I've been wanting to take pictures of Sam but with my mom being here and all the crazy stuff going on, I haven't had a chance! David had today off so I told him we were going to take some pictures! Here's a few of them, I haven't finished edited--I took almost a hundred pictures--so it might take me a little bit to get them all where I want them! Its fun though, hope you enjoy!
So I'm finally getting around to posting about this week! Yeah, for me! Let's see, where to start!? On Saturday, all my family ended up coming in to town, my brother and his fiance came in friday and went wedding dress shopping Saturday morning. My sister and her family came in Saturday afternoon and so did my mom. Saturday night my mom and sister threw me a family baby shower, it was a lot of fun, it was more of a family get to together, because all the husbands and everyone was there, so we ate dinner and opened presents, we had a great time, I loved it! I'm skipping Sunday because I'm tired and don't want to think that hard...Monday was crazy too, we took Tamsyn to get fitted for her wedding dress, its gorgeous and I think she looks so beautiful, and then we got Bryce fitted for his tux, we stopped at Jason's Deli for lunch and that was good, after that everyone had to drive back home! So the rest of this week my mom and I have been doing whatever we want! Too bad what she wants to do is clean, and I want to sleep! haha just kidding, we've had a lot of fun going to some shops and yesterday we went to Temple Square and watched the Joseph Smith movie, I cried so much! Today we organized the girls room and went to Ikea, its been great to have my mom here and she's been wonderful to us! Its going to kill me to say goodbye tomorrow, I hope we'll be able to see her again very very soon! Well, thats a quick rundown of the week, oh and I did another Lia Sophia party on Wednesday, and that was fun too!
David was determined to make me look stupid in every picture...
being silly with Leanne! haha
playing with the balloons at the end of the shower
Ethan and Maddie on the swings, my kids loved having their cousins here to play!
Maddie has been attached to Grandma all week, I'm sure my mom loves it, but I'm also sure it must be getting old! ;)
Its been a busy week and I haven't really had much of a chance to post anything, hopefully in the next few days I can catch up! Its been so nice to have my mom here to visit with and do fun things with, especially now that Dave's started this job and has been gone a lot, sounds weird but I've gotten used to him being home all the time and its hard to adjust sometimes! We've gotten to do a lot of fun things, I've got a bunch of pictures I need to get off my camera, so I'll post those soon! Just a fast update to show I'm still alive and totally surviving! Having three kids has been wonderful so far, I'll keep my finger's crossed! The girls are LOVING having grandma here and Sam is doing wonderful, he's such a great baby! We're so in love with him!
We're just one day away from all my family being here! I'm so excited! Hopefully my sister and her family will get here in the morning, then my mom flies in at about 3:00, and my brother and his fiance are coming in sometime too! I'm really excited, it will be such a fun weekend! The other exciting news we have is that David finally got a job! Yippee! He starts at Mr. Mac tomorrow also, it will be a crazy day for me with all the people coming in, but I'm glad he got the job and he's excited about it. Hopefully he won't spend all of his paycheck on fancy suits and ties and shoes, thats going to be very tempting with the discount they give! :) Sam is doing great, such an amazing baby! The diaper thing is getting better, just when we think we have it down though, he leaks through! haha Bethany is still obsessed with him and just can't stay away for more than two seconds, as soon as she hears a noise she has to run over and check on him! Poor Maddie is the only one really having a hard time right now, she woke up yesterday with a fever and a bad sore throat, her cough is really hacky. We took her in to the dr. and they said it wasn't strep or anything bad, just a yucky virus. She was up all last night coughing and feeling bad, it was a long night and I felt horrible for her! I'm hoping she'll start feeling better soon, especially with all the company, but she's a trooper anyway. This picture is from yesterday afternoon, Bethany was holding Sam and got a little sleepy herself! Isn't that precious?!
The last couple days have been so fast and so slow at the same time! It seems like everything melts together and its hard to keep track of what time and day it is! Its been awesome so far and we're really do great! He's such a good baby, the most I could complain about it that we have to change his clothes all the time because he keeps peeing on them! haha Today was Sam's circumcision--yikes! I was super nervous, I felt so bad! I even started getting a little teary-eyed just waiting in the office for it to happen! But after talking to the dr. and him telling us how things go and what to expect, I felt a lot better. Everything went fine, me and Dave watched and really quite an interesting procedure, terrible!-but interesting. Now I feel even worse changing his diaper--he already hated it before, but now... So anyway, here's a few pictures, we're loving having him here!
