He's Just a Boy

How I frequently find Davis throughout the day:

Green Thumb

When my parents came to visit for my birthday, my dad took me to this huge nursery and helped me pick out some plants for a few pots I had. I have never had much of a green thumb and try as I might, the poor plants I have usually don't do as well as I would hope. (I'm told watering them consistently helps.)

At any rate, this year my pots out front are doing great!



We have not been as diligent in our backyard, however.

(We had the slip and slide set up last week, can you tell???)

Relief

After that last post about our sickening heat wave, relief came from the North in the form of a massive thunderstorm.

I still am totally amazed by the storms we get out here! And apparently this has been a calm tornado season. Life in the midwest!

H.O.T.

It has been SO hot today in Omaha. I just can't describe it to you Idahoans unless you've been in the gross, yucky humidity. Then you know what I'm talking about. The thermometer only says 91 degrees, but with 63% humidity, it feels like 105 degrees (according to the Weather channel). We are actually under a "Heat Advisory"...yet another weather term I wasn't aware existed until I moved to the midwest.

Yes, that is a crayon that was left on our patio last night. It was MELTED this afternoon.






Sorry to be so whiny, but it's my first experience with this kind of heat. I promise I'll adjust. In the meantime, I'll be hoping for one of these to bring some relief:

(A common sight - this is what it looks like before a thunderstorm. You can see it coming in.)

We had a good Father's Day and gave Jeremy a nice dinner (with some of his favorite foods) and dessert (yummy cinnamon rolls). I got him tickets to go see Mat Kearney at a Omaha club called The Slowdown (anybody here been? I've never heard of/seen it) - we really like his music and tickets were cheap. Sorry to put a music player on the blog, but this is for my sister (and anybody else) who wasn't sure who I was talking about. While I was at it, I had to include my new favorite song - The Fray covered a Kanye West song and I love it. I'm obsessed. Anyway, it's a temporary addition and my apologies to anybody checking the blog with speakers on during naptime.



Hope you guys are staying cool wherever you are!

Summertime

summer, summer, summertime
time to sit back and unwind
summer, summer, summertime
time to sit back and unwind

(shout out to Noall and "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince....you know you love it.)

Date Night

Jeremy and I had a top 3 (?) date of all time last night when he took me to see Coldplay last night at the Qwest Center. (A million thank you's to Noall for hooking us up with parking in the Hilton garage...it was FREE and got us out of there quicker than most people could walk to their cars!) We were running a little late, so we ate a quick dinner at Chipotle (yummy) and buzzed downtown for the show.


(Backstory: When Jeremy was at Utah State and I was still in Meridian, he made me a CD of some of our favorite songs together and a few of those were some songs by Coldplay. So we've both liked them for a while.

Fast forward to 2003, I was in D.C. and Jeremy was in Idaho, he bought tickets for us to see Coldplay in Idaho. I was supposed to come home by April and then we would go together. I ended up taking a longer job out there and wasn't able to make it home. So he took somebody else and I didn't go. Six years later, we finally went together!)


(Did I mention we had great seats?)

We had great seats in the lower bowl, two rows up from the floor. They put on a great show, of course, and I totally forgot how well Chris Martin plays the piano. They did cool stuff with lights during most of the songs. They also sang "Yellow" (which was on that first CD Jeremy made for me, oh, 8 years ago).

(They dropped all of these yellow balloons during, you guessed it, "Yellow"...really fun.)

Coolest part: They got off the stage...walked RIGHT in front of us (I *could* have touched Chris Martin but I'm not freaky like that) and performed a few songs in the stands RIGHT BY US. See pictures below.

(Ignore big guy in blue polo, the dude who I circled is Chris Martin...this is them as they walked up to the stands to do a set back there.)

(Yeah, we got pretty lucky with where we were sitting. The guy sitting directly behind the band TOTALLY FREAKED when they set up and started singing. It was hilarious!)

Excuse poor video quality....we didn't bring our camera into the arena, so these are videos taken with our cells (nice). The sweet couple sitting next to us (who has seen Coldplay twice just this YEAR) sent me her pictures.

