Thank Heavens for Wonderful Friends

Sean and I have felt so blessed many many times for living where we do. You just can't pick your neighbors, you find a house that will work for a while and hope for good neighbors. We have the best neighbors and best ward friends EVER. We could use a house with a better floor plan, but we just can't bring ourselves to move because we love our neighbors so much. We may just have to knock our house down and rebuild someday.

My friend Natelli made me feel so blessed today. She brought us dinner and cleaned my really messy kitchen while she was here. Then came back later and cleaned my bathroom! As Sean said "She is beyond a friend." Thank you so much Natelli for always being such a wonderful friend, you listen to my complaints and give us so much with me being sick so often. We love you and are so glad to have you guys for our friends and neighbors.

I so appreciate all of the well wishes that I get from my amazing friends.

P.S. Thank you to whoever did the 12 days of Christmas for us. It was so much fun, Connor was excited everyday to see what came. We were thinking we would have to start a tradition of doing that for someone each year.

Ode to my Porcelain

This has been my view for the last several weeks. It is making me so grumpy. The next 7 months better go by so fast! I remember with Jackson it seemed like it'd never end, I hope this one isn't the same. My Zofran doesn't work, can someone become immune to zofran after using it for 2 other pregnancies? So my update on the pregnancy is; I feel like poop!

Christmas was nice. It snowed a TON! It was so nice to have a white Christmas. It was so much fun to watch all the 4 wheelers pulling sleds behind, it looked like a lot of fun. The boys had a lot of fun, Connor said it was "the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!" that's always nice to hear. Sean surprised me this year, we don't normally surprise each other. He did so good and got me some books I've been wanting to read, some classic novels. I'm excited.

My mother in law loaned me some movies, some BBC Jane Austen ones. Some of them are SO bad. I watched Northanger Abby. Have you seen it? I wonder if the book is like the movie. It was the most bizarre movie I'd ever seen, the best part is that I watched the whole thing.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Update on the side view mirror; it's fixed my amazing husband got a new one and popped it right on, now it's as good as new! Thanks amazing hubby!

Oh the Hormones!

I cry daily, but today it was for a really good reason. Usually it's just because of sweet commercials I see on tv or remembering how long I will actually be sick for... but today... I was feeling really nauseous and starving because it had been two hours since feeding time. The only thing I felt like I could stand to eat was a taco salad from Taco Bell. I hate going to the Taco Bell that is closest to my house because it always smells like sewage in the drive thru. Somehow the smell from across the freeway crap plant all collects on the side of the building. You can't escape the smell because you have to roll down your window to order and then again to pay and get your food. When you are already nauseous that is not the best thing in the world. The taco salad from Taco Bell was important enough for me today to brave the scent. I waited until 2:30 because I had car pool pick up today and I took all of the kids home. I cruised over to the boarder, salivating a little anticipating my salad, and only getting a little frustrated with Connor telling me that he wanted the circle things there??? What the freak? Circle things? He said "it looks like this" pointed his finger toward me, moved it in a circle to spiral toward me. I should have gotten it from that but I was still frustrated with him. So anyway. I pull up to the speaker and order my beloved taco salad and some cinnamon twists (I can't beleive that he even remembered those, I don't ever remember him getting them, he doesn't like mexican so we never get him any). I get to the pay window and get my purse... no wallet! I left it down by the computer last night.. NOOOOOO!! So I tell the guy at the window that I have no wallet, he looked at me like he didn't know what to do. Poor guy, I messed him all up. I went home, sent Connor in to get my wallet. I noticed that Connor's friend left his jacket in the back seat so we ran it over to him, I noticed that Connor was dancing up to the door. We went back home to potty, then off we went to the Bell again. Roll the window down order and this time adding a LARGE Dr. Pepper. This time when I roll the window down to pay, I'm gagging, it was horrible! It's worse when I imagine what the smell actually is. I got my Taco Salad, thank heavens! Was it really worth it you ask? YES! And it has stayed down. I motion for Taco Bell to relocate, or open one closer to me. I can't stand the smell! Any one second that?


Yesterday I cried because I was backing my car in the garage and hit my side view mirror, and broke broke it! If you hear me telling people that I was driving down the road and an Apache helicopter came up behind me and shot it, just go with it. It's a much better story.

Thank you to all the nice congratulations you gave me. I have some great friends!

P.S. Amy lou, I'm sad that you are not pregnant with me too.. hello.. get the move on!

It's Really Early, but What the Heck!

