Waz up?!

I'm glad you asked. Reed's out of town this week, which means I'm home alone, swollen ankles and all, trying to find things to do to keep myself from psyching myself out that I'm going to go into labor in the next 4 days and possibly have to do the whole labor thing alone. (Currently, Reed is only a 3 hour drive away. I just like messing with my psyche, I think.)

Thankfully, I have lots of projects, and my sister keeps helping me find more to do. I just finished the ruffle for my crib tonight, and tomorrow we go shopping for baby blessing dress cloth. I have been informed the dress may take 3 days to do. That's good. I could use a little distraction, and something to make the time pass quickly.

I only need about 9 more 3 day projects, and then I'll have an 18 yr project on my hands! :) (In other words, about 27 more days, and I might have a baby!)

4 weeks To Go!

Well, I am none the worse for wear after our overnighter up near Cascade. It was actually kinda nice to have a mini vacation away from home - just what Reed and I both needed.

Today also happens to be my sister Laura's birthday and my niece Aubrey's birthday too! Happy birthday to 2 fabulously cute girls!!

In even better news, my birthday is in 1 1/2 weeks, and what a strange coincidence that my sister Alyson and I are going to both be pregnant on our birthday this year. Kinda odd, huh? Wonder how often that happens with twins?

Fun Stuff !!

I've been pretty busy this week, luckily I've had a surprising amount of energy and it's been mighty helpful! Monday, I started making my own diaper bag with a pattern I got from my talented sewing sis Alyson, (also the talented bow making, baby quilt making, photo taking, and she's a mom of 2, pregnant with their 3rd. How does she find the time?) Anyway, got most of the bag done Monday - so excited because it was coming out really well! Anyway, Tuesday after picking Reed up from work and dropping him at home with our one shared car, I set out for Alyson's house for some additional instructions so I could finish my diaper bag. Wouldn't you know it, our car died right before I was about to pull out of our neighborhood. So, I called Alyson, who graciously offered the use of her husband to help find out what was wrong with our car, and why it wouldn't start. In the meantime, Reed walked over and we walked back home together, without our car. Long story short, Trevor, Alyson's husband, helped haul our car back home and he and Reed had it all fixed back up by 3 am. Wow! Trevor was a HUGE blessing to us, since we both needed to go to work the next day and taking our car to a mechanic would have cost a lot and taken more than just a few hours of one night, I can guarantee you that.

Anyway, while the boys were fixing up the car, I finished cutting out all the fabric for the crib skirt I am also making. I got most of that done that night, along with planting all the flowers I had painstakingly grown from seed into our flower beds in the front of our house. (I really hope they survive all this weird weather we're having.)
And last night, I finished my diaper bag! Boy I wish my camera could download a picture of it for you all to see. It's so cute! Even Alyson said so when I showed it to her today!! Someday, I'll include a picture on here. I promise.
So what do I have to show for myself tonight? I took a nap. I really needed it, believe me.
And tomorrow, my ward is hosting a relief society retreat up at somebody's cabin and Reed is coming to be one of our Priesthood Holders, so if I go into labor from all that driving (it's 1 hr 45 min. away) well at least Reed will be at the delivery! :) By the way, do you think I'm crazy for going? I'm pretty much 4 weeks from my due date.

Purely Random

So, I had some pictures developed a few weeks ago, purely with the intent to post them on my blog. Now, I realize, I should have developed them sooner because at this point, they're not as interesting as they might have been. My next thought was that if I bunched them together into one post, maybe they would become a little more exciting? We shall see.


First, we have our mid-winter bright idea. No ice cubes in the house, but lots of fruit and quite a lot of available snow right outside our front door! So, we made snow fruit shakes. Yum! (Of course we made sure no one had walked in our snow prior to our use of it, and no, it wasn't yellow. Gross!)








Next, we have one of my favorite Christmas presents I received this year. I think it may be hard to see, but it's an angel, and on her skirt it says "Love". I love this present, and am grateful to the person who gave it to me who taught me more about love than anyone else I know,(okay, obviously besides Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father.)




Last, but definitely not least, we have this cute little bear, wearing the bow I made for our baby to wear on her blessing day. What do you think? I hope the bear isn't stretching out the headband part . . . .

Happy Easter!

Just for Grins and Giggles . . . .

Our little girl in utero is quite funny sometimes. Tonight she was extending her foot so high and hard in my stomach I could clearly feel that it was her foot, from my outside vantage point. I quickly grabbed Reed's hand since he happened to be sitting beside me, and put his hand on top of where her little foot was. He got the biggest grin on his face and made the funniest noise - he was clearly surprised that you could feel so well this little limb protruding from our little one. It just goes to show you - even adults can be easily amused.

In other news, life is definitely going. We're getting ready for our garden and I have pre-planted most of our plants that say it's okay to do - now we just need to plot out our garden and start some BIG TIME planting! I'm very excited to start growing our own plants. Other summer time projects: putting up a fence, planting flowers, and lots and lots of weeding. Oh, and losing some baby weight. What are some of YOUR summer plans?

So glad it's Wednesday!

Well, not much to report on the home front. Seriously. Reed and I have had the privilege this week and half of last to share one car, which means we have a lot of car time, to talk. I'm sure Reed loves this. :) Like any normal female, especially from my family, I can find so many interesting topics to talk about. I think Reed has gotten used to this, but I think I am spoiled, because to begin with, he was a good listener. Or at least he fakes it really well! :)

I did learn a rather funny lesson today about Reed. We went to Albertsons to cash in on their great cereal sale they're having right now. And we ended up with quite a few boxes of cereal which would require ringing up on the cash register several times. And this store had no self-checkout lanes. So, we get in line in front of this older couple, (all the register lines were fairly longish) and I get all situated, pumping myself up to convince the lady at the register to help us to get the most for our money on our cereal buys.
Reed was starting to look uncomfortable as I got everything arranged on the conveyor, so I tried to talk him through what we were about to do.
"Okay, Reed. I'll buy the first five boxes, and then you buy the next five boxes and then we'll ask the cashier to ring up our last 5 boxes as another sale." Reed clearly was not sold on this idea. His first response, "I don't have any money on me." "That's okay, I do, I'll just hand you some money." He looked skeptical but knew I wasn't going to let him off so easy.
In the end, he was saved by the fact that one of his former co-workers happened to see him, and he went off to see how his friend was doing, while I successfully achieved 3 separate sales in one line, with one very nice cashier. (And one very elderly lady quite antsy to get her order rung up. She was clearly crowding me. :) Oh well, maybe she couldn't tell.) I'd like to add that frankly, not having Reed there at the time of the ring-up helped me to not pick up on his uncomfortable vibes, 'cause I was quite comfortable saving lots of money on boxes of good cereal.

What can we learn? Some people care about saving money, even if it might mean they get other people annoyed. And sometimes spouses are better at doing the heavy lifting than being your "partner in crime." What did you learn from this story?