Loving My Three Boys

Vacation!!

2010-06-22T11:15:00.000-07:00

We took our family vacation (Honeymoon) this past weekend. It was so much fun. I loved seeing my boys have the time of their lives. I have to say that the first indoor waterpark we visited on Friday was the most fun that Davis had. He was feeling a little under the weather with a cold and then not getting as much sleep as normal. He is going through a weird phase right now in which he likes to test his limits on pretty much anything and everything. He is very vocal when he does not want something or even when he does want something. I'm hoping this phase passes soon!!
Our camera battery charger is somehow missing right before we leave for the Dells so I had to take pics on Cayden's 10 year old camera. So pictures will be posted someday...soon ;)
Overall the trip went really well and we had lots of movie time!! Thank God for the invention of portable DVD players!!

Going to the Chapel and we GOT MARRIED!!

2010-06-15T08:29:00.000-07:00

So....Update....weird its only been like what?...3 months?

Yeah...I suck.

But on to why I'm here. The wedding went off without a hitch. It was beautiful and everything I dreamed it would be. So now I am Abby Jo Underberg. I am still getting used to that...its hard changing your name and trying to remember to sign it differently.

Here is one pic of our wedding day.

And here is one from our amazing honemoon in Cozumel

And one of the three most important little guys to me on the face of this planet.

We are getting ready to go on our "Family Honeymoon" as I have coined it :) hehe

Going to the Dells on Friday and staying three nights at the Blackhawk Motel. It has the highest reviews on Tripadvisor. So I am hoping it will be a good fit for us. The boys are super excited to go to Noah's Ark water park. They have been waiting over a year to come here after they saw the brochure in a hotel lobby when my Dad and Ellen got married.

We are hoping the car ride up there goes well and no major freak outs by anyone.

Wedding

2010-03-12T10:06:00.000-08:00

Wedding wedding wedding plans....seems like that is all that is on my mind these day. I feel like I have so much to do. I need to get organized and write everything down. But anyone who knows me also knows that is not my style at all to be organized in that way. :) I like to fly by the seat of my pants and do things not on any sort of schedule. But every once in a while I get myself in a panic worrying about what I have not done yet. Ahhh oh well. I will get it all done.
So today we got our passports. I am soooo excited for our honeymoon. Cozumel baby!!!
It is going to be so great to have some of our closest friends and family with us during this trip. I always said that is how I wanted it to be, I don't want to make these awesome memories with strangers I don't even know. The first couple of days it will be just Tom and I doing our own thing but after that we will just play it by ear and if we want to be with everyone else we will and if we don't, well then, we won't.
Boys are all doing great. Davis is 18 months and just had his checkup. Right on track for everything. Carson got 1st place at Grade school state which is a huge deal. Also he will be going to Tennessee in April wrestling for Team Iowa in a National tournament. Pretty big deal!!
Cayden is doing great as always. He and I have been going through a program called Strengthening families. I have been teaching this class for the last 8 years. It is for 6th graders and their families. I never thought the day would come when I would be doing this with him!!
It has been great to have the one on one time.
I have been working out alot lately so thats pretty much for me.
Tom won league championship last night for Darts so he is so excited about that!!
So thats it for now. Just a quicky update.
Smiles and love,
Abby

It starts today

2009-12-02T04:45:00.000-08:00

Sexy by Spring...starts today. We did phone interviews yesterday and they will be aired all morning on the radion station. Then we all go to meet with the trainer for our initial consultation. I am pretty nervous. I don't think we are working out today...but not for sure on that.
I really hope that I can loose 20 pounds in the next two months.
But I really really hope that I am not setting myself up for failure.
I am still in my "ideal" weight range for my height. But at the top of the range. And I want to be at the bottom. I am going to try my hardest!!
On another note...I was walking into Butler school last night to get Carson. I was holding Davis and thinking....one day before I know it...I am going to be walking him in here for his first day of school. I just hugged him told him I loved him and tried not to cry. I love him being a baby....I love having a little guy around and as much fun as it is to see him grow...I cannot help but want to keep him little forever. Same goes for Cayden and Carson. I can't believe that time slipped away from me like that. I want to cherish every moment that I have with these little guys.

