I don't know how it happened so fast, but I can't keep up with Tommie anymore. He still doesn't crawl normal....now it's more like a scoot on his bum while sitting up straight, but he is FAST. He climbs up on anything and everything and walks all across the furniture, and walls, and tables, and chairs, and toilets, and drawers.... he empties everything in sight SO fast and loves it. He is adorable now, and so happy to be more independent, but boy do I feel like I chase after him all day. Everyone comments on how tan he is and his huge smile. He finally just cut his first 2 bottom teeth and I was amazed that it didn't affect his sleeping through the night. He'd cry in his sleep, but never wake up fully.
Jackson has been so obedient lately, and has tried so hard to jsut be nice. For mother's day, they interviewed him in primary, and he told the primary teachers all about how I want him to say "I'll be happy too" when I ask him to clean his room, eat veggies, etc. His answer to every question about things I like, was all about him being obedient. Ha! They must think I'm obsessed, but lately, it's worked and he ahs been so sweet. I can get him to eat dinner now just by saying it'll make me happy, and he does. I hope he always wants to try so hard to make his mom happy! He started swimming on his own 2 weeks ago. He can't come up and take a breath, but he sure can go for wuite a while without breathing. We have spent every afternoon at my mom's pool and now swim lessons have started at kino. He is definitely way too advanced for his class, but he loves it.
It's really hard to be pregnant when it's so hot. Without swimming, I just can't get up energy to do anything else, and my veins in my leg just throb. But somehow, when I lay in the pool....all my problems go away! :) I had another doctor's appointment and guess everything looked perfectly normal in the ultrasound. What a blessing! I am starting to gain lots of weight, but still have sick days of lots of throwing up. So, who knows. I do what I can, but have given up daily exercise. I feel like chasing tommie around and vacuuming are pretty much my workouts! :) Lame huh?
James has been working so hard lately to not only get all his meetings done at work, but to get the house stuff caught up on. The summer lawns are coming in so green, and our tomatoes and squash are coming in from the garden all ready. The chickens have gotten so big and James calls them "his ladies". I guess he is starting to feel like his house is overrun with boys as well. Jimmer has sure been naughty lately, and both of us are back to wondering why we have a puppy. He is determine to get into the garden, and eat the tomatoes, and through the garden into the chickens. He doesn't eat the chickens, just scare them to death and still their food. Every morning at 5:30 he starts barking right by our bedroom window, because he's either stuck under the fence while trying to get in, or he has been in with the chickens and wants out. Talk about annoying because our boys sleep in till 7 still! I think we need to start breeding him. The websites say that may help the energy. HA! I love being surrounded by testosterone.
Sam is engaged to Julie Willis, and they just a took trip down from BYU to meet the family. They stayed here for 2 nights, and it was so fun to get to know her and see more of Sam. It sure made me glad i'm not in that stage of life anymore though! Made me realize how lucky I am to just be married and be past all that. It was exciting though. They will come back down in 3 weeks for the wedding, and spencer gets here in 2 weeks to stay. I'm not sure reality has set in that another boy will be in the house, but lately, I'm not really into planning or preparing for anything. I should be though since i do have lots to do!
James left for the cabin with the priests in the ward this morning. I'll miss having him around this weekend, but Becca's coming to spend the day tomorrow and have a swim and dinner party. Shaela will come back from Prescott this weekend too, so I'll have some friends next week! :)
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
It's may again!
May is always a fun month....it used to mean just my mom, grandma mish, and mansi's birthday and mother's day...and like my dad once wrote in the family journal, "the month of may is great...it's like being 2 bra sizes bigger than your best friend" (i always thought that was so random). Anyways, now it means James birthday and our anniversary in the same week. And to make it even better, I've only had a few really sick days the past few weeks, and they were monday and tuesday of this week. The rest of the time I haven't even thrown up and have been sleeping so much better. I hope it lasts.
We traded out the washing machine at the cabin to replace the broken washer in the house. It is so incredible to have this tim of life where I do all the research on washers, figure out the one I can afford, call Kathleen to double check she's ok with it going in her house, and she's already bought a new washer and dryer that were way nicer than anything I had in mind! We are so blessed right now, and James and I continually talk about how spoiled we are. To have his career just starting out, where we hardly make any money, yet month after month, everything works out and we live in such luxury, we really do. And we have the best neighbors, all the kids are always playing, and I never worry about anything. I have LOVED spending so much time at my mom's and Julies.... I can't imagine ever living anywhere else. James can't imagine staying here for a long time...but that's an argument for another day.
