is bitter sweet. 
we love everything about our life together right now but there are times when we truly miss school. 
maybe ben asked me if we could sneak into the smith building and go sit in the econ lab. for old time sake. 
i declined.
we also got to spend some quality time with al pal and dan this weekend. 
which was fantastic. 


we also recently moved into our new place. 
i will try to post a few pictures soon. 
but we absolutely love it! 
and being able to decorate and work on home projects together has been so much fun for us. 


this has officially been the most sparatic post. 
i apologize. 
i am sleepy. 
that's my only excuse. 


BUT
hopefully the blog posts will be back on a regular schedule after this week. 
i finally got around to starting to print them and put them into a book. 
we will one day look back on these and laugh or be really embarassed of ourselves. 
either way. 


until next time.
happy sunday:)