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So much pressure!! LOL

Four Things MEME

LIST FOUR SENTENCES YOU'VE NEVER SAID BEFORE:

1. I hate steak!
2. I'm so glad we don't have cable. (The bill yes, cable no.)
3. Whew! A negative pregnancy test!
4. I love cleaning the house!

LIST FOUR SONG TITLES THAT DESCRIBE HOW YOU'VE FELT THIS WEEK:

1. "Ain't Goin' Down Til The Sun Comes Up" Garth Brooks
2. Caillou's theme song, "I'm just a kid who's four, each day I learn some more..."
3. "Don't Speak" No Doubt
4. "I've Got Friends In Low Places" Garth Brooks

IMAGINE YOU'RE HAVING THE IDEAL PERFECT DAY. WHAT FOUR THINGS WOULD YOU BE DOING?

1. I'd not be sick, but I'd still be pregnant.
2. I'd eat whatever I wanted and not gain any weight.
3. Read a book.
4. Enjoy a peaceful day with the boys, with NO fighting.

MAKE UP FOUR CREATIVE NAMES FOR A NEW ROCK BAND:

1. WOW!
2. Kev says "R-Tards"
3. CenFULL
4. The Maydays (I'm not creative.)

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU GET TO GO BACK IN TIME AND ENSURE THAT FOUR SONGS WERE NEVER WRITTEN, THUS SPARING HUMANITY FROM EVER HAVING TO HEAR THEM. WHAT FOUR SONGS WOULD GET THE AXE?

1. "My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion (they KILLED that song when Titanic came out!)
2. "The Macarena" Yuck
3. Anything Sanjaya has butchered on American Idol, I don't think I can hear them ever again.
4. "The Thong Song" Oh that was ANNOYING!

Ceasar Chavez Day? Are you KIDDING me?

Kevin's license got suspended because his former employer did not pay a fix-it ticket he had gotten in one of their trucks. We've been dealing with this for a few days and today it was supposed to get paid at the court house. We call and call no answer. But we're calling this little court branch in a tiny city a few miles away. Finally we call the big county Court house and it's FREAKING CEASAR CHAVEZ DAY! Who cares? Why are government employees off, paid, for this day??????? Seriously!

I could just cry, I hate his former employer SO FREAKIN MUCH. I can't wait to NEVER have anything to do wwith that company again. ARGH.

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Freedom!

My boys are leaving for a week today! They're going with my parents to their cabin and my mom will be here in about 2 hours to pick them up! What am I going to do with myself for a whole week with NO kids!?! Um, sleep, sleep, sleep!!! :) I'm sorta excited can you tell? I'm sure I'll miss them, but that's ok, absence makes the heart grow fonder!

I'm also excited because I made it, my ultrasound is on Monday and I patiently made it through the wait to see the baby again!! :)

Ok, so it's a good day. Oh and my mom is going to drop me off at the park when she comes to get the boys, so I can visit with my friends! Good day I tell ya!

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!

Make it stop! Make the screaming and fighting stop!! When will it end?!?!

These boys are like having WWIII today! It's been a constant battle all day long, I'm about ready to throw them back in bed and tell them we'll start over again this afternoon. Jakey is acting about 2 years old and fighting with Justin over everything and Justin is just screeching over everything Jakey does!! I've tried seperating them for some schooling or a game but it's totally not enough!! They're both about to be sold on Ebay if they don't calm down!

I just started RV for them, hopefully watching the movie will calm them down. Have you ever seen RV with Robin Williams? Oh my goodness, it's hilarious! A really good family movie and Justin even loves it and he's still really little! Although there is one scene, oh man, it does not do good things for my weak tummy right now, if you've seen it I'm sure you know what scene I'm talking about!

So, I'll be 8 weeks tomorrow! I'm bloated enough to make wearing regular pants uncomfortable because I don't want anything to push on my tummy, but not "showing" either, yk? I have a lot of drawstring stuff from right after I had my c/s with Justin so I'm wearing some of that stuff just cause it's so much more comfortable. They're my "4th Trimester" clothes LOL.

Ah, I am so looking forward to this weekend, vegging and watching conference! It's gonna be great! :)

Just wanted to share...

I like seeing it get further up there in weeks! LOL

Total blonde moment!

On Friday when I went to the dr's office I dropped off a form for him to sign confirming that I'm pregnant for a change of insurance I'm trying to do. I called today to see if it was ready and the dr said that he looked at the form and there wasn't anywhere for him to sign...doh! I looked at the rest of the packet and I have his sheet and he has mine! Argh. LOL Anyhow he's going out of town Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and won't be back til I have an appt first thing Monday morning so I might as well wait til then, darn it! I am trying to set up new insurance ASAP and my blonde moment is not helping!

I need to do an experiement with Jakey for science for our science turn in to his teacher for this quarter and some of them are so stinking complicated and they want us doing these experiements like daily....anyhow so I flipped through the book til I found one that I could do with him (we're going to fish with magnents). And I have to teach him to carry numbers today in Math.

