With as much time as I spend on this blasted computer you would think I would post all the time. But having to commit to writing a whole entry seems daunting to me. Funny, huh?
Well, the most exciting thing that has happened recently was that Ella had her surgery- 1.5 weeks ago now. It was for her naval hernia. There was some concern before hand if she would have the surgery on the scheduled day due to her getting over a cold, but it was fine. The surgery was same-day and only took about 30 minutes. The post surgery was a little crazy because Ella was not liking the hospital and seemed to be in a bit of pain. But as soon as we left the hospital and get her settled in the car she was fine and in good spirits. Her belly looks great! And she loved to show it off! I think although the actually surgery was a little scary, I think she loved all the attention and gifts, flowers and a teddy bear from Nana and Baba and a beautiful quilt from Grammi. Also, all the phone calls and even a package in the mail from Nana and Baba!
We go for the check-up in a week and a half and I think all should go well.
So besides Ella's surgery..... we had Easter! Which was fun and tiring!!!! Patrick came and had dinner with us Sat. night and hung out and colored Easter eggs with us. It was exciting in the sense that we only crushed almost every egg the kids touched and only spilled 1 of the dyes! So.... it definitely could have been more eventful. The kids seemed to enjoy it though, despite the broken eggs. They were very excited for all their candy in the morning and went to sleep quickly which was nice for a change. Actual Easter morning could have been better just because the kids woke up at like 5:45!!!! and couldn't be convinced to go back to sleep otherwise! It was awful!! I refused to have them find their baskets before 7! But at 7 with the Easter eggs hide, that's Matt's family tradition- all the colored eggs the Easter bunny hides in the house- and then the actual Easter baskets hid, my family tradition- the Easter bunny hides the baskets- we came down stairs and promptly found everything that needed to be found and gorged themselves on candy! What could be better for breakfast? We did cut them off at 8 though, to hopefully have them crash before church, or at least with us rather than with their teachers. Church was fine actually. Probably most difficult for me- just cause nursery is kind hard! Anyways... It was a good morning. And I spent the whole afternoon cooking in prep for a nice Easter meal, which I did accomplish!!! We had a wonderful ham and biscuits, green beans, frog eye salad- courtesy of my sister-in-law Bunny who gave me the acini de pepe via the Parker and Gisella express- and what else? something, but I can't remember..... hmmm. anyways, I didn't even bother with dessert- first cause of all the candy, who needs more sugar? And also because we went to family birthdays and I knew there would be cake there. Mary Beth spent our meal with us and also attended birthdays and it was really nice to have her there. So our Easter was good- pretty uneventful, but fun and nice to spend it with such wonderful people.
So those 2 things are kinda our big things that have happened! But other smaller stuff has happened too! Like it reverted back to winter for all of last week! Thursday, I think it was, I woke up with like 3.5 inches of snow on the ground! I wanted to kill mother nature! Truly!!! Matt called me up that morning and wished me a Merry Christmas! Sure felt like it! I don't care if the snow doesn't last long- it should be happening at all in the middle of April! I am really bent about it! Luckily- I think the weather has redeemed itself because it is going to be like 60-70+ for the next several days! One of the reasons I have hated the cold so much despite it just being dumb that it is snowing in April, is that I have few winter maternity clothes. I know I lived in Boise in the winter when I was pregnant with Lincoln, but I don't have much clothes. I know I had to throw out 2 pairs of pants at the end of the pregnancy cause they were just too holey in places no one needs to see. But I think I may have just worn short sleeves and kept the heat up high because we were living in the apartment then and weren't paying for the heat! I just don't know what I did. But I am dying to wear something different than the poor pathetic grab I have been wearing for the last 2 months! I swear!!!!! Urg.... ok enough ranting.
One thing I have done recently and I am so excited about it is that I signed up for gardening class through the extension office. I wanted to plant a garden this year and since I know gardening here is sooo different than in KY where I last had a garden, I wanted to do it right. In Kentucky gardening consisted of putting stuff in the ground and watching grow like crazy! It was awesome and I was a good gardener with little effort! I LOVED it! Here, I know it is different cause I have heard stories and I have looked at how my grass grows, which is cruddy without a ton of water and fertilizer! So... I wanted less trial and error and more success! So I signed up for this 3 week class. I have thus far attended 2 weeks of it and learned a TON! It has been awesome and I am very excited for my garden! I don't think I am up to the same level of gardening as those in my class and I definitely don't have the same amount of land as it seems most had, but I am learning and one day- who knows maybe we will have 1/4 acre of land! but for now I have an 11X11 space! but I am very excited about what I am going to be growing.... tomatoes, green beans, corn, cucumber, zucchini, and peppers. With beans, corn and toms being my biggest taker-upers of space. Just 1 cucumber and zucchini plant and only 2 pepper plants. Oh, and I am going to do Heirloom tomatoes, which I love and am very excited about. Also, I am going to do several pots of herbs! It should be fun. I don't know how I am going to be weeding much while huge pregnant, but we will deal with that when we come it, eh?
Pregnancy is still trucking along. I haven't been experiencing as much morning sickness, but still managed to throw up this week. YUCK! While I have been feeling better physically, I am still struggling emotionally. I just don't feel like my normal self. I am soooo tired. My mother actually suggested asking my doctor for my iron to be checked, which I think I will do, but my next appt. still isn't for 3 more weeks. I also have 0 motivation to do anything that I don't have to do. I am hoping that it not me, but just the pregnancy. Matt keeps laughing at me cause he doesn't think I am lazy, but I just feel lazy... I really do hate being pregnant and I really, really hope that this is the last time. Is that awful? I don't care at this point!
