Corbin and the Snake

We went to visit my friend and her little brother has a ball python. Corbin loves animals (which is amazing since his parents don't) so we thought it would be fun to show him the snake in the tank. Well when we were done looking Corbin was not satisfied so they took the snake out of the tank for Corbin to see. I was totally freaked out, but of course I couldn't leave the room with my child holding a snake! So I was forced to watch as Corbin carelessly handled the snake. Here are some of the pictures of Corbin the snake handler.

Snow

Yay for Snow! We took Corbin outside to play in the snow for the first time. He liked it, except he had a hard time walking at first and it kind of reminded me of the kid on A Christmas Story. :) When we first got out side we tried to show him how to make a snow angel...that didn't go over so well, I don't think he liked the snow falling in his face. He recovered though and had a wonderful time in the snow and later was laying down in it with no problem.

Update

I am so far behind with my blog so I will just add a picture for each big event...
This is at the Pumpkin Patch, where the Pumpkins were called "balls."

Halloween: Corbin was a Train Conductor. He was successful at Trick-or-Treating and insisted on walking the whole time.

Corbin's 2nd Birthday: Got lots of great presents! I can't believe he is already 2!

Here is our family of 3...

And why do Colby and I look so happy? Because we will soon be a family of 4!

Eyeliner

Need I say more...

Florida

Somehow I totally forgot to blog about our trip to Florida. Colby and I decided we needed a little vacation, we went to Florida in the middle of August right before school started. We left Corbin at home, which was really hard since we were going to be gone for 7 days, but I survived. I was really sad about leaving him, but once we left I was able to relax and enjoy myself, but towards the end I was ready to come home. Florida was a blast! We flew into Tampa and hung out at the beach for the day, then we went to Orlando to stay. We did Universal Studios, Epcot, and lots of shopping. We also got to eat at Emeril's, which was tons of fun and yummy! We totally forgot the camera at Universal Studios so we don't have any pics there and then our battery died while we were at Epcot so we don't have a ton of pics. One night we went miniature golfing and we got to "feed live gators"! It was funny because all the mini golf courses advertised that. I totally screamed the whole time! :)


Universals was pretty intense it was a lot of fun. Except, I'm totally a wimp and got sick after one of the roller coasters. Other than that it was fun. Epcot was my favorite part of the trip. I loved going around to the different countries and eating the food. It was all so yummy!



This is in Mexico! Don't we look great!?

I did realize something on this trip...I could never live in a tropical climate! It was so humid there, I thought I was going to melt! The trip was also good for Corbin to get to spend time with his grandparents. He had tons of fun...case in point...when we brought him home the first time we told him no he freaked out. We came to the conclusion that the Grandmas never told him no. Ha ha ha! I guess that's what makes them Grandmas. I think he missed us towards the end of the trip too, because he found our picture at my parents and was like "where mom and dad?" and then carried around our picture for a while. It feels good to be missed and loved!

Are U Ready?

We are excited for the Utes football season to start! (When I say we I mean mostly Colby.) Corbin is also geared up and excited for the season! Check out the follow through!
Future QB? Who knows...I think he has some growing to do.

Bear Lake 2009

We went on our annual Bear Lake trip with my family this past week and had tons of fun. It was nice to take a break from everything and be with family. Corbin loved it up there! He learned to say "side" meaning he wanted to go outside and now that we are home he can't figure out where the beach and all of his cousins went. He loved playing in the sand and water.



Corbin also has quite the arm on him and wanted so bad to play football with his uncles and dad. He tried so hard to be big and he was constantly carrying around some type of sports ball.

It's so fun to watch him and my little nieces and nephews playing on the beach because not long ago that was me playing on the beach with all of my cousins. I miss those days, we had so much fun. Boy how time flies! I think it's great that my family has keep on the tradition and keeps coming back every year. My dad has been doing this ever since he was a little boy.

