Great. Brett just joined the ranks of the blog visitors.

For those of you who don't know Brett, he is my smart-aleky brother who fancies himself a comedian. The comments are about to get a lot more interesting. (And by interesting, I mean mean.) :)

Eat dirt!!!

So, one time when I was young (very young - maybe 5 or 6), my dad told me to "Eat Dirt!!!" (His was of saying "No way!") I took him serious and went outside and ate a handful of dirt. I was such an obedient child.

Corbyn absolutely did NOT tell Rhian to eat dirt, but she ate plenty of it this weekend on our Lake Powell trip. It was pretty funny. I'd been making fun of Corbyn because when I went to his motocross race a couple weekends ago, everytime Rhian crawled near the dirt, Corbyn would freak out and be like, "Amy! She's getting in the dirt!!!" and so I was telling everyone we were going to have a prissy daughter and it wasn't going to be my fault. I could tell Corbyn was biting his tongue so hard it was going to scar while watching Rhian crawl around in the dirt and shove handfuls in her mouth... it finally got to be too much for him and he kept saying, "Amy, she is going to be sick. She's eaten way too much dirt." He finally just went and picked her up. It was pretty funny. See her dirt mustache?

This ones for you, Tio Collyn.

I'll show you to say I'm a bad blogger...

Some pictures of my bro-in-law at Glacier National Park. He's single, ladies... Highest bidder gets the date!

Shall we start the bidding at $20? (That's enough for a movie! (At least, it was a year ago when I used to go to movies... sigh.)

She crawls!!!

She's like a high-stepping prancing pony.

Getting closer to my goal...

So, everything I have read says you have to be patient with the weight loss after pregnancy. That it took you 9 months to gain it, so you should expect that it will take at least that long to lose it. (And, again, for the poor souls out there who believe the whole "Pregnancy lasts 9 months", you should know it is a conspiracy. Do the math: 40 weeks = full term pregnancy. 4 weeks = 1 month. Bust out a calculator and do some math... 40/4= 10 MONTHS. Yeah, I didn't do the math beforehand either. It is a huge conspiracy propulgated by the MALE gender... anyway, I digress. I'll save that rant for a different post.) So, anyway, my goal has been to be back down to my pre-pregnancy weight by the end of the 10 months. I have 6 weeks to lose 4 lbs... I am inching closer. If only I wouldn't have made that Brownie Pudding Cake this weekend. (Sigh.)

Oh, and for the record, my life will now be chronicled by "BC" and "AD". As in, "Before Conception" and "After Delivery". (Such as, in year 1 BC, I was much skinnier than in year 1 AD, despite the fact that the scale says I am close. Tape measures don't lie.)

Yeah, I think I am pretty clever.

OK - let's test my HTML skills

This is a book I created for my mother-in-law (aka. Rhian's Biggest Fan) for Mothers Day. It is pretty fun - I totally dig digital scrapbooking. Much more my style than busting out the glue stick and decorative scissors... probably because I am much more skilled with a computer than a glue stick. (I always manage to get it all over my hands... and subsequently onto the paper I am trying to cut, which then sticks to me... and the scissors... and the table... etc.

OK, so trying to imbed here... let's see if it works:

OK - so I thought I could hack their code, but clearly, I am not that good. That is what you get when a marketer who works on web projects think she can code web projects. I'll have to work on this later - here is the link to view it (I can at least copy and paste a link):

http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserBWC.cfm?projectID=9c590cf8-3048-32c2-acf3-ac29159cd240&productID=1

If you want to create one yourself, here is the website to sign up:

http://www.bindyourjourney.com/

She has her first tooth!!!

OK, I was starting to worry because everything I read said Rhian should get her first tooth between 3-7 months and we were 2 weeks past 7 months and NO TOOTH!!! But, I discovered one- finally! So, she is only 2 weeks behind... whew! Perhaps with some intensive training, she'll catch up. :)

And an unrelated picture - she is just too cute. Notice the shirt: Chief Executive Offspring. Yeah - she definitely rules the roost at our house.

And when I have a few more minutes, I'll tell you all about my second initiation to motherhood last night: "Rhian Poops in the Bathtub" starring Rhian and me. Once again, Daddy is strangely absent despite my many calls to him...