I planted 180 bulbs- I think I have mentioned that. Well, my daffodils have come up and are very pretty! BUT, the girls in my neighborhood are swiping them and I am soo bugged about it! I counted 7 flowers missing tonight! The flowers are right by the sidewalk, so an easy swipe, but all these girls are old enough to know better and don't their parents say something when they come walking in with these huge daffodils flowers? I am so bugged! I need to put up a sign, or my neighbor said that I need to get a slingshot! That isn't too bad of an idea too!
This past week has been spring break, which doesn't mean a whole to us considering Carter only is in preschool. But he did have a pretty exciting week with going to Grammi's and Grandpa's and watching a movie and eating a ton of junk one night. And then the next night he went to his cousins house for a sleepover, which he LOVED! And then the following evening he went to his little best friends birthday party at Classic Skate! He had so much fun and it was soo fun listening to him tell us all about it! He is getting so big! Matt was dying! I think especially to cause that was where he learned to skate! It is fun to see him do things he enjoys so much!
So I finally bought Carter a baseball glove 2 days ago. About time considering he has his first practise on tues. Have I mentioned that poor Matt has signed up to be the coach and I am the team mom? Poor Matt cause he has no idea what to do with these kids. He had to get me out there to show Carter how to throw. But once Carter learned how to throw correctly- he throws really good, I am very impressed. And last night after the 3 of us got done practising in the back yard Carter said, "Baseball is fun! Lets practise tomorrow!" My dad would be so proud!!!
Today was actually a good and productive Saturday. I got done everything I had on my list to do, which never happens! True there wasn't a ton on it, but still....... I got it all done! And even did some stuff that wasn't on my list- like 5 loads of laundry, now that we know our dryer isn't going to blow up. We were having problems with it overheating and I was seriously worried it was going to catch fire? Can that even happen? Well, if it could, surely it was going to happen to us. But a kind neighbor and Matt took the king apart this afternoon and cleaned it really good and made sure it looked ok. So I have still been keeping an eye on it and I think that it is going to have to be fixed by a professional, but at least I can use it, which I am very grateful! What did people do before modern technology? I suppose their HOA's let them have clothes lines, eh?
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Elder's Quorum Nights
Matt goes out once a week for his calling with the Elders Quorum and I really should designate that my Blogging time- at least to make sure it is done once a week. While I HATE putting the kids down to bed by myself cause I swear I yell(nothing invites the spirit like yelling during family scripture time) more during that half hour than I do the whole rest of the week put together, it is kinda nice doing my own thing for a few hours once the kids are down for the night. anyways.....
Right now it is raining and I love it! I can hear it dripping off the porch and I can't tell you how happy I am that it is raining and not snowing... I know that it is going to change to snow sometime tonight and there will be another 3 inches on my poor flowers, but for a little moment at least it is rain! This has been the longest winter of my life. It really messes with your head when it is snowing every other day at the end of March and early April. I have really struggled this past week with it and my mood- I am not kidding when I say it has snowed basically every other day and it is sticking to the ground. I am really wondering if all those bulbs I planted and that are now coming up are dead, or dying. Some have begun to turn yellow- which means too much water? Who knows. What can I do? Besides despair. I saw on Loretta Valenta's blog all the beautiful pictures she put up of spring in Kentucky and I wanted to puke!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of Kentucky..... UK got a new basketball coach, which is very exciting. I am not the fan I use to be because it hard to watch games out here without cable and the one or two that have been on CBS over the years are on at like 10 Sat. morning- not the best time to be sitting in front of the tube for 2 hours. Anyways, but it has been exciting reading what everyone has been saying. I hope this brings the team some level of success!
So the rest of my house has been unpacked since about the week after we moved in. However, my front room, which is where I sit now, which is also our office/den with a desk and a nice leather couch. Anyways, this room had had boxes in it for the last 10 months. I have kept saying that I want bookshelves in here and that when I finally get them I will empty out the contents of the boxes and put it on the bookshelves. Well, what is funny about Matt and I is that sometimes can burn through money on dumb stuff- like going out to eat. And other times we spend 10 months finding just the right, ie cheap enough, bookshelves. And I think we found them! We got them off KSL, the world's best classifieds that a news station does here in SLC. We got them from this crazy, crazy expensive house- is currently listed for a lean 2.5 mil with only 10,000 sqft. But I feel we got a good deal for them and I think they look awesome. There are a few places that you can tell they are not new, but after about 10 minutes in our house anyways they will look trashed so what is a few minor scratches and such. The problem now though, cause there is always a problem, is that the boxes have been emptied and the shelves are still very much empty. What to fill them with? well, books, and pictures and such, but I have a ton of space left to fill. I did bring my Llardro(sp) down finally from my room and is now displaying it, which is fun cause it has been a long time there has been a place safe enough in our home to really display it. Anyways, exciting for us.
I think I am going to try and take a gardening class put on by someone and place around here. I want to have a garden, but the ground here has to be treated and fertilized and a bunch of other stuff. I am not used to having to do stuff, besides just plant the items, that I am lost. I did do tomatoes last year, and it was not a bumper crop like I had hoped. I am wanted to do seeds this year- because where do you buy the started plants? I am seriously clueless. But I think a class would be useful and not too pricey. I haven't signed up yet and am hoping it is not full.
Not too much else is going on to speak of. We had a fondue night at church and I ate enough to be feeding/supporting 10 kids in this belly. It was awesome and for the eating purposes alone I love being pregnant. Course, it is going to suck getting it all off this coming fall/winter/spring, but live it up now, eh?
