Well?

Recently, I phoned a place of business to inquire after services they willingly provide.

I spoke with a gentleman who requested calling me later with more information. I gladly hung up, anticipating my return phone call.

A few hours later, my phone rang. I answered with my customary, "hello?", only to be

surprised by the voice I knew was said gentleman, asking me if he could talk to my mommy.

I thought for a moment how I should answer, and chose to answer honestly, "No."

My mom is in Texas, so he clearly couldn't talk to her.

After my reply, he spoke quickly, saying "Miss Bishop?" to which I laughingly answered, "yes".

How did I choose to salvage this funny mistake by this poor deluded gentleman?

After him apologizing profusely, I said, "well, that means I sound young, right? And that's a not

bad thing." Or is it?

I Have To Remember

To take off Aftyn's headband when she goes down for a nap, otherwise when I go in to get her up, this is what I see:

I love that she's trying to look around it. Too funny. Poor girl.

Naive Excitement!

We have an announcement!

Aftyn woke up this morning, let me put my finger in her mouth, and I found 3 little pointy knobs in the bottom of her mouth . . . . . . and that means we have a tooth!

Poor little thing has been sleeping a lot today, but other than that, she's done pretty well for having a tooth just come in. And yes, Reed and I are both pretty proud of her little tooth. :)


In other exciting news, thanks to my sister who is coupon savvy, we just got 5-6 weeks of diapers for $40. And I'm pretty proud of that too. :)

A Moment With Aftyn

My Latest Project

I have had these letters for Aftyn's name since before Aftyn was born. Only had half of them painted, and there were NO polka dots yet. Thankfully, I came back to this project when cleaning out some bags full of half-finished projects, and found some motivation to get them done and finish some other projects for Aftyn. I got the vinyl at The Hobby Store. Love that place!

Combined with Aftyn's not quite finished bumper - and once done, her little corner of her room will finally be complete! Notice Grandma's well-coordinated pink bunny that Aftyn loves.

And speaking of loves, Aftyn loves her Daddy. And her Daddy loves her. Notice the same shade of blue eyes. Very cute. Two of my absolute favorite people! And yes, you will notice behind Reed's head another section of Aftyn's room that needs my help. I know. I'm getting there. :)

I Used To Do Resolutions

This is Aftyn and I last night in our BSU gear, watching the Fiesta Bowl with a very excited and enthusiastic BSU fan. You should have heard the spontaneous cheers and grunts coming from Reed last night. More than I've heard in 2 years. Maybe I should watch more football with him? Enough said.


But no more! I am in a happy place in life right now and feel that I am continually trying

to accomplish new things, and so I guess if anything, I resolve to continue to push myself to do

new and hard things for myself.

I would like Aftyn to resolve to finally figure out crawling, and then move on to walking.

And that is pretty much it. I am happy with life right now.

Although I could use a job that allows me to stay home with Aftyn, or some source of income.

Anyone with any feasible ideas?

How We Rang In The New Year

Aftyn's First Time in the Snow

With some help from Daddy, her first snow angel !

Evening Snack

Food's all gone - her "how could it be all gone?" face

Mid chew :)


All in all, we had a nice relaxing evening with some playing in the snow

(good thing we did that, because it's all gone now. :( ) Reed was out by 10:30, Aftyn was in bed by 9:30, I decided to call it a night at 11. That was probably a good choice, since Aftyn's teeth began bothering her again last night at 12:40, and she couldn't settle back to sleep until sometime after 2 am. And she was up again at 5. But boy was she chipper at 6:30 when I finally got up to feed her! (This all happened because I mentioned to Reed just last night that Aftyn had been sleeping through the night for about a week and a half, and neither of us had really taken any notice of it, but boy had it been nice. I'll keep those things to myself from now on. )

Hope you all had a happy and fun New Years Eve and we wish you all the best for 2010!