Holy I suck at this

I feel like every summer I get the urge to blog how pathetic am I?!  I am posting because its the thing to do.  Since last post my 'Aisea has turned 1, Kainoa will be 5 on Tuesday.  JR has torn his ACL recovered and gone back to work already!  I recently have quit my job at the pool my last official day is Septemeber 1st.  I will be happy to be at home with my kids it has become too much of a juggling act and I am wearing out my welcome with my family and friends who have helped me with my kids when needed. 
I also am opening a new chapter in my book and getting a website where I will post tutorials on refinish and reburbish work I do and have done.  I will also post on things I have designed or built or helped build, and home makeover projects.  I may never make money doing it but I would be mad at myself if I didn't pursue this at this time in my life.  I have a big passion for it and I am very excited.
Kainoa is doing everything it feels like.  He is in Judo, Soccer, just finished t-ball, and starts hip hop back up again in September.  Not to mention swimming all summer, learning to ride a bike with no training wheels, running the Bob Phelps 5k and taking 3rd place in his age group.  He is active and constantly surprises me.  I love being his mom but he is so strong willed heaven help us all.  He is such a good brother he plays with 'Aisea so well and 'Aisea adores him.  I am not sending him to kindergarten this year I feel one more year at home will be good.  I am currently deciding if I should send him to preschool or just work at home on a few things a day.  Kainoa's favorite thing right now is that his cousin Eli lives close again they are such good friends and it is so nice that they are back!
'Aisea is jabbering and crawling and standing against things right now.  He is such a demanding baby, he won't even let me go to the bathroom without crying.  But even with that of course I love the little stink and he is sweet he is just a mommy and daddys boy!  His laugh is awesome and I try all the time to get him laugh just so I can hear it.
JR is working.  Go UPS! He is also into fitness a little and health which has been good because slowly it has helped me want to be better.  He has lost 40lbs and still losing.  I have lost 4 :) we have been in our home 2 years now and JR and my brother in law Tom are in progress making Kainoa built in bunk beds, yes I said beds his room will sleep 4 when complete.  These beds will be the first big tutorial I will post on my blog when it is running.  I came up with the concept and Tom and JR ran with it.  I am very excited for them. 
I have no pictures to load at the moment but feels good to update maybe wont again until next year because like I said its the thing to do!  I hope I still have some readers but if not at least I am keeping some record of life with the Norman's ;)

Me and Aisea

Guess I should post the one pic of me and the sweetie too...

Introducing 'Aisea Robert Norman

We love him!!

"Aisea Robert Norman

'Aisea Robert Norman was born June 30th 2011 at 10:05pm he weighed 6lbs 11oz 18 1/2 inches long. He is so sweet we are all doing well thanks to all that have sent their congrats and love.

Enormous Pressure...

Dear unborn, after 37 weeks and 5 days of pregnancy I am DONE! I don't ever remember feeling this way with Kainoa and you my dear baby have taken up residency on my tailbone. I can't sleep, I can't stand for very long, and I can't sit for very long or my legs start tingling and go numb. With that being said can you please get here so I don't have to look or feel like this anymore!

Could it be...a real post?!!

