My boys make me laugh!!

My boys make me laugh every day.  I don't know what I laughed at before I had them... Nothing is as funny as the things they do and say.  We were watching Transformers and I quoted Megatron as he is chasing Sam through the building.  I said "I smell you, Boy!"... Connor was sitting on the floor in front of me..  He turned around with this little grin on his face and says "I tooted".  The rest of the movied just wasn't the same after that.  Brenan was chasing Connor around the other day and he says "Come back here you little one eyed Cretin!"...  Ok, so I know that is not an exact quote out of the movie but it still made me laugh pretty hard. Then this morning my little 2 year old gets out of bed and comes into my room.  The very first thing he says to me is "Capiller into butterfly".. He says this with a sad little face.  So I tell him .. "That's a cheeto".  He says "OH!" and starts laughing his head off.  I almost fell out of bed.  So, as I was getting out of bed, Connor says "butt crack hanging out" and goes to the end of the bed and picks up Jeff's lounge pants that are on the floor by the dresser and tells me to "put dress on".  That is his way of saying get dressed.  So, getting up out of bed is bad enough on a pregnant ladys bladder, but to be laughing so hard while doing it is really not a good thing! 

3D Ultrasound...

I have wanted one of these every time I was pregnant..  Never got one until now.  I have seen other people photos  and some were pretty good, others were not.  I think where I have big fat babies, they are more well rounded and actually look like babies instead of little skeletons..  I have been told these are great pics for a 3d ultrasound so here you go...

It's been a while... again.

I just realized that I have not updated ANYthing since we announced we were having another baby...  Now that I only have about 5 1/2 weeks left.. That is a long time between updates! 

We are all doing well.  No, we don't know what we are having yet, this baby has been very uncooperative in letting us peek.  I have had three different ultrasounds and everything has been kept covered up for all of them.  I have not gained any weight and the baby is growing well, so that is a good thing for everyone.  I have been having contractions for what feels like months, and was dilated to 3 at 33 weeks.  I guess we will all have to wait and see if I actually make it to February or not.  Jeff has a separated shoulder and possibly a torn rotor cuff.  He is actually in Park City seeing a specialist about it today to see if he needs surgery or not.  I am sure working and not being able to do the therapy they wanted him to do is not helping the healing process.  Brenan is back in school and doing awesome.  He has decided he liked last year better because they got to play more.  The teacher he has this year doesn't really have toys for them to play with, she has books and puzzles for them while they wait for everyone to get there, then they are all in class the whole time.  There is singing and playing along with the learning, but he still thinks it's not as much fun.  He really doesn't like to practice letters, we got him doing his name by letting him show Jeff his progress every night and he gets excited when his dad tells him how awesome he is.  Connor is learning to express himself better every day and the kid cracks me up.  He is so much more easygoing and happy than Brenan.  It is so fun to see the differences between them as they grow into their own little people.  They are both growing like crazy.  Brenan is only 4 but is wearing a size 6/7 clothes and a size 11 shoe!  Connor is 2 and is wearing 3/4T and a size 7 shoe.  It is crazy when people find out how old they are... all I ever hear is how big and tall they are for their ages. 

We have news!!!

If you are friends with me on facebook, this won't come as news to you, but .... 

We are having a new addition to our family due February 12, 2011.  I am very excited!  When I went to the doctor, Jeff had gotten home just in time to show up and go with me.  My mom was with the boys so they didn't have trauma over what happens at a prenatal visit... haha.  Brenan went with me to almost all of my appointments while I was pregnant with Connor, but he was a little younger and didn't pay so much attention to everything.  He would stand at the end of the table hanging on to my legs and Dr. B would even let him hold the "heartbeep" thing so he loved going and listening to that.  He also loved the ultrasounds, being able to see the baby move and hear the heartbeep there too.  I am sure they will end up at at least one or two of them this time, but for the first few, I would rather not have them there... 
Anyway... when I first got the positive pregnancy test, I made a comment to Jeff that I needed to have two in there, like it would be a buy one get one free kinda deal.  He has had dreams that it was twins and he was a little freaked out over it.  When we got in there, Dr. B was poking around in my belly and says "oh, twins..." and looked over at Jeff for a reaction.  He didn't get the one he was looking for..  so he said "triplets?"..  haha  I am still too early to tell if there is more than one in there other than with an ultrasound, and he told us that he was just kidding, but I would be more than thrilled to have twins.  I would really love twin girls!!  I just want at least one daughter and I am pretty sure I am not going to talk Jeff into another chance, so this is it.  I love my boys like crazy, and my girl would have to be not girly or I am not sure what I would do with myself or with her, since I am not really into any of the girly stuff and I do NOT like the color pink AT ALL!  A little girl with Connors blue eyes, and Brenans coloring and curls....  how adorable would she be?!?!?!  Either way, I just want a healthy baby (or two :) ) to bring home and love to pieces.  Brenan was exactly 2 weeks early and Connor was almost 3 weeks early, so I am sure it will be closer to the end of January or the first week in February, Jeff says we have to see how the hockey schedule looks before we really pick a date... 

