WE have been enjoying my parents house in Montrose, IA(pop.900) for the last week now! And this is the last only time I have been completely by myself since we got here! It has awesome! Although I hear a car door slamming as I write this, so maybe not a very long post! But still soo nice to be alone.
Little later.....
Not alone anymore, but still quiet! Lincoln is sleeping and the kids are downstairs with Matt watching something on tv. Would love for them to be outside, but it is like 95 degrees and soo humid it feels like a sauna! I do love the humidity but I just checked weather.com and they say it the temperature is 91, but feels like 108! Enough said! Whew! Were going to go to Nauvoo this afternoon, but it got nixed because of the heat and the fact that Lincoln was up till like 12:30 last night courtesy of my mother and was soooo tired, I couldn't imagine taking him anywhere, especially in the heat! Courtesy of my mother because he woke up at about 10 and while I would have let him cry after my initial visit to see him, she couldn't handle it and after going in to see him 5 times brought him in the living room to hang out on her lap. She kept saying she felt bad for him..... He finally went down just in time for the gigantic thunderstorm to blow in and keep him awake! It was awesome! He also woke up when the second thunderstorm came in some time in the middle of the night. I love thunderstorms, but not when you are not in your own house. Anyways......
So the trip is coming to a close. Two nights left. It has been a good trip over all. Too much time spent in the car, but I suppose what do you expect when you live close to nothing! Kids have been good about being in the car. Pretty much just pump them full of ice cream or skittles/candy during the trip and let them go crazy wherever we end up. I can only imagine what people think of us with my 5, 3, and 2 year-old and my big pregnancy belly. In Utah no one looks twice, here poeple must think I don't know how to keep my legs closed. At least they all look alike and are relatively well dressed, like we can take care of them.
Let's see since being here we went to the John Deere Museum and expensive gift store in Moline, IL and the children's museum there in the quad cities. We went to the Mennonite Walmart, which we always enjoy. Mom and Dad's branch. The Double Dip ice cream/laundry mat a few times. We went to see the BYU ballroom dancers put on their traveling show. We went to the famous Family Discount Shoe Store, where we left with 4 pairs of shoes! Everyone got a pair except for Matt. Matt and I did our once a trip outing to the Nauvoo temple and IVY restaurant! Food was awesome and session was really good too!!! Not always the case, but definitely this time. Oh, Matt and I also got to go on a date and saw the movie up in 3D. It was good- glad we didn't bring Carter- not a little kids movie! Tonight we are going to Nauvoo for their nightly riversides show- can't remember what it is called. Tomorrow we plan on going golfing- Matt, Carter, my dad and I! And then tomorrow night the guys are all going to the car races in the next town over.
Besides all our outings Matt and Carter have mowed the whole lawn, which isn't very exciting, but Carter gets to help steer the riding lawn mower, which he loves. The kids swam in the little pool mom has until Penny, the world's worst puppy, attacked it and put teeth marks in the sides of it! We have picked a bunch of raspberries. Carter has built lots of jumps with the help of boards and bricks he found. Lots of time spent on the hammock. Kids pulled out our old super soakers. Matt and Carter took a really long bike ride this morning. Daily walks to the mail box. Carter and Ella climbed the tree at the bottom of the driveway. I spent lots of time playing the piano, which I thoroughly enjoy since I never get to. Kids did the zip line! And really spent lots of time outsides doing who knows what.
We have seen 1 super cute fawn, a million bunnies, 400 dear, several dead mice/moles in the yard, one gigantic dead mole- in the yard-, several frogs, 1badger, 1 garden snake, a donkey, burro, bunches of horses and tons of cows and more bugs than I ever want to see again for the rest of my life. I am soo sick of the bugs..... except for the fireflies- those bugs are cute....
Besides all those bugs and the fact that we have been sleeping on an air mattress all week, this is a good grandma/grandpa house and my parents are good to us. Always fun to visit!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Cheap Summer Fun!!!
So I did one of my better, cheaper summer fun ideas today. It will probably by lame to anyone who reads this, but think I am lame, whatever. But before I tell you what exactly I did there is a little back story on how I discovered my cheap summer fun idea!
