Life Story

So, this is pretty much going to be a compilation of random and scattered thoughts, and what I've been up to. First of all, let me say 4 weeks and 2 days!!! I went to the doctor yesterday and everything's going great. Evlyn has a strong heartbeat and is facing down. yay! And, I'm dilated to a 1.5. Today, I've been finally washing Evlyn's clothes, towel, blankets, etc in Baby All. Hopefully it'll be okay for her skin.

I had two wonderful baby showers thrown for me. One was thrown by my mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and it was so much fun! The other was thrown by my friend Laurel and her mom Cindy, and it was also a blast! I am so grateful for both of them, and for everybody who came! People were so kind, and it was so good to see some old friends! I don't really have pictures yet, but I do have 2 from the one that Laurel threw for me.

This is a cute sign that is hanging in the baby's room, that my friend Kat (Kayla, or Twin) made for me. Yes, she has 3 names that I know her by. lol.


And this is an adorable diaper cake (not really to eat) that was for decoration. Then, they gave me the diapers! Really cute idea, I thought! Thank you to everybody at both baby showers!


This is a picture that my mother-in-law, Diana, gave to us. I think it's beautiful and now it is in our front room. Yay for decorations! Speaking of decorations, I finally started decorating the walls. I bought a hammer and nails, b/c we didn't have any, and started hanging stuff up. Here's just a few.
Oh, this one's not permanent, nor is it hanging with a hammer and nails. I got it for $.25 at Target and thought it'd be fun. :P it's a dry-erase board. Anyway, back to other decorations...

This is a sign that I got for free at Deseret Book last Conference session, during the Priesthood session. They had a girls night party thing that they have every conference I think, and the first so many people got this. I like the quote! Hmm I guess I didn't take pictures of the rest, but there are other decorations now hanging on our once bare walls. :P


Remember this picture? It was a picture of weeds in a previous post. Well, now look at the bush growing at the base of our yummy orange tree. (It's really not a bush, just lots of random branches that eat the nutrients but would not be able to hold oranges). So, now that I'm done weeding, this was my next task.

And there you go! I gave it a hair cut! Yes, that is the same tree. There are two that I gave hair cuts to, and now I just need to get a rake and rake up all the dead branches. :P


This is a sad story. I was at the dollar store and got very excited b/c there were rugs that would be perfect for our front door! I've been looking, but their kinda expensive. So, I thought $1?! How could I pass that up! Well, It was rolled up so I couldn't really tell how big it would unroll to be. I spent about 10 minutes debating which type to get, and finally got this one. I got home, opened it up, and this was it. It's not a rug. It's a utility runner. :( Needless to say I was a bit disappointed and felt a little dumb.This is something I was proud of though. The first thing that I have successfully drilled into the wall. haha I couldn't do our curtains b/c I'm too short and it was just too hard. But, our half bathroom doesn't have a towel holder, so I bought and installed it. Isn't it cute? :)

So, for Conference we went to my parent's house on Saturday. Aimee, Josh, Mylee, Landon, and new baby Brixton came over too. yay! I got to hold the cute baby! Anyway, here's my sweetheart with Mylee.

All during conference Mylee kept saying "Charlie bit my finger". She wanted to watch it, so after conference Jared pulled it up on Youtube and watched it with her.

Then Landon came over and watched it too. Cute cute.

Two weeks ago, March 25th, Jared and I were walking around the temple when we saw Shirlene Styers!! She used to be my Young Women's leader, and then she took our wedding pictures. She was taking pictures of her activity day girls, and wanted to take some pictures of the pregnant me. lol She's so cute and it was fun! Here are two of the pictures she took.
I think they're good pictures, but I thought, "Do I really look that chubby?" I mean, it looks like I almost have a double chin in the one above. So, I was a little bummed, and then Aimee took these two pictures a week later, during conference.

I must've just been puffier that day? I don't know. Oh well. Aimee's baby is adorable and it made me more anxious to hold my little girl. Mylee was so cute b/c Evlyn was hiccuping in my stomach almost the whole day. She's big enough now that you can even see when she hiccups. So, Mylee held her hand on my stomach for like 10 or 15 minutes, just feeling. She got excited when Evlyn kicked her too, and she talked to her. It was so cute! It was funny too, b/c my sister Paige wanted to feel, but almost every time she tried Evlyn would stop kicking. Then Paige would leave and Evlyn would start kicking again. :P I think Paige did get to feel her hiccup though, and maybe kick a few times.

Well, that was one LONG post. Oh yeah, one more thing! Leah, Jared's little sister, just got home from her mission on Monday. So, we all went out to dinner with her and it was fun!

Okay, one more thing. So, I've been SUPER tired lately and taking one nap doesn't even seem like enough. But, last night I got about 6 hours of sleep, and I woke up at 6 really hungry. I ate breakfast and was wide awake! Strange. So, I decided to take advantage of my extra energy. I gave the trees a haircut (as mentioned above), cleaned the kitchen, did 3 loads of laundry, started organizing and putting away the baby clothes, organized my jewlery, and now I'm about to make dinner. Oh, and of course blogged. It's nice having this much energy!!

Oh, and P.S., I LOVE the RAIN!!!