Summer so far...

We have had a lot of fun already this year.  We have gone fishing three times, actually did some catching the first two times.  The last time, I think we were just at the wrong time of day for the fish to be active.  We gave up fishing and went for a drive on the mountain instead.  Jeff drove us up past Hacking Lake, as far as we could go without blazing a trail through the snow, and we got out and walked up farther so we could see over the edge.  Brenan thought that was pretty cool.  On our way back down the road, we stopped and let the boys, including my biggest one, throw rocks into a big pond that was going across the "road" we wanted to drive up.  Brenan said we should do that everyday, and I think Connor would agree with him.  They had fun.  I do have pictures of it, but they are on my phone and I have not sent them to the online album and then went and retrieved them yet, so they will come later.  We stopped again when we crossed Trout Creek and let them throw rocks again, because we told them they could stop at the lake, but it was really muddy and rutted out so we didn't drive over to it.  Fathers Day wasn't great (sorry honey) and he still hasn't gotten his present because it has not gotten here yet.  Then, one of Jeffs people found a buyer for the pump we took off his semi, so we needed to get it to Salt Lake so we could make a little money and get rid of the silly thing.  We drove out on Wednesday, got to eat Red Lobster which I had been craving, then went to find a hotel.  The one we wanted had a waterslide in it and I had shown Brenan pictures of it because we had planned on going a day later and I was making a reservation on line...  long story...  anyway, we got there and they were full because of all the Chevron guys there for the oil spill.  We drove on North a little ways so Jeff would not have as far to drive from the hotel to the shop to drop off the pump.  We found one that we had stayed in before and got a room.  As soon as we hit the room, everyone was stripping because we wanted to go swimming...  it was a little funny.  We went swimming and my two little daredevils had a blast jumping off the edge into the water.  Connor got tired of waiting for Brenan and pushed him in once, but that was about the biggest arguement between the two of them all night.  Connor is very independent and kept trying to push away from whomever was holding him, he has even learned to hold on to the edge of the pool and walk himself around with his hands by himself already...   The kid just has no fear!  After about an hour and a half of swimming and jumping, we went up to the room and got ready for bed.  Brenan had to lay by his dad, so I was in the other bed with Connor.  He fell asleep pretty easy.  HAHA  Then, I moved Brenan over by him so I could lay by my honey, he was alseep and on top of the covers so it wasn't exactly comfy for a little bit, but it got better.  After a night of not a lot of sleep, Jeff went and took the pump to the shop and got it out of the car.  Then he came back, we had breakfast and headed out.  We took the boys to the Hogle Zoo.  They had fun, Jeff and I were tired, thirsty, and hot...  we decided it was a little too much like exercise for us. hahaha.  We got to go on the carousel three times and the train once.  I got blisters on my toes from wearing not great shoes for walking.  It was a fun time had by all...   then we went and got lunch at Sizzler and had to wake Connor up to get him to eat... poor kid was totally tuckered out and did NOT want to be awake.  Then we headed home.  The next morning, Jeff had to head out to North Dakota again.  He left and an hour later I was at the doctors office with two sick boys.  Brenan has pneumonia (pops and bubbles in his lungs and blisters on his eardrums) Connor has infection in both ears, but his lungs were clear.  If there is one part of being a mom that I hate, it is when my kids are sick.  I HATE IT!  I know they are miserable and there isn't really anything I can do to help them and they don't understand why they don't feel well...  It is just NOT fun... for anyone.  Got them started on their medications, Brenan hates the eardrops, and Connor thinks he has to have them too, and he actually lays still and does a lot better at it than Brenan does.  They are both really good at taking medicine so at least that is not a fight.  Today, they are acting like they are starting to feel better, both still a little cranky and fussy, but I am trying to be understanding about it.....