When we moved from Louisville to Boise we were only permitted to bring 1000 pounds of our stuff. Which may sound like a lot, however, that is everything- clothes, toys, books, basically anything thought we would need for the 9 months we were going to be there. They told us our corporate apartment would be furnished and I suppose it was, but anything and everything in the kitchen was needed and of course no toys! And while I did bring the kids some of their toys, it became apparent pretty quickly that we needed more. However, I didn't want to spend a lot of money when we had tons of toys in boxes in storage somewhere in a warehouse in SLC. So I went to the DI and found some of the biggest trucks we could find for Carter. Bigger is always better right? Ella was so little she didn't care much still about toys or just played with Carters. So we came home and gave them all a good scrubbing and he played with them tons until we got all our stuff out of storage 5 months after we moved to Boise. And those DI toys became Carter's outside toys. He loved having big trucks he could play with in the unused garden plot of the house we were then renting. And I loved that he didn't ask to take his "nice" toys outside to play. He knew he had fun stuff outside already.
But that was 2 summers ago! That is funny to write 2 summers cause it doesn't seem like that long ago in my head. hmm.. And we have moved and while we have a big tub to put toys in during the winter, he still played with them in the snow and the lid wasn't always put on just as it should have been, so those poor, cheap, very played with trucks didn't make it through. I think all have pretty much been put in the trash. Carter hasn't noticed soo much that his trucks are gone, cause they left slowly, but I noticed how much fun he had zooming down the slide or off the landing of the playset. Or crashing them into each other in sorta crash derby off the deck. And the best part was that I didn't blink an eye!
So after my doctors appt. today we were very close to the DI, which we actually don't live very close to at all, hence me taking so long to finally get over there. The kids were like where are we going? DI. Why? To buy some toys? For who?- they know better to think they were the ones getting the toys cause that never happens. For you. Why? They are going to be your outside toys. So whatever we get is going to be for you play outside with. They were very excited about this idea. In my head I only wanted to spend $15 dollars. I thought that sounded like a good number, no other reason than that.
Once inside DI we head straight for the toys. I had only been to this DI once before and so we did have to look a minute for it, stupid as that sounds. We found it quick enough though. And that was like the hub of the store. Those two isles were slammed packed full of people. I felt like I had to be really savvy and make sure they didn't take all the good stuff. Carter knew exactly how it worked and went to the biggest cars, trucks, jeeps and ATV's he could find. There were plenty there because people donate their old remote controlled ones, which are perfect for what we were wanting them for. Lincoln was excited too and was crawling around on that filthy floor playing with cars he found. We put those in the cart too. Now Ella wasn't quite sure what to do with herself. She wanted the Barbie cash register, which totally didn't work. I put it in the cart to satisfy her, but was removed before we left the toy isle. I then directed her to plastic dolls and my little ponys. On her own she found a pink ice cream truck she wanted too. She was thrilled and didn't want to put them in the cart with the boys toys, she wanted to hold all of them- she had like 10 + the truck. So we head to the register and while the kids all are all walking backwards up the isle, I am wondering how much exactly am I buying? While of course everything is cheap, the point of all this is that it is cheap, I didn't want to pay $25 for all this crap.
However, when the cashier said $15, I thought this is the best $15 I have ever spent. The kids were soo excited and wanted all their stuff in the car. Ella's was easy enough for her to play with, but the boys trucks/cars/jeeps/atvs were huge compared to their little laps. Yet Lincoln didn't seem to mind. When we finally got home, after a "quick" stop into Walmart, the kids flew outside, despite the serious wind and not so warm temperature to play with their new toys. Ella asked if she could play inside and seemed content when I told her no those were outside toys. They seriously spent the whole evening outside playing with them. And I am sure there will be many more hours of play those toys will get.
Best $15 ever spent!
When we moved from Louisville to Boise we were only permitted to bring 1000 pounds of our stuff. Which may sound like a lot, however, that is everything- clothes, toys, books, basically anything thought we would need for the 9 months we were going to be there. They told us our corporate apartment would be furnished and I suppose it was, but anything and everything in the kitchen was needed and of course no toys! And while I did bring the kids some of their toys, it became apparent pretty quickly that we needed more. However, I didn't want to spend a lot of money when we had tons of toys in boxes in storage somewhere in a warehouse in SLC. So I went to the DI and found some of the biggest trucks we could find for Carter. Bigger is always better right? Ella was so little she didn't care much still about toys or just played with Carters. So we came home and gave them all a good scrubbing and he played with them tons until we got all our stuff out of storage 5 months after we moved to Boise. And those DI toys became Carter's outside toys. He loved having big trucks he could play with in the unused garden plot of the house we were then renting. And I loved that he didn't ask to take his "nice" toys outside to play. He knew he had fun stuff outside already.