David and his boy, so sweet!
My three kids watching a movie together, gotta tell you when I looked over and saw them all together I could've cried it was so cute!
All week long I had things that needed to get done, like preschool graduation, and thursday I had my first lia sophia party to host, they were things I had back ups for but it was much better to do them myself. So anyway, maybe after the party thursday I felt relieved it was over or something, but right at the end there when we were loading up, I started having contractions again. I thought it was nothing and went to bed hoping the would relax and I could sleep (it had been a long day!) but about midnight I woke up and I couldn't take it anymore, so we called Carla (I'm forever grateful for!) and she came and stayed the night with the girls. We got to the hospital out in Orem about 12:30, and I'd already dialated from a 3 to a 4 since my appointment that afternoon. Long story short, after being up all night and finally getting the epidural, they broke my water at 5 am. We had a small scare after that, whenever I had a contraction his heart rate would drop really low, after the contraction was over it would jump back up, but it was really pretty scary, they were talking about a c-section if things didn't come back up, and they put an oxygen mask on me to help him get more oxygen in between contractions. I don't know about you guys, but I shake a lot when I'm in labor, I was shaking so much my jaw hurt from clenching my teeth! But we were lucky that everything went really quickly and he was born within one contraction at 6:02 am. It ended up that the cord was wrapped around his neck twice, and thats why his heartrate was dropping. So while they worked on me, they worked on him, he cried so cute, they were worried about his breathing and his coloring, so they were going to take him to the nursery and give him an IV and some fluids but they wanted to let me hold him first; and after I held him he was looking so much better they didn't think they needed to do anything else. So anyway, he was 7 lbs 2 oz and 19 1/2 inches long. He's amazing and I couldn't believe how surprised I was because he didn't really look at all like I thought he would! He's still gorgeous, just not what I had pictured! He's been so amazing, he's very calm and hardly ever cries, only when we change his diaper pretty much! We'll be posting more pictures soon I'm sure, the darn battery in my camera died last night, so we'll be taking LOTS more pictures as soon as its charged!
Right after he was born!
First time seeing eachother!
Dad and Son--could Dave be any happier??!!
not just the little sister anymore
big sister twice now!
Isn't he perfect!
Well, yes, its me again. I'm still here, slowly going crazy... :) Really I'm posting about preschool graduation this morning. This morning was our graduation party, and I wanted the room to look good and be really clean, so I go down and start cleaning. I mop the floor and dump the dirty water in the toilet and flush...ummmm...how come the water's not going down?! So I sort of break the toilet! You've got to be kidding me! I'm plunging, I'm emptying the water out with a bucket, I'm re-mopping, but yet, nothing is working! There's a little utility closet on the other side of the bathroom, with a drain in the floor and there is stinky dirty toilet water backing up into it, it smells so bad! So I go down there to make sure its nice, and end up making it disgusting! Anyway, we get it cleaned up and the toilet working, so thats good. So, the program goes well, the kids were really excited and I hope the parents enjoyed it also. It was nice because Shauna gave me some flowers and I got a couple cards, it was very thoughtful! So now I'm officially done working! Wow! What a weird feeling driving out of the parking lot, like it should be more momentous or something! Anyway, hopefully I can relax a little the next couple days, or atleast get some stuff done before I have the baby! I really wouldn't be sad though if I got nothing done and had the baby today! ;) Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed! 
The flowers I got! unfortunately I didn't think to bring my camera this morning, so there's no pictures of Bethany in her cute graduation cap, or anything like that! darn it!
So still no baby, I'll let you know as soon as anything happens! Which feels like NEVER! :) So besides that occupying every moment in my brain, I thought I'd do this tagg, and then if you haven't done it yet, I pass it to you!
Hubby Tagg
What is his name? David Keith Lassen
How old is he? almost 29 (in a month)
How long have we been married? 7 years on our next anniversary
How long did we date? not very long, about six weeks....
Who said I love you first? I think probably Dave
Who is taller? I would hope he's taller than 5'2", so him!
Who sings better? wow, definitely me! hehe
Who is smarter? hmmmm, I don't know we both have our moments
Whose temper is worse? mine! David's patient with me, not so much with the kids...
