Day in the life of a Tutor

Fall & Halloween 2011!!!!

2011-11-01T15:57:00.016-06:00

Even better - IPAD APP will change my blogging!

2011-05-12T10:52:00.000-06:00

Well after the close of one chapter that happened yesterday, I quickly realized how many people were interested - or at least acted interested - in this blog.

So, my dear friends, here I am making this an all time record for my blogging career! 2 days in a row!!

I actually do have 2 important things to chat about tonight. I'm sure both of these topics will be brought up again in my blog but here I go:

1) Day care.

Oh do I have mixed feelings about it. Let me just start off by saying that Naomi just started at a new day care facility and she is having a lot of fun and I think we have found great place for her to go. It's a pretty decent drive to it and then to work, and is at a decent price. She (Sam, her teacher) offers breakfast - which is HUGE since Naomi is such a night owl, and doesn't go to bed until later in the evening which means that she wakes up later and as such needs to be changed quickly, her hair and teeth brushed and we head out the door. She also does lunch which is also great because that saves me a lot of time. So needless to say, we are pretty lucky.

My mixed feelings come from my need to just be a mother. I know the word "just" in that phrase sometimes makes the job of a mother sound less important, but I mean it as - forget everything else going on and let me care for my family and especially my daughter! Hence, "just be a mother."

I struggle DAILY with the choice to be at work and home with my daughter. I wish that I was the one to teach her colors, animal sounds, whats in the sky, etc. Sure I can teach her stuff in the evenings and on my days off, but I keep thinking - did Naomi learn that from me - HER MOTHER? Or did what I just teach her happen to already have been taught to her by her other teacher(s)?

I love that day cares exists and understand that they are an important option for some parents - and yes, we are in that boat where we need both incomes to make ends meet - so I truly do appreciate it - but when is enough enough? When do I just stop buying that extra outfit for my daughter - who btw, isn't really growing out of her 12 month clothes at age 25 months - and finally get to say "what do you want to do today honey?" or "let's get out our paints and paint the sky blue and sun yellow" or "did you get a boo boo? Let mommy make it better" or "you wanna help mommy make dinner so it's ready when daddy gets home?"

Okay friends... It's late. I will have to write about tonights adventures, tomorrow.

Good night for now.

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A chapter of our lives, closed.

2011-05-10T21:19:00.001-06:00

Sad day!!! Harley, our 9 year old male Shih Tzu, who was in our family for about 5 years went bye bye! I can't believe I'm so sad about it! I guess it must be because he was a good dog and we had him for so long. Naomi just asked "where e go?" "who Harley?" "yeah" "he went bye bye. He's not coming back (said with tears in my eyes again!)" Man!!! I'm sooo sad. Plus, Ben's at practice and didn't even get to say goodbye!
Harley is going to a good home. It'll be way better for him!

I will miss u Harley! Naomi will too!

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Will this iPhone app make blogging easier for Janzell?

2011-05-02T17:13:00.001-06:00

Well...we will see if this $2.99 app will make my blogging life easier and happen much more! I'm pretty sure it's been almost a year since my last post. And, once I get my iPad, that should make it even more easier and better, right? We'll see!

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IT'S JULY!!!!

2010-07-04T23:13:00.013-06:00

Ok...sooo this is sad. It's already July 4th and the last post I did was on Dec 26th!! Wow! TONS has happened since and I wish I had time to write it all and post pics of it all, but this computer is still in Naomi's nursery and I am hoping that she doesn't wake up. So I've posted a bunch of pictures and will get back on later to write more about them! Enjoy!

We went home to Hawaii to celebrate my 10 year high school reunion!!!

Because we fly standby, we had some issues coming back to Utah, and I'll post some of those pics later. My mom came back to Utah with us and she and I got stuck in Portland (Ben did too, but he got out of Portland on the last flight). My cousin and his family live in Portland so we got to stay at their place and had a fun little evening with them and took some cute pics. More to come. But this pic is of Naomi taking advantage of her Grandma.

We are moving around Naomi's nursery to give her more space, and I cleaned out her closet. Thought it was cute enough to take pictures of...so here they are.

I was reading an article in a magazine about letting them play dress up at this age. So I did! :)

They OBVIOUSLY don't make those tops for baby girls! :)

We went to Temple Square to look for a Sister missionary who served with my sister in Las Vegas, and took some pictures for fun.

She didn't want to sit on the grass. So we had to improvise.

Summer in Utah is KILLER! But she was having fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!! Naomi was lovin' the morning glory! She wanted to hold it, then when it changed to the sparkles, she almost set Ben on FIRE!

Ben tried to make his name...

I did mine!

These are sooo cool!

more to come!!!

Christmas Card

2009-12-26T12:16:00.001-07:00

Aloha Friends and Family!

It's that time again, when the Tutor's do a smilebox Christmas Card instead of sending Christmas cards through the mail! :) We hope that you all enjoy this card as well!

Be sure that you use the arrows at the bottom of the screen so that you can look at all of the photos at your pace. If you click on the pictures, they will enlarge for you and the videos will too. Oh, and turn up your speakers!

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,
Ben, Janzell, Naomi and Harley Tutor

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Santa Outfits

2009-12-14T22:52:00.004-07:00

Naomi ended up with 2 cute Santa outfits! She wore this first one at our Ward Christmas Party on Friday the 11th, and then wore the outfit at the end of this blog on Saturday the 12th at a Ward Christmas Party that Ben played Sax at in a Big Band that he's in. Naomi is just darling and is growing sooo fast! She's standing up soo good and walking while holding on to things, so she will soon be walking!! Crazy fast! We enjoy having her in our life and can't wait for Christmas to come!

First interaction with Santa and she didn't even cry! What a good girl!!!