We were pretty sure they were going to walk in front of us because they taped off the aisle so Jeremy got his camera ready....for those of you who are interested:



Second coolest part: When they sang "Politik". I am totally in love with this song, but it was never that popular on the radio and since it was on an older album didn't think they would play it. But they did, and I got a pretty bad video of them singing it. (Don't click if you're speakers are turned up...its LOUD.)



(Sorry, Britt, if I was thinking I would have got a video of when they sang "Viva la Vida"...next time, next time....) HUGE THANKS to Stephanie for watching my children who were being incredibly feisty yesterday and Jeremy for springing for tickets with our recent Craigslist windfall. LOL

We had a blast and it was so fun to scream, dance and sing at the show. We missed these stinkers but came home to them sleeping soundly in bed (awesome).

Summer Update

I haven't taken my camera with me on any of our adventures lately, so most of these pictures are from my cell phone. I will try to do better, grandparents.

Let's see....what have we been up to? Well....a few weeks ago, we got to go see "Wicked" which was showing the month of May in Omaha. We went with a couple from our neighborhood/church. Jeremy and Justin went down to the theater two hours before showtime to enter the Wicked lottery. Basically, they give away ten pairs of orchestra tickets for CHEAP right before the show. But they do it as raffle/lottery because SO MANY PEOPLE come to try and get tickets.

I had already secured a babysitter (thanks again, Stephanie!) and was getting ready to leave when Jeremy called and said there were HUNDREDS of people there to try and win tickets. So I started thinking of alternate things (I think Jeremy was hoping for Wolverine) to do that night and Jeremy called and said that our friend's name was picked! Very last! Wow! So our friends (who already had tickets) and us got to see the show. It was so fun and we had a blast.

Outside the theater before the show.

Inside the theater after the show. (We couldn't use the flash on our camera because it kept reflecting off the glass in front of the poster.)

We've been having a lot of fun in the warm weather. Taking walks, going to the park and the zoo, playing with friends, library storytime, and the slip 'n slide in the backyard.

Addie pushing her friend on the swing. She's been saying the funniest things lately. She's a great tool for me for self-improvement. Lately when Davis cries, she says "For Heaven's Sake!" which apparently I say when Davis is being grumpy. I need to work on my patience!

She also has a mind of her own and I have been picking my battles carefully. When we went to Target to get a birthday present for a friend of hers, she found this little gem in the dollar bin and I thought we could decorate it for her friend as part of her present. Addie REFUSED to take it off and wore it around the store for the remainder of our trip.


She even flipped around for a different effect. Very stylish.

This little stinker has been waking up earlier and earlier in the mornings....SO FUN! He is starting to imitate sounds (finally!) and say simple words like "dada" "mama" "duck" "stop" "addie" and "thank you". (addie and thank you sound like "adda" and "that you" but it's still progress!)

Finally, Jeremy has finished his primary care block and luckily was able to find a temporary job with FedEx here that will last the rest of the summer. He ended his block on Friday and started Tuesday. So not as long of a break as I was hoping for, but this job is a total blessing and we will take it!

He loved his block and seemed to really hit it off with the doctor he was working with. The doc was on OB call this weekend and said if Jeremy wanted to come if he got called in for a delivery he would call him. So, on Sunday, in the middle of Sunday School, Jeremy got a call from the doctor saying to come to the hospital and scrub in for a c-section.

Being the planners that we are, we didn't drive in two cars, so we loaded up the kids and I got dumped at home with two hungry, tired kids and he was off! The day was *crazy* because offered to make dinner for a sweet family in our ward that just had a new baby that night so things got crazy. I finished the day off solo (which isn't new) but I DID IT. I was able to get everything cooked AND cleaned and put away. (miracle!)

It was a little taste of what life will be like and just that glimpse gave me even MORE respect for the resident's families in our ward and everywhere. (In fact, the family I brought dinner to is a radiology resident and his wife. She had her fourth baby on Wednesday, her husband was back to the hospital on Friday!!! Oh my....) I will say it does have me hoping for a residency a BIT closer to family.....