The last little while has been pretty good for Chris and I. We haven't done much recently because doing things usually costs money but we find lots of stuff to do around the house. We also go to the library lots! It is awesome how the library rents out movies. You get them for a week and then apparently they have a 3 day grace period so you can really check movies out for 10 days before late fees apply! Isn't that neat! Our latest move that we watched was the Iron Giant. I have noticed in this last trimester that I have been a bit more emotional than usual and the Iron Giant made me cry... Not as bad as Bolt did though! Has anyone seen that movie? It is a good movie but I couldn't handle it when we saw it. I liked it but it made me cry... a lot... I was trying so hard to not cry towards the end so that when we walked out of the theater my face and eyes wouldn't be all red but that didn't work out so well. Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who doesn't mind it when I cry over an animated movie...

Below are some recent pictures that we have taken. The first one is this awesome little fish jar we made for our sunbeam class and I liked it so much that I made one for our house as well. Actually it was the prototype. We had to make sure we would be able to do it in class so we made one the night before. Isn't it beautiful? I found the idea for it in a magazine and it is actually supposed to have magnets on the lid that hold the fish up but we couldn't find magnets strong enough to do that so we just attached strings to the lid and have the fish float. All of the kids got smaller jars with only one fish. It was a really fun lesson when we did it.

This is just a picture of me and Chris. It has been a long time since we had a picture together and unfortunately this is pretty much the only way we can take pictures these days! If we do go out with someone we never have our camera to take pictures. Though I think next week we will have a few new pictures of me and him. My neighbor is going to take belly pictures of me and I want Chris to be in a few of them so hopefully we will get some new pictures of the two of us that look good!


This one is me being pregnant. I can't really tell if I have gotten bigger, picture-wise, from the last prego picture we gook of me but I feel a bit bigger. I also have noticed that he likes to curl up in a ball by my hips and it pops lots of my lumbar vertebrae out of place. I can usually just flex my spine and they pop into place and force him to move too and so he adjusts every time I pop my back. Its a really weird feeling. Unfortunately it makes sleeping a pain in the back!

This picture is just me looking fabulous. I thought it accentuated my belly very nicely. The shirt helps a lot too. Chris's mom gave it to me for Christmas in hopes that I would use it when I needed a comfy shirt for around the house. It is a very soft shirt and I do like to wear it on my days that I hang around the house. Don't get me wrong though! I do try to make an effort to look nice but something about a big t-shirt makes it seem like a good day to be lazy.

So those are some new pictures. I hope you liked them. I need to take some pictures of all our baby stuff. We recently got a swing and a car seat from a family in our ward and another family is offering us their very nice looking crib and I told them we would take it. We do have this other one but it isn't very nice... very shaky... and so I wouldn't mind having it. We just have to pick it up! And then another family is offering us their rocking chair that they never use. We have gotten lots of really nice stuff from lots of people and so we have only had to spend about $5 on baby stuff so far! Its a good thing I was raised with the mentality that second hand stuff is okay... Otherwise we would be out a couple hundred dollars already!

Sunbeam Shenanigans

I believe I have mentioned it before but Chris and I are the sunbeam teachers in our ward. As you know at the begining of the year all the kids move up to the class they belong in and so we got 6 kids from nursery in January and said goodbye to our 3 wonderful girls. We got 5 boys and 1 girl. So far we have not had all 6 show up in the same week but we have had met all of them. This blog post is about a set of twins in our class. 

    

The twins are Chase and Aiden. Their mom is the primary president and they know she is there during sharing time and so some days we have a difficult time with those two because we can't keep them in their seats because they run up to their mom to talk to her. What makes it difficult is that if we catch them and tell them to stay in their seats they drop to the ground and start bawling and disrupting the entire primary so we usually let them run to their mom because Chris and I don't want to deal with a crying child who can't handle to be in the same room as his mother and not be allowed to go talk to her. Chase and Aiden thankfully take turns being the difficult child. Usually one will listen to us and the other won't. But this story isn't about sharing time. Its about class time!

      

After the second week we had them we haven't had a problem with them. Some days we still have a hard time getting them in class but once they are in class they enjoy it and they participate and are actually very good kids. This Sunday though... something happened. Maybe it was the day light savings or maybe it was the fact that they both didn't sleep well and so they were cranky. I don't know. But they made it a very memorable Sunday.

