Losing Weight

I am losing weight and I am so happy about it that I could scream out loud! My friend told me about this pill "phentremine", and she lost 36 lbs in 3 months! I was so jealous and wanted this magic pill so bad! I was a little skeptical and scared about it at first. I didn't dare try it cause I thought maybe it wouldn't work, or maybe it was bad for me...well FINALLY I had all I could take of being miserable about my weight, and I was ready to pay whatever the cost to get rid of these stubborn baby pounds! I talked Andrew into letting me try it for a month (He wants a skinny me too!) So, I went to the clinic and talked to a nurse, they took my BP, and weight. She said all this pill does is speed up your metabolism and suppress your appetite. It can speed up your heartrate Since I do have some medical history, she told me to take a half a pill just to be safe. (That will make it last 2 months instead of one!) So....it has been 3 days now and I have lost 6 lbs! I am not even kidding! Isn't it amazing? My appetite is not nearly what it was before. I feel like I have more energy, too. I am so happy, and didn't think pills like this actually worked! If I keep this up, I will have my old body back in no time! I just had to share this, I am nearly bouncing off the walls with glee!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!

my first tag!

My favorite movie...



Something I can't live without...



My favorite place to be...



My favorite Holiday....



age at my next birthday...



Place I'd like to visit....



My middle name....



My favorite TV show....




The name of a pet.....



My Favorite color....



My job.....



My favorite food....



Well that was fun! I added some of my own to the list. Now, I tag Noelle, Kim, Felicia, & Aubrey!

Hooray!

Andrew is doing so well with installing! He is getting to be so fast at it! He gets 2 a day, 3 if he's lucky, but he's so fast he could do like 10, if the sales reps would sell that many! I am just so proud of him and what a hard worker he is. He is wonderful! He is doing so well that so far this month, he has the most installs out of all the techs! If he still has the most at the end of this month, he will win an ipod! Go Andrew! He's really gonna think I am such a dork for writing all this about him, but he needs to know he is great, and what better way to show him than by telling everyone!



Also, something that makes my totally awesome husband even cooler, his team won their basketball tournament! (APX had a basketball tournament with all the guys) Andrew won some basketball shorts, wrist guards, and a gift certificate to TGI Fridays! I am so proud! Playing basketball is so healthy for him, it breaks up his monotonous days. I'm glad he was able to play.



As for me, I've had some fun also. I made a couple friends here (Noelle,Tiffany & Chelsea) They are seriously like the nicest girls I have ever met. We do fun things like shop, of course. We went to the mall one day, and to Hobby Lobby another day. Sometimes we walk to this gas station that is close to our apartments and get icecream. Tomorrow we are going to Applebees with the relief society to have lunch. Noelle has a baby girl (Emrie). I've posted pictures of her with Jax on this blog. She is so cute, and it is fun to have a friend with a baby! I am glad to have some girl time with them, it helps me stay somewhat sane.



As for the stinky bear Jax, he keeps getting stinkier every day! And by stinky, I think you all know that means CUTE! He is our precious baby bear! He is getting more and more fun everyday! We think pretty soon, he'll be crawling. He is finally over a nasty ear infection (I'm pretty sure), and life is looking better for this little man.

SiLLy TiMeS

This post is so incredibly random....but it's just what's been goin on lately in the lives of the Talbi!!

Jax loves sesame street. This is what he looks like when he is watching it. He is so cute and serious! He's glued to it!

Jax is looking at me like I am a total moron...







On Sunday, our apartment complex had an icecream social! We thought it was time that Jaxon tried icecream and a popsicle! These are some of our friends, Jason & Tiffany. Jason really wanted to hold a baby, so we said "here ya go!" Jax pulled the funniest faces when we gave him these! But he kept eating them, so he must have liked them.



Jax is soooo close to crawling (we think) Look what he does

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listen to Jax's cute baby babble! Of course he doesn't do it as much when I've got the camera out!



Jax loves to play with Dad.

Here's us being total geeks on the couch (it's so nice when he has a day off!)