Who pays the bills? Dave
Who does the laundry? Dave
Who cooks dinner? Dave (wow, I'm a horrible wife!)
Who drives when we are together? Totaly depends, but most likely Dave
Who is more stubborn? me
Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? it's pretty mutual
Whose family do you see more? I guess mine for now, we don't have very much family close by right now!
Who has more friends? me, I'm much more sociable! :)
Who wears the pants in the family? probably me, to be honest
Who eats more sweets? thats probably pretty mutual too, we both likey the candy!
Who mows the lawn? Dave
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? me
Who asked who out first? he asked me, it was pretty much a blind date
Who kissed who first? he did
What is my favorite thing about him? My favorite thing about David is he's so awesome in so many ways, he puts up with my garbage, he helps around the house, he works hard and takes care of our kids, he's totally willing to do what he has to, to make his family happy. He's a good man!
Yup, no baby yet! Despite having some pretty good contractions all weekend, I'm still here and waiting! We've been trying to get last minute things done, got the cradle all ready, bought some diapers the other day, and I packed my hospital bag. But still waiting! Saturday night was pretty miserable, I had contractions all night, so I didn't get hardly any sleep. They finally stopped about six o'clock in the morning, so all night I'm worrying about how long I should wait or what I'm going to do with my girls and in between dreaming about having a baby, it was an interesting night! And yesterday was Mother's Day, wouldn't it have been so cool to have had the baby yesterday?! Oh well, it was still a very nice day! I didn't have any meetings so I got to sleep in--yippee!--and David made dinner (which isn't really a surprise, since he makes dinner almost every night!) and we went to Mark & Carla's and played games with them and Romrells', it was very fun--and good for me to get out of the house and keep my mind off things! So anyway, I'm still here but hopefully in the next little bit, you'll get a different kind of post, one where I
don't sound so depressed! :)
Here are a couple pictures of the Mother's in my life! I'm so very grateful for the wonderful example's of my mother and David's mother, I am very blessed to have them in my life! 
Had my dr. appointment yesterday, not much new. I've progressed a little more, he says I could go anytime or he'd see me next week, can't really be specific! Its frustrating, but thats how things go, you just never know! So anyway, besides my appointment, Bethany had her dress rehearsal last night, so it was fun to get to take pictures (they won't let you at the performance), so here's a couple pictures from that. (Oh, p.s. Bethany told David yesterday totally out of nowhere: "Hey Dad, guess what? I went to Jared!" If you've seen that commercial you'll know what I'm talking about, thought it was pretty funny though!)
I'm sure ever post I write sounds like our life is completely crazy, but I guess it is, so thats why! And this weekend was no exception! Saturday started with Bethany's rehearsal, from 9:30 to 11:30, she did really well and listened so good. After she got home, we got the girls dressed in Sunday clothes and headed to the church for Jolyn's funeral. They asked the Primary kids and the teenagers to sing some Primary hymns before the funeral started, so we practiced for a little bit and went into the chapel to sing. I love the primary songs, they are so sweet and touching, I thought I'd be okay but a few of them really got to me and I just couldn't hold myself together! It was I think the most beautiful funeral I've ever been to, the songs that were sung were amazing and I cried during all of them, and the people who spoke were so wonderful and sweet, the things they said were absolutely perfect! I cried a lot, but in a good way too, it was a hard day but I'm so thankful we went and were able to feel the spirit that was there! After that I was pretty exhausted and just went home and crashed.
Sunday was a pretty busy day as well, I had Ward Council (that I was late for because my brain just doesn't function anymore! I thought the meeting started at 8:30, but it started at 8:00! I had to walk in with a bright red face...), came home and got the girls' ready for church, got Bethany's talk all ready, went to church, then after church my visiting teachers came. Its always fun to sit and visit with them, its nice to have visiting teachers that are about the same age and stage in life, where we can talk about the same kinds of things, it was really fun. It's my uncle's b-day tomorrow, so we'd planned to get together for a family dinner that night, but I got a phone call that Leanne was in the hospital- her water broke that morning! Lucky her.... :) We still got together for dinner and then as a big group went to see Leanne and the new baby in the hospital. She's absolutely ADORABLE! So sweet, it's hard to remember how tiny newborn babies are, but she was so calm and mellow, it was very fun to go and see them! Of course Bethany couldn't stay away from her, she is so into babies!