Justin hasn't started his preschool work yet because he can't really sit on his bottom quite long enough yet, so he stands at the whiteboard and draws circles, his specialty...LOL

I'm soooooooo not feeling good today, at all. And I have to clean my house today because tomorrow a man is coming out to install a new dishwasher and on Thursday Jakey's teacher will be here for a conference. We still don't have a dryer and I'm about to lose my mind with how much laundry is accumulating. Kevin's work keeps calling him in at weird hours and he's been working 14-15 hour days so I'm not able to go after work to the laundromat. Kevin's mom will usually take a load or two but I usually go pick it up ASAP so my clothes don't end up smelling like cigarette smoke and I am not having the car until 10-11 at night.

It's raining today. Kinda stinks cause the boys can't play outside, is kinda awesome cause it's not so hot. :) I think this afternoon we're going to have popcorn and watch a movie. (Well they can have popcorn, yuck!)

Well time to get started on my massive to do list!

Holy Vampires, Batman!

I just got back from the lab where the lady took 10 vails of my blood! Wow! I know that they took "alot" of blood during my other pregnancies but NEVER 10 vails, I'm almost positive that is way more than ever before.

Mmmmm, watered down Lemonade! With Ice!

Just about the only thing that stays in my tummy is watered down lemonade with ice! I'm so glad something is staying in, especially something so yummy on such hot days!

I just got done grading some of Jakey's work for history. This past few weeks we've been focusing on events that happened in the Roman Empire during the Pax Romana (Roman Peace). This includes the birth and life of Christ. It was a nice unit because Jakey knew so much already about the birth and life of Christ that it felt like we were really able to glide through it easily. There was a point, when Jesus was crucified, where Jakey had to write a paper about the events. I loved his last sentence. "Most importantly, Jesus overcame death and was resurrected." That was not in the lesson (the ressurection). So I'm proud of him. (Also, those are Jakey's words spelled correctly, it would hurt my brain to spell that sentence how it was before rewriting! LOL)

I ordered a 120 page toddler/preschool worksheet set online (for download) and tomorrow will be Justin's first day of using it. We're going to focus on just learning basic shapes and colors and then we'll move onto recognizing numbers and letters. I am hoping to find things that Justin can do to help keep him occupied because Jakey and I are starting a very hard math unit tomorrow.

So here's a question, does this look like a second grade math problem to you?

487
-259
-------

??????

I don't know exactly when I learned to carry numbers and such, but I want to bet that it was NOT 2nd grade!!!! We're supposed to start that and cursive tomorrow. Jakey can barely print legibly, I think we're just gonna stick with printing for 2nd grade...in 3rd grade, I'll think about cursive.

I think, if nothing else, *I* am getting smarter through homeschooling. I couldn't remember off the top of my head what a pronoun was the other day, a refresher course later - he, she, it, we, they! Oh yeah, I so rock. Not, I mean really, who forgets what a pronoun is???? LOL

"So, what are you going to feed your baby?"

Today I went to the dr's. I saw him for like a minute while he ordered an IV for me during my "orientation" and prescribed me a pill to take every 3 hours after my suppository.

So anyhow, the nurse takes me and this other lady into a room and starts a movie about having a baby. The other lady, this is her 5th pregnancy, and well you all know I'm experienced. So we're both just chatting during it. But there was this one part where you "scored" your pregnancy, that was pretty interesting. It was like a point system, 1 pt for spotting, 2 pts for previous c-sections, 4 pts for something else like diabetes, right? So anyhow I ended up with 8 pts total, I can't remember what they were all in, I wish I'd had a pencil. So the "score" is 0-3=normal pregnancy, 4-6=high risk pregnancy, and 7+= "Extreme" pregnancy. So with 8 pts I am having an "extreme pregnancy" LOL.

Then the nurse comes in and says, "So which formula are you ladies planning on feeding your babies?" and when I said "none" the nurse looked at me like I had 4 heads! She's like, "what are you going to feed your baby?" I almost didn't know what to say!! I was so shocked! I was like "Um, breastmilk?" And she just looked more confused and said, oh I never thought of that. She never thought of breastfeeding????? Anyhow she came back and gave us both Similac diaper bags filled with samples and said, "we don't really have very many people breastfeed I suppose, so here's a Similac bag."

What's weird is that my dr never said anything one way or the other last time...he was my dr with Justin. This is a brand new practice so I'm sure he's just getting himself established after having Kaiser furnish everything, but I was surprised there was NOTHING about breastfeeding!! So, he had left for the day by the time my "class" was over, but I plan on talking to him about this next time I go see him on April 2nd!!

"I never thought of breastfeeding?" Yikes!

Why Julius Ceasar?

I realized that I left out his reasoning for wanting to name the baby Julius Ceasar because when I wrote that post I ran to the bathroom to throw up and just hit "Publish".

Jakey thinks we should name the baby Julius Ceasar because he really liked learning about him in History. His name starts with a "J" (Like Jacob and Justin). He thinks it's cool Cesearean Sections were named after him, and that I'm having a c-section. And last but not least, Jakey's favorite food is Ceasar Salad. So those are his arguments for naming the baby Julius Ceasar...LOL

Um....no.

