motherhood - aka 24 hr workout

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2010-09-22T19:15:00.000-07:00

we are trying to get drake out and having new experiences, some are successes while other are complete failures.

drake is very eager to start driving so i thought hey why not give him a shot......

i placed him in the car and realized that the look on his face meant no good, so i decided to give him an illusion of driving :)

he seemed pleased enough, and the other kids looked quite jealous of his ride :)

we also recently took him to the park and he looked pleased to swing......

apparently we were wrong!

I'll keep you guys posted on our next adventures.....i'm sure we are going to have many :)

here is a video for your enjoyment....

my boy and my puppy know how to play nice together.

2010-02-15T15:15:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to send out a message to all the friends and family......Drake and the rest of us miss you all!!

defiant till the end

2010-02-07T04:56:00.000-08:00

so drake got in a little of a tissy fit.... he was very upset to not be in my arms, though i insisted that he sit in his boppy until i was done with the dishes. Well inbetween screams i would hear something scoot across the counter. i would turn and the boppy chair would be a few more inches to the right. I scooted him back and he protested again and continued to push himself closer to the edge. (in his mind it was my arms or death :) ) so about 20 minutes went by and it suddenly stopped, i turn to see if he came to his senses... no he just got tired from his death attempt and slept.

2010-01-29T16:01:00.000-08:00

I have it all fixed now, you can leave a comment, hope you do!

We would love to hear from each and everyone of you!

talk soon!

THE JOY OF DRAKE

2010-01-14T20:04:00.000-08:00

I know i haven't updated in a very long time, thank you for taking over the responsibility of it mother. but i thought it was necessary that i make an attempt now. So the greatest joy truly is having drake....never would of believed it a year ago, butdrake is my pride and joy and i couldn't live without him. He is a very demanding baby, but try to show me one that isn't. he has come into this world at a wooping 9 pnds 4 oz and has grown an incredible amount in the past 2 and 1/2 months. He is determined to be strong, just yesterday i placed him against the back of the couch, and he reached his arms over and started to do squats for about 15 minutes. :) he also will be laying on his back and i grab his hands and he will pull himself up into a sit. i'm sure he will be running around in no time! for thosewho know me and skylar, you know that we were still not very prepared to have a child, but as soon as we saw him, we instantly were prepared and excited for the adventure ahead of us.hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and guide him, and find out the secrets of our parentsfinding out all of our secrets, so we can do the same :) yes pat, you have taught me that ishould check batteries in alarms, mom i learned that the side of the house is a safe place(mom call and ask what i used to do, others do not think anything horrible just embarrasing) ,dad i learned that car keys need to be hidden. Thank you to things i did, i now know what to do to prevent my kids from it. Like i said i have a lot of adventures ahead of me, and am positive the wool will be pulled over my eyes a few times, hopefully when that happensskylar will catch it and vise versa.

THE HOLIDAYS

2010-01-14T19:55:00.000-08:00

being that it was the first year that either holiday was celebrated with just the three of us, there is many things that have slipped our memory that are fairly important. For thanks-giving......we forgot to fill our propane. (side note: where we live we run our whole house on propane) So we had to get pretty creative with our methods of cooking, first we tried to boil the potatoes in this contraption called a "galloping gourmet", and i mind you it is not suppose to have a lot of water in it, then an hour later i check the potatoes and they were still raw...so i was starting to get discouraged. I decided to come back to them and started on my pudding pie. i put the mix in the saucepan and then the water and started to heat it,then i decided to look at the box......it said cold mix instructions....uh oh.... i look back at my pot and it was turning into a strange clump that i swore was a choclate version ofblubber. needless to say...no pie! these TWO things i was in charge of i couldn't do!!! Skylar was in charge of the stuffing and the turkey. He was very confident and very sure of himself, which left me feeling i would be the only failure. he sauteed the veggies in the turkey pan, then made the rest of the stuffing. We decided to try and put it in the turkey to cook (never again). he then injected the turkey with chicken broth, mind you we have never done this and got creative. So he puts the turkey in and i am left feeling horrible, i gota menstrual moment and i dumped all the water out in the sink, put the potatoes in a bowl and cooked them in the microwave. I had no idea how long to cook them so i guessed....i guessedwrong....they were still not done. so i threw the potatoes in the garbage, collapsed and cried... yes i cried. Skylar came to my side and he said, "i don't care what we eat as longas i am here with you on the holidays" then he held me and let me cry it out. so i was feelingbetter. Few hours later the turkey was done. we pulled it out and it looked great.....but we were fooled, the stuffing was complete mush in some parts and dry in others. but by this pointi also didn't care and was happy he was with me. so we ate and enjoyed our time together. aholiday i won't forget.