I have noticed recently that I am not as social as I was. Since Christmas actually. It was a super busy month and kept to myself, except for all the parties. And then I got pregnant and sick pretty quickly after. I have realized that some people I was talking with daily, or 3 or 4times a week at least, I haven't talked to for a month. I was soo concerned when we first moved here of having friends and figuring out the whole social thing in a new ward, but now have nothing to do with it and am not the least bit concerned. funny. I know it has a lot to do with just feeling yucky and not wanting to leave my cave, I mean house, and I wonder if my feelings will change again when I finally start feeling better. Even then though when the baby is born I know I will be pretty consumed with it and nursing and finding time to get a little sleep and keep my sanity. I just don't know how other moms are so active and social. I can't do it- pregnant or not, although I have completely gone the other way of being social now. anyways, some self reflection.... whatever it is worth.
Matt and I are considering going somewhere this summer- just the two of us. My mom, in some crazy state of mind, said she would come out here and watch my kids for us sometime this summer. I couldn't believe she said that, especially considering the last nightmare, er....time. When I brought it up with her again, she was like what? I said that? It took a little bit of jogging, but she remembered. So, Matt and I trying to figure out where and when. We may just go to Maine and visit Camp by ourselves. The problem is with going anywhere is of course that I am going to be 8.5 months along. So I don't want to do hot, or beach or even somewhere super touristy where I am going to want to walk around a ton. So Maine may be just perfect- relaxing and I can get in a bath suit if I choose and not have everyone around there wonder about the whale laying on the beach that came in with the tide. The only problem I thought of last night while lying in bed waiting for sleep to come, is that it is soo dark there at night, it would be scary if it were just Matt and I. I have never been at Camp before without at least my family, but usually a bunch of people. There could be other people there- who knows- we would have to check the schedule of course. It would be funny cause we were going to try and go as a family with my parents and maybe Pat and Steph and Ian and LeighAnn coming along- but we decided to bring everyone would be sooooo expensive. Especially this year.... but maybe we are going to go afterall.
Matt got home a long time ago, but I have continued to write and kinda ignore him, so I should go.
Right now it is raining and I love it! I can hear it dripping off the porch and I can't tell you how happy I am that it is raining and not snowing... I know that it is going to change to snow sometime tonight and there will be another 3 inches on my poor flowers, but for a little moment at least it is rain! This has been the longest winter of my life. It really messes with your head when it is snowing every other day at the end of March and early April. I have really struggled this past week with it and my mood- I am not kidding when I say it has snowed basically every other day and it is sticking to the ground. I am really wondering if all those bulbs I planted and that are now coming up are dead, or dying. Some have begun to turn yellow- which means too much water? Who knows. What can I do? Besides despair. I saw on Loretta Valenta's blog all the beautiful pictures she put up of spring in Kentucky and I wanted to puke!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of Kentucky..... UK got a new basketball coach, which is very exciting. I am not the fan I use to be because it hard to watch games out here without cable and the one or two that have been on CBS over the years are on at like 10 Sat. morning- not the best time to be sitting in front of the tube for 2 hours. Anyways, but it has been exciting reading what everyone has been saying. I hope this brings the team some level of success!
So the rest of my house has been unpacked since about the week after we moved in. However, my front room, which is where I sit now, which is also our office/den with a desk and a nice leather couch. Anyways, this room had had boxes in it for the last 10 months. I have kept saying that I want bookshelves in here and that when I finally get them I will empty out the contents of the boxes and put it on the bookshelves. Well, what is funny about Matt and I is that sometimes can burn through money on dumb stuff- like going out to eat. And other times we spend 10 months finding just the right, ie cheap enough, bookshelves. And I think we found them! We got them off KSL, the world's best classifieds that a news station does here in SLC. We got them from this crazy, crazy expensive house- is currently listed for a lean 2.5 mil with only 10,000 sqft. But I feel we got a good deal for them and I think they look awesome. There are a few places that you can tell they are not new, but after about 10 minutes in our house anyways they will look trashed so what is a few minor scratches and such. The problem now though, cause there is always a problem, is that the boxes have been emptied and the shelves are still very much empty. What to fill them with? well, books, and pictures and such, but I have a ton of space left to fill. I did bring my Llardro(sp) down finally from my room and is now displaying it, which is fun cause it has been a long time there has been a place safe enough in our home to really display it. Anyways, exciting for us.
I think I am going to try and take a gardening class put on by someone and place around here. I want to have a garden, but the ground here has to be treated and fertilized and a bunch of other stuff. I am not used to having to do stuff, besides just plant the items, that I am lost. I did do tomatoes last year, and it was not a bumper crop like I had hoped. I am wanted to do seeds this year- because where do you buy the started plants? I am seriously clueless. But I think a class would be useful and not too pricey. I haven't signed up yet and am hoping it is not full.
Not too much else is going on to speak of. We had a fondue night at church and I ate enough to be feeding/supporting 10 kids in this belly. It was awesome and for the eating purposes alone I love being pregnant. Course, it is going to suck getting it all off this coming fall/winter/spring, but live it up now, eh?
I have noticed recently that I am not as social as I was. Since Christmas actually. It was a super busy month and kept to myself, except for all the parties. And then I got pregnant and sick pretty quickly after. I have realized that some people I was talking with daily, or 3 or 4times a week at least, I haven't talked to for a month. I was soo concerned when we first moved here of having friends and figuring out the whole social thing in a new ward, but now have nothing to do with it and am not the least bit concerned. funny. I know it has a lot to do with just feeling yucky and not wanting to leave my cave, I mean house, and I wonder if my feelings will change again when I finally start feeling better. Even then though when the baby is born I know I will be pretty consumed with it and nursing and finding time to get a little sleep and keep my sanity. I just don't know how other moms are so active and social. I can't do it- pregnant or not, although I have completely gone the other way of being social now. anyways, some self reflection.... whatever it is worth.