Anyhow, this afternoon Kevin's brother was pushing Justin on Jakey's bike and he slid backward off the seat, onto the tire. The tire was spinning so it pulled down Justin's shorts and "road burned" Justin's butt. There is a huge 4 inch square bruise and road burn on Justin's butt, like one inch above his tailbone, to three inches under it. I'm worried he broke his tailbone. Of course he had to do this after the dr's office closed for the day so I can't decide if it's "urgent care" he needs or not. He can't sit or he screams his head off, he can't shower, screams for that too...poor kid.

I whine too much....LOL

Anyhow, thank goodness the weather is warming back up! I had only saved our like 3 or 4 pairs of pants for everyone because the weather was getting so warm and then it started raining and I was starting to worry about having put away so many of the boys' winter clothes...but today it's going to be 70 and sunny - so we're back on for shorts.

Justin's going through this VERY dramatic phase....if anyone upsets him at all he starts screaming at the top of his lungs. I don't know what to do with him. I shouldn't be picking him up (he's 40 lbs!) but that's the only way to get him to time out because he just lays there and refuses to move (while screaming). I don't know what to do with him anymore....I've just about had it though, the high pitched screams are enough to send me over the edge. Did I tell you all about his new favorite passtime? Locking the bathroom doors around the house...nice. The other day he had 2 of 3 bathroom doors locked....brat!

Jakey is constantly "why?" But for the most part is fairly helpful but I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall, it's like, "I'm going to go upstairs and lay down for a few minutes, can you take that trash out and put a new liner in, please?" Jakey: "why?" CAUSE I SAID SO!!! I just look at him like he has lost his mind and tell him "get it done" while I go upstairs...

Seriously though, they've both been pretty good about letting me rest the past few days. Just have mouths on them LOL

Jakey wants to name the baby Julius Ceasar, um no....LOL

What a morning it's been already and it's only 8:30! The boys are just sooooo full of energy today! Justin would love to get his hands on something to write with and scribble all over the walls and after having a horrible experience with him at our last house I am VERY against that, so I keep a constant watch over him to see if he's doing it, and he's getting frustrated with me. Jakey has to be asked 37482372349237243 times to do something and I'm about ready to lose my mind from all the asking!! Seriously!

I've been "ok" this morning, but I can't take my medicine again until Kevin's brother and sister get here this afternoon because of how tired it makes me, so I feel my tummy churning and I know that I won't be able to hold down much until they get here. The dr's office wants a nurse to come and give me an IV for rehydration and nutrition because last night I was throwing up even though I was medicated. I kind of feel dehydrated a bit - like my mouth is dry, etc. I really don't want home health care, but I don't want to end up in the hospital more, so I guess it's all I can do.

Kevin's working a super long day today - he won't be home until 11 or 12 tonight. So this should be very interesting.

Our 90 degree weather is gone...LOL It's cloudy and cold, looks like rain today.

Anyhow I have a goal of cleaning the kitchen and teaching Jakey for a bit before getting too sick this morning so I better go.

Suppositories, yay!

I gave in and called the dr this morning, he called in a rx for phenegran suppositories...the pills just don't work for me, I can't keep them down. I just picked them up and I'm gonna go take a shower and take one and go to sleep for a few hours. I was up ALL NIGHT sick, sick, sick.

If I continue to throw up, he wants to send a home healthcare nurse to give me an IV, so I got some pedialyte and I'm hoping to rehydrate myself. Anyhow - I'll be back later, I'm gonna be sick again :(

Ugh, I'm gonna be sick!!

I've been SO sick all day today and I'm sitting here trying so hard to keep a little bit of dinner down so that I'm not so hungry. :( It's ok, I mean I'm beyond thrilled about being pregnant, I just don't feel good right now. But if it's possible, I kind of smile and throw up...LOL But I still feel sick.

I burned my knee at the park on Friday, it was the weirdest thing, just my left kneecap was burned, so strange! LOL But it's getting better. It was like 90 the past few days but I hear it's going to rain soon so the temp will go down.

Oh, guess what Kev got for his b-day? A flat tire! LOL Sheerly by the grace of God, we made it home from church. As soon as we got home we were walking in and noticed that the tread of the tire on the front passenger side was GONE....just wires showing! Kevin had to move the car so that we could bring in some of our patio furniture and the tire just completely deflated. I have no idea how we got home safely! Luckily Kevin's mother's husband works at a tire shop and he can get us a new tire cheap tomorrow. Kevin will probably be taking the day off to take care of that.

Anyhow I'm going to go to bed, I'm so exhausted, I want to sleep for a month. If I'm asleep, I'm not throwing up, right? LOL

ARGH

Well I chose not to bring up the incident last Friday to her when I spoke with her on IM and so we just talked about other things. Well then we were talking about this Saturday night when we're all supposed to go out for Kevin's birthday and she says that she is having her mom babysit tonight so she can go to the movies, and so she'll see if her sister can watch her kids tomorrow night but she's not sure if she can, and if she can't then she doesn't want to ask her mom cause her mom is watching her kids tonight, so can we do dinner on Monday. No, we CANNOT do dinner on Monday....for as long as we've been friends (5 years) we've done dinner the Saturday closest to our birthdays and we purposely didn't plan other activities for that weekend so that we could have babysitters and afford to go to dinner and such. ARGH. So anyhow she says she'll let me know tomorrow if they'll be able to go because of the babysitting issue. Seriously? I mean what the heck?!?

