Hurry up Springtime!

I wish that Spring would hurry up and get here. I am so tired of the rainy cold mornings when I come out of work to find a slight bit of frost or moisture on the windshield. Or when I have to spend 10 minutes to warm up the car before I take off. I'm so looking forward to the spring and summer with warm weather and sandals. My favorite part about those seasons!! I am so excited as there is just a tiny bit of flowers beginning to pop out of the ground and my rose bushes look like they are finally beginning to come around... Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Things you'd like to know about me

One of my friends did this on her blog and sent it on to me so here we go...

4 Jobs I've had:
1. L.E.R.T (Deputy at Ada Co. Sheriff Office in the Jail)
2. 911 Dispatcher for Ada County Sheriff Office
3. Leasing Supervisor for Property Management Company
4. Security Supervisor for a private security firm

4 Movies I could watch over and over:
1. Harry Potter Series
2. You’ve got Mail
3. Supertroopers
4. SWAT

4 Places I've lived:
1. Meridian, Idaho
2. Boise, Idaho
3. Traverse City, Michigan
4. Grand Rapids, Michigan

4 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Strawberry Cheesecake
2. Any seafood
3. Shopping!!!! I could shop 24-7!!!!
4. Playing SIMS on the computer

4 Places I've been on Vacation:
1. Sanibel Island & Ft. Myers Florida
2. Traverse City, Michigan
3. Las Vegas, Nevada
4. San Francisco, CA

4 Favorite Foods:
1. Chicago Connection Pizza
2. Baja Fresh (almost anything they make is delicious!!)
3. Crab Legs and shrimp
4. Mashed potatoes and gravy

4 Places I'd rather be right now:
1. Home sleeping in bed =)
2. On a beach lounging in a chair sipping a nice cold lemonade
3. Shopping at the mall
4. Anywhere where I can play with my son

4 Things I would like to know how to do:
1. Play the piano
2. Be more creative about scrapbooking and card making
3. be a better cook
4. write a novel

4 Things I worry about:
1. Health
2. Family
3. Financial Stability
4. 2008 Presidential Elections (May the Good Lord help us all)

4 Happiest Moments:

1. The day I got married
2. The day I had my son
3. The day I graduated high school
4. The day that my son said momma

4 Things I want to do this year or in the future:
1. Organize my household
2. Finish scanning all our pictures and make a digital copy of all important documents
3. Teach my son important things like talking, reading, etc
4. Pay off debt

Rylan is growing up so quickly

Rylan has decided that he is old enough to brush his own teeth now. Once in awhile, I am able to help him but most of the time he wants to do it alone. I can't believe how quickly he is growing up and turning into a little man. He's been saying quite a few new words like "down", "Dak" (his name for Kojak), "Dad", "Momma" and "KiKi" which is his new name for our dog Sadie. (Don't ask me how he came up with that one.)

Family Time at Kathryn Albertson Park

We decided awhile back that we wanted to go walk around at Kathryn Albertson Park and so I took the camera. We had a good time. I can't wait until spring so that we can go down there again and take more photos. Hopefully by then, Rylan will be running all over the place.


"Proud Daddy with his son" (I love this photo so much!)

Rylan's First Adventure with snow.

We woke up yesterday morning to quite a bit of snow. Rylan has not been able to play before so we decided that its about time to start. He was a bit annoyed at how bundled up I had him, but I didn't want him to get cold. He kept feeling the snow between his fingers and kept giving me this puzzled look. He's not real fond of cold things so it was probably a shock. We tried to build a snowman but the snow was not cooperating. Too dry to ball up so we just had a baby snow fight. Here's some more photos that you might enjoy. I hope we get some good snow so that we can go make that snowman soon...

This old toy chest

This is a toy chest that belonged to my father when he was a small boy growing up on a farm in Nebraska. In the 90's, he worked on it and made it into a clock. (Clock making was one of his favorite past times.) Inside this old chest is a piece of paper where my dad wrote about traveling with this "suitcase that probably contained toys" back in 1937. He traveled with his mother to Portland from Nebraska on a train to come out to meet his father and uncle who had moved out west to start farming. I thought about him alot lately and thought about this old chest that I have displayed on a planter shelf. I decided to take a picture of Rylan playing with it. I will have to try to take another photo one of these days when Rylan is more cooperative but none the less, the photo came out ok.

I hope that this is one of the things that I can pass on to Rylan. It's hard knowing that Rylan was not able to meet his Grandpa but maybe some of Grandpa's old things will teach Rylan what kind of man he was.

New Photos of Rylan

My Dad

Gerald D. Blunk
1932-2000

So this next month will be eight years since my dad passed away. It's been very hard to live without him but I know that he would not want for me to be upset about it all. I miss him dearly and would do anything for just one day with him. If you could please just keep me in your prayers, January is always a very hard month for me.

Frustration with Blogging

So I'm not sure if anyone else has the same frustration with blogging as I do but maybe if I let it out, someone can help me. I find this blog so much more difficult than myspace. I can't seem to add any of my friends and family to this blog. I can easily add friends to my myspace page. Which you can all find at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=
33294656. I am on myspace everyday as opposed to the rare occasion that I log in here.

I'm hoping to have more time here in a week when I go to graveyards to spend working on my blog and updating our information so that everyone knows what has been going on with us lately. We've had a very busy holiday season. That will be another blog.

So if anyone has any tips on how to make this blog easier... I'd greatly appreciate the help!

Rylans First Birthday

Well, Rylan had his first Birthday on the 7th. We had a good time celebrating, playing with his new toys and having cake. We got him cupcakes so that he could have his own and play in it. He's such a funny baby. He didn't want to get the cake on himself so I had to help him smear the frosting everywhere.

We had his photos taken for his birthday. When the lady was taking his photos, he was being so good and she was having so much fun that we were there for almost 2 hours. I loved the photos so much that I had a very hard time picking which ones that we would buy.


Here's some of the photos that we got...