My Busy Day! (April 1st)

Friday is always grocery shopping day for me.

It's not so bad when I go at night after the kids are in bed. By myself, I can get done much faster, but I hate wasting my evenings with my husband by grocery shopping; so most of the time I just go in the morning after I drop Chase off at school, But this week was spring break. I had all 3 kids. I also stayed up till 12:45 last night because I was out for Girl's Night! To make the grocery shopping more fun it was the first day of the month which = food stamp day.

But in the end it only took from 9:00 till 10:40 to get out of there. (WinCo on Farview). Then came the JOB of unloading and putting away groceries, and feeding the kids (who by the way woke up at 6:45 am and were ready for lunch when we got home). I got everything out of the car and was very grateful for the beautiful weather. So instead of putting it all away I decided to just do the perishables the clean my van. I wanted to take advantage of the warm sunshine while I could. So I left all the cupboard groceries on the counter and went outside to vacuum my van!

That took and hour, the I realized Camrey needed to go down for a nap! So a little after 12 I put her down and returned to cleaning the van. I got as far as cleaning only 1 carpet piece and decided the other 3 would be TOO much extra work. Chase wanted to clean the windows. I told him we didn't need to wipe the outside windows because when the car gets washed it will clean them. He then asked, "Can we wash the car Mom?"

He was so excited at the idea, and the weather was so nice I thought, why not? So Chase got the hoses out of the storage shed and I got some soapy water and old towels and we WASHED the van in the drive way! Camrey woke up just before we got finished, so I brought her outside too. (Tyler was happily playing Mario).

And if all that isn't enough, my house looked like this... every room a mess.

I took before and after pictures to show what I accomplished!

I got the house picked up, groceries all put away, and my room clean, then Tory got home around 4:00.

We decided to take the kids to a park for a picnic for dinner. So I packed sandwiches, chips, drinks, and cookies, and we headed to Eagle to play at a park. Saturday we have plans to get a swing set in Kuna that someone my sister knows is GIVING away; so naturally we had to go to Eagle to get a trailer from my dad to get the swing set the next day... thus the reason for going to a park out there!

When we got home I took a minute to vacuum the house because it was already clean and I didn't know how long that would last either!

Then I did the dishes... I think that's it... How much work can a 8 month pregnant girl do in one day?... The answer... (in my case today).... a lot!

Funny Cranky kids

I took pictures with intentions to blog and never got around to it! The picture in the pink shirt was taken Jan 7th. Camrey got a bunch of necklaces, bracelets, and rings for Christmas (from me). And of course being the girlie girl she is, LOVES them! So here is her "putting her pretties on."

For Halloween last year I saw this "Belle" dress for $7 and couldn't pass it up. She loves to play dress up.

And on Jan 21, she wanted to go to school like the boys!

I love this little girl and can't get enough of her!

One morning before school (March 24) they were all playing together in the boy's room and had the sleeping bags all pulled out. It was so cute I had to get my camera. I put both pictures on here because Tyler is smiling in the first one. (He does smile a lot, we just don't always get it on camera!)

So last of all, On February 28th, My kids were not happy after school. The crying was so ridiculous, I of course had to record it to show their dad when he got home.

Chase had earned a "Book It" coupon for reading the month of February and wanted to go to Pizza Hut for dinner. I told him we might not be able to go today because I wasn't sure when Tory would get home. Clearly they were all hungry and the tears were flowing!

In the end, when Dad got home he took us all to Pizza Hut for dinner.

Prego Pictures...

Ok... These weren't the best pictures I've taken. But I did want to take pictures of my belly so here it is on Jan. 19, 2011

The first picture I sucked it in hoping to have a "smaller" picture of me because I failed to take one in the beginning of my pregnancy.

The second picture was my true size on that date.

About 23 weeks pregnant and 38 inches around.

Wow! I am really bad at keeping up on my blog. I am sorry to all those who have been waiting for news on me, my baby, and my family.

I had a glucose test a couple weeks ago and everything came out fine. I'm a little anemic, but I'm sure if I start taking vitamins again that will be fixed real quick. 7 months into my pregnancy and prenatal still make me throw up in the morning. So it's back to flinstone vitamins for me.

I have 10 weeks left!

We have lots of things we are doing with Tyler right now preparing for kindergarten registration which is next week.

I have been on a "nesting rampage" for the last month, driving my sweet husband crazy with all of my sorting and arranging projects, but I keep telling him it's like spring cleaning. He says, It's not spring yet; I say well I can't wait till spring because I'm getting bigger.

Now Camrey is awake from her nap and I have to go.

Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again!

Quick Blog...

One of these Days I will make time to update my blog! I've missed Christmas, and New Years (not that we did anything; we put the kids to bed at 8, watched a movie, and went to bed at 10:30). But I feel bad. I do have some pictures to post.

I have been feeling great lately! I'm getting bigger so I finally look pregnant. I am reading the Hunger Games again only for the second time. I want to read the Twilight Series again because it has been a year since I last read them, but I swore I would wait 2 years before I read them again because I have read them at least 4 time now! But clearly I 'm obsessed with the story, so I watched the movies this week which makes me want to read them more because the movies suck and don't do the books any justice! But like i said... I'm probably a little obsessed.

My family is healthy. I've been writing music again (which is harder now that the kids broke the disk drive on my piano so I can't record my music), so if it's not written down its gone!

I spent 5 hours at my sewing machine last week putting together a humanitarian quilt for out church activity. Tory hates it when I do quilts, but I really enjoy it (except the whole being pregnant, on the floor, and sitting for too many hours at the sewing machine which caused my lower back muscles to give me pain for 2 days). I get it from my Grandma Willis. She is here visiting our family from Missouri. She is staying at my parents house. I went over there today and helped her... you guessed it : tie a quilt!

I just finished registering Chase for Soccer this summer. The last game is 1 week before the baby is due! This will be our first year trying the life of "kids being in sports" wish us luck. So since I've spent the last 45 min at the computer I'm done for now, but promise to try to get more updates soon!

I'm Pregnant!!!

I guess this news won't come much of a shock to anyone since I'm already 5 months along, and most people already know! This first picture was taken on October 26. The baby has it's hands above it's head.

So the 10 week ultrasound was great. No visible problems. Healthy baby!

3 Days before Christmas we got to find out what we were having...

A BOY!!! (Of course; you can't get everything you want in life)
He was beautiful, so cute Yawning, Sucking his thumb; just beautiful, and healthy!

He was measuring right on schedule!
I tried not to get my hopes up for a girl, but I still cried pretty hard about 2 days after we found out.

I am just grateful he is healthy. Now I just have to by more dresses, shoes and jewelry for Camrey, because I only get 1 girl to dress-up!




So now I feel this little guy moving inside me a lot. I was trying to keep a pregnancy journal for myself, because I don't plan on having more kids, but I haven't written in over a month. So much changes so fast.

Now all we need is a name... I have plenty of girls names picked out, but that's not going to do me much good!

Morning sickness is finally starting to go away and I have a new level of energy. We are both doing great!