For the Fourth of July we went with Colby's family to dinner and watched fireworks with them. Corbin was so hyper (probably due to all the sugar his grandparents gave him) he was was lots of fun, he was seriously out of control running everywhere and climbing all over everyone, but as soon as the fireworks started he was in total awe and he sat still for about 10 min and then he was crazy again and just having the time of his life. Needless to say he crashed as soon as we put him in his car seat. This is a picture of Corbin with his uncle TJ chowing down on some yummy kettle corn. Notice the ear plugs in TJ's ears in preparation for the fireworks. :) (This is another big step for TJ and his relationship with Corbin.)

Our 4 Year Anniversary

We had our 4th Anniversary on May 19. The first two years we had fun and planned little getaway trips to Park City and San Diego, then we had Corbin and we have been too poor to do anything like that so we have settled for a date night out the last two years. Anyway this year we went to Tepanyaki! So Yummy! It was fun just to get out. I can't believe how fast time goes by. I'm so thankful for Colby and all he does. I love him so much!

Spring Break

This week is Spring Break for Colby and since we couldn't go anywhere we decided to plan out some fun things to do during the week. On Monday, Colby worked during the day so we rented a movie that night. The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, it was a good movie, but way sad. Tuesday, Colby went golfing in the morning then we went down to the Gateway and had lunch at CPK. I love CPK it is so delicous! Corbin had fun being outside, he didn't know quite what to think of the fountains. When he got close to them he got scared. I'm sure in a few years he will love them and want to run through them.


Today we went to the Zoo with my friend Laura-Ann and her daughter Madi. It was lots of fun. Corbin barked at all the animals. We are working on teaching him the different sounds animals make, but for now they all go "Woof, woof." This was definately his most active zoo outing yet! Colby held him up in the little prarie dog holes and he didn't really like. I don't blame him they used to scare me too.


The rest of the week is uneventful. Tomorrow Colby works and Friday we are going to the Golf Expo, which Colby is looking forward to and I am undecided. I'm sure we will have fun though. Yeah for Spring Break!

Pharmacy Pointers

This post is dedicated to my pharmacy buddies. I first have to say that I really do love my job. I only work like 4 days a month so I don't have much to complain about, but there are always those little irritating things that happen on the job. Pharmacists and Techs will understand these pointers and laugh, but others might get offended if they have ever committed these blunders at their pharmacy.

Pharmacy Pointers
1. Staring and glaring at me behind the counter will not make me work faster and get your RX out sooner.
2. When calling in a refill I don't need you to tell me what the drug is for, the full name, and what it looks like, the RX number is sufficient, in fact we have an automation line that you can call instead.
3. Also, really you don't know what medication you are taking? That's something you should know and not refer to your meds as "it's the little white pill."
4. I do not control you insurance. When we process a RX through your insurance and it comes to whatever price, that's the price and I can't change it. Take it up with you insurance if you have a problem. I'm not going to reprocess it and see if the price will change.
5. Remember we are a pharmacy and not a doctor's office.
6. Calling 5 times in an hour to see if your RX has been filled yet is a little excessive. If you tell us to call you when it's done, we will call you back, there is no need for excessive phone calls.
7. The IN window is where you drop off your RX the OUT window is where you pick up your meds. I'm not so sure what's so difficult about that, maybe people just don't take the time to read the signs. Who knows?

Well I hope you had a good laugh and feel free to add to the pointers in the comments. I just picked the ones the irritate me the most. I didn't even get to talk about hospital pharmacy and we all know that that list is long. : )

Warming Up

Our first bid we got ended up being $3680, which at first I thought, "it's higher than what we want, but we are desperate for a furnace so okay." Well we have smart Moms and I have two awesome older brothers who said that seems a little high. My brothers got in touch with their HVAC friend and found out that that was definately too high and that their friend could do the equivalent (actually he got us a better furnace) all for the low price of $1900. Crazy huh? We figured the first company saw that we had a kid and were desperate for some heat so they thought they could take advantage of us. (On a side note the first company was way nice and their service seemed to be great, but they just couldn't compete with the price.) We are now proud owners of a new furnace and have heat in our house! YEAH!