Picture Perfect

Life is hard for a baby. Check out these faces! He could fool anyone into thinking that he has it so rough! I think he is so cute when he does this pouty face. And since he doesn't like to smile or look at me very often (especially when I have the camera out), these pictures weren't hard to get!

Now this is the famous "pucker" face. That's what we call it. It is our FAVORITE face. He does this face for about one split second before it turns into a cry. He'll do this face when something really scares him. Andrew and I are so bad, sometime we scare him on purpose just to get this face! We give him lots of loves after, and I think deep down he knows were kidding!



Jaxon is a Daddy's boy all the way. He lights up when Daddy comes home. I try not to take it personally. I would get sick of hangin' out with me all day too!

"June" Bugs

Okay, so I've heard of June Bugs. Like on Dumb and Dumber, when Harry asks Lloyd if he's hungry and he says, "No, I swallowed a big june bug." That's funny. But it's NOT funny when you walk outside and you see about 35 brownish-reddish bugs hanging out all over your doorstep. I just can't handle that. I can't even handle it long enough to go out there and take a picture of them. I don't even think I have ever seen one until now. I didn't even know what they were, until a friend who is from here told me, as she was scooping about 300 out of the pool. She's not even fazed by them! She said "it's june, and these are june bugs, hence the name." In that case, I can't wait till June is over! EEEEEEWWWWW!They are EVERYWHERE! I hate HATE hate bugs. Well this is another reason why I really miss Utah! Tennessee is not amongst my favorite places so far.

A Happy Fathers Day!

Ok, our computer still isn't back to its self, but depending on it's mood, I can be on it for short amounts of time...usually. So, I'm gonna give it a try.


Yesterday was Andrew's first Father's Day (last year only counted for me, because I was the pregnant one!) Anyway, we had a really fun day. Good thing Fathers Day is on Sunday because that is Andrew's one and only day off. So we usually try to squeeze as much as we can into every Sunday. It started with him opening the gift I got him- the Indiana Jones movie collection! Andrew loves movies, so I figured I couldn't go wrong with that. Andrew got some coupons from someone he installed for. One of the coupons was for the Memphis Riverboats! So at 2:30, we boarded the "Island Queen" river boat. It was a 90 minute cruise on the Mississippi River!! It was pretty cool, but very HOT! There was a/c on the first floor of the boat, but it had no view! So we had to choose between staying cool and looking through windows, or sweating in the hot sun with a great view. We chose the view, but Jaxon didn't approve. He hates the heat. We were able to stay on the second floor for awhile, then we had to come down where the a/c was. The boat didn't go very far or very fast, but it was still pretty cool to be on the Mississippi River! It was huge! We learned that it's over 2,000 miles long! The water wasn't very clean, and I just kept imagining an alligator would pop it's head up any moment, but no, we didn't see any!

After the Riverboats, we came back to our apartments and APX was having a bbq at the pool! So, we put our suits on, and headed to the pool! Fun!!

To make the day even better for Andrew, he found some guys that were going to play tennis. He loves Tennis and hasn't played forever. He was so excited to play! It was really good for him. We had a great day!

Andrew is such a great Dad to Jaxon. He is so good to help me get up in the night to feed him, and even though I know he hates it, he changes Jaxon's poopy diapers without complaining! He is the best! We love and appreciate you, Andrew!

And to my Dad, we love ya too! Thanks for everything you do for us! You are wonderful. I would post a picture of my Dad, but he wouldn't ever forgive me. Right, Dad? Ha Ha.

Ok, so my computer isn't letting me upload pictures right now, so here is a slideshow of our fun day!

This is about all I have to say right now, and I think it pretty much explains it all.

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Under the Weather

This is our computer! We don't know what happened but it caught a virus! It has been acting weird for awhile now. It would just kick us off whatever we were doing on the internet. Then one day, I guess it had just had enough! So now, we have to wipe everything off of it, and start clean. NOT COOL! Our computer is only like a year and a half old!! So, as sad as I am to say it, I probably won't be blogging as much anymore, until we get this all figured out! :( So...for those of you who do look at my blog....you won't be seeing as much of the stinky Jax for awhile....(sniff sniff)

Jaxon is 7 months old!

