Fun in Utah

We spent Memorial Day weekend in Utah visiting Lori and Earl and the cousins! Dominic was very helpful in preparing for the trip. We were getting ready to leave and he decided that "Sissy hold snacks" so he piled up all the snacks around her bouncer seat. I love how the huge Gatorade made it dangling by her head!
On Saturday, we went to the farm at Thanksgiving Point. Dominic liked the animals, but he was most excited to ride the ponies. He got to ride them twice. It was pretty cool. There were all sorts of animals - cows, pigs, horses, peacocks, goats, everything imaginable on the farm. The little baby calves kept licking Sophie, it was so cute. Dominic wasn't into petting the animals that much.

Frehner Family Fun!

Brad finished his first year of grad school earlier this week by taking his last final exam! Yippee! So for three whole weeks we have him home at night and not in the back room glued to the computer or text books! We are getting in all the fun and excitement we can before he returns to being the school slave that he is.
On Friday we went to the water park at Mission Hills. It was so nice to spend some time together as a family. Dominic loved the water, of course.

Up to my eyeballs in laundry

Okay, so I have this mystery I have yet to solve in my humble 4.5 years of marriage. How does my house get so messy? I mean, I'm a clean person. I do housework like a madwoman at various hours of the day (I do my best cleaning at about 10:00 p.m.)
Well, I've discovered why I'm up to my eyeballs in laundry lately. There are three perpetrators. 1. Brad - He has clothes for work, play, working out and church (I've attempted to combine the work and church wardrobes without much luck). The common denominator, no matter what, they end up on the floor.
2. Jade - The poor girl spits up so much that no outfit lasts more than a couple of hours, even with a bib, burp rag, etc. We use receiving blankets for burp rags! I gues she is just prepping me for when she is in junior high and needs a new outfit everyday:)
3. And finally, you guessed it, Dominic. He really likes to dress himself. He likes to wear sweaters, mismatched pjs, anything Elmo, anything with a moving, loud thing on it (helicopter - "choppa, chop" airplane, jeep (which he thinks is "Pappa's Rhino")
Last night, he thought he would sample something from his Dad's designer collection!
P.S. I had to throw in Dominic's amazing ability to stcik three pacifiers in his mouth and Jade…because she's cute!

Rolly Poley

Jade rolled over on Wednesday! She loves to lay on the ground and roll over then prop herself up.

OCDominic

Oh boy, the OCD tendencies keep rearing their crazy little heads! Lately, Dominic wants to get dressed as soon as he gets up. This has put a little kink in our bath taking schedule because he doesn't want to take a bath, he just wants to get dressed. So, I've been letting him. With two kids, I'm all about letting D be a little independent. I think it is good for his character. I just have to laugh when he insists on were sweaters when it is like 90º outside. Last week, he thought it would be a good idea to wear his sweater in the "cold wadder." He soon learned that no matter how thick the sweater, it wasn't going to help the "wadder" become warmer.
Today was my absolute favorite. After an afternoon of playing with his cousins, Dominic was a little worn out. He fell asleep on the floor with his "snowman" and Sissy's blingn pacifier. Ah, the blackmail pictures:)

In the spirit of tagging…

So I ran across a fun little tag the other day and about fell over laughing. It reminded me of playing "M.A.S.H" and that stupid little cube fortune game. (Which by the way I am going to live in an appartment with 10 kids and drive a BMW). Ha! Play along if you would like! (It's amazing what you'll do at 1:02 a.m.)

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Jack Pontiac

2. YOUR GANGSTA STAR (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Cookie Dough Flip Flops

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Red Flamingo

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): Sue Idaho Falls

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, first two letters of your first name): FreMa

6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Green Dr. Pepper

7. NASCAR NAME (the names of your grandfathers): Gary Douglas

8. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Apel Austin

9. SPY NAME (your favorite season/holiday, favorite flower): Fall Tulip

10. CARTOON NAME (favorite fruit, article of clothing you are wearing right now): Pineapple Nightgown

11. HIPPIE NAME (what you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Pizza Willow

Here's my tag…

What is the best thing you cooked last week?
Chef's salad with everything on it.

If time, money and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who?
I would go on a cruise to Greece with Brad.

When was the last time you cried?
Um, honestly I don't remember.

List five things you were doing 10 years ago. (1998)
1. I was ending my sophomore year and I had just started working at the pool as a lifeguard.
2. I had just made varsity cheer.
3. I went to prom.
4. I just started driving (I failed my driver's test the first time!)
5. I was way too boy crazy:)

List five things you were doing 5 years ago. (2003)
1. Getting ready to start my last semster of college taking 17 credits during the summer…yeah, I was a freak!
2. Waiting for Brad to get home from Mexico in four months.
3. Working at the pool and for Herff Jones Yearbooks and going to school…did I mention I was a freak?
4. Honestly, those three things occupied my entire life at the time.
5. See number 4

List five things you were doing 1 year ago. (2007)
1. Going to Brad's graduation (and Dominic pooping all over me in the middle of it.)
2. Going to Joey and Brittney's wedding!
3. Soon finding out I would be pregnant with Jade!
4. Getting ready to stay home full time with the kids!
5. Helping Brad with job applications every night until he was offered the job at Station Casinos

List 7 of your favorite hobbies.
(Who has 7 hobbies? I'm lucky to have like 2!
1. Photography
2. Computer tinkering
3. Scrapbooking
4. Shopping
5. Playing with my kids
6. Nursing (lol) I spend an awful lot of time doing it!
7. Watching Sprout

Name 5 of your favorite foods.
I love all food.

1. Gyros
2. Spicy chicken flautas from Chevy's
3. Modo Mia from Capri
4. Philly cheese steaks
5. crab legs (preferably ones that are already cut open)

Name 5 places you have been
1. Cancun, Mexico
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Georgia
5. Texas

List 5 of your favorite memories.
1. Car rides with the fam to Idaho when I was a kid. I don't know why, but I get all teary eyed when I think of being crammed into the Lincoln, sharing seat belts and going through the McDonald's drive-thru ordering 20 regular hamburgers.
2. Dating Brad. He was the best boyfriend I ever had. He always took me out to eat and he would even come over and clean my room for me while I was at school or work. Joey had cross country practice one summer at like 5:00 a.m. Brad would come over and pick Joey up just so I wouldn't have to get out of bed…those were the good 'ol days:)
3. All of the fun little school trips I went on. It was always fun to hang out with friends in a new place, even ghetto places like Reno and Laughlin.
4. Both of my kids as tiny little babies. I love newborns. Jade and Dominic are/were both really good babies.
5. After church before kids. Brad and I would come home and take like three hour naps. It was wonderful.