Temple Work

I got to volunteer at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple today! My wonderful Mother-In-Law came over to watch my kids at 9:30 this morning and I carpooled with my neighbor, Tiffany. I was working in the Historical Records department so basically I did a lot of observing. We were supposed to write down anything really unique that happened and make a note of any dignitaries that came through. Luckily nobody really important came through while I was on watch cause I probably wouldn't have been able to recognize and/or name who they were! (At least I don't THINK anyone came through! Haha!) So another part of our duties was to sort through the comment cards and record in the computer any comments that haven't been recorded yet or that were unique. The negative comments were disappointing. But other than that, it was pretty amazing to be able to read about every one's amazing experiences and to be able to talk to them as they came out of the temple. I haven't had the chance to go through it yet. I was tempted to sneak in after my shift was over but I know Jordan really wants to go anyway so I might as well wait and do it as a family. If anyone hasn't gone yet, hurry and go! The temple is open every day but Sunday and only goes through August 1st. It's an amazing experience especially if you haven't been inside a temple before! Take your family, friends and neighbors. Everyone is invited!

Sisters and Bedtime

I just have to say, this has to be one of the cutest things I have ever heard....

About a week or so ago, I moved Jordan back upstairs into Tegan's room. (For those of you who don't know, my sister is moving into my basement in a couple weeks.) So this is the first time either of them has shared a room and I was honestly really nervous about the whole thing and afraid neither of them would get any sleep. Well, the first couple of nights I put them to bed later hoping they would just pass out and sure enough, they both went right to sleep. I was so excited thinking this would all be such an easy adjustment but then the next night, I went to put Tegan in her crib, and she just started crying. It was the night she hurt her foot so I suspected this would be kind of a hard night. Well, after a few minutes of trying to calm her down, Jordan says to me "don't worry, Mom, I'll just sing to her and she will go to sleep." So I let her. I went out, closed the door, and just stood there listening. Jordan starts singing primary songs and within 30 seconds Tegan had stopped crying! It seriously made me want to cry. She has sung her to sleep every night since. What a sweet heart! She is such a good big sister!

Poor Teegers!

On Tuesday we all went to the park. Tegan absolutely LOVES the slides! She even climbs all the way to the top all by herself. Well, Jordan decided to go with her this time. So she sits her down between her legs and away they go. Well, halfway down the slide, Tegan's shoe sticks to the slide and slips under them both! Poor baby!



So now she's back to crawling... I propped her up for this picture and then she forgot she couldn't walk, haha!

She has to leave this splint on for another week and if it still hurts to touch it, she will have to get a cast on it. But at least then she will be able to walk around. (Sort of :) )

But as you can see, she's still a happy-go-lucky baby!

Farewell Abby!

My most favorite Scottish friend in the whole world was here visiting this past week. I've written a post about her before. We were the best of friends in high school. She came to "the States" as a foreign exchange student. I haven't seen her in 8 years! It was so much fun being able to catch up on everything, she is such an amazing person. I wish I could do half the traveling that she has. She's been to Australia, New Zealand, different states, Canada, and all over Europe of course (since she DOES live in Scotland). And I can't say enough about her brilliant accent! I just love it. She keeps me laughing all the time. I can't wait to see her again. She promised it wouldn't be another 8 years. She is actually thinking of doing every other Christmas here! That would be amazing!

#4!!

As I stated before, I like to have a picture with my stories but blogger won't upload the image I scanned into my computer. I figure you all know what an ultrasound picture looks like anyway, right? So I guess I'm officially telling everyone about the baby growing inside of me. I usually don't tell anyone till I'm at least 12 weeks but I guess I do feel pretty safe now. I'm on my meds. I have lost a few babies after spreading the word to everyone that I was pregnant and had people asking me about my pregnancy 3 months after losing it!
The last 3 weeks have been horrible! I am nauseous all day long and worst of all, my body isn't tolerating sugar! It gives me the worst stomach ache! I hope that goes away after the 1st trimester cause I don't think I could handle waiting 7 more months! Although it would be really good for me....
So yes, I have 7 months left. I am due Jan. 7th officially but I will do anything I can to have it on an even day :) The 8th would be nice
Also, I am not going to find out the gender of my baby. That is if I can do it....I have never even had the desire to wait to see what I was having, in fact, I thought people were completely insane to do such a thing. But my sister Stephanie is also pregnant, due 2 months before me, and she isn't finding out. So far she's been strong. We'll see if she holds out.
More updates to come, although the journey of a pregnancy doesn't appeal to everyone. But that's pretty much how I see life right now, "I'm pregnant".