But that was 2 summers ago! That is funny to write 2 summers cause it doesn't seem like that long ago in my head. hmm.. And we have moved and while we have a big tub to put toys in during the winter, he still played with them in the snow and the lid wasn't always put on just as it should have been, so those poor, cheap, very played with trucks didn't make it through. I think all have pretty much been put in the trash. Carter hasn't noticed soo much that his trucks are gone, cause they left slowly, but I noticed how much fun he had zooming down the slide or off the landing of the playset. Or crashing them into each other in sorta crash derby off the deck. And the best part was that I didn't blink an eye!
So after my doctors appt. today we were very close to the DI, which we actually don't live very close to at all, hence me taking so long to finally get over there. The kids were like where are we going? DI. Why? To buy some toys? For who?- they know better to think they were the ones getting the toys cause that never happens. For you. Why? They are going to be your outside toys. So whatever we get is going to be for you play outside with. They were very excited about this idea. In my head I only wanted to spend $15 dollars. I thought that sounded like a good number, no other reason than that.
Once inside DI we head straight for the toys. I had only been to this DI once before and so we did have to look a minute for it, stupid as that sounds. We found it quick enough though. And that was like the hub of the store. Those two isles were slammed packed full of people. I felt like I had to be really savvy and make sure they didn't take all the good stuff. Carter knew exactly how it worked and went to the biggest cars, trucks, jeeps and ATV's he could find. There were plenty there because people donate their old remote controlled ones, which are perfect for what we were wanting them for. Lincoln was excited too and was crawling around on that filthy floor playing with cars he found. We put those in the cart too. Now Ella wasn't quite sure what to do with herself. She wanted the Barbie cash register, which totally didn't work. I put it in the cart to satisfy her, but was removed before we left the toy isle. I then directed her to plastic dolls and my little ponys. On her own she found a pink ice cream truck she wanted too. She was thrilled and didn't want to put them in the cart with the boys toys, she wanted to hold all of them- she had like 10 + the truck. So we head to the register and while the kids all are all walking backwards up the isle, I am wondering how much exactly am I buying? While of course everything is cheap, the point of all this is that it is cheap, I didn't want to pay $25 for all this crap.
However, when the cashier said $15, I thought this is the best $15 I have ever spent. The kids were soo excited and wanted all their stuff in the car. Ella's was easy enough for her to play with, but the boys trucks/cars/jeeps/atvs were huge compared to their little laps. Yet Lincoln didn't seem to mind. When we finally got home, after a "quick" stop into Walmart, the kids flew outside, despite the serious wind and not so warm temperature to play with their new toys. Ella asked if she could play inside and seemed content when I told her no those were outside toys. They seriously spent the whole evening outside playing with them. And I am sure there will be many more hours of play those toys will get.
Best $15 ever spent!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Names......
We walked by a family with like 4 girls on Matt and I's last date and he said, " I should go back and get the names of those girls! How did the parents choose 4 names!!!!!!!"
So if you don't know..... we are having a girl! It was quite the shock, cause I swore I was having a boy. And to be honest, it has been like, what?, 3 weeks since finding out and I still think in my head I am having a boy. I call it him when referring to the baby in my belly. While shopping, I don't have any desire to look at baby girl clothes. And don't even mention names..... what in the world are we going to name this child?
Matt and I can't agree on a name to save our life. It is quite comical to listen to us try. We spent last Sunday night at Matt's parents house with a brother and sister-in-law of ours trying to figure out. We went through his parents relief society list because we joke, me too, that I like old lady names and I guess they have a bunch of old ladies in their ward. The name Matt most liked was Mimi! I think we have settled that the girls middle name will be Jane. Maybe her first name even! Who knows?