Blogger here I am don't get too excited I may disappoint but I feel now more than I have for awhile that I should update if only for my sis Brookie so here we go....It has been a year so even though Brooke knows this I must fill in any on-lookers.
We bought a house, moved in July 3, 2010 and are so happy to finally be in our own place, (and I am sure my mom is too). Does anyone else have a problem with decorating?
I have all these ideas no money and to be quite frank no balls to make a decision so after almost one year here I am still, with only 5 things hung on my walls.
My yard is more than half in and we are getting cement this month. We will have a patio and more parking now.
Still need a fence, plants and some sort of landscape idea but we have grass and a sprinkler system!
Again need to decorate don't know if it will ever happen.
I am Pregnant! how about that! I have 7 weeks left and only 5 more doctors appointments. Which means the longest part of the pregnancy is just starting!!!
It's a BOY and he is healthy, so am I. The only way things could be better is if I could speed up time.
I still work at the pool I manage, am in charge of the swim lesson program, and teach private lessons. My plan is to keep this job even after I have the baby. Kai thinks I am the coolest mom cause I work at pool and it's great benefit to him he can swim whenever I feel like taking him.
JR is still at UPS and work is good. He just got a wisdom tooth pulled and now has a golf ball sized cheek and he says people stare at him while he is at work. I just told him tell them he was born with it.
Kai has 3 more days of preschool left this year, bittersweet how much he is growing up but I love his personality as he gets older he becomes more of a ham. I am afraid we have a class clown on our hands!!
I have learned to read too this year!!!! Go me. No kidding I knew how to read just didn't love it. So alot of people wouldn't know this about me it isn't something I just brag about but I would have my sister Erin read a book and tell me about it and I would write my book reports that way. Seriously never read a book in full in Highschool.
Thanks to my sisters and mom I have been reading books more than I ever have and actually really like it.
*** they are shallow, easy reads, but I am reading. The goal is deeper books as I progress but I am good now with the genre we are in.
We are happy, healthy and I feel like I can start blogging again even if it's boring to some I can keep a better journal than I have been....til next blog :)

Hello Blogger...

Well, it has been a long time but I thought I might reconnect a little. So much good has happened since I last blogged, but most important is JR and I went through the Temple. I am just so lucky and blessed and happy to have my family sealed. My little one will be 3 in August and that is just weird to me, time really goes by too fast and sometimes I wish I could stop it. I want another baby so bad and think I will be able to start trying within the next couple months. My sisters Brooke and Erin both had new babies since I last posted, Brooke had a sweet boy named Abe and Erin just had a sweet baby girl named Lily. I don't have a pic of Abe since I have not met him yet but Brooke has picture's posted on her blog. I will post a couple of Lily though. It is funny she has a scowl "like JR" my mom said, so when I took the picture I told him to scowl too pretty funny, but she is much sweeter than JR sorry babe. She will be spoiled since she is the first grandaughter. Ok then, I hope it isnt almost a year again before I post but if it is I do look at facebook more so maybe I will see some of you there. :)

2 year pictures

So Kai will be two this month and I am such a bad mom and have not has his pictures taken since he was 4 weeks old. I have a lot of pictures of him though just none of them are professional so I decided it was time with the help and push of my good friend Corianne who took them. She was awesome and has the coolest props, gave him candy, and was really fun with him the whole time not to mention the awesome photos she got she is very good thanks Corianne I love them and can't wait to get the prints! Here are a few I stole from her photography blog www.corihenderson.blogspot.com cause I don't have the disc yet. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Swimming in Saratoga and CUPCAKES!

So the last two weeks I have been teaching swimming at a pool in Saratoga and yesterday was the last day of this session. For the kids I had cupcakes made at dippidee's they were so cute (and no I didn't get a picture of them) my camera battery was dead but one of the moms took a picture of Kai eating his and from the picture you can tell they were really good!! They were bright blue and had fondet orange and pink fish on the top of them. Anyways I had a lot of fun teaching for this neighborhood and can't wait to do the next session in July. Hope everyone is having a great summer so far.

EXTINGUISHED!

So most of you know that I work at the pool teaching swim lessons I love my job and this is one of the reasons why...Yesterday morning I was teaching two sisters who are also in my ward and the older sister was driving me nuts to make it shorter than it was she was just not listening like a good girl should ;) so..I said to her "oh Autumn what would we do without all you children in this world" and she said "the whole human race would be extinguished!!" I just started laughing and couldn't be irritated with her anymore. So all I have to say to that is what would we do without kids really!?? So thank you to all the children that keep the human race from being EXTINGUISHED!!

Memorial Day and Grandma Jackie's grave.