now christmas....so we were getting a tree in the begining of december from my mother and pat, but do to unseen events they were postponed. So i had to think....what can i do for a tree, and this is what icame up with! a tree made of lights. it was quite cute i thought. then we ended going to utah for skylars grandmas funeral, and show of our son for the first time to many of the family.so it was a bitter sweet trip. then when returning, once again we had too much stuff and two dogs and one baby. we wedge everything in....INCLUDING THE DOGS!!! poor dogs had just as miserable a trip as any of us. The drive is much too long, in much too little space. but we got home safe and sound. a few days after christmas arrived and i love this holiday. we have to admit, it didn't feel to much like christmas....but this is why i believe we felt this way we aren't with family like we have our whole life and we are no longer the kids....so it is no longer a huge excitment, instead we now give drake the joy, though he doesn't understand yet. i still loved the day because it is also skylars birthday....he is now 21 and legal to get a gun! yes his excitment was for the fact of getting a gun and not being legal to drink. all and all i had a great holiday and hope that they are all just as memerable as this year.

DRAKE DANGER IVERSEN

2009-06-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

so here is a picture of our son Drake Danger Iversen! it is not very good because it is photocopied, but he is covering his eye and laying down. he is already looking like his dad :) I am now 20 weeks and 2 days and am excited that the first half is over.
but i know that there is so much more to come and this first little hiccup is nothing compared to my trials ahead. I hope i can handle them and learn from every situation.

this is a close up of him and once again he is relaxing with his hand behind his head and he is healthy as can be.
this is his face and it is kind of a creepy picture in my opinion, it looks just like a skull on halloween (no wonder it is a halloween baby) :) but he is still cute anyway.

and here is proof that we have a little boy on the way! (my kid might hate me for this in the future lol) the arrow is pointing to his manhood.

big sis going to the big apple

2009-06-08T07:44:00.000-07:00

So my big sis is headed to new york city to by a live-in nanny. I am so excited for her and hope that everything becomes what she hopes it to be. She has always gone after what she wants and got it. You are going to do great and i hope you keep me updated on what has been going on while your there. I love you and have a safe trip!!

my little bump

2009-02-20T10:32:00.000-08:00

well I told you guys I would take pictures when I start showing, well its not much and it might just look like im getting fat. well....I am getting fatter but thats good but not enough that the bump isn't a child. (I hope that sentence made sense) and since I am already showing you KNOW I am going to get HUGE!! well here ya go moms!

my birthday

2009-02-20T10:09:00.000-08:00

yup yup, it was my twentith birthday and i celebrated it like a five year old!! well kinda, i woke up and decided i want to go to breakfast, so me chan and sky went to ihop and decided to tell the waitress that it was my birthday......thank god she had sympathy and didn't sing to me. unfortunately we forgot the camera all day :(

so these pictures were actually taken the next day...sad but true, i faked my birthday a little into the next day! luckily skylar was up for a FEW pictures (its hard to get him to smile in a picture). but anyways back to the story, then we went to the pet store and were really just going to look around, but we found such a good deal that we couldn't pass it up, and since it was my birthday i insisted that we get it.......a 125 gallon fish tank!!! i love it i love it i love it!

then our day ended up involved around the fish tank, we went and bought some rocks and then filled it. i dont really know where my whole day went now that i think about it, that isn't that much stuff, yet it was pretty late when we were done......hmmm. but anyways channing decided we should all get hats, her and sky got police man hats and were my bodygaurds on my birthday.overall it was a great birthday indeed!