Some names we, well, maybe me more than Matt have liked so far are: (and I have kept a list of them, so they are easier to rule out and less likely to forget which we have ruled out) Clara/Claire, Olive, Ruby*, Violet, Anna*, Lauren, Janie, Daisy, Lucy*, Molly, Lilly, Jillian/Jill, Annabelle*, Annie, and Juliet. The * ones are the few that Matt kinda, maybe likes! He isn't super keen on any of them. Right now he likes Reagan or Lindsay.
And everyone likes to give suggestions, which I actually don't mind. We need them! My father has called me often and told me he likes the name Grace. My grandma likes Evalyn. Matt's mom likes Susanna.
My sister-in-law Jeanne likes Madison and call her Maddie. Which is cute. But there is a problem. There are 3 Maddie's on our street. 1 lives across from us, 1 lives 3 doors down, and one actually just walked by our house, is Carter's best friends older sister. I don't want another Ella, which isn't to say I don't love Ella's name- but there are like 6 Ella's in our ward. Again 1 lives right across the street. And I know we most likely won't live here forever, but still.... Between the 75+ kids on our street and the 35+ nieces and nephews, our names are limited.
I kinda feel like if we were to find a name for her, it would settle in my head that we are actually having a girl. I really do think that when the baby comes out the doctor is going to say, 'oh! Look we were wrong.... it is a BOY!!!!' I know that that is unlikely, but a name would help give this child some identity?
And another funny thing about naming it, is that we have almost always known the name upon conception. Ella took a little longer, but still I think we knew once we found out she was a girl that was our Eleanor Rose. This next one was going to be Truman.... there is no girl name that can be made out of that one.
So I don't know.
I haven't posted for long because I felt like I couldn't post until I talked/announced the sex of the child, but not able to confront it until now, I suppose. 2 and 2! So different than how I thought my family would look. I don't mind having a girl, truly, just so different than what I truly believed. i always thought my last would be a boy, which begs the question are we done......
But before we decided whether or not we are we have to name this child..... so any suggestions.
So if you don't know..... we are having a girl! It was quite the shock, cause I swore I was having a boy. And to be honest, it has been like, what?, 3 weeks since finding out and I still think in my head I am having a boy. I call it him when referring to the baby in my belly. While shopping, I don't have any desire to look at baby girl clothes. And don't even mention names..... what in the world are we going to name this child?
Matt and I can't agree on a name to save our life. It is quite comical to listen to us try. We spent last Sunday night at Matt's parents house with a brother and sister-in-law of ours trying to figure out. We went through his parents relief society list because we joke, me too, that I like old lady names and I guess they have a bunch of old ladies in their ward. The name Matt most liked was Mimi! I think we have settled that the girls middle name will be Jane. Maybe her first name even! Who knows?
Some names we, well, maybe me more than Matt have liked so far are: (and I have kept a list of them, so they are easier to rule out and less likely to forget which we have ruled out) Clara/Claire, Olive, Ruby*, Violet, Anna*, Lauren, Janie, Daisy, Lucy*, Molly, Lilly, Jillian/Jill, Annabelle*, Annie, and Juliet. The * ones are the few that Matt kinda, maybe likes! He isn't super keen on any of them. Right now he likes Reagan or Lindsay.
And everyone likes to give suggestions, which I actually don't mind. We need them! My father has called me often and told me he likes the name Grace. My grandma likes Evalyn. Matt's mom likes Susanna.
My sister-in-law Jeanne likes Madison and call her Maddie. Which is cute. But there is a problem. There are 3 Maddie's on our street. 1 lives across from us, 1 lives 3 doors down, and one actually just walked by our house, is Carter's best friends older sister. I don't want another Ella, which isn't to say I don't love Ella's name- but there are like 6 Ella's in our ward. Again 1 lives right across the street. And I know we most likely won't live here forever, but still.... Between the 75+ kids on our street and the 35+ nieces and nephews, our names are limited.
I kinda feel like if we were to find a name for her, it would settle in my head that we are actually having a girl. I really do think that when the baby comes out the doctor is going to say, 'oh! Look we were wrong.... it is a BOY!!!!' I know that that is unlikely, but a name would help give this child some identity?