Procrastinate...yes that is my first name.

2009-12-01T11:36:00.000-08:00

I have no idea why I am so terrible about updating this. I think I will make it my personal goal to try and blog at least once a day. Haha!! Let see if that happens.

I have had a lot go on since last I wrote. But I will just update on whats going on currently.
I was picked by a local radio station to be a part of a "Sexy by Spring" program.

I start tomorrow. And I am sooo nervous!! Tomorrow is the initial consultation. Today I did my phone interview that will be aired tomorrow morning. I am not even sure what all it will consist of but it is a gym membership for three months (which I already have) but also a personal trainer to assess/measure and set goals for us.

I may or may not be able to walk after my first session. We shall see!!

Thanksgiving was good, celebrated with Tom's family last Sunday, my dad on Thanksgiving day and with my mom this Sunday. Busy!! Andrea and Jarret stayed with us a couple days, we really did not do much but just hang out and watch a couple movies.

Davis is getting so big, I can't even believe it. I will attach a couple pics here.

Carson went to nationals for wrestling down in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He wrestled really good but lost three and won one. The boys were really tough. It was a great learning experience for him.

Cayden is doing great as well. We are looking for something to get invovled in right now as he is not in any sports. But I did just get him signed up for a test in February for gifted students it is administered through the ACT testing facility and will help determine his exact level of giftedness and help his teachers in determing how to best work with him and challenge him. It will also qualify him for special summer programing offered through the University of Iowa.
That boy just amazes me!!

That's all for now!!

Swingset

2009-09-02T09:44:00.001-07:00

I think I finally picked one out....Geez!! I have only been to Menards like 4 times to ask questions and look at the stuff along with about 3 hours of staring at the brochures combined with about 5 hours of research online. My goodness!!
So want to know which one I decided on??
This one...
http://www.playstarinc.com/ps/champion-sfv.asp
I wanted one that would be good for all three boys. So I needed some things for the bigger boys but also wanted it to be safe and had things for Davis as well. I am going this afternoon to order it.
Good thing I don't have to put the thing together!! Thats a boy job!!

Wedding inspiration board and a great song

2009-09-01T12:36:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was great. Tom and I took the boys to the races on Friday night at the mineral city speedway. A friend of mine from volleyball runs the track so we decided to head on out and see what it was like. The boys loved it...including Davis. I thought it may be too loud for him but he did great. We left about an hour early because D was getting tired. But Cayden and Carson had a blast. They sat by themselves closer to the track and during breaks between races they went out on the hill and played football with about 50 other boys. So needless to say...we will be doing this again sometime soon. Saturday night we had a fire out in the back yard and the boys played football. Until our neighbor came over and told us that he heard on the scanner that some guys were sneaking around the neighborhood looking for houses to break into. So that freaked us out and we went inside and locked the doors and windows all up.

Oh I have been working on some wedding planning and made an inspiration board over at http://www.stylemepretty.com/ if you want to check it out here it is.

I also am really digging this song right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0O9uNvoMec

Tonight we are going to skip volleyball and instead go watch Andrea's volleyball team she coaches play against the Dodgers. Tom and Jarret are playing golf as I type this so I am excited to get off work and meet up with the rest of the family tonight!

