Traveling all over the place

First I have to say, I LOVE my new job at Uppercase Living. The people here in the office , and our demonstrators in the field are too cool for words. I have been out visting our Demonstrators in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. When you are driving along the highway this is what you can see:

IOWA

Corn- and lot's of it!!

Middle of nowhere, IA

Here are other pics from the trips. They are all what I like to call "drive by pics" which means I didn't really stop to look much. I jumped out of the car snapped a pic and then jumped right back in.

ILLINOIS

The grave of THE John Deere. Still not sure why I went there:)

Moline, IL

Rolling through Nauvoo, IL

Carthage Jail

Springfield, IL

Abe Lincoln's home- An amazing man!

Chicago, IL

White Sox Stadium

The famous Chicago Theater

Millineum Park- where Obama gave is victory speech

The "Bean" sculpture in Millineum Park

INDIANA

Gary, IN-Michael Jackson's childhood home. Gary----is SCARY. I jumped out of the car, took a pic, and then jumped back in, peeled out of there and did not look back :) Seriously though, if you go there, take a gun!!! yikes

MISSOURI

St. Louis

View of "The Arch" from my hotel room

Busch Stadium where the Cardinals play

There was a Tums factory right across the street from my hotel. Each time I walked outside it either smelled like mixed berries or spearmint. ick!

The Pageant theater, seemed so fitting so I took a pic

Good times. I will find a few obscure places on my next few trips. Can't wait. Sorry for not updating more frequently. You can see I have been traveling a bit. I'll try to do better.

Sophie Says...Bratz dolls

Just got back from a business trip and Sophie was telling me all about a Bratz doll she got for her birthday and said:

"They are called Bratz Dolls dad. But not because they are brats sometimes like Malorie and Coltin. It's just their name."

She gets and extra $100 in my will someday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS SOPHIE

My little baby Sophie turned five this week! Can't wait to celebrate this weekend! So here is my Sophie Top Ten things I love about her:

1. She is little!!! No surprise there.
2. She loves to sing all day long.
3. She says some of the strangest yet ridiculously funny things ever.
4. She loves to be with Malorie.
5. She has the cutest haircut, perfect for her.
6. She comes into our room in the middle of the night and makes a bed on our floor without us knowing.
7. She loves to play outside.
8. She loves anything High School Musical
9. She is learning how to play the piano.
10. She is more than a blessing in our lives. God loved us enough to send her to us, and I will almost always be grateful for that even when she is a teen!

Uppercase Living AWESOME deal

So Uppercase Living is running a promotion right now that I wanted to tell all my closest friends about. I don't always put stuff like this on my blog but this one is honestly, too good to pass up.

The promotion is the Buy Two, Get One FREE!!!!!! Holy cow. Purchase any two items from August 5 to September 10 and you’ll get an additional item of equal or lesser value free. The best part is that it can be ANY item Uppercase Living offers such as the new Fall/Winter
accessories, expressions and embellishments, Chalk Wall kits and theme packs, or even a MyDesign Suite™ custom expression. Plus there is no limit to the number of FREE items
you can get! Seriously? Told you it was too good to pass up!!
If you want more information just go to www.uppercaseliving.com. Don't forget this promo ends on September 10th so you better hurry.

OH FINE... I will update!

Thanks for waiting patiently for me to post again. Wow, life got crazy for a moment but I have a minute to update.

August 21st was my bday! What fun. My UL peeps took me to breakfast at IHOP and I advised them I only had one birthday request: It was for everyone to take motorboating pictures while we were at IHOP. For motorboating you take a picture while you are breathing out through your mouth like a horse; you know- while your lips are just a flappin'. Thank you mates for obliging me. Here are the pics (please don't be mad):

Rachel /Amanda

Katie /Brandi

Lisa /Christina

And one of my sweet Tito (Coltin). I swear his mouth was made for these. I find pictures that he has taken of himself on my camera and cell phone EVERY day!

Draper Idol

I ran for Draper Idol this last week. I have never been more scared in my life I swear. I am up there on the stage with all these high school aged kids. How intimidating. I sang Feeling Good by Michael Buble' and then This is the Moment from Jekyl and Hyde. It was a good experience. I was the Second Runner-up. (I call it sceond loser for fun!!!) One of the judges told me I would have won if I had sung younger songs? What the? He told me I should try rock songs. HA- me singing rock songs, now that is funny. Anyway here are some pics of the big event:

Thanks to my family, my boss Brandi, and awesome friends like the Sanovich's and Schraders for coming out to support me- it's good to have "peeps"

Winder Weekend

Last weekend the Winder's got together for our annual Winder Weeked. My parents, brother and sisters and their familes all met in St George Utah. It was fabulous. The guys went golfing one morning, so this girls went the next morning for pedicures. It was AWESOME. Of course it was a sweltering heat the whole time of about 105 degrees. I was LOVING the heat but I am pretty sure I was the only one. Thank heaven there was a pool that we rarely got out of. Here is some pics:

Sophie Says......

This little Sophie Says insert is a little different than the others because this one made me realize that I should probably go on a diet soon. Everyone knows that kids do not have a filter, they just say whatever comes to mind. So here is my sweet conversation with my Sophie monkey. First of all let me say that we were hugging and having a very tender moment when she pulled her head back from my belly and looked right at it and said:

"Whoa, look at you."

Then she put her hands on my stomach and pushed in and said:

"Daddy, your belly is puffy."

Puffy? Puffy? Well I never.......

Guess I will have to stop posting all of my favorite treats and instead talk about different vegetables I like to eat. Just doesn't seem as exciting. However, my dear friend Linda Hansen is doing a bit of weight loss of her own right now and is a great example to me. So I guess I better try to step it up a little bit and get rid of some of this "puff".

So today I am sending love out to all my "puffy" friends.

Your friend,

Jaron

A new Favorite treat

The girls here at the office know the BEST places around to get a good treat. While I will never give up my Paradise Bakery chocolate chip cookies, I have found a close second. It is this great store called Nothing Bundt Cakes. Per the name, they specialize in bundt cakes that I swear on all I own, literally melt in your mouth. Here is a pic:This pic does not do it justice. But the taste does! I swear I have gained about ten pounds since starting my awesome new job at Uppercase Living. Better hit the gym on the way home today. I'll take the route that takes me right past this bakery. Hope they are open!!!

Sophie Says.....

Yesterday we were sitting in church and Sophie was itching her arm like crazy down on the inside of her arm by her elbow. She gets a bit of eczema there and it itches terribly when she does. I immediately pulled out some lotion from our bag and put it on my little one's arm. She said it still itched so I had her bend her arm and pull it up to her chest so the inside of the arm was shut (does that even make sense, good grief?)

In a very loud voice Sophie says:

"Hey Dad, Look! My arm looks just like a bum."

Then she starts pinching her arm like a grandma would pinch a grandchilds cheek and says loudly:

"Oh you cute little bum, you are just a cutie pie."

How can she not know that she is so dang funny????