Matt and I are considering going somewhere this summer- just the two of us. My mom, in some crazy state of mind, said she would come out here and watch my kids for us sometime this summer. I couldn't believe she said that, especially considering the last nightmare, er....time. When I brought it up with her again, she was like what? I said that? It took a little bit of jogging, but she remembered. So, Matt and I trying to figure out where and when. We may just go to Maine and visit Camp by ourselves. The problem is with going anywhere is of course that I am going to be 8.5 months along. So I don't want to do hot, or beach or even somewhere super touristy where I am going to want to walk around a ton. So Maine may be just perfect- relaxing and I can get in a bath suit if I choose and not have everyone around there wonder about the whale laying on the beach that came in with the tide. The only problem I thought of last night while lying in bed waiting for sleep to come, is that it is soo dark there at night, it would be scary if it were just Matt and I. I have never been at Camp before without at least my family, but usually a bunch of people. There could be other people there- who knows- we would have to check the schedule of course. It would be funny cause we were going to try and go as a family with my parents and maybe Pat and Steph and Ian and LeighAnn coming along- but we decided to bring everyone would be sooooo expensive. Especially this year.... but maybe we are going to go afterall.
Matt got home a long time ago, but I have continued to write and kinda ignore him, so I should go.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Tid Bits!!!!
First of all, I never know what to title these entries! because I probably don't post enough I always have like a hundred little things I want to write about.... maybe I should title them at all..... an idea... I will think about.
So like a million little kids at this time of year, Carter started soccer for the season last Thursday actually. A mom there asked if he was excited about playing......He could care less about playing. He was super bugged he had to leave his friends who he was playing with. And it could have a lot to do with me because anything to do with soccer is a huge mad dash out the door, including changing clothes in the car, wolfing something edible down on the drive there and my less than excited attitude once we get there--- because of the constant watch I have to keep on Ella and Lincoln who are playing on the playground and because none of the other moms care to even learn my name, which isn't that big of a deal. I usually bring a magazine to read. Anyways, you can tell it is the beginning of the season cause Carter, who I typically think of as athletic, although not sporty, can't run to the fence and back with the rest of his team. He ends up walking back. I was surprised, but it has been a long and lazy winter, I suppose. So Carter could care less about playing until Matt walks out unto the field because the poor coach, who was last years assistant coach, looks a little lost. Somehow, despite the fact that Matt knows NOTHING about soccer signs up to be the assistant! Carter is now loving playing. He even asked my a day or two after practise when he was going to play again. Unfortunately for him we have a baptism the day of his first game, so both carter and the asst. coach are out!!!!
And I must say Matt is super dad cause not only did he volunteer to be Carter's asst. coach for soccer, he is the head coach for another sport which he has no earthly idea how to coach- little league/t-ball! We don't know yet which it is! I am team mom! It should make for an exciting season!
So I have been talking about seeing old friends on here recently and so I thought I would share another experience I had last week! For me, and I think a lot of kids had it, I had this one adult when I was 11/12/13 that I loved and clung to! It was my Merry(?) Miss and then my first beehive teacher, Marcia Armstrong. I imagine now she was like why does this kid want to hang around all the time and spend the night at my house? But she was very kind to me and just let me tag along and treated me like on of her kids. Well, she moved to Virginia when I think I was 13- I don't know dates exactly, but she moved and we kinda kept in touch. I did go and visit her once when she was in VA. Well, now as adults we have kinda kept in touch. And I knew that she moved out here to Utah. So after I had been here awhile I decided to email her and see if she wanted to get together. I wanted to show her my kids and that I grew up to a be a respectable, functioning member of society! It took us a while to actually do it cause life is busy! but this past week the weather was too beautiful, so I called her and asked if she wanted to meet at a park and let the kids run around like kids do, all crazy, and have us talk. So much has happened to both and I since I saw her last when I was 17!!! and it was so fun to see her. She looks exactly the same. And I still look up to her like I did almost 15 years ago now. Her kids and so cute and she has the most adorable grandkids. I love seeing and catching up with old friends. I love to see how God works in our lives and how we live through and overcome sometimes the most difficult of things. While the Internet can be horrible, it has allowed me to see and connect with people from long ago and it has been soo fun!
This past Sunday was my first one in nursery! It was ok. A little 2 year old told me I was an idiot! That was awesome! I am going to try hard and do it. But I do feel already that it is going to be isolating.... but I am going to try and try really hard.
I am now 13.5 weeks along. I still feel crappy, but am doing okay with that Zofran! Thank goodness for it! I went maternity clothes shopping this weekend! That was super. I am definitely needing to wear them and totally am in love with my maternity garments which are allowing me to breathe again!!!! I do think the fabulous weather, minus this whole week- it totally snowed all day today!- helps me feel better. I love spring! I have like 180 bulbs I planted in the fall and some of them have started to come up and I worry that this cold we are having this whole week is going to ruin them and then I am going to be sooooo mad!!!!!! Anyways, I love the warm weather and being outside and opening the windows during the day. I think the thing I love most of all though is the fact that I don't have to wear long sleeves! And I can wear flip flops!!!
Okay- that is all. All my random thoughts and activities of the recent days!