So, James spent his 26th birthday driving to the cabin. We even took Jimmer (threw him in the back of the truck with the washer and dryer) and our new fishing poles and BB guns. We had so much fun. We stopped at Eddie's grocery store in pine top to pick up steaks. They gave us free steaks on our honeymoon and we haven't been back there since. but we had a BBQ and ate chocolate chip cookies while singing to James. It was nice to see him relax and to not have good cell service so he wasn't always on the phone! Jimmer was the best dog in the mountains. He has been so naughty here at home lately, and I've told James several time that maybe a dog wasn't the best idea. But, at the cabin, he never barked, followed us around everywhere, swam in the pond, and made me have a change in heart. He has turned out to be a really good dog, just gets serious pent up puppy energy.
We stayed until monday morning and woke up by 5 to drive home. He showered and went to work all day while i just crashed. Monday night, we needed to unload the washer and dryer from the truck. James good buddy Jeff came over for advice, we ran to Dairy Queen to meet Shaela and jared for family night, and by now it was pretty late... but we got it unloaded at like 10pm and I went to bed. James was out of clean garments so thought he'd stay up to wash some from work. It turns out the hot water valve on the wall broke off and water was spraying everywhere. James woke me up, but we had never known where the main water shut off valve was. So, by the time we found it, we had a pretty good flooded laundry room and cupboards. My dad came over early the next morning and helped us fix it, and then the cold water one busted right after he left. So, James took the day off and it ended up taking all day to repair the valves, clean out the clogged drains, and fix the broken dryer vent from the cabin. I am so glad to have a washer back and have done LOADS of laundry!
Yesterday was our 5 year anniversary. 5 years and almost 3 kids later, we are even happier. I know the first few years of marriage did actually seem hard, trying to learn to get a long, but I really have felt like things have gone better lately than ever before. He really is my best friend and I can't imagine life without him. No matter how big and swollen I get, he tells me every day how good looking I am and cracks jokes to gets me laughing. He is so supportive of everything I want to do, and he never gets mad at me. He loves his little boys and they just adore him. We just ate dinner at home and Jackson loved the ice cream cake.
I forced Jackson to keep taking pictures of us till we could come up with at least 2 good ones. James was so annoyed by the end, and I kept laughing at all the new poses we were trying. Nothing like trying to teach a 3 year old which angle you look best at! These are the best we came up with and they still make me laugh!
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We traded out the washing machine at the cabin to replace the broken washer in the house. It is so incredible to have this tim of life where I do all the research on washers, figure out the one I can afford, call Kathleen to double check she's ok with it going in her house, and she's already bought a new washer and dryer that were way nicer than anything I had in mind! We are so blessed right now, and James and I continually talk about how spoiled we are. To have his career just starting out, where we hardly make any money, yet month after month, everything works out and we live in such luxury, we really do. And we have the best neighbors, all the kids are always playing, and I never worry about anything. I have LOVED spending so much time at my mom's and Julies.... I can't imagine ever living anywhere else. James can't imagine staying here for a long time...but that's an argument for another day.
So, James spent his 26th birthday driving to the cabin. We even took Jimmer (threw him in the back of the truck with the washer and dryer) and our new fishing poles and BB guns. We had so much fun. We stopped at Eddie's grocery store in pine top to pick up steaks. They gave us free steaks on our honeymoon and we haven't been back there since. but we had a BBQ and ate chocolate chip cookies while singing to James. It was nice to see him relax and to not have good cell service so he wasn't always on the phone! Jimmer was the best dog in the mountains. He has been so naughty here at home lately, and I've told James several time that maybe a dog wasn't the best idea. But, at the cabin, he never barked, followed us around everywhere, swam in the pond, and made me have a change in heart. He has turned out to be a really good dog, just gets serious pent up puppy energy.
We stayed until monday morning and woke up by 5 to drive home. He showered and went to work all day while i just crashed. Monday night, we needed to unload the washer and dryer from the truck. James good buddy Jeff came over for advice, we ran to Dairy Queen to meet Shaela and jared for family night, and by now it was pretty late... but we got it unloaded at like 10pm and I went to bed. James was out of clean garments so thought he'd stay up to wash some from work. It turns out the hot water valve on the wall broke off and water was spraying everywhere. James woke me up, but we had never known where the main water shut off valve was. So, by the time we found it, we had a pretty good flooded laundry room and cupboards. My dad came over early the next morning and helped us fix it, and then the cold water one busted right after he left. So, James took the day off and it ended up taking all day to repair the valves, clean out the clogged drains, and fix the broken dryer vent from the cabin. I am so glad to have a washer back and have done LOADS of laundry!
Yesterday was our 5 year anniversary. 5 years and almost 3 kids later, we are even happier. I know the first few years of marriage did actually seem hard, trying to learn to get a long, but I really have felt like things have gone better lately than ever before. He really is my best friend and I can't imagine life without him. No matter how big and swollen I get, he tells me every day how good looking I am and cracks jokes to gets me laughing. He is so supportive of everything I want to do, and he never gets mad at me. He loves his little boys and they just adore him. We just ate dinner at home and Jackson loved the ice cream cake.
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