Our little man is growing up! He has changed soooo much from when he was born. It has been such an adventure with this guy, everyday he keeps us busy. Today he is exactly 7 months old.

Here is a little bit about our 7 month old:

Jax is at lEaST 20 lbs! (we aren't for sure, he hasn't been weighed for awile!)

Jax can SiT uP!

Jax has to have the bLaNketS OvEr HIs FaCe when he sleeps!

Jax loves HiS VeGetABlEs! (he prefers vegetables over fruit)

JaX LovES ThE WaTEr! (bathtime and swimming)

Jax loves stRAnGeRs! (other people can get him to smile easier than I can)

Jax's FavORitE ToY is his train!

Jax must be kEPt BuSY at all times! (And he refuses to be left out of anything!)

Jax has 2 TeEtH! (and they are sharp!)

Jax loves to be ReAd To! (he loves his puppy book, sometimes he'll cry when we are finished reading it)

Jax's EyEs aren't a color! (look at them and you will see, they aren't exactly blue, green or brown...sort of all of them, but is is ALWAYS getting comments on how pretty they are!)

Jax hAtEs tO CuDdLe!

Jax is sometimes mistaken for a GirL!!

Jax goes to SLeeP At 8, and wakes Up AT 7! (usually only getting up once in the night!)

JaX can HoLD his own bOtTle! (yessssss)

AlL thEsE tHingS cONsidErEd, mOM aNd DaD sTilL loVe ThEiR sTinKy BaBy jAx !!

(but how couldn't ya?)

Bath time!!

I had a REALLY hard time getting Jaxon to look at me, let alone smile at me! Stinky kid! He's usually not this serious in the bathtub! Usually, bathtime is really quick because I have to hold him the whole time, but now he can sit up all by himself!! It was exciting for him and nice for me!

A Day in Memphis

Mississippi River Walk

Mississippi River!


MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK
I had gone online to find "things to do in Memphis" and this was on the top of the list. It is a park right by the Mississippi River. The pictures online were a little deceiving, it made it look like it had a pool you could swim in, but it didn't! But that's okay. It was still kind of cool anyway. There was the Mississippi River walk that took you from the start to the end of the Mississippi River, showing you all the states it went through! Very interesting! It starts in Minnesota and ends in Louisiana. It's huge! It was cool because it was an actual replica of the river, with all it's twists and turns, and islands here and there. It really had water flowing through it and everything! There were also other things to do at this park, but we had Jaxon with us so we were very limited. You could rent canoes and take them out on the Mississippi, or they had this little pool place where you could rent peddle boats, you could also go on this ferry thing! They all looked fun, but no babies allowed! There was also a Museum, and a cool monorail to ride, but both were too expensive. We just walked around the park, and got some great views of the Mississippi River.


Downtown Memphis

Look at this happy baby!

CORKY'S BBQ
After Mud Island River Park, we went to Corky's BBQ. This was on the top of the list for "places to eat in Memphis". It is a southern BBQ resturaunt- YUM! We got BBQ pulled pork, baked beans, "hush puppies", and rolls! It was pretty good. We gave Jax a taste of the sauce, but he wasn't so sure about it!

FIREFLIES
On the way home, we stopped at the park and played. Then when we came home, we put Jax down for the night, and went to the park right next to us to look for fireflies! I had never seen one in my life, so I was SOOO excited! We saw a few come out, but not a bunch! It was so weird to see little random flashes of light here and there. Andrew caught a few, they're not very fast. I really tried to get some pictures of them because it was SOOO cool, but nope, didn't work!!

Here is a slideshow of our fun day!!

?Mystery Shorts?

So yesterday, Andrew was with his boss who said, "I have some shorts for you." He handed him some shorts, and since he was on the phone at the time, there was no explanation of why he was giving him some shorts. Andrew wanted to ask, but he was on the phone. So.. later, his boss calls him about something and Andrew asks about the shorts. His boss said they were sent to the office and had his name on them. ?????? Who could have done it? They are really nice $50 volcom shorts and they are his size! We have no idea who would have sent them. Andrew's birthday isn't even till next month! It is sooooo crazy! So, if the sender is reading this right now...let yourself be known so we can thank you!