Shopping and games and swelling oh my!!!

Well we have successfully made it through Thanksgiving. We made it through with a full fridge, lots of shopping and games and fun. My sister, BIL and 4 kids came and stayed with us. Emma and Bud are now going through withdrawal from their cousins! We had a great Thanksgiving dinner. Luckily my cousin who lives here made our turkey and we handled the rest. It turned out great and we're still eating the left overs. We played lots of card and we were also some of the crazy people you hear about shopping at insane hours the day after Thanksgiving. My sister and I were in line at Walmart at 4:30am and didn't stop shopping until about 10am! Even N8 and my BIL got into the game this year and hit a couple of the stores. Now I have to tackle all of the wrapping!!

Being on my feet a lot this past week took it's toll on my though. I no longer have ankles!! Swelling has never been an issue with my previous pregnancies. But I had an appointment yesterday and my blood pressure is totally normal so we're not concerned. I'm just trying to keep my feet up more and watch my salt intake. Yesterday we also set a date to be induced. Dec 11 at 7am I report to the hospital. When the nurse called to hospital to schedule it, she said "I need to schedule an elective induction", and I though, there is nothing elective in giving birth at home and I am not doing that again!! Of course there is the strong possibility that I won't make it to the 11 (that's only 6 days early) but we'll see. My goal is to make it to the 9th so my mom can be here!

We're almost there...

What a long week!! It should have felt like a short one though. No work on Monday and a Flex (every other Friday off) tomorrow. But N8 left at 4am Tuesday morning and will be back sometime tomorrow afternoon. I wouldn't have been so bad, but my new found "business", along with Enrichment stuff has kept me on double duty.

First off, the business end of things. On Saturday I signed up to participate in our HS music booster's craft fair. I thought- great exposure, make some holiday $$ as well as work to pay off the machine. I didn't think- N8 will be on travel, I'm 8 months pregnant and have 2 young kids!! So, it better be great-- or else!!! Here are 2 fun items that I'll be selling.


On the 2nd thought- RS is a crazy calling to be in, especially around the holidays. I am trying my best to turn our December HFPE quarterly activity over to my leader, but I'm not very good at giving up control!! We now should be just about ready, or at least planned now. Each year our ward also does a giving tree and this year we're adding those serving missions and in the military from our ward. Since I handled the "paperwork" last year, I said I would do it again since I had the files. Of course it's never as easy as you think it will be!!

So Bud is an avid artist. Here's some of his latest work!!

This is for you Amy!

My little girl gone short!! We had to make a drastic move and cut Emma's hair short! So far nope pulling and eating of the hair. Let's hope for quick hair regrowth!

An entire post dedicated to Amy! Blogging is a great outlet for many reasons. Today's reason is that it's an easy way to pass info and pictures back and forth!!
So here's a picture by picture of how to do a vinyl project

This is what it starts out as. This is a piece that has been cut, but not 'weeded' (the excess hasn't been removed).


Here's what it looks like part way through weeding


Here's a quote ready to have the application tape applied to it.

The tape has been applied and it's "hinged" into the tile so that it can be applied straight.


This is after the application tape has been removed.

After you lay it onto your surface (in this case a 6x6 tile) you want to rub it to make sure every letter adheres well.

Peel away the application tape and there you have it!


Here's a similar quote, just a little different.



I hope that helps demystify how to apply vinyl to something!

Just a quick update

Life is going to be crazy for the next month and a half (ok, really the rest of my life, but lets be optimistic!). This past weekend I ended up at the hospital again with what we believe was another kidney stone. It passed and I now have a UTI to thank for it. They monitored the baby for about 2 hours and everything looks fine on that front. It was late Saturday night after the kids were in bed and my cousin just came and watched TV. We got home about 1:30am Sunday morning, only to arise for church on Sunday and get ready so I could teach RS. I was the only on from the pres who ended up there, so I conducted and taught. Boy I am glad that's done! Then on Monday morning I got a call that our old Bishop (he was release about 3 months ago) passed away).

So this week I'm crazy busy, and crazy tired!!

Here's what going on:

Tuesday:RS Pres meeting today
Wednesday: Music Makers & viewing
Thursday: Funeral
Friday: Board meeting

As I write that doesn't look like much. But I'm feeling it! All through this I'm getting things ready to participate in a craft fair on the 17th, N8's in a class- super busy with work and heading on travel all next week!

I'm ready for a vacation. Thanksgiving can't come quick enough.

Happy Post Halloween!

Well we survived another Halloween. It was a pretty busy day for us. We had music makers in the morning, then Emma and I spent the afternoon at Bud's school helping with the parade and classroom party. Then after school we went to a nursing home to "trick or treat" (this was basically, walk around so the older folks could see the kids dressed up!). Then we did a 2-ward trunk or treat and neighborhood trick or treating!! I'm glad we did it all, but man was I tired. We had so many kids come trick or treating to our house that we passed back out about 1/2 of Bud and Emma's candy. That's probably a good thing!

So, Bud wanted to be a spiderweb again and the his old skeleton costume fit Emma. I needed simple this year!

Also, here's a few pics of the haircut. It's hard to tell, but it is substantially shorter:( It's going to take me a while to get used to it!