So anyway, there was our weekend, now just about every one I know has had their baby and here I am waiting my turn. Hopefully the time will fly--I know it will in general, its just the day by day thing, and not sleeping at night, that makes it seem longer! Oh well, still lots to get done and it will be my turn soon enough!
Just real quick, we finally got Bethany into the allergy specialist to check on her peanut allergy. I've done allergy testing before and kind of expected how things would be, but not sure how they would do it on a little kid (I did it when I was about 17). I was really sad because I had to work and couldn't be there, but David was great and Bethany was a champ! When I was tested they marked my forearms, put little drops of syrum or whatever of things people are allergic to, and then pricked the drops to see if you would react to them. They did the same kind of thing to Bethany, except they did it on her back and didn't do nearly as many drops, I think they would just do the allergies that are threatening, more food allergies and that sort. I remember it was really hard not to scratch after they pricked you, but you had to wait for like five minutes or so and if you scratched it they had to start over. Bethany was having a hard time, but Dave distracted her and she got through it, I'm very proud of her (there was an older woman when I did it that couldn't get through it, so she's pretty tough!). Bethany does get a special epipen to go to school with her, and the dr. even showed her how to use it. Well, so much for super quick, but there you have it on Bethany's allergies!
Just a quick update! I had my dr.'s appointment today, I'm progressing just fine, except I lost a whole pound this last week?! Crazy huh? I'm dialated to a two and I'm seventy percent effaced (sp?), which is more than I was last week. We'll see what he says next week, I'm scheduled to be induced on the 19th, but could go before that, who knows? It's so hard because I don't want to go early because of TONS of things that are happening in the next few weeks, but I'm so tired of being pregnant! :) Oh well, there's nothing to do but wait, besides get stuff ready and go to the millions of meetings and appointments and whatever else we have going on! Oh, on a side note, Bethany has another ballet performance next Friday and Saturday, I'm so excited, she loves doing it so much! Tomorrow she's getting her pictures taken, she loves it because she gets to wear make-up! oooh la la! She has a bunch of rehearsals next week, hopefully it won't be too overwhelming for her, I'm sure she'll do just great though. Well, thats whats going on with us--atleast for this week!
8 things I’m passionate about
1) My kids and David
2) Photography
3) Family
4) Friends
5) Decorating
6) Having a great life
7) Buying a house of our own
8) David being done with school!!
8 Songs I can listen to over and over again and never get sick of
1) Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
2) All Cried Out- Allure and 112
3) Gravity- John Mayer
4) Fidelity- Regina Spektor
5) Fools Rush In- Elvis Presley
6) Man in the Mirror- Michael Jackson
7) Sometimes- Dixie Chicks
8) Angel- Dave Matthews Band
The past 8 books I’ve read
1. Eclipse- Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon- Stephenie Meyer
3. Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
4. Angels & Demons- Dan Brown
5. The Book of Mormon
6. The New Testament
7. Currently reading the Old Testament
8. Lots of others, like the Harry Potter series, Da Vinci Code, Gone with the Wind, etc.
8 Things I say often
1) I'm tired!
2) super-- as in "I'm super excited!" or "thats super cool!"
3) wow!
4) I love you!
5) Maddie!
6) Bethany!
7) DAVID!
8) probably Shut up! But I shouldn't admit it... :)
8 Things that attract me to a friend
1) they have to be funny!
2) they're just nice
3) someone who likes to talk!
4) someone who's honest, but not in a mean way
5) someone who will gripe with me!
6) but also give me good advice
7) gotta like shopping!
8) they can't be a mean girl, who know the kind that hated you in high school because the guy they liked, liked you. Or they don't like you because of how you dress or petty things like that. :)
8 Random things about me
1) I'm weird! I totally am, and I really actually like it that way!
2) I love being outdoors, just sitting in a park, but camping and all that too!
3) I really really love my husband even though I'm mean to him. (sad huh?)
4) I think I'm somewhat obsessive compulsive, but only on certain weird things.
5) I love to laugh really hard, the kind of laugh that makes your stomach hurt and your eyes water-- I usually only get to laugh that hard with my sister.
7) I'm a nose blower, I have tissue boxes all over my house, I hate it when people sniff all the time- just blow it out!!
