Dear Season 6,

I miss Dr. Jackson.

Sincerely,

Becky

*If you don't understand, don't look it up; it will only embarrass me because of my crazy addiction.

Jordan and Sage

Went to the park today with my family and took some pictures of my nephew Jordan and my niece Sage. They were really fun to play with and super good sports about taking all those pictures :)

(There's so many, I don't want to put them in the right order... so they're sort of mixed up.)

Jordan was really into his surprise face :) He's actually pretty good at it.

Sage wanted to do it too.

Haha, I didn't notice this before, but it kind of looks like he's flipping us off! He was looking at a rock, actually.

He really wanted me to take this picture. We even tried twice :)

I gave her my necklace to wear.

Jordan was pretty good at hanging upside down. I got him to go with no hands, just hooked by his knees, on the monkey bars--he was pretty brave, considering it was his first time.

There's a bunch more, but these will do for now :)

They Just Grow Up So Darn Fast

I found out I probably wasn't supposed to plant so many seeds in one pot... It looks like I may have multiple trees growing. That means I might have to prune some of them out :( It kind of makes me sad thinking that I might have to end one of their little lives. My little trees have worked so hard to live. I hope soon I can let them move in with their decorative rocks.

Rearranging

I got some awesome $1 candles at Maceys and I wanted to rearrange my stuff to go with our new shelves/bookcase thingy. Here's what I settled on, but it took me a few tries to find the accent that Trevor and I both like. I was trying to incorporate some of those techniques you always hear about with threes, words, and triangles. Who knows if it actually worked--I just like it. Maybe that means it worked...

(soon those movies will be hidden, that will be nice)

I tried this too. I like this second best. I'll probably go back to this once our blossoms die. They look like they won't last more than a couple of days :( sad.

This was the first vase I tried. I like it, but I didn't like having two of the same vase on the shelf.

Yo-Bunches

All I can say is yum.

Yoplait has a new flavor--blackberry pomegranate. AND I discovered 4 ounce yogurts instead of the usual 6 or 7. They always seem like too much to me. And, if you can believe it, on top of ALL that, I also discovered Honey Bunches of Oats Just Bunches!

Seriously, try it. It's okay because that YoPlus stuff is good for you :)

Getting Used to Working Out

Week 3 almost done! After tonight, I will have been exercising for 3 weeks, and I feel pretty good. Last week I only got 3 of the 4 days in because on Wednesday we were down to one car. I have the feeling that Wednesdays are going to be the rough days for me because that's Trevor's day off, and he usually doesn't go to practice till 6:30 or 7, and that's RIGHT when I exercise. So I have to sort of CHOOSE exercise over seeing Trevor for the only hour I'll see him that day. But last night he didn't go to practice so I didn't have to worry about that.

I'm still feeling pretty motivated. I know this might sound sort of absurd, but I'm sort of sad I'm not seeing any results yet. In the beginning I told myself I probably wouldn't see ANY change at all for at least 1 or 2 months--but somehow I still find myself with a small bit of my hopes let down that I haven't lost a couple pounds or my clothes fit better or something. If anything, I feel fatter--my body is SWOLLEN! I know it's a good thing to have muscles forming again under all my skin, but my arms and legs just look puffier! Bah! Right now my body is still getting used to the work out so I'm still pretty exhausted at night. Come 9 o'clock, I'm dead, sprawled out on our bed, begging Trevor to rub my muscles. I've been focusing on my stretches afterwards more so my muscles will be less tight and sore, but they still get tired.

Some days I've been super excited to go work out after work, and others it's just been part of what happens after work. Just routine. I think I've only had maybe 1 or 2 days where I've been NOT in the mood--but as soon as I got there, I felt better. Haha, kind of like church.

This week my right knee and muscles above my knee have been sore. Some of you know, but I have a history of bad-knee-edness. I had a scope on my left knee when I was 15 when I was playing basketball all the time, and it sort of runs in my family to have torn cartilage. Anywho, I've just been a little worried that I might damage my other knee like the first knee. I've been feeling some pain in the muscles AROUND my right knee, but I'm pretty sure it's nothing in the bone. So I've been working those muscles a little bit more carefully to build them up. When I had the surgery on the left knee, they told me that as I strengthen the muscles around my knee, the bone and cartilage will have more support and will hurt less. I'm hoping that's the case now.

Enough about that.

The Living Planet Aquarium

Trevor and I went to The Living Planet Aquarium again this weekend. This is my third time, and I still love it. They've added a new section since the last time I went about the Amazon.

These giant sucker fish were in the Utah section. They're probably 6-8 inches long. Kinda weird.

Here's one of the eels. They're super long, you just can't see because he's all wrapped up in the coral.

Some of the long jelly fish. They take the best pictures!


These are some of the shorter jelly fish.

Here's a picture of the giant squid. You aren't allowed to use your flash on him because of his sensitive eyes, so the pictures really dark. But he's HUMONGO! Each of those circle suckers is about an inch or an inch and a half wide.

Here's the giant lobster. He's flash sensitive too. I think he was about 3 feet long.

One of the sleeping sea horses.

A few of the many many fancy fish we saw.

Sting ray! If you've never been to the aquarium, you can touch these guys as they swim by. Pretty nifty.

Shark! They have some really awesome sharks and dangerous fish there. This guy was like 4 feet long I think.

Here's a video of the shark and eel tank.

Hard to get a good picture of him, but there was a giant eel. His face was just pokin' out, but he looked to be about six inches thick.

Tropical fish in the pirate ship.

These were called 4 eyed fish. Their eyes have a film that splits them in to so that they can be part way above and under the water at the same time.

Sea turtles. They were climbing on eachother. They were pretty medium in size. 2 feet or so.

They had an electric eel section in the Amazon zone. They had a gage that tells you how electric he is at the moment. You could tell when he was just resting, when he was hunting, and when he was seeking a predator. Eels can emit the same amount of electricity as 6 electrical outlets at once! Um, yeah, pretty sure they could kill you.

Here's a video of some big fish they have there. It's amazing that fish can be so big, and these are SMALL compared to what's out there in the ocean.

This is the tree frog. He's all suctioned to the glass. Looks pretty gross.I never knew they could do that.

Here's one of the cooler looking poisonous frogs. I don't think I knew this before, that poisonous frogs aren't poisonous on their own. They eat other poisonous creatures and absorb their venom and poison into their skin. If you keep one of these kinds of frogs in captivity long enough, they'll lose their poisonous skin.

This is me, excited to be at the aquarium.

This is Trevor. Also excited to be at the aquarium.

You should go there if you can :) http://www.thelivingplanet.com/