Mullet Madness - Business in the front, party in the back!!!

Once I was driving through St. Louis and stopped for gas. As the man next to me filled up his old beater Volkswagen, I noticed that he had possibly the sweetest mullet ever. Just then a breeze came and blew the hair off his back revealing a shirt with no sleeves that said "Do not cross Slayer". Sadly, Jack doesn't have a sleeveless Slayer shirt, but he is sporting the mullet of the year. What to do?

1. Shave it off
2. Cut only part and make it into a rat tail
3. Hope the rest falls out
4. Leave it in all its glory

Only time will tell :)


From the front.......

From the side......

And here it is......

Here is the reason Jack will be in therapy most of his adult life..

Jack did get my huge eyes :) I'm glad I show up a little bit in him :)

I had a Martha Stewart day. This is my snickerdoodle pie. I pretty much ate the whole thing myself. So much for losing that baby weight, eh?

YES!!

Twilight is now coming out 3 weeks earlier thanks to the Harry Potter move!! Who cares about Harry Stinkin' Potter anyway??? :) WOOHOO!!

Seriously?

I just heard the bad news about Harry Potter. For those of you who don't know, the next movie was scheduled to come out in November. Apparently Warner Bros. thought they could make more money if they released it in July instead, so now, the wait will be even longer. That is just cruel to say it's coming out in November and then move it. I think it's complete crap and I am highly disappointed.

However, the Twilight movie will still be coming out in DECEMBER!!! If they moved that I would probably be more devastated and stay in bed for a week....my kid would be neglected and I would gain 15 pounds. I need something to look forward to now that the books are over. Speaking of which.....LOVED Breaking Dawn. So happy! :)

Today it has been raining, raining, raining. It's only 49 degrees and I am loving it. Poor Jack doesn't have any warm clothes so this is what he wore today. I think it's pretty cute, quite frankly :)




I better get to work on those blasted Christmas stockings. Fall is fast approaching! It is almost time to break out the Christmas music! Woohoo!!!

The Durrant 411

Both of my boys are asleep, so I am having some alone time. The celebrity gossip wasn't that exciting today, so I suppose I should be productive and update our blog :)


Jay, Jack and I just got back from a long road trip. We went to Provo first to see Jay's sister and my sister. Then we went to Salt Lake for a wedding and then we went up to Rexburg to see Jay's brother. We had a great time, and lucky for us, Jack did GREAT in the car. He was definitely sick of his car seat by the time we got back though.



Here is the new Rexburg temple. It is huge and beautiful!!



Here is Jay, the stud, rock climbing.

Here is Jack still in good spirits after being in the car for 12 hours.


Jack rolled over all by himself this morning. As a mother, I should be proud and excited, but all I could think was "Crap" :)

Harley the Great

I got Harley for my 15th birthday and he turned out to be the best dog ever. He was the happiest dog and could make any day better. He was easy to train and loved everyone he met. He even loved the dog catcher and visited dog jail quite frequently :) Sadly, on Thursday, we found out he had lung cancer. I told him to lay off the cigarettes, but apparently he didn't listen :) So, after 11 and a half happy years we had to put him to sleep. How's this for a depressing post? Anyway, he had a happy little life. He did a great job being our dog.


This was his last walk this morning before we had to take him in. He loves his morning walks and this morning was no different!

Here he is with grandma.....although, she always said, "I am not that dogs grandmother! You didn't give birth to him!" Thank goodness :)

Harley loves kisses!

He was even running this morning! Must have known he'd be in dog heaven shortly :

Harley and his brother from another mother, Jack.

This is my favorite :)

It's naked hot in Colorado!

It's just too stinkin' hot for clothes! Fortunately for those around us we live at my parents so we have to stay clothed. It has already been such a lovely summer and I must say I feel bad for my Utah friends. It's a lot hotter there! We have been having lots of fun in the sun! Jay finally learned to wakeboard on Saturday! Unfortunately I was.....of course....busy feeding Jack and wasn't on the boat to get pictures. Maybe next time.

Jack is a great alarm clock. He wakes me up every day at 6:30 when it is still cool enough outside for our morning walk. I love living in the country again! Too bad Jack can't stay awake long enough to enjoy the scenery :)



Here is Jack in the jog stroller....however we haven't made it to jogging yet...just fast walking :)

This is what it looks like on our walk. I love the trees!

Here is the view from our back yard. Jay is having a hard time living so far away from the city. I am loving it!

I am brainwashing Jack from an early age to be an Oklahoma fan. College football starts in one month! WAHOO!!!! (Thanks to Jami and Scott for the sweet onesie :)

Just our cute kid.

Back to the Promised Land

We made it! We have finally moved back to Colorado after two and a half years! We are so excited to be close to family (literally.... as we live in my parents basement) and to get settled in! The trip over was lovely. Jack only had one tiny meltdown and a blowout/spit-up where we both had to change outfits. Jay drove the trailer over with all of our stuff. Now that he is an experienced trailer-puller, he can buy me a horse :) Ha! Jay has been super busy with a landscaping job. I haven't seen much of him since we got here. He will be done with that this week and then he will start to build up his paint business. Once we get that in order we can look for a place of our own! I can't wait!

Jack is doing great and growing like crazy! He adjusted to the move quite well! He is loving living with his grandma. So, he should be a spoiled brat in no time :) I had my first paranoid mother moment and took Jack to the Dr. for funny colored poop (you gotta love blogs which include poop stories....it doesn't get better than this). Well, apparently he was fine, maybe just a little virus....but they weighed him while we were there and he was 10 and a half pounds! I had to put him into 3-6 month onesies last week. The kid is huge....and really cute.

Anyway, that's about it for us. We have some fun summer plans ahead of us so our posts should get a little more exciting :)



This is Jack's new Pterodactyl shirt. It actually won't fit for a while though. We thought it was fitting since he kind of looks like a Pterodactyl. Plus on the shirt it says "I have a long pointy head"....which is also fitting for Jack :)

This is proof that I'm not qualified to be a mother. While I was trying to take this picture, he rolled off the pillow I had him propped up on. He bumped his head on the floor and was thoroughly traumatized. What a baby :)

Here is Jack working on his muscles by doing push-ups.

This is Jack's blessing day....well actually we forgot to take a picture that day, so we took this after church yesterday. We figured it counts since he is wearing the same outfit. Plus, I get a little skinnier each week, so current pictures are always best.

This is our cute kid's smile. I have yet to get a really good picture of him smiling, so this will have to do for now. Just imagine how cute it really is! :)