I'm seriously trying to gloss over my hurt feelings for last week for Kevin's sake cause it's his birthday on Sunday and her husband is his best friend, but seriously? I mean how freakin rude! They've never shown this huge lack of consideration for us before, ever. It's totally strange. Well if they can't go, I sure hope they enjoyed their movie. Ugh.

My ultrasound

It went well, there was a gestational sac, no fetal pole, or hb yet but the sac isn't measuring 6 weeks like we thought I was, which is a good thing, it likely means that I'm just not as far along as we thought. They don't want to officially change my due date until my next u/s.

The u/s tech was GREAT. She took an hour with me, going over what she saw, explaining how normal that is, showing me u/s' at my stage that look exactly the same that went on to have healthy babies, she was fantastic. Then she took me in my dr's office (like the kind with a desk LOL) and he said the same thing and gave me my options. I could go for bloodwork frequently to check levels, I could come weekly for u/s', do both, or just come back april 2nd when the baby will definately be big enough to see it's heartbeat and not stress about it. He said he'd do whatever I wanted and I chose to just go back April 2nd.

Sooooo, more info to come April 2nd - likely my new due date will be November 14-16th, somewhere in there. So I'll just keep praying!

Do you remember...

....the big green puking smilie that Tammy had up on Mormon Mommies? Yeah, that's how I feel. Big, green, smiling, pukey - that's me! It's ok though - it's worth it....just kinda hurts my throat a little. Oh and that tile floor is COLD...although it's like 80 so upstairs it feels good (cause hot air goes up) and downstairs it's just a little too chilly - but that's ok.

I got the insurance thing all figured out....I called Kevin to tell him the whole long story and he cut me off somewhere around "I called the insurance company and said..." and said to me, "Bottom line Dawn, do you have an ultrasound tomorrow or not?" and when I said I did, he said he had to go - and I started crying. I'm such a baby....so anyhow to keep from boring you all I won't repeat the long story - you can have the bottom line too - I have my u/s tomorrow morning.

Oh my goodness, I just broke up WWIII over Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Kevin's brother and Jakey are playing - and PJ used a "trick" card to look at Jakey's hand and defeat him. Yeah, did you care? I didn't. And I had to hear about it, for like 20 minutes, til my "Inner-King-Solomon" came through and I said, "Tear the card in two." Not cause I wanted to see who loved the card more, but because I wanted the card destroyed....so I guess I'm not so King Solomon after all. Just tired, and sick, and Yu-Gi-Oh is so L-A-M-E.

Taco Bell = Very bad!!!!

I can never look at a grilled stuffed burrito the same way again. :( ewwww.

Why is my morning sickness the worst in the middle of the night? Isn't that just odd? If I fall asleep, being queasy doesn't bother me too much, but if I have to pee, or I hear something that wakes me up, or Kevin snores to loud...I wake up, realize how yucky my tummy feels and blah....yuck.

So, a guy is coming to fix our dishwasher today!! I'm SOOOOOOOOO happy about that! I have had it TOHERE with washing my dishes by hand! (I know, I'm a spoiled brat!)

Argh, my dr's office just called and said that they haven't received my approval from my insurance for my ultrasound tomorrow, so I have to call tomorrow morning at 8:00 to be sure they got it so that it's even worth driving over there. If they don't get it, we'll have to reschedule. Kevin took the day off already! Grrr! I thiink I'll call at 4:30 this afternoon and see if they can check with my insurance so that we can decide if Kevin should just go to work or not. It needs to go through, I want to have my stinking ultrasound!!

Anyhow, time to unpack...I am seriously unmotivated today...blah!

So, an 801 phone number calls just a few minutes ago, and I think, "hmmm, who in Utah wants to talk to me?" It was a Sister from membership/records department of The Church. She gently says, "Sister Parnell, I know this phone call is going to be difficult for you, just because it seems out of nowhere...I'm trying to complete the membership record for your brother Denny Allen Truman, and I know he passed away, but could you give me the date for our records?" It did hit me out of nowhere, I obviously wasn't expecting anyone to call me and want me to talk to about Denny's death. To be honest, I couldn't remember the exact date, I had to look it up on the calendar - not that it was written down, just the exact date of the Monday in June he died on. June 12, 2006. My voice caught a little. I guess I don't think about it much. Even through all the drugs, he was a pretty good uncle, when he was sober and I'd let him be around my kids, and I'm going to have a baby he's never going to meet. I'm not saying this in a sad way, more like in a thoughtful way, like pulling up a memory or random thought, considering it for just a moment, and filing it back away in my mind.

I tried to grocery shop for 2 weeks about 9 days ago....I failed apparently. I have about half of everything I need to make anything. Apparently if you buy them, the boys will go through 2 boxes of cereal IN ONE WEEK. And a few other key peices of information like that, were not taken into consideration. I even wrote down a menu and menu-shopped for everything I needed, how did I end up this way?

How do you shop? How often do you shop? Do you use a menu? Do you run back to the store for a few forgotten items alot?

Since Kevin and I share the car, and I don't have it much, and by the time he gets home from work I'm too tired to go to the store I try to keep my grocery shopping to his days off, but I failed this time! He was getting paid weekly but now he gets paid bi-weekly so it's an adjustment. Oh well at least we have a few bucks to buy some groceries til payday, right?