And another funny thing about naming it, is that we have almost always known the name upon conception. Ella took a little longer, but still I think we knew once we found out she was a girl that was our Eleanor Rose. This next one was going to be Truman.... there is no girl name that can be made out of that one.
So I don't know.
I haven't posted for long because I felt like I couldn't post until I talked/announced the sex of the child, but not able to confront it until now, I suppose. 2 and 2! So different than how I thought my family would look. I don't mind having a girl, truly, just so different than what I truly believed. i always thought my last would be a boy, which begs the question are we done......
But before we decided whether or not we are we have to name this child..... so any suggestions.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
And Again.....
Well, it wouldn't be a Sat. if it didn't rain a ton and was was just yucky all around! So Carter's games were cancelled and we thought we are so sick of this and not being able to do all the yard stuff we are trying desperately to do, so we thought well what else could be do? Get out of the house and do something fun, which we haven't done for awhile- well not all of us. Matt did take Carter is Supercross last weekend, but the rest of us didn't go. Sooo.. we decided to go downtown to the Discovery Center!! Matt had taken the kids there once before, but I didn't go- who knows now what I was doing. We rode trax downtown and ate lunch out and then headed on over.
The kids were thrilled about taking Trax and besides getting drenched while running from the car to get on the train, it was great! Definitely not cheaper, or quicker, going that way, but we were in it for the experience I suppose. We just at Applebee's at the Gateway and practically ran full speed to the Discovery Center to finally get out of the rain for awhile.
Once you get over the sticker shock of how much it cost, it was awesome!!! what was kinda funny about it however, was that it felt like we were there for forever, but we were only there for a little over 1.5 hours. I had a lot of fun and usually time flies when you are having a great time, right? so I don't know what exactly our problem was, but what felt like 3 hours was about half that. Maybe cause we had been gone from home for so long anyways.....?
Each kid had favorite parts, of course, unfortunately none were in the same place. Lincoln of course LOVED the huge ball area. What is so exciting about putting plastic balls into tubes, is only known to a 22 month-old. Ella loved the kids sized kitchen in the house! It was really fun. She also loved the market, but was unable to play very long in there because Carter was eager to leave that area. It was a kid sized town with a construction site, market, farm, water play area. They had several cars to ride in and one that you could put gas into and fill the tires with air. So cute and fun! Carter's favorite area was probably the news station. Although I don't really know, he said he liked all of it when asked and seemed to bounce from one thing to the next pretty quickly! But nonetheless we all had a wonderful time. Oh, my favorite part was seeing how much fun my kids were having! Can't beat that!
We were ultimately there for only about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It felt much, much longer than that. After we left the center we went and got some candy from a candy store! What family day would be complete without a trip to the candy store? Of course after we left the candy store it started to rain again! Urg.... But we shortly hopped back on the trax and headed home. The kids were more subdued this time. Ella even fell asleep on the trip back to the car and then everyone else fell asleep on the car ride home. It was a good day. We haven't done something like that for awhile and it was good for us! Days like that are what makes it really fun to be a parent!
The kids were thrilled about taking Trax and besides getting drenched while running from the car to get on the train, it was great! Definitely not cheaper, or quicker, going that way, but we were in it for the experience I suppose. We just at Applebee's at the Gateway and practically ran full speed to the Discovery Center to finally get out of the rain for awhile.
Once you get over the sticker shock of how much it cost, it was awesome!!! what was kinda funny about it however, was that it felt like we were there for forever, but we were only there for a little over 1.5 hours. I had a lot of fun and usually time flies when you are having a great time, right? so I don't know what exactly our problem was, but what felt like 3 hours was about half that. Maybe cause we had been gone from home for so long anyways.....?
Each kid had favorite parts, of course, unfortunately none were in the same place. Lincoln of course LOVED the huge ball area. What is so exciting about putting plastic balls into tubes, is only known to a 22 month-old. Ella loved the kids sized kitchen in the house! It was really fun. She also loved the market, but was unable to play very long in there because Carter was eager to leave that area. It was a kid sized town with a construction site, market, farm, water play area. They had several cars to ride in and one that you could put gas into and fill the tires with air. So cute and fun! Carter's favorite area was probably the news station. Although I don't really know, he said he liked all of it when asked and seemed to bounce from one thing to the next pretty quickly! But nonetheless we all had a wonderful time. Oh, my favorite part was seeing how much fun my kids were having! Can't beat that!