I got Ben to let me open my Christmas present early! He got me a NEW CAMERA!! WOO HOO!! This is one of the cool functions - love it!

SNOW!!!!!

2009-11-24T12:13:00.004-07:00

Naomi had her first taste of snow (literally)! :)

We are going to spend Thanksgiving up in Park City, Utah and there will be lots more snow up there for her to play in! This was just a tester to see what she'd do in the snow...she wasn't very happy! :) hahaha.

Here's a sample of her fun....there will be more to come of course, since Grandpa Kim is in town!

COUSINS - NOT TWINS! :)

2009-11-17T15:22:00.017-07:00

So...my sister-in-law, Masina, had a baby girl 4 months after Naomi was born! So fun right? They'll be the same age, same grade in school, grow up together, etc. However...Naomi is SUPER petite and Milena (Masina's daughter) is SUPER "not petitie!" :) haha. Because of this, EVERYWHERE we go together, we get asked if they are TWINS! *In both Spanish and English! ;)

Anyone who knows me, knows that I actually DO want twins (even after having one baby, yes, I know, I'm crazy!), but I do. So of course I get them matching outfits - even if they're cousins and not twins - and sure, that may send the wrong message...but for real?!? They don't really look alike! Okay, they do a little bit - I mean - they are cousins for goodness sake! But...you be the judge...

The pictures are of them from when Milena was born up until a few days ago - and they should be in order. However this program isn't the most user friendly, so the post doesn't have the best look to it and by the end of the night, I just gave up and the perfectionist in me just has to "deal with it!" ahhhhhhhhhh!!! So, sorry up front for the ugly layout and the lack of information blurbs next to the pics. Enjoy anyways.

PS - make sure you check out the video! It's too cute!

This is a sweet video of Naomi and Milena when Milena was only a few weeks old.

Halloween 2009!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-08T23:27:00.005-07:00

I'm finally getting around to posting some pics of us during Halloween! Ben and I wanted to be a Queen and King and we wanted to make Naomi a jester! :) But I didn't think that I had the time (and talent) to make her that cool outfit, so alas, she is what EVERY GIRL is at least one time in their halloween career...a PRINCESS! I know...so generic...but it was cute all together! And I really wanted to make an outfit for Harley - to be the prince or knight - but I again, didn't have enough time. Oh well, halloween still turned out great and we all had fun. Enjoy our pics.

2009-10-13T22:16:00.008-06:00

We entered Naomi into a contest at the Utah Baby Expo and the grand prize winner gets a free photo session and a $300 portrait package! We don't know if we have won or not yet, but we had fun doing our own photo session with her new cute tutu onesie outfit thing. And when I say "we had fun" I mean - I had fun, while daddy had to hold up the background the whole time! You're a good husband & daddy, Ben!

I'm having a hard time picking my favorite. Which one do you like the best?

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Oh, and I also need a new camera so that I can take better pictures than these!! Does anyone want to contribute to the new camera fund?! :) Santa?

2009-10-03T14:02:00.005-06:00

WOW!!! Naomi is 6 months already!!! Time has really flown by.

I was just talking to my brother, Randell, and he just stated "yeah, you're a mom now - so you can blog!" So...here I am...BLOGGING!

I started posting pictures of Naomi on facebook, but I don't want facebook to steal my cute pics of her - so this is her new fan page! :)

I'll be posting the cuteness of Naomi here instead of facebook from now on!

Here we go!

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-06-07T01:34:00.007-06:00

Hello world! Introducing baby Naomi Luika Tutor!! Born April 2, 2009 at the University of Utah Hospital at 7:31am weighing in at 6 lbs 8 oz and 18 inches long.

Yes, she is already 2 months old, and yes, I haven't kept this blog up like I said I was going to back in FEB of 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRAZY!!!!!! I'm terrible! Oh well...we'll see how good I will be at this now that I want to share news about my baby to the world! :)

Ben and I have waited sooo long to be parents, and now that we FINALLY are...are we loving it???!?!?! YES!!! OF COURSE!!! EVEN WHEN SHE'S CRYING!!!!!

Naomi is the best thing that ever happened to us, next to meeting each other and falling in love! She is the brightest star in our sky! We are very blessed to have her and each other!

2008-02-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

First day as a blogger....

2008-02-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

Hello friends and family! Welcome to the "Day in the life of a Tutor" blogspot! :)

I grew up knowing that it was such an important and awesome thing to keep up a journal! My Grandma Kim wrote in her journal (well, it was more like a calendar thing that she wrote in, but it was the same thing) EVERYDAY! I knew that I wanted to be like her and keep one going of my life too. However, I am TERRIBLE at keeping one!! I always start and then 2 days later, I'm done! :) Terrible, I know!

Funny story about this very thing:

Ben and I have been married now for over 5 1/2 years (I know - sooo fast). We were married in June of 2002. My Grandma Kim (whom I was sooo close to) passed away in February of that year. In tribute to her, and in regards to the above paragraph, I told Ben that we needed to start our lives off together - keeping up journals. So, a day or two before our wedding, we scrambled to find cute journals, knowing that the next couple of weeks were going to be AMAZING and that we needed to write our exact feelings down for our children! We bought them, got married, went on a honeymoon, and then went on a 2 week vacation (of course with the whole Kim Ohana). Soooo much to write about, right? And such good intentions, right? Till this day....not ONE WORD HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN EITHER OF THOSE JOURNALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TERRIBLE!!!! HAHAHAHAHA :) :) :)

So, I've decided to try and keep up a blog. This will double as my journal and an update to my friends and family all over the world! :) I hope that you will all enjoy the content that I'll put up!

Ben and I miss and love ALL of you!

Aloha,
Janzell Tutor