Kevin's birthday is on Sunday and I don't know what I want to get him for his birthday. He wants a Wii, but we can't afford that right now since we're still recovering from moving and his unemployment. Jakey is buying him a gift certificate for the movies (2 tix, popcorn, and 2 sodas) so that he can take Kevin to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles next Friday when it comes out. (Trust me, I'm not disappointed I'm not invited!) Justin is buying him a few new ties, he lost all of his in the move. And I don't know what to do for him. He needs clothes, but hates getting them for his birthday, he needs a new keyboard for his computer but that seems lame....so I just don't know. Maybe I'll steal Jakey's idea and take him to the movies a few weeks later when something more interesting comes out LOL. We're going to Tahoe Joe's too on Saturday night and then hosting a BBQ here on Sunday afternoon. (It's a combination thank you for helping us move, happy birthday Kevin party)

Kevin's working around the yard today - which is nice because it means a shorter day than usual, but it can be hard on the budget because we don't live on 40 hour weeks, and Kevin's only going to have about 40, maybe 50 hours for this week, which can be a little scary. But I'm sure he'll make up the hours next week.

I have Jakey's 3rd Quarter phone conference this week, that kind of freaks me out because we're still working on 2nd quarter stuff. We're a little behind because of starting late, but I am feeling the stress to finish up in at least early August so we can have some sort of summer. His teacher is very no pressure, we have until October to complete 2nd grade, but I'd rather clear our slate and start 3rd grade on time, yk? Everyone keeps asking us if we're still going to homeschool now that I'm pregnant. Of course we are! I love the flexibility, I can make appts for whenever I want and not have to worry about a school activity or being out in time to pick Jakey up from school, it's great! His school is having an open house tonight, but most of our school stuff is not unpacked yet so we're not going to go. Instead we're going to have pizza and let him stay up to watch American Idol - it's something he's always wanted to do. I'm so glad that they moved "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" to Thursdays at 8:00, I know he's going to love that show!

Is anyone else's kids bedtimes severely messed up from the time change? I don't think Justin fell asleep until 10:30 last night. And they're not waking up until almost 8:00. It's messing with our mornings! They're supposed to get up at 7:00, watch 2 cartoons and let me sleep til 8:00....now they wake up at 8:00, see that the cartoons they normally watch are over, flip off the tv and drag me out of bed without my even having one moment to start to wake up, to make them breakfast! And bedtime is a nightmare! Last night they kept jumping between their beds (we have them unbunked right now) and then pulled down some blinds....then they went in my room and Justin threw up all over my bed cause he had something in his mouth while he was jumping, choked a little, and puked everywhere to get it out. I was NOT happy with the two of them!

Anyhow I have to go clean the house because we're having a Primary Presidency meeting here at 1:00. We have a primary activity day this Saturday and so far only me and the president are going to be there....grrrr. And a teacher appreciation dinner next Thursday night....fun, fun!

Yawn

I don't have much to say, cause I'm too tired to think of interesting things! LOL

I did get my washer fixed today (well the washer wasn't the problem, the draining thingy into the wall was) and so now I can do laundry again. As much as I hate it, I missed clean, yummy smelling clothes. I LOVE the smell of my fabric softner!

So, you know you complain about your boobs alot when, your mom buys you 5 new bras in different styles and sizes so that you can maybe be comfortable again. LOL My mom hasn't bought me a bra since I was 12 - so I think it's hilarious, but very sweet of her. They all fit, just differently, so I am definately grateful cause I have outgrown all my bras.

I'm super excited about my ultrasound on Thursday - Kevin is taking the day off and we're going to the u/s and then out to lunch and then we'll pick up the kidlets.

You know what sounds good for dinner? Fried chicken...mmmmm....have to see if I have the energy for that later.....yum yum!

Anyone else missing that hour?

Whew! I am SOOOO tired! Missing that hour of sleep did me in! I finally finished doing stuff for sharing time around 12:30 and went to bed, I had to get up at 6:30 for an early AM meeting (which was really essentially 5:30 with the time change). I left church after I took the Sacrament, I just couldn't hang anymore. I was hungry and sick and TIRED, and my kids weren't there to keep me awake because Kevin's mom overslept and didn't get them dressed in ttime and Kevin was at work, so I was all alone. Kevin's mom dropped Justin off and we took the deepest nap ever for about 2 hours. It was the kind of sleep where it hurts to wake up.

Anyhow we're almost out of the other house - still garage stuff. Kevin's mom went through a ton of stuff in our garage and just brought over pictures and important things. Luckily Kevin's little sister wanted to stay and hang out so she's watching a movie with the boys and I'm going to go take a nap! Boy am I tired!

I do have a question for commenting on: Do you think Daddy/Daughter Dances are appropriate given the number of single-mom-dad-not-involved households that are becoming more common in wards? In our ward there are about 7 girls (Primary Age) without fathers who are active in their lives, whose mothers are recent converts, who might be hurt by that type of dance. What do you think?

Daylight Savings

Wow, can you believe it's already that time? I know it came early this year, but only really 3 weeks early, it's crazy! I'm sure that as I type this most of you all have already moved your clocktimes....I'm going to head to bed, lose my one hour of sleep, and get up super early for early morning meetings...LOL Night all, hope you remember to change your clocks!

