We love Saturdays!

Hey everyone! Kyle and I had a successful Saturday today. I studied in the early morning and then he woke up around 6. Then, we made breakfast, went to Target and to the car wash. Then, Kyle took a three-hour nap from 10 until 1, which was perfect for my bar studying. In the afternoon, we did laundry, cleaned the house, went to Costco, and then for a long walk in the stroller. Kyle and I ate dinner and then he went to bed. I then did a set of very difficult Evidence questions and scored 73%. I hope that I can continue to keep my scores in that range. I'm just excited that it's February now...it means that the exam is three weeks from Tuesday and this will all be over soon! Which is a good thing...I'm not sure how much more clutter my poor house can take!

Here are some cute pics of Kyle from this past week. The shopping pictures are from JC Penney -- they already have their spring and summer stuff out, and Kyle couldn't resist taking one of their toddler chairs for a "test drive." He also helped himself to one of their display sippy cups to find out if there was anything delicious inside (there wasn't.) You don't want to know, however, what happened after I took this picture and had to get him out of the chair. He wasn't too happy. I think I'll get him some toddler outdoor furniture in time for summer.

Wednesday Update and Garage Sale Plans

Hey everyone! We hope that you're having a great week. I'm plugging away with bar studying and looking forward to being able to take some time from work just to synthesize everything so that it will "jell" in my brain. I feel pretty good about where I'm at, but I still have a way to go, and balancing that with a munchkin and full-time employment is a full load. Let's just say that my house is in pretty bad shape. Can you say clutter! Ugh! I'm glad I only have until the 10th at work and then this whole thing will be OVER four weeks from today.

After I get done, I'm going to seriously de-junk every room in this house. Justice will be swift and brutal for the stuff that no one has seen (or used) in years that is stuffed into every closet. I'd like to try to hold a garage sale in March to see if I can make any money off some of the nicer stuff. I have a lot of books that I am sure a few people would be interested in reading. But, whatever doesn't sell is NOT coming back into the house. It's going either to the DI or to the trash. I promise!

Kyle Update

I got some updated pictures of Kyle, so I thought I'd post them for everyone. Here, Kyle gets ready to show Kitty who's boss:

This is a picture that Asa sent me from the party that he and Kristol went to when they were watching Kyle. It was a friend's family birthday party. It looks like Kyle wasn't the only munchkin in attendance! Also, here's a big "shout-out" to A&K from us for watching Kyle on the fly when we had to go out of town. Thanks guys! You're the best!

Kyle gets ready to throw the b-a-l-l to his dad here:

I just love this pic...even if it is proof positive that my little baby is growing into a little boy -- doesn't he look so grown up?

What a cutie pie!

Typical for Kyle during a photo shoot -- grabbing for the camera!

"Winter in Las Vegas? Bring it on! I'm in my shorts and polo shirt!"

In other news, my class in Tucson was canceled, so I switched it to Las Vegas. So I'll be in Arizona from February 13-20 and in Las Vegas from February 11-13. And we're going up to SLC the first full weekend in February to keep Jeff company. Less than five weeks now until the bar exam! It's really getting here quickly.

Sad news

We have some sad news. Jeff's mom got very sick last week and is now in the hospital in Maryland. Jeff and I came out here on Friday to stay for a week and help out. As a result, we won't be going on the cruise next week. Jeff and I are staying here until Saturday and then flying home. We will probably come back in March to help out again. I'm leaving up the information about our France trip, because we haven't canceled it yet, but we will probably end up postponing it until next year.

Thanks especially to Rick for being so willing to stay with Kyle for a week on short notice and to pick my car up from the airport on Monday so that I didn't have to incur the parking charges.

We hope that everyone is having a good week.

Birthday Pics

I know that these are so overdue! I've been super busy with bar exam prep, work, Kyle Patrol, and everything else that I'm just getting around to posting them now. Plus, I couldn't find my camera connection cord for several days. I just found it in the side pocket of my study backpack, so I'm back in blogging business now. Hooray!

For my birthday, Jeff and Kyle took me to an Italian restaurant in Herriman not too far from the house. The food was actually really good. After dinner I took this picture of Kyle, ready to attack their holiday decorations:

The hostess was nice enough to take these pictures of the three of us in front of their Christmas tree:

Jeff got me these flowers for my birthday. Aren't they so pretty?

And then this is a random picture that I took of Kyle after we got home last week. I just think this boy is too dang cute, with his impish grin as he looks at the camera:


Have a good week, everyone! :)

Happy Tuesday to everyone!