I don't even know what to say to her :(

2009-08-19T10:17:00.000-07:00

One of my best friends came to me today (we also work together) and shared with me that she is having some pretty serious marital problems. I was in their wedding...and it was only three months ago. She said that she just feels blank and really has no feeling or emotion towards her husband anymore. She wants to throw in the towel and just walk away. The thing keeping her there at this point is his son from a previous marriage whom she has grown incredibly close to and she takes on alot of his care during the times he is with them which is every other week. Her husband works alot. I suggested a ton of things to her and we talked for about an hour but I just feel so terrible for her and really don't know what to say. I guess in some way I feel like I have some sort of magic words that can make everything better for them and they can go on loving each other. But in reality I know that there is really nothing that is going to make things better other than the two of them wanting to put forth the effort to work on their marriage. I am just scared that she is not willing to do that at this point. She seems to have completely disconnected from him and its almost kind of scary the lack of emotion she has. I kind of think she is depressed but she has been to the dr before for this and has been on anxiety meds and I believe she still has them but not 100% sure she is taking them. Its a really difficult topic to discuss because in part I feel that she is just giving up way way too easy and needs to put forth some effort and I in a round about way said something to this affect, I just don't know if she really heard that or is willing to even try. I told her that the only thing she can control at this time is how she responds and how she reacts to his efforts to make things better. Ahhhh....I just wish I could make it all better!!

Sugar and spice and all thats nice

2009-08-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

I just spent about 2 hours organizing what I thought was only going to be my spice cabinet. Well one thing led to another and I ended up switching all the spices over to another cabinet. Then had to move the sippy's and bottles over to another cabinet and so on and so on. I feel good that I got about half of the kitchen cabinets re-organized though!! The other half is not too bad. I really need to hit up the dollar store and see what kind of plastic tubs they have so I can organize even more!! Next project needs to be my hallway closet which also has all our medicines/bandaids/toothpaste and everything else on the planet that has no other home right now.
I think I am nixing the idea of making that potato torte tonight and will instead head over to a Mark Kay party and get a pedicure!!

I call Re-Do

2009-08-17T07:29:00.000-07:00

So I started a blog mainly for myself several months ago...then did not post to it for some time. And now...I feel guilty for not keeping it up...so instead of dealing with that guilt head on (because it is such a biiiiiig deal) I just said forget it. I want a start fresh. No guilt in having a big gap in time. Its like when you were little and you messed up you could just call re-do and everyone would totally forget that you had messed up previously. So I am officially calling...."RE-DO"
Ahhh...I feel better already. Its amazing what fresh starts can do for a person.
This last weekend we had our annual golf tournament for work. I took the boys out to my mom at the campgounds and they had a really good time out there. Chris came and picked up Cayden and Carson so they could watch him row in the dragonboat races. They really liked that.
Then after the actual golf part of the tourney was over I picked them up and took them home for our high school babysitter "Sam" to watch for a few hours so we could hang out with some of my co-workers. Turns out Tom had a few more beers at the tourney than he probably should have so when I arrived back at the bar he was in prime shape. sigh
So we ended up only staying a couple hours and we were home around 8:00. Sam is so wonderful with the boys, they had so much fun playing guitar hero with her!! Davis was so exhausted from being at the campgrounds all day that he crashed out around 6:30!!
Yesterday I took the boys up to my dad's annual picnic for his company and ate there before heading out to buy the rest of their school supplies.
Cayden got to pick out his new school shoes (Carson already has his) and he picked out ones that are called Zoo York...I had no idea what the brand was but everyone else seems to...I guess that just means I am getting....OLD...blah
Carson also had $80 in Target gift cards to spend...Baby D was kinda grumpy so he did not have the 2 hours he would have liked to have to look at EVERYTHING possible in the store 7 times. He ended up deciding on three different types of nerf guns...this was with a little help(persuasion) by Cayden. They had so much fun with them and Tom joined in with them too...just like I somehow knew he would!!
Tonight is going to be filled with me trying out a new recipe...Melissa D'Arabian the winner from The Next Food Network Star he is the link. I hope it turns out and good as it sounds!!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/melissa-darabian/potato-bacon-torte-recipe/index.htmland
and this for a side dish...although I am pretty sure Tom will not eat them, Davis and I will!!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/melissa-darabian/glazed-carrots-recipe/index.html
I will post pictures of it if I remember to take one!!