Days with the Girls

I've been spending a lot of my time (most days) with two adorable little girls: Gabs and Maddie. They are adorable. It is such a fun time. The minute I walk int he door Gabs usually asks "come play in my room, An?" and with that face how do you say no. Or sometimes we will "Go to the library" which ends up being the spare bedroom. The conversation usually goes like this:

Me: What are we gonna get at the library?
Gabby: Ice cream. Walks to the bed and pretends to pick up some ice cream from the library and hands it to me.
Me: What kind of ice cream?
Gabs: Snow White.

I'm not sure what kind of library you can rent ice cream from, but Gabby totally has it right!! And perhaps snow white is vanilla? She's got me..

We also go to the park sometimes where Gabby repeatedly would like "underdoggies!" Or sometimes we play with her baby doll, which she talks to in a high-pitch voice, "Hi, baby!!" Hmm.. wonder where she got that from.

It has been so fun to hang out with these fun girlies! Here are some pictures of the girls!

Madeline Mae Trejo on the day she was born. 5 lbs 1 oz. So tiny!!
This picture makes Maddie look like a doll. Gabby was being very soft with her. She is a great big sister!
Gabby with Mad's binky. (I tried to get her to smile but she would only do it for like 1 second. oh well).
Mads does a lot of this lately... She is so adorable!!

Gym Rut

So I realized today that I listen to the exact same songs over and over and over again while I'm at the gym. It's either Marie Digby, Missy Higgins, and if I feel like I need a big push Skillet. (that one is for Rachael, whom I miss very very much!) Today I ventured out and found my one true love, N' Sync and they did the job very well. But I need other songs that will boost my gym moral so that I can keep going! Let me know what gets you in the running mood!

Am I Deaf?

There are so many songs that I think I know the lyrics to. Then out of no where one day I'll be singing along with a friend and I hear them sing completely different words than me! Turns out I've been singing some songs completely wrong my entire life. For example:

Mayberry by Rascall Flatts:
What I sing: "I've been slavin'. Sittin' on the porch drinkin' ice cold cherry coke." Or when I started to think that doesn't make much sense: "Hey Miss Mayberry, sittin' on the porch drinkin' ice cold cherry coke." Turns out I was wrong in both cases.
What they really sing is: "I miss Mayberry. Sittin' on the porch drinkin' ice cold cherry coke." Well, at least I got the last part right.

Another one I have been singing wrong all this time is Arethra Franklin's Respect:

What I sing: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. sing-pa-she-be-tee-sea. (jiberish)" In other words, I had no idea what they were saying there.
What they really sing: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Take care, TCB." Not really sure what that means, but hey... whatever floats Aretha's boat.

What are some songs that you sing wrong... Maybe you can help me stop singing songs wrong! :)

Starburst

Just imagine this:

Hot day
Hot car
Starburst left in your hot car
DELICIOUS!!

If you have ever roasted Starburst and enjoyed it, go stick a pack of Starburst in your car and you will be quite satisfied! There is nothing like that semi-hard outside like the Starburst has been cooked with a great, chewy, soft inside. It's fantastic. You MUST try it!

5 Months

I've heard when you first get married you measure your time being married by weeks. Eventually this gets old and you start measuring by months. At about 2 years I hear you start just saying how many years you have been married. I look forward to getting to that point but right now, I'm still counting by months, so here is to Mine and Ryan's 5 Month Anniversary! Yay for 5 months!

Is that Ken Griffey, Jr. out there?

Background: My whole life (well, maybe like the last year of it) I've heard stories about Andrea playing softball in high school and how she was really good. Her grandparents always say it, but there's one story I hear over and over from Jeff: all about the time Andrea gunned a girl down at home plate from left field. I think it might have been against an undefeated team, or in the state championship, or against the Orioles or something. Well, I think that would've been a wonderful piece of Andrea folklore to witness, since it is Whitaker Legend.

Aside: Now, let me say that we have been having weird weather in Utah. It's seriously rained for almost 3 weeks straight, everyday. And we've had lightning; tons of lightning. It feel a lot more like back home in Illinois than Utah. Basically my point is that strange things are afoot, and tonight the planets aligned and took me back in time so I could see Andrea in her heyday just for a moment.

Story: So as we've all heard a million times (maybe she's only told me a million times) she was a BYU Intramural Softball Champion last year (upper division mind you). And this year she didn't get on a team, until a friend called saying they needed extra players. Tonight was her first game, though it was the team's third of the season. She went and played left field, and in the second inning it was like a Field of Dreams/The Natural moment. She was playing deep and this boy hit a pretty good one to left, but short of Andrea. She runs up on the ball and gloves it on a short hop (which was impressive). The runner on second, who apparently didn't think she would catch it anyway, had already taken off and was rounding third when she got to it. He keeps chugging home thinking there is no way Andrea has the kind of arm to get him out. Big Mistake! Because my Honey has a cannon! She scooped it up and threw a strike to the catcher, gunning the guy down at home plate!!! The throw couldn't have been any more on the money! And I swear I'm not exaggerating, but the catcher didn't even have to move to apply the tag. He was right off the baseline and the ball just dropped into his glove perfectly in time for the runner just to run right into his glove. It was subliminal, glorious, magnanimous.

Happy early birthday, honey, you are the best!

Ps. Also, they won.