New Year's Resolutions.... UPdate.

I have to say that I am just a little bit proud of myself...  I have never really followed through with resolutions much, mostly because I think I was too vague or unrealistic in what I set.  This year, I posted about what my resolutions were going to be, I just went back and read them and I was very pleasantly surprised.  I have succeeded in all but one of them.  And it's only April!  Wahoo!

I have been going to church in our new ward, which I love because it is a lot of young people with kids.  There are so many kids in the nursery, they have 4-5 adults in there at a time to help out and they put name tags on the kids so they can remember them all.  HAHA  I even went to a relief society dinner last night and got to know some of the other new people in the ward.  I was hesitant to go, I really am not a social butterfly in any form, but it was a lot of fun.  We have even went and talked to the bishop about going to the temple and we started paying tithing!!

I finished reading the Book of Mormon!!  I have done this before, but it was when I was either in seminary or when I was in New Jersey 17 years ago.  I plan on starting over and also adding in some Bible since our Sunday school is doing the Old Testament.   So.... wish me luck with that!

I have been doing a lot better at keeping the blog updated, either with pictures or just with stuff we have been doing.  Compared to last year, I have done great.  Now I just have to keep it up.

The hubby and I have had a date every month so far.  I would like to make this more often, just have to find a babysitter and have him in town on a regular basis and at a normal hour.

Keeping the house decluttered and more organized...  This one depends on who you talk to.  It still is not good enough for Jeff, and I doubt I ever will be.  I think I have been doing better.  There has only been twice in 4 months that I have not put the laundry away as it gets done, and that is something I hate doing.  I have been making my bed, keeping the kitchen and bathrooms wiped down, and toys put away mostly every night.  Of course, there have been lazy days (or painful days, whichever way you look at it) but on the whole, I have been doing well.

The budget... HHHMMMM...  This is still an issue, but not like it was before.  I have bought some stuff online and spent money on getting Jeff and I some church clothes and had to fix my car a couple times so we have gone off budget quite a bit, but we have not gone into debt to do it and we have paid for everything not on credit or anything like that.  Which leads to...

Putting money in savings accounts...  At the moment all three accounts have money in them.  Not as much as I would like, but at least they have some.  Really going to work on this one.

Getting healthier is one of the things that I spent money on.  I went around and around on which diet to try...  I really wanted to do the HCG one, I think it would really work for me.  Once I got the paperwork, I read that I could only have 1 TBSP of milk a DAY!!!  That totally does not work for me AT ALL!  I drink milk a lot and I love it.  I could handle the 500-900 calories a day diet, that is not a problem at all, but I have to have milk, so I know I would fail at that diet, so I didn't start it.  I decided to try Herbalife.  I have a friend that is on it and he has done awesome, so it was my second choice.  So far it has been two weeks and I have lost approximately 10 lbs (I didn't buy a scale until part way into it) and dropped a pants size.  I am pretty excited about that and I feel great.  I have been exercising more and going on walks with my boys.  I haven't had the energy to do that in a LONG time.  I don't really see a difference yet, but I know my pants fit a lot different, in a good way!

Paying off my car will take a while...  So I guess making payments on it and adding a little to the minimum each month will have to count as progress. 

So, there is the quarterly update... haha...  I really feel like I did well at making goals that I could keep up with and see progress on.  Sorry this was so long and boring, and if you made it this far, thanks for reading it.  

Capt. Unnaware....

So Connor has this thing about putting pants and underwear on his head and thinking it is funny.  He runs around being proud of his headware, laughing and showing off.  That is what he was doing until I pointed my phone at him and it clicked.  That is when I got the glare!!  I think it is mostly the waistband squishing his poor little forehead, but apparently, he didn't think it was funny that I took his picture.  I think it is quite hilarious and it has kept me laughing all day.