8) I hate just sitting at home alone, I truly love to spend time around people just talking and laughing or playing games or whatever!
8 Things I want to do before I die
1) Get David through school
2) Buy a house!
3) Watch my kids grow into happy adults and parents, get married in the temple, go on missions, have babies....oh it will be wonderful
4) Travel to all the different places I'd love to photograph
5) Go back to school, or atleast learn some of the things I really want to, like take a painting class, or singing lessons, or guitar lessons, etc.
6) Get a little discipline on myself, I guess self-control or organization or whatever, does that make sense?
7) Go on a mission with David
8) Learn how to be PATIENT! And to not let things affect me so much!
8 Things I’ve learned this past year
1) Life can be really hard and stressful, but somehow you make it through just fine!
2) I think I have the funniest, unique kids in the world!
3) I'm not sure, but do trials get harder the older you are? (or is it just random?)
4) When you don't have your family close around you, the Lord gives you other people to be "family" with as well.
5) I love being in Young Women's!
6) I thought I knew myself fairly well, but all of a sudden you decide you don't necessarily want to be that person, or not all of them and then comes the work of trying to break bad habits and it can be really hard!
7) I'm not scared to have three kids at all, but every once in awhile I'm terrified I'm going to mess them up so bad!
8) My husband is so much more amazing than I give him credit for, I'm very lucky!
The 8 People I want to do the 8’s
1. Delee
2. Laina
3. Julie
4. Shauna
5. Shanna
6. Heather
7. Shannon
8. Kristie!
Just a few things we've been doing this week, I had my dr.'s appointment on Thursday and everything looks great. I'm dialating and getting ready to go into labor, who knows when this is all gonna happen, but the very latest I'm going to be induced on May 19th, whoo hoo! Now all of a sudden I feel the pressure of getting everything ready, hopefully we'll have this all worked out soon! Exciting though...
I started reading the "Twilight" series and can't stop! I've finished the first two books in the last two days and I'm trying to decide if I should spend another day just reading, or if I have the self-control to just read a little at a time this next week. (I don't have the self-control) ;)
I decided I truly hate my yard and wanted to plant some flowers, although now I realize that wasn't very smart since it SNOWED the other day!!! My goal is to add a plant atleast every week for the next little bit. Well, hopefully they'll live and I didn't waste all that money...
This picture's from a month or so ago, Leanne's just a couple weeks ahead of me, its pretty funny to compare though!
This is my favorite picture of Jolyn, I will forever think of her this way with the sun glowing on her, she was so happy that trip, I think she looks absolutely gorgeous.
The last day or two have been difficult, my heart goes out to the Manuela family. Jolyn after many months (really, years) of struggling has passed away. I have such mixed feelings, I have to be honest I'm really so happy for Jolyn. I'm so happy she doesn't have to be in pain anymore, she doesn't have to wear her oxygen mask, she doesn't have to be stuck at home, and be exhausted all the time. In that same breath, I'm so sorry for her family and that we won't get to see her beautiful smiling face--atleast for a little while. I know she is doing great things on the other side this very moment! Although death is just the other part of life, that doesn't make it easy, I am just SO grateful for the knowledge of eternal families and the plan of salvation, I don't know how people get through things like this who don't know! Since everything happened yesterday, we decided we couldn't go on with our regular Mutual activities, so we would do some things to help the youth to cope or deal with this hopefully better. We had a big poster that we put some stickers and cute little words and things on, and made a big card to give to the family. And then we got some helium balloons and let people write on a tag a note or thought or whatever they wanted to Jolyn, and then we released them at the end of the night. The Bishop stood up and talked to the kids and shared some special experiences and what had happened, what he said was wonderful. Kerrilyn has a good friend thats a counselor, so she came and shared some idea's and thoughts with the kids of what they could do to feel better. After that, we just let the kids talk and cry and hug eachother, write in the card and leave their thoughts. Really it was nice to get to be together and love eachother. I hope it helped some of the youth deal with their feelings, and to be okay. Here's some of the pictures from last night. I really just wish there was something to do to help the family, I would in a second!
This is right before we let the balloons go, it was a neat thing to do, I'm glad Kerrilyn thought to do it.
This is Annie, I just love her so much. Annie is a "tom-boy"--very athletic, hard-working, "tough" but really deep down she is so tender hearted.
They're getting a lot higher now, they went surprisingly quickly.