You know what's frustrating?

When you invite friends over for dinner and they cancel after you've already defrosted enough food for them, and started dinner and worried all day and woke up from your nap early to be sure your house was clean enough for the SECOND time in two weeks. Grrrr.

Kevin picked up on my extreme hormonal state and grabbed the chicken off the counter, offered to boil it for shredding tomorrow, put it in baggies in the fridge, and QUICKLY made his way to the nearest take out place to grab dinner. LOL

I feel stupid cause I cried when I found out they weren't coming, but I couldn't figure out if it was because I had just spent 2 hours cleaning my house or because I woke up from my nap so I could spend two hours cleaning my house. LOL I've lost my mind. When I was pregnant with Justin I cried when my friend wouldn't sell me Kentucky during a game of Monopoly.

I feel like a big meanie!

A lady I hardly know in our ward just called and asked me to babysit for her this weekend. She's a single mom, and new to our ward, and I know it's hard for her but her kids are SOOOO difficult. And I have alot of commitments this weekend. (I have to clean my mom's house on Saturday Morning, Ward Fast and Testimony Meeting on Saturday night for Ward Conference, plus Sharing Time for Sunday when the Stake Primary Presidency will be there) and our car doesn't fit but 5 people and she has 2 boys.....so it just wouldn't work. I gave her the number of 2 other sisters in the ward who might be able to do it....but I feel bad cause I blurted out I was busy before she told me the exact times LOL....I'm such a jerk. I feel bad, if it were during the week I'd suck it up and do it - but on the weekends, it's SOOOOO hard to give up that family time too because Kevin works 60-80 hours a week.

Ok someone make me feel better about this, I feel like a total jerk, especially since she needs help - but man, what do you do? I wouldn't be able to take my own family to church if I watched her kids - everything else is all kind of smaller problems, but the church thing would be hard.

Argh. Plus I don't think I'm the best babysitter for my own kids right now - I'm soooooooo tired. LOL I bribed them to watch an hour of cartoons earlier so I could catch a nap. I should get the information I have about having the state pay for your daycare together so that she can use that program and find an "always" babysitter to help her whenever she has to work. (It's the program that paid me to watch the girls.)

Speaking of the girls, I know I haven't mentioned them in a while. They're living with their mother, remember? Well Erica is terrified to go to anyone's house because she's afraid her mom won't come back for her....so no one really gets to see her at all. She'll barely walk inside and say hi as long as her mom is standing next to her...she has real abandonment issues. And Natalle is doing great....she enjoys going to other people's houses - she says she likes staying with my mom and I over staying at her mom's because we buy her nice clothes and help her look pretty and make really good dinners (well I do, my mom's cooking is NOT good, but she orders in well LOL) - so I think Natalle just kind of misses the way her life used to be. She feels some devotion to her mother but she really still feels that for me too. She says she wants to write a Mother's Day card for me, but have it be a secret because she doesn't want to hurt her mommy's feelings, but she thinks of both of us as her mommy. She calls Tabatha her "real" mommy and me her "heart" mommy. I miss them so much, I wish that things weren't this way, but I'm sure as time goes on Erica will eventually come around and Natalle will adjust just fine.

Hmmmm, what else do I have to say before killing a few brain cells watching "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Oh tonight on AI, what the heck? Only 1 of those people deserved to go home! And what is Sanjaya doing there still? And Haley? Yikes.

Tomorrow is park play group! Yay! My fave day of the week. Kevin should be home from Utah sometime during the night tonight and then I can drive myself to the park for the first time in FOREVER. I'm sure my friends will appreciate it, although they all say they really don't mind. We've been going to another park because one of my friend's sons is afraid of the train at our normal park, which all the other kids love, and I honestly think it's cause she RUNS the second she hears the train coming, screaming "Micah, cover your ears! You'll get scared!" I'd be scared too if my mom did that! LOL so we switched to this other park - the bathrooms are grosser and there is a school right across the street and so when we stay til 2 we end up with a bunch of elementary school aged kids running through the playground our kids are on. I need to remember sunscreen, I've gotten sunburned the last 2 weeks! It's going to be like 80 tomorrow - yipee!! (don't throw sunscreen at me now LOL)

Now, what other mundane things can I bore everyone with? I should erase my title and name this post - Things Dawn Blogs About When Tired and Bored...

I have got to get pics of the house up - very soon, very soon. I can't find the cord to my camera right now - but I will find it soon.

Oh Kevin's trading me birthday dinners :) I don't care for Chinese AT ALL (I can sometimes handle shrimp and rice) anyhow he's been wanting PF Changs for his birthday for months, but since I don't feel particularly well he's letting me chose the restaurant for his b-day (On Saturday night before his actual b-day) and then when I turn 26 on June 1st he gets to chose the restaurant. Nice huh? I'm not sure I want PF Changs in June either, but I should be far enough along to stomach it by then. LOL So I'm thinking The Elephant Bar or California Pizza Kitchen - ever been to either? I haven't.