       

They walk in to class and then a minute later while we are waiting for everyone to show up, they run out and tell their mom they want their stuffed animals. I personally don't agree with this but I know if I take them away that they will both cry the entire time. We tried it once. Now the animals have to sit in their own chairs and be reverent and no one can play with them. Granted, this doesn't work to well but at this point in time I would rather put up with them playing with their animals than putting up with them crying the whole time. We could just send them to their mom but we are trying to keep them away from her so that they can start to recognize other authority figures. Anyway, they sit down and we sing the song and say the prayer and a few minutes into the lesson, Chase says he needs to go tell his mom something. This means that he really wants to go see her and get out of class so I said no. Chris enforced it by shutting the door. And I kept asking Chase what he needed to tell his mom and he kept saying something and eventually he admitted "I don't know". So I said he didn't have anything to tell her and come sit back down so we can finish our game. He didn't like that so he ran into the corner and started to cry. After a couple minutes of crying in the corner he says he needs to see his mom about a booger and so I asked Chris to go get a paper towel for him. Chase didn't like that so he started to cry REALLY loud (in a little room) and kick the walls and made it so we couldn't do our lesson because the kids couldn't hear me! I got frustrated so I went to ask his mom what I should do. I saw his grandma first and asked her and she said that it sounded like there was trouble going on in class and I explained it and she went to tell her daughter/Chase's mom what was going on. The first counselor was asked to attend to the presidents child in hopes that some day her sons might not be so dependent on her so the counselor came and got Chase from the class room and we continued on with our lesson.

        

About 10 minutes later Aiden starts playing with his stuffed animal and we keep telling him to put it down. Usually when there is only one of the twins they are more open to suggestion. He didn't stop playing with it so Chris took it away. Aiden then hit Chris, ran to the door, couldn't get out fast enough and ran into the back corner under a table and cried. I was very frustrated at this point because we had already had that problem with Chase. So I take a few deep breaths and look at Chris and we both exchange tired/frustrated glances and then Aiden starts walking to the door and Chris goes to talk to him and then is like Sarah! Hes bleeding! When Aiden threw himself on the ground under the table he must have hit his nose and started it bleeding. Thankfully we still had that paper towel from the booger Chase supposedly had so we put that on Aidens face and I take him out to go see his mom. 

        

The counselor who was taking care of Chase was sitting with him on the ground right outside our door so when I came out she got up and was like ahhh! I can take Aiden! I explained what happened and she went off to take him to his mom. She told Chase to come into class and I tried to get him to come into class too but he looked at me and started crying and ran off down the hall after his brother to where he had just seen his mom. So now the twins were gone.... All we had was Trezden who is a very cute boy who has an amazing amount of wiggles. We continued our lesson and got to the activity and the primary president walks in with her boys and they get excited about making foam flowers (the lesson was I am thankful for trees, plants and flowers). There wasn't much time so I told them they had to hurry and glue them on. Then class was over 3 minutes later and Chris walks them to sharing time while I stay after to talk to their mom about what to do when something like that happens and also what we should do about them running to her during sharing time. It kinda seems like there isn't much we can do unless we want them to cry and have to take them out... which is difficult to do when we have 4 or 5 kids at a time. After I went to sharing time Chase saw his mom sit down in the back and had to go see her and she told him to go sit back down with his teachers and he started to cry really loud so the counselor took him out again. Thankfully Aiden at this point decided he was going to be better behaved... so he just sulked in his chair. 

       

So that was our sunbeam adventure on Sunday... I hope and pray that we don't have another day like that ever again. It was absolutely miserable and once our baby is born I think it might even get more difficult if we have to deal with all the problems of 5 little boys and 1 little girl... Maybe by that time we will have taught them how to stay in their seats and pay attention though... HA!!!!!!!!!!!

         

Last night they and their mom came over to our house with apology cards and cookies and said they were sorry and that they will do better next week. I really hope it does go better. It was very sweet of them to do that though. Hopefully they will be like that in class next week.

All alone....

So, Chris left me... Not for forever but for the weekend. Our sister-in-law Jess is getting baptized today (hoorah!) and Jess and Peggy thought it would be nice for Chris and I to be there. Unfortunately I get irratable when I don't sleep, and emotionally unstable so I would cry lots since we would only be able to go for such a short time! So I didn't go. I also have to work today, which is where I am at right now! I couldn't ask anyone else to fill in for me because by the time we learned about it, it would have been really last minute to ask someone. So I stayed home.