So like a million little kids at this time of year, Carter started soccer for the season last Thursday actually. A mom there asked if he was excited about playing......He could care less about playing. He was super bugged he had to leave his friends who he was playing with. And it could have a lot to do with me because anything to do with soccer is a huge mad dash out the door, including changing clothes in the car, wolfing something edible down on the drive there and my less than excited attitude once we get there--- because of the constant watch I have to keep on Ella and Lincoln who are playing on the playground and because none of the other moms care to even learn my name, which isn't that big of a deal. I usually bring a magazine to read. Anyways, you can tell it is the beginning of the season cause Carter, who I typically think of as athletic, although not sporty, can't run to the fence and back with the rest of his team. He ends up walking back. I was surprised, but it has been a long and lazy winter, I suppose. So Carter could care less about playing until Matt walks out unto the field because the poor coach, who was last years assistant coach, looks a little lost. Somehow, despite the fact that Matt knows NOTHING about soccer signs up to be the assistant! Carter is now loving playing. He even asked my a day or two after practise when he was going to play again. Unfortunately for him we have a baptism the day of his first game, so both carter and the asst. coach are out!!!!
And I must say Matt is super dad cause not only did he volunteer to be Carter's asst. coach for soccer, he is the head coach for another sport which he has no earthly idea how to coach- little league/t-ball! We don't know yet which it is! I am team mom! It should make for an exciting season!
So I have been talking about seeing old friends on here recently and so I thought I would share another experience I had last week! For me, and I think a lot of kids had it, I had this one adult when I was 11/12/13 that I loved and clung to! It was my Merry(?) Miss and then my first beehive teacher, Marcia Armstrong. I imagine now she was like why does this kid want to hang around all the time and spend the night at my house? But she was very kind to me and just let me tag along and treated me like on of her kids. Well, she moved to Virginia when I think I was 13- I don't know dates exactly, but she moved and we kinda kept in touch. I did go and visit her once when she was in VA. Well, now as adults we have kinda kept in touch. And I knew that she moved out here to Utah. So after I had been here awhile I decided to email her and see if she wanted to get together. I wanted to show her my kids and that I grew up to a be a respectable, functioning member of society! It took us a while to actually do it cause life is busy! but this past week the weather was too beautiful, so I called her and asked if she wanted to meet at a park and let the kids run around like kids do, all crazy, and have us talk. So much has happened to both and I since I saw her last when I was 17!!! and it was so fun to see her. She looks exactly the same. And I still look up to her like I did almost 15 years ago now. Her kids and so cute and she has the most adorable grandkids. I love seeing and catching up with old friends. I love to see how God works in our lives and how we live through and overcome sometimes the most difficult of things. While the Internet can be horrible, it has allowed me to see and connect with people from long ago and it has been soo fun!
This past Sunday was my first one in nursery! It was ok. A little 2 year old told me I was an idiot! That was awesome! I am going to try hard and do it. But I do feel already that it is going to be isolating.... but I am going to try and try really hard.
I am now 13.5 weeks along. I still feel crappy, but am doing okay with that Zofran! Thank goodness for it! I went maternity clothes shopping this weekend! That was super. I am definitely needing to wear them and totally am in love with my maternity garments which are allowing me to breathe again!!!! I do think the fabulous weather, minus this whole week- it totally snowed all day today!- helps me feel better. I love spring! I have like 180 bulbs I planted in the fall and some of them have started to come up and I worry that this cold we are having this whole week is going to ruin them and then I am going to be sooooo mad!!!!!! Anyways, I love the warm weather and being outside and opening the windows during the day. I think the thing I love most of all though is the fact that I don't have to wear long sleeves! And I can wear flip flops!!!
Okay- that is all. All my random thoughts and activities of the recent days!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Some Things about My Kids!
I have been thinking of what to blog about, so I decided some little tidbits about my kids is as good idea as any.
So Lincoln is talking, well hardly, but compared to 4 months ago he is a full on jabber mouth. I have been thinking about ALL the words he is saying now, at 21 months mind you, and here they are...... Ella(his very first word), mom, daddy, cheese(his favorite thing to eat!), kitty, bye(which is hardly understandable, but I know that is what he is saying) hallo, go, boo(like peek-a-boo) and I think that is it! So that would be about 9 words! While he doesn't speak practically anything he does understand a lot and he has perfected a super cute yes head shake! You gotta love how blasted cute he is!
Ella made me so proud on Sunday! She just entered Sunbeams in January and is a little over 3! It was their classes turn to do the talks, etc in Primary, which I was kinda surprised at cause they are still so little and new in there. But they did, so.... she signed herself up for a talk. I prepared the talk and made it super, super short cause I was for 100% sure I was going to be up at the podium reading it by myself. But she completely surprised me and repeated the whole thing, as I whispered it to her, into the microphone and loud enough for everyone to hear! I was soo proud of her. I couldn't believe it!!!!
And lastly our Carter, who is practically prefect in almost every way. The poor children younger than him have a high bar to reach!!!! But my little thing about him, and it could only happen in Utah, I swear, is...... His preschool teacher told me how on Wed. during class they were reviewing the number 16. And she asked what can you do at 16? And he responded 'drive a car'. And then she or he, I don't know exactly cause I didn't quite understand this part, said and what do you do at 8, half of 16, and he said get baptized. And then he said, 'I can't wait to go on my mission'! When I related this story to Matt, he told me how Carter had told him he didn't want to go on a mission where he couldn't speak English. He didn't want to learn dutch(knows this from the movie, Best Two Years) or Spanish.... Only English! At 5 to be thinking about such things, makes me smile!
So there you.... nothing too exciting, but Matt is always saying things like you should write that in your blog, sooo I did, for once!