Strep?

2AM Thursday morning I wake up and I can barely breathe, my tonsils and lymph nodes are so swollen! Then I tried to swallow. OUCH! It took me at least 30 minutes to fall back asleep. Then Brigham wakes up crying around 4AM so I attempt to get out of bed and about fall to the ground in pain! My head hurt so bad! My body was all achy too. So for the rest of the night, I keep waking up every hour or so cause I'm too hot or too cold (fevering), and then it would take me forever to fall back asleep cause I couldn't swallow without tearing up. 

Brandon hasn't been getting many hours at work and lucky for me, (blessings in disguise) he didn't have any work the next morning so he sat around with me waiting for his boss to call him and send him on a job. It has been so long since I have been sick like this. I even think it's worse than being pregnant. Although I can say that only because I'm not right now :). I know, I do forget.

By Friday nothing had changed but Brandon did have to go into work around 9 so I was pretty stressed about having to entertaining the kids all day feeling this horrible. So I googled strep throat and looked at the signs and I had every single one of them. But then the website informed me that it would go away in 3 to 7 days even if I didn't get medication for it. Bummer! So immediately I knew that meant I couldn't justify spending the $20 to go see the doctor and then the $10 for the prescription so I would just have to wait this thing out and I was really not looking foreword to that! Well my friend Amber came to the rescue! She is dating a doctor and she happens to get strep a lot so he just calls in prescriptions for her when she needs them. Last time he happened to prescribe twice the amount of medicine that she normally takes so she had just enough left over to treat me! I was so ecstatic! I wouldn't have to suffer much longer! So I started it yesterday afternoon and now I feel 100% better! My throat still hurts when I swallow but the pain is much more manageable now. Thank you Amber! Ugh, I HATE strep throat!

I know it's been awhile....

So it's been almost a month. Now I'm going to use the excuse again that I don't have any pictures. This past month has been pretty crazy so I really did want to show it all off but I probably won't get around to taking the pictures or uploading them cause I just get too overwhelmed. I know, not a big deal for most people but it is for me.

Easter was great, the Easter Bunny set out every one's empty Easter baskets by their door. Then he hid tons of eggs all over the basement. Now my oldest, Jordan, has her room downstairs but we were banking on Brigham waking up first and his room is right across the hall from us and we always hear him wake up. We also figured that if Jordan did happen to wake up first, she would immediately come upstairs and tell us the Easter bunny came so we could see as well. So 6:45AM rolls around and Jordan comes running into our room. Brandon and I sleepily sit up in bed to share in her excitement and to our surprise, she is holding her Easter basket which is CHUCK FULL of Easter eggs! She had woken up and found all the eggs before coming upstairs! Now what? I look at her all disappointed and tell her how sad it made me that I didn't get to see her find them all and Brandon says "maybe Mommy can go hide them all again". Well, I went downstairs to assess the damage and found that there were still plenty of eggs still hidden. (She must have stopped when her basket couldn't hold anymore!) I said, "well, if Daddy wants to hide them that's fine but Mommy doesn't want to." And Brandon says, "no, I think Mommy should just go hide them." "no, Daddy should." I reply. Then Jordan says, "alright, stop fighting. I will go hide them!" Haha! Little stinker! So I went back down to hide them all again and we woke Brigham and Tegan up to have them all find them together. It was so much fun! I wish I would have taken pictures.

After church, we had Brandon's parents and his brother, Jason's family over for Easter dinner and to celebrate his Mom's birthday. Afterwards we played our new favorite game, Rage, and had banana splits! Great fun! More to come. I really do have to take a picture for my next story....