A Cold Day

Last night our funrace made a weird noise and then a really bad electrical buring smell crept through out our house. We called the repairman and he recommended keeping the heat off and he could come look at it tomorrow morning. Colby and I were worried that Corbin would get cold, but luckily I remembered we have a space heater, We put in Corbin's room and he slept just fine. We were afraid that we might have to replace our furnace, because it looks way old and the efficency sticker on it says 80% and everything now a days is 90% and above. Well the technician came and had a look...and it looks like the circuit board is broken and needs a new one. Sigh of relief, that can't be too bad right? WRONG! It costs $500-600 to fix and that's if he doesn't have to special order the part. Plus, apparentlly we have the wrong size furnace. The furnace we currently have is for a 2400 sq. ft home and well if you have been to our humble abode you know that is more than twice the size of hour home, which is 950 sq. ft. The technician was astonished and was like how much are you paying for your heating bill. I didn't think it was that bad, but apparently it is, we usually pay around $80 in the winter months. The tech said well a place your size you really should only be paying around $40-50. So taking all of this into account the tech recommends we get a new furnace. I googled the price of a new furnace and I wanted to cry. Hopefully it won't be too much, but if anyone knows a good heating company to use let me know. Why is it that these things always happen at the worst possible time? I have to go know because me fingers are ice cold and can no longer type. Pray for warmer weather!

Riley's Carpet Cleaner

We have been in desperate need of a carpet cleaning, so finally this morning Riley's Carpet Cleaners came to clean our carpets. I didn't realize the effect this would have on Corbin. Corbin was so amazed at the carpet cleaner! He would follow him around and I tried to keep him out of the way, but Corbin was persistent. I finally had to put Corbin in his crib while the guy cleaned his room. Corbin jabbered to him and the carpet guy was really nice and talked to him too. Corbin got upset though when he was cleaning the family room because of course Corbin wanted to be right there. So I locked Corbin and I in our bedroom so the guy could finish. This made Corbin really sad and he cried and cried. I think that Corbin has a future in the carpet cleaning business! Colby called this on-the-job training.Ü (Oh and a shout out to Riley's Carpet Cleaners they did a great job!)

Like Father, Like Son

I always thought since Corbin spends so much time with Nisa and relatively little with me that he would only pick up on Nisa's habits around the house. Well here is proof that he is my son.

I took the pictures of Corbin this morning while he was eating his morning oatmeal. He loves the instant strawberry packets. He also loves the maple and brown sugar but we try to keep from feeding him this flavor because he will smell like maple for the rest of the day (just ask his grandmas).

The picture of me was taken by Nisa while I was studying Kidney Disease (No wonder I couldn't stay awake). Those of you who know Nisa may say that she is just as likely to be stealing a nap or two around the house. So stay tuned while I find other Corbin habits that resemble me.

Corbin gets a Haircut

Corbin finally had his first offical haircut. Not that his hair was too long or anything, but it was more of a haircut in hopes of cutting it it would help it grow. Corbin grows hair on his sides and back just fine, but as for the top well it struggles (much like someone else I know). My friend Jennifer cut his hair and she did a great job! Corbin was so good he didn't wiggle or cry. He sat so still and had the most serious look on his face the whole time. It was pretty funny. He is such a cute good little boy! I love him so much!

Toys, Trains and Vaccums

Here are some pictures of Christmas. I picked out the things Corbin loves the most toys, trains and vaccums. Corbin got a lot of fun toys for Christmas!

There was a holiday train set at Grandma Sherry's that Corbin immediately went to when he got to Grandma's and he would stay in there all night to play with it.

Corbin would cheer and clap when the train went by.

And finally the vaccum. He loves it and has to help me everytime I vaccum. I think Colby would rather it be a lawn mower, but until we actually own land I don't think Corbin will be too interested in a lawn mower. Corbin will even go in search of vaccums at other people's houses. He knows exactly where to find the vaccum at Grandma Juile's. So the next time Corbin comes to your house he can give you a free vaccum check!Ü

A Wii Christmas

We got a Wii for Christmas and that has been consuming all of our time, so until we save the world in Zelda we won't have any time to post.Ü We had a great Christmas and Corbin got tons of new toys, but the hit of Christmas was a brand new shiny red...vacuum! I don't get it either, he loves vacuums! He will go stand next to the closet that has our vacuum and whine till I get it out. I will post pics soon, but I have to go work out on our new Wii Fit! Feel the Burn! LOL!