So Lincoln is talking, well hardly, but compared to 4 months ago he is a full on jabber mouth. I have been thinking about ALL the words he is saying now, at 21 months mind you, and here they are...... Ella(his very first word), mom, daddy, cheese(his favorite thing to eat!), kitty, bye(which is hardly understandable, but I know that is what he is saying) hallo, go, boo(like peek-a-boo) and I think that is it! So that would be about 9 words! While he doesn't speak practically anything he does understand a lot and he has perfected a super cute yes head shake! You gotta love how blasted cute he is!
Ella made me so proud on Sunday! She just entered Sunbeams in January and is a little over 3! It was their classes turn to do the talks, etc in Primary, which I was kinda surprised at cause they are still so little and new in there. But they did, so.... she signed herself up for a talk. I prepared the talk and made it super, super short cause I was for 100% sure I was going to be up at the podium reading it by myself. But she completely surprised me and repeated the whole thing, as I whispered it to her, into the microphone and loud enough for everyone to hear! I was soo proud of her. I couldn't believe it!!!!
And lastly our Carter, who is practically prefect in almost every way. The poor children younger than him have a high bar to reach!!!! But my little thing about him, and it could only happen in Utah, I swear, is...... His preschool teacher told me how on Wed. during class they were reviewing the number 16. And she asked what can you do at 16? And he responded 'drive a car'. And then she or he, I don't know exactly cause I didn't quite understand this part, said and what do you do at 8, half of 16, and he said get baptized. And then he said, 'I can't wait to go on my mission'! When I related this story to Matt, he told me how Carter had told him he didn't want to go on a mission where he couldn't speak English. He didn't want to learn dutch(knows this from the movie, Best Two Years) or Spanish.... Only English! At 5 to be thinking about such things, makes me smile!
So there you.... nothing too exciting, but Matt is always saying things like you should write that in your blog, sooo I did, for once!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Maybe it Has Finally Arrived......????????
That would be Spring!!!! It is the most beautiful day here! The sun is so warm and inviting! I love it! I have all those million of bulbs starting to come up! It is wonderful! Hopefully it will be like this for 6 more months!
And in honor of spring I am going to go and pick up the dog poo in my backyard! Yeah!!!!
And in honor of spring I am going to go and pick up the dog poo in my backyard! Yeah!!!!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Another Random Musing and Such.....
So I really need to blog more...... at least when I am sitting in front of the computer I can feel like I am doing something somewhat productive rather than staring at a screen like the bored, drone that I am. I feel like blogs should be for important, big things, which hardly ever happen to me, so I struggle with writing. But I think I have written all this before.... and it will probably not be my last, but I will write about some other random stuff below..
So, Matt has been out of town for the last several nights. My wonderful sister signed on to stay with me to help me stay sane, which was super wonderful! I am not sure what I have done without her. She was very kind to me and the kids. Matt went to the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas. It was his guys trip- I had my girls trip a few weeks ago now.- Maybe one day I will blog about that. Anyways, I have hated having him gone and don't think I am going to be taking any girls trips anytime soon, so that he can't take any guys trip. I suppose he has had a nice time though.
After coming home from my trip, which my "all-day" sickness acted pretty decently, as long as as I ate constantly, I was put on my butt. I think the lack of good sleep and naps, and being much more active on the trip contributed to me feeling like total crap for the 3 days after I got home. But I went to the Dr. on Thurs. for my first official appt. I was ten weeks along then- 12 now! Yeah! And by the way, my due date is Sept 29! So three in Sept.! I am thinking group birthdays! Okay, I digress. So I told me dr. that the unisom B-6 thing wasn't working and she was kind enough to suggest Zofran, which has worked like a dream! It is a generic and cost me $5, but Matt said he would have paid $100 for the bottle, which only lasts 15 days by the way. But it has made me feel like a human being again. It has been wonderful! So as long as I get an afternoon nap, things are good in pregnancy land.
I have been released from my calling as Relief Society Secretary this past Sunday, which was kinda sad. I enjoyed working with the sisters and it really helped me get to know a lot of people quickly in the ward. So no one goes too long without a calling and so my new one is Nursery Worker! My first response was, "Are you kidding me?" Which Matt promptly said, "be nice" I was nice, I didn't swear! So I don't know 100% if I am going to a worker or not cause once I started crying the poor bishopric member, was like 'well, let me go back and talk to the bishop about it.' The initial shock has worn off now, and while I am not thrilled with the calling, I could do it if I must, until the baby is born! I said I would be done then.
All else is well. I do spend a lot of time wondering how much Obama is screwing up my kids future! but hey! What can I do? Spring if slowly coming! some of my tulips are coming up. did i even write how in the fall I planted over 180 tulips and some other kid of flower, which I can't remember. I also bought more bulbs this week for Dahlia's, which are like the most beautiful flower! I am a sucker for bulbs! We will see how they come up! Hopefully well! Not too much else that I can think of. Kids are well. Matt's fine.
I did have good visits this week from my friend, Cara, who was done here visiting from Boise. It is my first friend I have seen from Boise, since we have left. It is good to reconnect with old friends. It just made me feel good.. Also had dinner last Sunday with an even older friend, Meg Bair, who isn't Meg Bair anymore and hasn't been for sometime, but some names die hard! She is now Megan Buehler. She has a wonderful husband and baby girl. We invited them over several months ago now for a Sunday dinner and then after many tries they had us over. It again felt good to see old friends. I was friends with her in 8th and 9th grade. It helps you remember who you are and maybe who you wanted to be. My good friend, Samantha, who I have remained friends with since high school- one of the few, who I have stayed friends consistently with, at least, is coming here and staying with us 2 Mondays from now! I am so excited to see her. It has been awhile, not as long as Meg was initially, cause I did see frequently when we lived in KY, but it has been 3 years maybe. So old friends! Such fun!
