The Talbi: June 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010

the reason.

This going private on & off stuff is obnoxious, I know.
I am annoying myself, so I can't even imagine how you are handling it.

ok, so here is the story of why I am for the moment, private:

I need a job. One that gives me regular income. I need a job that will fit my schedule of being a Mom all day 5 days a week. We can't do daycare. Finding a job like that, or any job for that matter, isn't really very easy. I looked in the newspaper & nothin! So..I checked craigslist. I found this PERFECT job. It was a nanny job & it paid crazy fantastically. $500 a week! I felt like maybe now , life could be great and easy! I would be watching a 3 year old, 5 days a week, 3 hours a day. that's it. Best part: Jaxon could be with me!

This guy I was e-mailing about it, never quite seemed right. He was a tad off. His spelling and use of words caught my attention right away. It wasn't that bad, but I notice things like that. He would ask me questions & I would answer him, then in the next e-mail he'd ask me the same questions. I gave him a resume & lots of info about me. (LUCKILY not my address, although he did ask for it.) Well, last e-mail he said he was impressed and said I got the job. No interview because he was "too busy" working in Hawaii. His son is supposedly living here with another nanny. Something else that alarmed me: He trusted me with his son without even meeting me. In his last e-mail he said he needed my address to send me a check, and that he was gonna send extra in it to pay for his son's other expenses and for me to give some of it to his other nanny. uhhh...now that's weird. too weird. Why can't he pay his "other nanny" separately? and why would i need to pay for his son's "other expenses" ?

I never replied to his last e-mail.

So...yeah. I might be gullible and stupid and times, but I'm not that stupid. This dude is trying to scam me somehow. I just got all sorts of scared because I gave him my info. He knows my name, phone number, that i live in Washington , UT, my age, my son's name. I really really don't like that. He could search for me easy. So, then I googled my name. This blog came up! I have already taken this blog off of "google feed", meaning it SHOULD NOT be showing up on google.

I also have been watching scary movies and reading scary books so I'm a teensy bit more paranoid than usual. I just don't wanna put my child in danger. There are freaky people out there & and freaky things happening.

I'm not gonna lie. Private blogs drive me crazy. They really do. So, I don't know how long I'll be private. I'm just pretty scared about all this crap right now.

So, if you don't have a google account (MOM & DAD) , GET ONE! it's not that hard. its really not. it's free and you just type in your email & password.

so there's my story! moral of it: stay away from craigslist! yucky!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

fathers day.

happy fathers day to my dad!

and my father-in-law!

and my husband!

i am very thankful for you all.

this is what jax & I made for andrew this year.

one day , out of nowhere jax said,

"i'm daddy jaskin, i'm a nice guy"

it was so funny and cute. i didn't wanna ever forget it!

i love this picture because it was taken right when jaxon came home from a 4 day trip with grandma.

he got out of the car, ran to his dad & hugged him like this. he had this huge grin. it was SO sweet.

btw: clicky is one of andy's nicknames (that i gave him. don't ask where it came from, i don't really know)

i am so grateful that my son has such a great dad in his life.

he's a little bit strict, but jax respects him and learns A LOT from him.

& not to mention LOVES HIM!

jax will be a great father (in many years to come) because he'll have learned so much from his dad.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

love ya, dad!

June...so far.

has been like this:

Jax and I get to spend massive amounts of time together.

Andrew takes our only car to work each day for 9 hours everyday, and we are stuck at home, together.

This kid drives me absolutely nuts, i'm not gonna lie. Sometimes I don't think I'll be able to make it through the day. Seriously, this age will be the end of me. Terrible, terrible, terrible two's.

Good thing he's cute though, huh?

jax has a new friend, gunner.

they are like a week apart in age.

they LOVE to play.

we babysat andrew's sister's kids one night. i love this picture of andrew and baby mckenna.

the lake!

this is the first time we went....

jax painting...

the lake!

the second time we went with our friends cole & kim.

jax LOVES sandcastles. he's been watching a curious george movie & on it they build sandcastles. he was SO happy to build a sandcastle with daddy.

baby kai.

these boys were pretty ornery there at the end. naptime!

yeah...don't even ask what's happening here.

andy was pretty into it.

wow, he's SO happy to be next to me..NOT!

our summer has been pretty happenin'!

thus the lack of blogging and the huge catch up i just did.

what are you doing this summer??

Dixie Rock.

oh, DIXIE ROCK!

i love dixie rock. so much.

andrew & i have had so many memories here.

when we were dating, we 'd get shakes at iceberg and then come up at dixie rock and look over the city and just talk or play dorky little games.

Now , I like to come up here when I want to get away and be alone and think.

i love this place!!

jax liked it too.

i love this dorky pose that andrew is doing.

Pool time

Pool time is here!!

Now jax & i can work on our tans...as for andrew, well sadly..that won't be happening for him.

poor guy! i'm glad jax got my skin!

in May....

way back in May...(wow, that sad)

some cool things happened.. no, i did not conceive a child. (was that inappropriate? sorry.)

BUT

I was asked to be part of a boutique! (my very first one!)

I got my own little chunk of space to fill with whatever I wanted. It was a little stressful, because I kind of like things perfect (some things). And originally I wanted to set up a little mini studio to do little mini shoots of kids..but that just couldn't happen this time, and I decided I was okay with that.

So thanks to My mom and dad (who helped me a ton with all of this shtuff) and to Andrew who watched Jax for a whole weekend (i didn't feel one bit bad for him, though. he is HIS DAD after all.) Thanks to Sierra at Sierra Nicole Designs (she was the one who asked me to be part of this!) & Thanks to a guy named Chad at Pressed Petals in Richfield who helped me finish up my frames by putting a back on them.