At first we were just planning on the Young Women being together, but the Young Men stayed and participated with us, I'm so glad they did, it was very touching.
I'm so thankful for the things Bishop said and the sentiments he expressed to us, he watched the balloons for a long time.
Well, this weekend has been busy and eventful as usual! Friday was fun because my brother was engaged this week and he and his fiance drove down here to go back to school in Rexburg. So we got to say hi and they were so fun to let me take some engagement pictures of them. We're *super* excited for them and can't wait for Tamsyn to join our family! My girls already love her and can't stay away from her, I think its cute, hopefully its not too annoying for her! :) After that, we went over to my cousin's to have another family get together before my cousin Jill went back home to Arizona. Her and her husband just recently adopted twin boys (2 years old!) and it was so fun to see all these two year olds running around together playing! It would be AWESOME if they could move up here, we'll keep our fingers crossed that someday they will! Yesterday, I had a Lia Sophia Rally up in Sandy, it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot--there were a ton of good idea's and pointers, and they fed us lunch so you can't beat that! :) I got home close to 3 o'clock, and we headed up to Costco after that, gotta love those churros (sp?) and really after Costco, we just hung out for the rest of the night watching movies, it was nice to relax for awhile! So besides not being able to sleep at night (at ALL!) and having this stupid sinus cold (for a week now!--by the way my eardrum burst the other night, lovely...) we're doing pretty good! One month left until this baby is born! Whoo hoo!!
I had to add this one, after playing all day, this is how my girls fell asleep Friday night! Too sweet huh?
Maddie and her new cousin Tyson! Can you tell they were having so much fun!
This is my brother and his fiance Tamsyn! Aren't they adorable together?!
Well, its my cousin's baby shower tonight and I wasn't sure what I was going to get her until she told me she wanted headbands and decoration kind of things for the baby's room. So it hit me! I knew exactly what I wanted to do for her, and I can't tell you how much I enjoyed putting this together! At the craft show I was at last weekend there was a bunch of these and I've been seeing them everywhere, so I've wanted to make these cute little headbands for awhile now. You make the headbands out of tights, and then you make all kinds of bows and things that can be interchanged to match whatever outfit you want. I took a picture frame and put some pretty fabric around the glass and added ribbon to it, you can hang the frame on the wall and clip the bows to the ribbon, so you have a cute place to keep them all. Fun huh?
Then I took some of the extra ribbon and fabric and made some pacifier clips. Gotta get some cute "boy" material and make some for our baby! 
Here's a couple of pictures of our funny girls from the last couple days, they keep doing things that make me grab the camera! This very first picture of Maddie, she has on the top half of some tights that I cut up to make headbands, she thought they were so cool! The other pictures are of the girls with their new goggles on and Maddie keeps falling asleep on the couch while she's sitting up, too cute!
Man! Wish I'd taken some pictures last night, but I know Kay did so maybe she'll send me some! My cousin Jill and her husband and adorable twin boys are in town visiting, so last night we got together with my Aunt and Uncle's family and had a BBQ and laughed and the kids played outside on the tramp and the toys, and even some of the men had a pretty good time playing with the kids stuff! :) It was SO nice to get together and eat and talk and relax, I'm just so happy we have such wonderful family near us. I really think it would make being away from our family so much harder, but I'm so happy that Jim and Kay have been so good to include us and treat us so well! I just love them so much, they're awesome! It goes to show if we'd never moved away from home, we wouldn't of had the chance to get to know other people in our family and have such good relationships! So there can be some really good things that come out of hard situations! Thanks again to Jim and Kay and their kids for being so wonderful to us--we surely love you!
