Blankets

Brody's Blanket

Random blanket I gave away but one of my favorites

Glencoe Dance Team 2010

It is finally over. March 17th & 18th was the State dance competition. This is what I have been working on for many many months and it is finally over! The girls did really well even though we didn't place how we thought but that's just how it goes I guess. I am so proud of them and all the work they had put into this dream of mine to make it a reality. This is the first year I have been involved this much and I must say I am exhausted. I have all this free time now that I can't remember what I was meaning to do with once this was all over. Thank goodness for todo lists, but I know I'm forgetting a lot of things/projects.

In the next 4 months I have a lot I need to think about and get done. Lots more advice to ask for, more and more preparations. I'm hoping to get a good start on painting the nursery tonight with some help from friends.

I'll try again later to put up the video. I've tried twice and it keeps disappearing

While I was gone...

One of the nights Tim and I talked on the phone he informed me that the last chicken and duck have disapeared. I wonder if that fox came back. Ether way, time to really start buying eggs again.... after we finish the 3 dozen that are in the fridge. We plan to get some chicks this spring anyway but they won't lay for at least 6 months but that's ok. I really do like having chickens.

I think the duck just hated us anyway and had been planning to break out of this joint and convinced the chicken to break out with him and the chicken was all like "yeah ok. I think they are just using me anyway". So the duck, always known how to fly, taught the chicken how and they flew over the fence together. Probably only to find that they would have to find their own food and shelter. While camping out to plot how they would strategically come back, they got eaten by the fox.
The end.

Back from Ohio

I just got back from my trip to Ohio visiting my sister Cassie and her family with her newest addition, Morgan. He is so small and precious and James was a sweet heart...most of the time. I was glad I was able to help her and I hope I did enough. I couldn't tell you how Columbus was because I didn't see much of it. I got out of the house once to go to Costco and get an oil change for her after I dropped Josh off at school. I really enjoyed observing a new born. I have been reading this really great book that has really opened my eyes about our newest family members and how they talk to us with out talking with words. I was surprised by how much I could pick out what he was trying to say he needed and wanted from each different cry and body language. My infant may be quite different but I feel like I "get it" a little better. My sister is so good and gutsy to do the things she does. She doesn't do disposable diapers, which aren't foren to me, but she is trying this diaper-less method. I'm not sure I could do it but in other countries, that's what you do. Pay attention to when your baby is about to go and hold them over a bucket or toilet or sink. She got him to pee in the sink once already! Kudos to her.

Ultrasound

Tim and I went to get our first ultrasound yesterday and it went great. Our Doctor there was LDS too. I love having member doctors. You tend to have this extra understanding and connection with each other to make appointments so easy and relaxed, less clinical. We saw the heart beating and the stomach full of fluid, which is good, and one other small thing...but big enough to make Daddy proud. Yep Yep We are having a Boy! I'll post some of the ultrasound pictures when I get them scanned in. We are both really excited, expically Timmy. He told at least 4 random people who probably didn't care, that we were having a boy. It was so cute and funny. First it was the receptionist at the doctors office as we were leaving, not even the same one that helpped us when we came in. She was like "oh,...um..congratulations." and then it was the cashier at Winco, she has 3 children of her own. Then he went to the gym and I don't know who he all told there. It's so cute, He is very excited and proud to be having a boy. I love him, both of my boys.

Lovely Morning

I woke up this morning and as I ate a bowl of cerial, I looked outside up the hill and saw a fox. How cool is that, right? I finish my bowl and put the dishes away from the day before that got left and went to collect the eggs from the chickens. I walk out side and notice a few more feathers than before and hoped it wasn't bad. I walked inside the coop to find one chicken laying in some blood and another one no where to be found. Mind you, the one that was missing has been attacked once before by our neighbors dog. It was so sad. We had three chickens and a duck yesterday and now we are down to one chicken and one duck. We might have to start buying eggs again.... weird. Can't wait to get more chicks.

I missed yet another

So it looks like I still won't be able to see a birth before my own. My sister called me this morning to tell me that I had missed the birth of her Son. I'm excited for her, but I was really hoping to be there. I hope I can change my tickets a little bit now so I can maybe be home for Tim's Birthday now but we'll see how much extra that will cost. She said it went pretty fast and that she only had to push for 9 minutes. So that's good. Maybe I can just download an episode of A Baby Story or something but I don't think it will quite be the same. Oh well.

Welcome to the world Morgan!