Just so you know...

I know you all can't live without my fabulous posts (wink, wink), so I'm letting you know I probably won't be posting the next few days or so, because David's parents are in town! I know, I know, its awful and you're so disappointed, but thats life and you'll just have to deal with it! haha Alright, I know I'm not that important but still I didn't want anyone to think I'd fallen off the blogging bandwagon, right?! I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures with Grandma and Grandpa after this weekend to post, so see you then!

Strange Footprints, Mysterious Monsters!!

Yes, its true. Something very frightening is living in my house....
Recently, I've noticed some very strange footprints across my living room floor. 'Hmmmm' I thought, 'What could possible make a three toed footprint?!'

This all started a few days ago, when the weather became incredibly beautiful outside. Bethany and Madelyn have been playing outside as much as possible and loving it. But with all this strange behavior, I'm not sure if they're safe....
Since seeing these footprints, I decided I couldn't just sit back and not do something about this problem. So I started to investigate, and you wouldn't believe the terrifying monsters I found. Yes, I said monsterS, there were two of them. As I followed the footprints, this is what I came across......







(warning: if you are weak stomached or faint easily, you might not want to go on!)
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1. Dirty filthy little fingers!

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Shocking discovery number two:
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2. Disgustingly gross little feet!!

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My third discovery (by this time, I'm horrified at what I might find!):
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3. This creature, with strange murky looking eye coverings!

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Lastly, and this is the real kicker, a monster so terrible it makes me shudder....
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4. My own daugher, turned into a putrid, greasy, dirt ridden little monster. It stikes fear into your heart doesn't it?!

Luckily for us, these monsters disappear around bathtime every day. Strange though......
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(I do have to say that this picture makes me laugh almost hysterically. I try to look at it without losing it, but I can't, its just too funny!)

Father's Day

What a great dad! I love you Dave!


I'm so grateful for the wonderful fathers' in my life! My dad has always been an amazing example, I can't even explain how much I love him! And David's dad has been wonderful to me, I like to think I get to be extra special because I'm his only daughter-in-law, and he treats me very sweetly indeed! And I'm also so grateful for my amazing husband who is an amazing dad to our children! I love David so much, I can't believe all he does for us and all he puts up with, he's wonderful! Happy Father's Day!
I love you Pa!


I love you Dad!

Too much Fun Friday!

I'm so excited its Friday today! Normally it wouldn't really matter too much, but David has today off--yay! So we planned to do some extra fun stuff since we haven't seen much of dad lately, he's been working a lot! We had to run a few errands this morning and one of them included delivering some stuff from the Mr. Mac's down here to the one up at the mall, since we were going to be up there, we thought we'd do a little shopping (my brother's getting married in August, so we needed something for that). So, fun for me, I got a new dress and shirt! After that--since we were up there--we went to Olive Garden! Yummy....Gotta love the soup, salad and breadsticks! Then we came back to catch an early show of "Kung Fu Panda"! If you were wanting to see it, then do because it was so dang cute! Totally entertaining for both kids and parents, honestly. So now we're back from that, we're fed, entertained and satisfied--partially--with shopping! What a great Friday! Oh, and just to add, Bethany was commenting about me having freckles on my face, except she kept calling them farkles--and maybe I'm immature or dumb, but just saying the word makes me laugh, I guess it just tickled me! haha that Bethany....oh and she's trying out all her kung fu moves now too! (you know you're saying farkle in your head right now!hehehe)

Whats New?

So its just been so different being home now! I was thinking about when I was a stay-at-home mom before I was seriously lazy! haha I feel like I'm staying on top of things much better, but maybe its just a weird hormonal thing and I'll be back to disorganized again soon! :) We had our laurel activity here last night and baked, it was fun to hang out and laugh and talk with my girls, they're so amazing! I just love them so much! We also had a camp certification meeting this morning, Bethany got to go next door to Myrlynn's and loved making cookies with her and her grandkids, and Maddie and Sam went with me. We've been so lucky that so many people have had our kids over to play, not only do they LOVE it, it makes things so much easier for me! Thanks! Here's a couple pictures from the last few days!

Because I took a picture with Maddie and Sam, Bethany wanted me to take a picture of her and her baby doll--alrighty then!

Maddie wanted her baby to sleep with Sam, it totally reminded me of Bethany when Maddie was born--see next picture!

This was when Maddie was born, Bethany liked to put her dollies in with Maddie.

We've had a *few* nice days, but its been pretty windy the last day or two! I hope real summer weather will hit us--and stay!--really soon! Here's a picture of the girls playing on the swingset

The weekend

This week has gone by pretty fast. Tuesday we had Sam's appointment, Wednesday is a blur, I'm not sure what I did, but I wanted to go to Girls' Night, but David didn't get off work until 9pm, so I didn't!Thursday was fun, we had some friends stop by. Shauna came to close her party up, it was so nice to get to visit with her. Then Julie and her kids came and ate lunch with us, it was nice to get to visit and not worry about loading my kids up! Collin came and played too and even though its not always fun for him to play with my little girls he was a good sport! :) Yesterday was fun too, I went up to the mall and had lunch with Dave, it really wasn't bad at all to take all three kids up, I had Bethany walk and Maddie in a stroller and Sam in a little baby sling. I had so many people stop and ask me what was in there! haha I've been promising Bethany we'd stop by the daycare and say hi to her friends, but when we got done at the mall all her friends had gone home for the day, so she asked if we could stop by the Lefler's, I said we could see if they were home. Well, lucky for us they were, and it was so nice to get to visit. Thanks Laina for letting us crash your afternoon! So today is Saturday and even if I wanted to get out and do something I can't, because we had to get a new washing machine and of course their time frame is from 10am to 2pm, the whole afternoon! Well, I'll just be catching up on laundry the rest of the day anyway, especially since David's working anyway! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
After having so many friends on Thursday, both the girls fell asleep on the couch like this! haha


I walked in the kitchen and here Maddie is on the table playing play-doh! Yikes!

Going to the Doctor

So Sam had his two week appointment today (even though he's about two and a half weeks), and he did fantastic! He already weighs 8 pounds 4 ounces, they were really happy about that, and so was I--my girls are so petite, I'm hoping he can just atleast be average! :) And he's in the 70th percentile for height, so thats a good sign too! He had to do the PKU and hardly even whimpered, mostly because they let them suck on sugar water, and who doesn't like sugar?! There was a poor baby in the room next to us that was screaming his head off for like twenty minutes, I felt terrible for him! But even with my girls hiding under the furniture and being loud, it was a good appointment--I really love our pediatrician, he's very sweet! Besides that, its been kind of weird adjusting to being home again. I'm trying to get used to just being home and having time to do whatever I want (not that I can do whatever I want, I just had a baby! haha), so hopefully in the next couple weeks I can get this all down and be organized and all that! The only problem is, is that I don't like to sit around or be bored, I want to be out doing things and excercising and staying busy, I'm so impatient to get to that point again! What a weirdo I am! Oh well, I'm sure just when I'm getting used to this and in a schedule again, thats when I'll be heading back to work! Ahhhh, such is life.

Pictures!

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!

Finally!

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! ;)

sorry...

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!

One More Day...

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?!

Three Days Already!

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!

Samuel Walker!

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!

Preschool Graduation

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!

Tagg-- You're 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!

Still Here.....

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!

Stuff!

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!)

What a Weekend!

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!

Another really quick update!

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!

Quick Update

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!