i love macbook

so, we got a new mac and i absolutely love it! i will never, EVER go back to a pc. there is seriously no comparison. well, sometimes we like to have too much fun with the mac. and here are examples of that very thing!







and here are just some 'normal' ones!

pictures

for some reason, i'm not able to upload pictures to my blog right now. SO...you should check out the link to the right called 'jonah's photo album'. i've put up a lot of new pictures (some taken by our friend steph from church). she's ridiculously amazing!

enjoy!

happy labor day

so i had to work on labor day which was a bummer. it was just lunch, though. tony had the night off so we got to be together then. lori took jonah to the pool while i worked. tony went camping with some guys from church sunday and got back while i was at work. i hate my job...have i mentioned that? it's weird because this is the first time in 3 1/2 years that i just dread going. monday was no different.
well...in the middle of the shift, it all paid off. i had a guy at my table who spent about $14 on his lunch. he left $60 on the table with a note that said he believes in random acts of kindness. WOW! i couldn't believe it. i've had some really great tips before, but that definitely tops them all. now, it was a little strange because he also left me his myspace page...which i did not go to. but hey, i still got a $45 tip! that's 325%!
so, needless to say, that made working on monday worth it. i still hate my job and can't wait to be done, but somehow that was a little ray of hope for me.
i hope everyone else had a great day too!

the early bird gets the worm...

so i am NOT a morning person. (surprise to all that know me i'm sure!) having a baby means i have to be a morning person whether i like it or not. the last few months, tony and i have been rotating the getting-up-with-jonah responsibilities. it's not really working. on mornings that i get up at 7am, i will have stayed up entirely too late the night before (we're talking 12:30 or 1am) and inevitably i'll be mrs. crabby pants for the rest of the day. and that's even if i do get a nap in at some point. on mornings that tony has a turn, he'll usually take a morning nap with jonah making it ridiculously hard for him to wake back up and thus we become MR. and MRS. crabby pants. it's a wonderful life, really!

that being said (and lived for way too long) we decided to make a change. i am now the early bird. that means that i can go to bed earlier and get more sleep, but i don't get to see tony (have dinner together, watch a little 'alias', hang out) when he gets home from work at night. it's a win/lose situation really:

more sleep at night for me

+ more sleep in the morning for tony

+ less of mr. and mrs. crabby pants

WIN

less time together by ourselves

+ less time together by ourselves

+ (you guessed it) less time together by ourselves

LOSE

just one more reason that i CANNOT WAIT to get the heck outta this place and have semi-normal jobs and schedules.

what makes it all worth it? our little 'worm'!

daddy's books

excellent choice, jonah

happy birthday to jonah!

i can't believe it...jonah is already 1. this year has flown by. i have mixed emotions about it. i'm so excited to watch him grow and learn and can't wait for him to start walking and telling me all kinds of things. on the other hand, i wish he were still the little fragile 3 day old we brought home from the hospital who needed me every moment of every day.

so here's to jonah...my little boogalou

7.20.06

7lbs 14oz

18.5 in

7.20.07
23lbs 2oz
30.5 in

for more pictures from jonah's birthday, click on 'jonah's photo album' to the right

independence day

happy 4th to everyone. i'm currently waiting for jonah to wake up and lori to get here so we can go to the royals game. while i wait, i'm sitting here watching the rain POUR down from behind our big glass door. sad day...it's supposed to thunderstorm off and on all night. i have little hope of anything different judging from the current conditions.
dang it...fireworks and cooking out are all i have left of the 4th celebrations. growing up, we always had some sort of party for my brother, brian. it's his birthday. (happy birthday oldie olderson) so the 4th was always a family day. since i've been in kansas city, i always get a little sad on independence day because it reminds me how much i miss my family. so fireworks and cooking out are all that's left and i'm not sure if we'll get either of those today. at least tony is off work and lori is still coming over. we'll celebrate even if we're stuck in our crappy apartment all night!