We were ultimately there for only about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It felt much, much longer than that. After we left the center we went and got some candy from a candy store! What family day would be complete without a trip to the candy store? Of course after we left the candy store it started to rain again! Urg.... But we shortly hopped back on the trax and headed home. The kids were more subdued this time. Ella even fell asleep on the trip back to the car and then everyone else fell asleep on the car ride home. It was a good day. We haven't done something like that for awhile and it was good for us! Days like that are what makes it really fun to be a parent!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Must Be EQ Night Cause Why Else Am I Writing?
Should be reading my book for book club, so I can pass it along to someone else, but can't quite seem to get up from the desk to do so!
Am feeling better for the most part. Have left behind the always feeling yucky stage and kinda moved into the I want to throw-up stage. I didn't feel like throwing up much before, just always felt yucky and just more yucky. Don't know how to explain it. But now, I seriously feel like I am going to puke at any moments notice. However, the good thing is it happens only in the morning and if I take some medicine, like I did today, within a half an hour, I feel perfect! I have gained 25 pounds so far and am only 18 weeks along. AWESOME!!!!!! I am a blimp, which is will be so fun to have to kill myself to get off next fall, but easier to worry about it then, then do something now. Well, for now it is at least.
So, as most know about us we go to church every Sunday and stuff. So this last Sunday was Stake conference and as the diligent mormons we are we go because you are suppose to go.... And I say suppose to, because I know you are "suppose" to go because you love it and get so much from it and not strictly out of duty. And normal Sunday's I do feel all that other good stuff. But for Stake conference, we go strictly because I think we will be blessed for being obedient. Because I have to tell you I got nothing out of the two hours we were there. Which is a true shame because Elder Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles came and he spoke for like 50 minutes and went about 15 minutes over time and I know he gave a great talk, however, I have no idea what it was on. That metal chair I was sitting on was so uncomfortable and I woke up on the wrong side of the hormonal pregnancy bed and had no patience for my kids or my wonderful husband. It was awful and by the time we left I didn't even mind the fact that it has snowed while we were in the building..... mind you it was 4 days ago in LATE April.... but just for that thing to be over. However.......
There was a Saturday night adult session. and I was able to attend. And it was wonderful! I now know why they have them, so those with kids can get sitters and actually get something out of stake conference. Matt was unable to go do to a very important commitment he made a month ago before we realized stake conference was this weekend- he took Carter to the supercross thing up at the U with 3 of his brothers and their boys. As a side note, Carter had sooo much fun and I have never seen him more excited or hyper at 11:30 at night when they finally got home. Okay... back to stake conference. Elder Hales was amazing and so funny, which is what I love about more intimate setting with apostles than say, General Conference. While you do see their personalities some during Gen. Conf. you really see that these wonderful men are people to and are funny and try hard and make mistakes. They are people too, but are also amazing special witness' of Christ. And not only was Elder Hales' talk amazing and edifying and enlightening, but so was Elder Martino, who was a member of the 2nd 70 for whatever they are called. Actually all the talks were sooo good. And I left there with a renewed love for my husband and with a commitment to try and love and enjoy my children more. It was a wonderful night. I do wish Matt had been there, but he was able to attend the priesthood leadership meeting, which he was said was incredible as well. And that night when we finally got him we stayed up too late and discussed all the things we learned and took notes about it. It was good for us and I am grateful to have been able to have gone.
Another neat thing we did in regards to the upcoming stake conference was that we had a special leadership temple night for the ward with a special endowment session with a devotional before hand from the President of the Temple. Since Matt has an "important" calling, heaven's knows they aren't inviting nursery workers to those things, we got to attend. Wives were invited and Matt was very insistent I go. We rarely attend the temple together and I had actually just gone last week, however can you really go to frequently? So we went and it was a full session- it was awesome to see all these people from our stake-none of whom I knew mind you, but we were all there for the same reason! And the thing I got out of that night, was when Matt, who somehow sat on the front front and got to be done before me. Anyways, as he was up at the front doing his thing and I was sitting on the last row and looking at his backside, I thought about how I really do have the most wonderful husband. And isn't he so attractive and he works so hard for me and our family. And he is so kind to me even when I throw a pregnancy-induced fit.... how could I ever do/have done better? Gosh, I am one of the luckiest girls in this room. Unfortunately, I don't think that enough. It was good for me to "realize" it all over again. Hopefully, I will continue to "realize" it for many years to come. More often than not, however.