I need to go. I have been ignoring the kids and I have laundry to be done because tomorrow, cause as you may well know- Saturday is a special day, a day to get ready for Sunday!!!!
So, Matt has been out of town for the last several nights. My wonderful sister signed on to stay with me to help me stay sane, which was super wonderful! I am not sure what I have done without her. She was very kind to me and the kids. Matt went to the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas. It was his guys trip- I had my girls trip a few weeks ago now.- Maybe one day I will blog about that. Anyways, I have hated having him gone and don't think I am going to be taking any girls trips anytime soon, so that he can't take any guys trip. I suppose he has had a nice time though.
After coming home from my trip, which my "all-day" sickness acted pretty decently, as long as as I ate constantly, I was put on my butt. I think the lack of good sleep and naps, and being much more active on the trip contributed to me feeling like total crap for the 3 days after I got home. But I went to the Dr. on Thurs. for my first official appt. I was ten weeks along then- 12 now! Yeah! And by the way, my due date is Sept 29! So three in Sept.! I am thinking group birthdays! Okay, I digress. So I told me dr. that the unisom B-6 thing wasn't working and she was kind enough to suggest Zofran, which has worked like a dream! It is a generic and cost me $5, but Matt said he would have paid $100 for the bottle, which only lasts 15 days by the way. But it has made me feel like a human being again. It has been wonderful! So as long as I get an afternoon nap, things are good in pregnancy land.
I have been released from my calling as Relief Society Secretary this past Sunday, which was kinda sad. I enjoyed working with the sisters and it really helped me get to know a lot of people quickly in the ward. So no one goes too long without a calling and so my new one is Nursery Worker! My first response was, "Are you kidding me?" Which Matt promptly said, "be nice" I was nice, I didn't swear! So I don't know 100% if I am going to a worker or not cause once I started crying the poor bishopric member, was like 'well, let me go back and talk to the bishop about it.' The initial shock has worn off now, and while I am not thrilled with the calling, I could do it if I must, until the baby is born! I said I would be done then.
All else is well. I do spend a lot of time wondering how much Obama is screwing up my kids future! but hey! What can I do? Spring if slowly coming! some of my tulips are coming up. did i even write how in the fall I planted over 180 tulips and some other kid of flower, which I can't remember. I also bought more bulbs this week for Dahlia's, which are like the most beautiful flower! I am a sucker for bulbs! We will see how they come up! Hopefully well! Not too much else that I can think of. Kids are well. Matt's fine.
I did have good visits this week from my friend, Cara, who was done here visiting from Boise. It is my first friend I have seen from Boise, since we have left. It is good to reconnect with old friends. It just made me feel good.. Also had dinner last Sunday with an even older friend, Meg Bair, who isn't Meg Bair anymore and hasn't been for sometime, but some names die hard! She is now Megan Buehler. She has a wonderful husband and baby girl. We invited them over several months ago now for a Sunday dinner and then after many tries they had us over. It again felt good to see old friends. I was friends with her in 8th and 9th grade. It helps you remember who you are and maybe who you wanted to be. My good friend, Samantha, who I have remained friends with since high school- one of the few, who I have stayed friends consistently with, at least, is coming here and staying with us 2 Mondays from now! I am so excited to see her. It has been awhile, not as long as Meg was initially, cause I did see frequently when we lived in KY, but it has been 3 years maybe. So old friends! Such fun!
I need to go. I have been ignoring the kids and I have laundry to be done because tomorrow, cause as you may well know- Saturday is a special day, a day to get ready for Sunday!!!!
Monday, February 9, 2009
My BIG News!!
I wrote this about a week ago and decided to sit on it until we told Matt's family at birthday's .... I am posting now, though! So still feeling yucky and being a bum. I don't know what else I am going to post until i am done being sick cause all I do is lay around, sleep, eat and eat some more! I have gained 5 pounds already! It is sweet! Anyways, here is my big news!
So..... I haven't written in a little while. And it is because something is preoccupying my mind, time, and physical being, and I have decided that I am going to share it cause I don't have much else to talk about. Plus, I feel like I am being fake if I write that is all is great, when maybe I am not. I always have been bad at secrets, and now is no different. And if you read my this then you are in our secret, which I suppose isn't going to a secret much longer.... So have you any idea what my secret is?
So we are pregnant! I am about 8 weeks along. So I think I am due in the very beginning of October, which may turn into Sept.- so that would be 3 in Sept, if that were to happen. It wasn't unexpected becuase we had my IUD taken out between Christmas and New Year's. But it sure did happen quickly- poor Matt. 3 of our 4 have been one and done- my friend is probably correct in saying we are super furtile. But I am happy about it. I am now looking at the kids a little more lovingly.....
It has been exciting, of course.......until the yucky "morning", or more actually all-day sickness set in!!!! I truly thought I wouldn't have any. Which maybe was just dumb thinking. Becuase while I have been sick for all of my kids, each pregnancy was better than the previous, but I have reverted, which hasn't been fun, to say the least. So I have been sick all day long for about a week now. I haven't been throwing up luckily, but just feel sooooooo yucky! And I am eating all the time to try to calm my stomach. Here comes the 55 pounds I like to gain during my pregnancies. Urg...... I have actually felt ok today, for most of the day at least. I don't know why. I have drank a bunch of COKE, which I know you are not suppose to have caffiene, but if it makes me feel good- I DON'T care!