Good morning everyone! It's Tuesday. I'm just plugging away at the office but wanted to take time out to post a very short note. I'm very excited for a hair appointment this afternoon. My hair has been wrecked for the last two weeks since I've gone too long without a cut. I haven't hair my hair cut since Disneyland, which is like 11 weeks. I normally only go about 7. I'm also going to get more blonde put in it for the cruise. I am so excited that we are going on our cruise in like 10 days!!! Which reminds me, I also need to go tanning today or tomorrow. All these important things to do when I've got bar exam studying to do. Haha!

I know I haven't posted any pics in awhile and I know I need to. The problem is that I lost my camera charger somewhere and I ordered a new one from Amazon and they sent me the wrong one. Argh. Now I have to send it back and try to get a new one before the cruise.

Have a great day, everyone!

UPDATE: I looked again at the camera charger, and then I figured out that if I turned the battery upside down, it would fit in the camera and charge. Haha. Maybe I don't need extra blonde put in my hair after all! :)

More words from Kyle

I've been so lame to neglect my blog, but I've been so busy. Here's an example of my weekday this week:

4:00 a.m. -- Alarm goes off! Time to do 34 practice questions and review the answers. Hooray for Diet Coke!
6:00 a.m. -- Get ready (hair and makeup), get dressed, get Kyle up and get him ready for school.
6:30 a.m. -- Leave house, drop Kyle to school and get to work.
7:00 a.m. -- Work and bill as many hours as possible before leaving at
3:30 p.m. -- Go to gym and run 3.1 miles OR run errands (bank, drycleaning, tanning)
4:00 p.m. -- Get Kyle, get home, go through mail, do laundry, chores, make dinner
5:30 p.m. -- Dinner for me and Kyle
6:00 p.m. -- Play with toys, Kyle's bathtime and get him ready for bed time at
6:30 p.m. -- he's been going to sleep early this week, thank goodness for small miracles!
7:00 p.m. -- Talk to Jeff (who is so patient with my silly new schedule!)
8:00 p.m. -- Review outlines for a few minutes, take a shower, get ready for the next day before hitting the sack at
9:00 p.m.

I am so glad that this is only going to happen for the next 6 weeks!

I wanted to post a list of Kyle's new words. I think that these are a lot of words for only being 18 months!

Daddy
Mom/Mama
Jeff
Kitty
Elmo
Nose
Eyes
Teeth
Cup
Choo-choo! (if he sees a train)
Ball
Keys
Vrooom-vroooom! (If he sees a car or truck)
Bus (he is obsessed with buses -- anything large with wheels that is not a car, is a bus)
More
Please
Thank you
Beep-beep (when I use the keyring to lock my truck, it goes beep-beep and Kyle will repeat, "beep beep!")
Di-di (diaper)
Night-night
Fish
Grrrrrr! (when he sees the Redskins mascot)
Hi
Bye
Yes
No
Outside
Shoes
Button

I'll try to write more later. So excited that Jeff is coming this weekend to help me out by watching Kyle so I can study. I've got to really get into my Contracts and Uniform Commercial Code this weekend! We hope that everyone has a good weekend! :)

Bar Exam Study...The Going Is Slow!

Anyone who played that cheesy Oregon Trail computer game in the 80s will be able to relate to my experience with bar exam study...the going is slow! I feel pretty good about where I'm at, but I still have a long ways to go. I'm doing fairly well on my practice questions, typically averaging about 60-65% right. I will be looking for this percentage to improve to around 70-75% over the next few weeks. I want to have at least 1000 questions done by the time I do my review class on February 11. I've done about 450 now...doing about 34 questions a day now on the weekdays and 100 a day on the weekends. Hopefully, my health will stay good, the weather will stay cool, and I'll keep around 1220 pounds of food....as they used to say on the Trail. I'll keep everyone posted when I get to the next landmark.

Happy New Year!

We hope that everyone is having a great New Year's! I'm back in Las Vegas now and getting ready to go back to work AND to gear up for bar studying. Boo! But, it's best to just buckle down and get it done, because if I do it right, it will be over in 8 weeks and I won't have to worry about it again. Yay!

Yesterday, Kyle and I ventured to downtown Salt Lake. We visited Jeff and some of his friends at the police station, then took Jeff to lunch at Chili's. Kyle drank milk from a big boy cup using a straw all by himself. He also got to use the crayons that the hostess gave him to color on his kids' menu. What a big boy! Here are two cute pictures:

In other news, I just ran 2.9 miles without stopping. This is definitely the most I've ever run. I think I'll be ready for that 5k in two weeks! Tonight I am going to finish unpacking and getting ready to go back to the office. Then I'm going to review Contracts for two hours. I definitely have the feeling that the next 8 weeks are going to go FAST and I don't want to get behind on studying.