Ok, I'll wrap up this post now...it's almost time to wake Kevin up from his "nap" in Nevada so he can come home. I can't wait, when I get the kids home from the park tomorrow I'm going to CRASH and take a NICE long nap - ALL afternoon. Mmmmm, I can't wait!!!! (Isn't it funny how right before I go to bed tonight I'm already excited about the next time I can sleep LOL sleep is so precious!) Goodnight!

Oh how I have missed DSL

Rapidly loading webpages, phone line free, endless fast browsing....I have missed my DSL!!!! It feels faster than ever, but I can't decide if it's from having just used dialup for several days or if it's cause I upgraded my DSL? Oh well, how much faster do I need it? It loads immediately. Thank goodness I have DSL back!!!!

Beth - my ultrasound is next thursday :)

Oh and guess where Kevin is? Nephi, UT LOL He's driving to Spanish Fork and then west some to some little town in the middle of nowhere, hopefully he'll be home by tomorrow morning. He's having it rough because he was in such a hurry he didn't come home and pack anything and well it was 80 here in Cali yesterday and it's apparently REALLY cold in Utah today LOL....so he's not dressed appropriately and he forgot his gas card at a gas station here in Bakersfield. He's a nut. Hopefully he hurries home.

Anyhow I better do some lesson plans and teach Jakey - SOMETHING - today cause we've been slacking because of the move. Plus I need to unpack some more, Kevin's birthday is the 18th - he's gonna be 28! and we're having some family and friends over for dinner and I want the house unpacked and cleaned by then. My whole downstairs is tile and I DON'T want to sweep and mop it....anyone want to do that for me?

Anyhow I better go eat breakfast before I get sick, there is a fine line between hungry and sick and eating too much and being sick....I strive to stay somewhere in the middle and NOT be sick. It's ok, I'll totally take it, I'd rather be throwing up and pregnant and feeling great and not pregnant - but well you know - it's not great fun or anything. Kara knows how I feel about cereal too but really I can't make myself pancakes or eggs or something every morning! Anyone have non-cereal breakfast ideas?

Thanks for all the congratulations. We're really excited. We are more hopeful than ever, all of my labs are coming back fantastic and I haven't even been supplementing with synthetic hormones of any kind! So now we just make it through til the ultrasound so we can see this little person's heart beating!! I can't WAIT.

It's scary how different I feel than any other pregnancy. I have moments where I feel fantastic and then a second later I'm super queasy and my chest hurts and I'm exhausted....wait 5 minutes and it passes again. Except at night, by 8 pm I'm throwing up. We have a little portable tv that I watched American Idol on last night from the bathroom. There is apparently a fine line between eating just enough dinner and too much - I think I crossed the line. Right now though I'm going through the fantastic phase, which is great! :) (a little concerning but great...LOL)

Justin's finally starting to like the new house....I have to admit, the picture of Jesus being on the wall did help this house feel like home. :)

Anyhow, my SIL is over here today helping me unpack so I better get to it, one more day til DSL!!!! :) (I'll go around commenting tons as soon as my DSL works....it's so hard to get pages to load with dialup!)

ANNOUNCEMENT

This morning - it was confirmed by my doctor - I am PREGNANT! Due November 8, 2007!!! Can you believe it? I had a faintly positive test a while ago - like 2 weeks or so - and then chose to ignore everything to deal with the move. Last night I realized I had my annual appointment today and I was soooooo sick I thought - I don't want to give the stomach flu to anyone. So I was gonna cancel...then I thought - I'm going to take a pg test in the am if it's positive then I'll go, negative and I'll cancel. The test line was SOOOOO dark on the pregnancy test that there almost wasn't enough ink for the control line! LOL

So in I went, and I'm happy to report I am in fact pregnant....the dr examined me and said everything looks great. I have an ultrasound appointment for next Thursday. :)

100th Post and our move from Justin's perspective....

Yay 100 posts! Go me. LOL

Justin is having it so rough! He's still loving his bed but he tells me every night when I put him to bed that he wants to "go home". We lost Hank (his baby doll) and so he's REALLY upset about it. And right before the move one of his shoes went missing (while Kevin's sister was babysitting him) and so he's even further upset that his favorite shoe is missing. For the last two nights he's woken up in the middle of the night screaming at me to get up and put up our family pictures on the walls cause he can't sleep until it's done. Today I put up the pictures and he cried and was so happy to see the pictures and the big picture of Christ....he says, "Jesus is in our house again!" and seems happier. I feel so bad for him! Jakey could care less, he'd like to not move, but thinks this house is ok....I guess Jakey just handles change better than Justin.

I am making dinner in the crockpot because I've been unpacking all day - and all that's done is make me HUNGRY all day....grrrr. Anyhow Justin just came in to tell me, "Jakey's trying to kill me with a rock." So I better go figure out what that's about...

We're (mostly) moved!

On Saturday a bunch of Kevin's family showed up to help us move...at 8 pm. LOL So we moved last night and some today (shhhh, I know it's Sunday but Kevin can't take off during the week at all and they said he has to work next Saturday). Anyhow...around 9 pm the Primary President called (I'm still 1st counselor) and said that the music person and the counselor in charge of Sharing Time were both not going to be there, which one do I want? Considering that we had no internet and my printer at the time was not hooked up, I opted for singing time. Now I know a fair share about music - I can play the piano, to an extent - with practice...and I can lead music....but can I sing? No, not really. I don't think my voice kills people, I think it's just unremarkable....and definately alto and since we're talking primary songs you know how many of those rock alto parts....yeah none. Yeah so that was fun! LOL Kevin and the boys couldn't even find their church clothes so they stayed home today while I went. What a day it has been!