Am feeling better for the most part. Have left behind the always feeling yucky stage and kinda moved into the I want to throw-up stage. I didn't feel like throwing up much before, just always felt yucky and just more yucky. Don't know how to explain it. But now, I seriously feel like I am going to puke at any moments notice. However, the good thing is it happens only in the morning and if I take some medicine, like I did today, within a half an hour, I feel perfect! I have gained 25 pounds so far and am only 18 weeks along. AWESOME!!!!!! I am a blimp, which is will be so fun to have to kill myself to get off next fall, but easier to worry about it then, then do something now. Well, for now it is at least.
So, as most know about us we go to church every Sunday and stuff. So this last Sunday was Stake conference and as the diligent mormons we are we go because you are suppose to go.... And I say suppose to, because I know you are "suppose" to go because you love it and get so much from it and not strictly out of duty. And normal Sunday's I do feel all that other good stuff. But for Stake conference, we go strictly because I think we will be blessed for being obedient. Because I have to tell you I got nothing out of the two hours we were there. Which is a true shame because Elder Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles came and he spoke for like 50 minutes and went about 15 minutes over time and I know he gave a great talk, however, I have no idea what it was on. That metal chair I was sitting on was so uncomfortable and I woke up on the wrong side of the hormonal pregnancy bed and had no patience for my kids or my wonderful husband. It was awful and by the time we left I didn't even mind the fact that it has snowed while we were in the building..... mind you it was 4 days ago in LATE April.... but just for that thing to be over. However.......
There was a Saturday night adult session. and I was able to attend. And it was wonderful! I now know why they have them, so those with kids can get sitters and actually get something out of stake conference. Matt was unable to go do to a very important commitment he made a month ago before we realized stake conference was this weekend- he took Carter to the supercross thing up at the U with 3 of his brothers and their boys. As a side note, Carter had sooo much fun and I have never seen him more excited or hyper at 11:30 at night when they finally got home. Okay... back to stake conference. Elder Hales was amazing and so funny, which is what I love about more intimate setting with apostles than say, General Conference. While you do see their personalities some during Gen. Conf. you really see that these wonderful men are people to and are funny and try hard and make mistakes. They are people too, but are also amazing special witness' of Christ. And not only was Elder Hales' talk amazing and edifying and enlightening, but so was Elder Martino, who was a member of the 2nd 70 for whatever they are called. Actually all the talks were sooo good. And I left there with a renewed love for my husband and with a commitment to try and love and enjoy my children more. It was a wonderful night. I do wish Matt had been there, but he was able to attend the priesthood leadership meeting, which he was said was incredible as well. And that night when we finally got him we stayed up too late and discussed all the things we learned and took notes about it. It was good for us and I am grateful to have been able to have gone.
Another neat thing we did in regards to the upcoming stake conference was that we had a special leadership temple night for the ward with a special endowment session with a devotional before hand from the President of the Temple. Since Matt has an "important" calling, heaven's knows they aren't inviting nursery workers to those things, we got to attend. Wives were invited and Matt was very insistent I go. We rarely attend the temple together and I had actually just gone last week, however can you really go to frequently? So we went and it was a full session- it was awesome to see all these people from our stake-none of whom I knew mind you, but we were all there for the same reason! And the thing I got out of that night, was when Matt, who somehow sat on the front front and got to be done before me. Anyways, as he was up at the front doing his thing and I was sitting on the last row and looking at his backside, I thought about how I really do have the most wonderful husband. And isn't he so attractive and he works so hard for me and our family. And he is so kind to me even when I throw a pregnancy-induced fit.... how could I ever do/have done better? Gosh, I am one of the luckiest girls in this room. Unfortunately, I don't think that enough. It was good for me to "realize" it all over again. Hopefully, I will continue to "realize" it for many years to come. More often than not, however.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The Last Two Weeks!
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?
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?
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.
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