If I can't share it with my friends than it's not much fun. After 7 months of trying, I'm pregnant. Since I've told so many people we are really keeping our fingers crossed to keep this one, as this was my 9th positive pregnancy test and we have two to show for it. It's a great sign that I'm sick already. I'm only 6 weeks and I'm sick. With my boys I got sick around 7 weeks. I'm still nervous though. This one will complete our family. I will be donzo after this one, and am quite excited for that. I'm really excited to be pregnant again, the being sick takes it down just a notch and maybe makes it a little more real since it's still fairly fresh on my mind. It's nice being pregnant this close to the last because I can remember all of the little cramps and other side effects of pregnancy. We had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

Jasper vs. Edward Scissorhands

My friend Amy Lou came up with the comparison of Edward Scissorhands and Jasper, then she posted this picture. I thought it was way to funny not to steal and post. What do you think? Did he do his character research on the wrong character?

Dinner and the Movie

The long awaited night came and went. It was a really long day. Normally my bed time is right around when the sun goes down, it's sad that is what my life has come to. I drank enough Dr. Pepper to get me through the night. Dr. Pepper is so my guilty pleasure, I LOVE it!

We ate at Olive Garden, then we shopped for my nieces baby shower gifts, went back to the house and watched some Survivor (cheated; fast forwarded to see who got voted off, and it was hilarious, I was laughing so hard.) Then headed over to the theater. We saw lots of different lines outside and it was pretty chili. When we got there, they were already seating for our showing ::Laaaaaaaa:: We had to split up so that was a bummer. We had an hour to chat, so my sis showed me how to text.. boy.. I don't know that I should attempt that again. I'm SSSLLLLOOOOWW. I heard a guy come back from the bathroom laughing that there were about 10 guys in the bathroom, they were just staring one was pretending to slit is wrist. I thought that was funny. I thought the movie was pretty good, some of the actors I liked better than the others. I was really impressed with the guy who played Edward and I wasn't so sure before I saw the movie. Over all though I thought that for a Indie film with the small budget it was pretty darn good. Of course if it had a huge budget it could have been much better. If they do more movies for the books maybe they will have larger budgets?? Who knows. I'll buy it when it comes out of course. It wasn't my favorite movie, but it was pretty entertaining. I had a great night. Many thanks to the Kirks. I'm so glad that I got to go with you guys. Big Kiss MUAH!

I was talking to my friend today and remembered that after I saw The Count of Monte Cristo, I thought it was my favorite movie I'd ever seen. I haven't seen it since. I probably should, and read the book also.

Update on my silly insurance test. Everything came back good so I'm in the low risk category. I have to do some strange activity (like read an article) and report about it every quarter. What is this world coming to?

Today is a good day, I get to see Twilight tonight!

Today I can't eat anything until 4. Ugh. I'm not a good faster. At least I can have water. For our insurance we have to get all these tests to see what risk category we are in. They test our cholesteral, body fat, body mass, etc. I can't decide if it's good or not. All of Sean's coworkers are ticked about the whole thing. Every year our insurance gets worse and worse. I'm glad that we at least have insurance, but it really does bite. Over the year we'll have to track our workouts and stuff I guess. Weird. I'm going to try to take advantage of it.

Tonight I'm going to go see the Twilight movie. I can't wait. I'm excited to go out with my fam. I get to go out and be kidless and husbandless. The husbandless part will be a little sad, but he's happy to stay home with the kids, although I'm sure he'll love the movie.

I've had a sick boy at home all week. I took him to the Dr. yesterday and he has a double ear infection. We got some antibiotics so he should be better very soon (fingers crossed). I was convinced that he'd go to school today, but this morning he said he felt "horrible". There's always hope for this afternoon or tomorrow right?

I'm getting so excited for Thanksgiving! YUM! I can't wait to eat. This year we are having Thanksgiving at my sisters cabin, it's almost done, they are pushing to get it done by Thurs. It's going to be so much fun to be up there, we love it! My brother and his family are coming from Colorado. It's going to be a good time. I used to really not like Thanksgiving, it was my least favorite holiday, a bunch of people getting together to gorge and I used to hate the colors. I'm weird I know. Now Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I love to eat the nummy foods that I usually only eat at that time of year. My sister-in-law is the best cook ever and she made the yummiest Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago, so I got some of her recipes that 'make' Thanksgiving now. Cornbread & Sausage stuffing and Sweet Potato Casserole.. mmmm... I'm getting all excited thinking about it.. that, and hungary, Shoot! And now the Thanksgiving colors are amongst my favorites, brown and orange. Boooyah!