Well, its been a crazy last couple of days! Friday I was supposed to be off work by 12:45, but the girl that was going to close had a family emergency and asked me to take her shift. So I got a little break and went back to work from 2:15 to 6:30, it was a long day! Thankfully David was ready to take me out and do something fun, something I really needed! So we went to Applebee's and I had a nice steak! Yum yum! And then we rented a couple of movies, Mr. Magorium's something something Imporium, was actually quite cute! Yesterday was quite a day as well, I've been doing vinyl stickers with some friends of mine for a few months now, and there was a craft "boutique" thing up in Roy yesterday, so I got up and left about 8:30am and headed out. Called my mom on the drive up since it was her b-day--Happy Birthday Mom!!--and got up there about 9:30. It was a pretty busy day, there was constant traffic and constant work to do. I brought up my own chair, a crappy pink lawn chair so I'd have somewhere to sit, but didn't realize how bad my back would hurt by the end of the day leaning over stickers I was working on! yikes! We finally closed shop and loaded everything up by 6:00pm and I made it home by 7:00--what a long day! On top of the crazy weekends, it hit me in the middle of the night that I have a sore throat and stuffy nose! So not feeling so hot either, darn it! I really do have to mention my incredible husband who so willingly and un-complainingly takes our girls and does fun things with them; he bought them new pool toys so we can go to the pool as it starts warming up, he took them for walks and played outside with them, he even cleaned up the living room, what a good man! I'm so grateful for him and his patience with me and my hectic schedule! So anyway, I didn't get done really anything that I had planned on, but such is life, especially mine! Hopefully in the next week or so I can get organized again and get done all the little extra things I need to! I'm so excited for the baby to get here and especially for a semi-break from things (semi, since I'll still be doing lots of stuff this summer, just not working at the daycare). And a super bonus this week, after Tuesday I won't be opening in the mornings! I won't have to wake up at 6am anymore! Hallelujah! Well, wish us luck in the next couple weeks that we'll get all the odds and ends done before this baby is born! And maybe a good nights sleep in there somewhere too....
Really wish it was getting warmer around here, but it keeps getting warm and then super cold again! It snowed here again! Anyway, even though it isn't warm outside, Bethany's been asking to go to the pool all the time, so Dave decided he would take them today! Don't they look cute?!
Bethany got this swimsuit a couple weeks ago and was so excited to wear it!
I'll have to post some pictures later, but I just have to say that Maddie is my sunshine! That kid just makes me so happy--she's been so funny today! She loves her easter basket (its more of a bucket), I think mostly because it had a bunch of candy in it! But now that the candy's gone, she likes to walk around with it on her head! haha And just in general she's been talking a TON and she says the cutest things! She was looking at a Snow White book and there's a picture where she's laying on the ground in the forest and Maddie looks at me and says so sweetly "Mama, Snow White is dead." I had to laugh so hard and tell her she was just crying. But anyway, I could go on and on but I'm just so thankful for her and how much she brings to our family! and p.s. I don't want this to sound like I don't love Bethany, I do so much too!
(here are the pictures from yesterday, if you notice she's wearing different clothes, its her new big thing to go get in her clothes and find something new to put on! usually a dress!)
Wow, I love conference weekends! Its so nice to listen to the prophet and hear the apostles guide us! It was especially special to be able to sustain a new prophet, not something I really remember doing with President Hinckley. I even got a little teary eyed doing it, I truly feel President Monson is called of God and I'm so excited to see him go to work over the next few years! I won't lie and say I didn't fall asleep a few times, but in my defense I am quite pregnant and not sleeping well! :) From what I didn't miss, I loved and am striving to be a better person!
Doubly exciting besides getting to sit and relax and listen to conference, my brother was in town to see his girlfriend! whoo hoo for him! He's been home from school during his off-season and they've been talking and getting quite serious I hear, so it was really nice for him to get to come down and go to conference with her. She's a really great girl, she's from South Africa and has the cutest accent. She's very calm and relaxed and easy to talk to, which is just so nice! They were here for the second session yesterday and stayed most of the rest of the night, so it was nice to get to visit for awhile. I'm so happy for my brother--and her too!:)--they seem really smitten with eachother! I wish them the best of luck and hope everything works out in the best of ways! ;)
So for those of you that haven't heard of Lia Sophia, its a company that sells jewelry. Its like Avon or Pampered Chef, where you host parties and sell it from a catalog, kind of thing. So anyway, I've been to a few parties and had two of my own now, and talking to some friends and things, I've decided I'm going to sell it myself. Its nice because I can do it in the evenings when Dave's home and choose what days work for me, and really all in all its just a big party every time I'd go to work! :) I'm trying to figure out how everything works and exactly what I need to do, but otherwise I'm pretty excited about it! Especially since my starter kit comes with over a thousand dollars of jewelry--whoo hoo! Its not all stuff I would pick out myself, but still! It will be especially nice this summer when I'm not working at the daycare! Well, wish us luck that this new endeavor will be positive!