unforunatley channing wasnt in any of the pictures, but i love her and she will always be in my memory (wow that sounds cheesy)

expecting

2009-02-18T10:01:00.000-08:00

so as most of you know, as of yesterday, i am with child. i am so excited and so scared at the same time. just scared that i will not provide the proper care and so on and so forth, but i know i have all my family behind me. there to help whenever needed and i am so thankful for that. we have decided names long before i was even pregnant.....if a boy drake danger iversen (i know most of you dont agree with the danger part, but its our child :P) and if it is a girl it will be trinity nichole iversen. yes this is after my lovely sister nicki, i look up to her in so many ways and thought i would show it through this avenue. dont worry crystal im thinking the next one will somehow involve you. Thank you everyone for being excited for us, it makes it so much easier when everyone is excited with it. thank you kathy for sending a surprise gift already, thank you erica and kevin for being happy and saying you'll be the best grandparents (im sorry you feel so old, but like i said, you were before this happened), thank you mom for jumping up down and yelling and just being purely happy, and thank you dad for not passing out jk, but thank you for the offer of the clothes, if it is a girl we will definately take you up on the offer....a boy might look a little ridiculous! crystal and charles, sorry you dont know yet....hopefully i get a hold of you before you read this. Thank you nicki for keeping it a secret as long as you did i know it was hard, because it was hard for me too. well make sure you keep checking the blog, i'll update it whenever something new comes. love you all and thank you agian.

ocean time again

2009-02-16T19:10:00.000-08:00

sorry it cut it off the picture of the sign so here ya go.

ocean time

2009-02-16T18:40:00.000-08:00

so this is the beach that we go to (when we go, which is not as often as i wish) but it is pretty nice. This is when me and channing went while the boys were at work and it was still pretty cold so we didnt want to even try to get in the water. instead we went to the resteraunt at the end of the pier...... future refrence you shouldnt eat there if you go to oceanside beach, go to the mcdonalds on the sand....ya a little ridiculous but true, there is a mcdonalds on the sand a little to the left of the picture. (wow what the united states holds for us)

so though there is a sign clearly posted on this beautiful garbage can........some people just dont heed the warning! this guy looks like he can bite pretty hard, so i didn't think that anyone would try to either. well i was wrong, i came out of the restaraunt and lo and behold some one is inching there way closer to this guy, so me and channing stopped to watch, because it would be interesting to see how far he got. well he got pretty close and the bird (dont know exactly what kind) reached around with its beak and snapped at the guy, i dont know if he got him, but he did jump back. i dont know i thought i would share the story with you.

valentines day

2009-02-16T18:09:00.000-08:00

it must of been valentines day, because love was in the air all around. we caught some of it on camera but must was only caught by our eye. haha valentines day is the day to enjoy all the reasons you love your partner and do all the mushy lovey dovey stuff that you want.....so why should animals be any different.

so this is what we did at the.........zoo! it was fun and i had a blast! there were A LOT of animals to see and A LOT of walking to do. its ok though, cause its nice to get out.....only it was pretty cold, nothing compared to utah but still chilly. skylar as always is a goof ball and added a little bit of himself to his photos! i hope that everyone else had a good valentines day and enjoyed themselves! hope to hear from all of you soon.

finally got with the program

2009-02-13T09:41:00.000-08:00

hey everyone, i thought that since i was clear over here in california, that i would start a blog too! well me and skylar have had our share of bad luck in the past year but we are still doing great and are still happy and healthy. skylar works all day, and as most of you know i don't. i also dont have a car, so i mostly have to become creative with my day and a blog might do some of the job. but skylar and i also have great friends and roommates that have helped us in more ways than i thought we would ever need. so though all of us are from our families, were ok because we are a family of our own. "the foursome" as we like to call it.

brandon and channing are great friends and great roommates, we do pretty much everything together......let me rephrase that, we do EVERYTHING together. Their fun to be around and i dont know what i would do without them!
We have a pretty full apartment, but i wouldn't have it any other way, with our three dogs, three turtles and our guinea pig. all the animals make me feel not so alone when everyone is gone.