I HATE being sick and have fretted about it since I have become so. Here is why..... When I first told my mom about my pregnancy, after congratulations, she asked, "So are you going to have morning sickness while we are in Florida?" At that time, I hoped not, but alas that is not to be. So I am very worried about spending all this money and then just wanting to lay in the hotel room on the bed! Super! I am just praying that doesn't happen. Although even if I am not sick sick, I know I am not going to be riding a bike around the islands! I know that is cause I seriously out of breathe walking up the stairs! And I am really having a hard time regaining it. Am I THAT out of shape? Jeepers. Will be doing lots of prayering and getting some blessings that I am not sick for the 6 days we are there!!!
So we told the kids, well Carter, Ella was pretty much asleep, tonight that we are having a baby. Carter was excited. He asked what we wanted a boy or girl? We said the very PC answer that either would be super, which truthfully it would! But I would like to go on record as saying I think it is going to be a boy- and we are going to be naming him Truman. Anyways, Carter said he wants a boy AND a girl. Heaven help us if that were the case, although that may explain me being so out of breath. We told Carter it was a secret and not to tell poeple, we will see how well that goes!!! Who knows, maybe he can keep a secret!
So I am telling becuase I have had a really hard time not telling poeple. Not that I want to run up to everyone I see and say, "Guess what? I am pregnant!!!" But when poeple have asked so... what's new? what's going on? I feel like they know and are seeing if I will tell the the truth. I was lying about it when poeple asked me, cause lots of poeple know we have been trying, but Matt was like 'you are lying!'... So I have only been telling poeple when they straight up ask me. And now that I am not feeling well, when poeple ask me how I am what am I suppose to say? Yeah, I am doing great, don't mind me while I lie down. So now, I won't feel like I have to hide it, as much.
And I haven't wanted to tell poeple, surprisingly to what I have written about, becuase when you tell as early as I am, poeple will say at about 35 weeks, you are still pregnant? I thought you would have had that thing like 5 weeks ago!!! THat is what happened with my first pregnancy! I obvioulsy wasn't friends with the kindest, most sensitive poeple. Hopefully that won't be happening this time around.
Anyways, there you go.... now you know. I am sure those of you out there will be hearing a lot more about it in the weeks/months to come!
So..... I haven't written in a little while. And it is because something is preoccupying my mind, time, and physical being, and I have decided that I am going to share it cause I don't have much else to talk about. Plus, I feel like I am being fake if I write that is all is great, when maybe I am not. I always have been bad at secrets, and now is no different. And if you read my this then you are in our secret, which I suppose isn't going to a secret much longer.... So have you any idea what my secret is?
So we are pregnant! I am about 8 weeks along. So I think I am due in the very beginning of October, which may turn into Sept.- so that would be 3 in Sept, if that were to happen. It wasn't unexpected becuase we had my IUD taken out between Christmas and New Year's. But it sure did happen quickly- poor Matt. 3 of our 4 have been one and done- my friend is probably correct in saying we are super furtile. But I am happy about it. I am now looking at the kids a little more lovingly.....
It has been exciting, of course.......until the yucky "morning", or more actually all-day sickness set in!!!! I truly thought I wouldn't have any. Which maybe was just dumb thinking. Becuase while I have been sick for all of my kids, each pregnancy was better than the previous, but I have reverted, which hasn't been fun, to say the least. So I have been sick all day long for about a week now. I haven't been throwing up luckily, but just feel sooooooo yucky! And I am eating all the time to try to calm my stomach. Here comes the 55 pounds I like to gain during my pregnancies. Urg...... I have actually felt ok today, for most of the day at least. I don't know why. I have drank a bunch of COKE, which I know you are not suppose to have caffiene, but if it makes me feel good- I DON'T care!
I HATE being sick and have fretted about it since I have become so. Here is why..... When I first told my mom about my pregnancy, after congratulations, she asked, "So are you going to have morning sickness while we are in Florida?" At that time, I hoped not, but alas that is not to be. So I am very worried about spending all this money and then just wanting to lay in the hotel room on the bed! Super! I am just praying that doesn't happen. Although even if I am not sick sick, I know I am not going to be riding a bike around the islands! I know that is cause I seriously out of breathe walking up the stairs! And I am really having a hard time regaining it. Am I THAT out of shape? Jeepers. Will be doing lots of prayering and getting some blessings that I am not sick for the 6 days we are there!!!
So we told the kids, well Carter, Ella was pretty much asleep, tonight that we are having a baby. Carter was excited. He asked what we wanted a boy or girl? We said the very PC answer that either would be super, which truthfully it would! But I would like to go on record as saying I think it is going to be a boy- and we are going to be naming him Truman. Anyways, Carter said he wants a boy AND a girl. Heaven help us if that were the case, although that may explain me being so out of breath. We told Carter it was a secret and not to tell poeple, we will see how well that goes!!! Who knows, maybe he can keep a secret!
So I am telling becuase I have had a really hard time not telling poeple. Not that I want to run up to everyone I see and say, "Guess what? I am pregnant!!!" But when poeple have asked so... what's new? what's going on? I feel like they know and are seeing if I will tell the the truth. I was lying about it when poeple asked me, cause lots of poeple know we have been trying, but Matt was like 'you are lying!'... So I have only been telling poeple when they straight up ask me. And now that I am not feeling well, when poeple ask me how I am what am I suppose to say? Yeah, I am doing great, don't mind me while I lie down. So now, I won't feel like I have to hide it, as much.
And I haven't wanted to tell poeple, surprisingly to what I have written about, becuase when you tell as early as I am, poeple will say at about 35 weeks, you are still pregnant? I thought you would have had that thing like 5 weeks ago!!! THat is what happened with my first pregnancy! I obvioulsy wasn't friends with the kindest, most sensitive poeple. Hopefully that won't be happening this time around.
Anyways, there you go.... now you know. I am sure those of you out there will be hearing a lot more about it in the weeks/months to come!
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