Anyhow we're moved in, but our internet won't be DSL until the 8th so until then I have dialup - YUCK. It takes forever for pages to load!! So, I probably won't be around a whole lot til the 8th....and I'll work on getting pics of the house and unpacking done by then. :) I'll try to update...as long as the dailup lets me.

Ahhhhhh, wonderful Friday!

Argh on American Idol - WHAT are Sanjaya and Antonella still doing there?!?!?!

Oh and I'm happy to report - I AM smarter than a 5th grader :) Have you been watching that show? I'm bummed it's on so late cause I would love to watch it with Jakey! There is so little on tv that is good for families to watch together, and this is wonderful! (Moves a little slow, but it's not bad LOL) So, are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Today is Friday - we're signing for the house today and it's park play day. It's going to near 70 today so YIPEE! We'll be at the actual park! We even convinced 2 newly married ladies in our ward (one expecting a baby, and one not yet having children) to come with us so we could get to know them better. The one who's not having a baby said she'd feel weird, but since one of my friends is in a cast (leg) and can't get up, she offered to give her 3 year old to her and so now she feels included LOL. It's gonna be fun! :)

Last night was our RS dinner and man I have never laughed so hard. One of my friends is turning 30 on Sunday so when they announced a seminar on aging (and she is not the oldest in the group at all LOL) we told her she should seriously consider attending while busting up. When the stake RS President said it was specifically about medicare we about lost it we had tears streaming down our faces trying not to laugh. It's especially funny to me, because even out of the two newlyweds, I'm the youngest in the group and I've been married the longest and have the oldest child - whoops! LOL

Tonight Kevin's mom is coming to get our boys and Kevin and I are going out to dinner with my parents and going to sign for the house (they're coming with us to look at the house while we sign, then we'll eat). The boys are staying at Kevin's mom's because our ward has a temple day tomorrow and I'm going down and Kevin has to work. Then when I get back we're having a packing party at our house - every woman in Kevin's family is coming to the house to help me pack the breakables (dishes, pictures, knickknacks).

So if I'm not back before tomorrow night - have a great Friday and Saturday!!! :)

We HAVE found a house!

We drove around looking for a place for a bit this morning and came across a cute house, in an adorable neighborhood. Very kid friendly, all 3 streets in the neighborhood have speed bumps on them to encourage slow driving and there is a walkway through the backs of all the houses that leads to a little park. Cute!

Anyhow it's 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths. Now usually you'd say "oh that's great 3 full baths, how neat." and then you'd realize that if you have 3 full baths, you have to CLEAN 3 full baths...so that is the downside to this house. But if that's the only real downside it's not that bad is it? LOL

Anyhow downstairs there is a HUGE kitchen, dining room, living room, full bathroom, laundry area, hallway with tons of cabinets, and a bedroom that's strangely huge with an alcove. It's all tiled, oh and there is a fireplace! (Not that we can light it because our air quality is so bad here we're only allowed to burn on certain days, but it's a novelty LOL) Upstairs there is a huge bedroom (that would be the boys') and it too has an alcove (it's right above the downstairs room) and a huge walk in closet. A full bath in the hallway, a bunch of linen closets, and the master bedroom. The master has it's own full bath (when I say full bath in these 2 of them even have seperate showers and tubs, so we're talking HUGE...like these bathrooms are the size of our smallest bedroom in our current house LOL) and two big closets. Outside there is a pond and a spot that used to have a hot tub but we could put a table in the gazebo where the hot tub used to be. A cute little garden...it's adorable. Not as big as our current backyard, but nice.

Anyhow we filled out an application and the lady said it's between us and some lady with two evictions on her credit (as she rolled her eyes) so we'll likely get it. They're running our credit and calling our references and they'll call us tonight to let us know if we got it. I hope we do, it's cute!

I wish I had remembered to take my camera so I could have taken pics! Anyhow we're packing so I'll be back later...hopefully with good news!

Edit: We HAVE the house! The lady just called us, we sign papers on it tomorrow, we'll start shoveling stuff over on Monday and be moved in next Saturday!

Last night's AI was good, the girls are mostly good. Antonella, Leslie, and Alaina need to go though!

My MIL brought over a ton of boxes last night and so I'm starting in on the packing today. I'm doing the school room first and just pulling out the things we'll need over the next 2 weeks and packing the rest so that the school room can be the room all the boxes go into.

This morning Kevin's off for a bit, so we're about to drive over to the neighborhood we'd like to live in and look for "For Rent" signs and get phone numbers, then today I'll call and set up appointments for Saturday to see the houses. Hopefully by early next week we'll have a deposit on something.

Tonight is our Relief Society Birthday Dinner. My mom is coming to our ward for it, and it should be fun. I'll just be glad to be getting out of the house at the end of a long day of packing the house up!! LOL

Anyhow boxes are calling my name...later!