We both worked yesterday and then went to the library to pick up my books, got some pizza and watched a movie. Then Chris packed and then off to Denver to drop him off at the airport! His plane didn't leave until 1:15 this morning but since I am pregnant and like my sleep and had to work today we left a little earlier than we needed. At 8:30 to be specific. It takes an hour and a half to get to the airport so we got there at 10 and then I had to drive all by myself the whole way home. I was so tired and my eyes were all crazy like! I haven't had that blurry vision in a long time, unless I take my glasses off... Anyway, I finally got home safe and sound and soooo tired so I went straight to bed! But I couldn't sleep! I know it sounds silly but this is the first time that Chris and I have been apart at night and I am so used to him being there that I kept waking up and he wasn't there! I woke up a lot! I missed him a lot...

So now I get to look forward to an empty house when I go home tonight. My neighbors are all busy and so I don't get much human interaction today. I also get to plan out the primary lesson for tomorrow. I usually do that on Fridays and Saturdays at work but tomorrow I get to teach it all by myself. I think it will be somewhat difficult because Chris is so good at taking over when I run out of things to say. Not to mention we might have all 5 little boys and 1 little girl. The funny thing is that the girl is probably the most difficult. She doesn't understand ownership... She frequently comes up to the table during the lesson and takes my stuff and goes and sits back down... odd girl. Anyway, I am teaching about water and how Heavenly Father made it for us. I am trying to think of fun things to do with the kids that will take up lots of time but coming up with a lack. If anyone has any ideas BEFORE tomorrow, I would love to hear them!

Anyway, the point of this blog is to express the fact that I am alone and I wish Chris were home with me because I sleep better at night when he is.

Valentines and my belly

Hi! I have been really lazy lately and haven't posted anything but now I will! Also, I don't really like to post just my ramblings online, I like to have pictures so you all can see what I have done and now I have pictures! Speaking of pictures, Jennifer told me about www2.snapfish.com, which is something that Curtis uses. I don't usually have a car and so I never want to send any pictures to Walmart to get them developed because who knows when I would finally pick them up! So I looked up this snapfish this morning and uploaded some pictures and they are going to be sent to me! It is awesome! Rather than having to pick them up at the store I just get them in my mail box! Curtis, you are amazing for finding this! If you read this at all... Anyway!

So, if you recall, I got my hair cut quite some time ago. Like a month or so... I can't remember. I finally remembered when I was having a good hair day to get some pictures. I have also had a request to post a picture of my growing belly. I figure I am finally to the point of showing so I will take a picture every week. That way I can have some memory of this pregnancy...

Isn't my hair nice? I like the face I made so I chose this picture to post! It was a good hair day. I know the closet in the background kinda makes it hard to see half of my hair but you get the picture. It looks nice and I love having short hair! Long hair is just too much of a hassle...

This is my first belly picture. I don't like how I looked.

In case you are wondering, and you probably aren't, I have only gained like 22 pounds so far. According to my books that is right about where I should be for weight gain so far. I really thought I would gain a lot of weight but I haven't! It makes me happy because I am affraid that once gained, it wouldn't ever come off!

This was on Valentines Day. Don't I look festive? I had to work Saturday and it was a long and boring day. Then Chris picked me up from work and we went out to eat to celebrate the holiday. We went to Pizza Hut! The reason we went there was that every place we would have gone that was a bit nicer was packed. Texas Roadhouse (Chris really likes it there) was a two and a half hour wait. I said no way so we left and were just going to come home when I saw Pizza Hut and we both like it there and I have been wanting a pizza so we went! It was nice because there was hardly anyone there and the waitress was awesome and the food was tasty and I think it made it a nice evening out. 

When we got home I gave Chris a Valentines present. I usually wouldn't do this but on Monday when I had a doctors appt I went to Ross afterwards and found a ballroom dancing book and DVD and thought they would be nice to have. We have tried a few times to dance again like we used to but we just can't remember any of the footing or the moves in general so we kinda gave up... which is really sad because I like to dance. So I got it and maybe this week if I am lucky he will take me dancing! 

Other than that stuff, not much has been going on in our lives. We watch Lost, we are in the second season. Chris never saw it and since I like to watch it he started to watch it so we could bond. He is good about stuff like that. Like reading books that I really like so that we can talk about them if I want to. Its cute! We have been getting a lot of free baby stuff and maybe in my next post I will show you what I have gotten so far! I need to finish but I hope you are all doing well!