Grandma Jackie's grave is in the Mt. Pleasant cemetary so on Memorial Day we drove down and it was beautiful they place flags all over the cemetary and there are flowers everywhere. Kai was so cute too and it was good for JR to see that. Kai leaned over and talked to her and kissed her without being told to I thought that was amazing but it just reminded me that children are so much closer to the spirit world than we realize it was a touching experience and for JR it was exactly what he needed.

4 Wheel'n at five mile...

Ok so I kind of did the pictures in the wrong order cause this is Kai so tired after a long day 4 wheeling and playing in the dirt. JR's cousins invited us to go 4 wheeling on Saturday and we had alot of fun even if there were a million other people there that day too. P.S. we are big nerds in the pics ;)

JR's Birthday

It was JR's birthday last Thursday and his cousins and their wife's/girlfriend and JR's friend Wes came to dinner with us at Tucanos. The next day we had cake at the house with my mom and Jess since they weren't able to come to dinner. Happy Birthday JR I love you hope you had a great day!

A day at the Park.

So the weather has slowly been getting nicer and nicer the last couple weeks and Kai is thrilled. I too am happy about it because no more tv he loves movies and asks for them all day long but as soon as I suggest to go outside his mind is off the movie and out the door. We went to provo last Monday to visit Linley and Kylie Mills, Linley had back surgery and can't even pick Kylie up to put her in the car to go anywhere. That would be so hard... and it was a great excuse to go kidnap them and play at the park. So we did and the two little stinks loved it Kylie would slide and slide all day if you let her and she was too cute running around jibber jabbering to me and Kai he could slide all day too but he doesn't like the "normal" way he goes on his tummy every time. They had fun on the swings but I know would have been happier running around I just got tired of lifting them onto the slides and lifting them onto the slides and lifting them (you get it). It is always good to catch up with Linley she is such an easy person to be around love ya girl! I think this week we will go finger paint with pudding at their house (outside of course) but I think Kai would love that.

Moab, Montana and Easter!

So it's never too late to post some cute pictures and give a long update. As you all know I was not able to run the half marathon but Brooke did so we still got to go to Moab for the weekend and we had so much fun. Kai and Eli are really fun to watch Kai doesn't have a ton of child interaction so he was showing off and I think might have been a little much for Eli at times but Eli was a good sport. We had a lot of fun with Brooke and Brady in town and the weather in Moab could not have been better I am with Brooke when she said she misses it, I love it there. Montana trip was just two weeks later, we started our drive in between Saturday conference session and managed to listen to the full afternoon session before we totally lost radio signal. My moms brother lives in Philipsburg, MT. It is a beautiful place to visit and live. Honestly if I could convince JR to become a rancher I would move there. The scenery is beautiful, life seems simple, although I know that is not the case all the time, it is hard work but man the surroundings are well worth it I think. We went snowmobiling on their property so not a sole in sight, we hung out at the house with all the animals Kai took particular interest in their indoor cat and now all he can say when he sees an animal is "kitty". I think he really missed that cat cause the first morning home I went to get him out of bed and he looked past me and kept say "kitty, kitty". My uncle Clark and his wife Nancy have two kids that we LOVE and were so good with Kai. Brian is almost 6 and Rachel turned 4 while we were there so we got to celebrate with her. We also went to a hot springs pool with all of them the last night we were there even my uncle made time to come and that I know was a sacrifice for him and Nancy's sister that helps out at the ranch so thank you for that it was nice to have Clark there. I miss P-town more than Moab it was one of the best vacations I have had in a long time. Now to Easter I don't have much to say about it Kai had fun eating candy and opening eggs, we went to JR's Aunts house for dinner and had the best bbq chicken I have had in a long time, then after some of the family had a foam gun war that I stayed away from (his family is sooooo competitive) I would just rather cheer them on, although I know some of them probably think I am lame for not wanting to take part. Anyways sorry such a long post just wanted to get everything I remember down, which reminds me when we try to get Kai to say I love you he says bokey whatever that is but he says it every night when we tell him to tell Grandma he loves her and goodnight he just says bokey it really is cute I just don't want to forget it. Hope everyone's lifes are going well love ya all.